0000FF makes a happy Jetson's car type noise.
Kalki_Avatara bows to the blue drone. "Apologies for the counter-understanding. May I ask where your operator connects from?"
A thin wisp of smoke remains in the air.
0000FF says, "My opperator is currently vacationing in a place called tapestries."
Kalki_Avatara chuckles. "Ahh, the woven universe. Say hello to the Spinstress for me. She does make some excellent fabrics!"
shinsei scratches her head. "You /know/ these places?"
Camilla has arrived. Camilla touches the gray transit mirror and vanishes.
You say, "I was in the Weaver's universe briefly, as a visit. I believe it was misguided on my part, though, in that what I was seeking without really knowing it was this realm. So of course in the course of the last Brahma reboot, it was the 'Box that emerged. "
shinsei blinks, reeling slightly. "I'm lost."
0000FF appears to blink with its lense-eyes. "My records do not show any evedence of "Brama" ever having rebooted"
Volarian settles quietly on the floor, pale yellow and steady of flame.
Kalki_Avatara chuckles. "Do your records extend only to this Yuga, hm? We are in the Satya Yuga, emobodied by enlightenment and spiritual splendor. I have performed my destruction of the Kali Yuga cycle many thousands of times before."
0000FF trys to confirm this statement but cannot read atmanic signatures without a special plugin that its operator did not request.
Volarian doesn't appear to care whether she's interrupting; "Where are you when there isn't a universe, then?"
shinsei blinks.
Kalki_Avatara gives a cryptic smile. "In the Mind of Brahma. At least, that used to be so. I'm afraid I may have destroyed Him accidentally...."
shinsei scratches her head. "I am /so/ lost."
Kalki_Avatara points a finger languidly to shinsei. "You Are Here. There, that wasn't hard, was it?"
shinsei raises her eyebrow. "My /brother/ would say that I'm no-where."
0000FF lights up a display pannel on its side and shows shinsei an eighteen dimentional coordinate system with a dot labled "Shinsei, you are here"
You say, "He would be just as correct. Nowhere cannot be defined through one's own perception. Thus it is everywhere. "
shinsei begins, "He'd argue that that display is just a display, therefore cannot be accurate. It is a symbol, and not a real thing. And WHY am I talking like my brother?"
0000FF says, "You would be impressed how much processing power it takes to render 18 dimentions to be viewed in 2"
0000FF pouts
Volarian flares into a column of sparks, for the length of a few seconds. Some drift downwards again and are reincorporated onto the mass of flame. "From what you say, the lack of Brahma - whoever He is - could be important at some point. Will it?"
0000FF begins printing out a stock ticker tracking the interglobal beef industry...
Serelix has disconnected.
Kalki_Avatara tilts his head to Volarian. "It is not my place to comment on future events, but it might! He has been missing ever since this new Puzzlebox Yuga came into existence. That is to say, the last universe cycle, Bhrama had self-manifested the universe it inhabited. I destroyed that one as I always do at the end of the Kali Yuga, and with it went the moonsized mainframe Brahma had been running itself...and the universe, on. Not surprisingly, what resulted was a big Mess."
shinsei resists the urge to facepalm.
0000FF lights up a red LED between and above two of its larger camera eyes
Kalki_Avatara reaches over to the blue drone's display screen, fingertips slipping just /inside/ the screen. He tugs, and the 2D diagram floats itself loose to blossom into three or more dimensions in the air, rotating. It still shows the blinking indicator where shinsei is, but inside a tangle of lines and masses.
Volarian fades orangewards, "Not entirely unexpected from that scenario.."
shinsei sighs and shakes her head.
Kalki_Avatara smiles. "I don't pretend that I always speak the truth, mind. This is as I perceive it to me, which makes it true."
shinsei twitches briefly. "Rrrk. Defaulting to basic male instincts!" She points at the pink mirror and half-screams, mostly just faux-wailing in confusion and a vague attempt to be humourous. "Beer and bitches, yo!"
Volarian gestures to shinsei with a detail-hand and seems about to speak, then turns to faint indigo for just a moment, flickers, and to orange again. looks like she finally noticed the joke.
Volarian crackles, "So noted. Probably as true as it's going to get so long as one can still think about it."
shinsei touches the pink transit mirror and vanishes.
0000FF changes its now multi-dimentional display from a diagram of where shinsei to a game of minesweeper
Kalki_Avatara claps his hands. "Ahhh, one of my favorite games." He taps at the suspended display of minesweeping with a finger, adding flags on some squares, and revealing empty ones. There is, oddly enough, a boat making its way among the empty squares.
0000FF is impressed with the profissency with which Kaiki sweeps mines. "What is that boat doing?"
You say, "Foolishly venturing into hostile territory before the fearless all-seeing mine-flaggers can decipher the mysterious numerals imprinted upon the sea, looks like. "
0000FF punctuates Kalki's statement with an explosion as the boat touches a mine
Kalki_Avatara throws his hands up. "Oh dear!" There is another few explosions as the mines set each other off. He touches the floating virtual display. "Hope there's survivors!" The display zooms into a flat gridded sea, with a few giant numerals nearby. There are a few feebly wiggling black specks moored on a giant 4.
0000FF says, "there they are, but I'm affraid they are in dire strates"
Sel has arrived.
0000FF waves antennae
Kalki_Avatara plucks one of the specks from the numeral, and sets it down outside the display. It's suddenly bigger as a result, and turns out to be a tall dark feline. He addresses the feline. "You sir! What were you doing sailing into a giant grid of uncleared gray blocks? "
Sel smiles and bows his head. "Good evening everyone. "
0000FF did not think its display was rated for that sort of thing, but is impresesd to find out the hidden easteregg.
Kalki_Avatara bows to Sel. "Greetings, Sel. Would you sail a boat into a field of grey blocks before the giant hand of GodUser set flags on all the mines?" He prods the black feline. "Would /you/?"
0000FF tisks at the black feline, having never piloted a boat however it is difficult to fault the feline too much... the drone is sure it is stressful work.
The feline sputters, still wet. He protests, "The blue squares looked clear! And I thought you'd flagged everything already!" He droops. "My poor boat! I spent three hundred thousand pixels on it!"
Volarian's spectrum cycles up to a harsh white when she notices Sel, then back down.
Sel flicks his ear looking to the curious thing and bows his head to Kalki. "Greetings Avatar of Kalki or something to that equilivent." He bows his head then turns to Volarian, bowing his head once more. "Greetings."
0000FF records volarians harsh white flame and beins playing it on a loop in its display
The feline is spooked by the flashing flame on the display. "Oh no, you burned the world!" It runs off into one of the magic mirrors and vanishes.
0000FF bleeps and trys to appologise, but its too late. "Do you think he will be able to survive at this resolution?"
Kalki_Avatara chuckles. "Well, so much for that game." He idly fools with a tiny boat model in his hands, then snaps it in two.
Kalki_Avatara raises an eyeridge. "If you can survive at this resoulution, then he can."