prismatica | (002 video)

[The video opens on a shot of an odd, vaguely conch-shaped object sitting upon a table, shimmering with strange iridescence in the light. Anyone familiar with the Lunar Scientia laboratories might recognize one of the R&D labs out of focus in the background.]

This object has been developed at the Lunar Scientia with my assistance. We have decided to call it the 'Dinnumion.'

[Yaha-kui zaShunina walks into frame behind the table, and the camera zooms out so that both he and the object are in frame.]

When two people make physical contact with the Dinnumion, they can share their thoughts with one another. In this way, mental images, emotions, and memories can be accurately transferred directly from one mind to another. This connection ends when when physical contact with the device is broken. The Dinnumion is a device that will improve communication and reduce misunderstandings.

I would like to give the Dinnumion to the people of Lunatia. However, the materials required to create a single device are rare, and so it is not currently possible to mass-produce. I can create more of them by replication, but each reproduction will require two weeks to complete. Moreover, though I would like to give them as a gift, the process of creation requires a substantial quantity of chroma. The only compensation I require is an amount of chroma equal to the creation requirement.

You may respond either directly to this video or to my inbox if you wish to receive a Dinnumion. Currently, only this single unit exists, [Meaning the one on the table] and two weeks will be required to create another. [Which means there's going to be a waiting list if more than one order is made.]

((OOC: I've put up an OOC post regarding the Dinnumion here for any questions you might have for it.))

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That question is too vague for me to give an adequate answer. Please clarify.

Just what I said. Something that exists outside the bounds of reality. Something eternal and incomprehensible.

'Incomprehensible' is subjective. To an ant, a human is incomprehensible. I will assume you intend an existence that is incomprehensible to humanity, but even that is far too vague. There are too many variables.

With only the available information you have given me, it is impossible to know if using the Dinnumion would be safe for such an entity. However, if it is truly incomprehensible as your say, then the information that would be transferred would not be able to be understood even if it is safe.

Yes, I've heard the ant metaphor before. An ant would surely believe that a boot, a finger, and an eye were different beings.

It wouldn't be safe. It would be... hungry.

Your questions are too specific to be hypothetical. [One of zaShunina's disembodied hands appears from the void to pick up the Dinnumion, holding the object in his upturned palm as the limb floats in mid-air.]

You do not wish to use the Dinnumion, so why does its compatibility concern you?

[Hmm, curious. Interesting actually.]

Because I know there are entities of incomprehensible power that can affect the world through human conduits. And I know exactly how much trauma touching someone's mind can cause.

[And yet Yaha-kui zaShunina is so used to moving his arms in this manner that it never occurs to him to explain them unless explicitly asked, so he won't. He also has no way to know who has or hasn't seen the old network post he'd made that explains everything.]

Do you know for certain if any of these entities possess the capability to affect this world specifically? [zaShunina is one such entity, but he doesn't even need the Dinnumion to touch a person's mind. Not that he wants to, for the exact reason Jonathan just stated. He has no desire to destroy anyone's mind.]

[It's nothing Jon is going to ask him to stop. The more he sees, the more he experiences... it takes the edge off.]

I'm very certain.

[Well then he's going to keep doing it, because it's much easier for him to fold space than it is to navigate his cloak and physically push it out of the way.]

Yourself or someone else?

Someone else. From the same world as me.

[He doesn't specifically know that there's no other Avatars here after all. It might be true. It just isn't the whole truth.]

I see. [His expression remains impassive, and the floating hand vanished back into the void from whence it came, taking the Dinnumion with it.]

Regardless, I will give the Dinnumion to the people of Prismatica. [But that first one is now already spoken for, so it'll be another two weeks before another one can be produced.]

Why are you so intent on giving this sort of thing to people, even if it's potentially incredibly dangerous?

Because it is the right answer.

[At last, that impassive mask of his shifts to that of a reassuring smile. Or, at least, one that zaShunina hopes is reassuring. It's artificial. Uncanny. The smile of a mannequin.]

The Dinnumion will revolutionize interpersonal communication. It is advancement.

The right answer to a question no-one but you is asking.

They said that about the internet. And that's... debatable.

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The fact that you don't know the irony in what Jon just said makes it all the more hilarious.

XD Jon is a massive hypocrite tbh considering what he is