unfavorableinstigation: Nita Callahan kneeling in the woods, drawing a glowing blue diagram on the ground while reading from a book. (Drawing a Spell Diagram)
unfavorableinstigation ([personal profile] unfavorableinstigation) wrote in [community profile] cousinsindozens2020-12-19 10:51 am
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Galvan Wizards, Continued (For Nita+Azmuth)

Nita couldn't help but feel she'd been relegated to janitorial duty - being out in the parts of the world people rarely visited, in places that were growing just fine by themselves but not necessarily in ways healthy for the rest of the population...

If she hadn't known better, she would have thought it lonely. But then, there's no way that can be right. Not when there's so much life here!

Still, she'd been out working here for a while, and surely someone was going to come check on her at some point. Right?
whohastimeforthat: (Do any of you have any pocket change?)

I'm finally here!

[personal profile] whohastimeforthat 2020-12-23 08:31 pm (UTC)(link)
Someone did, and that someone was Azmuth. He had a datapad in hand, studying the information fed in from the sensors very carefully. One couldn't be too careful when building an artificial planet.

Nita had probably noticed that for someone whom the manual had made her mentor, Azmuth didn't use magic all that much. He knew what he was talking about in regards to usage of The Speech, but he didn't actually use it as a general rule.

"Nita. There you are." He folded his hands behind his back, datapad still clutched in one hand. "How are things in this area?"
whohastimeforthat: (Working)

[personal profile] whohastimeforthat 2020-12-23 09:59 pm (UTC)(link)
He nodded his head with approval. "Based on your previous reports, I suppose 'adequate' is the best we can hope for. Let me run a comparison between your results and mine just for added verification."

He brought his datapad back forward, accessing her datapad remotely to run comparisons.

"I imagine this isn't exactly what you had in mind when you began training."
whohastimeforthat: (Hard at Work)

[personal profile] whohastimeforthat 2020-12-24 01:15 am (UTC)(link)
"It can," Azmuth admitted as he looked over the results. "The Speech is a very versatile tool and a very helpful one."

He tapped his foot against the ground.

"It may not seem like much, but your particular specialty is incredibly helpful. This planet is only a year old after all."

And the last thing the Galvans needed was to have to rebuild their whole planet a second time.
whohastimeforthat: (Looking up while talking)

[personal profile] whohastimeforthat 2020-12-25 06:39 pm (UTC)(link)
"They do," Azmuth agreed. "One reason why I have so many sensors in place is to monitor microorganic growth. I've tried listening with The Speech but it tends to get confused and muddled."

This particular artificial planet was to potentially act as a colony world, a sort of backup in case the Galvan home planet was destroyed. Again. Building a planet to precise specifications was a massive migraine he didn't want to have to rush through a second time.

"The planet's core mainframe is running smoothly at least. Next time I'll just start from building the processor myself instead of assigning that to someone else."
whohastimeforthat: (What do you want?)

I don't know how, but this tag got lost. I'm so sorry. D:

[personal profile] whohastimeforthat 2021-01-14 12:09 am (UTC)(link)
"And my ability to Speak with plants is serviceable but poor." Azmuth gave Nita a glance before looking back at the datapad. "We each have our strengths and weaknesses, working together to fill in the gaps."
whohastimeforthat: (Low priority)

Ugh. I hate it when I'm sick. ><

[personal profile] whohastimeforthat 2021-01-22 11:54 pm (UTC)(link)
"At the moment, no. If the plants start noticing something off, then we'll bring in someone more specialized. Even if there is something off, I can fix it. This isn't the first planet I've ever built from scratch though it is the second I had help on."

He'd rebuilt Galvan Prime, their homeworld, almost two years ago after it had been destroyed in the Highbreed War. At least for that and this project, he could call upon others to assist him.
Edited 2021-01-22 23:54 (UTC)
whohastimeforthat: (Do any of you have any pocket change?)

Doing better but I basically dropped off the face of the earth for a week.

[personal profile] whohastimeforthat 2021-01-24 12:10 am (UTC)(link)
Azmuth nodded and began leading the way.

He wasn't the sort for idle chat, but Ben had been particularly annoying on that front lately. If only to be able to tell Ben to stick his nose into someone else's business and prove the teen wrong, he asked, "Is there something on your mind?"
whohastimeforthat: (What do you want?)

[personal profile] whohastimeforthat 2021-02-05 01:25 am (UTC)(link)
"Do you mean an artificially-created world or something else?" Azmuth asked, seeking clarification before he could come up with a response.
whohastimeforthat: (Thinking)

[personal profile] whohastimeforthat 2021-02-05 02:32 am (UTC)(link)
"In that case, it sounds like you're asking more about pre-existing lifeless planets 'waiting' to either naturally develop life or be terraformed rather than artificial planets. It's an intriguing question if only from the standpoint of answering 'Can you Speak to a planet?'"

Azmuth paced slowly along before pausing to admire one of the flowers that was getting ready to blossom. Had he wanted to, he could've used the Speech to coax it to bloom. Or have had Nita do so given she likely would've been more persuasive than he. (Actually, Nita may have noticed that despite him being a 'mana manipulator', Azmuth didn't do anything of the sort nor did he use the Speech.)

"This world is different: Like all of my artificial planets, I built the computer core first. My older ones such as Primus I then built up over the years, condensing billions of years of natural evolution into a scant few centuries. While Galvan Prime and this particular world were built in a fraction of that accelerated timeline, they were also built up layer-by-layer. We don't know if anyone outside the Milky Way has managed to create a similar process, so sadly we have only my planets for comparison to natural worlds."

He then tilted his head to one side, still studying the flower.

"Still, that does leave me to wonder if those worlds I built were aware of their purpose while I was sculpting them. Did they develop their own Speech patterns as time went on? Did Primus realize at some point that it would be more than a rock-covered computer drifting through space or -- later on -- my private garden? Those are also intriguing questions."
Edited 2021-02-05 02:33 (UTC)