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The Fate who calls herself Mountain tried to convince some of her neighbors to allow the occasional mountain in their lands, for stability purposes.
"I meant no insult!" Dodge ball of lava. "I don't intend to interfere, you said no!" Dodge house-sized spear of ice. "I'm leaving peacefully, okay, so stop tearing up the tile!"
"You'll respawn at home. No permanent damage. You interrupted an important meeting, you need to learn a lesson about territory, mountain bitch." Dodge- no, fail to dodge a thrown tree, and then another ice ball. The next sphere of magma is what destroyed that form.
She wakes up, stripped of all her tools and enchantments and even clothes, and groans in pain.
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sturdycoldsteel
sturdycoldsteel
"I suspect what I call technical and what you do are very different. I tried making some of the technology we use in my world and it didn't work."
"Hmm, perhaps. I meant mostly physics and geography and geology, those sound like the most immediately relevant here from what I've been told."
"Hopefully I can help with that."
sturdycoldsteel
"Indeed. Though I want to take a break and start on my mountain, or build a road or fix a bridge or something, soon."
"Start on your mountain...?"
sturdycoldsteel
"I'm going to make a mountain in the middle of the ocean. Besides just wanting to, I need to rest in a place that is 'mine' to get back to full power."
"I... see. And the capes know this, I presume?"
sturdycoldsteel
"Alexandria told me she'd find a place. I was going to just go to... I think it was the 'Catskill Mountains,' but apparently they're public property. No merfolk in this world, though, so: The middle of the ocean."
"That makes sense. They told me to inform the PRT when we were done so presumably they have arrangements in place for this."
Harry goes to the door and knocks on it, and it's opened from the outside. He talks to someone there and returns. "They'll give you a waterproof interactive map to show you a good location."
Harry goes to the door and knocks on it, and it's opened from the outside. He talks to someone there and returns. "They'll give you a waterproof interactive map to show you a good location."
"Probably. I've been paid to stay around as long as I need to properly feed the translation program or a week, whichever's longest."
sturdycoldsteel
"I wonder if you'd find Coral's Song as interesting as Valecana? It's a merfolk language, it's written in spirals and doesn't have singular forms of address, and you can't quite pronounce it right above water."
She listens for his response, then walks out and asks about the map.
She listens for his response, then walks out and asks about the map.
"I'd love to hear merfolk language! It must be fascinating."
The map is asked about and is gotten. It's a tinker-made GPS tablet with an arrow pointing somewhere outside of the screen.
The map is asked about and is gotten. It's a tinker-made GPS tablet with an arrow pointing somewhere outside of the screen.
sturdycoldsteel
She flies out to sea, following the arrow. She practices English under her breath on the way, reviewing vocabulary and grammar.
Eventually she finds the spot—or rather, a circle marking an area where her actions would probably not disturb much.
sturdycoldsteel
The ocean almost a full tile deep here. She starts calling up stone. This is going to take a while.
But she relaxes immensely during this process. Nothing but ocean and stone for more than a dozen tiles. No monsters, barely any sea life. She can't escape the geography, but she's building something immense and strong that will last for a long, long time.
Eventually the sea starts to roil. A perfect pyramid of proud, strong stone rises from the deep. The geometric precision of the pyramid fades and is replaced by more natural contours as it continues to rise.The peak is easily two or three times as high as the towers in that city, the slopes are fairly steep and mostly regular. Each face is dominated by a slightly different color of stone.
She extracts handfuls of gemstones to replace some of her granite armor with material that is both prettier and tougher in some ways. She also pulls a few tons and iron and titanium during this process. Not much at all compared to the size of her mountain, but she might as well multitask.
At the top is a flat area, where she begins building a large structure reminiscent of Greek architecture. The inside of the mountain doesn't have any hidden faults, it's strong enough to support immense networks of tunnels eventually.
She's not any good at fertility. If plants want to grow on her mountain, they'll have to do it the hard way. It's night when she's finally done. She sleeps in an unfurnished room until sunrise, then flies back to New York.
But she relaxes immensely during this process. Nothing but ocean and stone for more than a dozen tiles. No monsters, barely any sea life. She can't escape the geography, but she's building something immense and strong that will last for a long, long time.
Eventually the sea starts to roil. A perfect pyramid of proud, strong stone rises from the deep. The geometric precision of the pyramid fades and is replaced by more natural contours as it continues to rise.The peak is easily two or three times as high as the towers in that city, the slopes are fairly steep and mostly regular. Each face is dominated by a slightly different color of stone.
She extracts handfuls of gemstones to replace some of her granite armor with material that is both prettier and tougher in some ways. She also pulls a few tons and iron and titanium during this process. Not much at all compared to the size of her mountain, but she might as well multitask.
At the top is a flat area, where she begins building a large structure reminiscent of Greek architecture. The inside of the mountain doesn't have any hidden faults, it's strong enough to support immense networks of tunnels eventually.
She's not any good at fertility. If plants want to grow on her mountain, they'll have to do it the hard way. It's night when she's finally done. She sleeps in an unfurnished room until sunrise, then flies back to New York.
The PRT has been informed of her presence enough that she doesn't need someone high-ranking with her to be waved through.
Harry hasn't arrived yet but will in a bit, and a couple of textbooks have been left for her to look at should she get there before him.
Harry hasn't arrived yet but will in a bit, and a couple of textbooks have been left for her to look at should she get there before him.
There's: a geography book with various very nice pictures of the earth with many different kinds of filters to highlight different aspects of it; a geology book with the names and descriptions in English of various types of rock and explanations of how they form; an elementary physics book with Newtonian mechanics; and an elementary astronomy book explaining celestial bodies.
sturdycoldsteel
Newtonian mechanics are comfortingly familiar. The geology, too, is mostly the same apart from the details on how tectonics work.
The idea of celestial bodies moving around instead of just staying still is immensely weird to her.
The idea of celestial bodies moving around instead of just staying still is immensely weird to her.
Eventually Harry arrives.
He tries to explain General Relativity: A Layman's Understanding, but probably fails miserably.
sturdycoldsteel
Light has a speed?
Feh. They can talk about geology and classical mechanics, the versions she's familiar with are close enough to translate.
Feh. They can talk about geology and classical mechanics, the versions she's familiar with are close enough to translate.