/vx/ - Videogames and Paranormal

>>159729
"What of the precise measurements we have gotten so good at? Where even the distance of heavenly bodies can be determined simply by looking at them and providing calculations?"

>>159735
"A line on a spectrometer makes a certain reading, or a radio wave takes a certain amount of time, but what does that mean, really? It is far from the same thing as proving it to exist in the way our senses, naively, would have us believe. That is why the conclusions of White and Stone are so meaningful. Even the instruments tell us something different, once you go far enough, or deep enough.

>>159734
"Oh, thank you!"
Both mares lean in, and hug Dark Star. Tricky hugs around his neck, while Sorrel hugs around where his chest connects to his belly.

>>159736
"That truly is amazing."

>>159736
"It's no problem at all."
He smiles

>>159738
Tricky pulls herself up. Sorrel doesn't.

"So... where can we stay?" She asks with a smile. And now Sorrel pulls herself up, going for a drink.

>>159739
"I Have a room here."
He says

>>159740
"Like... at the tavern?" Tricky asks, confused

>>159741
"Yea there are a few rooms available. I have one rented."

>>159737
"The philosophers proposed this simple question. How can like know like? How can the dumb matter we see, ever give rise to anything like thought, experience, or emotion? The answer they came up with, after much consideration, was that the two are not so different after all. That both are made of the same fundamental substance. Something ideal, or spiritual, more akin to desire than to matter."

>>159742
"Oh..." Tricky says

Se smiles
"Why'd you rent one here?"

>>159744
"Its a Nice Place. But if you're looking for something a little more ritzy there's this hotel uptown."

>>159745
She spends a moment, clearly pondering the question. Sorrel resumes hugging onto Dark Star, placing her muzzle behind his neck, and wrapping her forelegs just under his legs around his chest. He can feel her (mostly) smooth fur against his.

>>159746
>(mostly)
Hmmmm
Dark Star Drinks the remainder of his whiskey while she's pondering the question.

>>159747
A little course in areas, she's not perfect.

Tricky:
"Wherever you want to take us" She says, leaning in with a wide smile, showing teeth, and half lidded eyes.

Sorrel:
"You smell strange."

>>159748
Dark Star stands up
"Well Mr'Glass that's it for the night I reckon."
To Tricky
"Alright, the east side it is."
To sorrel
"Yea i tried out a new fur wash. probably not gonna use it again."

>>159749
Glistening Glass:
"Would you like to close out your tab?"

Sorrel is knocked off balance by this, almost falling to the ground, and taking a moment to orient herself.

Tricky turns and looks to Solar, before standing up.
"Very well."

Sorrel stands up, stumbling for a moment, before eventually coming to her four hooves and looking over to Dark Star.
"No, it... You smelled like wood."

>>159750
"Yea lets close the tab. how much do I owe you?"
To Sorrel
"it was pine scented."

>>159751
"35 bits." Glistening Glass answers.

Sorrel:
"And metal. And leather."

>>159743
"And what is this substance? Is it what you were talking about earlier with physics?"

>>159752
He puts the bits down on the counter
"Here you go Mr.Glass"
to sorrel
"I've been carrying around my bag all day."

>>159754
Sorrel tilts her head.
"You have wood and metal and leather in your bag?"

Glistening Glass takes the bits
"Thank you, and come back any time."

>>159753
"As our minds know it, and all we ever know is the contents of our mind, surely it must be like our minds."

>>159755
"How can it be like our minds? What's in our minds is formless, not even entirely understood."

>>159755
"My bag is made of metal and leather, and the fur wash smells like pine."
He leads them to the room

>>159756
"Oh, but there is very much in our minds that is formless. Desire, for instance. Or passion. Emotion. The bare experience itself. All of this is without form."

>>159757
Sorrel:
"Well.. you smell interesting."

The two ponies follow Solar Night, with Tricky moving up to him, and gently rubbing his coat. Sorrel lags a little behind. They move through the door into the second section of the tavern, then up the stairs, to the room, unlocking it, and...

It's a simple enough room, with wooden floors, a window and a bed

Tricky:
"Not super nice, but definitely a room."

Sorrel heads directly towards the bed.

>>159758
Dark Star goes over to a chair in the corner and sits as he turns on the radio.

>>159758
"How can we properly describe it then…except…through such means as art and music?"

>>159759
The first channel: Jazz

>>159760
He nods
"And that is part of the way. Art, music, and especially, through spiritual practices."

>>159761
Turns the knob

>>159761
"I think I see your point now. We can't hope to explain everything as a physical process, so such things as music and mysticism take precedent."

>>159762
A news report on another horrifying crime in Baltimare. Looks like more creatures were murdered in what is presumed to be an organized crime related killing spree.

>>159763
"Indeed. But let us not stop at that. Just as there may be much to reality outside ourselves that we never know, as we lack the senses to perceive it, so too there may be an entire world within us that we do not understand. Psychologists in the last 50 years have made much progress in uncovering that part of our mind below conscious perception."

>>159764
Dark Star Listens intently

>>159764
"A microscopic world of bacteria? Or are you are referring to something more intangible, part of the mind that isn't oneself?"

>>159765
Six dead, believed organized crime connection, a few leads, illegal firearms, and more information to follow as there are more developments. The third massive shooting in just 10 days. Mayor Larry Berry denies that Baltimare is becoming Manehattan, no comment on the accusations against Councilstallion Burgher.

>>159766
"The latter, although there may be lessons in the former. Desires and passions you do not acknowledge you have. Parts of your psyche that are as invisible to you as radio waves, but affect you all the same."

>>159767
Dark Star stokes his chin in thought
"Leads?"

>>159768
A few leads in the the investigation to find the perpetrators

Tricky:
gasp
"That's horrible!"

>>159769
"I know, Baltimare isn't what it used to be..."

>>159770
Tricky:

"Doesn't matter for us." She says. "We're in here."

She walks up to Solar Night, with her fire-yellow man flowing to either side, and her eyes lidded. She moves, and places her forelegs upon the armrest of the chair, leaning forward to Dark Star.

>>159771
He Listens to the radio more, enthralled by the story.

>>159772
It looks like the police are deliberately withholding information as a part of the investigation. The news story cuts away to a toothpaste commercial, with its own little jingle.

>>159773
"Unbelievable. "
He shakes his head

>>159774
"It is." She says. "We didn't have anything like this back in Hearthwarming, when the Princess was on the throne."

>>159775
He tries to keep his contempt for the princesses hidden
"Yea, it was a lot better then."

>>159776
"You want to make it better?" Tricky asks

>>159777
"Better how?"
He looks over at her

>>159778
"You tell me." She says, both legs over the armrest.

"You want to be mayor."

>>159779
"Well, driving out organized crime would be a good start."

>>159780
"It would be."

She leans in, puckers her lips, and kisses Solar Night, right on the end of the lips.

>>159781
"Tricky, you're drunk."

>>159782
She pulls away, but smiles,
"Only a little, and no more than you."

Sorrel:
"I'm not drunk! You're drunk!"

>>159783
He laughs at sorrel's response.
"She's a lightweight."