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gone_byebyeSecond Arrival at Milliways + 17 days
Milliways
I have been to another galaxy, and they speak Japanese. Not that this is a bad thing, but lord, does that ever throw a spike into the wheels of the Federation-based universe! "Congratulations, the universe really is filled with intelligent beings who look like humans, quite a few of which look like attractive women, there's just this one little snag..."
Thankfully, Ryo-oh-ki provided me with a translation box of Washu's design and manufacture, or this would be a really short journal entry. She took me to her home to meet Washu and the rest of her family- I'm not sure what Ryo-oh-ki's relationship to any of them really is, but from the looks of it I'd say genetically engineered sentient being adopted to junior sibling status- and I came this close to asking Washu if I could stay and become her acolyte. Her STUFF. Her LAB. Her CAPABILITES. Sweet zombie Jesus, I don't think I've ever seen that kind of technology in one place... anyway, she gave me the use of a device that's supposed to pop spirits from one body to another, but only so long as I'm operating it and both people involved agree. It obeys voice commands and it follows me around. It's an amazing technological advance and I would ordinarily love to dissect it, but I promised her I wouldn't and that I wouldn't let anyone else do so either. Oh well. Anyway, she told me to send it back to her by ordering it to 'return' when I was done, and then I had lunch with her family- nice people- and came back to Milliways.
Naturally, this was all much too easy. Flash wants me to get rid of it on the grounds of it being dangerous. Andrew tells me it's really a bad idea as well, which- no offense if you ever read this, Flash- carries more weight since it was Andrew's idea to get me involved in the first place. Flash just has the whole moral-authority aspect going on. Andrew's the one who wanted it to happen; if he doesn't approve of the method then there's no way of ethically justifying it no matter how desperate the circumstances. So, when I got finished with dinner last night, I took the thing to my room and told it to return.
It didn't.
I can't replicate the exact conditions under which I keyed it to myself, and I was awake until ... well, really, really late trying to get it precisely right. I've gotten very good at a handful of Japanese words, but that's as far as it goes. I now seem to have a purple horizontal monolith following me around like some kind of AD&D disc spell, although it'll stay behind if I ask it- that command, it's only too happy to obey. I'm about ready to shove a bag of marshmallows into one of the hoops and, I don't know, a Barbie doll into the other and order it to do the switch just to see what happens. There's voice recognition and booby-trapping in Earth technology as well, but this is really going too far.It's still kind of cool, though.
Anyway. That's the second biggest news from yesterday. The biggest is that I told Romana I'd be happy to go with her as a companion for a while, and she likes the idea. She also likes a couple of other ideas, the most notable of which involves New York pizza. When we stop by the firehouse to let the guys know where I am, I'm going to ask her if she wouldn't mind me inviting her out to Little Italy- there's this place on Mulberry Street that beats anything anywhere else in the world, and that's including Chicago. It's worth a try, I figure.
Milliways
I have been to another galaxy, and they speak Japanese. Not that this is a bad thing, but lord, does that ever throw a spike into the wheels of the Federation-based universe! "Congratulations, the universe really is filled with intelligent beings who look like humans, quite a few of which look like attractive women, there's just this one little snag..."
Thankfully, Ryo-oh-ki provided me with a translation box of Washu's design and manufacture, or this would be a really short journal entry. She took me to her home to meet Washu and the rest of her family- I'm not sure what Ryo-oh-ki's relationship to any of them really is, but from the looks of it I'd say genetically engineered sentient being adopted to junior sibling status- and I came this close to asking Washu if I could stay and become her acolyte. Her STUFF. Her LAB. Her CAPABILITES. Sweet zombie Jesus, I don't think I've ever seen that kind of technology in one place... anyway, she gave me the use of a device that's supposed to pop spirits from one body to another, but only so long as I'm operating it and both people involved agree. It obeys voice commands and it follows me around. It's an amazing technological advance and I would ordinarily love to dissect it, but I promised her I wouldn't and that I wouldn't let anyone else do so either. Oh well. Anyway, she told me to send it back to her by ordering it to 'return' when I was done, and then I had lunch with her family- nice people- and came back to Milliways.
Naturally, this was all much too easy. Flash wants me to get rid of it on the grounds of it being dangerous. Andrew tells me it's really a bad idea as well, which- no offense if you ever read this, Flash- carries more weight since it was Andrew's idea to get me involved in the first place. Flash just has the whole moral-authority aspect going on. Andrew's the one who wanted it to happen; if he doesn't approve of the method then there's no way of ethically justifying it no matter how desperate the circumstances. So, when I got finished with dinner last night, I took the thing to my room and told it to return.
It didn't.
I can't replicate the exact conditions under which I keyed it to myself, and I was awake until ... well, really, really late trying to get it precisely right. I've gotten very good at a handful of Japanese words, but that's as far as it goes. I now seem to have a purple horizontal monolith following me around like some kind of AD&D disc spell, although it'll stay behind if I ask it- that command, it's only too happy to obey. I'm about ready to shove a bag of marshmallows into one of the hoops and, I don't know, a Barbie doll into the other and order it to do the switch just to see what happens. There's voice recognition and booby-trapping in Earth technology as well, but this is really going too far.
Anyway. That's the second biggest news from yesterday. The biggest is that I told Romana I'd be happy to go with her as a companion for a while, and she likes the idea. She also likes a couple of other ideas, the most notable of which involves New York pizza. When we stop by the firehouse to let the guys know where I am, I'm going to ask her if she wouldn't mind me inviting her out to Little Italy- there's this place on Mulberry Street that beats anything anywhere else in the world, and that's including Chicago. It's worth a try, I figure.
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Date: 2005-03-22 07:19 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-03-22 02:14 pm (UTC)At some point this week I have to get some serious work in on my current GB fanfic project- I'm way overdue on the next chapter of Who Ya Gonna Owl?...
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Date: 2005-03-23 05:31 am (UTC)Yes, yes, you DO need to write more Who Ya Gonna Owl? I've been haunting Riddikulus looking for it!