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Beyond Our Reach (the Stars Did Form)

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[X][Morning] Go and meet with more of your dormmates.

[X][Afternoon] Go meet with your adviser and choose your classes.

[X][Lunch] The garden.
 
I can't wait until they test our Talent, we cast Rift and reveal ourselves to be the Ethereals come again!

Riiiiiight?
 
Our mom is clearly the very best mom.
"Hey guys! Let's go to this deserted wasteland for our vacation!"

Granted, it did seemed to a pretty interesting experience.
 
[X][Morning] Go and meet with more of your dormmates.

[X][Afternoon] Go meet with your adviser and choose your classes.

[X][Lunch] The garden.

Honestly I think I would've enjoyed that Deadlands vacation, seems interesting.
 
Alright so apparently I really need to work on saying what's already going to be happening regardless of voting (and also not forgetting to say it). Probably doesn't help that I posted this at like two thirty yesterday morning, but whatever~

Talking to your advisor is already going to happen, regardless of voting for it, and I've edited the chapter to reflect that.

Also uh. @drakonpie250, @Ultramandalore, @Takareer, @loneangel, @Volantis, and @KnownParadox....voting isn't open until Monday morning, and you'd still need a reason for why you're voting for what you are for the vote to count.

Edit: sorry Taka. ...I need to go wake up.
 
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Has anyone an idea what we could do besides socializing and visiting the garden? Otherwise I would say we vote for this.
Also, should we get to know more people or should we spent more time with the known characters?

I think this are be the points we should discuss before we vote.
 
Varosch said:
Has anyone an idea what we could do besides socializing and visiting the garden? Otherwise I would say we vote for this.
Also, should we get to know more people or should we spent more time with the known characters?

I think this are be the points we should discuss before we vote.
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Personally, i think we should at the very least get passingly familiar with the rest of our dorm. Like learning everyone's faces and names and such.

But i think we should focus on our closer friend-group after that.


As for visiting the garden, i think it's a great idea. And then afterwards we can take a tour of everything else.

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Apart from that i don't think enough has really happened to discuss about? We don't really know enough things we can do, both IC and OOC. Although i suppose i might have missed something.
 
Visiting the library to research things, getting familiar with the layout of the class buildings, searching around and finding cool little secluded spots, actively seeking out members of other classes to ask them questions, those are things that are possible, and more. I'm not really limiting you guys at all, if you want to do something go for it. Imagine you're a relatively social, adventurous, and playful thirteen year-old girl at this school you don't know all that well, about to learn about things you don't know all that much about from teachers you don't know with other kids you don't know.

Hell, maybe you even want to go check out the connected university and get lost for a few hours, run around and see who's in the labs. Amy's grown up being taught by her mother that if you want to do something you do it, and if there isn't anything interesting around you go looking for it.

This is a time to explore and get familiarized, bug the front office ladies and find out who's the coolest, try finding the elusive stairs to the roof of the tallest building (even if you can't go up them yet), and drag your (not-quite-yet) friends around for fun.

Seriously, there's a lot you can do, and I'm not stopping you from any of it.
 
....Alright, I have two questions.

One, are wheelchair is automated correct?

Two, if yes, how fast can it go?

Because you cannot tell me racing around the building at top speed doesn't sound amazing.
 
ensou said:
You follow Grace as she leads you down the terraces, talking about her roommate, who's apparently "teetering on the edge of bitch-hood."
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#Teenagers

ensou said:
"This is Nem,"
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"Renenem, actually," they say with a wide smile. "Renenem Nguyen. But I think Nem's less of a mouthful, right?"
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Indeed. Much like the Necronominominominominomicon, you never want to stop if you let yourself get started.

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Tech is your first thought. You're pretty curious about the AI system that's running in your head. There's also your art, which might be nice to expand by taking a class for if you're interested in taking that any further, at least in the traditional non-design directions. Or maybe something to do with other planets and environments?

There's just so much you could do.

You tilt your head, and then shake it. "I really don't know. Sorry."
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Robotics may also be something to focus on. I'll be shocked if telekinetics and other Talented don't assemble giant battle robots for fun and profit. But really, it seems like a good idea to force the GM to make a proper map of campus explore aimlessly. Odds are there are activities we wouldn't think of on our own; maybe we'd find them? We may also be able to steal the land of any natives on the other end.
 
Maybe something like this?

[ ][Morning] Look up the club directory. Be social. With absolutely everyone. Talk about everything. Ask people what their favorite class is and why. Do a survey, tell people you don't know your Talent and ask them to guess what it could be, write all the answers down. Maybe you could even buy someone a prize if it turns out they guessed correctly? And then go bother some professors until they help you figure out what your Talent actually is.

