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Post by Spy Shot 6/Cameron Otto on Jul 28, 2009 20:17:23 GMT -5
Spy Shot takes a moment to imagine a rail system for the ball, both Oracle's four-bar system and Perceptor's two-bar one. As far as he can figure that wouldn't block his view much at all!
"I would not mind bars," he says.
He eyes the simulation center, and almost decides to hop out of the ball, scale down Perceptor, and go exploring immediately. However, he quickly realizes that would be counterproductive, given that he was here to practice inside the ball in the first place. Better to stay inside it for now. But that doesn't mean he can't explore better!
"Could you put me down?" he asks Perceptor, in the politest tone possible. He makes sure his transport is in second gear, as he would prefer not to crash into his companions again, as fun as flying through the air was.
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Post by Oracle on Jul 28, 2009 21:34:50 GMT -5
Oracle is apparently managing to be distracting with her idea, whoops? "Ah, the other two on top were more of just an thought toward safety. In case of emergency or power failure as mentioned, the pod won't go toppling off." Or floating off, if they manage to loose gravity some how.
At that point though, she's quite happy to abandon talk of alternate rail systems and habitrails to peer into the simulation room. Noting the placement of the consoles and screens she looks around a bit more. "So can you see in here from anywhere else? Like an observation room if you want to watch but the simulation run is maybe not something you want to be standing in? Or is it broadcast or recorded or something?" Seems like a reasonable question to her and nothing strange to be asking.
She nods at Perceptor's comment. "That's true, and since I don't think you really want to see any of the fliers attempting to find out if we can fly in the halls without hitting people, this will be a nice way to avert that problem too. I think that counts as a point for your pent up energy vs abuse argument." She grins slightly at the scientist as she moves further into the room to investigate, making sure to stay out of Spy Shot's way. Sounds like she might be dodging him otherwise, or sending him soaring through the air again.
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Post by Perceptor on Jul 30, 2009 18:28:27 GMT -5
"Absolutely, Spy Shot," Perceptor replies, crouching to set the transport pod on the floor.
"And yes, Oracle. Each of the large screens over the control panels displays that room," he replies, turning to stride over to the nearest panel and doorway. After punching in a few commands on the controls, the monitor over his head flickers to life with the image of a rather empty, bland looking room. Beside the control panel, the door swooshes open to reveal the same room, waiting empty and ready. With a few more keystrokes, both the image through the door, and the image on the screen changes.
A long, wide plain of silver-blue metal stretches out toward a brightly lit city of metallic spires and graceful lights that stab up into a wide, star strewn sky. Lights twinkle and blink at the tips of those spires, warning the fliers that flit from tower to tower across the sky, while, in the distance, vehicles race along the smooth metal plain.
Cybertron awaits.
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Post by Spy Shot 6/Cameron Otto on Jul 30, 2009 19:13:19 GMT -5
"Thank you," Spy Shot says, disengaging the transport's breaks and beginning to jog at a fairly sedate pace around Perceptor and Oracle's feet. After all, there isn't a huge amount to see in this particular room. The opening of the door does attract his attention, though, and he quickly rolls over to peer through it.
When the empty room suddenly becomes a delightful cityscape, he actually steps back slightly, uttering a surprised, "Oh!"
He quickly recovers from his startlement and rushes excitedly into the room. He thinks he'll like this simulation room very much indeed.
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Post by Oracle on Jul 30, 2009 20:06:09 GMT -5
Oh, hm. Well that didn't answer her question about recording, but this set up was going to make it hard to tell if someone was in here watching. Still, that was interesting and Oracle made her way over to get a better look at the control panel and screen again.
Rather quickly she wasn't interested in either the screen on the panel, as the door opened, and then the landscape inside the sim room changed. A brief look down to be sure she won't be kicking Spy Shot, nope he's beaten her to the door, and she makes her way over to peer into the room and out onto what she swears is Cybertron. After a moment she turns a slightly stunned look back at Perceptor. "You weren't kidding when you said versatile."
Stepping into the room she starts following after Spy Shot, looking around curiously.
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Post by Perceptor on Jul 30, 2009 20:49:05 GMT -5
Perceptor smiles as he observes their reactions, following along at a more sedate pace. The door swooshes shut behind him, and, quite suddenly, there is no longer any sense of a wall behind them and the three of them are simply standing upon an open plain of Cybertron. His own Cybertron, back before the war, before darkness marred the surface, when the energy was plentiful and everyone was free.
