[discord @everyone notification noise]

[phantasmagorial]

A few days after, uh... you know, all that shit goes down, the Executors will wake up one morning to find a fancy looking smartphone has been just... deposited next to wherever their heads happened to be as they slept. Thankfully for the chunky boys among us (lookin at you, Lion) they appear to be completely indestructible and have the unnerving ability to just sort of reappear in your hand whenever you realize you've misplaced it.

Fiddling with the phone will eventually lead you to a message from Rei, apparently sent before the phones were dished out.

Hi everyone. I thought it might be a good idea for us to have a way of keeping in touch in case of emergencies so I traded some books and food from Limbo to get these phones. We can send messages, make calls and just keep in touch with each other across Purgatory a lot more easily this way. I hope so, anyway.

The clerk said they could deliver them all for me when they were ready and I'm not really sure how that works so I hope they get to everyone in time.

With that – congratulations! You now have access to network features. Executors can use their phone to make text, video and audio posts as well as calling and texting each other privately. They can send photos, videos and audio recordings and, yes, there is a messaging app (Discordia, so it's called) full of emojis that already has a group chat set up. Enjoy, shitposters.

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@Viatorem

[schardynfreude]

Oh how lovely and wonderful a discovery it is that these actually work! This is Chrion by the way! 💖

Who was Your Majesty, but if you would, please refrain from using that title in the future.

These things are absolutely fascinating. A marvel of modern technology. Feel free to get in touch with me at any time! ✨✨✨

OH AND!!! If you happen upon any damaged butterflies, please get Rei immediately!!! It is vitally important~~~! 😁

[emberserker]

...you just discovered the emoji menu.

[schardynfreude]

😏😏😏😏😏
WhatEVER makes you say that?

[emberserker]

Really? You sound like one of those old people who overuse them to try to seem trendy.

[schardynfreude]

Everyone here thinks I'm quite old as it is, so I suppose that fits the bill...

[emberserker]

You do give that impression. Even if we aren't sure exactly how old we are. One can probably tell from appearance, Kingslayer notwithstanding... and Seal, who knows how their species ages.

[schardynfreude]

I confess that I haven't seen Seal for some time. And as for age, do such numbers really matter here?

[emberserker]

I suppose nobody's enforcing it in the casino, if that's what you mean.

@materia_medica

[mementomoritz]

YOU FOUND ONE TOO???

[Can't say hello now, she's too distracted by exciting discoveries.]

i encountered one in the library up in limbo
i documented the whole thing [She sends an attached photo along with the text, showing an exhaustive transcript of the event, including
a sketch of the butterfly in question.]

what makes you think rei is connected
can you send me your notes on it
DID YOU TAKE SAMPLES CAN YOU SEND ME YOUR SAMPLES

[Multiple minutes later:]

also this is medic and i think your new name is very nice :)

[schardynfreude]

I figured out it was you. [But now is not the time to get snarky.] Mona gave me the new name, and Phoenix the
screen name?
I do like it but find Chiron to have a certain
It felt nice.
[He doesn't necessarily want to say She Did Research Specifically To Pick A Name For Me And That Gives Me Feelings at this time!]

I took no notes, but I can recount what I saw and heard from the injured butterfly 🦋 I saw in the arcade. I can't be certain the vision or memory belongs to Rei but given the mention of Executor I heard, it seems a fair enough guess. Give me a moment.

[He'll type up what he can, though not quite as detailed.]

[mementomoritz]

very appropriate, for a healer :D

[...What? She lives in the library, of course she's reading in her spare time.]

ooh, thank you! [She's just going to go ahead and copy all that down as meticulously as possible. Keeping accurate records is very important.]

raisondetre

[phantasmagorial]

This is exactly what I remembered when we moved down to Invidia!

Do you remember when this happened?

[mementomoritz]

[Are you suggesting she would have taken notes on something scientifically interesting and not included painstaking detail about everything, including times and dates? For shame, Rei.]

yes!
it was exactly forty-nine hours after i regained awareness and became an eidolon, plus or minus however long it took me to find a watch

[phantasmagorial]

That's really soon after waking up. How strange.
Do you remember anything else about it that might be important?
A name, or maybe even a face? Or a voice?

[mementomoritz]

nope, just everything i wrote down there!
actually, it's kind of funny- it almost feels like it was designed not to show me anything about the people there at all...

[phantasmagorial]

That IS strange.
Do you think they were tampered with deliberately somehow?
Or just damaged, maybe?

[mementomoritz]

maybe??
everything seemed.... faded, somehow
washed out
could they be really old???

@mona

[alcahest]

theres pictures

[ it's hard to tell but she is VERY EXCITED about this development. ]

[schardynfreude]

[She probably means the emojis. But there are pictures!!!

So she's going to get him making a V in a selfie in front of the mall.]

[alcahest]

oh my gosh it can take photographs
hello chiron

[ okay, hang on, she doesn't know how the keyboard works but she knows what a camera looks like and there's a little camera picture next to the message box. maybe it's that?

a few minutes later, he gets a somewhat blurry photo of the park. she doesn't know how to change it to selfie mode. ]

[schardynfreude]

Hello Mona 👋

You can either turn it around or there should be a button that makes the camera face you so you can see yourself on the screen if you want to take one of yourself. And who wouldn't want pictures of Mona!

[alcahest]

[ okay, hold on. give her a second to figure this out. there's the button to make the camera appear... and then there's the button that takes the photograph... and a few others. it takes her a few tries to get the right one. but eventually there's a picture of her looking curiously at the camera. she'd wave, but she still has to hold it in both hands.

and then, another few minutes later, now that she's pressing all the buttons near the message box— ]

😊

[schardynfreude]

👏👏👏 You did it!!

[daughterofthemark]

goodness it can paint portraits as well

[schardynfreude]

Something like that! It instantly captures the likeness of whatever it's pointed at with
hm you don't know what a camera is do you

We can all get together and make sure we all have a good idea how to use these!