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[donttalktome]

I'm feeling somewhat benevolent today.
After hearing a combination of your suggestions and complaints, I've decided to share.
You know, health of the community and all that.
For those of you still wildly inept with your tablets, just poke the letters that show up in a different color.

[Attached to this message, (a function not normally available for network posts,) is a link which yields several downloadable applications. Thankfully they're not malware or viruses, but hopefully helpful things, including:

- An app that translates text in images into spoken words. Good for the blind (or the illiterate). As it translates into the universal language of Beacon, it could also be used for deciphering foreign letters. Just snap a photo and you're good to go.

- A drawing app. Not as fancy as photoshop, but you can use your hands to make pretty pictures with a variety of colors and line weights.

- Related: a map app. It comes with a version of the current known map, which can be updated by the community. Shitposting will be promptly corrected. You stop that.

- And finally, a game: sudoku to be specific. Are you good at math and puzzles? Let's hope so, otherwise this will be pretty pointless for you. (This one's for you, Noctis.)

All four apps download together, so you're stuck with them even if you only wanted one. But the file isn't exactly labelled in anything other than random(?) numbers, so I suppose you wouldn't know that anyway.

Have fun, Beacon!]

Comments

[donttalktome]

Can't say I have.
I don't generally teach.
But starting a case with "I'm a genius" isn't really a winning strategy.
Try harder.

[Is he enjoying this? Absolutely.]

[originallutece]

No? My apologies, I thought you sought a challenge.

Shall I suck up instead, is that truly what you prefer? Oh, Dr. Ingram, your prowess at making basic functions is ever so alluring, please do pass on to me your wisdom that I may too make math games a full week late. I know you've so many more pressing matters, except you don't, do you? There's nothing. That's the point.

[donttalktome]

Oh I like this even less.
Go back to the bragging, if you would.
Though I must ask, what exactly am I late for?
Like you said, I don't have a job here, though I do keep busy, as a matter of fact.
But alright let's get to the hypothetical stage.
Let's say I agree to tutor you.
What do I get in exchange?

[originallutece]

That's what I thought.

What do you want in exchange?

[donttalktome]

Don't "that's what I thought" me.
And my, you people are terrible hagglers, you know that?
You're supposed to make the initial offer.
Since this is a bargain for knowledge, how about you teach me something, oh genius.
Preferably something I don't already know, and that actually might come in handy.

[originallutece]

Because I've seen the next few minutes, and it consists of my offering skill after skill, only for you to snidely tell me you know them already or aren't interested, and we're in about the same place we began.

I can teach you anything within the realm of scientific or mathematic. I may even be able to teach you how to get out of here. So take your pick.

I suppose I could also teach you how to act like a young lady ought to, but somehow, I think that may not appeal.

[donttalktome]

I won't be needing any science or mathematics.
I've had plenty of schooling in both.
Though it's good to know you've got the foundations, because you'll be needing some of that.
And while I am somewhat curious as to how your society defines proper behavior for one gender for some reason, I'm more curious in the potentially useful subject.
What do you mean you could teach me how to get out of here?

[originallutece]

I do believe we've just found what I can offer in exchange.

[donttalktome]

[You can practically hear the deep sigh through the pause in his replies.]

So it seems.
This had better not be absolute bullshit.
If it's bullshit I'm revoking your network access, and good luck programming yourself out of that one.
How were we planning to conduct this exchange?
I'll assume in person, but where and when?

[originallutece]

Why not now? I'll meet you in the church.

[God, she loves getting her way. But she'll meet him in the church (and she won't respond, so just get your skinny butt over there, Will), and she's surprisingly eager to learn. Quick to learn, too, she'll get it after one explanation. And then when it comes to her end of the bargain . . .]

How much do you know about parallel universes?

[donttalktome]

[Wow don't rush him he's delicate. And by delicate I mean "slow to do things he doesn't especially want to do". But he does meander his skinny butt over there, and he gives Rosalind the basic rundown. She's not lying about being very smart, which annoys him to the nth degree, but at least that makes the lesson go smoothly. She's got enough by the end that she can probably figure out the rest through trial and error. And if that's good enough for her, it's good enough for him.

Onto the more interesting stuff.]

I'm familiar with the ideas of it. Every atom in ten dimensions, the superposition of every possible state of being. And given our current situation, I think we can conclude that some form of that is true. But quantum mechanics, theoretical physics, that was never my area of study.

[originallutece]

Lucky, then, you have me.

[Not every lecture needs to start with you puffing yourself up, Ros, just saying.

Anyway. She opens her mouth, and what comes out is a very specific scientific theory regarding parallel universes, mostly themed around . The long and short of it: other dimensions exist, you can definitely travel to them, you can certainly see into them, it's just a matter of making a doorway, which she knows how to do, thank you very much.]

So. Assume we're simply in another universe. One whose laws are clearly different than our own, yes, but still. What's to stop us from making a device-- a device I can build, albeit slowly-- and leaving this world?