Text Notification/Report #1

[verinumeri]

Attention: Hadriel Residents
Subject: Additional Phone Applications

Please find attached two additional applications for the phones:

[1] Clock. I have spent the last 26 days timing the light intensify and de-intensify periods. Despite the imprecision of my tools (and the impediment of the fog for that period), I am 92.58% confident that the current settings are accurate. I observed 17 hours of light, 7 of dark. The light intensifies and de-intensifies at apparently the same time each day. The days are not getting longer or shorter, which is perhaps unsurprising, given the light does not imitate the movements of the/a sun. As such, I have set the clock such that light intensify ('sunrise') begins at 04:30 and light de-intensify ('sunset') begins at 21:30. I will continue to monitor and make updates as necessary.
Other features: Timer, Stopwatch, Alarm.

[2] Pedometer. The hardware of these phones contains composite sensors enabling step detection and counting, as reliant on the accelerometer. This 'app' when active will do as its title suggests: count your steps. It will also calculate distance traveled. That feature has been less accurate in testing, but suffices for an approximation. You may reset and/or save a record of both as you like. If you download the clock, it will reset each day at 00:00 and keep a record of the previous day's activity, with the number of days stored theoretically limitless.

Both applications permit user choice between constant background service and activity on selection alone. Obviously I recommend the former for the clock in particular, but it will sync via the network upon opening should you choose the latter and close then open it.

Final notes: If you have no use for either or both, then do not download them. There is no need to comment to that effect.

Admittedly, the daily reset and recording of steps and distance may be especially frivolous. I doubt any of you are on a fitness track. I added it because such applications tend to have that feature and for organization's sake. You may also turn that off. If for whatever daft reason you want that, but not the clock, too bad. I could do it, but at that point, you might as well download the clock.

Please do comment if you have any serious suggestions.

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[ ooc: Posts/permissions re: clock app (note certain idiosyncrasies re: the alarm and time format), pedometer ]

Comments

[verinumeri]

That would have been shocking. Yes, romance is generally stupid.

No. Newton has a horrible singing voice and I do not try. I don't know what you mean by 'other love things', but probably not.

[whichend]

I could get a boyfriend if I wanted. It's not that shocking. I've just chosen not to because boys are dumb.

Well I suppose Newt could save you from a tower but I think that only happens in bad stories. If there were dragons it might be better. Perhaps your romance needs some dragons.

voice i'm so sorry this hopping around is just going to keep happening

[fortunefavored]

I'm pretty sure everything is made about a bajillion times more awesome with dragons.

background voice

[verinumeri]

Yes, and what would you do against a dragon, try to prod at it until it ate you? Or cower?

voice

[fortunefavored]

Ugh, Hermaaaaaaann! [yeah that's an irritated whine] You are totally missing the point!

background voice

[verinumeri]

I am stunned that you had a point.

voice

[fortunefavored]

The point is that dragons are cool! And automatically assuming that it would be a mean dragon is making assumptions as to the nature of dragons that we know nothing about. [so there]

voice

[verinumeri]

Given that the initial idea was a tower rescue, it seems the more natural assumption that the dragons would be hostile.

voice

[fortunefavored]

You assume, but you don't know.

voice

[verinumeri]

Neither do you.

helpful voice

[whichend]

You ride it, if you can. Or shoot it in the eye with a poison-tipped arrow.

weary voice

[verinumeri]

Oh, he'd ride it, if he could. You've got dragons in your world, then?

voice

[whichend]

We do. But most of them were killed long ago.

voice

[verinumeri]

By men, I suppose? Yet, they aren't extinct, if most were. Is there anything else -- that is, dragons were myths in our world, perhaps a result of finding dinosaur bones or certain creatures, but associated with magic and other things that never actually existed -- is there anything else, well, 'magical'?

voice

[whichend]

By knights. There are three rumored to still exist.

Magical? [ Arya isn't exactly sure what Gottlieb is looking for. She never considered dragons to be magical, just another powerful creature. ] We have magicians, but their tricks are usually illusions.

[verinumeri]

I may be projecting my world's standards, especially the traditional sort, onto your world. It's your decision, then. I do agree that most young boys are particularly unbearable.

[ It would shock no one that he'd had a difficult social time as a child.

He's not offended by the suggestion that he's the damsel in distress, specifically. He's scandalized by the entire analogy. ]

We would be completely ridiculous with dragons. No, the only thing our romance needs is to be kept private.

[whichend]

No, I don't think you're projecting all that much. I don't think anyone besides my lady mother ever expected me to find a "boyfriend," not truly.

You're ridiculous anyway. Dragons are at least impressive.

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[verinumeri]

[ You're ridiculous anyway. ]

[verinumeri]

I may have yet. My surprise was in reaction to two factors: (1) that you would have multiple 'boyfriends'; and (2) that you would at your age, which in many parts of my world is young for it.

I'll grant we made an inadvertent (on my part) spectacle, but it's still rude to say, Miss Arya.

[whichend]

In mine, it is not so uncommon. I might already be engaged to be married.

It's not so bad to be ridiculous. It means you're still yourself.

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[verinumeri]

[verinumeri]

[ He'd protest the idea that to be ridiculous is to be himself, but he vaguely remembers a vivid dream of wrestling with Newton in kaiju guts, a dream as vivid as that he shared with Miss Arya.

And so.

He does not.

Besides. It's oddly sweet, wise. ]

[verinumeri]

I shouldn't project our values, but I do think it's young. You cannot be thirteen?

That didn't read like an apology [ the limitations of tone in text is this: he is now in jest ] but it did a better job.

[whichend]

I think I'm two-and-ten, but I don't know for certain.

It wasn't an apology. It was a fact, which is better.

[verinumeri]

Yes, too young. When you were taken here, about how many days would you have had until your birthday in your world? Does your world go by a 365 day calendar? How many days have you been here?

Agreed.