Quote:It's too bulky to strap on by yourself. Bill or someone will have to help you.
Bill says he will have to power up the master Time Capsule to dispense another copy of the wristwatch. He gets that started.
It can pass as something like a Poketch or e-watch, you think.
It can't really be tested because you're currently in the same timestream, but Bill says you'll be able to make sure the MSC signaler antenna is sending and receiving.

Quote:"Yeah, I can give you a crash course on the big screen! Let me teach you about pointers, private and public keys, and remoting. That will let you upload people's pre-programmed box environments to your PC, and to securely share information and material with others if you know their public key. The PC normally handles all that by itself automatically, but for advanced users you can "hack" your own system to make any custom alterations that are allowed. Actually building your own box environments, instead of relying on existing ones, is an advanced topic that would take days to teach."

He teaches you that.

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(09-24-2018, 03:42 PM)Iron Wrote: @Spiritmon I need to know whether Heart wants to wear a portable Time Capsule.

(09-24-2018, 03:29 PM)Iron Wrote:

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Ray accepts the Psychic TM as his fair due. Whenever Nathan works with him, or chooses him in battle, or gives him a good Held Item or new move, Ray accepts it as minor worship/honor. 

Tropius is first and foremost interested in the sunlight suddenly pouring down, but you get the feeling she will be really really excited to actually use that move in battle. She kind of has an instinct to do that, but didn't have the capability up until now.

"Wow, amazing Delta Pokemon! Some don't like 'em, but I love 'em! It took a while to make the PC system recognize them properly. They could be stored safely, but if you had a Delta and a similar Pokemon it would sometimes deliver the wrong one. That's all sorted out now, and we're even working on some tech to improve it. My newest app will be able to identify type, moves, and predict evolutions for mutated Pokemon, and most importantly, identify what exactly the mutation is. For example, we can tell if your Tropius is truly a Delta, or some other mutation. Call me in two days and I think it will be ready for beta testers."

Bill isn't afraid of Orthros (or Tropius, who is more dangerous at this point). Tropius stays quite calm while in the presence of Bill.

"I know a little known fact about Primal Bulbasaur. They were one of the first off-type species cataloged in modern times, as you probably know, but they were also one of the first Primal Pokemon to appear to humans, historically. The First Technical Society treated them as totems! All the big cities had a family of Primal Bulbasaur, Ivysaur, and Venusaur if they were lucky. They'd live in the center of town on a special plinth for ceremonies, or in a sacred cave, or maybe deep in the woods where it was considered lucky to come across one. Neat, eh?"



"The biggest problem with the portable system is it is trade-only. The PC system is not conducting a trade at all when it accepts a Pokemon for storage. It's a big difference from an engineering standpoint. Pokemon trading machines have been around since the days of the Kings, whereas the first PC deserving of the name was built in 1841 - the Analytical Engine. It could only store first stage Pokemon of small size and low power. That was in the days when an MSC capture web was expensive and Pokeballs hadn't been invented yet, so the combination of inferior non-MSC Apricorns holding crude MSC capture webs and a very low-memory PC resulted in a terrible storage system. It filled up most of Stair City, haha!"

"You can think of the portable trader as being akin to a switchboard, while the PC is like a modern cell phone. I'm the switchboard operator: I have to manually approve a trade, and only I can do it because I have admin privileges, and I can only do it to your specific devices because they are hard-coded with your encrypted hash function specifying your OT. Honestly, the security on these things is terrible. Don't let anyone shady know you have them, and keep them powered down when you're not using them. If someone steals this device, it's as good as them having your fingerprint and Trainer Card."

"That said, I'll definitely use any data I get from you and Shiva to engineer the next gen of PC. We'll have to see what the future has in store for us!"

At that very moment, coincidentally right as he says the word "Future" to Nathan, all of you except Terra experience a brief lurch in which you have a glimpse of an unadulterated bayfront farm. Then you're back, and Nathan can tell Bill didn't notice he was gone.

(09-24-2018, 05:10 PM)PhantomUnderYourDesk Wrote: More sweets or snacks she does not have to gift, but Bill certainly receives a very timid but honestly thankful smile. For a moment, her eyes even very briefly sparkle up! "Yes, that's pretty much what would be useful for me, thanks a lot for the time taken! I'll train what you've taught me whenever I'm having the opportunity and time to do." She short break follows before she does speak up once more, this time facing the big screen with a thoughtful look. " Do you think you could also... Well, show me how I can safely access the deep web (not dark web, that's a difference!) to search for an information that a standard search engine doesn't provide for example, I'd be very grateful as well. Please!~ I feel like, ehm, that could be useful. It's not illegal either to do so."

Once that's done, she'll show him some of her Pokemon that I'll list later, and after that I've done and asked everything I wanted to at this vsit.