"Yes," he replies simply, smiling.
"To answer your earlier questions, it is possible to record the events taking place within the simulation by simply toggling the function at the panel. The display can even be broadcast to other portions of the ship, if you wish. However, as you can see," he explains, turning a full circle and gesturing around him, "it is not possible to tell who may or may not be observing what occurs once you are within the engaged simulation."
"If security is a concern, it is possible to lock the observation feature at the control panel."
"What you experience here is real, to a point. This is true virtual reality, and if you engage a combat simulation and take damage, you will feel the damage you take, and it will affect your systems - until you leave. It is still, after all, a simulation. However, the technology was designed to give the most realistic sensation possible during use."
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Post by Spy Shot 6/Cameron Otto on Jul 30, 2009 22:02:05 GMT -5
Spy Shot glances back as the door closes, boggling at the way it disappears. He knows exactly where the wall should be in reference to his current position, but he can't really see it, as though they stepped through some sort of one-way portal to another place. Though if he looks just right, he can almost make out the walls he knows are there, just a faint impression behind an image that seems much more solid at the moment. Trying too hard to do that makes his head hurt.
Looking from his companions to the city and back, he finds that the simulation doesn't look quite as... real as them, though he'd be hard pressed to say exactly why. Something slightly off on some frequency, maybe. However, that doesn't make the scenery any less impressive and it is a far better visual representation of something real than any two-dimensional or even three-dimensional projections he's seen before. Almost perfect!
And that doesn't even touch on the physical aspects!
"This is amazing," he says, sounding awed. He's referring equally to the particular simulation of Cybertron and the concept and execution of the simulation room in general.
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Post by Oracle on Jul 30, 2009 22:49:02 GMT -5
"So..how do we get back out?" That distinct lack of door is a bit unsettling actually, now that it's vanished. On the other hand, the fact it doesn't look like a wall was there at all makes her wonder.
Still following Spy Shot, Oracle engages her thrusters and takes to the air. The wall appears to be gone, and while she hasn't walked back to check that she can't resist the temptation to check and see if the ceiling is as apparently 'gone'. The worst she should end up with is a mildly painful thump as she ran into the invisible ceiling, which according to Perceptor wouldn't even effect her once she left. She stopped, hovering where it would be hard to have a conversation if she got much higher, and looked around. She thinks she should have run into the ceiling by now, if it was here. Huh.
Attention turned back down to her companions she started a series of looping circles so she didn't outpace them. "Do you think when we go to leave here, you could show me how to do all that?"
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Post by Perceptor on Jul 31, 2009 11:16:58 GMT -5
This should really boffle Spy Shot, then, as Perceptor casually strides back towards where the door should be, and where the wall was, and... just keeps right on walking, as if neither had ever been there. He pauses not far beyond, his point having been made, before turning back to join Spy Shot again.
"Simulation, access door, please."
Right where it had been, well to the fore of where Perceptor had been standing, the door flickers into being and opens up again. The rest of the simulation appears unchanged, and the ceiling does not appear to dash Oracle down out of the sky. The really fun thing will be if Spy Shot tries to go check the door out and circles around it. For one thing, he'll be able to. For another, as soon as he rolls past it, the door will simply vanish into the rest of the simulation like a mirage, until he circles back around to the front.
"You may also simply uplink with the computer to alter the program at any time. And I would be happy to show you both how to utilize the simulations, although the controls are designed to be rather self explanatory. Everyone should have equal access without needing to awaken an engineer in the wee hours when a pang of claustrophobia strikes."
He grins up at her then and waves his hands in na shooing motion. "There is no ceiling here, Oracle. Go. Spread your wings."
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Post by Spy Shot 6/Cameron Otto on Aug 3, 2009 21:52:54 GMT -5
Spy Shot is most definitely baffled by Perceptor's little show of the simulation room's apparently physics-defying capabilities. Thoroughly intrigued, he does rush over to check around the door before returning to Perceptor's side with only further mysteries cluttering his little head. It truly is like a one-way portal to another place! Except not quite.
Looking up at the scientist, he says, "I don't understand." He doesn't sound especially confused or at all troubled by this though. On the contrary, he sounds positively enthused. This spatial conundrum is more fun than an M.C. Escher painting! This might just beat out the Allspark compressing for interest, though not so much for awe-factor.
