ohthehumanities | catchall; wolfwood

[(pensive)]

That makes sense. [His brow furrows, pensive. At first, he imagines some kind of elemental being, not unlike what they have in Teyvat--but Wolfwood said there was just sand, so...] Were they brought over on the ships?

Yeah. Brought a bunch of plant bulbs over from the Old World aboard the spaceships. Probably weren't plannin' on being entirely reliant on 'em, 'cause who in their right mind tries to settle sincerely on a place like No Man's Land?

Lucky we had them though. They produce everything we need to live. Heat, water, electricity, whatever.

[Kaveh nods, considering that as he moves to sit on a giant mushroom.]

And I'm guessing there was nothing you could use to repair the ships.

Given the ships ended up being dismantled to make building parts, and the plants were needed to keep us alive and not to be used as spaceship fuel?

Yeah, pretty much.

[Well now his little architect engineer whatever brain is whirring at a thousand miles an hour trying to figure out how to use sand in new ways. Is he going to go to the library after this to try and find books about space travel. Maybe.

In fact, he puts a hand to his chin, staring thoughtfully into the distance for a little while.]

Mehrak-- oh. [Fuck he forgot he left Mehrak behind. He shakes himself out of it. He contemplates a little longer, then looks back at Wolfwood.] Would you show me someday? It doesn't have to be right now.

...You wanna look at a bunch of sand?

[ Don't say it like Kaveh's the weird one when it's your own planet. ]

Well, yes. I can't exactly hop over in person. [Which makes him kind of sad, actually, now that he thinks about it. He hasn't really dared to think beyond "let's try and figure out how to save more than 4 people max."] I'm just curious.

...Fine, but I dunno how much you're gonna find interesting to look at. Gimme the controls.

[ OR HOWEVER THIS THING WORKS. ]

[Kaveh blinks, briefly surprised--but he doesn't want to say no just because he doesn't have his notebook, in case Wolfwood changes his mind, so.]

Oh--right, so if you just touch this part here-- [(vaguely mumbled explanatory description)]

[ Thank you he will uset his vaguely mumbled explanatory description to transform their scenery. Goodbye, lovely rainforest!

Hello, scorching desert planet of two suns and nothing but sand, sand, and more sand. Like, seriously, so much sand. He can maybe see a few structures in the distance, by default generally invoking an old western type of air, though maybe he can see a silhouette of a larger city over the horizon.

It is incredibly arid. ]

[It's a little disorienting to give up control of the simulation; Kaveh blinks a few times as his eyes adjust, slowly turning to survey the landscape. I want to make a Star Wars joke here but I don't remember what the desert-y planets were called AAAAA

Anyway, he lifts a hand to shield his eyes, then points toward the city with the other.]

Is that... the ship? [Or the. Crash remnants, rather.]

[ He looks over there.

Honestly I wasn't thinking of anywhere specific I just made shit up and pulled random reference photos to at least get a overall grasp of what the planet looks like. ]

Probably a Numbered City. Those're are the big ones.

[Completely fair and valid. Kaveh gets the mysterious feeling he shouldn't ask specific questions.

There's more here than he expected, honestly, but it's still... very clearly barren, yeah. He crouches down, picking up a handful of sand.]

Are there very many of them?

There used to be seven. There's six now.

[ OR I'M SO LED TO BELIEVE!! I'm sorry this is useless there really is such a limited amount of geographical knowledge about NML in TriMax. ]

[LMFDKSHJG it's all good this is me sweating and trying to talk about Fontaine. But Kaveh just nods, his gaze somewhat distant as he surveys the area.]

I wonder if Nahida would know the formula for... [Sorry he's wandering off and musing about architect things to himself now] ...maybe if it were circular...? If the windows are high enough... [Hmmm.] Maybe Setsu would know...

[Kaveh Wolfwood is still here]

[ He is indeed still just here.

He lets this go on for about thirty seconds before he decides maybe he should comment. ]

The hell are you mumbling about now?

[Kaveh blinks, shaken out of his thoughts.]

Oh--right, sorry. I just do a lot of work in the desert in Sumeru, so initial ideas tend to come pretty quickly.

[Although now he feels insecure about getting carried away...]

Initial ideas for what?

[ You're insecure you're insecure you're insecure you're insecure you're insecure ]

[In the distance of the simulation, the shadow of Harry Styles appears, eyes glowing red--]

Um... [HIS INTENSE PRIDE IN HIS WORK BATTLES WITH INSECURITY WEEK

Pride wins:]

Well, now that the dust is settling after the incident with the Sages, Nahida's been wanting to reach out to the Eremites and initiate development in the desert. We haven't talked about it much directly, but from what I hear, she's been working to figure out ways to help without disrupting their way of life. Part of that involves infrastructure--things like schools, libraries, hospitals, shelters... but they have very different needs from those of us on the other side of the Wall. Buildings out there require vastly different materials to withstand the sandstorms, initiate air flow, store and purify water, and so on. Aaru Village was built into the cliffs, and they have access to water, but I'd wondered if it might be possible to adapt the formulas they use for some of their building materials, so that the people in your world could make better use of all this sand. I'd imagine that if it could be used for space travel, someone in your world would've figured it out already, but I thought Setsu might have some ideas, since their world is much more technologically advanced, if I recall.

[...........

Just kidding insecurity effect is back HE WAVES HIS HANDS QUICKLY]

But they were just ideas, I didn't mean to imply that no one had thought of any of all this already, you know--

[ Wall? Akademiya is Republicans?

He just listens to all of this. ]

I think there's some people out there who thought about it. And I've met some geniuses who managed intergalactic contact -- took a hundred fifty years to do it, but they did.

It's a resource issue, more than anything.

[ Ultimately, it's just a scarcity battle. Simply not enough resources to help everyone like that. ]

[:)

But Kaveh nods; taking that in and still looking (Harry Styles voice) INSECURE, but as though he's processing this--then he wrinkles his nose suddenly, looking annoyed.]

Ugh, this week is irritating already. [DON'T TAKE HIS CONFIDENCE IN HIS WORK!!!] Well, I can't promise it'll do you any good, but I can draft some designs if you'd like. Maybe you can find someone to make use of them.

[He doesn't want to think about them not making it back, so he just. Won't do that right now.]

[ He ignores the insecurity. He is instead thinking about it, mulling over what Kaveh says, and... ]

...You'd probably be better off handing those to spikey. He's the one who knows all those geniuses on the ship.

[He blinks, tilting his head slightly.]

Who's that? [Wolfwood your NICKNAMES]

It's still Vash.

[ Here he is completely capable of using names sometimes and he just doesn't. I hate his weird nicknaming tendencies BECAUSE they're specifically so half-assed, they're not even real nicknames!! Though technically he only calls Vash 'tongari' but the EN takes a little more liberty so I am too because I think it's funny. ]

[HELP I'M LOSING IT. I think Wolfwood should call him "tongari" someday and confuse everyone even further

But Kaveh just looks amused.]

I thought Vash was "blondie"?

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