Fandom High Welcome Picnic, Front Lawn of the School, All Day: Part II

[omgnochecksyet]

Sure, someone could question just how all that ice cream was staying cold and not-melty without any immediately apparent means of refrigeration?

But really, of all the should-be-impossible things Fandom makes possible on a near-daily basis, this one at least was fairly benign. And delicious. So shh, don't question it, just enjoy it.

[OCD Up! This is the picnic post for general mingling. Roommates, fake siblings and teachers are all here. Since it's outside, the picnic is open to all students, teachers, and townies!]

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Re: General Mingling [Fall 2017]

[era_two_triangle]

"It's all kind of relative, depending on what you're used to," Peridot explained, shrugging her shoulders a little bit. "For me it was a planet that was completely strange to me, surrounded by a sentient species that I still find strange. Some people are more concerned about the weather - it sometimes throws things like sharks around - or the fact that the entire island is some sort of inter-dimensional waypoint that pulls in people from different realities across the multiverse."

Pick one!

Re: General Mingling [Fall 2017]

[not_of_the_nora]

"Uh huh," Aloy said, a thoughtful noise about halfway into Peridot's spiel. "Different worlds, Gratuity told me that. But how does it work? Is there a machine somewhere? Can I use it to go back?"

Re: General Mingling [Fall 2017]

[era_two_triangle]

"There are portals," Peridot offered. "A business in town offers them, but there's no guarantee they'll be able to connect back to where you came from. Worth a try, but when people end up here without any warning, there seems to be a disturbingly high amount of difficulty in fonding their way back."

At least at first. The island tended to ease off once people decided to stay, go figure.

Re: General Mingling [Fall 2017]

[not_of_the_nora]

"Portals," Aloy echoed. "Like the arch-- no, the gate. The gate I saw."

Touched and then walked through like a stubborn unguided projectile of curiosity, yes.

Re: General Mingling [Fall 2017]

[era_two_triangle]

"If it brought you here from another place, then probably," Peridot agreed. "They aren't quite are elegant as the warps from home, but they get the job done all the same."

Re: General Mingling [Fall 2017]

[not_of_the_nora]

"You have gates like that?" Aloy asked, perking up. "Tell me."

Re: General Mingling [Fall 2017]

[era_two_triangle]

"From Homeworld?" Peridot smiled a bit. "We had warp pads set up anywhere in the universe that we'd ever been. You could step onto the pad, and..." She waggled her fingers around a bit. "Woosh, they'd take you to any one of a number of destinations. Earth used to have a bunch, at least in my reality, but they... they've seen better days."

And Earth was better off for it, too.

Re: General Mingling [Fall 2017]

[not_of_the_nora]

"Do you know how they're made?" Aloy asked.

Not that she was, you know. Inclined to tinker like a maniac, or anything.

Re: General Mingling [Fall 2017]

[era_two_triangle]

"I can repair them when they're broken, but I need my flask robonoids for that," Peridot mused, maybe a touch apologetically. "Otherwise, they were slightly outside of my area of expertise. I'm a kindergartener. The warp pads weren't what I was made for."

Which she had thought was very unfortunate back when she was first stranded on the planet.

"However, I'm mostly certain that it wouldn't be possible to create one from scratch within the lifespan of the average human. Not without the right instruments from Homeworld. They're primarily made of crystal."

Re: General Mingling [Fall 2017]

[not_of_the_nora]

Aloy shrugged. "You'd be surprised what you can do if you scavenge the right machine parts," she said.

Re: General Mingling [Fall 2017]

[era_two_triangle]

"Scavenging is pretty much all I can do around here," Peridot mused. "I suppose that has to count for something, though I'm not in any hurry to get back to Homeworld now."

She tilted her head a little.

"But I suppose I have plenty of time if I ever do decide I want to build a warp pad."

Re: General Mingling [Fall 2017]

[not_of_the_nora]

"I'd rather get home than to your Homeworld," Aloy said wryly. "But something like that... it's got to be possible to reverse-engineer that... hm."

Maybe if she found another portal frame...

Re: General Mingling [Fall 2017]

[era_two_triangle]

"Well... I could probably take you to see a warp pad," Peridot offered. "Most of the ones around Earth are in ruins, but there has to be one or two you can look at. The catch is that they'll only work if there's something they can connect to on the other side."

Re: General Mingling [Fall 2017]

[not_of_the_nora]

"Hm," Aloy said thoughtfully. "Maybe there's some Metal World tech..."

Don't mind her, Peridot. She was going to nerd this out in her own head for a moment.

Re: General Mingling [Fall 2017]

[era_two_triangle]

Peridot tilted her head a little, curiously.

"Thinking of something you might be able to connect a warp to?"

This sounded like one heck of a project.

She was so game.

Re: General Mingling [Fall 2017]

[not_of_the_nora]

"The Old Ones left a lot of technology behind, including the arch that got me here," Aloy offered. "If they knew how to get here, who's to say they didn't leave a connection point? An anchor?"

Re: General Mingling [Fall 2017]

[era_two_triangle]

"That would be reasonable," Peridot decided. "Warps don't work without a point to connect to. It's Homeworld technology, but not all of it leads to Homeworld. Logically speaking, if these arches of yours can send somebody from one point to another, there should be a way to reverse the path you took here in the first place. Like a door, of sorts..."