[Text] New phone, who dis

[voidbug]

[It appears to just be a bunch of gibberish on the screen. Like someone forgot their communicator was still on or something had walked on across it at one point.]

[...That or somebody had just been spending too much time just tapping away at buttons, without a clue of what it was actually doing (or just did not care). Stuff like this was...kind of neat to play around with though.]

Comments

[scourgingstars]

oh dear

are you quite alright?

[voidbug]

[.....]

[The screen is responding back, what.]

[Give them a few moments to process this, and, maybe actually use the keyboard a little more properly.] hello?

[scourgingstars]

hello there!

[the screen is responding!]

[voidbug]

[Screen is responding!!!]

you can hear me?

[scourgingstars]

well, i can read what you're saying

so in a sense, i can indeed hear you

[voidbug]

never seen this before

[Written language does exist but, nothing quite like this.]

[scourgingstars]

you mean the device itself, because it certainly does take a bit of acclimating to if one isn't used to it

[voidbug]

yes

it is confusing

[But also, really cool??]

[scourgingstars]

it certainly can be

but one tends to get used to it, with a bit of time

[voidbug]

how much time?

[scourgingstars]

well, that's rather up to you, really. there are certainly plenty of inhabitants willing to help, if necessary.

[voidbug]

how long have they been here?

[scourgingstars]

it varies

i've been here well over a year, some longer, and some not nearly so long as that.

[voidbug]

what is this place? why am i here?

[scourgingstars]

what the priests likely told you is more or less the truth as we know it, the gods of this world drew us here to aid with a world in decline. there seems no real rhyme or reason to their choices that i know of.

[voidbug]

[Allow the tiny bug a few more minutes to think on this.]

are the gods good?

[scourgingstars]

well, they don't seem harmful. i've never seen or spoken with them myself, however.

[voidbug]

Has anyone spoke to them?

[Besides the priests, maybe...]

[scourgingstars]

I've tried on occasion, but I'm afraid I've never gotten an answer.

[unnecessaryflourishes]

You appear to have left your device on, if you hadn't been aware of it.

[voidbug]

[Hesitating a bit, but...]

i can try

[voidbug]

i made a mistake

[scourgingstars]

if you'd like, it hasn't hurt me to make the attempt in the past

[unnecessaryflourishes]

Perfectly understandable. Might I presume you have only recently arrived?

[voidbug]

they would be in their temples, correct?

[LET'S HOPE THEY ARE NICE, REASONABLE GODS.]