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 Posted: Wed Oct 12, 2016 6:51 pm
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Polair was feeling nervous as she walked through the sandy dunes. Not because she went all the way to Chittentown but because she somehow managed to do so without Claud tagging along. Really, she was older now, she could handle herself on her own. The blind highblood breathed in and out, trying her best to calm herself down. It had been quite some time since she molded that precious sonic metal she'd found in Busthind into lovely, gold-coated cuffs. So she took this situation to test them out while she set out to find an old acquaintance.
Or a friend? Really Polair was unsure about her relationship with Cerpin but, they were going to be partners. "If he's still alive and well." She shrugged, hopefully he was still around. She was glad she didn't throw away his card, and more glad that her reading device could read off the text on it.
Determined to find the other purpleblood, it was time to do a test run. Echolocation was a way for her to walk around without using her cane and she was looking forward to that. Putting on her anklets and bracelets, plus putting away the other jewelry, Polair got ready to test them out. She took a deep breath and extended her arms forward. She could her the artifacts chime as soon as she threw echos at the scene before her. Polair braced herself as the echoes came back to her and gasped as a painful wave reverberated inside her body. Too much information traveled from her limbs to her spinal cord and up the her brain stem, but she could see... she could see the sound waves. She could see the sound particles shaped as objects. That cactus on her right, a tumbleweed waiting for the wind to take it away... a skyscraper of some sort far, far away. As much as she was pleased with the amount of information she received, Polair decided to take it slow for now. She didn't want to fry her thinkpan.
Breathing deeply, and repeating the address a few times, Polair tired once more-- one pulse should be enough. She extended her right arm and send out a small pulse which quickly came back and soon after, she picked up the pace. Somehow, she stumbled (literally stumbled) into a storage space below Chittentown and as she walked and her artifacts vibrated against her skin thanks to the echoes inside, she could faintly see the way she was taking without activating them. "Note to self, the metal appears to be highly sensitive to sound. Don't test them in busy cities yet."
The image was faint, but it was better than seeing nothing at all. Still, something weird was going on... While Polair pondered the way she should took, she heard some sounds which her bracelets picked up in no time. She saw the sounds waves traveling through the air, all coming from a specific direction. It was intriguing, very intriguing. Even more when she experienced synaesthesia, which blends others senses together. She could see colors within the melodic atoms, compactly surrounded by purple waves.
Polair's curiosity ate her bit by bit, making her follow the faint purple-colored path... Where would it take her? She didn't know, yet she'd would find out soon.
Doutei i wanted to try out blind polair ehe SWEATS
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Posted: Tue Dec 06, 2016 2:13 am
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Seated at a large work table, the other occupant of the shared hive continued to work. Papers were spread across the surface, notes scribbled into every piece of white space. Regurgitating everything she'd learned at the Chittentown Research Center, Tevini was hard at work recording everything she could remember. It'd taken a little time but she was beginning to feel satisfied with what she'd gotten down. Perhaps now she could start figuring out how to make a smaller scale model of her current plans for the spaceship.
'What's that?' Cerpin's singing was beautiful, as always, but her ears picked up on an odd sound mixed in. Pausing her work, the girl glanced over to her roommate and saw him simply strumming his guitar. None of his movements matched the timing nor type of sound she was hearing. Odd...
"Cerpin, stop. Do you hear that?" Rising from her seat, the redblood began to feel anxious. Listening once more, she discerned that it sounded like metal. Which didn't normally just occur around here in the desert. That meant someone had to be outside. Had they finally been discovered? Scared, she snagged her nailgun off the table and peeked outside, wanting to make a quick assessment of their options, based on what was out there.
A seadweller? Her bilesack froze.
"What is a seadweller doing out here?"
Yamashii sorry to make you post again, i really wanted to bring polair inside in my post but realized wait a minute, tevini would be terrified by a random seadweller hanging around outside
ImaginationsParadise we'll get you inside soon, polair! <3
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Posted: Tue Dec 06, 2016 3:16 am
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"What is a seadweller doing out here?"
TWANG.
"WHAT?" Cerpin's entire posture jolted at those words. Tevini sure had a way of making everything sound as serious and dangerous as ******** possible. Shifting his guitar onto the couch, he rose to his feet and grabbed at his sword. If there really was a seadweller sniffing around outside, he knew it was his responsibility to deal with it. Tevini was his engineer, he could not allow her to get hurt. Rocket production kind of trumped anything he could do.
"Stand back." He nudged the redblood aside, making sure she was behind him. Tevini was not as fragile as she thought, in his opinion, but he'd found that putting himself between her and her perceived enemies helped with her anxieties. And for a dear friend that was conveniently doing all the accounting for his nightclub, he was more than happy to play bodyguard.
He was not prepared for who he saw outside through the crack in the doorway.
"Polair? You came!" It was the girl he'd met on the magical night of the meteor shower. He'd mentioned the encounter to Tevini before but the seadweller hadn't made an appearance down here until now. He wasn't sure what had held her up but it didn't matter. Finally his navigator and engineer would meet!
"Vee, this is the girl I was telling you about. Polair, meet Tevini Euruft. She's the one building our rocket!" He placed a hand on the highblood's back, guiding her inside. Loitering out in the tunnels was only asking for trouble in case someone overheard them. Nightclub business was okay to discuss out there but the future of the Rebellion's space program wasn't.
"You scared us with that clinking thing you were doing. We thought you were a drone or something!" He laughed, clearly relieved that they hadn't been discovered by a drone. Why he would be concerned about such a thing, he didn't talk about.
