#afaik the only other way to get one is to rent it or borrow it from a library and all of the libraries in my area are small
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Cider and a theremin! I headcanon that he's able to play it because he just seems like that type of person.. he has those vibes......
Plus some extra doodles
Chip/Theremin rambling and doodle transcriptions below the cut. I included some explanations for the instruments pictured because I'm worried the drawings would otherwise be incomprehensible lmao
In case you can't read my handwriting:
Doodle 1: Cider is saying "DANDY NO" and underneath it says *horrible theremin screaming*
Doodle 2: the title says THORamin aka singing Tesla coil, and Otto is saying "Okay Cider please step a little closer to the instrument"
I like weird instruments so I assign them to fictional characters whenever it feels realistic to do so. The theremin is one of the world's first electric instruments (patented in 1928) and is played by moving one's hands around the two antennas, which are proximity sensors - vertical controls pitch and horizontal controls volume. Sound-wise, it's kind of like playing a synthesizer by hand? Also the hand gestures that are made when controlling pitch are.. interesting. (That's more or less what Cider is doing, it took an embarrassing amount of attempts to get that hand to look good enough so I just left it hhh)
Re: extra doodle 1
Touching the vertical antenna makes an unpleasant high-pitched noise (you're not meant to touch it at all while playing, just move your hands around like an electric wizard or something)
Re: extra doodle 2
"Thoramin" is another name for the singing Tesla coil, and a play on theremin and Thor (hence why it's here). It's a Tesla coil that's been modified to be a plasma speaker. I find these funny because people on YouTube always seem to be playing them in random suburbs. Just imagine looking out the window at your neighbor's yard and seeing a lightning storm set to Megalovania. Realistically Otto probably wouldn't have one (too loud, draws attention to the player) but for the purposes of The Funny™ he does now.
Something small I don't have anywhere else to bring up so I shall talk about it here: I started my Chipspeech Twitter archive project by just going through the tab on each account that says "Tweets" but it turns out that there are more tweets under the "Replies" tab that actually contain lore. So I am actually nowhere near done with this hhhhh I hate Twitter. I mean I'm still going to document everything because I want the story to be as intact as possible (including the small bits of character trivia that often show up in the replies tweets) but I am. not happy about it. I do not entirely understand the decision to put character information in the replies to fan tweets.. I mean things shared there are never really all that important, but I like weird small story details so I don't want to lose them if Twitter ever actually fully goes down. Also I am going to have to go back and put everything in chronological order (in terms of hours/minutes, everything currently is just organized by date) which means more time on Twitter. I traded efficiency for simplicity of each step in this process, which I guess was good for not becoming overwhelmed by the scale of things but it's dragging out a lot longer than I had initially anticipated. I start college in late August so ideally that's my hard deadline for this, which should absolutely be reachable but I'm still annoyed that it's taking this long in the first place hhhhhhh
#I am directing my autism energy towards the characters I like hehehehehe#I really want to try to play a theremin one day but unfortunately they are like 400+ dollars#afaik the only other way to get one is to rent it or borrow it from a library and all of the libraries in my area are small#there's no way they'd have a theremin.. sad bug hours#also I actually colored/shaded this time.. with office supplies because thin paper and also I like office supplies :)#chipspeech#cidertalk'84#cidertalk84#dandy 704#otto mozer#theremin#posts by the bug
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(warning- I have another idea. Mind-blowing right? Ok but this one has two things I REALLY want in game (a character development arc involving a bad guy, and a place to live), and maybe some of you do too! Ok listen…)
So you see a yellow quest dot in Firgrove. You take a trailer (cause who really wants to run all that way? Not me!). Mrs. Packard asks that you pick up some eggs from Andy, and you’re like ok whatever as long as you bake me another one of them pancake cakes. Mmmm good.
Andy is not there, but you find him down by the chicken coop. He’s looking down over the Silverglade Mine, and asks if you know what they’re building, since he sees construction going on. He tells you he’ll deliver the eggs himself, but that you should go investigate and see what they’re doing down there. You head down to the mine and see a familiar sign…
Uh no.. what the hell is this guy doing back?!?!?! (not the actual dialog).
You’re a little concerned about confronting this guy, since he must REALLY hate you by now, so you decide to ask the Firgrove mayor whats up and why are they allowing this?? Mr Franklin is all like “Uh, sorry, anything south of the sandpit is considered Silverglade. That’s out of my jurisdiction!”
You ride to Silverglade (or take a trailer, whatevs) and the Councilman says “Oh I left Mr Bucket in charge while I took a few days off. Let me look at the paperwork here. Yep, looks legit. He purchased the mine and got all the required documents signed. He owns it and there’s not much we can do about it, except maybe next time I’ll have Mr Bucket wait on me for any property matters”.
You decide to confront Mr Kembell.
You ride over to the mine and see him standing there, looking at blueprints, but there isn’t as much construction going on as you thought. You ride up and he sees you and… sighs?
Kembell pulls out the paperwork and hands it to you, tells you he owns it, fair and square. But.. his dream isn’t turning out the way he thought it would.
