Our avatars are posting on a forum thread.

According to the weather, it's going to be cloudy but nothing about rain yet. We're still bringing our umbrellas with us just in case.

Good thinking sis, I'd imagine that amphibians would enjoy more water from the skies! I'd like to see what it looks like from their point of view.

Good news - we're done with the testing phase of the transit system much sooner than we were expecting! The filtering portals still need some development, but as long as the card system works fine, travel should be safe.
We're also working on a cargo system to run in parallel, because we expect that people will want to start trading between universes. That system will probably take less time to implement, since we already have a bit of experience with logistics, but yeah.
Anyways, next up would be legal stuff like where the station would go and what features it has. Who would have time to talk this out in person and where?

Hold up, what about import fees? You know, if you let civilizations trade freely, they will wreck each others' economies.

That's true.. will probably handle that on a case-by-case basis.

Going to a nearby lake to see if the rain drew out any rare Pokemon for me to observe. When it's raining it does attract Pokemon that usually only come out during such weather.

That's interesting. Here right now it's quite sunny in contrast to the rain at your place.

Edited by clemont107 on Apr 24th 2023 at 9:22:47 AM

Lucky you Mina. Just like the twins said before, it's cloudy here with no rain.

And like spring is still taking a nap. I guess I should be grateful that it isn't snowing again.

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   Ah, you must be this "Icarus" fellow. Am I correct?   

Yes, Lord Hades, that is him.

   Oh, good! I've been meaning to talk to you, Icarus!   
   Anyhow, I am Hades, the Lord of the Underworld. From what I understand, you made a deal with some people from my homeworld (one of them being my brother Zeus, the other being a half-blood that I currently do not know the identity of) to connect us to an interversal transit system. Is that so? If yes, then I would be interested in this project.   

   Yes, about that...   
   While I am all for having us connected to your transport system, I would not be happy with the station being at Camp Half-Blood itself. Such a thing would draw too much attention to the camp. Instead, I was wondering if you can set up some new stattion? Hermes contacted me about some other places where you could put it.   

(OOC: Does anyone know why this forum is seemingly so inactive on weekends?)

Edited by m-95 on Apr 24th 2023 at 10:03:28 AM

Thunder and lightning here. I have a feeling it's going to rain soon.

And roads will become muddy again tonight.

Edited by YourEternalTroper on Apr 24th 2023 at 9:29:37 PM

[1] Sure, we can still change the station's position. Wouldn't it draw attention anywhere, though, no matter where we place it? If so, I would still propose Camp Half-Blood, unless you or Hermes have better ideas. Where and when should we meet?

It's probably the time of year, if I had to guess. Summer semester started last week, so I'm a lot busier, dunno about the others

Well, the rain appears to have stopped for now.

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   You are correct, Icarus, in that it would attract attention anywhere. It's just that I am worried about that attention also going to Camp Half-Blood too.   
   See, the camp is supposed to be a safe haven where young half-bloods can hide from their foes and train to defend themselves. Putting something that's more or less a beacon there would be, to say the very least, counterproductive.   

   If you want to meet, Central Park in New York City works for me. As for when, I am available any day after the 27th of April.   

Have to study for the exam this afternoon. Do you guys also have any exams or tests that you have to study for?

x4 I believe so, yes.

Edited by clemont107 on Apr 24th 2023 at 1:38:22 PM

[1] Ah, that's fair. CHB is supposed to be a protected place, and the station would jeopardize that...
How does the 28th, evening, sound?

I believe I'm the only one using this handle who does exams, and I have nothing to say on that, sooo...
What do you think of Icarus' new transit system?

It seems quite interesting. A bit complex, but that's fine. What do the filtering portals need to be improved on, anyway?

quae est haec ratio multiformis transitus?

   It is a transportation system that will span across the Multiverse, I think central hub is Camp Half-Blood, as the engineers had stated above. Everything will be prestigious, Technick-22.   

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   That works for me.   

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I'm doing drug tests on the troops for the next couple of days. Does that count?

