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[aldebaranshit]

(April 18th - 19th)

So upon asking around in Hugel, you've learned that Arunafeltz has been abandoned for some years now. Something about the majority of the city disappearing off until the remainder moved off to Lighthalzen and left the city as a ghost town. Many of them have heard of the traveling machine, but never had seen it for themselves, except for a few who can recount their friends or family members going off world.

The journey to Arunafeltz shouldn't take more than a day. Once you get there, you should start rooting around the city center. Explore a little bit, and enjoy yourself. Your company. You're this much closer to getting home.

[Mission: Explore the city and rig your ride home.]

(plot post )

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[armedarchaeologist]

[he's not a technobabble guy, he's a languagebabble guy. anyway don't whine you want a piece of this. or you did. Once upon a Time.]

Oh, don't say that, things could always be much worse, especially if we're talking alternate universes. Saying things can't get worse is pretty much a challenge to the universe to make sure they can get worse.

[grimaces at "sinking in on itself," because ow. please no. that's what he's going home to. let's not talk about universes collapsing either.]

That's. Clara had one of those, I think. Didn't she? Or was that one hers?

[the screwdriver.]

[crossmyhearts]

[don't be such a pessimist daniel, that's not how the doctor does things.]

Yes, but no. Nothing will get worse, I'm quite positive. About 50/50 sure. This time. Anyway! Yes! What? No. Clara didn't have one of these. There aren't even any more of these, and this one is mine. You must be confusing it with something else.

[it's not the only possible explanation but it's the only one he wants to consider right now. onto the other question.]

As for the portal-- finding it? Yes, that will be easy. The tricky part is to get the machine working properly, since this whole place seems to have been left to rot for a while now.

[wolfsoul]

Something tells me you might be the guy for the job.

[ am i right? or is all that swagger for nothing. ]

[armedarchaeologist]

[shrugs at the screwdriver explanation. it was an offhand question anyway. he's pretty sure clara had one but... oh was that the other clara. awkward. maybe in her timeline she never... no that's not right she said she was ditched on the planet... you know what, never mind.

shakes his head. clearing mental cobwebs. nods at graham.]

Yeah, my experience with alien tech is pretty severely limited to one culture and even then I've pretty much got no idea what I'm doing most of the time, I just... Take crystals out and replace them at random. This thing, this doesn't look Ancient. Anyway, you're the one with the screwdriver.

[briefly distracted by an alien toy store. hnn no i wanna stay and explore don't make me go back to the end of my universe.]

[crossmyhearts]

[puffs chest a little. straightens bowtie.]

Oh, trust me. I most definitely am the man for the job.

[turns to daniel.] That's much like what I do! Well, most times anyway. And not always crystals. Sometimes they're rocks. Other times they're literal puzzle pieces, or pulling random levers, smacking on big red buttons because honestly, what else can you do with a big red button, right?

[stares at him expectantly. you understand him, don't you daniel. yes you do.]

[wolfsoul]

[ i don't. ]

[ i don't understand you two at all. ]

[armedarchaeologist]

[finally someone else who doesn't roll their eyes when daniel brings up aliens! sry graham i think doctor is my new bff.

laughs at the doctor, but not like meanly. daniel's laughing with you. he understands.]

Yep. Pretty sure we'd never get anywhere without them just sitting there, waiting to be pushed. Who knows, maybe things are finally looking up for us and this device has one?

[now that he thinks about it, the dhd is basically a big red button. there is a pattern to his life.]

[aldebaranshit]

[y'all are taking your sweet ass time]

[crossmyhearts]

[grins widens by the second. finally someone who will not call him crazy for clicking all the buttons. cups his face for a moment before letting go and twirling around once.]

Bless you, Daniel! And yes, that would be brilliant, ooooh just a big bright button smack in the middle of it! Or even better, several bright buttons, a couple of levers thrown in too, just for good measure! And if it doesn't have any of that I'm sure we could build some into it, just to make it more fun. Yes!!

[wolfsoul]

[ got caught talking sry. except he didn't. ]

[ leaves them to their thang and inspects the tracks on the dust. this must be the right place. ]

I think the others are here already.

[armedarchaeologist]

[blinks a little at the touching. what are you no get off my face. oh okay it's gone. phew.]

Well, yeah, we could, or we could just push whatever bright red button's there in the first place, because what's a universe-breaking machine without a bright red button that lets all and sundry know how it works?

[ancients.

looks down at the footprints. that's like. three inches of dust.]

Looks like it. I guess we go in here?

[goes in there.]

[crossmyhearts]

Exactly.

[oh graham you're here too. sorry about that not sorry. anyway. looks between them and goes in there too.]

[wolfsoul]

[ onwards to the other thread we go. ]