A Most Important Inquiry

[solitarynote]

WHO: Sunny, Soo Won, and YOU! (OTA)
WHAT: Soo Won doesn’t know what a battery is. Sunny tried, but he needs some help. That’s where you come in!
WHERE: Network (let’s be honest though - Sunny doesn’t leave the Oasis)
WHEN: post-Crossing Meeting, pre-Quests kicking off
WARNINGS Talk of batteries, electricity, relevant CWs (if any) will be in subject headings ^^

## The Crossing Meeting had barely ended when a message crossed everyone’s devices.

Sunny had gotten himself into a bit of a quandary and… he needed help. He hated asking for help, but this was important. Possible the most importantthing he had asked so far.

A single message cuts across the screen/notebook page (take your pick):

What’s a battery? Help. ##

Comments

[hasapoint]

[Need taps her vine charcoal idly on the page, leaving faint dots close together, as she tries to recall something from the long ago. Hadn't she helped Mel teach this? Before the war and the Cataclysm? Certainly it's something she can sense when she can't borrow living senses.]

If you can see it, but not the flesh that would hide it away, people have constant fine streaks of light running through their bodies, a thick continuous braid of it within their spines, and their brains glow and sparkle.

[this is not a weird thing to say.]

[blindluck]

That sounds like a fascinating way to view the world! And it would make it much easier to explain electricity, if everyone could see that.

[hasapoint]

Sure but it's a lot of effort. And I've seen someone learning it get so absorbed in a blade of grass someone had to shake her out of it.

[blindluck]

I suppose there are pros and cons to every skill.

[hasapoint]

Mind it was hilarious. She had someone clap his hands in her face and didn't blink. Just this blank look of awe.

[blindluck]

Someone more clever than me could monetize that kind of experience.

[hasapoint]

It's a common reaction when you first grasp the trick of seeing, but most people who do just get a fixed stare about it. She looked like she'd been Chosen by an angel, poor girl.

I couldn’t help it XD

[solitarynote]

[Sunny takes in Need’s message and Nagito’s reply, then…]

Like glow sticks

[Complete with cracking joints the older one gets, he cements with a nod.]

[blindluck]

Then we'd have some sort of magical rave. I don't think you're old enough for that kind of thing!

[solitarynote]

[Sunny’s sole eye blinks as he stares at his notebook.]

What’s… a ‘rave’?

[That probably answers Nagito’s assumption better than anything else. Sunny was certainly underaged, and he came from an older town in the middle of nowhere.]

[blindluck]

Aha. Definitely too young.

[solitarynote]

[That… didn’t answer his question. But Sunny figured if Nagito didn’t answer, then maybe that was an echo of one all the same.

Even if he silently pouts about it back in his hut for a bit.]

[hasapoint]

I'm old enough. Something to do with the verb rave?

[blindluck]

It's a kind of party that involves loud music, laser lights, drugs, and glow sticks. I think the violence was a more recent addition back home.

[The violence was absolutely a more recent, apocalyptic addition.]

[hasapoint]

Hm. All right, maybe I'm too old for that.

[blindluck]

Perhaps! But I don't think you're missing out on much, they're too crowded and noisy for my liking.

[hasapoint]

When I was your age I was loud, about as broad as a wall, and violence meant not having to think about my problems, so I might have liked it then. Alas.

[blindluck]

That does sound like the sort of market for it, as far as I could tell!

[He actually doesn't mean that as an insult.]

[hasapoint]

It's always possible I would have taken against whatever laser lights and glow sticks are. But maybe that enhances the violence.

[blindluck]

I think all of it was for enhancing the violence. But they're probably not as dangerous now!

[hasapoint]

Yeah ultimately it sounds like a step up from the kinds of things I would do. I don't miss being a kid.

[inasmuch as she remembers it, anyway.]

[blindluck]

Really? The more common point of view is to say that youth is wasted on the young, isn't it?

[hasapoint]

That's just talking about having a strong body that recovers more quickly.

[Hm. She can't say 'when you get older and look back' here. It would be so cruel to talk about how perspective and experience make life so much better and easier to handle to a gaggle of dead children.]

I was a miserable idiot when I was twenty. If I was here at that age I'd be picking fights and trying to make a still.

[solitarynote]

[Oh! Need to the rescue! Looks like he will still get his answer!

…

It wasn’t really what he was expecting.]

Like… fights and stuff? That sounds scary…

[Raves really weren’t for Sunny apparently.]

[blindluck]

It's very noisy and busy. Really not much fun at all, in my admittedly extremely unimportant opinion.