Echo-In-Training Score Card: Improvement needed, but ambition high. … possibly too high.
All in all, that's just a few more bricks for the wall.
Echo-In-Training Score Card: Improvement needed, but ambition high. … possibly too high.
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Man, when we started this tale, back with vomit-fish in the orphanage, there wasn’t the slightest way to expect where it would ultimately take us.
May we have many more years to watch our Selkie grow ^.^
*glow
Sorry if this has been touched on before, but how many Sarnothi languages are there? Scar’s speech patterns suggest he’s new to Pohl’s language (or dialect).
The absence of angle brackets implies they’re speaking English.
I waffled on if I should use the angle brackets or not, since there’s no english being spoken in this scene that would require differentiating between it and the tensei. But reading this I think perhaps I should add them in for clarity’s sake.
They are speaking tensei here, not english. And VileTerror is correct below, Scar’s speech patterns are caused by imperfections in the voice collar.
Ah, so they’re not because the brain injury gave him a little bit of processing difficulty? Because that was my guess.
The speech device also may be causing some of the issues.
poor scar, having to inquire about his own kid so carefully, less someone learns she *is* his daughter……also, i´m kinda worried. if even pohl says they´ll need selkie´s echo powers SOON, i don´t want to see how pushy gien will get to get his claws on her
heh Echo and the bunnyman… falls off chair laughing…
We don’t need no education
We don’t need no thought control
No dark sarcasm in the classroom
No sarcasm? Hey what would Selkie be without sarcasm? Leave THAT kid alone.
I’m a little curious about the Echoes, moreso than before, now. Specifically- is what they’re doing really supernatural or magitech? Especially since it appears to be genetic. I’m curious if it’s actually ‘just’ a highly advanced specialization of echolocation? The ability to manipulate sound waves to an extent that they can set up specific harmonic resonance patterns in 3 dimensions in order to manipulate matter- And if they can manage to get those resonances energetic enough (via feedback loops and the like) they could potentially do things like what we see here- imbuing heat into a very specific location without allowing it to transfer away- focusing energy in order to cook, cure, or encourage specific chemical reactions.
This could also explain the glow- a sort of background energizing of particles in Sarnothi organs and their environments that excites electrons in the green range.
Would also explain why they’re called Echoes.
It’s “magic” in the sense that it would not be possible in the real world, but calling it science-fiction might be more accurate as the story so far treats it as something natural that can be explained, rather than strictly supernatural within it’s own setting.
Why are they working alone? You’d think they would at least have some non-echo assistance moving things, laying out stuff, and generally helping. I know that Echotecture is likely a fairly refined thing, but they’re accepting a huge number of refugees here — there should be all hands on deck to expedite this construction.
My guess is the bottleneck is converting silt and sand into building blocks, which requires an echo. Throwing more hands at it won’t solve the material shortage issue.
“Baby steps” & “Crawling”…
This feels like the sort of metaphor that would be rather different for a species whose infants have no legs, and float through water rather than crawl along anything.
Hmm. Yeah, most likely that’d be the case. I just opted to use the known-phrase rather than add an interpretation layer by altering the phrasing.
Oh, figure something out. Worldbuilding is fun ^.^
Wiggling? Diving? Shallows? Bubbles? I’m sure there’s something that’ll give the general idea.
Shallows actually sounds like it might be workable, if the kids are kept there until they can safely navigate deeper water. Like “Stick to the shallows, right?” “Not even out of the [tank] yet!”
Since their young HAVE no legs to start with, I totally thought it was natural for them to use such phraseology.
I wonder what selkie will think of her pater
Yes, child labor will totally be cool with Todd. -__- Like no, no, no. Let’s not use Selkie for land development.
This doesn’t even look like something a bunch of humans with machinery couldn’t accomplish on their own anyway, yet.
Wonder how difficult it would be to make water-resistant, comparatively lightweight structures on land that could be tipped into the lake and arranged by the Sarnothi however they like?
Just remember that the *Romans* were using a type of concrete that hardened under water. Pretty sure we have stuff that can do the same that could be used to make structures.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_concrete
Yeah, short term, very good with the hydraulic cement/concrete, but it lets out a lot of chemicals that may-be corrosive (caustic) to gill tissue.