002.

[propulsion]

FORM: Enchanted books as well as loose leaf fliers left in key public spaces.
SENDER: Tony "Do I Have To Do Everything Myself" Stark
RECIPIENT: Hopefully all of you disgusting people.
NOTES: n/a

Comments

crystal.

[propulsion]

[ He switches mediums, because he cannot even bring himself to write all this down for the nth time.

Clears his throat, and says; ]

It doesn't-- it's nothing you can see. So small as to be invisible. So unless you see a person touching a thing first, there's no way you can predict you're not picking up what they're putting down. The-- it, the virus, can live externally up to a day or two.

Waiting. Lurking.

[justashotaway]

If it is that small, how do you know it's there?

[Waiting and lurking are so thoroughly a part of the Laura Kint Brand™ that they don't hold a lot of fearfulness for her. She mostly sounds dubious.]

I think you are trying to scare people.

[propulsion]

Yeah. Yes. Absolutely.

Look, if you had bears scratchin' at your door, you want people to have some reservations about going outside. This is the same thing.

[justashotaway]

But I can smell a bear. You are telling me that there are bears I cannot see or smell, and that I must do what you say.

[wHICH DOESN'T SIT RIGHT WITH HER, TONY]

[propulsion]

They're really little bears.

[justashotaway]

How do you know?

[propulsion]

Because I come from a world several centuries more advanced in medical science than this place and we had devices that let us see 'em.

[justashotaway]

But we cannot see them here. How do you know they are here, too?

[propulsion]

Because you're sick, and people are sick. Because their symptoms indicate a reaction to a cause that I recognise, and because your science around how that works resembles the science from my world pre those centuries ago, and because if an apple falls from a tree, it hits the ground.

[justashotaway]

Are there things that are different from your world?

[ It's demanding, but it's not quite angry--she's intensely curious and skeptical, and metaphorical bears no one can see still sounds a little silly. ]

[propulsion]

Sure there are. Lyrium, elves, big horny guys. But we're talking about fundamentals. Just because magic exists and no one here knows how rainbows are made doesn't change the fact I could explain how rainbows are made.

[ He's not actually sure if they don't know that, but-- ]

[justashotaway]

--How are rainbows made?

[Maybe somebody knows that. Laura only knows what rainbows are, which is an achievement in itself.]

[propulsion]

[ Yeah he walked right into that one. Speaking very fast-- ]

It's an optical illusion caused by light refracted and dispersed through airborne water droplets to produce a spectrum of colour only visible from a relative position between observer and light source but my point is

that most observable phenomena here seem like they work the same 'cause there's no reason they would not.

[justashotaway]

Light moves through water and makes colours.

[...She still sounds skeptical.]

If you can see them in your world, you should make them visible here. Until then we do not actually know they exist.

[propulsion]

Sure. I'll take that under advisement.

[justashotaway]

You said there is a device.

[propulsion]

In my world.

[justashotaway]

But we could build one here. You know what it is.

[propulsion]

Also a great idea that I will also take under advisement.

[ This place blows. ]