Glimpse Into What Once Was

[fractales]

Type: Video
Sender ID: fractales(Professor Turo)
To: General
Subject: Nilatast Finding
Warnings: TBA

Hello everyone- pardon the bit of a mess.

[Papers strewn about, along with a few tools in view, as Turo picked up his shellphone with excitement there in his voice. Setting it down on somethin out of view as he was moving and turning out lights in an office after pushing his desk out of the way.]

As others may have been, perhaps still are, working on various pieces of technology recovered from down so deep, there was an item I discovered in Nilatast that I have finally gotten working! To a small degree, at least— I have only been able to recover one thing on it, but...

[There was an item that was the size of a jewelry box, covered in stars and constellations formed in colored enamel and shined up jewels, that Turo had picked up and was sitting down in the middle of the space he had cleared. Pressing a 'button' at the top.

It sparked to life as suddenly a still image was projected above the box; full of living color and capturing a moment of laughter and fun. The light having warmth and even those creatures outside of such large windows seemed to sparkle. Looking as if everything could be touched—]

Look at this! [Almost looked as if Turo was there, moving to sort of sit by the picture box.] I was able to retrieve the data for this image, I might have found what worked as a photo album, but the item itself came from within one of the ruined buildings down there.

They lived there, played in that city.

[Of course there weren't just human children there, smiling faces all. This was something either a parent or some child that had also been there in the moment wanted to treasure even after the day was over.]

Just a small view into what once was, I suppose.

Comments

Video; un: beshackled

[beshackled]

'Tis a fine image.

[Although it is still very alien to him. Children playing together... Did they have fun? They seem to have been happy...]

Did you chance to get a glimpse of any of the murals down there?

[telepathicignorance]

(...Does he know? A part of them really hopes not.)

Think they had riftfarers back then, too?

video; un: baymaxing

[baymaxing]

That's so cool, though. I mean. I'm more into technology. Robots. The future. But I dunno, there's something pretty awesome about finding something like that.

[Makes him wonder. What others might find of his home eventually. The closest he can think of was the earthquakes, and even then, that was so long ago before he was born. Hiro does grin, though, seeing the huge windows and the sea creatures swimming by like that. Like living in an aquarium.]

Almost reminds me of the aquariums back home. Except this is like, way bigger, obviously. Where they actually lived...

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[activatingcombatmode]

[Now Zack isn't the smartest guy around the block but something about that little picture box has him staring for a little while. Holographic technology is a pretty basic and well-used thing in his home world. So to see something like that, used as a simple picture light box photo album thing, is a pretty big deal.]

You seriously found that down below?

[That looks pretty advanced for something to be found down in the water. But what could this mean? People used to live down there... So what happened?]

[emet-sulk] text

[emet_sulk]

[ The image leaves Emet-Selch feeling out of sorts, to say the least. So he texts rather than responds in video. ]

Combined with the crystal record I found many moons ago, it seems this society leaned heavily into technological progression.

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[velocityraptor]

That's kind of an amazing find, it's nice to know that some things are universal like kids playing.

video | octoblot

[octoblot]

[Azul had ended up missing out on looking into Nilatest and the deep due to Leona's overblot last month being his main priority, but he's glad that someone is being useful in sharing something they apparently found down there?]

Oh my, how nice... judging by the recorded image, it reminds me a lot of the Octavinelle dorm at my school back home, actually.

video; id: ramuhs

[ramuhs]

That lines up with something similar Benedikta and I witnessed on one of the display screens a robot we encountered had.

However, the video had a clear, open sky.

video | un: netherese

[netherese]

That is marvelous!

[Gale has seen its like, in a fashion; spells could be used to capture a memory, items enchanted to hold them so that they could be called upon at a moment's notice, but this is something different. Perhaps there was some magic to it, yes, but this device spoke volumes of the lost city beneath the waves despite its small size.]

A wonderful find, Professor. Though we know the city must have once been filled with life, this makes it that much easier to imagine— a single moment, preserved even as the city has been worn away by time.

video; un: BlossomingTide

[withermarked]

It looks so... bright and alive. Shame to see the ruin it's come to now.

[ He could already tell people used to live there, some of the of the buildings looked like personal houses, but there's still something different about seeing it like this.

If he were entirely honest he might admit that current happy children make him feel a bit resentful at times. But this just makes him feel melancholy. ]