Sokka the 53rd - [Action/Voice]

[markofthewise]

[Sokka is still out at the ocean, only with the Gaang and those Ferines ladies. It's a bit cold, but hell, it's the ocean and camping out in front of it is pretty awesome. Good thing he came crazy prepared for it. Except for, you know, a boat. So much for seafood. If for some reason you're in that vicinity, feel free to pester him. But as he gets a chance, he opens up the journal for catch up with people on the other side of the mountains.]

Well the ocean isn't going anywhere, I don't think. But it's not getting any bigger, so I guess Luceti won't be flooding. Good news? Now I just- [A lemur suddenly crowds the screen and Sokka has to shoo him off.] NO! Momo, the journal isn't for sitting on.

Yeesh.

Anyway! Now I just have some of my canoes over here... I wonder if that teleporter-building guy can get a new one out here or something? Or maybe if there was a railway over the mountains... or in the tunnels! Too bad there's no airships around here, that would make things easier. If Appa was still around, the trip back would be a lot easier...

So... how's things? Back in the village and stuff.

[ooc: backdated to the the 20th]

Comments

[boomchucka.livejournal.com]

And we don't have Chocobo's here so...

[markofthewise]

Chocowhats? [This is no time for candy, Selphie.]

[boomchucka.livejournal.com]

Chocobo's!

[Selphie draws in a reasonable facsimile (http://finalfantasy.wikia.com/index.php?title=Chocobo&image=FFVII-Chocobo-jpg) of what one's supposed to look like.]

You can ride them and use them to pull freight as well. Although... they aren't really used very much back home.

[markofthewise]

Oh... like an Ostrich Horse. Or a giant chicken.

[boomchucka.livejournal.com]

Ostrich... Horse...?

[markofthewise]

Yeah yeah, I know. You don't have them. But they look like what you drew.

[boomchucka.livejournal.com]

Oh! Each world has to have its own mount though. It'd be pretty boring if we all had the same kind of animals to ride.

[markofthewise]

True! But the natural progression is towards motorized vehicles.

[boomchucka.livejournal.com]

Which is why we don't ride Chocobo's that often. We've got cars and airships to get around with. Boats too!

[markofthewise]

We're still working on the cars thing. Airships too. Both of them are pretty recent inventions, actually. But that's war for you, right?

[boomchucka.livejournal.com]

[Sokka doesn't see this but Selphie's shrugging her shoulders.]

That's definitely war for ya.

[markofthewise]

On the other hand, I guess those inventions might have shown up either way. At least eventually, in more time. [He's thinking about the AU world he's seen and the Machinist in that one. He's kind of talking to himself at this point.]

[boomchucka.livejournal.com]

If someone thinks of it, they'll find a way to build it.

[markofthewise]

Yeah, but that doesn't mean people will use it.

[Sokka had his fair share of 'inventions' as a kid. Let's just not many or any of them ever found much of a user base.]

[boomchucka.livejournal.com]

Maybe not but it's the thought that counts to me.

[markofthewise]

An invention isn't like a present! We invent to make things easier for ourselves and others. To find a way to do something simpler and faster or maybe something never even possible before. If no one uses it, then we've failed our purpose!

[This is a very important subject to him, okay.]

[boomchucka.livejournal.com]

But in a way, it's exactly like a present! Even if it isn't received very well, people will appreciate the fact that you worked hard on something to try and help them.

[markofthewise]

Unless of course your present is a new kind of tank that is used to conquer the world.

[See where your present analogy falls apart, Selphie?]

[boomchucka.livejournal.com]

...Except for stuff like that.

[markofthewise]

Yeah. Too bad that it's stuff like that people are most eager to use, huh?

[boomchucka.livejournal.com]

And this is why war is stupid.

[markofthewise]

No arguments here. But not liking it doesn't make it go away.

[boomchucka.livejournal.com]

The only way to make it go away is to blow it up with a rocket launcher!

[Except not really and Selphie knows this... she's just a bit bitter.]

[markofthewise]

... and that helps how?

[boomchucka.livejournal.com]

It doesn't. [Just makes her feel better.]

You sound like you've tried inventing things before in the past, Sokka. Did any of them work out?