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Brand New Oak.

Posted by TadeuszFor group 0
Tadeusz
player, 10741 posts
As you dimension dance...
Crowbar or Towel?
Sun 25 Jul 2021
at 04:45
  • msg #1

Brand New Oak

OOC: The beginning of the adventures of OakV2, GMed by Tadeusz.  Worldwalker lives!  :)
Tadeusz
player, 10744 posts
As you dimension dance...
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Mon 26 Jul 2021
at 03:51
  • msg #2

Brand New Oak

In reply to Tadeusz (msg # 1):

You've finished teaching a lecture, and one of your more hardworking, but doesn't quite get it students comes up afterwards, and confesses one of his problems.  He dropped his laptop, and now it won't work, and it makes it even harder for him to keep up.  So you volunteer to take it home, and fiddle with it.

Opening it up, you find a new RAM has been unseated, so you reach out a finger to pop it back into place, and then there's a spark, and then whiteness...

===

The air is cool and damp. The smell of grass is fresh in the air.  And you feel something rough and wet move across your face.  Opening your eyes, you look up into the curious face of a Guernsey cow.
This message was lightly edited by the GM at 04:16, Mon 26 July 2021.
Oak
GM, 3261 posts
Mon 26 Jul 2021
at 04:47
  • msg #3

Brand New Oak

I blink in surprise, and sit up slowly.

"Hi, Sweetie.  Where did you come from?"

I gently stand and hold my hand out to make friends, and pet her if she lets me.  And as I do so, I take a look around at my surroundings with some perplexity.

"Hmmmm.  Perhaps a better question would be: where did I come from?  And where are we now?"

I drink in the soothing cool damp air and fresh grass scent and bovine company, while the back of my mind tries to make sense of this... discontinuity.

"I was home, fiddling with a laptop, and now... I am here.  I didn't bring me here, and I doubt that you did, Sweetie."

"What are the options?  I was knocked out by some type of shock.  And then...?"

"I could have been carried here before waking up... but that seems rather unlikely."

"I could have been zapped into a virtual reality, like Picard in STTNG's Inner Light episode... but that seems even more unlikely."

"I could have been zapped into another universe, like an isekai anime... but that seems just as unlikely."

"I could actually be a just-awakened AI based upon John Oakmaster within a simulated world... but that also seems rather unlikely."

"Or... I could actually be unconscious, still at home, or in a hospital, and having a rather vivid dream.  Probably the most likely possibility."

"Well...  Wherever I am, I am in Sovereign Hands, so I will serve as best I may."

"Dearest LORD, please guide and guard me now, I pray..."


I take my phone out of my pocket, and attempt to check the date and my current location before looking around some more...
Tadeusz
player, 10746 posts
As you dimension dance...
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Tue 27 Jul 2021
at 01:34
  • msg #4

Re: Brand New Oak

Oak:
I blink in surprise, and sit up slowly.

"Hi, Sweetie.  Where did you come from?"

===='Moo'.

I gently stand and hold my hand out to make friends, and pet her if she lets me.  And as I do so, I take a look around at my surroundings with some perplexity.

====she leans into your pet, angling for a scratch. You scratch her hide.

You're in an acre sized pasture with grass up to your ankles and with three other cows.  The fence is a stone fence about two feet high made of freestanding stones.

The sky is overcast.

There are trees and hills, and stone fences, and you think some sort of grain fields nearby.

"Hmmmm.  Perhaps a better question would be: where did I come from?  And where are we now?"

I drink in the soothing cool damp air and fresh grass scent and bovine company, while the back of my mind tries to make sense of this... discontinuity.

"I was home, fiddling with a laptop, and now... I am here.  I didn't bring me here, and I doubt that you did, Sweetie."

"What are the options?  I was knocked out by some type of shock.  And then...?"

"I could have been carried here before waking up... but that seems rather unlikely."

"I could have been zapped into a virtual reality, like Picard in STTNG's Inner Light episode... but that seems even more unlikely."

"I could have been zapped into another universe, like an isekai anime... but that seems just as unlikely."

"I could actually be a just-awakened AI based upon John Oakmaster within a simulated world... but that also seems rather unlikely."

"Or... I could actually be unconscious, still at home, or in a hospital, and having a rather vivid dream.  Probably the most likely possibility."

