text.

[technologist]

[ Again with a small wall of text, though this time there's no obvious indication that it's meant as an Engineering PSA. It shows up roughly 24 hours after Annie's warning about the strange noises in the corridors. ]

Re: the creepy sounds in the hallways.

Sent a few volunteers out into the darker corridors to record video and audio (cheers Raven, Sirius & Murphy), along with Grumpy and Sneezy.

[ Context would probably be useful on the last two, but either he doesn't think of it or doesn't care enough to add it. ]

Not sure whether this is reassuring or not, but analysis of the recordings didn't find much. The sounds appear to be inanimate/non-biological in origin. Grumpy didn't pick anything up in the way of human voices or otherwise obvious signs of life forms.

The noises are a bit like what you'd get from a house settling, just on a much larger scale. That said, it's probably advised that you don't go wandering off into the dark, as per usual.

The lights coming on don't appear to be related to any movement, either, but more a methodical rebooting of basic systems. Unexpected, but nothing particularly alarming on the Engineering side of things just yet.

That's about all we've got, but if you've got any questions, let us know.

Comments

text;

[technologist]

[ OH you meant the robots. ]

It's robots.

And yes. Sort of.

text;

[doggedly]

[yes that's what he wrote ro-bots]

sort of how

[technologist]

Dead batteries, mostly. EMPs. You can fix them most of the time. Or just reuse their parts.

Why?

[doggedly]

i f

no reason

[doggedly]

did you think i was asking about raven & murphy

& not your robots

[very careful with the spelling of ro-bots]

cos i think theyve come back as well
if that puts your mind at ease

[technologist]

No

[ Yes. ]

I already know they're back. They've checked in, anyway.
Why are you asking about the drones

[ GETTING VERY CONCERNED, HERE. ]

[doggedly]

because i dont know anything about them!
robot experience limited to those little roomba thingers!

[technologist]

Oh.
You haven't got any robots in wizard
wherever
?

[ Wizard world........... ]

[doggedly]

wizarding england
well wizarding britain really & the whole wizarding world


but no we havent got any
why would we need them when weve got magic

[technologist]

What's the deal with magic and technology being mutually exclusive, anyway. You've got to have some tech in wizarding Britain.

[doggedly]

cos technology doesnt work with magic around does it
not great heaps of magic anyways

for instance you cant even have a muggle radio on hogwarts grounds without it getting all cocked up & haywire
which is MISERABLE actualy
very few decent wizard bands out there

[doggedly]

also its 1976 for me

very few robots in general id imagine
except the ones in the films
rubbish bins on wheels &c not very impressive

[technologist]

Yeah, like K-9. Literal bin on wheels, that one.

[ This is typed very affectionately ok. ]

And doesn't that just make the argument that magic's a sort of technology, really. Contradictory frequencies.

that icon kind of makes him look like peter quill's little brother it's weirding me out

[doggedly]

no ?

[contradictory what he does not write. but he thinks it, squinting at the words.]

i dunno where everyone got that idea from
but it isnt
technology is sort of aspiring to BE magic maybe but it isnt
& anyways magic was around long before muggles had radios & things

[a beat, then:]

k-9 ?

HAHaha

[technologist]

Contradictory frequencies. It's what happens with some tech if you get it too close, causes interference.

[ YOU GET A LESSON ANYWAY. ]

And yeah, K-9. He's a robot dog from Doctor Who.

[doggedly]

[ignoring the lesson, moving on to important questions--]

a robot dog that looked like a rubbish bin
insulting


is there a doctor what as well
is that part of a joke

[technologist]

What
No, it's just the Doctor. But it's called Doctor Who because everyone's always asking that after he says he's the Doctor. It's quite clever, actually.

[ Nerd alert. But also more obnoxious than clever, lbr. ]

[doggedly]

[yeah about that]

thats not clever

[technologist]

It's a little bit clever

[ he will defend this to the death on Jemma's behalf ok ]

You've got the wizarding world and the dark lord, anyway, so I don't think you've got any right to go judging whether or not something's clever.

[doggedly]

yeah right
if its clever then its trying too hard to be clever


anyways i dont see what the dark lords got to do with it

[technologist]

You know, not so clever names. He did have an actual name, yeah? Isn't calling him the lord of anything sort of like playing along?

[doggedly]

voldemort

what a good tag

[technologist]

seriously

thnx

[doggedly]

no im sirius

[doggedly]

anyway i sppose we could call him something else
its just common parlence you know