[1] As of now, we don't know at what rates people will flow to the portals - we do have some portals in place in two specific universes that we're currently serving, and traffic is modest. But besides that, I have no idea what universes are going to be the most visited ones, so who knows if there will be a central station, and if so, which one. I suspect not.

[2] Getting all the chemistry just right. The identity bonding processes at play are about as complex as the fine biological reactions of an immune system, and making sure that the portal doesn't actually destroy any organic tissue or disrupt biochemistry is quite difficult.
Right now, the plan for the chamber is to first perform a scanning pass on the user to detect chunks of matter that are likely to decay. If the high-degree matter makes up more than 5% of the user, the chamber will refuse to transport; if it's more than 2%, the chamber should present the user a graph of that high-degree matter and give them a choice of whether they will get transported or not. Once that's done, the chamber will transport any matter with a sufficiently low degree.

I mean if you wished to get a rough idea of traffic flow between universes you could simply setup a camera within the universal hub though there is the minor problem that the universes within the hub have already been interlinked for centuries and traffic as a result has grown to encompass even mundane every day trips.

That would be great, daily traffic is something that I would want the system to handle! If you have any direct throughput numbers (arrivals, departures per time of day and origin universe), that would be appreciated.
On that note, maybe instead of reinventing the wheel, I could integrate more into your systems? Can you tell me about the interversal transit system that your homeworld has?

Sadly I Don't personally have such data I never quite thought such information was that important given the hub is a near daily thoroughfare for many though Tesh might have the data given she oversees internal security. I'll send her a request for such data or to collect it... how long would you want such a observation to run for?

As for integration that would be a tad difficult given Gates which comprise the connections work upon different principles though security and rating concerns would be no matter on account of my children and Tesh.

Strange, I would've expected analytics to be drawn fron the Hub particularly because it's a central location, but alright. Er, do you have something compared to a seven-day week cycle?
As for integration... if you use a different system, we'll definitely have to talk about how to integrate EV's transit system into your hub. For the first couple of years it'll probably just be treated as a novelty and an attraction for your spare time - maybe it'll develop into something more serious in the future (I hope so, anyways), so we'll definitely have to reassess things.

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I hope I don’t sound rude, but who are your children, Urist?

Or are there too many to count?

Another day, another stranger asking if I’m even human. I get where they’re coming from: I wear my hair in a ponytail that mimics Zoroark (I’ve done it since childhood, it’s habit now), I can talk to Pokemon (I was raised by them until I was 7, what did you expect?), and I act somewhat oddly (that would be the neurodivergence and/or years of abuse). But it still hurts. Ghetsis used to call me “a freak without a human heart”. I can’t help but be reminded of that every time someone questions my humanity.

That's quite horrible to hear about that. Glad that monster got what he deserved. I'm sorry you had to go through his abuse. What he did to you was unforgivable.

I'm worried I might encounter such a psychopath in-person as well. As horrifying it might sound, there are other people who are just like him in how cruel and callous they are to everyone else.

Good thing we haven't ran into anyone like that yet.

Well we don't see a lot of serious trouble makers in our area but it's always advised to be careful regardless.

x3

My father was also quite abusive to me as well, wanting to train me to become the #1 hero but resorting to horrible methods that ended up doing horrible damage to our family as a whole. He eventually realized the damage he did and is trying to make up now for what he did and becoming a better person, but I have yet to decide whether to forgive him or not. From your description of the man who raised you, though, it looks like my father is a saint compared to him.

Shoto, maybe it's not the best place or time to talk about things. Maybe we should talk about some positive things instead to brighten the mood. I'm glad my father, as overbearing as he can be sometimes, never tried to hurt me.

[1] I feel you. I'm in a Celeste discord server, and a lot of the folks there are transgender. From what I could pick up, they can receive a lot of abuse IRL, sometimes even from transphobic lawmakers who believe that trans people don't deserve to have rights.

Hey KitKat, do you mind if Stefan sometimes spontaneously visits Albedo to help out? Like on the weekends? I won't insist on R Ping

Unrelated: this mysterious machine does things. What things? Number generation, presumably. How? That's up to you to find out using some scientific experimentation. Have fun puzzling!

Edited by StepexNo2 on Apr 25th 2023 at 12:45:24 PM