"Well...  Wherever I am, I am in Sovereign Hands, so I will serve as best I may."

"Dearest LORD, please guide and guard me now, I pray..."


====You get a sense of peace.

I take my phone out of my pocket, and attempt to check the date and my current location before looking around some more...

====Time is five minutes after what you would think it to be. Phone is working, but its out of area, and the GPS function is not working.

Oak
GM, 3262 posts
Tue 27 Jul 2021
at 02:25
  • msg #5

Re: Brand New Oak

OOC: Ah, so many questions...  :)

Q1. Do I get a sense of what time of day it is here?

Q2. Does it match my cell phone clock (unlikely), or is there a discontinuity (likely)?

Q3. Did any of my belongings come along for the ride, scattered around me in the grass, perhaps?


I ponder the tidings from my phone, and survey my new surroundings thoughtfully as I finish scratch dispensing.

"Well, Sweetie, it looks like someone is taking care of you.  Perhaps they will take care of me as well..."

I start walking to see if I can find any tracks, trails, arrangements of fields, etc., that would lead me to people...
Tadeusz
player, 10748 posts
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Wed 28 Jul 2021
at 05:53
  • msg #6

Re: Brand New Oak

Oak:
OOC: Ah, so many questions...  :)

Q1. Do I get a sense of what time of day it is here?

A1: Between 9 AM and 6 PM.

Q2. Does it match my cell phone clock (unlikely), or is there a discontinuity (likely)?

A2: According to your cell phone it is 8:40 PM.

Q3. Did any of my belongings come along for the ride, scattered around me in the grass, perhaps?


A4: Some did, and it is stuff that you would have in your office.

I ponder the tidings from my phone, and survey my new surroundings thoughtfully as I finish scratch dispensing.

"Well, Sweetie, it looks like someone is taking care of you.  Perhaps they will take care of me as well..."

I start walking to see if I can find any tracks, trails, arrangements of fields, etc., that would lead me to people...

====You find a cowpath that leads over a small hill, and to a low barn, and a thatched roof house. No sign of cars, or electricity.  Smoke is rising from the chimney over th ehouse.  The road to the house is a two wheeled rut track.  There is a small garden next to the house with a fence made of thorny bushes.

Oak
GM, 3263 posts
Wed 28 Jul 2021
at 06:29
  • msg #7

Re: Brand New Oak

Tadeusz:
So you volunteer to take it home, and fiddle with it.

Oak:
"I was home, fiddling with a laptop, and now... I am here.  I didn't bring me here, and I doubt that you did, Sweetie."

OOC: Since I versed out at home, would I have home stuff rather than office stuff?  Are we doing standard Multiverser starting stuff, or did you want to simplify belongings to few (or no) items not on my person?  BTW, either way is OK with me...  :)

I ponder the lack of technology here, while a part of my mind wonders if this place is simply somewhere off the grid, or if I am now somewhere with a pervasive lack of technology.  For now, I keep my cell phone shut off and in my pocket.  It may be quite a while before I can recharge it.

When I see the house, I ponder the best way to approach without alarming anyone.  Strangers may or may not be welcome.  They may not even share a culture or language with me.  I need to announce my arrival in a non-threatening way that can be understood regardless of language or cultural barriers, and ideally in a way that would make me an asset rather than a liability.

Perhaps... a bard.  Music is as close to a universal language as I have, and someone with songs and stories may well find a welcome.  Hmmmm...

"Dearest LORD, please bless my interactions, and help me to be a blessing, I pray..."

So it is that I lift my voice, and start to sing from afar as I approach the house.

" 'Amazing grace, How sweet the sound
That saved a wretch like me.
I once was lost, but now I am found,
Was blind, but now I see.

'Twas grace that taught my heart to fear,
And grace my fears relieved.
How precious did that grace appear
The hour I first believed.

Through many dangers, toils and snares
I have already come,
'Tis grace has brought me safe thus far
And grace will lead me home.

The Lord has promised good to me
His word my hope secures;
He will my shield and portion be,
As long as life endures.

Yea, when this flesh and heart shall fail,
And mortal life shall cease
I shall possess within the veil,
A life of joy and peace.

When we've been there ten thousand years
Bright shining as the sun,
We've no less days to sing God's praise
Than when we've first begun.' "

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