Robert Lutece (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
ablankpage) wrote2013-12-06 03:55 pm
ablankpage) wrote2013-12-06 03:55 pm
Voxophone 5/?? - Voice
Progress is slow, frustratingly so.
[For his own purposes, Robert still treats the journal rather like a voxophone. Others can hear it, yes, but only if they choose to, and he isn't revealing any great secrets. Besides, they've had their work stolen once. Here, justice would be easier.]
With our books and notes, we could catch up to our prior work in a matter of weeks. As it is, it will take months, if not years.
[Time he and Rosalind had to spare but time others might not think was so dispensible. After all, there was no reason for them to leave, if this really was some sort of tangent universe. Let the world Elizabeth and Booker knew reset. They would remain here.
They weren't needed in that world anyway.]
There is the further trouble of equipment, as well. The Malnosso are not generous with what can be found in the enclosure, and the time it will take to earn what we require further delays our research.
[He can't help the annoyance that creeps into his voice as he continues:]
If they would but assist us, we might further their aims as well as our own.
[For his own purposes, Robert still treats the journal rather like a voxophone. Others can hear it, yes, but only if they choose to, and he isn't revealing any great secrets. Besides, they've had their work stolen once. Here, justice would be easier.]
With our books and notes, we could catch up to our prior work in a matter of weeks. As it is, it will take months, if not years.
[Time he and Rosalind had to spare but time others might not think was so dispensible. After all, there was no reason for them to leave, if this really was some sort of tangent universe. Let the world Elizabeth and Booker knew reset. They would remain here.
They weren't needed in that world anyway.]
There is the further trouble of equipment, as well. The Malnosso are not generous with what can be found in the enclosure, and the time it will take to earn what we require further delays our research.
[He can't help the annoyance that creeps into his voice as he continues:]
If they would but assist us, we might further their aims as well as our own.
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Shall I time the interval until the first cry of moral outrage?
[She sounds haughty, bored by the idea - perhaps entirely, to anyone who's not used to particular pitch her voice adopts in bemusement.]
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They're not very used to having to compromise. Entirely "moral high ground," most of them.
[Which they know all too well. They know how to compromise, make what others would consider deals with the devil. All for funding and advancement. To help their work and, really, humanity's understanding of their very world.
There's a reason their work was celebrated when it went right.]
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That, at least, we should be entirely used to.
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Yet a surprising few seem at all inclined to compromise with the people who have the most resources.
[Not that he's particularly surprised. It's like the citizens of Columbia wanting a lily-white society yet without having to do he menial tasks themselves.
Something had to be sacrificed.]
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[Rosalind remains unimpressed with those to whom every problem appears to be a nail. They have their utility, up to a point. But on their own, without the aid of other, subtler instruments? All but useless.]
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[But he smiled a bit nonetheless. Because, well, that sort aren't interested in compromise. Like DeWitt.]
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It is strange, though, isn't it. How much more use they seem to have for their soldiers than for their scientists.
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...Though, given how very combative some of these soldiers are, questions may prove the least of their worries.
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[It's the inverse of a Tear, in a way. Rather than finding a new reality, simply alter a portion of the current one for some period of time.]
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