Transmission 001 ( video )

[abadidea]

[Isaac initializes the video remotely, and when it comes on, it's clear something has probably gone amiss with whatever he was trying to accomplish. He has the bottom half of an EVA suit on and is pulling on the top half as the video commences. He doesn't look precisely impressed when he looks over to the communicator.]

So, these powers aren't as easy as they sound. [He pulls on the top of the suit and fastens it around his chest, heaving a sigh as he does so.]

Anybody else having any trouble with the powers the Porters have you? How are you practicing? [He figures just learning focus should be enough, but who's counting?] Personally, I think they should have come with an instruction manual.

[Still looking a little perturbed, he moves over to the communicator and picks it up.]

Speaking of instruction manuals, does anyone know where I can get, I don't know, a textbook or something on the fundamentals of "modern" structural engineering? It's...the job they gave me, but I'm a Ship Engineer. I don't build buildings...especially not with...the tools available around here. [And what is the internet? Seriously. We haven't used anything like that in nearly five hundred years.] It'd be a big help.

Comments

[earnedmystripes]

They sound cool, though. What are they?

[just use smaller words, u can do it, kotetsu beliebes has faith in u]

[abadidea]

They're, uh, devices. One of them allows me to direct a... [Okay, he's experienced this before. Kotetsu may need some background information.] Do you know what telekinesis is?

[earnedmystripes]

[There's a slight pause, as he thinks.]

Thaaaat's...the word for, like, being able to move stuff with your mind, right?

[abadidea]

Technically it means moving something remotely, which is what the kinesis module allows me to do.

[earnedmystripes]

[Oh. That sounds less cool BT]

So kinda like a bigger-scale version of those little model trains and planes and such you play with as a kid?

[abadidea]

Not by remote, no. Just by...not touching it. It generates an energy field I can grab and manipulate things with.

[earnedmystripes]

[Hey, it's the Look again, aren't you so pleased.]

E...h?

[abadidea]

Don't worry about it. Like I said, I'll show you what I'm talking about some time.

[earnedmystripes]

[Man, he always feels lame when Isaac says that. Technology. Huff.]

Aah, okay.

[abadidea]

[He's trying to be accommodating?]

It'll probably be easier than me trying to explain it, anyway.

[earnedmystripes]

[he's just sulking bc he wants to understand things.]

Yeah. Anyway, feel free to drop by whenever.

[abadidea]

Sure. I'll swing by in the next few days.

[earnedmystripes]

See you soon.