talentsgirl | [ Action, Voice ] Onions have layers, ogres have layers .002

[Today Molly Carpenter is in your community buildings, exploring the floors and kitchens and opening (hopefully unoccupied!) random doors. Why is she doing this? She's not quite settled that Community Building Six is the best place for her and Harry to be, so far away from town, and collect evidence to present her case. Also - hey, strolling down someone's apartment corridor could be a great way to meet people!

And secretly, she's looking for thresholds. It makes sense that there aren't any here - five years, at most, being kept in a place against your will - could that even form a threshold? She didn't know, but it was so terribly contrary to her understanding of magic that she had to investigate.

Later in the day, a series of filters starting at 5 and not working their way up past 15 percent will appear in the journal followed by a voice post.]

[Filter at 5 percent]
Testing, testing... so you actually can do this.
[Filter at 10 5 percent]
Testing... drat.
[Filter at 10 7 percent]
Test, test - man, I thought for sure that would work
[Filter at 15 percent]
Ah-ha! Think I'm getting it now...
[Filter at 20 15 percent]
Test... nope.
[Filter at 20 15 percent]
Maybe this will--
[Filter at 20 15 percent]
Oh, come on!

Hi! So. Sorry if anyone bothered with that. I'm trying to get the hang of this "filtering" thing but it's just not like anything I've ever done before. If a couple wouldn't mind putting up some really low, easy filters in this post against me, I'd really appreciate it. That way I could try to sort of... learn it backwards? Thanks.

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Ah. Well, in that case... A li'l reverse-engineerin' never hurt anyone.

[And he'll just go ahead and put a fairly weak filter against her on this comment, roughly 10%. There isn't much behind the filter. Just a smiley face. (What, it's totally appropriate to put behind a filter.) Enjoy your hacking, Molly!]

[Okay, ten percent? That's easy, she's so there. But she waits a little bit longer than when she could have done before drawing another smiley face next to his and writing:]

You think you can double this one?

'Course. You got it.

[And he doubles it, just as requested. This time, the smiley face has a little halo drawn above it. He's no artist, but he can at least be creative about it.]

[Okay, that's definitely harder. This is the level she was trying to break into on her own, and it takes her a while to figure it out. But eventually, she does.

And once that happens, Molly laughs at the angel. Not the best representation of an angel she's ever seen and the source is questionable, but...

She draws a flower next to his smiley face.]

Okay, that's better.

[And she debates asking him for one more...]

Better 'cause of the flower or better 'cause you're gettin' the hang of t'ings? 'Cause I'm t'inkin' that flower helps wit' my art skills.

[And, laughing under his breath, he's just going to go ahead and add in one more filter. Forty percent is a pretty decent filter to get a hold of around here, and even though she hasn't asked, he figures it's a good level to start her off being familiar with. That, and being a pain in someone's neck is great entertainment in Luceti.

Although all this drawing is reminding him of Colossus, who he's sure would put him to shame for these doodles, and according to the way his mind works, there's one thing to do about that.

So whenever she manages to get through the filter this time, there'll be a really badly drawn Colossus, little better than a stick figure, with a couple doodlish flowers held in one hand.

Yep.]

Edited 2012-03-25 04:48 (UTC)

[Fortunately, the way filters work are built on patterns. And having seeb the basics of his filter, Molly knows what she should be looking for. All the same, it takes her a good ten minutes or so just to get through to the next layer. Wow, this is tough.

But once she finds the right thread to pull, the whole thing unravels, just as a forty-percent filter should. Ha! Victory.

...that is the saddest little stick man she has ever seen. She writes next to it:]

For me?

[Hey, that little stick man actually has something of a facial expression. That's pretty good, right? ~~Somewhere, Piotr is probably facepalming.~~

Once he gets that little message written in, he writes below it:]

For your very own.

[Stickman Colossus is totally the best gift ever, what are you talking about.]

He's charming.

[Because she has never seen anything that pathetic in her entire life. Baby Harry draws better than that. Who knew.]

Does he have a name?

[So cruel. It's a good thing he's a better chef than artist.]

Piotr Rasputin.

Not so charming as moi, right?

[Because poorly-drawn stick figures are far more charming.]

[...Oh my God, Remy LeBeau just drew me a stick figure of Colossus.]

Oh, no. Of course not.

...although he is bringing me flowers.

[Welcome to Boredom Hour with the Acolytes. At least he's not mocking Pyro's writing style. That can get ugly fast.]

Trying to one-up me. He's a sneaky one, that Rasputin.

[As sneaky as a huge organic steel guy can be.]

And he knows his stuff. Those are my very favorites.

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