[CALL] Video; UN: ironiclabcoat

[new_toys]

[The woman on the screen is not wearing a lab coat, despite her username, but if she's not a mad scientist she's missed her calling in life. Despite the punk-ish shock of bleached-blonde hair and the glimpses of best-of-Goodwill-chic clothes, something about her just screams it.

She peers at the camera through yellow-tinted safety glasses, checking to make sure it's on, then pulls back and flashes the network an enormous grin.]

This is awesome.

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[new_toys]

Absolutely I do. Where are you?

[story_and_teller]

Carmichael's, not far from you.

[boundinblood]

[She's definitely outdoors - in fact, in the wilderness. There's no signs of civilization anywhere in the background, not even noise. There's very little light pollution, as well; what she can see of the sky is filled with stars.]

My own world. Do you think time passes differently between each one?

[The concept of it being a different time of day somewhere else is a little strange to Katherine. Her concept of her world, is, in fact, her continent, and that means generally day is day and night is night and that's true for everyone.]

[new_toys]

Can I Google Maps that?

[She fiddles with the CALL device for a second and brightens.]

Oh, hey. I can.

[new_toys]

We can call in from the other side? I missed that part.

[Huh.]

Well, anyway, axiomatically, time passes differently between planes.

[story_and_teller]

Then come! We shall dine on fried potatoes, and venture to the Satellite!

[[ooc: wanna set up a log post? :3]]

[lightmagic]

Tomorrow, I believe. It has the closest level of technology to where I was previously, at least.

[new_toys]

Hey, me too.

[She grins broadly.]

Pretty kickin', right?

[new_toys]

((OOC: Got you covered here!))

[boundinblood]

I've only found that to be true of our perception of time-...

[Wait a minute, she's forgetting that for any one person everything could be different.]

How many other planes have you seen? Here, there are only two, or there were until I was given this device.

[iron_man]

Wow, that's pretty awesome. So you're in the City of Tomorrow, I take it? Aren't the cars pretty damn awesome? I'm going to need to make one when I get back home.

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[fivenareff]

Any particular favorite sights so far?

[new_toys]

That's when you're talking single-dimension spacetime. Once you start poking through the membranes, things get weird.

This is technically my third. Probably.

[new_toys]

[She senses a fellow tinkerer and perks up.]

Do you know what makes 'em tick yet?

[new_toys]

I'm a nuclear engineer, s o . . .

Who is this?

[fivenareff]

[WHAT A GOOD QUESTION, he thinks, and there's a moment's pause.]

Arthur.

[It certainly fits in with his username.]

I'm new as well. Very new, in fact; I only arrived a few days ago.

[new_toys]

[Arthurian legend is lost on Holtzmann; she'll be the first to admit it. She doesn't draw any immediate connections there.]

Jillian Holtzmann. You don't like the phone?

[Skyping a stranger is weird, but texting with one feels weirder. For all she knows, he's actually Rowan North, back from the dead yet again.]

[fivenareff]

I don't like the way my voice sounds, if you want the truth. Texting is easier on me.

Besides: it's easier to do two things at once if I'm texting. I can give both the conversation and whatever I'm doing my full attention instead of constantly splitting it.

What does a nuclear engineer do, exactly? Or, more importantly: what does a nuclear engineer work on here?

[new_toys]

Here? Tourism.

[fivenareff]

[He barks a laugh at that.]

Just don't make Romance explode once you're done with the tourism.

[iron_man]

Working on it. I'm actually going to try and get my hands on one and take it apart while I'm here.

[ His to-do list is getting pretty long, but whatever. He is truly a tinkerer, so taking the flying car apart is definitely a thing he needs to do. ]

[new_toys]

That sounds like a challenge.

[new_toys]

What's stopping you?

[boundinblood]

[Things that a less...medieval listener might take without a single thought, concepts that worked their way into pop culture via science fiction like multiple dimensions, those are utterly mystifying to Katherine.]

...Definitely weird. It's so odd to see daylight behind you but have stars above my own head, and neither of us in the Fade. That's-...um, that's the other one here, by the way. I assume the other is the one your dreams come from, too?

[What do other worlds call the Fade? That's the other plane before the city on the other side of the device she's alluding to, right? Maybe she's a mage, too. It's hard to imagine a world without these things.]

[iron_man]

I want a proper workshop where I can tinker to my heart's content.