You’re like.. “dream?”
He tells you he got an inheritance but not enough to live on. His parents always pushed him to make money any way he could, and he tried- but found that cutting corners and doing things unscrupulously didn’t work out for him. He realized that he’s taken a lot from the community here and wants to give back. He was hoping to purchase the mine and renovate it. His ‘dream’ had always been to be an interior designer or architect but his parents insisted on something more lucrative. You almost don’t believe him until he sighs deeply and asks if you want to see what he had planned. A cut scene reveals his ideas…
At the lower part, a stable, since he’s come to understand the bond the people of the island have with their horses.
a walkway to the apartments. The structure would be divided into spacious lofts, with a bathroom (where we click on to change our hair or makeup, which we will be able to do after this update XD).
The little courtyard would have a cafe and maybe a furniture store, where he can sell his designer furniture (another couple slides, that I did not bother to draw, sorry, but everything is cute and homey - you can buy all the sleek modern stuff in Governers Fall). There would even be a storage space (for additional storage since what the hell would be the point of buying a place to live otherwise?)
He would live at the top, and be security and landlord, and be able to retire from scheming. He apologizes for the way he’s treated you, says he’s been taking anger management classes. And says he really just wanted to give back, only his contractor bailed at the last minute so… it was all for naught u_u
But wait! You know a contractor! You rush over to Jarlaheim to speak with the builder. Does it involve water or heights? No not really! Ok then he’ll be over tomorrow!
You go back to the site the next day and construction is underway. Kembell thanks you and says he hopes people and their horses are happy here. He admits he’s always been afraid of horses and asks to pet yours. he wonders if anyone will ever lend him a horse since everyone seems to hate him!
But wait! You know someone with a horse they aren’t using! You ride over to Bjorn and ask to borrow the old horse he gave up on riding. Agnetha asks why and you tell her. She says if they get the exclusive contract to do the landscaping, he can borrow the horse.
Kembell writes her an offer and she refuses it and they go back and forth (through you cause we know how this quest ends, and no ones gonna make it easy for you lol). They finally settle on a number and you lead this horse whose name I forget over to Kembell. He asks if you would guide him on a trail ride one day, as he just wants to get used to the horse first, you agree. He tells you to come back the next day.
The next day he tells you he isn’t sure about the cafe idea. He was just going to put one of his old employees in the position of running it, but they’re all so scary. Do you know anyone whose young and hip and maybe wants a better job and might have a future in the food industry? Of course you do!
(pic from starstablestudies) As you approach, Conny is being yelled at by the older worker. He messed up again. You ask him if he’d like to run a cafe, thereby getting a start in the food business and one step closer to being a sommelier ?(which why didn’t we get the Baroness to hire him?? but oh well). He says he’d love the job! You run back and tell Kembell. He is thrilled, and starts to get working on the designs for the cafe. He tells you he’d love some wrought iron chairs and you say you’ll ask the blacksmith…..
Only Conrad is all like
He says he can’t believe you would help that guy after what he tried to do to Moorland. He’s ashamed. Your rep with the druids go down (jk)
A clock appears over Kembells head…..
You come back the next day with a plan: You’re going on that trail ride. And its gonna be a doozy.
First you ride over to Firgrove. You bring him to Mr Franklin and have him apologize for whatever he was trying to do at the spies house. Mr Franklin shakes his hand and forgives him. You tell him to take the trailer to silverglade vineyard.
You ride over to the Baroness, where kembell is apologizing. The Baroness accepts his apology, but only since her grapes have been flourishing now that he’s left.
At this point, you ride together to Moorland. He makes little comments about how nice it is, and how he sees now that it would’ve been ruined by his other development. You ride down to Mr Moorland, where he apologizes to Thomas and offers him a very nice wooden bench or something, of his own design. Thomas accepts. THEN you ride to Conrad, and they talk it out. Kembell tells him he’s using only recycled material, and the surrounding land won’t be too affected by the construction. He wants to keep that area as close to its natural state as possible. Conrad forgives him and agrees to make chairs and a sign for his cafe.
Maybe a day after this- after a few finishing touches (Agneta and Bjorn with plants, Conrad with furniture, Conny with a menu) - the homes are open for business!
I was thinking- if you are lifetime, you can buy a loft. If you aren’t, you can rent (for a reasonable fee). (I honestly feel like it would be SCs taken out early on but then he never really asks you for rent after cause what would you even charge for that per month? If you end your Star Rider, the furniture goes into those little rooms in your stable.)
This would of course come after you’ve thwarted Kembells last business (The house in Firgrove afaik), and then after that you’d see him in a polo shirt, bermuda shorts and flip flops, drinking a frosty beverage up in his little cottage. You can make this your home stable of course, and after this they would introduce rooms at the other home stables that you can decorate and stuff. Maybe you can have parties here (music and dancing), click on the bed to sleep to skip through on quests you have to wait a day, or just display things. It would all be customize-able - paint, carpet, wallpaper, curtains. There would be more furniture places in towns after this, natch.
Anyway, that’s my second idea for the day. #starstable I’m here if you want to taco bout them.
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