He watches Oracle in flight for a few moments, and is glad to hear that Perceptor is willing to teach both of them how to work the simulation room. He is quickly becoming enamored with this room and its potential, and feels the need to add, "I want to learn." Just in case Perceptor thinks he doesn't. Though, speaking of altering programs, Spy Shot has a thought...
"Can I take what is in my head and put it in here?" he asks, pointing a claw in turn to his head and then out at the room. By which he means memories, of course. He is a camera rather lacking in imagination.
He is also a camera with a fairly short attention span if you dangle something new and shiny in front of him. Practicing to use his transport better? What practicing?
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Post by Oracle on Aug 3, 2009 22:21:27 GMT -5
Oracle thinks the stand-alone door might possibly look even weirder from above. It's certainly unique in any case. Sheer curiosity prompts her next question. "So...if the door's there, and you walk through the space from the back since you can't see it...does it still not exist?" She swears she's not trying to ask existential questions. Really.
The info about being able to alter the simulation without leaving is also appreciated, and will probably come in useful at some point. So is the confirmation about there not being a ceiling with the simulation running. She'd guessed that, but it was still nice to actually hear it.
Spy Shot's reaction is amusing and rather well, cute. Such an odd personality matrix the little camera has. His question makes her curious too though. "Do you mean memories or pictures you took?" Oracle thinks it's a logical question, he is a camera after all. The idea of putting memories up, and not just programming constructs you remember creeps her out a little on the other hand.
Doing a slightly corkscrewed loop down closer to the ground, she grins at Perceptor. "Well I would spread my wings a bit more, but then I'd miss the conversation and explanations. I can fly more in a bit."
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Post by Perceptor on Aug 3, 2009 23:05:40 GMT -5
"Of course, Spy Shot. I will be happy to teach you both," perceptor replies. He pauses though, head tilting to one side as he considers something. "I may have to install a console specifically for you. Although, I did make certain that each console had a ladder built into the side for you, it occurs to me that you may prefer having controls sized specifically for your own dimensions."
"I will see to it as soon as possible."
Now the scientist grins up at Oracle and spouts off a long string of SCIENCE that roughly translates to, "There is no door until you approach it from the appropriate vector."
There is no spoon, Neo. Ahem.
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Post by Spy Shot 6/Cameron Otto on Aug 3, 2009 23:51:41 GMT -5
Spy Shot stares at Oracle as though she just asked him 'Do you mean feet or those things you walk with?' As far as he's concerned there's not a whole lot of difference, but he had meant memories in general so he answers, "I mean memories."
"I can use a human sized computer," he says in response to Perceptor. Realizing that this fact doesn't necessarily add anything to the matter at hand, he admits, "But human computers are smaller than your computers."
The SCIENCE gets a blank stare from the camera-bot. He has no idea what you just said, but he will quote it precisely back at people as though he knows exactly what he's talking about if someone ever asks. Silly Spy Shot, you can't learn science by rote.
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Post by Oracle on Aug 4, 2009 0:13:24 GMT -5
For a few moments Oracle attempts to understand the science, but quickly realizes it's going over her head. Mostly anyway, she thinks she maybe got the gist. "So ah, if I got that right it only exists on specific angle and approach, and any attempts to interact with it from another point are impossible?" Sorry Perceptor, but that was interesting enough she's willing to look like a bit of an idiot to make sure she got the idea right, even if it means spouting it right back at you in less Sciency words.
Judging from the expression on Spy Shot's face, that might not be the only stupid comment she's made lately either. Either something got lost in translation, or he 'takes pictures' of everything he sees? Hm, that would be interesting, and she supposes fitting for a camera.
The mental image of Spy Shot running around the console jumping on buttons to push them produces a snort of laughter. It would be funny, but not very efficient. "Well, at least he can use the ladders until you get a chance to put in another console?"
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Post by Perceptor on Aug 6, 2009 14:19:36 GMT -5
"Well, fortunately, for the time being, there are controls already designed for the Maximals and Micromasters," Perceptor explains. "But I shall work on a console for you specifically, Spy Shot."
Perceptor turns and simply admires the view of his Cybertron in its flush of life. "Not precisely, Oracle. Not impossible; you can override the system to allow you to access the doorway from any angle or vector. However, as a default, the system assumes that unless one is approaching from a certain angle or vector that one is simply utilizing the facility and not intending upon accessing the egress."
He turns back and grins at her. "Otherwise, yes. You are correct."
"Is there anything which either of you would like to see in the environment at the moment?"
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