[Video: Wednesday, Week 48] Hopefully we skip past singing 'Daisy Bell'.

[standsentinel]

[The backdrop is a middling familiar one to anyone who's been paying the slightest bit of attention to the goings-on with Salvation, consoles of a futuristic bent: mostly functional, bulkheads: some damaged. Kaidan is leaning up against one of the bits of better-repaired tech, his communicator propped up to let him speak as if giving an interview.

(To the annoyance, somewhere in the multiverse, of one Diana Allers, he seems a lot more open about this one.)]

So, ah, hey there.

This is Kaidan Alenko, since I know we've had some new people wake up since the last time I was on the network. I'm one of the people that's been working on the ship, among other things, and I figured I should let you all know how it's going.

Ah... specifically I'm trying to bring Salvation's ship's AI back online. AIs are kind've a touchy subject back where I'm from, and I imagine that's probably not an isolated experience, so I thought I may as well put this out there so people can get any questions or concerns out now, instead of after they've tried storming the ship and ended up put inside a force field by it.

If there are any newly decanted engineers or other folks with mechanical or electrical skills, we could sure use more hands on this project too. I'm hoping that bringing Salvation back online will let us figure out how best to fix her so we can work on getting home again.

Comments

[audio]

[verbose_evoker]

[Putting this on audio to sidestep all of the questions because those have been rampant ever since V got here.] Though unfamiliar with an 'AI', I may be able to assist in reconstructions of a previously-extant one using my cantrips. It is not as if I have anything more productive to do with them.

[audio]

[standsentinel]

I'll take all skilled hands I can get. Are you a programmer, or more on the physical engineering side of things?

[The audio also means that Kaidan can't get a look at Vaarsuvius and come to logical conclusions about medieval-era technology.]

I'm hoping the AI -- artificial intelligence -- is still intact, it's just a matter of bringing her server banks back online.

[audio]

[verbose_evoker]

I have neither skill set; I am a wizard. It should be noted that I do not actually require the skill due to my abilities, and am simply offering the service of magically repairing several small objects per day. The number may rise if I find the demand for higher-level spells to exceed my considerable supply.

If you have any questions regarding my abilities, please consolidate them into forms that can be answered in multitude with a single response.

Re: [audio]

[standsentinel]

[Kaidan's following up until that last part, at which point his eyebrows raise, unseen.]

Ah... all right then.

[But rather than address the fact that someone who's putatively offering to help is now setting terms and conditions on how he's allowed to ask questions about that help, he sighs and opts for a bit of explanation and a suggestion instead.]

Your world likely doesn't have much in the way of electronics, and we have a few other witches and wizards that are here or passed through here. Some of their magic interacts badly with technology, so I'd recommend you test yours out on some non-critical stuff first.

Talk to Edmund in town, see if he has any damaged electronic goods you could practice on.