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16th of May, and this time around you're free to wreck the place (but not attack the guests, please!) cause it's in a universe that should be mostly uninhabited, and Icarus is around. What do you say?

That reminds me, we got a party planned on the day after that one (St. Patrick's day).

We'll have a lot of safe drinks to enjoy! There's also morning parade on the next day.

Edited by MkayRose on Mar 9th 2023 at 7:00:16 AM

Hmm, sounds like it might be fun. I'll go then!

I looked at his style of paintings, and his art is fantastic. Putting in all that detail requires a lot of work and skill, as well as extra effort not to mess something up. By the way, my favorite painter is Vincent van Gogh. I've always been a fan of his colorful styles, and I sympathize with him because he suffered from mental illness in his life; I also suffer from an anxiety disorder, so I can relate to him.

I did not know that. I'm sorry to hear that. Managing stuff like that can be rough.

It can be, and it's especially why it's a good thing that today people can get more accessible healthcare when they need it. Back a century ago or two things weren't as accessible. I'm very fortunate to live today rather than in the past. Because of access to a psychiatrist and prescribed medications, I'm doing great.

Glad to hear that you're doing well. I also suffer from a post-traumatic stress disorder caused by being bullied when I was younger. Getting help for these kinds of things is a top priority.

Oh dear, I feel bad knowing that you were bullied that badly Penny.

Man, I'd give those jerks a piece of my mind.

It's okay now. I'm not bullied anymore in school, but sometimes I still see visions of them even if they're not there anymore. Visiting the rainforest has been very therapeutic for me because I can be one with nature, away from those bad memories that I rarely think about anymore.

I was also bullied a couple of times in my elementary school due to my appearance from my Quirk, and some of those jerks called me ugly, it was really terrible.

They called you that because they couldn't handle the fact that you're beautiful both on the outside and the inside.

Edited by clemont107 on Mar 9th 2023 at 8:05:05 AM

Doc: PTSD, eh? Unfortunately, some people think only Tumblr SJWs would think PTSD is real. But yes, it is real.

Edited by CosmosAndChaos on Mar 9th 2023 at 10:55:09 AM

On a lighter note, I'm back in the place where I did most of my studies in the rainforest. Now I'm trying to climb trees to see if I can find any unique fungi species and what effects they are having on both the trees and any Pokemon that happen to eat them.

Aren't a lot of fungi species poisonous?

The ones I'm looking for aren't. But for some reason they grow higher on the tree branches instead of the ground like most fungi species do.

That's pretty unexpected.

Yes, it is. But a lot of things in the world are.

Fungi species growing on trees, does the tree like give them more life on something? I hope I don't sound so clueless but I just trying to imagine that in my head.

Mushrooms can grow from trees though I think what Moriritchi is trying to figure out how does that progress works within mind.

Edited by MkayRose on Mar 9th 2023 at 10:33:41 AM

From what I've read about them the spores they release are carried by the wind up high in the canopies until they land on a branch where they then dig themselves in with mycelia, or roots. Then a mushroom starts growing from there.

That's pretty much with most fungi species, right?

Yeah, my friend Kinoko Komori was able to teach me this kind of information about fungi.

Edited by clemont107 on Mar 9th 2023 at 9:21:16 AM

(OOC: I genuinely forgot to check this thread. Lolwut.)

I apologize for not posting in several hours. It's just, well, the "Veronese Devil" I mentioned earlier was, erm . . . not what I expected. We spent all afternoon talking about it, and I showed it to Wulfenbach because it may be a problem in the future. Probably not a problem for you guys, though, but one on our side.

Sturmvoraus will elaborate on the detals tomorrow since it's getting late over here. In the meantime, I'll reply to the messages that we missed in the 7+ hours I've been gone.

RE [1]: Oh, wow, a date! Well, nice to hear some positive news, then! I'll put 16th of May into the calendar.

RE [2]: I'm sorry to hear about your anxiety disorder.

RE [3]&[4]: Sturmvoraus had thought it had something to do with that artist at first, too. I'm not an art buff like he is so I can't correct him there. But, alas, the artist in question doesn't have anything to do with this particular "Veronese Devil." It's more like something that a pre-modern society might consider an actual devil appearing around Verona.

(OOC: Y'know, I should use google a bit more often when coming up with names for characters I make up. But I'm lucky there wasn't some pre-existing thing literally called "Veronese Devil" word-for-word.)

Edited by m-95 on Mar 9th 2023 at 10:04:04 AM

It's okay. I've been managing it very well the past few years, so that's a plus for me. By the way, this Veronese Devil sounds kind of spooky, like the antagonist of some supernatural horror movie.

I keep thinking of The Taking of Deborah Logan when I hear supernatural horror now. That was a great movie, by the way.

I also enjoyed Smile (2022). I would recommend that if you haven't seen that already.

