un: castiel | voice to text

[messenger]

Hello. This is Castiel.

I'm looking for any information that can be provided on Aurora, Etraya, and Echo. I'm particularly interested in the latter.

I'm certain anyone who's made attempts at gathering information about this place and those who've brought us here will have noticed there's no library.

[ calling it suspicious would be redundant, so he doesn't. ]

Comments

[levelshift]

I was talking to Aurora about death, and she told me. If you don't think she's trustworthy you'll want to take this information with a grain of salt.

Then you should try.

[messenger]

Do you trust her?

[levelshift]

Yeah, I do.

[messenger]

Why?

[ it would help the decisions he's going to have to make, if he knew there was a reason to trust her. ]

[levelshift]

She's been civil and whenever I've asked her about shit and she's been able to give me an answer she has. I see no reason not to trust her.

[And he's got a gigantic soft spot for artificial beings, especially ones created only for a specific task who've been deprived of their own agency, buuuut saying that out loud is embarrassing so he keeps it to himself.]

[messenger]

[ castiel can relate, but it doesn't exactly make him more inclined to trust. ]

I see. I'd like a little more information before I decide.

[levelshift]

Then you're better off talking to her yourself. That way you're not forming an opinion on secondhand information.

[messenger]

There's still information I'd like to gain before we speak.

[levelshift]

What else do you want to know?

[messenger]

What method was used to transport us here? How do these trials decide our worthiness? Why trials? Is the judgement necessary, or Echo's whim? How close are we to destruction? If there are truly no other options, how did Echo come to this conclusion? Who built this place? Why not simply observe us in our natural habitat instead of tearing us from our homes? How is it that the barrier can affect me? Is it warded? Or is this some more powerful magic?

[levelshift]

Most of the answers to your questions are going to be "no one knows for sure, because we haven't figured out a way to talk to Echo and Aurora can't tell us."

As for who built this place. I'm not fucking sure about the planet itself, but the companion bots build all the buildings under the direction of Aurora. She has free reign there, given her sister organized her city Moorecroft to be like the American suburbs because she thought it would be good for the mental health of her people.

The barrier is easier to explain using mathematical formulas, but I doubt you'd understand them. In layman's terms, it isn't entirely scientific and likely made up of some kind of fucking magic or other phenomena I've never observed before. It is semi-permeable, allowing a one way flow of air molecules. A hole was ripped in it when part of a space station crashed, but the companion bots fixed it up.

The barrier affects everyone, why are you surprised it affects you?

[messenger]

I'll understand the formulas. Tell me.

I'm capable of moving instantly between any two points in space. That is to say, I can teleport through solid matter. How could I have known it affects everyone? I only just arrived.

[levelshift]

I'll send you a file with them, then. Otherwise I think I'd hit the character limit for texting.

[He'll do that shortly. The calculations Accelerator has managed to do seem reasonable at first, since he started off by following typical scientific laws for them, but eventually they devolve into something incredibly complex and bizarre, made up of imaginary numbers and formulas. There are gaps in his calculations too, where he wasn't able to measure the barrier using his ability.

Regardless, this is the kind of absurd math that would take a supercomputer a long time to come up with.]

Teleportation isn't impossible to calculate for. Maybe your universe just hasn't figured it out.

[He's being a shit, it isn't that easy for most people in his world to calculate for it either.]

[messenger]

[ castiel is capable of calculating for time travel, so the information he's sent isn't beyond him. they don't result in anything more than a better understanding of the situation, though. he isn't the only one who has gaps in his knowledge, and there isn't anything they can do about being unable to move through the barrier unless they find themselves in possession of something with as much mass as a space ship. ]

Clearly I'm capable of calculating for it, since I can do it.

[ he never said it wasn't possible. ]

But this is interesting. Thank you.

[levelshift]

[If this guy is surprised the barrier can calculate for teleportation it must not be overly common in his universe. That, or he's underestimating how advanced Aurora is. It makes perfect sense to Accelerator that she could account for extra dimensional movement.]

Yeah, whatever. I need to put my brain to good use, so if you've got any other fucking ideas for shit that should be measured let me know.

[messenger]

[ "artificial" constructs of her nature don't exist at all in his universe, and neither does anything like the barrier. it's an entirely new concept. it's like being introduced to a new color when you only know the human visible range of the electromagnetic spectrum. he's going to have to do some of his own calculations, to see how the barrier accounts for his unique properties.

of course, he's a construct by the same definition. created wholesale by another living being, a completely inorganic life-form that came fully grown and pre-installed with a vast repository of knowledge. it's just a matter of the angle you approach these things. eventually, he'll learn. ]

Okay.

[ maybe he will.

but this individual seems particularly hostile to being asked questions (ironic, since he's the one who answered his inquiries in the first place), so he'll leave it at that. ]

[sleepfan]

I'd like the mathematics as well, as someone who practices teleportation magic. I want to see if there is overlap in approaches.

[levelshift]

Yeah, fine.

[He'll send the barrier file along. Enjoy the quantum physics using imaginary formulas, Linhardt!]

[sleepfan]

Thank you.

[ He doesn't understand most of what he receives, but Linhardt doesn't consider that a problem. He has to learn somehow, avoiding things because he does not understand him will not help him to do so. ]