one.

[tesselate]

[voice]

"Don't eat other citizens," - someone really thinks it's necessary to give that direction? I mean, don't get me wrong, it's definitely good to not eat other people, I would just think that it wouldn't be the best idea to bring people that might eat the other citizens. It wouldn't really be cannibalism though, right? Because if you brought someone from another planet that wasn't a human, but ate humans, then....

[Billy kind of trails off as he contemplates this - and then the fact that wow the first thing he's posting to the notwork is discussing the technical terminology of cannibalism when it comes to alien races. Awkward.]

Anyway, hi. I'm Billy. I was kind of in the middle of something back home but I'm guessing that's not really going to do anything for me in terms of getting back there, so it's probably better just to get into this whole network....thing.

Oh, yeah, one last question - so "Stark Technologies" communicator, right? That wouldn't happen to be Stark as in Tony Stark, would it?

[I mean, hey, there are other Starks in other worlds. GRRM is particularly fond of killing them.]

Comments

voice

[tesselate]

That doesn't mean we won't.

[all the magic users can hold hands and sing kumbaya. possibly backwards.]

voice

[liverletdie]

Hey, if I can't devise a way out of here, I'm wondering how you guys will manage to do it.

voice

[tesselate]

I wouldn't be so quick to dismiss it.

voice

[liverletdie]

What can I say? I'm not magic's biggest fan.

voice

[tesselate]

Look, I know sometimes it does things that aren't good, but you could say that of any kind of power.

voice

[liverletdie]

Who said anything about it being the people who use it?

I'm a scientist, magic doesn't work in that world.

voice

[tesselate]

That seems like really lame reasoning.

voice

[liverletdie]

Magic breaks the rules. All of them.

I like my rules.

voice

[tesselate]

Maybe magic break your rules, but that doesn't mean it's completely ruleless.

voice

[liverletdie]

They break plenty of them. I think I'll stick to the ones I have.

voice

[tesselate]

But that's only looking at part of reality and ignoring the rest of it because you don't like it.

[Tony Stark you are being lectured by a child this is all backwards.]

voice

[liverletdie]

Oh I'm not ignoring it. I know it exists.

I just also know it can't do anything that I can't figure out a way to do myself.

voice

[tesselate]

Really.

voice

[liverletdie]

You ever hear of Clarke's third law?

voice

[tesselate]

No, but I assume it's going to be a theory that demonstrates your point.

voice

[liverletdie]

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable to magic.

If anything, in my opinion, it works out better. Give it time, I could find a way to do it.

voice

[tesselate]

Except for finding a way out of here.

voice

[liverletdie]

And if you manage to find a way out of here, I'll be surprised.

voice

[tesselate]

[challenge accepted.]

Then you should prepare to be surprised.

voice

[liverletdie]

I'll believe it when I see it.

voice

[tesselate]

I figured.

voice

[liverletdie]

What? Data's important to collect.

voice

[tesselate]

Well, yeah. And results are kind of necessary to prove a claim.

Voice.

[futureleader]

Hey, Billy. Told you they were useless.

Voice.

[tesselate]

That's just Tony Stark.