four.

[thraxios]

One begins to wonder if there are landmarks from all our homes in this country, built in anticipation of our arrival during some sort of loss. I find myself picturing a counterfeit Mirador, brimming with wizards going about their business without any meaningful effect on the world around them.

The sky would be the only telling flaw - though, with a windowless building, no one would notice.

Have there been any attempts to chart the stars of Paradisa's sky? Astronomy has never been among my strengths, but I can recognize enough of the stars at home to know that these are not the same.

Comments

dictated;

[minicaptain]

If we had an astrometrics lab, we could do it.

[written]

[thraxios]

I'm afraid that if astronomers in my world had such a thing, I wasn't aware of it. What is an astrometrics lab?

dictated; as always~

[minicaptain]

Uh... [ she has to think about that. ] I don't know if it would work on a planet, but in space we used it to map the stars, planets, and other ships in the area.

[and written, in turn]

[thraxios]

[He's basically just imagining a specific room for this, nothing particularly high-tech. Yay, Elizabethan levels of technology.]

I'm not sure we can do more than basic cartography from Paradisa, unfortunately, maselle.

[minicaptain]

[ she takes a guess at those meanings. ]

I didn't think so.

[ being somewhere other than voyager is so weird. is this what it's going to be like back on earth, too? :c ]

Uh... good luck?

[kethedammit]

Sounds like a fucking nightmare to me.

How you been?

[thraxios]

Considering the possibility that they might be bored with their lot - very possibly.

I have nothing to complain about. How is your shoulder?

[kethedammit]

And that's worse. Tower fulla bored hocuses popping up outside?

Itchy.

[thraxios]

No doubt they'd be a ways away from the castle proper.

Something of an improvement over 'bloodied,' at least. How does Felix fare?

[kethedammit]

Here's hoping.

He's better. Nobody's dying, so I'm happy as peaches.

Dictated

[schrodingersghost]

I've been up with a telescope a lot of nights. And yeah, I can definitely say the stars here are definitely not like they were at home.

Don't know if anyone's been actually star charting or anything, though.

[written]

[thraxios]

As have I, albeit generally without a telescope. I suppose we've been on the roof on different nights.

My name is Gideon Thraxios.

Re: [written]

[schrodingersghost]

Guess so.

Nice to meet you. I'm Danny Fenton.

[thraxios]

A pleasure, Messire Fenton. Are you fond of astronomy?

[schrodingersghost]

Just Danny, okay?

And yeah. I used to want to be an astronaut.

[lioneyed]

I've considered working on some star charts - particularly now that the nights aren't so cold out. Winter was awful.

[He discovered snow and then shortly after discovered he didn't like it]

[thraxios]

Do you have some experience working with them? I'm afraid my interest in the stars tends to be more philosophical than scientific.

[lioneyed]

A little - there's a method of divination that involves star patterns, though it's not the most reliable. But I know how to read star charts and the like.

[thraxios]

Then you have the advantage of me in this subject.

Perhaps you might join me on the rooftop sometime.

[lioneyed]

I'd quite like that.

[encryptedlock]

Yeah, there's a start chart a friend of mine found a while back. You can find a paper copy in the library when we get back, or there's a digital copy on the CastleNet if you have a computer.

[thraxios]

I'll look in the library. Thank you, messire.

The fact that I'm uncertain whether I have a computer would suggest that I likely don't. What is it?

[encryptedlock]

Sure, no problem.

[York laughs.]

Yeah, if you have to ask then that's a no. Computer's a machine that lets you access and modify digital data. It's a lot more efficient than looking through a whole library, but you need electricity to work it so you can't have them everywhere, like in the Dead Zone. There are a couple in the library that have been set up for everyone's use if you want to play around with one some time.

[thraxios]

[More efficient than looking through a library? GIDEON DOUBTS. But is intrigued.]

How does one recognize a computer? Digital technology is far beyond what was available in my home.

[encryptedlock]

[Wait until you learn about a search engine, my friend. But York takes a moment to make a very rough sketch:]



The ones in the library look about like this. They're on its first floor.