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[The video that comes onto the screen shows Rikku standing in a large clearing in Midgar. The area behind her is lit up by several spotlights that are propped up on a large cargo airship that sits nearby, and are shining on several Al'Bhed who are crawling over a giant piece of machinery that appears to be a broken down train. Not that the regent knows what a train is.]
[Rikku is bouncing excitedly in place, a grin on her face, and she waves at the camera.]
Hey Regent! It's Rikku, we met at the world leaders meeting thing? I'm the girl with the people building the robots?
[The camera suddenly shakes, and Rikku frowns, pointing up past the screen.]
Hu, hu, rumt ed cdayto!
[She sighs as the camera steadies itself.]
Right, sorry, we're kinda new at this video phone things so anyway, I uhm...I hope you have a minute, there's something I totally need to show you. I think you'll be really interested in it!
[Rikku is bouncing excitedly in place, a grin on her face, and she waves at the camera.]
Hey Regent! It's Rikku, we met at the world leaders meeting thing? I'm the girl with the people building the robots?
[The camera suddenly shakes, and Rikku frowns, pointing up past the screen.]
Hu, hu, rumt ed cdayto!
[She sighs as the camera steadies itself.]
Right, sorry, we're kinda new at this video phone things so anyway, I uhm...I hope you have a minute, there's something I totally need to show you. I think you'll be really interested in it!
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Date: 2010-03-07 09:44 pm (UTC)Ah, Rikku... It's a pleasure. What is that behind you?
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Date: 2010-03-07 10:36 pm (UTC)[video]
Date: 2010-03-08 12:04 am (UTC)[video]
Date: 2010-03-08 12:33 am (UTC)[She looks around for a moment, frowning, and then starts towards the train. Whomever is holding the camera for her follows.]
He's around here somewhere. Trains are big giant machines, right? And they're used to take people and stuff from one point to another along tracks called 'railroad tracks'. And you build them from one city to another city and then you have the trains running back and forth.
[She stops next to the big broken train engine, shooing some of her people away.]
This is a locatomive!
[Oh, so close.]
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Date: 2010-03-08 12:35 am (UTC)[video]
Date: 2010-03-08 12:39 am (UTC)See, you have this big engine here, it can pull tons and tons of weight, and then. [She jogs off a couple steps behind the engine, where a couple mostly wrecked rail cars can be seen.]
It pulls these, right? And you can have cars for people or for cargo or for other stuff, lots of them linked together, so one engine can pull dozens and dozens of these things. The ones here are kinda messed up, we'd probably have to build new ones...
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Date: 2010-03-08 12:43 am (UTC)[And he is; Cid is riveted.]
You don't think you could get it working again? What do these things run on?
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Date: 2010-03-08 12:47 am (UTC)[She suddenly ducks off the screen, popping back a moment later with a piece of railway metal. She's all red, it must be heavy!]
It runs on these! They're called tacks? No, tracks. Tracks. You have two rows of them a couple feet apart and the train slides along them.
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Date: 2010-03-08 01:01 am (UTC)[video]
Date: 2010-03-08 01:08 am (UTC)[Rikku drops the metal beam with a clang that makes her jump in surprise, and then she reaches out to swipe the phone from the al'bhed that's holding it.]
I'm not actually sure? But that doesn't mean we can't get it working again! Here...
[The screen is blurry as she's crawling into the cockpit of the engine, and after a moment she's pointing the camera at something that just looks...dark. Then she manages to drag a torch in as well, lighting up the room and showing off the mako slot of the trains engine.]
From what I can tell, something was used in here, burned maybe? And then it would propel the rest of the engine. But I'm thinking we can yank this part out, right? Just this bit here, and replace it with something else. You guys have steam engines in lindblum, right? And there's some stuff in Dollet I don't really know much about...
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Date: 2010-03-08 01:18 am (UTC)Re: [video]
Date: 2010-03-08 01:25 am (UTC)[She pops back into view, grinning.]
Stuff like that, making it run, I can do that. With Cid helping and the other Al'Bhed, but...
We kinda need help with ohter stuff. Like...getting the engines out of here? And then organizing how to build rail lines and stuff...
[She frowns faintly.]
I'm still trying to figure out what to do with Goug, I wouldn't know where to start with something this big...
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Date: 2010-03-08 01:27 am (UTC)[video]
Date: 2010-03-08 01:28 am (UTC)[She grins sheepishly.]
Yessir.
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Date: 2010-03-08 01:35 am (UTC)[video]
Date: 2010-03-08 01:49 am (UTC)I don't think we'd have to go all the way to Goug though, we could just bring it to Lindblum? If you can give up some space to work in, anyway.
Lindblum's the center of everything anyway, right? It would make sense if we started building outward from there...
Also, uh...some people who actually know more about Gaia, to figure out where train tracks could go and stuff...
[My, she's asking a lot...]
[video] SORRY TO POP IN UNANNOUNCED!
Date: 2010-03-08 02:49 am (UTC)Rikku, everything seems to be in tact, I can't wait to get this train running again, it'll be like Elizabeth all over again. [Studies more] She's not an Elizabeth though...I'll have to rename her something else. Hmmm...
[Too involved to care what Rikku is doing]
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Date: 2010-03-08 02:41 pm (UTC)At the end of the month, I'll inspect your work and if the results are good... Well, then we'll see about expanding this project of yours.
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Date: 2010-03-08 05:09 pm (UTC)That's amazing! Okay, uhm, a month. We can do a month!
[In her panicked looking around, she finally noticed Cid nearby, and then turned back to the Regent.]
Did you want to talk to Cid? He knows a lot more about trains than I do, 'cause we don't have them on Spira and he has them on his world...Hey, Cid!
[This last bit is shouted at the blonde man.]
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Date: 2010-03-08 09:26 pm (UTC)[Walks over and sees the camera] What's up? [Looks at who's on the phone] Regent! I take it you saw and heard the good news? [He's happy]
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Date: 2010-03-09 02:18 pm (UTC)What can you tell me about this train?
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Date: 2010-03-09 04:40 pm (UTC)[Rikku handed the phone off to Cid, then bounced away for a moment to look at something else on the train.]
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Date: 2010-03-10 12:04 am (UTC)[Looks at the Regent] Well the train is a engine based locomotive that uses pistons and gears in order for it to move. Couplings [Points to the end of the train] at the end of the train can lock onto other units of the train called cars. [Turns back to the blonde Cid] These can be used to ferry passengers or to load up cargo and travel it to other places. The rails on the floor is the only way the train moves, at least this one.
If I can graft one of the steam or mist engines to this train we may be able to make a series of trains to go to and from places all over the continent. That is...if you can help us with this little project.
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Date: 2010-03-12 02:38 pm (UTC)[video]
Date: 2010-03-12 07:44 pm (UTC)[Ecstatic smile on Cid's face right now] That's great, and don't worry, you'll be one of the first people to view this ground breaking technology in Gaia.
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Date: 2010-03-12 07:48 pm (UTC)