second ⚡ invention suggestions

[ramuhs]

Type: Text
Sender ID: ramuhs
To: General public
Subject: Invention Suggestions
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Cid here.

Wanted to leave a quick note and thank you to everyone who helped test my little inventions last month. They should be finalized and ready for official public release next month, but as promised those who helped will receive theirs earlier once ready. Just let me know where to send them off or I can contact you for pick up later.

On that note, I wanted to inquire if anyone had any requests or suggestions as to what I, or any other inventor here, should work on. Whether it's improvements or some alternate version of something that already exists here, or perhaps something similar from your own world.

While I am working with magitech, I am more interested in electrical and mechanical engineering, and I'd rather stay away from weaponry unless it's more for defensive or nonlethal use. So anything of that nature will be more my type.

Always appreciated.
Cid

Comments

[pinksidekicking]

They're amazing! I bet you'd make a fortune from them.

[ Make this a reality, Cid. She will love it forever. ]

I am absolutely willing to sacrifice my headphones for the cause.
Especially if it gets me new ones that fully work in this world.

[ramuhs]

[Okay, okay, he'll try and work on it!! Because, you know, money.]

So what's the problem with how they work now?

[pinksidekicking]

[ Money! ]

They aren't really compatible with anything found in this world. Mine should connect to things like my phone and network where music is usually stored. They're a version that purely relies on technology, so it's sort of been useless this whole time.

I figured since this world is one where we can combine magic and technology, maybe there's a way to make our own version of portable music headphones.

[ Does she sometimes wear them like there is music playing, but really she's just ignoring the world? Yes. ]

[ramuhs]

I see, so it's either we make a music player that's just technology, or the headphones with magitech compatibility.

The latter does seem easier to try and adjust first since magic allows more to work with. But I may look into trying and work out something for the other as well. Never hurts to have both.

[pinksidekicking]

Yeah, I'll let you decide, since my knowledge of technology stops at "how to use it". Go figure... a thousand years old, and I never really learned much about it.

Anyway, I'll just drop it off at your workshop or your ship in the next few days, whichever I come closer to first.

[ramuhs]

That'll do. You can show me how it works and let's hope I don't break it too much.

[pinksidekicking]

Can do. And don't worry about breaking it, it's not like it's doing much for me the way it is now.

[ramuhs]

Then how about we meet tomorrow? Bit free right now so I have some time.

>action;

[pinksidekicking]

Works for me!

[ Nimona will find the tall man the next day, walking up to him with a bounce in her step. ]

Greetings, Captain Brownbeard. 'Tis a wonderous day on the back of the mighty shelled beast.

[ Just don't ask, Cid. ]

[ramuhs]

...Captain Brownbeard?

[Just a slight frown.]

Could at least come up with something better.

[pinksidekicking]

I'm not sure if you want me to come up with something "better".

[ She crosses her arms and taps a finger against her chin. ]

Captain Thunderpants. Captain Lightningsparkles. Captain Twinklestrikes.

[ramuhs]

[....Yep, he regrets and just sighs.]

All right, Bubblegum Brat, let's see these headphones of yours.

[pinksidekicking]

[ A small cackle even as she pulls out her headphones. ]

So this is how you turn it on, this controls how loud it is, this links it to my phone - not the shellphone. There's some kind of thing inside that lets you go to the next song by tapping it twice, but I've no idea how that works.

[ She points out all the bells and whistles. It's clearly very advanced, but as she said, this is technology only. ]

[ramuhs]

[He'll take the headphones and look at them curiously as she explains.]

...Certainly a lot more complicated than I expected. So you just... Wear this to listen to the music from another device?

[pinksidekicking]

[ Not knowing how certain features work is exactly why Nimona is giving him these, so he can take them apart to find out. ]

Yeah, your phone would have access to, sort of, a library of music. Well, phones could access a lot more than music, but that's another thing entirely. Headphones were designed so you could have portable music that you didn't have to really hold and wouldn't bother other people around you.

[ramuhs]

Interesting how the shellphones can have video and audio recordings, but I don't think there is anything about music... Unless I missed something.

But you say the music can also be stored in here? [He taps the headphones as he walks over to his desk so he can sit down and start actually poking it.]

[pinksidekicking]

You didn't miss anything, trust me, I've looked. Unless it's like "you must unlock level seven of magic" to access the music library.

[ She follows him over. ] Yeah, it can only store a few songs. There's a little chip inside, but it doesn't have much data space.

[ Nimona's world is actually more technologically advanced than others. They have flying cars and giant laser cannons, and much more. ]

[ramuhs]

[...Huh.]

In my world, music could be "stored" by puncturing holes in a certain order that an orchestrion could read and play the notes. Bit hefty things, so imagining several songs being stored in this little thing is hard to believe. Though easier given the whole video and all that, I suppose.

[Still, he turns her headphones this way and that a bit before he finally pulls out a small screwdriver to start taking it apart.]

[pinksidekicking]

Oh, that is old-school music. Not exactly portable. Good if you want whole-room entertainment, though.

[ Nimona will just plop down next to him and watch him work. ]

[ramuhs]

[PRETEND WE KNOW WHAT WE'RE DOING JUST LIKE CID ACTUALLY DOES.]

Old school? As if I don't already feel my age sometimes...

[He knows his world isn't exactly "up there" but come on!!]

[pinksidekicking]

[ THIS IS PRETENDY FUN TIMES ALREADY, THAT'S EASY. ]

Don't worry, I was around before they had any kind of music that wasn't live. If you wanted music, you found a bard or played an instrument yourself.

[ramuhs]

See, now that I'm more familiar with.

[What are these wires...and what's this square thing they're all connected to? And this strange little box...

Cid hadn't really delved too much into the actual tech gadgets, wanting to read up on it before he took something apart. And thinking on that, he stands up to scan the nearby bookshelf before pulling out a book that may actually help in trying to identify the parts.

Hmm, oh, there we are...so that's what that is...fascinating.]

[pinksidekicking]

[ Since Cid is really getting into it, Nimona will find a place to sit and pull out a notebook with a red color pencil.

She'll start drawing in it while he's gets his research on for a while. Then rips a couple of pages out of the book, and tacks them to Cid's wall with... whatever sharp thing she can find. Even if it's a steak knife that she has to pull out of her own pocket.

On the first paper is a couple drawings of a sword, one looks perfectly normal. The other is the same sword, but the blade has spread apart, with something like electricity or fire blasting from the hilt portion (it's hard to say, her drawing skill is at the level of a kid).

On the second paper is a large cannon. It has a circling arrow to indicate that it has spin motion, with a single person at the safe end. This too is blasting electricity or fire or ice, but everything is in red so. ]

[ramuhs]

[There will be plenty of push pins, Nimona!! Don't use steak knives???

But Cid will only glance at her before looking up when she finally starts pinning those drawings up.

...]

This reminds me of when Mid would put up her drawings when she was a child—but I don't think you're trying to give me cute mementos.

[Slight arch of the brow as he looks at her.]

Trying to give me more ideas?

[pinksidekicking]

[ Push pins won't make this place look piratey, Cid! ]

Can't say I remember ever giving a dad a cute memento drawing before. Is that something they like?

[ Parents? What are those? ]

Well, people around here seem to really like their swords, and we all do live on ships out here. You could probably make a lot of money off these. Just think!

You could freeze your enemy ships in the water, ensuring you get to the treasure first! Or shoot them with your sword from a distance without ever pulling out a gun.