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january open post + catch-all
Who: Yona (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
cutefaced) & you!
What: A catch-all for January with OTA prompts and closed starter toplevels.
When: Throughout January
Where: Mainly in and around Olympia; some visits to Wyver, too.
Warning(s): Nothing yet, but I'll edit if that changes.
olympia proper;
cutefaced) & you!What: A catch-all for January with OTA prompts and closed starter toplevels.
When: Throughout January
Where: Mainly in and around Olympia; some visits to Wyver, too.
Warning(s): Nothing yet, but I'll edit if that changes.
olympia proper;
one - getting reacquainted;the outskirts;
[Before taking ill, Yona had spent much of her time in the market district - mainly because she's always been easily distracted by interesting things. As a result, she hadn't been completely familiar with other parts of the city before then, though she did make a few forays into the theater district.
No more. Now that she's back, she has every intention of learning her way around the city she and her friens have returned to.
Her wandering takes her almost everywhere - and as a result, she ends up hopelessly, uselessly lost. Maybe you'll catch her looking at her surroundings with a puzzled expression.]
...wait, was I supposed to turn right at the last street, or the next one?
[Help.]
two - weapons galore;
[You must never touch weapons, Yona.
Her father's words are fresh in her mind as she stands outside the weapons shop. Of course - she's already disobeyed him once, when practicing throwing daggers. But she can only keep "borrowing" from Jae-Ha and sneaking them back to him for so long, and they're his weapons, in the end; she needs to find something that suits her.
Sooner or later, she was always going to have to look out for herself.
So in she goes, although she nearly immediately looks a bit overwhelmed at all the different choices. Oh boy.]
There's so many of them...
three - order up;
[She can't just rely on other people to buy her things forever (although to be truthful, it's worked for her so far).
So, not long after they return to Olympia, Yona starts looking for work. Her problem is there aren't a lot of things she already knows how to do well - but part-time work serving food at a cafe seems simple enough, and she's managed to get a job as a waitress at the Wyvernest, which suits her just fine. One of the most interesting things about Wyver was the dragons, after all.
Now she's sort of got the best of both worlds - she can see the baby dragons while she's working, and can learn about them as she does. (The owner doesn't rebuff her when she asks for employment as some others have, but maybe that's because they remember she wore a Wyver pin at the gala. Maybe they think she knows more about dragons than she actually does.)
But at the moment? It's time to serve some customers! Yona looks up when she hears the door open and fixes the person who's just entered with a smile.]
Welcome to the Wyvernest! How many would you like a table for today?
one - neutrality problems;a visit to wyver;
[The first time she borrows a mount to go exploring, she runs into some of the people who have left the city.
...up until that moment, she hadn't realized just how bad things had gotten. Sure, there were people who were vocal about wanting to keep themselves separate from the people of Wyver, and people who were talking about fighting with them... but she'd believed it was just talk. After all, when she'd gotten sick, the medicine that had cured her had only existed because they'd cooperated with them.
But, no. Apparently it is that bad. And when she hears that people on both sides have been refused help from the Sanctuary and the Altar of Volkkra...
Well, she can't take it. She really can't take it.
So, from time to time, she ventures out from the city on a mount for a "picnic," though what she's got packed is more along the lines of simple food for traveling, cloth cut into bandages, and other things she's managed to purchase with her earnings from the Wyvernest cafe. Some days, when she's gotten especially good tips, she has a little more.
Some days, when business has been slow, she's got a little less.
Either way, she's trying. And she could probably use a little help... be it with passing things out to people who need them, or actually providing effective medical assistance, or not getting mugged or attacked by wild animals or something.]
two - edrathe ruins;
[Is it foolish to be out here? Probably. Is that going to stop her from looking around? Probably not.
...except it really should have, because enough time has passed that Yona's borrowed mount has decided to head back to the stables and has definitely left her behind. She's wandering around near the entrance now, unsure if she's actually where she left it or if she's just gotten terribly turned around.]
Hello?
[...there's that strange rumbling noise; she jolts, then glances over her shoulder.]
Is someone here...?
one - dragonwatching;wildcard;
[No amount of tension is going to keep Yona out of Wyver - for the time being, anyway. But even she's not that stupid; when she does take off for the hotter country, about midway through the month, she at least has the sense to change the style of clothing she's wearing and smooth down her hair. It's perhaps not the most effective disguise she could have gone with, but at least when her hair reverts back to its usual frizzy state, she can use that as an excuse -
It couldn't have been me you saw! Do you really think I could get my hair to look like that?