"I guess you're here to talk shop? Or did you want to see the club first?"
ImaginationsParadise They don't know about her blindness yet, I figured I'd give Polair the dignity to keep it hidden for a few posts since they wouldn't figure it out right away.
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Posted: Fri Jun 23, 2017 12:32 pm
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Posted: Mon Jun 26, 2017 11:52 am
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Oh glub.
"W-well!" She said rather embarrassed. "I'm aiming to become one." Polair did her best to act like she was admiring the model ship in her hands. She let her braces send out a few waves as her hands explored it. More or less she could determine the same, but its details? No. Which was the important factor here. Sure, the shape of the ship mattered, but it was the small things that would determine if they would survive the trip. Same thing happened with the scroll. Sure she could "see" where the paper was but... not its contents.
Not being able to see what was written and modeled pissed her off. Not being able to contribute pissed her off so much. The seadweller had to do something, anything. She had to talk.
"Uh." The purpleblood say dumbfounded. "I suggest, double checking your , um, work on the engine. Remember a ship has to have strong engine and there are many different methods to get it up into space. Each method has drawbacks and advantages, and spacecraft propulsion is an active area of research. Have you thought of the orbit it would take? A parabolic trajectory seem promising but we would need to check other variables to guarantee it's success. Spacecraft science do count with a series of short-term trajectory adjustments." That seemed believable right?
'Nevertheless, it looks good to me."
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Posted: Fri Jun 30, 2017 2:31 pm
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Posted: Tue Jul 04, 2017 8:41 pm
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Holey-moley... Polair breathed out as Tevini's curls brushed against her arm, keeping her act together and trying not to step back rather rudely. It seemed that the other girl was looking for the "flaw". But what flaw could a blind seadweller even see? She somehow had to keep it up. They couldn't know, they would simply ask her to leave as she'd only weigh them down... She'd only keep them away from going into space. "More specific?" She asked redundantly.
"Well. Uh." She was at loss with her words. Draw her suggestion? Tevini wanted her to DRAW her suggestion? Oh glub. "No, no, no... That won't be necessary. Maybe I'll look at it later and add my notes on the back." The purpleblood held her breath some trying to come up with a way to convince these two.
"I can see just fine. Believe it or not." She reassured rather sternly, fist and jaw clenched as she said this. "Actually, give me that pencil." Polair took it in her hand and stepped closer, drawing her magnificent model engine. Of course, it would've looked ten times better if she could see. "Like I said. I can see." She dropped the pencil on the desk (presumably) and crossed her arms.
"Maybe we should move on to something else--" Her sentence was cut short when she felt someone getting too close to her. That's when she lost whatever ounce of reason she had and replacing it with a cup full of anxiety. This was not supposed to happen, she had everything thought out!
"NO!" She yelled, pushing Cerpin away from her. No, no, no! No one could see the truth. "DON'T. TOUCH. ME." Polair felt a sudden surge of overwhelming anxiety and fear. The seadweller felt like the room started spinning and felt very nauseous. Her whole body was shaking, she couldn’t catch her breath, and her heart was pounding out of her chest. She gripped on the desk, feeling cornered as she tried to get her s**t together.
What Polair didn't notice that he had manage to part her hair some with the pin, revealing her face a bit. "I-I'm fine. I..." She held her head trying to calm herself down. "I just have a headache..."
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Posted: Wed Jul 05, 2017 4:04 pm
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Posted: Thu Jul 06, 2017 4:20 pm
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DON'T LOOK AT ME!
Both Tevini's question and Cerpin's statement made her more nervous. Polair couldn't stop shaking, hyperventilating as she found herself cornered in this situation. The seadweller struggled to get away, to hide her shameful face and tried to deny the fact that she was blind. But the other purpleblood had a strong grip on her, and in this state, Polair found herself drained. "NOTHING'S WRONG WITH ME. NOTHING." She cried out, trying to avoid having her face examined.
Not blind, I'm not blind. There's nothing wrong. She mentally repeatedly. The lack of sleep, the amount of responsibilities she had put on herself to stop thinking about her condition... Isolating herself for a while because she thought a certain someone couldn't see her due to being blind, the constant lies-- all that washed over her. Memories of the space race resurfaced. How it was her the cause of her blindness. She could remember it crystal clear. The chemical leak warning blaring in the Civisect science dome, her obsessive need to help out, to prove that she was the smartest troll despite her age back then, her need to know what was the function of the button she pressed... The pressure hidden inside the pipelines that forced some of the leaks through the cracks the lasers, which she activated, made. How the dense substance fell on her, leaving first degree burns on her skin.
How it destroyed her optical tissues...
"It was me..." She said in a quiet tone. "I did this to myself." The highblood choked out. She was the cause of it all. It was Polair's fault, the was no way around it. "I-I... I got exposed to chemicals d-during the space race and..."
With shoulders slumped Polair stopped resisting, her lower lip quivered as tears rolled down her her cheeks as she could still remember the sting. It was true, she was worried she'd get rejected by the pair. She was a burden, she'd keep them away from their common goal. She nodded solemnly, body still shaking a bit as she kept trying to hide her exposed face. It was nice to hear she wouldn't get kicked out but still felt responsible for slowing down their project.
"I'm so s-sorry... " Polair breathed in, trying to put her thoughts together. "I have wasted your time with this... I'm sorry for lying..." It was just too much for her.
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