Heavenly Blanc Void Party

[starshower]

🥂 HEAVENLY BLANC VOID PARTY 🥂 Who: Everyone! What: Heavenly Blanc mingle and info exchange Where: The Heavenly Blanc Bar and Café When: "August 1"; but really, what is time Content Warnings: N/A Maybe you heard through word of mouth, or got an invite from the barista and barkeep directly, or spotted the handwritten paper invites hung up around the area, but there is a gathering happening at the Heavenly Blanc Bar and Café TODAY! So feel free to stop by, hang out, have some drinks, and share some stories. 🍺 DRINKS: Coffee will be served by Ren, and Tifa will be handling the other drinks. There's a wide variety behind the bar, ranging from alcoholic to the non-alcoholic, with delicious cocktails (yes, including virgin ones for the minors) to pick from. And before you ask - no, if you are underage, you may not have alcohol. Tifa will be very strict about it, and anyone who tries to bypass her imposed law will be subject to room temperature tapwater for the rest of the party. 🎲 GAMES: Various boardgames that came along with Le Blanc will be made available for all to play, including a Shogi board for the strategically inclined (and whoever knows how the heck to play it). Along the side wall are two pinball machines, and while they don't light up and make sounds, the mechanisms inside them still work, so they aren't completely out of the picture! Next to them, between the jukebox and the door is a dart board. Please do be mindful when throwing darts, as the light filtering into the bar through the front windows is very minimal. 🤔 INFORMATION EXCHANGE: The important part! When all are gathered inside the bar, Tifa and Ren will make a small announcement for everyone: "Now that we've all had the chance to take a look around and get our bearings, I wanna encourage everyone to exchange what you know, or what you've found. Even share it with the rest of us! Locations, ideas, theories - anything that could be useful in helping us all figure this out. We all come from different worlds, but we're stuck here, so we're in this together until we're not, yeah? Let's make friends and play nice, and most importantly, have fun today! Oh, and if you're coming and going, make sure to close the door nice and tight behind you." "It's nice to see everyone. Since we're stuck here together, let's cooperate well." ☕ OOC NOTES ☕ This is the open mingle post for the Heavenly Blanc void party! Please feel free to top-level and tag around. There is a top-level included here for you to post OOC notes of what their characters have discussed on the log, as well as their own thoughts about the world. If there is anything important that people should know, please reply to the top-level with the information, so that it's easy to find for everyone. General info posts about what your character will be talking about are fine as well. Just please try to avoid multiple edits if you can as you thread if you are going that route! for the sake of my dw inbox... Because this is an info exchange/mingle post, we encourage thread-jacking. However, we know that not everyone is into that kind of thing, so if you are okay with others hopping into your threads, please be sure to indicate it in your top-level. Questions about the log can be directed to the ooc post. Have fun!

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[begetblue]

No, I specifically mean sapient.

[ Now that Turing thought about it, while many people had taken their word for it, it wasn't all that surprising for someone to be incredulous at the idea of a sapient machine. ]

Though I must admit, I'm not sure how I could prove it if you asked.

[realway]

You don't need to prove it. [ she reassures, because she doesn't doubt. it's just curious to her. ] Are you... allowed to tell me why? What your creator's intent was.

[ droids, in her experience, are built to fulfill a function. to operate starships, assist in negotiations by setting protocols and providing translations, and so on. what is the end goal of making a sapient machine? ]

[begetblue]

I...can. There is nothing preventing me from telling you.

[ There didn't seem to be any immediate danger in talking about it. It didn't seem like anyone knew about Parallax, or even what ROMs were for that matter. Still, the danger hadn't seem immediate before, either.

Turing hesitated before answering. Surely this information was safe to divulge. ]

Hayden-- My creator was mainly interested in developing a way to transfer human consciousness into a machine.

[realway]

[ she notices the hesitation, and thinks of letting the whole thing go if it continued. the answer brings her to pause next. ]

That's... really taboo, even across a whole galaxy. [ she's careful to not sound disapproving, even if the idea doesn't settle right in her mind. ] I won't ask why, but your creator is really playing with fire.

[begetblue]

[ There was a a pause as Turing considered how to respond to that. It felt like ages to them, but maybe that was because they were more inclined to thing about time in clock cycles rather than minutes and seconds. ]

Don't worry... He's not anymore.

[realway]

Oh. I'm sorry, I didn't... mean it like that. [ she sighs, recalling making a similar fumble with legion. ] Did it happen recently?

[begetblue]

...Yes.

[ Turing stared at the table. They were acutely aware of the face they were making. On the other hand, they knew it wasn't healthy to push away their emotions and pretend everything was OK when it wasn't. They were in a bit of a conundrum in that respect, and that was before taking into account that this wasn't the time or place. ]

Pardon me, but could we change the subject?

[realway]

Of course.

[ it's in her nature to pry, get into the details, but she's never quite seen a droid so distressed. she won't be insensitive. ]

I've been asking you a lot of things. Is there anything you want to ask me?

[begetblue]

[ Turing's posture relaxed some. The question was also a very welcome distraction. ]

There is. May I ask for your name first?

[realway]

Ahsoka Tano. [ that was easy! ] I didn't get yours either.

[ some droids have names, others are known by their model. if he's sapient then she assumes he has a firmer sense of identity. ]

[begetblue]

Oh! Pardon me. It is a little rude to ask for someone's name before offering my own first... I need more practice with introducing myself, it seems.

[ Though to be fair, they had been knocked off-kilter by the conversation thus far. ]

My name is Turing.