(09-24-2018, 10:26 PM)Iron Wrote:

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That done, he leads you over to the master Time Capsule. He pokes some buttons and a slot opens up. He has all of you (well, not Terra) pass your hand through there, and it scans your palm and biometrics. Then it dispenses three devices.

"Help each other strap these on, then check for a blinking gree-"

LURCH.

Just as Terra helps Heart with his PTC, the four of you experience another sickening lurch, and you find yourself standing on a greensward where Bill's house was just a moment ago. You feel firm clay beneath your feet, whereas before the farm was muddy. On your wrists, the PTCs; at your belts, Pokeballs. In front of you, the bay, unobstructed by water wheel or fences. Just lots and lots of grass, which Nathan recognizes as a tasty hay grass called timothy hay/timothy-grass.

The clear tarn is much smaller, and has not sprung out of its concavity to form a spring. The distant fortress-cubes are replaced with a naked cliff.

Perched on an old-school tractor is a little gremlin of a Pokemon, purple and yellow with spikes. It's baring its claws and teeth at a Trainer with Apricorns and interesting beige/red Pokeballs at his belt. The Trainer has a cocky stance, a frying pan sticking out of his backpack, and seems to be partnered with a Drifloon. He seems about the age of a grad student and looks hale and hearty.

Behind him, a pack of Electabuzz is racing forward at full speed, swinging between low hanging arms and baring sharp teeth. Some of them clutch instruments such as a section of metal pipe, a cornstalk, and a battered, folded umbrella.

You have all your party Pokemon, including Dizzy and Geodude and extraneous Eggs. To the south you can see a farmhouse and barn, and you can hear a tractor/engine running in that direction.

(09-24-2018, 10:26 PM)Iron Wrote:

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"I've talked to Fennel in the past too, but it's been years. I know she's active on an IRC board called irc.dreams.nasci. Try that!"

"Ok, let me show you three how the watches go on. Terra, you can help someone strap in - that's how I got mine on. A friend helped me. One of you is going to have to help me put it back on though, before I can activate the Time Capsule."

That done, he leads you over to the master Time Capsule. He pokes some buttons and a slot opens up. He has all of you (well, not Terra) pass your hand through there, and it scans your palm and biometrics. Then it dispenses three devices.

"Help each other strap these on, then check for a blinking gree-"

LURCH.

Just as Terra helps Heart with his PTC, the four of you experience another sickening lurch, and you find yourself standing on a greensward where Bill's house was just a moment ago. You feel firm clay beneath your feet, whereas before the farm was muddy. On your wrists, the PTCs; at your belts, Pokeballs. In front of you, the bay, unobstructed by water wheel or fences. Just lots and lots of grass, which Nathan recognizes as a tasty hay grass called timothy hay/timothy-grass.

The clear tarn is much smaller, and has not sprung out of its concavity to form a spring. The distant fortress-cubes are replaced with a naked cliff.

Perched on an old-school tractor is a little gremlin of a Pokemon, purple and yellow with spikes. It's baring its claws and teeth at a Trainer with Apricorns and interesting beige/red Pokeballs at his belt. The Trainer has a cocky stance, a frying pan sticking out of his backpack, and seems to be partnered with a Drifloon. He seems about the age of a grad student and looks hale and hearty.

Behind him, a pack of Electabuzz is racing forward at full speed, swinging between low hanging arms and baring sharp teeth. Some of them clutch instruments such as a section of metal pipe, a cornstalk, and a battered, folded umbrella.

You have all your party Pokemon, including Dizzy and Geodude and extraneous Eggs. To the south you can see a farmhouse and barn, and you can hear a tractor/engine running in that direction.

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(09-24-2018, 11:21 PM)Lord Windos Wrote:

(09-24-2018, 10:26 PM)Iron Wrote:

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That done, he leads you over to the master Time Capsule. He pokes some buttons and a slot opens up. He has all of you (well, not Terra) pass your hand through there, and it scans your palm and biometrics. Then it dispenses three devices.

"Help each other strap these on, then check for a blinking gree-"

LURCH.

Just as Terra helps Heart with his PTC, the four of you experience another sickening lurch, and you find yourself standing on a greensward where Bill's house was just a moment ago. You feel firm clay beneath your feet, whereas before the farm was muddy. On your wrists, the PTCs; at your belts, Pokeballs. In front of you, the bay, unobstructed by water wheel or fences. Just lots and lots of grass, which Nathan recognizes as a tasty hay grass called timothy hay/timothy-grass.

The clear tarn is much smaller, and has not sprung out of its concavity to form a spring. The distant fortress-cubes are replaced with a naked cliff.

Perched on an old-school tractor is a little gremlin of a Pokemon, purple and yellow with spikes. It's baring its claws and teeth at a Trainer with Apricorns and interesting beige/red Pokeballs at his belt. The Trainer has a cocky stance, a frying pan sticking out of his backpack, and seems to be partnered with a Drifloon. He seems about the age of a grad student and looks hale and hearty.

