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destinystrings2013-01-06 05:26 am
technomaturgist) wrote in destinystrings2013-01-06 05:26 am
Fourth Machine: IT'S TIME TO R-R-R-R-RRRREAD
Who: Ferrus and YOU! (Open!)
Where: Aquila Library, in Aquarius.
Summary: Ferrus got tired of working on machines, after fiddling with them for a month or so - he's used to missions breaking up the tedium. So he gave himself a mission: learn more about Personas! Thus, reading up on them.
Warnings: N-N/A?
To tell the truth, Ferrus hadn't found machines interesting enough to work on them day after day after he became a teenager. He'd already spent most of his life in the vicinity of machines, sure, and his bitty years were spent enjoying technology (in spite of the machine cult). Even when the accident happened and he was shipped off to the machine cult, he still maintained his interest in machines. But...
Inevitably, he would find his work tedious instead of fun.
Normally, he spent a month doing tech work and then a month was set aside for missions. It broke tedium better then normal, and honestly what was Ferrus supposed to do with his time? It normally wasn't his own in the first place. He would either hunt with Garviel (which had sort of become tedious as well, in its own way, since Kais was introduced to the team) or work.
That was why he was currently sitting in a comfy chair, fully decked out in his robe - mask included - and reading through books on the subject of Personas. Whether they were government-made, psychology textbooks, or general books on the subject written by residents, Ferrus didn't seem to care: there was a small pile on the table in front of him, neatly organized as 'read' and 'unread'.
...Of course, if you need one of the books he's reading, or are just worrying about his eyesight through that mask's darkly clouded frames, you could come up and ask, but...
Where: Aquila Library, in Aquarius.
Summary: Ferrus got tired of working on machines, after fiddling with them for a month or so - he's used to missions breaking up the tedium. So he gave himself a mission: learn more about Personas! Thus, reading up on them.
Warnings: N-N/A?
To tell the truth, Ferrus hadn't found machines interesting enough to work on them day after day after he became a teenager. He'd already spent most of his life in the vicinity of machines, sure, and his bitty years were spent enjoying technology (in spite of the machine cult). Even when the accident happened and he was shipped off to the machine cult, he still maintained his interest in machines. But...
Inevitably, he would find his work tedious instead of fun.
Normally, he spent a month doing tech work and then a month was set aside for missions. It broke tedium better then normal, and honestly what was Ferrus supposed to do with his time? It normally wasn't his own in the first place. He would either hunt with Garviel (which had sort of become tedious as well, in its own way, since Kais was introduced to the team) or work.
That was why he was currently sitting in a comfy chair, fully decked out in his robe - mask included - and reading through books on the subject of Personas. Whether they were government-made, psychology textbooks, or general books on the subject written by residents, Ferrus didn't seem to care: there was a small pile on the table in front of him, neatly organized as 'read' and 'unread'.
...Of course, if you need one of the books he's reading, or are just worrying about his eyesight through that mask's darkly clouded frames, you could come up and ask, but...
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(And that greeting would probably be insulting, if Ferrus saw a direct intro like that as rude. He did not.)
It didn't take him more then two seconds to connect the dots on whois, and he takes a moment before responding. "Shas'la T'au Kais. Right?" Yes, he remembered your name. BLUE MAN.
He'd noticed blue people here for a little while, but he'd usually paid them little mind.
And then they both decided to do things involving him. So.no subject
It certainly beat out using his entire name. Even he tired of hearing that litany of words. Not to mention that most humans have never been to T'au so even hearing a human say his home planet's name felt...uncomfortable. As if they were planning on invading and destroying it.
His eyes shot over briefly to look at the books laying around.
"Does this type of thing interest you? Wouldn't your compatriots say that learning about these kinds of subjects was 'heresy'?
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He... probably wouldn't destroy your planet, Kais. He thought you were able to take whomever came at you down, anyway.
Aw, shit. Caught by a xeno. His stance shifts, guiltily. "It's... investigation into the Personae we've recieved." He was, perhaps, interested. But he didn't want to admit that. "It... may be heretical. But it's not as though I intend to use Personae by looking up this information. Only to have data on them." It was like investigation before a strike attack.
Don't threaten to tell Garvi or you're going on his 'filter from' list, when he puts that post up. >:I
"...Why do you ask?" He is shifting guiltily in his seat. The techpriest is not quite okay with what he's doing being possibly heretical, but then he'd never really considered it such: it was just gathering info, after all...
(that and he'd already quietly unlocked his persona in direct disobedience of Garviel but shhhh)
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Yes, that scene was horrifying to him. That governor having that thing erupt out of his flesh and causing havok everywhere. It left a gigantic scar on his mind that he probably would never recover from again.
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However, that wasn't what... Personae are.
"Personae... are not daemons. Not in the sense of things like a daemonic possession, as far as I can tell..." He raised his hands, "I haven't finished fully reading up, but... they aren't daemons. Not like the daemons we hunt are. They are just..." He seemed to struggle for words. "... facets of our personality made real? I think that's the best way to put it." He seemed to think for a second- "So it's... not about to explode out of someone's body, or hurt them. Maybe hurt others, but... personas don't hurt the person who summons them. I think."
Strega didn't count, and for the purposes of Ferrus's research, don't exist.
Sorry, Shinjiro. Existence ignored.
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But...not dangerous?
"Are you completely sure?"
It was hard to trust the information coming from a man who thought that machines were living things that had to be appeased.
"If I use mine, I would prefer not to be in danger."
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He nodded, "Completely. ...Cerberus seems to think of them as ghosts, more then daemons, as well." He meant Garviel, of course, but what the fuck was knowing the guy's real name?
Excuse you, Kais! They were a machine cult, sure, but they were information gatherers first and foremost. Mostly machine knowledge, sure, but somewhere along that road Ferrus had decided most any knowledge was cool. (...and it wasn't like Ferrus 100% held that belief about machine spirits, anyway...)
"They won't hurt you if you use them at all." He was half-tempted to tell the other Garviel was derping up a storm about Ferrus using his persona, but declined. The xeno could deal with it, if Garviel took the same stance towards him.
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"Perhaps I can give it a try, at least."
If it wasn't a daemon, it could be a help, right? More efficient killing of the enemy was always better.
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Sure, it wouldn't hurt Kais. But he wanted to know how effective they were in combat - his was support, he'd found, and also machine spirits. He's interested to know how useful they are!
"While I know they won't hurt you... I'm not sure exactly how useful they are, so..." AWKWARD CLARIFICATIONS AW YEAH!!!
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Might as well get down to the point. As long as his safety is assured and he might get more powerful from it, he isn't hesitant. But he feels that humans enjoy lying or telling half-truths so he wants to hear it clearly.
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"I-I'm not able to test it myself," -- (Garviel) -- "so if you'd tell me how effective they are in combat in your opinion once you've used them, it'd help my research..."
He was a curious techpriest, after all. He wasn't about to push the issue if Kais decided not to use his persona, though; the techpriest wasn't a pushy kind of guy. He just... wanted information, really.
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No sense in trying to haggle something out of it or risking angering someone who could potentially be an ally, no matter how much Kais disliked humans.
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(Of course, by now, that'd sort of extended to everyone. Even strange xenos.)
He would wait a few minutes for Kais to say something, if anything, and if he didn't Ferrus was fine with just returning to his book. Persona books, Kais. Persona books. They are interesting.