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Talyn Lavellan ([personal profile] melavasomniar) wrote in [community profile] maskormenace2015-08-07 01:48 am

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[When the video comes on it doesn't show a person, nope, just a shoulder and a cityscape that might be recognizable to its residents as Nonah. The video is shaky and unfocused when Lavellan starts walking and talking.]

Neat little contraptions those porters are, aren’t they? They remind me of something we've got back home, but with less eerie inter-dimensional pit stops and, somehow, more baffled people when you pop out the other side. [He stops walking for a moment to center the video and shrug. The background now clearly places him in a public park.

For another moment the recording goes shaky as Lavellan takes a seat on the grass, and then quickly he rights it again. The image is still blurry though, and it stays that way the rest of the video.]


And these… these things-- [He taps on the screen of the device rather than looking for a word his vocabulary doesn't have.] I’ve never seen an enchantment like it, I can’t even find the rune! They must have some talented dwarf or tranquil working on these.

[A pause.]

Anyhow, that’s enough admiring the fancy shem technology. Nice to meet you all, I’m Talyn Lavellan. The Inquisitor, if you’re the sort that cares for titles. I’m your man for all your damsels-in-distress and lost sheep related needs. Been told I’m good at that sort of thing. [A fact he is strangely proud of, if his smile is anything to go by.]

I’m not sure how quickly that business is going to get off the ground here though, so in the meantime, can anyone tell me where the good parties are around here? Preferably ones with copious amounts of alcohol and dancing that only barely qualifies as such. This elf’s got plans.
wasnever: (but she knew the ways of nobler men)

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[personal profile] wasnever 2015-08-07 06:01 am (UTC)(link)
[Logically Sera knows the explanation for this, but she can't help but have a kneejerk negative reaction.]

You're not the Inquisitor.
cartesianspidertank: PB: Mana Ashida (Human Cute)

[personal profile] cartesianspidertank 2015-08-07 06:02 am (UTC)(link)
[ It's a little CGI girl!!

And she's ignoring the party question and going back to the technology question because TECHNOLOGY
]

Hello Talyn!!! Are you familiar with clockwork devices?!

Machines that run with gear mechanisms??
wasnever: (pic#9115108)

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[personal profile] wasnever 2015-08-07 06:11 am (UTC)(link)
Ugh.

I hate this. Not your fault. I guess. Still friggin' hate this.

You're supposed to be a big Qunari woman.
cartesianspidertank: (Human excited)

[personal profile] cartesianspidertank 2015-08-07 06:21 am (UTC)(link)
YAY GOOD

So imagine a machine made of gears that when you pressed a switch, instead of raising or lowering a bridge, it took an input of numbers, like 2 and 2, and outputed their SUM, 4!!!!

This is called a CALCULATOR, and is a basic computer!!!
wasnever: (why change the past)

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[personal profile] wasnever 2015-08-07 06:21 am (UTC)(link)
You met Hawke, yeah? He was a man, but Hawke's here and a woman. These things happen here, I guess.

Makes my head hurt.
cartesianspidertank: PB: Mana Ashida (human smile)

[personal profile] cartesianspidertank 2015-08-07 06:40 am (UTC)(link)
It comes up with the output by following a series of laws programmed into it!!

Through a combination of LOGIC GATES

The video game Mincraft is actually really good at demonstrating computer logic and you can see a visual description here!

The computer has lots of tiny mechanisms inside called TRANSISTORS which transfer electronic signals, much like the RED STONE does in Minecraft!

When an input is given to the calculator, it goes through a LARGE NUMBER of logic gates which have been setup to calculate the number, much like you would do by counting the fingers on your hand, although at a MUCH FASTER RATE than you would normally be capable of doing on your own!!!

To give a sense of scale, this video demonstrates the scale and the number of switches needed to create a 4 function calculator, capable of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division!!
wasnever: (when you could own this day)

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[personal profile] wasnever 2015-08-07 06:40 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, well, as far as I know it doesn't get any better, either. One headache after another.

But, welcome, I guess.
cartesianspidertank: PB: Mana Ashida (human thinking)

[personal profile] cartesianspidertank 2015-08-07 06:55 am (UTC)(link)
Ha ha that does seem to be a descriptive instance!!!

But my point is that it's not magic it's SCIENCE and INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY.

Although strictly speaking if glyphs work consistently and logically then they are also SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY.
wasnever: (pic#9115119)

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[personal profile] wasnever 2015-08-07 06:58 am (UTC)(link)
Right, because that would be so terrible.

Bull and Dorian are here, too.
cartesianspidertank: PB: Mana Ashida (Human Cute)

[personal profile] cartesianspidertank 2015-08-07 07:04 am (UTC)(link)
What can you do with Runes??
selfpraise: (82)

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[personal profile] selfpraise 2015-08-07 07:13 am (UTC)(link)
You can't be the Inquisitor.

[All other examples of people they know not being the people they know had radical differences. This is just a different elf and therefore far more likely to be someone trying to claim his name.]
wasnever: (pic#9116278)

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[personal profile] wasnever 2015-08-07 07:13 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah. Unless you're used to a different Dorian, he's being just as much of a pain in the arse as he usually is.
cartesianspidertank: PB: Mana Ashida (human thinking)

[personal profile] cartesianspidertank 2015-08-07 07:21 am (UTC)(link)
HMM interesting!! Well what is a dwarf or a tranquil capable of doing with them?

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