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outer_divide2012-08-08 03:01 pm
excessivehubris) wrote in outer_divide2012-08-08 03:01 pm
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[Well, this would mark the first time this Charles had used his device to actually try to broadcast to the others trapped here with him.
For the most part he's been down in the Vault of Knowledge and yes, he's been down there for days upon days reading.
It is just recently that he's surfaced to get clean, find a little bit of food, though that had not been a priority with him and poke around a bit. Today, his curiosity had taken him out of the old city and off on a bit of a look about.
Translation, he's gotten himself hopelessly lost.
So the video. It clicks on, to show a Charles Xavier who looks a bit bedraggled with a leaf or two in his hair and caught on his sweater but otherwise he seems just perplexed rather than frightened or dismayed. The foliage appears dense around him but there is the definite sound of fresh running water in the background, most likely the Silver River.
He'll keep this short and to the point.]
Ah, I apologize for this, embarrassing really but I rather fear I have gone and gotten myself lost.
Does anyone know if the rivers lead back to the Old City?
[He'd try to get back to the Old City by following your thoughts but he is close enough to the dome that the non distinct hum of the minds within, combined with the din of thoughts coming from the Old City itself, are throwing him off.]
For the most part he's been down in the Vault of Knowledge and yes, he's been down there for days upon days reading.
It is just recently that he's surfaced to get clean, find a little bit of food, though that had not been a priority with him and poke around a bit. Today, his curiosity had taken him out of the old city and off on a bit of a look about.
Translation, he's gotten himself hopelessly lost.
So the video. It clicks on, to show a Charles Xavier who looks a bit bedraggled with a leaf or two in his hair and caught on his sweater but otherwise he seems just perplexed rather than frightened or dismayed. The foliage appears dense around him but there is the definite sound of fresh running water in the background, most likely the Silver River.
He'll keep this short and to the point.]
Ah, I apologize for this, embarrassing really but I rather fear I have gone and gotten myself lost.
Does anyone know if the rivers lead back to the Old City?
[He'd try to get back to the Old City by following your thoughts but he is close enough to the dome that the non distinct hum of the minds within, combined with the din of thoughts coming from the Old City itself, are throwing him off.]
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Are you attempting to manipulate certain genetic traits back into your breeding programs? For instance ewes that regularly produce viable twins and triplets?
[Oh the geeking that could occur here.]
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[Though the term "genetic" is unfamiliar to him, he can at least guess what Charles is after. He has at least read the work of Mendel, then if "genes" are not quite in vogue in his time period.]
Selective breeding is my main methodology, but I have been doing a study of the stillbirths and miscarriages in particuilar to try and determine the causes. Or... I was.
[Back on his own world. Here, he hasn't even gone near the sheep, half-certain he would terrify them by scent alone.]
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no pun intendedabout that because methods of study he thinks of as old hat were probably not even theory back in Lyall's time]The cause of such events, baring of course outside factors such as intense maternal stress or disease, usually do wind down to a genetic mishap in the sequencing of DNA.
It is all actually quite fascinating and a field of intense study, particularly in the management of livestock where I come from.
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Perhaps when you are safely back in town, you can explain that to me. I imagine you are either speaking of something your Oxford has that mine never did come up with, or else it is something not yet discovered in my time.
[Because he is quite interested. Even if he has been a tad too busy to interest himself in the local herds.]
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Oh, yes! Of course, I apologize for getting carried away. There have been exciting new developments in so many fields of scientific study but I forgot the new part of that equation.
I would be more than happy to talk to you about what the future holds for fields such as your own, if you would like?
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[Tonight was a hunting night, and tomorrow... tomorrow he needs to sleep. Badly.]
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[Which is actually rather depressing if you think about it in terms of escaping this place but Charles is a bit distracted by everything he is learning here.]
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[Lyall does like things to be neatly scheduled. Order, after all, must be maintained, even on a post-apocalyptic planet in a war-torn town.]