❖ 003 // [Voice]

[crisisrain]

[Filtered from Xion | 95% Unhackable to her]

Hey I got a little problem I could use some help with. There's this nice, little, teenage girl who's never read a book before, so I told her I'd get her one as a surprise gift. But uh, I'm drawin' up a blank. What kinda books do girls even read nowadays?

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[crisisrain]

Well we have somethin' like that I guess. The theatre does shows with actors and music, sometimes they even throw in special effects.

Un-modern? We have machines and stuff if that's what ya mean.

[herotypical]

But those'd be real-life things, right? Like...a play?

[crisisrain]

Yup just like a play! There's a guild that specialises in them.

[herotypical]

Alright--well? Think play, but on a screen and not a stage. And recorded, not live. Like the video recordings on these journal things?

Those are movies. Movieish. Well, you get the drift.

[Pause.] You do get the drift, right?

[crisisrain]

Oh! I get it, I'd seen a few recordings but I didn't know they could be used to do somethin' like that.

Be kinda fun to be in a movie~

[herotypical]

And thus we return full-circle to romantic comedies. If movies were available here I would totally say for something like Sleepless in Seattle for your bookless friend--can't go wrong with that one.

[crisisrain]

What would we need to watch movies? Aside from a screen and the recording.

[herotypical]

VCR, DVD player, computer. Electricity. Stuff that's all in serious shortage around here.

[crisisrain]

A quick zap of lightning would be enough to start up a battery, and unless there's some kinda cap on magic artes then there's no reason why there couldn't be any electricity.

But the other stuff, 'side from the computer part, you lost me again.

[herotypical]

They're things that play movies. I don't know how they do it, they just do. It's about as Greek to me as magic.

[Which begs the question, what's really left for her to understand?]

[crisisrain]

[Raven was never any good at explaining things unfortunately.]

Ah figures as much. Oh well, I'll stick with gettin' her a book then.

[herotypical]

You're sure she can read, right? What with this whole never-having-read-a-book thing.

[crisisrain]

Well she must be able too, after all I did communicate to her through written text to keep my identity secret.

[herotypical]

And just why were you playing secret-identity guy?

[crisisrain]

I felt like it!

[herotypical]

[Wow you're vaguely creepy, Raven.]

At least it'll still be a surprise, for her.

[crisisrain]

Well I don't ever intend on tellin' her it was from me anyway. She's got her own friends here, she doesn't need an old man.

[herotypical]

Just exactly how old are you?

[crisisrain]

How rude!

Take a guess, I'm curious.

[herotypical]

You make it sound like you're over and above the thirty mark, at least. Because anything less than that is so far away from old.

[crisisrain]

Well how old do I look?

[herotypical]

[Buffy's not known for her sensitivity to anyone outside of her inner circle, so:]

Forty-five?

[crisisrain]

.... [Ouch Buffy, just ouch.]

Ya overshot it by 10 years hun.

[herotypical]

[Whoops.]

I'm....so sorry.

[crisisrain]

Could've been worse I guess, least ya didn't say I was 50 or somethin'.