Cecil Harvey (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
vibrafinal) wrote2013-03-20 07:48 pm
vibrafinal) wrote2013-03-20 07:48 pm
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25th moon [written/action]
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The message appears at midday, short and sweet.]
Would anyone like to ride an airship today?
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Cecil cannot offer a real airship ride, of course. The Malnosso are not nearly that generous. But he's learned quite a few tricks with the Batlle Dome over the last two years, and he's now adding the last details to what he believes will be an adequate simulation. He has enough faith in it to share it with others at least, but the program still needs some final polishing.
Not that he minds. Better to work on that than to remind himself that he might be forty now.]
The message appears at midday, short and sweet.]
Would anyone like to ride an airship today?
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Cecil cannot offer a real airship ride, of course. The Malnosso are not nearly that generous. But he's learned quite a few tricks with the Batlle Dome over the last two years, and he's now adding the last details to what he believes will be an adequate simulation. He has enough faith in it to share it with others at least, but the program still needs some final polishing.
Not that he minds. Better to work on that than to remind himself that he might be forty now.]
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A monster-less, weapons-filled ride, then. One moment please.
[He adds those few details to the console, annnnnd done!]
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Is it ready?
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[But he doesn't seem particularly worried about that, as he goes to open a door that leads to the deck of a ship.]
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Hiccup follows him, hobbling out onto the deck and glancing around excitedly. ] Whoa!
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[It must be, as a look over the side of the ship shows that it's floating high over a castle, unsupported.]
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What's that?
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Castle Baron. My home, though if we were to try and enter it I fear this whole simulation would collapse.
[He couldn't quite program both the whole world from above and the castle's interior. He regrets that.]
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[He starts to gently turn the ship to the right, as it slowly begins to move forward.]
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How did you learn to do this?
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Which one, the piloting or the simulation?
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[If that look on his face is any indication, he remembers those very fondly.]
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That was only for the piloting itself. To go anywhere safely, I needed many years' worth of geography lessons, too.
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[ And totally something Hiccup would be prone to do. ]
How high can this thing go?
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[...Which is admittedly not very precise.]
But I'm not certain how much higher it can go. Not nearly as far as the Lunar Whale, but that means very little.
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