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[fairly]

Passed it again, huh. I keep losing track... wonder if it's a good thing.

....

Hey, so... does anybody have a particular day - or more than one, I guess - that means something to them? Not their birthday or a holiday or anything like that, I mean a regular, normal day where something important or significant happened to them. Could be good or bad, whatever.


[Zack's in a weird mood today, for... various reasons. He's also lounging in the hammock outside House 50, enjoying it while he can before the cold weather forces him to take it down, so if you happen to be in the area, feel free to bother him that way instead.]

Comments

[wingenvy]

I grew up in a little village in the middle of nowhere. We didn't have a school or anything!

[god-is-a-dude.livejournal.com]

[....]

What kinda tiny town doesn't even have some one-room schoolhouse or something?

[wingenvy]

Hey, nowadays it doesn't even have power. Back then it was pretty advanced compared to what it's become.

[god-is-a-dude.livejournal.com]

[...]

Power? What's up with that?

[wingenvy]

The mako reactor exploded a few years ago. The power company just never bothered to fix it- at least, that's what I heard, anyway.

1/2

[god-is-a-dude.livejournal.com]

[Exploded?! Haruki's eyes get a bit wide there and- what? What? This guy's pretty chill for-]

2/2

[god-is-a-dude.livejournal.com]

[...Oh. Right. Solider.]

Never heard of this mako stuff!

Re: 2/2

[wingenvy]

[Yeah Haruki'll find that Zack is chillax about just about anything.]

It's a natural chemical on my world that's used for pretty much everything. Power, magic, even people use it for themselves sometimes.

[god-is-a-dude.livejournal.com]

Huh. That's pretty useful fix, then.

[wingenvy]

Yeah, that's pretty much what most people believe. It's not for everybody, though!

[god-is-a-dude.livejournal.com]

Why not? I mean the thing apparently is a universal power source. I mean I can get if people get negative reactions to it in terms of personal exposure, but the plants have to be a godsend depending on the emissions it gives of.

[wingenvy]

Well, that's where things get kinda dicey. Mako's pretty powerful, but the wrong kind of exposure can really hurt people- make them sick, or turn them into weird-looking creatures. And usually it's kept really carefully in special plants, but we had a terrorist group protesting it, saying it was damaging the planet... so yeah, not everybody's happy about it.

[god-is-a-dude.livejournal.com]

[...] I guess that sort of thing would happen with any major energy source. [Creatures though? That's intense and slightly interesting-]

It can mutate people like that?

[wingenvy]

Yeah, unfortunately. Enough raw mako can turn people into monsters. I've seen it happen.

[god-is-a-dude.livejournal.com]

[...] Huh. That's intense.

[wingenvy]

Heh, no kidding. Thankfully that doesn't happen much, so most people are safe. Those are sorta like extreme cases, you know?

[god-is-a-dude.livejournal.com]

Yeah, like with people's fears about nuc. There's not a lot of the extreme cases you like to see in movies and books.

[wingenvy]

Dunno if I know that term. I don't think we have that on Gaia. It's similar to mako, then?

[god-is-a-dude.livejournal.com]

Nuclear power. It's less of a chemical and more of the energy you get from radiation given off when you split an atom. I doubt the principle is at all similar of mako's really a chemical, but the basic fears you're mentioning seem similar. Plus it's kinda a catch-all in terms of power in the same way.

[wingenvy]

Gotcha.

Man, the price of convenience is pretty annoying, huh? Makes me wonder what kind of power source the Malnosso are using, to run all the fancy equipment they must use. I mean, how much power would something as big as the barrier use up?

[god-is-a-dude.livejournal.com]

Unless you're not thinking outside the box enough. Maybe the barrier's powered with thought or imagination or something.

[wingenvy]

....What? How could they do that? [That makes no sense to him, ffff.]

[god-is-a-dude.livejournal.com]

Like say the ambient "energy" which is generated when we as humans think is somehow harnessed and put into some sort of "imagination" reactor.

[wingenvy]

That's a pretty out-there theory. [Then again, with the things he's seen in his lifetime...]

[god-is-a-dude.livejournal.com]

Not really; think about is cosmically! Cos-mic-cal-ly! Your planet uses mako to power things which I've never heard of, we use nuclear power which you've never heard of - among other things - some other worlds might use other things. For someone here, the idea of thoughts powering things might be totally normal.