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I don't think I'm going to be surprised anymore by anything I see in Disneyworld. I don't know if I'm going to get used to it, but I'm not going to be surprised by it. ~~I still d~~

I never knew people could build so many different kinds of machines just for fun. It really is amazing... I'd love to know how they all work. And maybe try a few more of them. The pirate ride was fantastic!

Oh! I've seen people talking about what happens if the Wilderness changes and I'm not sure either, but I've been writing my name on the things I've bought or found, in case I'm not holding onto it. That might work. And just so everyone knows, the mannequins don't really mind if you go into the kitchen to make yourself food as long as you don't make a ruckus or get in their way. It's probably a good idea for everyone, but especially you new folks if you still want to have some money when we get back into the Tree.

[Pentaps, then the following is drawn in with pencil over the course of a few minutes. It's not as colored or well-done as the actual artwork here, but you get the idea.]

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Hm, the name thing's an interesting way to handle it. Certainly good for keeping mix-ups from happening, at least.

[After the drawing appears.]

Not bad, kiddo. Did you run across a ride with a sea monster?

Yeah, I figured it was worth a shot.

He was in a memory, actually.

That's a good idea, though it might not work with some of the smallest things---[jagged line and inkblot, someone finally noticed Leviathan.]

What manner of creature is that?

I'm not sure. A sea dragon or a sea serpent--something very powerful.

Is that so? Was it a statue or something?

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No, it he ~~she?~~ was very real. He said something, but I couldn't hear anything, so I'm not sure what was happening.

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[still a touch shaky]

Not one that lives around here, I should hope.

No, it was a memory. We were in some kind of cave or cavern, though I don't know where.

I really don't know what kind of thing he was, though, if he was an enemy or not.

There's a flight simulator I liked. Interesting how those affects can be created without the use of inertial compensators.

That's as good a thing to try as any, I guess.

[You know what, there are enough flavors of gigantic weird monster in SW...]

That looks... I don't know. Was it flying?

A cave? [Well that sounds odd] It must have been vast, to hold such a creature.

I cannot speak for your world, but it seems to me such creatures have an uncanny tendency to exist outside those classifications--enemy and ally at once.

Good to know about the kitchens.

[Hello, slight pings]

That's an interesting critter.

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Without what?

No, it was swimming. Kind of.

Very... I wish I knew more about who or what it was.

It did look pretty big, although I don't think it was just a home for him.

[Pentaps. That sounds... kind of right.]

Maybe that would explain it... it did look like he was helping us out at first.

[Aaand I used affect instead of effect. Argh.]

Machines that play with gravity and keep you from getting tunnel vision and blacking out in sharp turns and high speeds. They can also be used to make your body think it's making those turns and going that quickly.

Huh. I'd almost expect something like that to float.

[It's okay!]

Oh, so they work both ways? ~~But I've~~ So you mean they're used in airships and things like that, right?

He seems to have been a sea serpent of some kind. I think.

I think so. And more like starships. If it goes fast enough to break the sound barrier, it generally needs something to keep the pilot from passing out.

Looks big, whatever it is.

...So you not only saw this thing in person, but it talked?

[It's one thing for something like that to appear in the Sphere. It's another thing entirely for it to show up in people's memories, in the place they used to live. Gene once again has to remind himself that the places they're from are very, very different.]</small? Damn. Was it... friendly, at least?

That makes two of us.

[Slight pause] Looks more like some kind of dragon that lives in the ocean than anything else, to me.

It was definitely something of the ocean. So you've seen something like this before?

I didn't know anything could go faster than sound. It doesn't sound pleasant without that sort of device. [a couple of doodle-lines at the ping.]

It really was. At least twenty feet long.

Yeah. But I couldn't really tell if he was friendly or not... it seemed like we were going to fight him after whatever it was that was said.

Hey, you're the girl who works at the weapons stand, right? There are things there that go supersonic all the time - certain bullets and long whips. When you crack a whip, part of it goes faster than sound and makes a sonic boom.

Huh. [He'd imagined it being much bigger.]

Oh come on, you're pulling my leg. They can't go that fast, can they?

They can and do. Down in the stables, there are a few handlers who use long whips - they say they don't beat the animals, and I haven't seen those tips touch anything, but they do get their attention with the sound. You've seen how the tip travels much faster than the handle does. More than thirty times faster, if done right.

Momentum is mass - weight and substance - plus speed. The handle you move has much more mass than the rest of the whip, but the same momentum. Less mass, higher speed.

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PIIIIIING as if anyone's surprised.

my work here is done!

Hm. Notifs seem to be off, today.

It's Saturday; they're sleeping in

\o/ speaking of need to write up my own memory orz

Yes!

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So it seems!

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