diff --git a/writing/post-self/neviim/local/codrin/007.md b/writing/post-self/neviim/local/codrin/007.md index ce3da7ef..74d2167f 100644 --- a/writing/post-self/neviim/local/codrin/007.md +++ b/writing/post-self/neviim/local/codrin/007.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ # Codrin Bălan#Castor --- 2346 - Convergence T-3 days, 6 hours, 44 minutes + Convergence T-2 days, 6 hours, 44 minutes The pattern-matching portion of eir mind could not stop making comparisons between this and previous projects ey had been involved in with the Odists. *On the Perils of Memory* had been a fairly disorganized affair, begun hastily and over far too soon, leaving the conclusion feeling outsized for the duration of the events at hand. *An Expanded History of Our World* (or *On the Origin of Our World* when taken with May Then My Name's *An Expanded Mythology of Our World*) had been a vast, sprawling affair that was fairly well organized throughout, though transmission times toward the end had begun to hinder coordination. diff --git a/writing/post-self/neviim/remote/codrin/001.md b/writing/post-self/neviim/remote/codrin/001.md index ecf357c1..05faac8d 100644 --- a/writing/post-self/neviim/remote/codrin/001.md +++ b/writing/post-self/neviim/remote/codrin/001.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ # Codrin Bălan#Artemis --- 2346 - Convergence T-3 days, 6 hours, 0 minutes + Convergence T-2 days, 6 hours, 0 minutes Arrival. @@ -100,9 +100,9 @@ Codrin was silent for a long moment as ey thought about this. The part of em tha "I don't know," ey said at last. Ey pointed carefully toward that trim of fur. "How long did it take for this to appear?" -"Zero-point-one-eight seconds common time from your arrival-constitution." Turun Ko stepped closer, bowing its head to investigate the fur. "She is existing-in-time slower. She appears-seems frozen because she is in slow-time. She departed-slid-away from common time zero-point-one-six seconds after arrival by a skew factor of negative two-point-six. Think-remember, recorder Codrin Bălan, and you will know these things." +"Zero-point-one-eight seconds common time from your arrival-constitution." Turun Ko stepped closer, bowing its head to investigate the fur. "She is existing-in-time slower. She appears-seems frozen because she is in slow-time. She departed-slid-away from common time zero-point-one-six seconds after arrival by a skew of negative two-point-six. Think-remember, recorder Codrin Bălan, and you will know these things." -Ey tilted eir head and then, considering how it felt to have a merge available to remember, tried to remember the factor by which eir experience of time differed from common time. The concepts were hazily defined to em --- ey didn't know what common time was, where the point of reference lay --- and yet all the same, ey knew that eir time-skew factor was two-point-one-eight. +Ey tilted eir head and then, considering how it felt to have a merge available to remember, tried to remember the 'skew' factor by which eir experience of time differed from common time. The concepts were hazily defined to em --- ey didn't know what common time was, where the point of reference lay --- and yet all the same, ey knew that eir time-skew factor was two-point-one-eight. On a spark of intuition, ey tried to 'remember' being at a skew of one, and sure enough, the world slid smoothly into movement again, though everything was moving half as fast as ey expected. Sound came through slowly, and ey could hear words beginning --- words from Sarah, from Tycho, from Turun Ka. It was unnerving to hear that they had been time-stretched without having their pitch modulated, but ey supposed that would be helpful in time-skewed conversations. diff --git a/writing/post-self/neviim/remote/tycho/001.md b/writing/post-self/neviim/remote/tycho/001.md index acf8967a..2cf3aee5 100644 --- a/writing/post-self/neviim/remote/tycho/001.md +++ b/writing/post-self/neviim/remote/tycho/001.md @@ -6,11 +6,11 @@ Tycho found himself focusing most on True Name after the long spate of introduct A small part of him wondered at this. All four races of Artemisians sitting around the table with them were fascinating in their own way. Part of him wanted to get lost in exploring the intricacies of Turun Ka and Turun Ko. Another desperately wanted to learn as much as he could from Stolon despite the stated goal of focusing on social interactions and history for this instance of the meeting. -And yet, it was all so overwhelming. So much was happening all at once. So many things demanded his attention that the part of himself tasked with observing all but shut down, and instead he focused on True Name. +And yet it was all so overwhelming. So much was happening all at once. So many things demanded his attention that the part of himself tasked with observing all but shut down, and instead he focused on True Name. Why Ask Questions --- or perhaps Answers Will Not Help --- had calmed down, at least to the point where she was able to sit still and look down at the table. Her introduction had been stammered and, after that, she had remained quiet and withdrawn. It seemed as though she was spending every joule of energy she had on remaining still, remaining herself. Even then, a wave of skunk would occasionally wash over her form and she would clench her eyes shut -Codrin bore eir usual curious, attentive expression. Something about em seemed to suggest that, when working, ey became a camera of sorts, taking in all light, all sound, all sensation and storing it away for future reference. Even when the facade of work dropped, ey seemed built to witness. +Codrin bore eir usual curious, attentive expression. Something about em seemed to suggest that, when working, ey became a camera of sorts, taking in all light, all sound, all sensation and storing it away for future