Nice, sounds good! Your city now has one (1) very tired centipede working there :]

"Yeah. You're also gonna touch some grass. It'll be great."

Nods and says this in a serious deadpan.

"Grass isn't that great. Experienced it before." Also said deadpan.

"Spoken like an amateur. You have much to learn."

"You're telling the person with a doctorate that he has much to learn?"

They’re funny to me.

@nihils-trolls

“Leilei has a case of the big sads and doesn’t think she’s worrying anybody. She already knows how to fuck with her own soul; we both do. If she’d been calmer, she’d have done it just fine…so it’s a good thing she wasn’t.”

"Interesting? Well, I watched Jiji get a few sparks in his face as he initially forgot to account for the Isles' magic being far more concentrated than much of the rest of Alternia. He was setting up my portal to the Takami Estate, you see, and didn't realize that at first.

I do confess I had a bit of sport at his expense and his retort was to turn my freckles green for a bit. Olive is not my color, I'll tell you that.

Aside from that...it's certainly different here. Jarringly so, but not in a bad way; I feel much safer and I'm certain Paxton does as well. I have Jiji working on portals for her, too, so she can visit her quadrants and friends."

"...Oh?"

You get the feeling it's trying not to sound too happy. Trying to stay cautiously optimistic, just in case it winds up boring you.

"Well, both, actually. I want a stable portal gate I can adjust to different planets based on coordinates I can input. But I also want a small vessel for exploration and collection along with protective gear so I can explore properly.

The fuel is more for the gate itself, though of course the vessel will need some too. One can't always rely on solar power...what with varying night and day cycles, various different weather patterns, atmospheric conditions...different radiation types. Not every star is the same; you know that, of course.

As for an engine...well, the vessel would be more for on-planet travel, so the engine would be custom for whatever planet I was visiting, tweaked by samples collected before I took it through properly. Don't want to take it through just to have it instantly corrode or get eaten by bacteria that love to feast on some alloy I used in it.

If I found somewhere I wanted to stay a bit longer, I might also set up a station...probably a space station, for minimal impact to the environment. I'm not here to wreck ecosystems."

It's a tragedy that, being conquerors, all the Alternian fleet cares about is terraforming planets to suit themselves. All that variety lost...a terrible waste.

"Kind of depends on the holinight. Now that I have quadrants, I'm likely to spend it with Vil or Eirror...or if they're not available, a friend like Karell or Lizzie. I probably won't spend the whole night with them, but a few hours of company is nice before I go hive and read, usually curled up with my lusus."