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Character(s): Christine
Status: Open
Location(s): In libraries in Krimnos and the City of Whatever it's Name is This Week
Date(s) April 1-17
About: Christine's idea led to a research compling mission, and a strange sight in Idan's libraries and bookstores.
Warnings: Only if you don't like reading about metal wasps.

The idea was one she thought probably wasn't feasible, else someone would have thought of it before. But it turns out the project is not only possible, but bigger than she could have imagined. Helping people in the future have access to more knowledge at their fingertips is a noble goal, but she has to admit that she's doing this for herself too. Not only will she hopefully get to use this book in her own lifetime, but she's getting paid for doing the legwork too.

{ krimnos }
She starts in the city of the Tinkers after they test their knowledge-gathering wasps on their own Academy's library first. Then she's set loose with a box containing the metal wasps and sent on her way. The project can be done at her own pace, but she's so excited that she heads to another library in Krimnos straight away.

She can be found sitting at a desk, thumbing through a book and giving someone a look, eyebrows raised. "Please don't swat at my wasps. They aren't going to sting you."

{ city of free peoples, aka freeps }
Her work in Krimnos is far from done. Gathering all the information in all the books will take time, but she wants to move on to other things. After a brief stop at home, she journeys southwest to the city of so much conflict recently, to see if King Ardis' soldiers have been in anymore scraps with werewolves, Defenders, or both and need her healing services. While in the area, she heads into the city to visit a library and sets a box on one of the tables. Opening the lid, the two metal wasps go flying out to scan as many books as they can. A patron looks at the wasps, looks at Christine, and looks at the falcon now sitting on the table before quickly clutching a book to their chest and scurrying to the front desk. Christine sighs and looks at her animas.

"I guess we'll have to get the information out of that particular book next time, hm?"

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"Depending on who you ask, they could be one and the same," Shura replies cheerfully. She might be holding back the impulse to go poke at one of them. The only thing holding her back is the potential that they might actually have some kind of stinger built in as a defense mechanism. "Those guys seem like that type!"

"Well, you asked me, and that's my answer." She's not one of the inventors, and she's sure they're not all single-minded in how they invent things.

"Perhaps some would be, but they gave the wasps to me to collect information and didn't leave it to themselves. If they felt these were toys, they might have kept the enjoyment for them alone."

"I'm sure they kept a few prototypes for themselves, nyahaha!" Prototypes to take home to the kids, that kind of excuse. 'Oh, this one just needs to be calibrated again,' something like that.

Information gathering, though. Shura watches the wasp scan over the spine of a book. "It looks like they can read."

Christine looks over too and sets her chin in her hand.

"It's more absorbing the information to be retrieved later. They're not really learning anything."

"Absorbing? Like it's memorizing it and storin' it somewhere?" Like a metal, stinging sponge. Or something. Shura isn't quite sure where this is going.

"Yes, like that. And the Tinkers know how to retrieve that wealth of information and put it in a source book." Her mouth twitches with a smile. "They're all rather excited about it."

That would make those guys happy. It'd probably make a lot of bookworms happy. Shura relied on said bookworms for her general information, since doing hours and hours of research wasn't exactly a strength, so she'll consider it a good thing.

"One that's open to everyone, or just the Tinkers?"

"Eventually to everyone. They have to test the source book first, and once they're sure it's operating correctly, they want to make copies to distribute among the libraries of Idan. I'm not sure if personal editions for home use will be made later. It would be more convenient, but perhaps a conflict of interests with the publishers of the original books."

Christine offers a shrug. "But I have no hand in those logistics. I merely came up with the idea in the first place."

"Clever girl." And a generous move on the part of the Tinkers, though there could be more to their apparent generosity. Well, so long as they weren't hoarding it all away for themselves, it'd probably work out.

"Work hard, then~ I'm sure someone down along the line will ow you a big one."

She smiles faintly. This idea of hers is meant to make life easier for everyone.

"Well, the faster we can access the information we need, the more we can all accomplish. I hope this makes a difference in the world."