[Huvrye doesn't know nearly enough about this world's technology - namely, the internet. Sure, he'd gotten a brief explanation, and he'd picked up a bit from usage, but the fact that seeing privacy settings in action had taken him by surprise told him he definitely had more to learn. He can't have deep or dangerous conversations out in the open - not where everyone can see and react accordingly. He needs to know more about how all of this works.]
[He picks an evening when Leo doesn't seem to have much homework to ask. He is not expecting the conversation to span more than an hour and to cover factors he'd never thought of, let alone ask about (and he's fairly certain that "what Leo thinks is important" and "actual security risks" is a venn diagram overlap that is not a circle). Probably a good thing that he's not keeping Leo from his homework with this. He's still trying to wrap his mind around a few things.]
So you can just comment anonymously on some places, and people can't figure out it's you? You're sure it's secure?
[He picks an evening when Leo doesn't seem to have much homework to ask. He is not expecting the conversation to span more than an hour and to cover factors he'd never thought of, let alone ask about (and he's fairly certain that "what Leo thinks is important" and "actual security risks" is a venn diagram overlap that is not a circle). Probably a good thing that he's not keeping Leo from his homework with this. He's still trying to wrap his mind around a few things.]
So you can just comment anonymously on some places, and people can't figure out it's you? You're sure it's secure?
[It's either Leo or Mark, and Huvrye has leaned too heavily on Mark as of late to want to put yet another thing on his plate, so Leo it is.]
[After about the first fifteen minutes with no end in sight, he'd started writing down terms to look up later, if only too keep this from getting too off topic. "IP address" gets added to the bottom of the list.]
So it's good for venting, but not for planning, and it's only secure to a point.
[The point at which he lets something identifying slip, but he can watch out for that. He pulls up a specific conversation on Danny's OurPowers post and shows it to Leo - namely for the privacy settings.]
And how secure are these? If someone thought there was a conversation there that they couldn't see, would they be able to find it?
[After about the first fifteen minutes with no end in sight, he'd started writing down terms to look up later, if only too keep this from getting too off topic. "IP address" gets added to the bottom of the list.]
So it's good for venting, but not for planning, and it's only secure to a point.
[The point at which he lets something identifying slip, but he can watch out for that. He pulls up a specific conversation on Danny's OurPowers post and shows it to Leo - namely for the privacy settings.]
And how secure are these? If someone thought there was a conversation there that they couldn't see, would they be able to find it?
[So the answer is not secure enough, depending on the person.]
And we have no guarantee the guilds don't have a hacker on their payroll.
[He never knew the specifics of how Interground got found out in Lasardhi - only that it was his fault, his mistake that got them killed. If he's going to be on the side of a resistance here, he needs to make for absolute certain that it doesn't happen again, which means patching up holes in his knowledge and maybe being a little extra paranoid. OurPowers can't necessarily be trusted. It's entirely possible nothing online can be trusted, depending on how prolific these hackers might be.]
[That train of thought gets paused at Leo's question, and Huvrye blinks. He knows the definition of discord, but he's pretty sure that's not what Leo means here.]
Probably not the one you're talking about.
And we have no guarantee the guilds don't have a hacker on their payroll.
[He never knew the specifics of how Interground got found out in Lasardhi - only that it was his fault, his mistake that got them killed. If he's going to be on the side of a resistance here, he needs to make for absolute certain that it doesn't happen again, which means patching up holes in his knowledge and maybe being a little extra paranoid. OurPowers can't necessarily be trusted. It's entirely possible nothing online can be trusted, depending on how prolific these hackers might be.]
[That train of thought gets paused at Leo's question, and Huvrye blinks. He knows the definition of discord, but he's pretty sure that's not what Leo means here.]
Probably not the one you're talking about.
Right. Okay.
[More things he needs to learn. It feels like every time he knocks one off the list, three more take its place, but at least he is learning. Maybe everyone else has heard of Discord, and it'll be more secure to talk there. As long as he's the only one behind, that's fine - he'll just work harder to catch up and be more careful in the interim.]
[He just blinks at Leo's question. On the one hand, he'd thought it'd have been obvious; on the other hand, Leo hadn't been here when Huvrye had first arrived, and he'd gotten his crash course on modern-for-this-world communication elsewhere.]
Nope. No internet, no computers, no phones like this. [He gestures at his phone.] We mostly used alchemy, and radio if we needed a hard line for any reason.
[He holds up a hand, palm out, and an alchemical array glows red above his palm, concentric circles and lettering forming neatly in the air. It's a partial array - there's no connection point, no intended recipient - but that doesn't matter when it's meant to be an example. He's not about to make a functional array with no end point, because that's a security nightmare waiting to happen and he's not going to take the risk of someone (either someone from his world who'd arrived unbeknownst to him or a person with compatible powers) connecting when he's not aware of it.]
[More things he needs to learn. It feels like every time he knocks one off the list, three more take its place, but at least he is learning. Maybe everyone else has heard of Discord, and it'll be more secure to talk there. As long as he's the only one behind, that's fine - he'll just work harder to catch up and be more careful in the interim.]
[He just blinks at Leo's question. On the one hand, he'd thought it'd have been obvious; on the other hand, Leo hadn't been here when Huvrye had first arrived, and he'd gotten his crash course on modern-for-this-world communication elsewhere.]
Nope. No internet, no computers, no phones like this. [He gestures at his phone.] We mostly used alchemy, and radio if we needed a hard line for any reason.
[He holds up a hand, palm out, and an alchemical array glows red above his palm, concentric circles and lettering forming neatly in the air. It's a partial array - there's no connection point, no intended recipient - but that doesn't matter when it's meant to be an example. He's not about to make a functional array with no end point, because that's a security nightmare waiting to happen and he's not going to take the risk of someone (either someone from his world who'd arrived unbeknownst to him or a person with compatible powers) connecting when he's not aware of it.]
