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Trevor Belmont ([personal profile] doesitanyway) wrote in [community profile] meadowlark2020-01-01 07:13 pm

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Greetings, fellow Displaced. I'm Trevor Belmont, and I have a slightly different type of inquiry than the sort I've been seeing 'posted' on here so far.

I haven't found a library or similar resource, and am struggling with learning relevant information using the network alone. Not facts about our situation, but about this strange future we've found ourselves in. Most people here seem to be from far further along than I am, enough to work the facilities and use a very different vocabulary to mine... I suppose I'm wondering if anyone has the time and inclination to be a tutor, of sorts? Just to explain some of this technology and catch me up on relevant terms and events from the past millennium or so, hopefully enough that I can stop turning every conversation I have into a game of a thousand questions. Folks have been fairly understanding, but it's not ideal.

My only request is that anyone who responds not treat me as a fool or a child. I'm fresh out of the past, not a crib.

I've no way to pay you, yet, but hopefully we can work something out. And I do thank you in advance for your consideration.
unlucky7: (STATUS :: Neutral - Observing)

[personal profile] unlucky7 2020-01-07 12:49 am (UTC)(link)
In my world, there are still physical screens like this. People still use handheld devices to communicate, it's not all...

[She smiles a little ruefully and taps her head. Yes, it's useful. It's made multitasking much easier. But Ginia misses the physicality of a TV screen or even having headphones on. There's something about holding something sometimes that makes it feel a bit more meaningful.

Ginia pulls up one of the many wikipedia-like databases on the external screen and sends the link to Trevor so he can access it.]


All you need to do is insert a word or phrase here. If there's information in the archive, it'll pull it up.

[As an example, Ginia pulls up the main page for cats and scrolls through it.]

Notice all the links leading to other pages? It's a good way to learn all additional topics around a subject, but it can also get distracting.

[Be careful when diving down wikipedia holes. It's truly a time suck.]
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[personal profile] requiemshark 2020-01-07 12:54 am (UTC)(link)
Just about anything that's not concussive, or using excessive heat.

[ It's a hell of a tool, but there are ways around it. Sharkface nods, remembering. ]

The shield will hold up against just about anything. Swallowed a shot from a fifty calibre rifle like it was nothing. That's a bullet this size.

[ He holds up his fingers to demonstrate. ]

Shot like that would've blown someone's head clean off if they weren't wearing armor. Fucked up their day even if they were. Shield can take it just fine, but if you don't brace right it'll knock you off balance.

[ And nothing good ever happens when you get knocked to the ground. ]
inherited: (noctis is a dumb name anyway.)

[personal profile] inherited 2020-01-07 01:39 am (UTC)(link)
No problem. With everything that happens to us, "going at our own pace" is kinda how these things go.

Welcome aboard.
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[personal profile] kleptocratic 2020-01-07 02:30 am (UTC)(link)
I have no idea.
lighthearted: arm up, unsure, embarrassed (my sanctuary)

[personal profile] lighthearted 2020-01-07 04:35 am (UTC)(link)
You just have to think about what you want and it happens, basically! Pretty straightforward.

I'm not that great with technology either, honestly. I'm from an island and things were pretty simple there, I guess. So if I can figure it out, I'm sure you can too!

I guess this is my way of saying that I'm probably not the best choice for a tutor, but I'm cheering you on anyway.
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[personal profile] sestra 2020-01-08 05:16 am (UTC)(link)
i thought mine was being big difference. that is big technology jump.

what year are you from trevor belmont?
variate: (Is it a dragonball?)

[personal profile] variate 2020-01-08 09:05 pm (UTC)(link)
Big scissors and some tech. Most of the gardens that are overgrown are on high rises, so you get a good view.
If something comes up I'm happy to help.

You'll have to show me what you can do to keep away monsters. It could be useful.
variate: (Or six doritos.)

[personal profile] variate 2020-01-21 12:56 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, sure.

I've fought before.
Not demons, but something like them.


[ he wonders if Shadows could be considered like demons? huh. ]

I've spent more time here fighting other people than monsters, but there are monsters too.
A really big one, once. Like Godzilla.
requiemshark: (030)

[personal profile] requiemshark 2020-01-21 01:09 am (UTC)(link)
[ He shrugs. Takes another drink. ]

It gets ugly. But it can get ugly when people go at each other with knives, too.

[ These days he's fairly convinced that it's human nature for people to go at each other with as much brutality as they can muster. Just how it goes. ]

The scale changed, though. I think that's the big difference from your time. If I had a good rifle, I could kill a man a thousand feet away. If I had a missile, I could do it from a different planet.
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[personal profile] requiemshark 2020-01-21 01:31 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah.

[ Happened a lot. Sharkface watches Trevor for a moment, wondering which part of that is throwing him. ]

Yeah, it has.
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[personal profile] requiemshark 2020-01-21 01:45 am (UTC)(link)
[ That's a hell of a question. Sharkface leans back, turning it over in his head. ]

To destroy fortifications. Bring down a ship or decimate an enemy's numbers. Or sometimes just to kill as many people as possible. Level a city if it's pissed you off.

[ It's impossible not to think of planet killers, and the one he handed over to Felix. Why not? he'd thought. Why the fuck not? Chorus was going to fall. It felt inevitable and he hadn't cared, so long as he could find Carolina and Washington before the end and tear them apart. Even if he just took Carolina with him, it would have been enough.

And yet. He remembers landing on Glassed out planets, the way they had seemed to shimmer from the air. The smell of it. Like pure ozone.

He twitches. Tightens his grip on his drink and does not go there. ]


Modern technology.
unlucky7: (STATUS :: Your funeral)

[personal profile] unlucky7 2020-01-21 02:01 am (UTC)(link)
[There's a summary of primary events in the year 1476 with a longer list of bulletpoints below. While there's a mention of "Vlad the Impaler declares himself reigning Prince of Wallachia" and links to more information, the existence of vampires is relegated to fiction.

And plenty of conspiracy theories, but that's life.

Ginia glances over to see what he searches.]


Wow, 1476, that's far back. Explains a lot.
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[personal profile] requiemshark 2020-01-21 02:03 am (UTC)(link)
Then you're better than all of the commanders I served under.

[ There was only one worth following in the entire goddamn universe and his name had been Hunter. But he'd died in the desert, he'd died with Connie's name and Connie's armor, and he did that alone because his one remaining soldier hadn't been able to walk on his own. Couldn't keep up and so he'd been left behind, to live while his brother died. And now there's no one left but him. Sharkface hates himself for that.

Evil, Trevor calls it, and Sharkface nods. Evil.

Yeah. He was. ]


I don't want to talk about this. [ He finishes his drink with a grimace, wishing it would kick in faster. ] C'mon, ask me something else.

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