hugtopia | [video] An elf's got an idea y'all

[It's his grand debut to the network and he's looking fine, mostly thanks to a glamour that gives his clothes a little more pizazz than the robots can manage. He's sitting at his kitchen counter, chin resting artfully on the back of one hand, inspecting the nails of the other nonchalantly.]

Soooo, say I have a proposal for something that's mmmm-- [He pops his lips a few times as he thinks] --mega fun and a great way to, y'know, fill up the hours that we're stuck in this place. Oh, and it's useful for everyone, natch, can't introduce a product without letting you know that every single one of you can get some sort of use out of it. So say I got this awesome idea, but need a little help in the whole development portion, who can I get to help little ol' me out with that, huh?

Anyone here good at coding or doing nerdy computer shit? I got the idea and know exactly how I want it to go down, but, while I'm a baller wizard and a chef [and a scientist, but who needs to know that part, right?] I'm not exactly saavy with this whole [He gestures at the communicator camera.] thing. The coding thing. Making apps and shit wasn't Taako's deal, ya dig?

So? Anyone out there wanna help me spruce up this place or what?

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[ Cuz she is not as fun as him, she remains with texting. ]

How will this app help "spruce" this place?

Can't go revealing the whole pitch on a public forum. What if someone steals my proprietary idea, huh? Can't have that.

Buuuut, it'll be helping people do the thing we're all supposed to be here to do. But in a fun way that isn't like, getting stuck together by glue. Holy shit that was whack.

[ Perfect, this sounds right up her alley. People do need to get touching and cuddling more. The world ain't gonna heal itself. ]

I can code.

[Oh sweet Fantasy Jesus, the first person to respond is a coder? Thank the gods.]

Can you, huh? Then are you interested in bringing Havenwell the latest and greatest in Taako Tech?

[ Especially since she’s heard his name mentioned by a couple people by now? Of course. ]

Is that your brand name? :)

Tell me the time and place to discuss this, and I will be there.

I hereby invoke the LUKO-code of deets!

[YOU MUST SHARE FOR IT IS LAW]

Could be. I'm workshopping it. Gotta find something with the right amount of oomph, dazzle, and memorability, y'know?

As for the T and P?

[He gestures to his kitchen.]

I'm pretty free now if you're not otherwise indisposed.

[Well, he can't very well say no to the Luko-code, can he? He snickers and pats the counter.]

Then get your ass in here so I can. You know I'm not gonna blab it all over the network where any two-bit hacker might get to it.

Gotta admit, my sister's the hacker between us, and she's not here.

I am good with languages, though, so I could learn whatever works best here if I have to.

[Since the Speech, while complex as hell, doesn't work on anything native to this world. For shame!]

So, from one wizard to another, I'm definitely interested?

... What form of coding do you require? Or shall I also join you in the kitchen.

[ She's picked up on that he'd rather keep this on the down low, whatever it is. ]

Me, too. Your address?

[There's not even a reply, only an elf suddenly turning the corner and jumping up onto the counter where he'd indicated, less than a minute later. She leans in, chin in her hands.]

Wellllll...?

Sent and done.

[He'll attach his address here.]

Come on in whenever you get here. If you knock, then I have to get up.

[He chuckles when she pops up onto the counter and flips his communicator over to make sure it can't overhear them.]

Well, remember what I used to do to kill time on Grandpa's farm? Other than, y'know, hiding from having to do farm chores.

I'm lookin' for someone who can already do the do that I need, but what school of wizardry you from? Unless you're one of those offworld wizards and your magic structure is like...bonkers or whatever.

Don't wanna show your face, huh? You on the can or something?

[He laughs at his own crass joke, then shrugs.]

But I need the computer coding kind. I know you're all science-y and shit. You know anything about it?

... Don't suppose you know the Speech?

[And to demonstrate, she'll drop into it for a bit. Have fun with a language you understand but don't recognize, Taako!]

/Language that the worlds were built with and everything? Ring any bells?/

[She's not sure what he means by 'offworld wizard', but she probably qualifies in some form?]

/Mostly that means my emphasis is on communication, helping people understand each other and get their lives to work. I thought I had a specialty with growing things, but then things got confusing./

[What the fuck just happened? His ears pin back when she switches to the Speech and he frowns. That's both fascinating and disturbing. He's accustomed to having to pick up new languages, but not like this.]

That's gonna be a no, compadre. Sounds like you just spat nonsense and it still got through though. Kinda crazy.

[Ouch.

Still, by this point she's used to it, so she shrugs and switches back to English-]

It was worth a shot anyway; haven't met anyone who's the same kind of wizard I am yet.

[First Nautilus and now this place. ~~"Will it ever end?" the peridexis cries.~~]

Eh, languages are freaky weird when you cross planar realities. I speak Mongoose, for example. Not like that's ever gonna be useful again.

[That planet got swallowed by the Hunger.]

So if you can speak the language of, uh, everything? Why're you still here?

I'll be right over!

[ She's there within ten minutes. OH BOY Taako must be living with Lup, Honerva, and Carl... She can't wait to see what sort of place they live in, or of any of them are there with him.

Assuming that he's left the electronic locks undone, she does enter without knocking. ] ...H-...Hello? Taako?

I'm the coder from the network.

[In her deadpan tone:]

I did not realize you would desire so much to look upon my features.

[She just usually does not bother with the video function. But she'll relent, for him; he'll be able to see that she's working on the roomba, now that it needs to be set up for the new space and any minor adjusting she had been meaning to get to.]

Depends on what you have in mind. This is something you wanted to build into the current communications system, correct? We would have to discern how much it lends itself to outside interference...

[All Nita can do is nod at that one. If Mongoose is a dead language, then there's not much anyone can do about that.

She does snort, though.]

Sorry, should have clarified. Everything in the worlds made by the Powers I work under responds to it - it's touch-and-go everywhere else.

[It had worked in Nautilus due to, ah, ancestry.]

Whichever Powers made this world - whether it's just the four gods we've heard of already, or someone else - used a different method. The Speech can't help the natives directly, or I'd have been able to work up a temporary sensation-perception mode for them already.

Talking still works, though.

[Oh, oh! Hi!]

I like nerdy computer shit. What're you trying to do?

Flirt with the neighbour's lead hand? Is that what you mean? Because I sure remember that.

[To be fair, he was very cute.]

What was his name, Luc or someshit?

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