Clockwork workshop, lesson 4

[heterodine.livejournal.com]

“Alright boys” Agatha said as she walked into the workshop room and glanced up at the boys in question. “Today we are going to actually build the clock housing. Make sure to leave enough room inside for the mechanism.”

She placed several sets of tools on the table as well as some metals and woods.

“These should be all the raw materials you need. Follow your blueprints. Ask for help if or when you need it. Don’t get hurt.”


[ooc: I am sick sorry for short post]

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Re: chat with agatha

[heterodine.livejournal.com]

Agatha says "John, could you come over here for a moment please?"

Re: chat with agatha

[apocalypsesoon.livejournal.com]

John shrugged his leftshoulderand said "Sure" as he mosey'd over.

Re: chat with agatha

[heterodine.livejournal.com]

"So, i see you have been workignon a side project in yoru spare time?"

Re: chat with agatha

[apocalypsesoon.livejournal.com]

"Yeah, it was soemthing I was working on during Friday. I got a bit bored, and there wasn't much to do, so I juststarted tinkering."

Re: chat with agatha

[heterodine.livejournal.com]

"What is it?"

Re: chat with agatha

[apocalypsesoon.livejournal.com]

"um.. it's spare arms."

Re: chat with agatha

[heterodine.livejournal.com]

"John..." she sighed " why do you have a spare arm?"

Re: chat with agatha

[apocalypsesoon.livejournal.com]

"Just in case? It's kinda like your defense harness, but not as elaborate. Just two arms. And a tail, cuz tails are just cool like that."

Re: chat with agatha

[heterodine.livejournal.com]

"You are buildign a tail?" she asked incredulously "can i see?"

Re: chat with agatha

[apocalypsesoon.livejournal.com]

John shows her the tail. It's not attached yet, as he spent most of his time replicating the left arm from the right, but it's multisegmented and looks a lot like Doc Ock's arms with a small 4 jaw pincer on the end.

Re: chat with agatha

[heterodine.livejournal.com]

Agatha examined the tail carefully. "Is it powered? How does it work?"

Re: chat with agatha

[apocalypsesoon.livejournal.com]

John sighed. He took a deep breath to explain, and started coughing. He managed to choke out "No" in response to the questions.

Re: chat with agatha

[heterodine.livejournal.com]

"No it is not powered? Or no it doesnt' work?"

Re: chat with agatha

[apocalypsesoon.livejournal.com]

Coughing subsided, John was able to respond. "No, it's not powered. None of this is powered, yet, since I haven't examined and duplicated your harness."

Re: chat with agatha

[heterodine.livejournal.com]

"You can examine it all you want. I am not sure you cna actually duplicate it. Also... it is wind-up, as is everythign i make. You have no such restriction, why do you not power it with a more modern source? Or even... somethign taken form your own body perhaps?"

Re: chat with agatha

[apocalypsesoon.livejournal.com]

John was quiet. "I've thought about making it a more modern power source, but I'm afraid that if I makeit function too long, it will go out of control. And as for the body thing," he paused, thinking of a short blonde guy with a temper (and a red coat), "that may be something I'm not yet prepared to do. I've seen similar designs."

Re: chat with agatha

[heterodine.livejournal.com]

"you have? Where? I wnat to look!" Agatha then processed the beginign of his sentance. "You think the tail will go out of control?"

Re: chat with agatha

[apocalypsesoon.livejournal.com]

"FInd a short blonde guy with a red coat, and call him short. If he reacts, that's your man. Metal leg and metal arm, connected directly to his nervous system somehow. Alchemy, I suppose. It's good work, too."

"I think everything will go out of control. That's just hwo I think."

Re: chat with agatha

[heterodine.livejournal.com]

"Ifhe is a student i cna't jsut find him, i have no acess to the school. Bring him aroudn sometime?"

"Do you have that little faith in the machinery, or in your own control?"

Re: chat with agatha

[apocalypsesoon.livejournal.com]

"I have little faith in man's control of things that were not his domain. Entrusting technology to take care of itself is foolish. Entrusting Man to take care of itself is foolish, as well, let alone to take care of another."

He blinked. "Yeah, I'll drag him around sometime. He's cool."

Re: chat with agatha

[heterodine.livejournal.com]

"how can things that we create not be our domain? Whose domain are they then?"

Re: chat with agatha

[apocalypsesoon.livejournal.com]

"I don't know whose domain they are once they reach sentience and start rampaging. Their own? I dunno. But we make things that we can't control and stand there with our thumbs up our... ears, wondering 'gee, what went wrong?' and I'm trying to stop that from happening." John fiddles with his 2 armed 1 tailed machine.

Re: chat with agatha

[heterodine.livejournal.com]

"We also crate children, and if we do not teach them, they go out of control. So, why can we not teach the machines to do whatis good and right when they are in their own domain and their own control?"

Agatha had no diea where this discussion was coming from, but she was finding it rrather fascinating.

Re: chat with agatha

[apocalypsesoon.livejournal.com]

"Because there's too much error. Kids and machines, there's toomuch error. You can program, teach 'em as much as you like, but they're not controlled. They're inherintly random, and they can't just be controlled. A glitch here, a defiance there, and things start to spiral outof control. That's why I'm not building this thing with a great power supply. I want to make sure that it won't go on indefinitely, controlled by the user or not." WRENCHWRENCHWRENCH.

Re: chat with agatha

[heterodine.livejournal.com]

"Nothing goees on indefinitly. Perpetual motion is an imposibility."