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portolan, David helpdesk_hero, Bart kid_flash_found, Otto doctopoda, MCU Peter tinglesense, Strange rehandle, Loki ikols, Billy wordiness, Eddie slidesrightoff, Aleks morozova and any +1s I missed
What: A fancy dinner party at Balthier’s house
When: May 14
Where: Balthier’s House
Entry
Living Room
Kitchen
// generally beautifully restored historic late 1800s building in muted green and gold accents with antique furniture. pls compliment or insult him //
Content Warnings: none yet
[ The antique table has both leaves in it, extending from the dining room into the living room with twelve chairs around it. It's got a stately tablecloth and pale gold napkins. All the places are set with white china trimmed in gold, except one, which is green and gold and clearly for Loki, with a matching cup. There are name cards. There's a seating chart. The far wall of the dining room sports a buffet laden with stunning food in matching dishes, and the kitchen counter serves as a bar with a ridiculous amount of nice wine and alcohol.
The furniture in the living room has been rearranged to accommodate the table. The windows and doors are open to create a breeze and the back porch has additional seating. If people are looking for privacy, they can disappear to the basement, which is just a storage room, bathroom, and laundry unit, or upstairs where there is a loft study, a bathroom, and two bedrooms. One is locked. There are no bathrooms on the ground floor so excuses abound.
There’s also Romantic piano music playing on an honest-to-God gramophone. The whole house is restored original wood, antique furniture, old books, and nice art. Balthier is extremely pleased with his ship-like house and happy to finally show it off. He also asked Strange to enchant it to make it more or less metaproof for the evening.
TLDR:
-There will be a fine meal and plenty of alcohol
-Balthier will be giving Loki poison as condiments at some point (don’t @ him David and Billy) ((definitely @ him))
-There’s music if anyone wants to dance
-There are private places to slip into
-The house has been metaproofed to some extent by Stephen but Balthier will frown upon breaking his stuff
-Chaos pls
Feel free to thread jack! Mark things you don’t want threadjacked ]
portolan, David helpdesk_hero, Bart kid_flash_found, Otto doctopoda, MCU Peter tinglesense, Strange rehandle, Loki ikols, Billy wordiness, Eddie slidesrightoff, Aleks morozova and any +1s I missedWhat: A fancy dinner party at Balthier’s house
When: May 14
Where: Balthier’s House
Entry
Living Room
Kitchen
// generally beautifully restored historic late 1800s building in muted green and gold accents with antique furniture. pls compliment or insult him //
Content Warnings: none yet
[ The antique table has both leaves in it, extending from the dining room into the living room with twelve chairs around it. It's got a stately tablecloth and pale gold napkins. All the places are set with white china trimmed in gold, except one, which is green and gold and clearly for Loki, with a matching cup. There are name cards. There's a seating chart. The far wall of the dining room sports a buffet laden with stunning food in matching dishes, and the kitchen counter serves as a bar with a ridiculous amount of nice wine and alcohol.
The furniture in the living room has been rearranged to accommodate the table. The windows and doors are open to create a breeze and the back porch has additional seating. If people are looking for privacy, they can disappear to the basement, which is just a storage room, bathroom, and laundry unit, or upstairs where there is a loft study, a bathroom, and two bedrooms. One is locked. There are no bathrooms on the ground floor so excuses abound.
There’s also Romantic piano music playing on an honest-to-God gramophone. The whole house is restored original wood, antique furniture, old books, and nice art. Balthier is extremely pleased with his ship-like house and happy to finally show it off. He also asked Strange to enchant it to make it more or less metaproof for the evening.
TLDR:
-There will be a fine meal and plenty of alcohol
-Balthier will be giving Loki poison as condiments at some point (don’t @ him David and Billy) ((definitely @ him))
-There’s music if anyone wants to dance
-There are private places to slip into
-The house has been metaproofed to some extent by Stephen but Balthier will frown upon breaking his stuff
-Chaos pls
Feel free to thread jack! Mark things you don’t want threadjacked ]
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He hadn't even considered that Balthier might have made accommodations for him like that. It's...nice.
"Glad to be here," he says, turning his attention back to David. One of the actuators is watching him as well, though its posture seems casual; the others are idly hovering in place, only one appearing to observe the other guests. "You cook?"
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The damn man was too considerate and David loved him for it.
"Yes, my father was a professional chef. I learned a lot from him, intentionally and otherwise. It's a pleasure to trot the skills out."
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But he doesn't want to drag down the night, or tank his own mood ten seconds after arriving. "I look forward to trying your food," he says, bottling all of that right back up. "That's a good talent to have. I've only ever been an average cook at best."
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"Cooking is, except for the parts that are chemistry, just about practice."
