[SEMI-OPEN]

[acreage]

WHO: Amos Burton, James Holden, Wysteria, Ellis, and YOU
WHAT: Two spacemen fall out of a rift, later explore scenic Kirkwall
WHEN: Nnnnowish? Waves hands
WHERE: The Wounded Coast, then Kirkwall
NOTES: A closed arrival thread, plus open individual threads for meeting Amos and/or Jim after their quarantine period.

Comments

[innerharbor]

"Oh, shit, right, you got a few satellites." Leaving aside the fact that she's definitely 'kid'. He points upward. "So the moon's here," he says, "for the sake of argument. You gotta go up."

[justashotaway]

Rude, serah, she's going to be eighteen in a few months. Her gaze follows his hand. "But how? You cannot climb to a moon."

[innerharbor]

How do you explain this to a medieval person? Like you would to a very small child. "Nah, climbing's for suckers. You jump."

[justashotaway]

She narrows her eyes. "You are lying to me."

[innerharbor]

"Okay." Expression blank, he finishes his drink in one swallow, and turns the cup upside down. "Imagine you had an explosion you could control. Sustained energy, constant burst, and you can put it in one place and keep it from breaking anything."

He points to the cup again, tipping it to the side, as though stuffing the metaphorical explosion in there. Then he holds the cup up, up, up. Get it, kid?

[justashotaway]

This, she understands--and though she doesn't smile, her expression changes slightly, from doubt to something clearer-eyed and curious. "A mage with fire could."

Matthias could visit a moon, if he wished. She likes that idea.

[innerharbor]

"Yeah, sure, magic." It's basically the same thing, when you don't know shit. When he was her age, nuclear fission was a dream. "You just gotta know how to build it."

[justashotaway]

"How do we build it?"

[innerharbor]

"Uh, discover nuclear physics." He starts in on his soup. "I work on the things, I didn't create 'em."