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[ascendit]

anyone here good with universe travel tech/magic? can be something from your world, not just the ingress

i have a device that's supposed to do universe travel but that part hasn't been working right since i got here over a year ago

[He's been meaning to find someone to fix it after his day one attempts failed, but. Life happened.]

someone please fix it

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[ventifact]

i'm on my way up

[and she will miraculously arrive in the correct place a few minutes later]

[ascendit]

[Nate looks up from a small device in his hand at the newcomer.]

Are you, uh, Rey, was it?

[ventifact]

[Her eyes hone in on the device, and she makes her way towards him, not looking up.]

Yeah. Is that it?

[She is... incredulous. It is so small, how could it possibly let anyone travel anywhere?]

[ascendit]

[He hits some of the buttons, his eyes unfocussing for a moment, and then he hands it over, the screen displaying a "Travel" menu of "Scan", "Saved", "Dial", "Home", and "Garden" options.]

Yeah, that's my Junction Device. Tiny, but weirdly powerful.

[ventifact]

[She hadn't expected him to give it to her so easily, and her surprise shows on her face. Nobody on Jakku would ever hand over a piece of tech like this without a fight, no matter the circumstances. But she takes it, and gently turns it over in her hands.]

Junction Device. Tell me how it's supposed to work.

[ascendit]

[Oh, he's keeping a keen eye on it in her hand, thankful that she's being careful with it.]

Just the travel part, or the magic and summoning too?

[ventifact]

The travel bit, for now.

[ascendit]

[That bit hinges on a big topic that he's going to try and condense. Deep breath.]

It works with a spell that was cast in another world I used to be in. Time Compression: Someone used magic to squeeze all of time and space - because it's connected, I guess - into one point. The spell itself was undone, but something that big still has ripples, like when you drop something into water [he's miming dropping something with one hand and the ripples moving with another, it's terrible], except it's going out across the different universes and across time. And the ripples can move people, or objects, or places, into different worlds and different times. That was how I ended up in that world in the first place.

So what this thing [a wave at the device] is supposed to do, basically, is let you pick a point in time and space, then it finds the right ripple.

[After a moment for drama, he deflates a little.] Does that make sense? Because I have no idea about the technical or magical details, just the idea.

[ventifact]

[As Rey listens to him, her face falls further and further into disbelief. What he's saying sounds... impossible. But she's learned during her stay on the Moira that impossible doesn't mean a damn thing. They'd all ended up on that ship, hadn't they? So who's to say what he's describing isn't possible, too?

She pauses for a few moments to reflect on what he's said, and then shrugs.]

Makes as much sense as it can. But I don't think there's anything I can do to fix it without taking it apart. And maybe talking to whoever built it.

[ascendit]

I can't get you the people who built it; they're on that other world. But, uh... How good are you with this kind of thing? [A vague wave.] Tech stuff.

[He's not entirely opposed to her taking it apart, just careful.]

[ventifact]

I used to take apart ships for a living. [A beat.] And I put one back together once. But on the ship, I was an engineer for the Ingress.

[ascendit]

[He whistles, impressed, deliberates a moment, lets his gaze unfocus again, and then decides:] ... Okay. As long as you put it back exactly how it was if you can't fix it. 'cause my magic's on there too.