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Who: Jasmine and visitors; 80H on her lonesome
When: Day 14 late morning/afternoon
Where: Jasmine car or outside

A

[After settling some matters in the public lounge, 80H returns to the Jasmine car and seeks out anyone on her team. Her manner and bearing are proper and formal to the point of stiffness, though she might relax microscopically if you're like, Coral.

Her hair is down from its usual bun, and is instead in a romantic French braid.]

Pardon me. I am certain you are busy, but if you would permit me a moment of your time, I would be grateful. If you would rather not, that is acceptable, as well.

B

[80H is outside the Aurora and can be found doing a number of things. She is at the beach, letting the waves wash over her feet. The bottoms of her skirts get damp, but she does not seem to mind it at all.

Or perhaps you see her venturing onward into the forest, either moving deeper or hanging thereabouts, picking all kinds of flowers or interesting plants. In either case, she looks up at the sky for a long moment, wondering aloud. She may be difficult to recognise or unrecognisable at all, because she is dress entirely in black, wearing thigh high, strappy stockings and matching boots, a black dress with white embellishments, sheer accents and cutouts, and a blindfold over her eyes, tied to the side of her head in a bow.

it's nier, ok she's in yorha uniform.]

...Hm. Perhaps it would be possible.

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[ohey, someone else is out here, she wasn't expecting that.]

Good day to you, Miss Eliza. I was simply pondering whether an upgrade would be feasible or not.

Hi! An upgrade for what? The train?

No. Myself. Something to aid in surveying stars.

For navigation? Or just for fun?

Navigation.

[what the fuck is fun.]

I am not arguing against the merit of ground exploration as well, but supplementing with air support would be prudent. For that and other reasons.

But that would mean exploring at night, wouldn't it? That seems risky.

Unless there is anything truly prohibitive, I do not much care.

Isn't the goal to be prudent?

Yes, but to that effect, information be incomplete so it is worth some risk.

It really doesn't seem like it is, to me. But I think exploring is a folly to start with, so.

I want to know more about the places we are meant to be saving.

There's safer ways to do that though, is the thing. You could even do that without leaving the train, since we're supposed to be saving each other's worlds, too.

[not really trying to dissuade her, already distracted by the hypotheticals of how and what research is most plausible]

[safe is boring tho]

Remaining inside, indefinitely, does not interest me. Besides. It is very small.

I didn't say indefinitely. I mostly just said don't go into corrupted areas at night.

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My apologies for misunderstanding you then, Miss Eliza. At any rate, I have little interest in acting so reckless.

[

probably.]

Oh, well, yeah, the main thing really is just be careful.

What are you doing, though?

[THAT SURE LOOKS FAMILIAR.]

[perks up, holding up one of the wrapped ribs for inspection]

Prepwork! I'm getting this set papered so I can write on them, so then I can put some extra seals on when I try to summon one of these.

[She inspects the skeleton closely, which is odd because she is blindfolded so, you know, but she cants her head in Eliza's direction after a few moments, wondering.]

What sorts of seals?

[Amane is not a necromancer by trade, but some of her disciplines as she practises them toe the line and could conceivably be crossed into it.

But.

She will not think about that, about what she could do, who she could see. If only she took it a little further.]

[Eliza's necromancy, fortunately? unfortunately? is not the most suited for reviving conscious people versus amnesiac megafauna]

Mostly failsafes and a couple to encourage nucleation. Normally I wouldn't bother with marking the host so much when it's something so fresh or so small, and like I doubt there's actually a shortage of snake spirits available here? But it's a very unique summoning situation, and I don't have all of my familiars or a back-up. Lots of failsafes.

Nucleation?

[She knows what that is in general, but how it applies to Eliza's brand of necromancy...well, she can only guess and that is why it is interesting.]

What sorts of failsafes do you require?

It may not be the case here, which I'll have to figure out if that affects things, but I work with soul fragments. I need to get them coalesce into a whole, but before that I need some to attach at all.

[gestures as she talks, making a tiny pinch and then expanding her hands wide]

The most important failsafes are going to be to protect me as the summoner. I need to make sure the attachment is secure, but temporary and easily disabled at any stage. I also need to make sure that it's only snakes that answer, and that I don't open a bleed— I need to use a lot of magic for the summoning, but it has to stay in that spell instead of just draining out of me. Isildur is my biggest buffer for that, though.

Ah, so you do not simply reanimate? Your creatures retain a part of their minds and selves?

Technically they kind of do, but not really. An example I gave someone once is that say I'm working with a border collie. The new soul will know how to be a dog, how to act like a dog, and it'll probably match up pretty well with the breed characteristics for collies. But it won't recognize whoever owned that dog, and it might obey commands that that dog was never taught... Only the basics that the amalgamation can agree on really come through in action.