1st Experiment // Video (+ Action option)

[self_replication]

I am Vexen. [Vexen is using the terminals for this. He might have gotten his laptop upgraded to access the network, he's not going to reveal it just yet. He'd rather not have everyone know about it just yet - though it is inevitable he'll slip up.] I spoke with several of you when we first arrived. For those I did not, I have a simple question.

What were you all doing in the ten minutes leading up to your arrival here.

Also I would like to know how many different worlds are present. This is of course, pure fascination on my part.

If you are uncomfortable with answering my first question over the network, I can be found in the first floor of the second building. The library if you will.

[For those that do seek him out in person, Vexen is near the entrance of the first floor in Building Two, several books on various scientific subjects scattered about while he types up some notes. There's even one on the subject of cloning... It is mercifully closed.]

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[pushingthreeseven]

[Because finding boxes or chairs to stand on is tedious and sometimes a bit hazardous, Pippin isn't answering this question over the touchscreen network. Instead, he's coming down from his rooms to meet this Vexen person in person.

He looks mostly cheerful, if a bit sleepy, as does the wallaby who hops at his side, though he pauses at the sight of all those books.]

Well, you've been busy already, haven't you!

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[self_replication]

One's activities and research do not cease simply because one finds themselves in a new locale. [Vexen raises an eyebrow at the - not a child - young man of indeterminable humanoid-species.

And then his eyebrows shoot up on seeing the wallaby.] How...interesting.

(Could please go here and fill this out? I'm familiar-ish with daemons in canon but not the one's from Pippin's last game ^_^;)

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[pushingthreeseven]

((oh, sure, sorry, I didn't even see that :) ))

Well, they do if your activities are pretty tied to home, but I suppose if you can keep doing whatever it is you're doing, you might as well.

[Pippin looks back at Jaeding when Vexen's eyes focus on her, and she ducks back behind him a little shyly, peeking around. She isn't really used to being stared at yet.]

I guess so. Everyone on the last world I wound up in on accident had somebody like her. Have you ever heard of a daemon?

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[self_replication]

[Vexen makes a non-committal sound before closing the book he was using and turning his attention directly to the pair.]

No, I have not. What is it? [He has some idea, but he'd rather hear it confirmed.]

[pushingthreeseven]

A daemon is somebody's soul. Well, my soul, in this case, I guess. She-- she's a she, not an it-- it I guess part of me? She can't go very far from me, and it's really, really weird when someone touches her, and she feels what I feel-- and the other away around, too.

[Jaeding, still half-hiding behind him, bobs her head, quite as if she understands the proceedings. Which, of course, she does.]

I guess she was supposed to always be there, just I couldn't see her and talk with her before I showed up at Citagazze and the Observatory. Everyone's supposed to have one.

[self_replication]

Those without hearts or souls would fail to produce such a creature. A pity, though unavoidable. [Which is a pity, given he *is* curious as to what type of 'daemon' he'd produce if he ever arrived in Citagazze.] Though it does explain things, yes.

- You talk to her? [...Why would you even - That's like talking to yourself.]

[pushingthreeseven]

[Jaeding stretches her neck out a bit further and answers, for her own self. She doesn't do that often, but she does it when she feels it's warranted:]

And I talk back, too.

[Pippin grins at her and ruffles her ears.]

What does it explain? If you don't mind my asking.

[self_replication]

Why your heart - soul - seemed split in two.

[pushingthreeseven]

Oh! Well, yes, that would be because it is. Very weird, but you get used to it quick enough.

[He comes the last couple steps over to investigate the books curiously.]

So you had a question, right? About what I was doing before I came here?

[self_replication]

I would assume so. [All the books cover a variety of scientific subjects, ranging from chemistry to theoretical physics. Vexen seems to be working from one on Chemistry and by the this time, the book on cloning has been flipped open.] Yes.

What were you doing in Citagazze before you arrived here? What was the original world you came from and where you doing there? And, if I may, your species?

[pushingthreeseven]

Oh, I'm a hobbit. From the Shire, in Middle Earth.

[And all of that is pretty much way over poor, medieval Pippin's head. He reads the titles with wide-eyed fascination as he answers the questions.]

Mostly hiding from soldiers and doing what they said when they had guns. I got there by an accident. Or, well, I suppose I went there on purpose because I was curious, but the window that took me there showed up on accident.

[self_replication]

Another world with 'Earth' in. I'm starting to think it's a popular name. [At this point he's not even surprised the name's popping up again and again.]

I assume you mean portal. What was it's appearance?