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It's fine; Otto seems perfectly happy just to move past the subject. Sometimes - often, in fact - it's simply easier to focus on other things - like, say, work. "Have you had a chance to look through the materials I sent you yet?"
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"Your work is amazing Otto! I've been reading through it and I think I can see some ways to integrate it with what we do. I'm not sure I'm quite qualified, even with the technopathy, to get it all together."
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"And, of course, the technopathy." Otto's far more prepared for the subject this time; if the actuators have a reaction, nothing of it slips through. "I'd love to hear more about that sometime, if you don't mind."
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"I'd be happy to talk about it. It's a very strange power to have, and I've spent a lot of time trying to adapt to it. It's... Strange, integrating so deeply. Surfing the internet with my mind is quite a thing. But it means I program things a lot faster. But I'd be very happy to sit down and talk about some of the way that I've been working things back home."
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He thinks he could, for sure! Really, despite how catastrophic everything with his accident was, he has learned quite a bit about the capacities of the neural links. An edge case, to be sure, but interesting knowledge to have.
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"I wish we could sit together and work on it together. I've got so many NDAs, so I guess I'll really just chat about your work and areas of interest for me. Which isn't even remotely in the paperwork. It's a fair way to do this."
He is grinning and he works on thinking about what he's interested in before he raises his hands before him and creates an energy projection, glowing golden light hovering above his hands to display a circuit diagram for a computer chip.
"There are a lot of things I'm good at, that I've learned to do, but I am only passable at making chips on my own. And I'm having problems with burn out on the ones I'm using. I think I'm going to have to up the size, but I don't want to add too much bulk because of the other wiring and parts that one might want in a small tool."
GOD technobabble is hard
"Makes complete sense," he agrees, grinning. He's not unfamiliar with working under NDAs, but he's also not unfamiliar with stretching the edges of them to chat with his friends. The reactor was his project, he'd always thought; he'd discuss it with whoever he liked.
He leans forward to inspect the glowing diagram, one actuator hanging above his right shoulder to look as well. "Yes, you'd be pushing the limits of copper interconnects, at this size. Once you start layering in this many transistors, they just don't handle that level of heat well. It's the easiest and most affordable option, but it is risky."
At least these wouldn't be quite so integrated with the patient as Otto's own implants. Still, he’s particularly sensitive to the use of microchips in medical settings, these days. "I've done some work using carbon nanotubes instead," he continues. "They do wonders, but they're hard to work with, and that was just me - not exactly mass production."
for us both
The carbon nanotubes has David perking up. That's not something he has a lot of access to really.
"What I'd give to have someone who could get a chip like that for me. Or, you know, quantum entanglement but that seems expensive for this project."
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Oh my god. Otto grins. "Well, I'm afraid I can't help you there. I'm using mine - " Which is a very mild way of describing the situation. " - and I don't exactly have Oscorp funding anymore."
The materials he'd need would be sort of prohibitively expensive for personal use, especially when he'd only be doing it out of personal interest. Not like he's actually employed here. That does bring up another point, though. "Can I ask what sort of budget you're working with?"
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"I'll have to see if I can find a metal to help me with it I expect. I want to make sure that I can do this for people. Helping them is really important."
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He was ahead of his time, when he was back in his own time and place; it'd be false humility to pretend otherwise. That's left him on even ground with this world's advances in some areas, and still reading the latest publications in others. But he sounds fairly good-natured about it. At least in terms of scientific knowledge, a rising tide really does raise all ships. He's confident in his ability to build even further on these new foundations.
...just, you know. Maybe not a reactor this time.
Speaking of which! Otto leans back, resting his weight on the two lower actuators in place of a chair back. "I've been meaning to ask you, actually - is your company hiring?"
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And it was exciting to him, kept him sane when the world was harder to deal with. Though the question given to him makes David smile.
"Oh we definitely are. I've been hoping you'd maybe ask at some point."
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"Ah, were you? That's good to hear!" In all honesty, he might have done so right away if not for David also being from the bowlcut-Otto universe; that gave him a little bit of pause. But it doesn't seem to matter, not like it would have if that version of Peter were there. "I'm very interested in this work, I'd love to be able to see it through."
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"Give me your contact information. I want to get recruiting to send you an information packet. Because you should really do this.
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See, he's getting with the times! He's not writing his contact info on a piece of paper for people anymore! He'll just program his number and email in there. "How are they to work for?"
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"Uh, I don't always keep it on me. When I'm in the house I have wifi and I can use that to communicate what I want to it. If you're willing to tell it to me, I can put it into my phone from here."
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That done, Otto glances over his shoulder. "Balthier won't mind us talking about work at the party, will he?" he asks, with a bit of a smile. Rosie always got on him for that sort of thing - it's a party, get out of your lab for a minute.
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But David? He's so happy to talk as a nerd with another nerd, that it's a comfort.