[ ][Afternoon] Explore everywhere. Go on an adventure, maybe be even more social with even more people? Get/acquire/buy a map and list all the places you want to go to/explore once you don't need your wheelchair anymore. Mark all the points of interests! Make notes! Ask people what their favorite places are and note that down too!

[ ][Lunch] The garden.

Edit: Expanded the vote a bit!
 
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Stasis said:
Maybe something like this?

[ ][Morning] Be social. With absolutely everyone. Talk about everything. Do a survey, tell people you don't know your Talent and ask them to guess what it could be, write all the answers down. Maybe you could even buy someone a prize if it turns out they guessed correctly?

[ ][Afternoon] Explore everywhere. Go on an adventure, maybe be even more social with even more people? Get/acquire/buy a map and list all the places you want to go to/explore once you don't need your wheelchair anymore. Mark all the points of interests! Make notes!

[ ][Lunch] The garden.
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I'm a fan of pretty much all this. Socializing is scary, but good, and a survey sounds entertaining. Adventure, on the other hand, is adventure. I mean, come on. ADVENTURE. And the garden is a nice place to hang out.

ensou said:
Oh, that makes sense. You'd seen a couple of those, but never really got up the courage to go into a chatroom or anything.
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ensou said:
There's also your art, which might be nice to expand by taking a class for if you're interested in taking that any further, at least in the traditional non-design directions.
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I wonder what kind of interesting art (or not so interesting art) there is in the future. Probably a lot of 3D-designed stuff, to be sure. Does the garden have topiaries? (Would they be some sort of sci-fi topiary or just normal topiaries? :V )
 
I like the idea of invading the research labs. That's a great way to find out where all the cool stuff is. It's never too early to make friends with grad students. Seriously, if you ever want some crazy problem solved, find a bored grad student and lay it on them, if you've got a good one they won't be able to help themselves. A bunch of them will even love helping with homework and stuff, just because teaching is a new and interesting thing and they get a chance to make sure they really do know what they're talking about.

Other things...

Are there tunnels or anything? Hmm, there's no way the fabber we have has, like a feed tray, they'd need elemental fluorine for some things (teflon, etc) and there's no way they'd store that in any sort of quantity in a student's dorm room so it must have some plumbing, I say we go find the fabber feed and follow it.

We could go find a good spot to put that camera so we can see the sky on our ceiling. We'd have to have a camera first. Hmm, the fabber can print that. And we'd need a good building, and a way to get up there, and permission to put it there, which'd probably mean accosting someone at the front office?

We could survey local food. I bet the university has its own dining hall or dining halls. And off-campus restaurants!

Could go looking for other infrastructure. What kind of interesting infrastructure would a future-tech city to have explore? Sanitation would... huh, interesting, not be a thing, you'd have lumps of nanotech to handle it and I bet every building is self-contained. Especially with a Last War in cultural memory. Other infra... research infra, that falls under "invade the labs"...

OH. I HAVE AN IDEA.

Step one. We go find the labs.

Step two. We find a lab that does research on Talents.

Step three. We convince them to help us find out our Talent so we know what it is before we sign up for classes.

This is a bad idea.

Hmm. Other stuff. Transportation? We could call a taxi and just have them fly us around so we can see how things are laid out! Yes, I am assuming that the taxis here fly. :V
 
[] There's a university here, right? With a ton of Talents? And university means professors. And professors means research. And that means Talent research, since this is the Academy. And *that* means you'll be able to find a bored professor that can help you learn what your talent is so you know what it'll be when you sign up for classes. That's how research works, right? This is the best plan.
 
@ensou Is there a directory of extracurricular clubs of some kind? Is it trivial in terms of time to look up who might have activities going on during each of those time periods and/or do we have to burn one on research?
 
Vebyast said:
[] There's a university here, right? With a ton of Talents? And university means professors. And professors means research. And that means Talent research, since this is the Academy. And *that* means you'll be able to find a bored professor that can help you learn what your talent is so you know what it'll be when you sign up for classes. That's how research works, right? This is the best plan.
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I'll let you learn about your Talent earlier if you do this, if just because I find it highly amusing and not at all out of place for a university gearing up for its first week. Hell, there's probably a bunch of activity over there this weekend from their own move-ins and profs getting situated and stuff, even on a Sunday (it is the Sunday of the week before classes start, aka double check everything crunch time).

Spectrum said:
@ensou Is there a directory of extracurricular clubs of some kind? Is it trivial in terms of time to look up who might have activities going on during each of those time periods and/or do we have to burn one on research?
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Yeah there's a directory. Probably. Definitely. (cough which I totally already have ready what are you talking about?) It would only take five minutes for Amy to look it up, so I woudn't make it take a whole action if you want to do that.
 
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