RE: The Ballad of Adler Young, Canto 2.5
08-10-2021, 11:53 AM
>Vernier: Why can't Ash enter the forest?
>Adler: Bring Vernier up to speed on Ash's geiss. "Never be able to lay eyes on nor cross the threshold to Faerie"
>Vernier: The entire forest in the threshold of Faerie? You thought it was just the stone circle.
>Rebecca: Oh! Oh! You have an idea! When you were a child, you used to play a game where you attached two small, metal containers [does canned food exist in this alternate time period?] with a piece of string. The can would concentrate the sound so it could travel through the string as vibrations out into the other metal container. Adler could magic up some special elf string and metal to make a talk device. You know, it strange that sound is just vibrations. If it could travel through string you could put it in other things. Like how it makes noise when you run your hand along grainy wood. You start getting excited If they could somehow etch the right grooves in a cylinder or disc that could play back sound exactly as it was originally heard by scraping something, perhaps a horn like device with a needle attached to it, against said grooves. Long distant communication would become much more personal, and it could even revolutionize the music industry. Imagine bards recording their songs and selling them in addition to public performances!
>Vernier: Gently remind Rebecca to focus and save her fantasies for her own time.
>Adler: That... Actually might work. The metal/string idea, not storing sound in cylinders and discs. That's simply preposterous. Next you suppose people will start spending all their free time watching moving pictures or talk to other people on the other side of the world with only a small pocket device. Rebecca is on a roll making you laugh today, the very idea...
>Burnside: You add nothing of value to the conversation as you continue to say and do nothing. A bird begins to nest in your hair.
>Adler: Bring Vernier up to speed on Ash's geiss. "Never be able to lay eyes on nor cross the threshold to Faerie"
>Vernier: The entire forest in the threshold of Faerie? You thought it was just the stone circle.
>Rebecca: Oh! Oh! You have an idea! When you were a child, you used to play a game where you attached two small, metal containers [does canned food exist in this alternate time period?] with a piece of string. The can would concentrate the sound so it could travel through the string as vibrations out into the other metal container. Adler could magic up some special elf string and metal to make a talk device. You know, it strange that sound is just vibrations. If it could travel through string you could put it in other things. Like how it makes noise when you run your hand along grainy wood. You start getting excited If they could somehow etch the right grooves in a cylinder or disc that could play back sound exactly as it was originally heard by scraping something, perhaps a horn like device with a needle attached to it, against said grooves. Long distant communication would become much more personal, and it could even revolutionize the music industry. Imagine bards recording their songs and selling them in addition to public performances!
>Vernier: Gently remind Rebecca to focus and save her fantasies for her own time.
>Adler: That... Actually might work. The metal/string idea, not storing sound in cylinders and discs. That's simply preposterous. Next you suppose people will start spending all their free time watching moving pictures or talk to other people on the other side of the world with only a small pocket device. Rebecca is on a roll making you laugh today, the very idea...
>Burnside: You add nothing of value to the conversation as you continue to say and do nothing. A bird begins to nest in your hair.