Stark's, Saturday

[kenselvren]

Jalian was still tweaking her Doorway, and if she were honest with herself, maybe dithering a bit. She needed to return and stop Armageddon, but she was in no hurry to subject herself to that backwards skip again, or to the long job ahead.

So instead she was doing everything she could to improve and enhance it with knowledge from this timeline and everything JARVIS could tell her about others.

She made a few more tweaks, then stepped back and cycled the power. "How's that, JARVIS?"



[OOC: Open post! No OCD.]

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[okteiviakom]

Octavia had resumed her explorations of the town. There was so little else to do, and so much time to fill.

She picked this place to enter at random, but she would've been lying if she'd claimed it wasn't nice to see a familiar face of sorts.

Even if they were talking to –– Well. "Who are you talking to?"

[kenselvren]

Jalian looked up and nodded at Octavia. "JARVIS is a sentient computer system built into this building. He has great knowledge of many things."

"Hello, Miss," JARVIS added.

[okteiviakom]

It was probably for the best that Octavia had been yanked from her homeworld before her people began dealing with a rogue AI.

But she still looked... not entirely comfortable with the concept.

"Right," she said. "The store has a personality."

[kenselvren]

Jalian nodded. "He is helping me adjust my Doorway to make the travel easier."

She gestured at the frame she'd been working on. "It's for traveling timelines. But what I need to do, it nearly killed me last time, so JARVIS is helping me make adjustments."

[okteiviakom]

"You have a time machine?" Octavia asked, incredulous – and forgetting about the AI for the moment. "Did you build it yourself?"

[kenselvren]

"Yes," Jalian said. "But it's not for changing times, usually. It's for changing timelines...here they call them 'dimensions'. Traveling to other worlds. It's not supposed to let you travel backward against entropy, or forward too quickly. Either can kill you."

Which, yes, was what she'd just said it had nearly done to her the first time.

[okteiviakom]

Octavia eyed the thing critically. Then shook her head. "So I guess I shouldn't ask about the chances of it getting me and my brother back where we came from."

Not 'home'. Home was complicated.

"We've had enough near-death experiences."

[kenselvren]

Jalian shrugged. "It could get you to your own timeline without a problem, but you would have to know where it was. Or I could set it to find the one that matches your entropy, but it could take hours or years to search for it."

[okteiviakom]

"Quite the scale," Octavia noted, very dryly. "I guess we'll take our chances just... waiting, for another one of whatever it was that yanked us here in teh first place."

[kenselvren]

Jalian grimaced in agreement. "I could not even find my own with it easily; I will use the portals here to return to my own timeline. The Corvichi that developed this tech weren't interested in specific places, only in exploring and moving."

And running away, but that was irrelevant right now.

[okteiviakom]

"The Corvichi?"

One thing you could count on with Octavia was her asking questions.

"Are those your people?

[kenselvren]

Jalian made a negative gesture with her hand. "The Corvichi aliens came to Earth; they showed ken Selvren technologies in exchange for help in getting things they needed."