[she focuses, then, and slowly - their surroundings shift around them. do yourself a favor and don't unmute that video, i don't know why they put that music in there. a tree towers over them in the distance.]
...it's a bit different from the outside. But this is what the inside of Irminsul looks like, when you're sifting through it for information.
From what I've heard about how digital interfaces work since we began the Reaper's Game, I don't think it's dissimilar. It's a repository for information - and it's all stored in a particular way, and must be accessed by someone with a connection to it. I suppose that would be the "credentials" necessary for accessing parts of a digital network in other worlds...
[god, she wishes they had the internet here. she really just wants to learn to use it.]
As the keeper of Irminsul, my consciousness is connected to it. I can access it easily. My assistant is of a similar nature as I am, and he also has a connection, so he's able to access it as well.
Aside from that, many scholars at the Akademiya study for years in order to attempt to connect their consciousnesses to Irminsul, but... many of them do not succeed, or only succeed with the assistance of a special incense.
Something to that effect, yes. In my case, it's because my power as the Dendro Archon and Irminsul's existence are intertwined.
I think it would probably be possible for the other archons to form a connection if they tried to, since my assistant was able to, but... none of them have tried as far as I'm aware.
Ah... it's the element that has to do with plants and trees.
[she smiles.]
We all have our own duties, and... for the most part, we stay out of each others' affairs. So I'm not familiar with what they would be busy with, but I'm sure they are busy with something.
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dendroculi) wrote2023-06-07 06:02 pm
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[ as if that explains shit. ]
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So the moon was essentially a giant version of these in your world?
[she gives the vr headsets a little shake]
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[ she makes it sound like it's some random annoying occurrence. ]
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...because people wanted to gain control of it?
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More or less. That's simplifying it, but it had the capability to grant a wish.
[ somehow. with its great computation powers. i also don't understand. ]
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[huh.
she looks at the vr headsets again]
Do you think you might be able to use these to show me some of what your world is like?
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[ once nahida puts on the headset, she'll see a simulation of a digital space. ]
Hm. This is a little different than what I wanted, but it's the same time of environment. We're not quite on the moon in this space.
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...it looks as if it's a simulation of some sort of space underwater?
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Or it was.
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[ so to speak. ]
I never saw what it looked like before it turned digital.
[ so nahida only gets to see this version. ]
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[humans are always doing wild things. nahida takes another look around the digital space.]
...it reminds me a little bit of what the space inside of Irminsul looks like.
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[ it's an understatement. she tilts her head at irminsul. ]
Irminsul, as in the pillar or tree?
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[she focuses, then, and slowly - their surroundings shift around them. do yourself a favor and don't unmute that video, i don't know why they put that music in there. a tree towers over them in the distance.]
...it's a bit different from the outside. But this is what the inside of Irminsul looks like, when you're sifting through it for information.
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she takes a moment to look around. ]
It is similar. If I didn't know better, I'd say it's some kind of digital interface in here.
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[god, she wishes they had the internet here. she really just wants to learn to use it.]
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[ if it acts like one and works like one.... ]
Does your Irminsul only let a select few access its information?
[ a nahida with internet would be so powerful. ]
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As the keeper of Irminsul, my consciousness is connected to it. I can access it easily. My assistant is of a similar nature as I am, and he also has a connection, so he's able to access it as well.
Aside from that, many scholars at the Akademiya study for years in order to attempt to connect their consciousnesses to Irminsul, but... many of them do not succeed, or only succeed with the assistance of a special incense.
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[ that makes sense. after all, if it's supposed to be some kind of divine tree like how it is in her world's records, then...
but she is also thinking these scholars be getting high to connect to a tree. ]
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I think it would probably be possible for the other archons to form a connection if they tried to, since my assistant was able to, but... none of them have tried as far as I'm aware.
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[ lambda doesn't know this element, nahida. please explain. ]
If they're as busy as you seem to be, I'm not too surprised.
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Ah... it's the element that has to do with plants and trees.
[she smiles.]
We all have our own duties, and... for the most part, we stay out of each others' affairs. So I'm not familiar with what they would be busy with, but I'm sure they are busy with something.
[the tsaritsa is on thin ice though.]
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lambda would think the tsaritsa is valid in her own way if she ever learned about her. ]
It sounds like being an Archon is a lonely affair.
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...it could be worse. I see a lot of people these days, just not other Archons.
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she tilts her head. ]
Were you not able to see many people at all, before?
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