[He lets Leo inspect the array, wondering not for the first time if anyone here would be capable of learning alchemy the way he knows it. He doubts it - alchemy draws on aura, and he's not much of a teacher as it is - but it's still an idea.]
[And then Leo offers his opinion. Huvrye gives him a flat look and pulls on the edge of the circle, dispersing the array.]
Alchemy is less of a security nightmare.
[The internet may be capable of more overall, but alchemy is a lot less vulnerable when it comes to private conversations. (Which isn't exactly useful when nobody else can use it, but the point still stands as far as he's concerned.)]
[And then Leo offers his opinion. Huvrye gives him a flat look and pulls on the edge of the circle, dispersing the array.]
Alchemy is less of a security nightmare.
[The internet may be capable of more overall, but alchemy is a lot less vulnerable when it comes to private conversations. (Which isn't exactly useful when nobody else can use it, but the point still stands as far as he's concerned.)]
[Huvrye raises an eyebrow but says nothing. Leo's been through a lot, but he's still a civ and a kid; he's allowed to think like that.]
[(Leo still thinks he's talking to a person, after all, and not a weapon designed and built with military efficiency in mind, and Huvrye isn't planning on disillusioning him anytime soon. Or ever.)]
[Leo changes the subject, and Huvrye follows it. He's got enough to go on for now; he can do his own research when Leo's asleep tonight, or follow up with someone else if need be.]
Cool flying sports.
[The correction comes with the edges of a grin that settle into a smile.]
We have movies, though they look a lot different from the ones here and they're only in theaters - I think it's mostly just rich civs who have TVs. There's always books and the radio, though.
[He doesn't talk much about his world because it's a nightmare, and the more he talks about it, the clearer it'll be that he was never a civ and didn't have the sorts of experiences a normal person would have. Leo's not an idiot; Huvrye's pretty sure Leo can put the pieces together if he has enough of them, so he hasn't been providing many of them.]
[(Leo still thinks he's talking to a person, after all, and not a weapon designed and built with military efficiency in mind, and Huvrye isn't planning on disillusioning him anytime soon. Or ever.)]
[Leo changes the subject, and Huvrye follows it. He's got enough to go on for now; he can do his own research when Leo's asleep tonight, or follow up with someone else if need be.]
Cool flying sports.
[The correction comes with the edges of a grin that settle into a smile.]
We have movies, though they look a lot different from the ones here and they're only in theaters - I think it's mostly just rich civs who have TVs. There's always books and the radio, though.
[He doesn't talk much about his world because it's a nightmare, and the more he talks about it, the clearer it'll be that he was never a civ and didn't have the sorts of experiences a normal person would have. Leo's not an idiot; Huvrye's pretty sure Leo can put the pieces together if he has enough of them, so he hasn't been providing many of them.]
Hamato, I found more suspicious news stories about Fantastic.
[He's sending some links along and that's it, that's the whole message. Extremely sociable, this guy.]
[He's sending some links along and that's it, that's the whole message. Extremely sociable, this guy.]
Okay, there's a few.
[What follows is an explanation of several flight-based sports, provided by someone who gets the idea of all of them but isn't really into the details. It's clear he knows them, in the way a human from Earth might know baseball or basketball or soccer, but he doesn't really play.]
I'd offer to show you, but I don't think we could find the right space around here, and also you don't fly.
[What follows is an explanation of several flight-based sports, provided by someone who gets the idea of all of them but isn't really into the details. It's clear he knows them, in the way a human from Earth might know baseball or basketball or soccer, but he doesn't really play.]
I'd offer to show you, but I don't think we could find the right space around here, and also you don't fly.
[That... is a very strange reaction to something that should be totally normal.]
What are you talking about? I call most people by their last names.
What are you talking about? I call most people by their last names.
Oh.
I ran into your brother when I was in Washington. He told me a bunch of shit, including that.
I ran into your brother when I was in Washington. He told me a bunch of shit, including that.
Donatello.
[Just going to full name him.]
You're right, he's smart.
[Just going to full name him.]
You're right, he's smart.
I figured you two would run into each other eventually. I'm not going to hold your fucking hands.
[He sends that, but at the same time....]
Did you find him?
[Lmao. Yeah.]
Shredder. Some family crap. I can go into more detail if you don't care about texts. [Or rather, having all this sent over OurPowers.]
[He sends that, but at the same time....]
Did you find him?
[Lmao. Yeah.]
Shredder. Some family crap. I can go into more detail if you don't care about texts. [Or rather, having all this sent over OurPowers.]
[Great. Look at them, two capable turtles.
Hmm. Well.]
I was asking him a lot of questions. I could've stopped at any time, but I didn't.
[He'll just throw that out there. Leo does have a point, though.]
And to be completely fair, I told him some shit about myself, too. If you really want things balanced I can repeat it all for you. I don't care.
[It wouldn't be completely balanced because Donnie told him way more personal stuff than vice versa, but this is one of those situations Yomikawa talked about where he can be slightly less of a jerk than normal. Pay back a tiny fraction of the interest on that immense debt he has.]
Hmm. Well.]
I was asking him a lot of questions. I could've stopped at any time, but I didn't.
[He'll just throw that out there. Leo does have a point, though.]
And to be completely fair, I told him some shit about myself, too. If you really want things balanced I can repeat it all for you. I don't care.
[It wouldn't be completely balanced because Donnie told him way more personal stuff than vice versa, but this is one of those situations Yomikawa talked about where he can be slightly less of a jerk than normal. Pay back a tiny fraction of the interest on that immense debt he has.]
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