[july] keep me in the dollhouse, dressed up

[princessvegas]

Who: Julie Lawry
When: July
Where: Cadens, Horizon, maybe Nocwich
What: July catch-all
Warnings: marked in threads

[ ooc: closed starters below, bitchcraft or bitchcrafty on discord to plot ]

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[techmaturgy]

[They both might guess that Viktor is not really a guy who does his own cooking. Moreso now, but mostly because he has to. Back home, it was far too easy to rely on the campus dining hall, or simply to forget to eat entirely.

Suffice to say he won't be making much use of these devices himself, but as a beneficiary of Alucard's cooking, he can at least pay attention.]

Oh. The internet. [Predictably, that's what he zeroes in on, because Viktor likes the idea of the internet very much.] That is the sort of technology that fascinates me.

[No offense to Williams-Sonoma, or anything.]

[cryptsleeper]

[Alucard has like, opposite interest in the Internet. He understands the overall concept, but look at all the means of cooking. One is more useful to survival than the other!

The dhampir is immediately fixed on the pasta attachment. The dough will keep getting longer the more that it is worked and rolled, so he moves over to Julie to offer a second set of hands for the process.]

Whereas this alleviates some of the least fun parts of making pierogi for certain people in all of our lives. [He's made so many for Geralt, Jaskier, and Ciri over the past few years.] It'll let me speed production up and focus my dexterity elsewhere.

[princessvegas]

And there's a different attachment for pasta that needs a specific shape. Plus, it can do stuff like make ice cream, grind grains and nuts for flour, shave ice, make vegetables do that spiral thing. It's kind of an all in one deal.

[ Unfortunately for Alucard, Viktor is the one who has found the magic key in this discussion. Julie isn't much for the kitchen in general, so this presentation has been something she's doing for someone else. But the internet, the internet, that's what immediately catches her gnat-like attention span, and she zeroes in on Viktor with huge, bright eyes and a somewhat intimidating ardor for the subject. ]

Oh my god, the internet. I miss the internet so much, more'n TV or food or whatever. I don't think you can jump straight to the internet, but Viktor, if you ever manage to figure it out, you'd be the most brilliant inventor ever.

[ In an act she generally reserves for only the closest people in her circle, she produces an iPhone 11 in a glittering pink case. It is shoved at him in a way that's almost forceful. ]

Has anyone ever showed you a smartphone? I sorta made a version of the internet for mine, but it only works for stuff I already know. But the apps and the camera and stuff all work right!

[cryptsleeper]

[Look. Alucard is now here solely to make pasta. Which means he's just going to listen to this internet discussion as the pasta sheets get longer and longer, and he keeps adjusting the roller dial to roll the sheets thinner and thinner. Ideal set up, so far as he is concerned.]

[techmaturgy]

Oh! Yes, the cellular phones. I love these.

[The touch screen, in particular, is very exciting to him. Viktor seems entirely unfazed by the pink case, taking the proffered device and immediately starting to swipe. Sorry to your pasta, Alucard.]

We have radio transmission, back home, but nothing like this. I understand the concept, but I don't think the necessary materials are available in Cadens to make this leap.

[He sounds slightly broken up about that.]

If I could, though, I would. In an instant.

[princessvegas]

Probably not. [ She glumly agrees with the assessment. ] I mean, it'd be skippin' like, fifty steps on the timeline. Phones. Computers. Networks. Plus like, a dozen coding languages for it all.

[ And Julie's sure there's so much more that she doesn't even know enough about to think of. The reality of essentially going backward in time, in relation to technology, can be a bummer sometimes. Even in the apocalypse, they still had the technology. They just needed to be able to power and run it. ]

Here, lemme make you one. [ With barely a thought, she manifests a second iPhone, this one in a plain black case, and sets it on the counter. She taps it awake, and the into screen welcomes Viktor before it asks for his thumbprint and face scan. ] I can't guarantee everythin' inside is right -- I don't know much about how they make 'em. I just know they work, so they do here.

[ She glances over at Alucard, just making sheets of pasta. ] I think the ravioli one is probably a huge timesaver too. And the one that makes the tube kinda pasta, 'stead of flat.