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[urbandev]

[Hello, community -- this is a video post, and for once it's intentional. Reeve is standing in front of a field of debris, and far in the background is an ocean. Reeve pushes a button -- and suddenly a huge dam across the harbor lights up. Water begins pouring through it, spinning turbines and as the energy builds, a generator in the foregrounds hums to life.]

And there it is.

[Reeve looks unapologetic ally proud, settling a familiar, furry kitten on his hip.] The Midgar reconstruction project is now one-hundred percent clean energy. If we can finish out the year successfully, we can begin phasing in hydroelectric power in place of coal. Edge should be 100% self sustaining in five years. And to think, Rufus wanted solar power.

And now, I am taking a very well earned vacation.

[Private; Locked to friends of 11-12.]

Is there anyone who would be willing to host 11-12 for a few days, let him explore their world? I'm sorry to ask like this, but it's rather important.

Comments

[number1112]

Congratulations - and I'm glad.

[urbandev]

Yes, I'm sure you are.

[number1112]

I'm proud of you, you know. I know how hard you work.

[urbandev]

Thank you, sweetheart.

[number1112]

I've got a little surprise when you get home. Don't be too late.

[rewritereality]

Woah. Did you do all that by yourself?

[Not that it's likely and certainly not for her world but hey, maybe his is different.]

[urbandev]

Well, not the construction. But it's my design and I did a great deal of the wiring.

[rewritereality]

Impressive. You're quite the smart type, aren't you?

[urbandev]

I suppose so, yes.

[Reeve isn't going to make a big deal out of it, but he sort of redefined salable energy on Gaia. Twice.]

[rewritereality]

Modest, too. Quite the protagonist, if you ask me. Or maybe the sidekick to the protagonist who everyone likes better.

[makewayforroze]

You did a good job!

They have CR, right? /fail

[urbandev]

Thank you, Roze.

Yep, very limited, met through knowing 11-12 xD

[makewayforroze]

What does this mean for your world? It will be better now, won't it?

Re: Yep, very limited, met through knowing 11-12 xD

[urbandev]

Much better, I hope, but I don't want to jinx it.

[makewayforroze]

I wouldn't worry. It looks like you've worked very hard.

[Private]

[p_a_r_a_d_o_x]

He's always welcome here.

It's something the matter?

Re: [Private]

[urbandev]

I'll see what he says. It's his decision, ultimately.

Not -- in the sense you're thinking. He's just so dependent on me, and I'm afraid that if anything ever happened, he'd be... lost.

[Arthur's been in 11-12's subconscious, Reeve trusts him to understand.]

[Private]

[p_a_r_a_d_o_x]

Of course.

Ah, I see. [Yes, Arthur understands, way too well.]

Did he finish his studies? Or does he have a job now? One could be good for him even if it's just something simple.

Re: [Private]

[urbandev]

No. I've tried to get him interested in-- anything outside the condo, but he doesn't seem to want to leave.

I know this adjustment has been terrible for him, I just hate the thought that if anything happened to me, he would... become what he was before.

[Private]

[p_a_r_a_d_o_x]

You could start with a personal teacher, someone that goes there and eventually, slowly, helps him to get out.

I promise that if something happen to you I will look after him.

[rockstark]

Clean energy, huh? [Tony looks up from a set of blueprints of his own] Nice work. I'm doing something along similar lines, myself.

Where's vacation territory at, for you?

[urbandev]

Really? [Reeve can't help but perk up. More ideas are always better -- Gaia's still a long way from sustainable energy for all.] May I ask what you're working on?

[As for his vacation... he smiles a little, looking fond.]

Just back home. I made someone a promise that, barring complete catastrophe, he could have my full and devoted attention.

[rockstark]

It's a larger version of this, basically. [he taps his chest, where the glow of the arc reactor is faintly visible under his tank top] Small generator called an arc reactor ... it's self-sustaining.

[urbandev]

[Tony, are you inviting him into your shirt?]

Entirely self-sustaining? What about emissions?

[rockstark]

[no, Reeve, he's not that kind of a guy. but if you are, he won't hold it against you]

It depends on what element's used to power it ... palladium works, but it's got a pretty nasty chemical output that can be counteracted by a certain ratio of chlorophyll ...

Right now I've got a new element, giving it a road test. They wouldn't let me patent "badassium" so I settled on "legatium". That's still pending, too, though. So far, though, so good. It's been running on it a few months with no side effects. It's entropy mainly, no real discernible gaseous, liquid, or solid emissions. Just an energy exchange.