video | un: yukimura

[dairekka]

[Okay. This isn't hard. He's stuck here... and... there's no real way back so the best option is to work with this ALASTAIR ... clan? Clan. In order to fix issues in different places...

... and this ear cuff will let him talk to people but he has no idea how. Jewelry doesn't let you talk to people?? Talking to people lets you talk to people??

Carefully and very tentatively, like he's worried the communicator is about to leap out at him and grab him, Yukimura sets the little ear cuff communicator on the ground in front of him and crouches down in so he's eye level with it. Enjoy the overabundance of red.]

...

[He takes a deep breath. He was told he could talk to people, but he can't see anyone so... he'll have to speak loudly so he can be heard.

Brace yourself, Futurology.]


HELLO?

[... Nothing.]


HELLO, ARE YOU ABLE TO HEAR ME THROUGH THIS PIECE OF JEWELRY?

[Still nothing?? This is concerning him. Is he alone here, other than the man who had spoken to him when he first arrived? What should he do in this situation? Begin a scouting mission to search out any signs of life? Or should he continue shouting through this piece of jewelry he doesn't really believe is doing what he was told it would do.

...

Option B it is.]

I AM WORRIED THAT THIS JEWELRY IS NOT DOING WHAT I WAS TOLD IT WOULD, AND THAT I WILL FIND MYSELF AT A COMMUNICATION DISADVANTAGE IF THIS DOES NOT WORK. CAN ANYONE HEAR ME? [He reaches out and taps on the side of the cuff, shaking the image rather violently.] ANYBODY?

[TAP. TAP. TAP.

BEEP.]

... [He leans forwards, almost conspiratorially and whispers....] Hello?

[... Someone help this poor, unsuspecting loser out. Please. For the sake of your eardrums if nothing else.]

Comments

text; UN: terios

[chaoscontrol]

DON'T DO THAT AGAIN. Some of us prefer to have our eardrums remain INTACT

[dairekka]

I am not planning on it!!

[Yukimura, no.]

I had no experience with how communicators worked when I sent out my first message! But now I think I have a little more skill in using them.

[chaoscontrol]

Your next task is to learn _text_. for the sake of us all

[dairekka]

But communicating verbally is much more important. There are many things in a face-to-face conversation that a written letter could not accurately recreate!

[Like tone of voice. Or emphasis via volume.]

[chaoscontrol]

text is more appropriate for delivering information. which is what this network is _for_. not socializing.

[ok grandpa no-fun-allowed]

[dairekka]

You could deliver information face to face as well. Why give us the means to communicate long distance at all if we can just speak to each other in person?