Et cetera, et cetera.
Anyway, now that she's back in Wyver, she's going to be visiting some friends - but she's also going to be taking the time to go observe some fully-grown dragons. ...from a distance, of course; she doesn't want to be eaten. Still.
There's no small amount of admiration in her eyes as she watches them.]
They really are amazing...!
two - lagoons;
[Before she goes back to Olympia, she has to stop at the lagoons. Has to. There's no two ways about it. They're one of the things she enjoyed most about the jungle country, and she doesn't know when she'll get the chance to bathe in them again.
The public bathhouses in Olympia are perhaps a little more elegant, but the lagoon has its charm, too.
For now, Yona lounges in one of the public pools, her hair fanning out across the surface of the water and preserving her modesty. But ultimately, a bath is a bath. There's a time and a place for being naked; this is one of them.
So she doesn't really think twice about it when she catches sight of someone's feet at the water's edge - she waves them over with a smile.]
Come in, the water's great!
[If none of the above works for you, just hit me with whatever! I just ask that you let me know when and where it's happening; I can come up with a justification for Yona to be wherever you'd like. Alternatively, hit me up by PM or athungriest and I'll be glad to write a personalized starter for you.]
no subject
Okay. That's better.]
How are you going to do that?
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The Anisotropic is a space that exists parallel and adjacent to every point in the universe. It is possessed of a higher number of dimensions than the three present to your perception. [His hand floats over to her, palm upward as if in offering.]
When I move my arms, I am reaching through this anisotropic space. If your brain gains a sense of the Anisotropic, then this, too, could become possible for you.
Yona, what do you think of this shape? [The little paper figure finally stops spinning and floats over to hover above his disembodied hand. When still, it no longer appears to change shape or size, and looks very much like a cube.]
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A higher number... how many? Is it four or five?
[His question makes her focus on the paper cube, and she studies it for a few long moments before speaking.]
...um... it looks like a box.
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It is a tesseract. [His free hand reaches out to take her by the wrist and turn her palm upward, dropping the paper object into her open palm.] A four-dimensional cube. It is a very simple anisotropic shape.
Turn it in your hands. Feel it. What do you observe?
[She would feel something very different than the image her eyes can see. Cubes connecting with cubes at ninety-degree angles but never appearing as more than one singular box that seems to morph when rotated.]
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What...?
[It looks like a boss, but it doesn't feel like a box. She can't quite put her finger on what's wrong about it, but it's definitely... different.
Is there something wrong with her eyes, or...?]
...the sides don't feel flat...
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I do not have the means to alter your brain directly to allow for a keener understanding of the Anisotropic. All I can do is teach you the theory. The understanding is a conclusion you must reach on your own. [He told her the same thing at the party, which is why they're here today.]
I would like you to keep that tesseract as a model, and create another one yourself.
no subject
Umm... all right. I'll try to.
[She turns it over in her hand again, frowning slightly.]
Is there a certain way I'm supposed to fold it to make it...?
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Yes, but you must discover this method by yourself. I will not give you a deadline, so you may take as long as you need.
[Which means he's giving her homework. Homework that will require her to think in four dimensions.]
You are young--I know you are capable of doing this.
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I'll do my best!
[She'll probably get annoyed and throw the teseract across the room a couple of times, but she won't give up no matter how long it takes or how many times she fails. She's stubborn like that.]
Have you been able to teach people to understand the theory behind all this before...?
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Yes. [zaShunina nods, glancing up toward Thesa in the sky.] The physicist Shinawa Kanata determined a technique to create Wam--an Anisotropic device that I had introduced to the universe--from folded paper using the same method I am assigning to you now.
[Shinawa was also an exceptional mind, but she wasn't the only one who could do it--others eventually started figuring it out, too, once they watched her broadcast.]
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[That it's possible at all is encouraging - still, Yona wants to get an idea of the kind of timeframe she's looking at here, so she knows whether or not she needs to step up her game if it's taking too long.]
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[But he doesn't expect her to be able to do it in that short span. Shinawa was a physicist--someone who already grasped the basics of higher-dimensional theory. Yona is not, but he believes she can do it regardless.]
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[Yona's stomach does a little flip. Oh. Oh, boy.]
Ahh, I'm wasting time that I could be spending practicing now...! [She turns the tessaract over in her hands again, trying to figure out exactly how it's formed so she can remake it. Turning it more quickly won't teach her anything new, but...]