Morning. Started working on a rework of our organics-safe portal chamber, and while doing that, me and my team realized that there's a whole bunch of safety and security measures specifically for organics missing on the SS Nomad. So now we're reworking at least 2000 cubic meters of living space, yay!

Also, we're currently testing a mobility exoskeleton model for organics. We already have a bunch of testers, but if anyone else is interested, feel free to sign up! If they prove to be reliable enough, I might even do a race with them at Stefan's birthday party.

Wow, good to see you're making progress in that area! The idea of hosting a race does sound like it'd be fun.

As for the "Veronese Devil" thing: according to this book, on six different occasions, a mysterious entity appeared hovering over the city of Verona, Italy. It supposedly made a strange wailing noise that gave the peope of the city migraines. Here's a depiction of it from the book:

tvtropes.org/files/fol302veronahomiletic.JPEG ^{Description/OOC} (To start, this is all still in the Nuremburg-esque medieval manuscript artstyle as before.)
(The bottom half of the page depicts the city of Verona, with people covering their ears and appearing distressed. The city itself is labeled "VERONA.")
(The top half of the page depicts a dark-coloured entity, looking much like the one in the window of this page◊ but with more mechanical-looking cyborg-esque facial features. It's labeled "DIABOLVS VERONENSIS," and it has little black lines emitting from it like rays.)

The people at the time thought it was a demon sent as a bad omen; a few months later, the Heterodyne's horde was poised to attack northern Italy, so they took that explanation as fact. For the monks, this book is a big deal since it's a contemporary record of the event.

However, I can't help but notice that it has a lot in common with the "Muse of Time" we've been studying recently — which is a time-traveling entity that we're pretty sure is actually the "Other." The descriptions of this "Veronese Devil" are similar to those of the "Muse of Time" in some of Van Rijn's notes. Plus, the "wailing" reminds me of some of the sound-based technology I know was used during the Other War.

Edited by m-95 on Mar 10th 2023 at 11:34:02 AM

New account NotAQuack108 created

Thank you for the account, Phosphophyllite.

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An interesting date, though I would be busy with repairing the Gems should the Lunarians try to strike beyond those defenses.

OOC: Assuming that date corresponds to a real-time date, that would be during finals week, at least in my university, so I don’t know if I can contribute to that scenario…

Ah, that sucks. I can still postpone the date

[1] so wait. you're giving out the exos for free??? sounds suspicious to me

Is generosity so scarce in your world that you can’t fathom that someone would be able and willing to give something away?

So anyway, I found some of the fungi species that I was researching on, and it turns out that the trees seem to be strengthened, not weakened by the presence of the fungi growing from them. I also noticed that some Victreebel were eating them and they became more energetic and fast-moving than if they did not eat them.

Cool. How are you able to climb that high? You said that the fungi were growing in the canopies at least 50 feet above the ground, if not higher. Won't you be in danger of falling?

I can climb pretty easily. It was always natural for me, I guess. I started climbing trees back at home when I was 5, I think.

I've always been decent at climbing trees, but hearing about your skills, I think they put mine to shame.

I can do rock climbing, but tree-climbing is a completely different beast.

(x2)

I'm not him, but "exos" seem like pretty advanced technology. Not exactly the kind of thing you'd just give to random people out of charity.

   [1] You've been climbing trees at that age Penny? Wow, impressive!   

   I usually have my wings help me climb them. It's kinda hard for me otherwise. aroo.   

   I imagine she made the rainforest a good playground spot for herself at that age.   

[1] exoskeletons cost at least 200k U where I'm from, that's about ten times as much as a pc. dunno how good they are, but there's absolutely no f####ng way giving exoskeletons is sustainable for any reasonable business

And Exotic Ventures is not a business, it's a nonprofit. Hell, we sometimes build Dyson spheres for shits and giggles, I've told you already.

oh right

Edited by StepexNo2 on Mar 10th 2023 at 5:50:19 PM

Wait, EV is a non-profit organization? Where do you even get the funds for your projects? The only way I can see EV being a non-profit is if it ran on donations and if all it's workers were volunteers.
Either that or EV's work is all automated, which raises the question of where you'd get the automation from.

Your tone makes me assume that’s a lot of money, but I am not exactly sure what you’re talking about with that frame of reference. Anyway, my mistake.

... Theyve already mastered human uploading they are the automation. Also seeing as your a spark what would you do if your suddenly free from war and have no responsibilities?

[1] That's the fun part, we don't care about money! We don't get funds, instead, we place all the automatic miners, smeltery arrays and assembly lines ourselves, and then let them do the work. It's all infrastructure that we've built up over... a couple thousand years now, I believe.
Also, my kind has uploaded their minds to a single computer system, and we only need energy and maintenance to sustain ourselves. Since the system is something that everyone relies on, a lot of people care about it already. As for why people are interested in working for Exotic Ventures, well, even though we've established space travel, we haven't found any alien civilization. So now we're doing stuff for alien civilizations in the multiverse!

that sounds utopian. i'm jealous