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Post by Linx Exotic on Dec 16, 2007 17:49:40 GMT -5
"I'll need to write all this down..."
OOC: Dinner time. Later.
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Post by Raiden, Zahi, Lars and Ama on Dec 16, 2007 17:56:14 GMT -5
OOC: Right.
BIC: You do that then. I'll just stand around looking idiotic as I always seem to here.
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Post by Linx Exotic on Dec 16, 2007 18:36:31 GMT -5
"Now, then..." Linx went over to his study desk and picked up his notepad, writing down everything he had so far written. "You know, Archon made an interesting point the other day. I stamp "Exotic" onto all my repeaters, little text, hard to find, actually... He said it would be an interesting idea if there were larger stamps with characters you could switch around to copy entire book pages and the like. I thought it was a pretty cool idea for a trauma victim..."
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Post by Raiden, Zahi, Lars and Ama on Dec 16, 2007 18:43:04 GMT -5
Block printing? Even the youngest members of my former clan that could hold carved blocks could stap pictures and upto a sentence with blocks in one go. I could probably carve you up a set from some pine, but it may take me a few days to get it exactly right... You know how good I am with letters.
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Post by Linx Exotic on Dec 16, 2007 18:44:04 GMT -5
"No, more modular than that. Like, you have a set of characters that can be switched around on one block, so you can do pretty much anything."
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Post by Raiden, Zahi, Lars and Ama on Dec 16, 2007 18:46:33 GMT -5
A base block/runner and a set of blocks that can be removed and messed with on a small track? Heck, I made dibbuns toys that were more complicated than that back at Redwall. For such a design... Week/Two Weeks to do it. Sound about right?
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Post by Linx Exotic on Dec 16, 2007 18:48:23 GMT -5
"About. But it didn't end there... He also threw out this idea, no real mechanisms here, just theory, where you just punch in corresponding buttons and it'll stamp out a sentence by the character... Wouldn't that be fun to see actually happening?" It was slightly ridiculous in his mind but worth pursuing. Nothing wasn't, so long as whatever it was came from Archon.
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Post by Raiden, Zahi, Lars and Ama on Dec 16, 2007 18:53:54 GMT -5
Now that, I'd pay to see. Not in our lifetime though... Maybe when we get to Raiden XIV, it'll have been done... But not now.
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Post by Linx Exotic on Dec 16, 2007 18:56:54 GMT -5
"Worth a shot... If it doesn't work, so be it, it'll just be a little fun venture and maybe we'll come across something else... Although we do have enough with this business of air expanding and contracting. Just want to do something for Archon, you know?" Well, Raiden probably didn't... Love was, at times, very irrational. Linx would try just about anything if Archon suggested it, especially when his mate was in such a distressed state.
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Post by Raiden, Zahi, Lars and Ama on Dec 16, 2007 19:06:29 GMT -5
Like I said; Not in our lifetimes. As young as we still are, it would take centuries for something like that to be made. Doesn't stop us trying, but the complexity is beyond even our combined skills. I can tell you want to make such a device for Archon, but still... Sometimes, you just gotta get real. I couldn't scrounge up the materials, and you don't have the equipment to try and make one. For starters, you'd need a lump of ink for the blocks to press against and onto parchment with. For another, you'd need them to all line up and hit the same point, and you'd need dozens of moving parts.
**As feral as his origins were, Raiden did sometimes have a valid point about technology. It was just too complex for himself or Linx working together to build.**
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Post by Linx Exotic on Dec 16, 2007 19:09:14 GMT -5
Linx's brain was working on it already, although all the designs so far were simply slower than writing by paw. "Suppose you're right... I could do something but it'd be really slow and really expensive. Not even worth it." He was filled with a feeling of sheer hopelessness. Not a thing he could do. ...For Archon.
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Post by Raiden, Zahi, Lars and Ama on Dec 16, 2007 19:18:19 GMT -5
Meh... One day perhaps... If we can come up with some new designs, then it might just work.
OOC: I am assuming you were meaning a Type-writer.
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Post by Linx Exotic on Dec 16, 2007 19:20:37 GMT -5
OOC: Something like that, but not the way we know it, like what would happen if you fused that and a printing press.
BIC: "Aah... I'm run dry of ideas at the moment. The only thought going for me is, do something for Archon already!"
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Post by Raiden, Zahi, Lars and Ama on Dec 17, 2007 16:05:16 GMT -5
Well, then it would be more productive to come up with ideas that work would it not?
**As skeptical about the idea as he was, Raiden knew that Linx was trying to come up with something to please Archon.**
OOC: Like what the Germans invented about two centurires ago?
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Post by Linx Exotic on Dec 17, 2007 16:08:05 GMT -5
OOC: As if he knows.
BIC: "I'm not particularly in control of whatever concepts just pop into my head... And now I've gotten mentally sidetracked into lever-operated water pumps. What a day." Linx sighed resignedly.
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