Log: day 57 (video)

[tinyfoods]

[The camera feed comes on showing a somewhat skewed scene of half-built robots and several large monitors surround a central control panel. Then the view rotates as Entrapta adjusts the device. Now the background shows a rather tall, deep red crystal that has wires and cords attached to it.

In front of it all, Entrapta looks very happy, despite the fact that she also looks like she hasn't eaten in some time. There's just been too much to do!]

Okay. It's day 57! [Yes, she's been keeping count of the days since she arrived.] And I've been making a lot of progress in my work!

[For a second it might seem like she's going to be using this as a sort of video diary, but she quickly moves away from that nonsense to something more pertinent.]

What I need to know is how energy flows from this side of Wonderland to the other side. If it does at all. But it must, if the Core is able to process data from this side.

[She gestures with her hair as she speaks, the ends of the strands looking perhaps alarmingly like fingers and hands.]

If I can figure out that transfer of energy, I can probably connect the black garnet [a gesture over her shoulder at the crystal] directly into the energy source! I could potentially divert power directly from the Core and it could have all sorts of potential uses!

[For a second she looks like she's going to go on about some of those potential uses, but then her stomach growls loudly enough for the mic to pick it up. She falters and then looks kind of embarrassed for a second.]

Um, but first I should probably eat something.

[With that, she reaches out with one piece of hair to turn the video off.]

Comments

[tinyfoods]

What kind of monster? How big? What cities does it attack? Why does it attack them? Is it really an it or am I choosing the wrong pronoun?

[She can go on, Stan.]

I'm sure it won't do anything like that. Besides, based on my experiments so far, the Mansion seems to be nearly indestructible.

[charlastan]

It's a giant lizard, tall as a building!

[He curls his fingers to make claws as he tells the story.]

It mostly goes after Japan, but sometimes it'll make a break for New York if America feels like making a bad remake. Mostly though it'll go for Tokyo, though sometimes it just shows up to fight another monster and destroy half the city in the process.

[It's the "nearly" part that's got him worried, but he puts that aside for now, since he has exciting monster stories to share.]

[tinyfoods]

What is Tokyo? A city in...Japan, was it? How big is it?

[And!]

Where does the monster come from?

[She is totally settled in for story time.]

[charlastan]

Eh, it's pretty big. Bigger than anything in America anyway, and everyone's packed together like sardines.

[He's never been, but that's what he's heard anyway.]

Godzilla always rises up outta the ocean, like a sea monster! And when it's done wreaking havoc it always sinks back down into the deep.

[tinyfoods]

So it's amphibious. What does it gain from attacking a human city?

[charlastan]

The same thing any good villain does! INFAMY!

[tinyfoods]

But it's an amphibian. Why does it care about infamy?

[charlastan]

'Cause it's not like he's a frog or something that barely has a brain - he's the King of Monsters! He's got a monster reputation to uphold, and people to terrify! You don't get to be king of monsters without knocking over a few buildings and killing a few people.

[tinyfoods]

I guess it's a challenge climbing the ladder of success when you're a giant monster. He must have a lot of personal and social challenges.

[Says the most socially challenged person in the room.]