{"id":2434,"date":"2013-11-03T16:30:37","date_gmt":"2013-11-03T23:30:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/blog\/?p=2434"},"modified":"2017-04-08T20:55:12","modified_gmt":"2017-04-09T03:55:12","slug":"marooned-on-track","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/2013\/11\/03\/marooned-on-track\/","title":{"rendered":"MAROONED On Track"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/MAROONED-2013-11-03.png\" width=\"600\" height=\"416\" alt=\"MAROONED 2013-11-03.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p>So far, so good. Not really a good excerpt to be had here, first drafty stuff \u2026 ok, how&#8217;s this:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s interesting,\u201d Dijo said, \u201cthat you\u2019re sort of a technological witch.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Serendipity looked up from her cauldron. The first step in getting the robots back up to speed had been getting Tianyu back up to speed, and to do that she needed components. With her fabricator in Toren\u2019s camp \u2026 her next best bet was her nanoseed.<\/p>\n<p>She\u2019d requisitioned a large cooking kettle from Leonid and filled it with biosludge, then heated it to the proper activation temperature. With a droplet from her nanoseed and the right dopants, Serendipity should be able to generate enough nanoplasm to make anything.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow do you figure,\u201d Serendipity said, stirring the cauldron slowly.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBubble, bubble, toil and trouble,\u201d Dijo said, raising a cylinder. \u201cYou\u2019re making potions. You\u2019ve got a familiar. You have what seem, to us technological primitives at least, like magic powers. All you need is a witches\u2019 hat and a magic broom\u2014\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy mom wears the hats,\u201d Serendipity said, \u201cbut I do have a farstaff.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt can fly?\u201d Dijo said, shocked. \u201cNot just teleport you, but actually <i>fly?<\/i>\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt can indeed,\u201d Serendipity said, taking the cylinder. \u201cMolybdenum. Excellent.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA<span lang=\"EN\" xml:lang=\"EN\">mmonium tetrathiomolybdate in solution,\u201d Dijo said. \u201cThat\u2019s from the hyperdrive, by the way, so don\u2019t go using it medicinally unless you separate it first.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN\" xml:lang=\"EN\">\u201cWhy would I use it\u2014oh, copper toxosis,\u201d Serendipity said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN\" xml:lang=\"EN\">\u201cDo you really have a ship\u2019s worth of Lore rattling around in your head?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Now off to see Gravity \u2026 which will probably be good inspiration for MAROONED!<\/p>\n<p>-the Centaur<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So far, so good. Not really a good excerpt to be had here, first drafty stuff \u2026 ok, how&#8217;s this: \u201cIt\u2019s interesting,\u201d Dijo said, \u201cthat you\u2019re sort of a technological&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[204,197,200,1],"tags":[4,91,87],"class_list":["post-2434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-challenges","category-fiction","category-science-fiction","category-uncategorized","tag-dragon-writers","tag-nanowrimo","tag-the-dresanians","ratio-2-1","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2434"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3688,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2434\/revisions\/3688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}