May Event: Lost in Translation

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MAY EVENT: LOST IN TRANSLATION

Who: Everyone!
What: Crash.
When: May 21st to May 30th
Where: Everywhere!
Warnings: Mark as needed!

I Have No Words
Feel free to use this post as an event catch-all for any misfires, island-wide broadcasts, or glitching Stone shenanigans you'd like your characters to get up to! Remember that the Stones of Farspeech do not currently have a texting feature...but that doesn't mean the screen they use to display Caller I.D. can't display text, on occasion. Bear in mind that this screen is small and therefore has limited display options.

If you have any questions, feel free to look over our OOC event post here, and ask any questions as needed!

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Comments

[semistableman]

[Michael is getting the flattest look possible leveled at him.]

Why the hell are you talking about torture?

[This is why he ignores the stupid stone when he can, because he doesn't understand how the damn thing works and apparently it records people saying sketchy shit.]

[eudaimonikos]

[Well, if you're here face-to-face - well, Michael just kinda freezes up.]

Look, whatever just got broadcast, that was -

[He's...got nothing, actually.]

I don't do that anymore. I'm going to make it stop.

[semistableman]

[That? That actually gets him to visibly settle, all the tension draining out of him rapidly.]

Sounds like somebody's out for blood, in that case. I don't even use the stone, it just started up out of the blue.

[eudaimonikos]

Uh...yeah.

[Michael takes a little longer to settle; he clearly didn't expect that to be the end of it.]

I wasn't using it for anything. Maybe it connected to my phone, somehow? That shouldn't be possible, but I don't know where else it would have heard...anything like that. [Those torture logs are important for his continuing efforts, but they're still sort of unfortunate things for people to hear out of context. And...in context, actually, the context doesn't help.]

[semistableman]

[It's... definitely not the best of reactions to have, but at least he's still talking to Michael. There could definitely be much worse reactions.]

It could be a deity fucking with us, I had that happen to me around the time I first arrived here.

Going through our memories, or something like that.

[eudaimonikos]

[.....

Carefully:] That could be very bad.

[semistableman]

Yeah. I figured as much.

Might be time to bury all of these stone things.

[eudaimonikos]

Let's see if that helps.

[He digs a small hole in the sand with the toe of his shoe, drops his stone in, and covers it up.]

Keep yours out, let's see if it goes again or if I was triggering it somehow.

[semistableman]

[He's honestly not sure what that'll do, considering he barely knows how to operate a microwave, so he's just going to assume that Michael knows more about technology by default.]

Sure. It shouldn't be able to send out anything when it's covered up like that, right?

[....unless it's actually a god fucking with them.]

[eudaimonikos]

Really not sure it'll make a difference.

[But like. Why not try it, it took three seconds.

After a few moments, Michael's voice comes through Bucky's stone again:]

- what if we used them as beehives? They're not doing anything useful with their ribcages, and Wildlife has that four-headed bear surplus. Could be some fun synergy there. And I could get some honey for my dark matter.

[The real Michael listens to this, pressing a finger over his mouth in thought. He doesn't even know how to address the content of that conversation, so let's talk about the practicalities.]

Boy, that's gotta be from a couple thousand years ago. I don't even have recordings from then.

[semistableman]

[...Dear God. That's so out there his only inclination is to laugh. It's so removed from the sort of torture he's experienced, it sounds like something out of the sci-fi stories he used to buy at the neighborhood five and dime.]

Sounds like something outta a comic book.

Used to be able to buy 'em for a penny at Georgo's down the street when I was a kid.

[eudaimonikos]

Well, they sure never seem to like the bee tortures.

[Wait...what is he doing, getting defensive over that? It was torture. Michael frowns, irritated at himself.]

I mean, after a while you get sick of all the regular... [He doesn't like where that's going either. This sucks! This sucks so much!] ...we don't have...a lot of comic book access.

[semistableman]

[It.... sounds like A Lot.]

That's unfortunate, they were fun to read. [...] 'Course that was 80 years ago, I don't know what they're like now.

[eudaimonikos]

Wouldn't know. I think there's ones about giant robots that turn into cars.

[Is Transformers a comic or a cartoon...? Possibly both?]

But we really only get the worst of the human media.

[semistableman]

Is there?

[He doesn't have a clue what that could be referring to. But it sounds cool.]

What kinda media do you get, then?

[eudaimonikos]

Have you ever seen Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer?

[semistableman]

[His brows rapidly climb up his forehead.]

Never owned a television, only really heard about them after waking up.

[eudaimonikos]

Do you want to?

[it's a trap!]

[semistableman]

You have a television?

[He's literally never seen a tv show before, Michael. This could backfire.]

[eudaimonikos]

I have my phone.

[how on earth could showing anybody the grandma got run over by a reindeer movie ever backfire?]

[semistableman]

[He stares at Michael like he's just grown a second head.]

....How does that help?

[eudaimonikos]

[.....]

The movie is on my phone.

[semistableman]

[...Michael. This man was born in 1917.]

How? It's a phone. Do you tell the operator to play a movie over the phone for you?

[eudaimonikos]

Okay. I see.

[He swipes up at the air to call the holographic screen.]

This is my phone.

[semistableman]

[It's a good thing he's culturally from 1944, and not 1744, so he just looks really impressed and maybe a bit alarmed versus thinking Michael is a sorcerer.]

Imp...ressive. Not exactly what I pictured when you said "phone."