reference. Even when the façade of work dropped, ey seemed built to witness. Sarah, too, bore a look of calm curiosity. He figured she would be, in her own way, working the hardest of the group. She was the one tasked with watching the ways in which the Artemisians acted, trying to deduce some clear picture of them as individuals and as a society. @@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ Tycho wished for that same sense of calm, of stability. And so, with the other emissaries well known and the Artemisians perhaps too interesting to look at, he focused on True Name. -The skunk seemed to have an internal struggle of her own, not dissimilar from Why Ask Questions's/Answers Will Not Help's, but, as far as he could tell, she was better able to hold it at a distance, wrap it all up and set it down, observe rather than fight. Only twice that he had seen since they had gathered around the table had there been a wave of that human form of Michelle Hadje spreading across her features, but that was quickly mastered. +The skunk appeared to have an internal struggle of her own, not dissimilar from Why Ask Questions's/Answers Will Not Help's, but, as far as he could tell, she was better able to hold it at a distance, wrap it all up and set it down, observe rather than fight. Only twice that he had seen since they had gathered around the table had there been a wave of that human form of Michelle Hadje spreading across her features, but that was quickly mastered. *How much must be going on beneath the surface?* he wondered. *She seems like she's a hundred percent here, and yet there's still something deeper going on.* @@ -38,9 +38,9 @@ The firstracer rocked its head from side to side in a gesture that Tycho suppose True Name nodded. -"I serve as recorder here," Codrin said when no one else spoke up. "I am a historian and writer, and have often found myself taking part in large-scale events as a recorder so that I might witness and then write a coherent story after." +"I serve as recorder here," Codrin said when no one else spoke up. "I am a historian and writer, and have often found myself taking part in large-scale events as an amanuensis so that I might witness and then write a coherent story after." -"We are alike, recorder Codrin Bălan," Turun Ko said. "I serve and have served as observer-recorder since creation and launch of our vehicle-system. I specialize in creating stories-accounts-retellings of events so that others may listen-learn-understand. I am pleased to meet you." +"We are similar-alike, recorder Codrin Bălan," Turun Ko said. "I serve and have served as observer-recorder since creation and launch of our vehicle-system. I specialize in creating stories-accounts-retellings of events so that others may listen-learn-understand. I am pleased to meet you." Codrin nodded to it, smiling. "As am I." @@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ Codrin nodded to it, smiling. "As am I." Tycho sat up straight. Another astronomer! He couldn't have asked for better luck. "Really? I'm an astronomer, too," he said, unable to keep the excitement out of his voice. "That's the whole reason I came along on these launches in the first place. I wanted to see the stars. Where do you come from? How did you wind up out here?" -True Name frowned. "One set of questions at a time, Mr. Brahe. There will be a time for asking such as these." +True Name frowned. "One set of questions at a time, Dr. Brahe. There will be a time for asking such as these." He sat back, chastened, but a glance at Stolon shared a similar sort of jittery excitement. They kept tapping and drumming their claws on the tabletop, forcing themself to stop, and then doing so again. He made a mental note to steal some time with the thirdracer. @@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ The fourthracer nodded. "We were like you before we arrived. We had the concept Tycho kept waiting for True Name to interrupt, for her to tell them that they needed to stay on topic, but the skunk seemed interested enough in the topic to let it continue. -"I would like to know more, representative Artante." The skunk sat up straighter, quelling a wave of human form before continuing. "When we fork, our new instances can quit and we are presented with their memories so that we may have the experiences of both instances should we choose. Is that how your system worked?" +"I would like to know more, representative Artante Diria." The skunk sat up straighter, quelling a wave of human form before continuing. "When we fork, our new instances can quit and we are presented with their memories so that we may have the experiences of both instances should we choose. Is that how your system worked?" "Similar, yes, though only if the fork was created from the current instance." @@ -102,7 +102,7 @@ Stunned silence from the emissaries greeted this explanation. "We can only fork from the present. From the current instance, as you say," Codrin said. "That's a fascinating idea, though. Do you know how it worked? If Dear --- my instance artist partner, that is --- could do that, it would open up worlds of possibilities to it." -She bowed apologetically. "It has been nearly a millennium since I have been able to fork, recorder Codrin, and even then, I was not very adept at it. In one of your letters, you discussed dissolution strategies; I was what you would call a tasker. I will ask another of my kind for details after the conference." +She bowed apologetically. "It has been nearly a millennium since I have been able to fork, recorder Codrin Bălan, and even then, I was not very adept at it. In one of your letters, you discussed dissolution strategies; I was what you would call a tasker. I will ask another of my kind for details after the conference." Codrin grinned and elbowed Tycho in the side. The astronomer rolled his eyes.