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[valkywhee]

[Nora's holding her comm like she's grabbing someone's lapels, and the resulting angle is weird, but it doesn't hide that she's looking a bit. Intense at the moment.]

Where can I get a bunch of Lightning Dus--uh, electricity in a hurry? It's important.

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[bothbarrels]

Well...you can't really gather electricity. It's not stuff.

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[valkywhee]

Yes it is, it's little crystals.

[RWBY physics]

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[bothbarrels]

[ North puts on his dadliest tone to explain this to her. It works on Theta, so it ought to work on her. ]

I'm sorry, but whoever told you that was telling you lies. Electricity is energy. It's like the same thing that makes it so you can move, or think, but it's made by power plants instead of your body.

[valkywhee]

[Nora can tell when she's being patronized.]

Electricity comes from Lightning Dust, which is refined from raw Dust to make it safe to handle. I don't know where they get it here, but where I'm from, there are big deposits of it near the north pole.

[She's actually completely right...if she were at home.]

[bothbarrels]

[ Poor Nora. She sounds delusional. ]

Maybe it's just the different physics between worlds, then.

[ Also, completely right, even though he's just trying to get this to not become a "nuh-uh!" "yes-huh!" kind of argument. ]

Where I'm from, and here as well, I think, electricity is made by getting potential energy to turn into kinetic energy in power plants. Then it runs through wires.

[valkywhee]

[She's not really following, but she does get the takeaway of "there's no Lightning Dust available," which is good enough by Nora standards.]

Okay, so how do you get electricity in this weird universe, then?

[bothbarrels]

Power outlets. You know when you want to listen to music and you plug your stereo into the wall? That runs on electricity coming through the wire.

[valkywhee]

Nnnnnno? If something runs down, you put in a fresh Lightning Dust crystal.

[Duh?]

But I guess that explains all those cords lying around. Big tripping hazard, if you ask me.

[bothbarrels]

Believe me, that's what it does. You can try me if you like.

Just don't put anything besides a cord in the wall.

[valkywhee]

I don't even wanna stick those cords in, why would I bother with anything else?

[bothbarrels]

It's just something to remember.

[valkywhee]

[Condescension meter is spiking again.]

Ughhhhh.

[bothbarrels]

[ That's quite a...noise...Nora just made. ]

You sound disappointed.

[valkywhee]

You don't have to be so patronizing.

[She doesn't need a dad! She needs an electrical main to grab!]

[bothbarrels]

I...?

[ North scratches his cheek and lets out a sharp exhale. ]

I certainly don't mean to be. It's just you seem to be unclear on the way it works and the danger if you were to interact with it.

[valkywhee]

I know what electricity does!

[BEAST MODE, that's what.]

[bothbarrels]

All right. That's good to know.

[walkingballpit]

Uh - just about everywhere? There’s sockets and light bulbs everywhere, not to mention humans. It’s not about where can you get it; it’s how much do you need and if it one of those weird sockets that are old and loose around the plug.

[valkywhee]

Oh, is that what all those cords are for? I was wondering why things were tied to the wall.

[walkingballpit]

[ He’s suddenly really glad she didn’t hone in on the humans as batteries concept. ]

You... thought we were tying things to the wall?

[valkywhee]

[Insofar as she thought about it, she kinda gets the concept, because everyone in RWBY has a finite mana pool Aura that makes their powers work.]

This place is weird, why wouldn't they tie things to the wall?

[So that's a "yes," then.]

[walkingballpit]

[ She has a point. ‘Why wouldn’t’ questions are so hard to answer on the Rig. ]

Because it’s not an RV?

[valkywhee]

What the heck is an RV?

[Robbie she didn't know what an electrical cord was, come on.]

[walkingballpit]

[ He doesn't do well with completely non-technical scenarios! Wait until he realizes she's never had a boombox. ]

Oh, it's a recreational vehicle. R. V. Basically, it's like a living quarters on wheels that you can drive around to go places.

[valkywhee]

Oh, wow. We coulda used one of those when we were hiking across Mistral.

[They literally walked across a continent because the main character is real dumb.]

[walkingballpit]

Glamping is definitely superior to camping. Do people hike outside of Central Park?

[valkywhee]

I have no idea what you're talking about.

[This is not an entirely unheard of experience for Nora.]

[walkingballpit]

Ah, don't worry about it. None of it applies here anyway. It's not like we're going camping anytime soon.

[ He doesn't want to make her feel bad about it by continuing to try and fail at explaining. ]

Encrypted

[scavengineer]

The Ranger Plane has a taser. Why do you ask?

Encrypted

[valkywhee]

[She's not sure why she's getting a secret network message until she reads it.]

Wait, you have a whole plane?

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[scavengineer]

[Jorgmund knows the Rangerplane exists. It's hard to hide, especially since Gadget needs it to get around quickly. The fact that there's a taser installed in it is the secret part.]

Yep. I built it myself. Just needed an old bottle, a glove, some leather strips...you'd be surprised what some people around here just throw away.

[greyerrant]

Are you trying to pick a fight with someone?

Or something?

[valkywhee]

Eventually!

[that's her whole job Garv duh]

But one of the new guys, Rune, made me realize if stuff like your gene-thingies aren't working right, my Semblance might not be, either. So I need to test it.

[greyerrant]

[ That's his job too so it's cool. ]

Good idea. Just try to test it in a way that won't prove fatal should it.... go awry.

[valkywhee]

[Wow, it's like he's met her or something.]

I'll be careful.

[No she won't, Ren's not here and he's 85% of her impulse control.]

[greyerrant]

Forgive me if I'm less than sanguine about the prospect. Would you mind terribly if I attended the testing?

[ Mostly so he can get you to medbay immediately should things go wrong. ]

[valkywhee]

[Toss-up whether Nora actually knows what "sanguine" means, but she picks up the skepticism...which she's used to from Ren, so it doesn't bother her.]

Sure! If it works I can throw you across the room!

[Just some good clean fun!]

[greyerrant]

I would be somewhat skeptical if you hadn't already proven you can do just that.

[valkywhee]

Wait until you see me charged up!

[Nora flexes one of her deceptively scrawny arms.]

[greyerrant]

Please try not to accidentally injure anyone or yourself.

[valkywhee]

I never injure anyone accidentally.

[greyerrant]

Somehow I'm still not reassured. [ somewhere Torgaddon is laughing because Garviel just voluntarily made a sarcastic joke without prompting. ]

[valkywhee]

[Sarcasm is wasted on Nora.]

Well, what does it take, then?