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[The feed begins without warning, picturing a young blonde boy sitting at his console. He’s slowly—oh so slowly, like the world’s most meticulous woodpecker—typing at the keyboard. One letter at a time. Tap. Tap. Tap. His gaze keeps switching from his hands to his screen, squinting, cocking his eyebrow, leaning in or out to get a better look, with an expression of concentration so intense it’s a wonder he hasn’t set fire to anything yet.]

[It’s obvious he’s never seen a computer, or anything remotely like it, in his life.]

[In the background, another boy is pacing around. Despite looking far more ragged than Armin, he seems to have limitless energy. He’s moving furniture, asking if Armin’s gotten the “lightsbox” working yet, switching light switches on and off, and eventually settling for carrying a lamp around.]

[They're both wearing a peculiar sort of uniform with a winged emblem on the shoulder and back, and for some reason, a very complex harness of belts.]

[Armin keeps on hunting and pecking as he was until he glances up to the monitor again, and notices something different.]

Recording…?

[He looks up out of the corner of his eye as he tries to remember what he was explained that implies. Surprise crosses his face as it returns to him.]

Ah, yes, recording-- Eren! I think I've gotten it to start showing us to everyone else!

[His friend shouts from the background]

Ask who's there! Anyone we know? Who's there?!

I suppose that's as good of a question as any... Is there anyone out there that we would know?

My name is Armin Arlert, of the 104th Trainee's Squad, presently in the Scouting Legion-- although I doubt that holds much weight here. Anyone from our "world" would be familiar with those terms though, so please, if you are, respond. And anyone else for that matter, who isn't a Kedan; what is Keeliai, exactly? Why are we brought here? What is beyond these walls? What could this city possibly be a stronghold against?

[He looks concerned, and leans back in his chair a little. There had to be some sort of threat, if they bothered with security... And he tended to think of such things in bad-as-possible terms.]

[Eren seems very grimly determined to ruin his eyesight as he tries to figure out how electricity works, switching his lamp on and off.]

...This place can't be any good if Mikasa isn't here too. [He mutters bitterly.]

[Armin sighs, because he feels the same way. He stares off blankly.]

We'll find her. It's only a matter of time.

ooc: [Joint post between Armin Arlert and Eren Yaeger. Specify who you want, or not, or both! Expect threadjacking, and lots of it.]

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[Temeraire leans in excitedly at the prospect of New Technology!! and listens intently to Armin's explanation. He nods along, bobbing his head intently, until the implications of it all finally catch up to him somewhere around my spine would probably snap.

He rears back, a little horrified.]

You mean to say you use your gear to fling yourself about like rag-dolls, and the whole thing is powered by explosions, besides? [This is the most worrying substitute for dragons he has come across yet.] But is that not very dangerous?

Edited 2013-09-20 03:49 (UTC)

Oh, extremely. [He'd need like, a dozen hands to count how many times hes nearly killed himself using it.] It's terrifying at first. Many people quit in basic training. But using it is the only way to kill Titans...

Titans? What are they?

[And despite Armin's already having said that he has never seen a dragon before, part of Temeraire is still going please don't be dragons please don't be dragons]

[Don't worry Tem you are cool he would never kill you.]

They're huge, brainless humanoid creatures-- they can be as tall as 15 meters-- and their only purpose in existing is to eat people...

Do they really not exist in other worlds? It's so hard to believe, they're such a constant presence where I come from.

[People the size of small middleweights--people who eat people--

Temeraire's ruff flares a little in horrified disgust at the thought.]

I have never heard the like before, and you can be sure I would be trying to stop them if I had. But why do they eat people? Would they not settle for cows, perhaps, or sheep?

[He shakes his head.]

Titans are only interested in eating people. They don't actually have to eat at all-- Titans don't have digestive organs like we do. So we assume that they consume humans simply for pleasure.

[A faint, worried shudder.] And without dragons to help you reach such tall creatures, you must resort to other means.

[He pauses, considering.] But there must be some less dangerous way, must there not? Pray, have you considered cannons or guns, or have they not been invented, where you are from?

I agree that something as big as you, and with such great teeth and claws, would make quick work of a Titan. I'm glad that you're sentient...

We do have several kinds of ballistic weapons. But cannons can only slow a Titan. They have incredible regenerative capabilities; even if you manage to blow off their heads, they can keep going.

To kill a Titan, you must either completely obliterate them, or cut a chunk of flesh at a precise spot at the napes of their necks. That's why the maneuver gear is the most efficient way of killing them, even if it's also the most risky. It's the only way to reach that spot.

Edited 2013-09-29 18:43 (UTC)

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