Musings of a timelord’s daughter: Time…

Time is a unique thing.  One moment, it can’t pass fast enough, the next, you wish you had more.  You cannot see time, but you know when it’s gone.  You can’t feel time, but you can fear it’s approach.  Without contact, it can tear the world asunder, or facilitate it’s healing.

People dream of travelling through time… but why?  Is it to skip the boring parts and get to the really nitty-gritty stuff?  To go back and fix something we werent able to get right the first time?  Ahh, thats the mark… to fix what we messed up the first time.  The real question is, are we living the world that is the product of a flawed timeline or one of a fixed timeline, whereas the reality of it is we were destined for something so much worse?

If given the opportunity to travel back, would you tamper with that first love, that first kiss?  Would you go back, risking it’s very existance, just to witness it again?  Then to see it afar, never to experience it again.  Be jealous of yourself witnessing this person enjoying what to you is only memory. Be angry watching this person make the same mistakes you made so long ago, unable to teach them the ‘right’ way in fear of eliminiating the moment you, yourself, learned the ‘right’ way. 

The worst perils of time travel are sometimes the most compelling.

-Tensai Hilra

Tell me your thoughts on timetravel, or your memories

I thought islands were supposed to be relaxing…

Ahh… Margurita’s and sea-gulls… the cool, ocean breeze…  Sailboats….

Okay, we got the boats…

FINALLY Steelhead Port Harbor is HERE!  TotalLunar Eclipse and I have spent the good part of our week terraforming, cutting, primping, prodding, programming and swearing at Steelhead’s new island.  The Result: WOW.

THE single most intense sim setup ever… Beautiful docks made by our favorite elf, TotalLunar Eclipse, with a new distinct Maritime Steampunk-Gaslamp feel.  I’ve kept myself occupied getting all the rental-poles up to par, and working on a new Boat-Ferry!  Amazing little gadget, this ferry will be able to take you from Port Harbor to any of the three docks, to Harborside, and to Steelhead Main!  Also planned is a ‘tour’ mode that will be a leisurely jaunt around the sims with detailed info on landmarks and history.  I was looking at the code, and we may even get an airship ride out of this!

Alot of work (10+hours so far just programming the poles) but worth it and I hope you think so too… then I can get back to my narrative on what happened with Dogg food and all that money!

We should be opening the floodgates later today (Dec 1) to habitation, though tweaking and programming may take weeks.  This all rests on the pay-poles cooperating as they have been (knock on wood texture).

/me eyes the margurita… “soon.  soon.”

/dogg eyes the margurita… “hoboy…”

Memories of the future

We join our regularly scheduled blog, already in progress… Viewer discretion is advised.

*CRASH*

“Oh, that’s not good”, said Tensai as she slowly crept up from behind the toppled cabinet. She timidly approached the ball of molten circuitry that once represented her life savings worth of hardware.

“That won’t do at all.”

What once was the pinnacle of technology, a machine of un-fathomable complexity lay…er smolder in ruins.

“Well Dogg, looks like we need to start over.” said Tensai to her cat that just got done prying her claws from the ceiling tiles.

“What was your first clue?” snipped Dogg’s synthesis collar.

“Look kitty, I didn’t give you that device so you could be smart with me.”

The collar crackled, “No, you gave it to me because you mutated my brain into super genius levels, and forgot to advance my physiology.”

Tensai looked over in one of those, ‘if you weren’t so valuable…’ looks. “Yes yes, this was supposed to help that…but well, something went wrong.”

“Don’t look at me; I’m just your cat.” Just then, Dogg looked up and winced. “Oh, there it is.”

Tensai, sifting through the wreckage held up a small, badly charred stuffed mouse. “Oh, there it is?! That’s what you have to say?! I find this jammed in the vent hole of a destroyed multi-trillion dollar time dilation device, and you say, ‘oh, there it is’!”

“Um, sorry?” chirped Dog’s collar, just before she ran from room, avoiding the debris and smoking mouse ruminants being hurled at her.

Tensai slumped to the floor. She stared at the carbon stained tiles as she remembered the difficulty getting the funding for this, the third attempt at a time dilator.

Just then, the control console lit up and announced, “*Bing* September 15th, 3508, 3pm, meet with finance committee with current progress *Bing*”

“Oh, crap”

Will she successfully Warp Spacetime to her whim? Will she fess up that her cat torched several trillion in hardware? Will she ever clean up this mess?! Join us Next time when Tensai faces her worst enemy yet… The Committee!

Who am I?

“… do you smell smoke?”, Tensai said sniffing the air.

“Yea, you just blew up your lab again didn’t you?”, smirked Lunar.

“No, not that, I mean real smoke… Oh… that would do it”, said Tensai looking out the window to the street below, where a mob had formed.  “The torches are a nice touch… pardon, I beleive they want to talk to me.”

Watching Tensai head downstairs, Lunar sighed, “Great, what do I have to replace now?”

*SLAM* *SLAM* *SLAM* “WE KNOW YOUR IN THERE!”, Roared the croud.

Tensai threw the door open wide, startling the front most of the group, and with a smile asked, “Hello, Is there something I can do for you?”

Taken aback, the tallest one in the front scooted forward, mostly because he was shoved by the shorter one behind him.  Nervously, he replied, “um.. well Me and a few of the locals were concerned…”

The group behind him sheepishly sputed murmurs of ‘yea’ and ‘we ought to know’.

He continued, gaining some confidence from the thin show of support, “uh, some of us are concerned that you might be… um… ‘dangerous’ to our town, and um, would like to know why you are here.” He trailed off like a schoolkid worried the teacher was about to smack him.

Tensai smiled broadly, in one of those smiles a cat gets before they strike, “Well, why didn’t you ask earlier?”

–Tune in again, Tensai will explain the fantastic science of time travel, and the financing required to do it! (and what they do if you don’t pay up!)