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[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.

Comments

@knight

[beknights]

What an interesting device. And versatile. It is like a picture-maker and a tablet all at once.

! #$&@ @)%#(^^( I do not know what these symbols are for however. What are they. [ Hallownest language doesn't really have.....this stuff. ]

@materia_medica

[mementomoritz]

right? it was so nice of miss rei to get us these! :D

! is an exclamation point, you use it to indicate you're speaking loudly or are excited about something
like:
i just got a new vivisection subject!!

# is for tagging things as an organization method
& is short for the word and
@ is short for the word at
% is the symbol for percentage

i don't know what $ means either though... [Hello yes she's from the post-apocalyptic future and what are U.S. dollars, never heard of them. She has a couple of ₹10 coins in her pocket that she was planning to use in a vending machine before her untimely demise, and that is the sum total of all the legal tender she has encountered since her death.]

[emberserker]

It's a form of currency. About 64 countries use dollars, officially or unofficially, though they aren't all the same type of dollar. They just have the same name and symbol. I don't know if that makes it easier or more difficult.

[mementomoritz]

oh! i think i remember hearing about dollars in history class
i don't think anyone's used those since before the cascade, wow

[emberserker]

Our homes are quite different, aren't they? I have to wonder if any of us did come from the same sort of world, even the ones from Earth in the same sort of time.

[mementomoritz]

it's almost a shame i'm a biologist and not a sociologist
i bet there are anthropology students out there who'd kill for a chance like this :D

[emberserker]

Or die, I suppose, all things considered.

[mementomoritz]

maybe we'll get one on the team eventually ^-^
after all, sooner or later, EVERYONE dies
at least so far

[She's not going to rule it out, you never know.]

[emberserker]

We don't even know how to properly awaken the dead who are here.

[mementomoritz]

not yet

[Look, every self-respecting mad scientist has to try and raise the dead at least once, even if they're deceased already.]

[emberserker]

Oh, what are you planning now.

[beknights]

So dollars are the currency of other lands. I see.

I am not familiar with them. But things are done very differently here it seems.

[emberserker]

I wouldn't blame you. This entire afterlife is a chaotic disaster of the highest order.

[beknights]

Is this what an afterlife should be like? I am not aware.

[ There's no familiarity with any of this; not even with the concept. They feel as if...anything they would know would be nothing like the loud, chaotic noise here. ]

[emberserker]

In truth, I don't know either, but I didn't expect this mess. I'd rather pass on soon and get out of this place.

[emberserker]

Well, what Medic said, without the... enthusiasm she usually has. I presume your home language used something different?

[beknights]

We have similar marks and signs for certain things but they are used differently. The structure is different. It goes in circles and not flat lines.

[emberserker]

Not all countries even in the same world use the same sort of script. I wonder if anyone would recognize yours?

[beknights]

I do not recognise the writing here. Though I still understand its meaning somehow.

If I were to write, I do not think they would know. Unless they were like me.

[emberserker]

So we'd likely understand it, but wouldn't recognize it. That's convenient.

@mona

[alcahest]

[ this takes... a good long while for her to type. please hold for like, twenty minutes. ]

Hello Seal.
Like Medic & Wolfsbane said, most of those symbols are punctuation.
Some of them are for expression, others are for convenience.
You probably won't need most of them? Maybe just ? and !

(^^( looks like a little face...

[beknights]

I will keep that in mind.

Perhaps their additional purpose is to make faces for clearer expression.

('')

Like so.

[alcahest]

Oh, that one looks a little bit like you!

[beknights]

It does?

Perhaps if it had horns
{ }
('')

What do you think?

[alcahest]

I think it's very cute!
It certainly looks like you.