Behind him, a pack of Electabuzz is racing forward at full speed, swinging between low hanging arms and baring sharp teeth. Some of them clutch instruments such as a section of metal pipe, a cornstalk, and a battered, folded umbrella.

You have all your party Pokemon, including Dizzy and Geodude and extraneous Eggs. To the south you can see a farmhouse and barn, and you can hear a tractor/engine running in that direction.

It happened so suddenly that Terra didn't have a sliver of a chance to react.

One moment, he's helping Heart put on his PTC with slow, painstaking care, looking rather uncertain if he was doing it right or setting up the device for mechanical mal-adjustment. The next, he's standing on top of rustic and picturesque land not unlike that he'd used to explore back home on an daily basis. Just like that.

At first, the martial monk could only slowly blink, as he quietly took in his new all farmland surroundings and the hubbub that was going on in them with dull surprise. 

'....What happened? …Where are we? Did we.....get sent back in time? Because of that Lurch?'

Seconds after processing those thoughts, he promptly shook his head and dispelled them, and immediately started to individually check/inspect everyone in the group + Geodude while simultaneously ordering Shiranui and Anubi to take watch/guard in the meantime(since they were either still out and got pulled in with everyone else, or Terra promptly summoned them if he did recall them). It should also be noted he was keeping half an Alert eye on things too (Maybe enough for a Perception Roll?), but the bulk of his attention was on the group itself.

"Nathan, Shiva, Heart, Geodude....are you all okay? Need help with anything?"

Instead of continuing to worry or idling ponder the sticky situation he and the group was now in, he just almost instantly accepted what happened, bunked it down the list of his priorities, and focus on the topmost ones, which was ensuring that else was in good health and well protected. 

In the untamed wilds, 'Adapt and Persevere' was one of THE most important principles the rugged wanderer adhered to, so that was EXACTLY what he did! No time for panic, second guessing, tentativeness, disorientation, or anything else inhibitory for him, no sir!

(09-25-2018, 01:26 AM)Dragonstrike Wrote:

(09-24-2018, 10:26 PM)Iron Wrote:

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"I've talked to Fennel in the past too, but it's been years. I know she's active on an IRC board called irc.dreams.nasci. Try that!"

"Ok, let me show you three how the watches go on. Terra, you can help someone strap in - that's how I got mine on. A friend helped me. One of you is going to have to help me put it back on though, before I can activate the Time Capsule."

That done, he leads you over to the master Time Capsule. He pokes some buttons and a slot opens up. He has all of you (well, not Terra) pass your hand through there, and it scans your palm and biometrics. Then it dispenses three devices.

"Help each other strap these on, then check for a blinking gree-"

LURCH.

Just as Terra helps Heart with his PTC, the four of you experience another sickening lurch, and you find yourself standing on a greensward where Bill's house was just a moment ago. You feel firm clay beneath your feet, whereas before the farm was muddy. On your wrists, the PTCs; at your belts, Pokeballs. In front of you, the bay, unobstructed by water wheel or fences. Just lots and lots of grass, which Nathan recognizes as a tasty hay grass called timothy hay/timothy-grass.

The clear tarn is much smaller, and has not sprung out of its concavity to form a spring. The distant fortress-cubes are replaced with a naked cliff.

Perched on an old-school tractor is a little gremlin of a Pokemon, purple and yellow with spikes. It's baring its claws and teeth at a Trainer with Apricorns and interesting beige/red Pokeballs at his belt. The Trainer has a cocky stance, a frying pan sticking out of his backpack, and seems to be partnered with a Drifloon. He seems about the age of a grad student and looks hale and hearty.

Behind him, a pack of Electabuzz is racing forward at full speed, swinging between low hanging arms and baring sharp teeth. Some of them clutch instruments such as a section of metal pipe, a cornstalk, and a battered, folded umbrella.

You have all your party Pokemon, including Dizzy and Geodude and extraneous Eggs. To the south you can see a farmhouse and barn, and you can hear a tractor/engine running in that direction.

Nathan writes that website down.  "Thanks for the recommendation."

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Did someone say a purple and yellow gremlin pokemon with spikes on its body?

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The hay, the old-school pokeballs, the open, rolling fields, the lack of large bodies of water and buildings...the fact that the lurch is lasting for more than a moment...

...yeah, they're in the past now.

Nathan sighs.  "...sometimes, I hate it when I'm right..."

Gallade's immediately assessed the situation as well.  He looks at Nathan for orders.  What are they going to do?  They're in the past and all, thus limiting what exactly they can do, but that trainer seems to have his hands full with these troublemakers...

"Gallade, let's go help out that trainer.  Looks like he needs a hand, or those Electabuzz are going to give him a rude surprise."

No hesitation, Nathan sizes up the situation and gets ready to run off and help that stranger!  Everyone looks physically fine as far as he can tell, so the bulk of his attention is going towards resolving the more immediate situation that'll likely cause even more problems if it isn't resolved immediately.