devoutish: (I'm 99% bullshit and 1% dinosaur trivia)
Alfie Solomons ([personal profile] devoutish) wrote in [community profile] calling_net2016-05-07 06:24 pm

💣 001 | CALL network/CAD network | audio | un: ASolomons

[CALL network]

[In Alfie's line of work, waking up to find a mysterious envelope on your bedside table is cause for deep suspicion. He'd scoured the room for anything out of place before he'd even considered opening it - and once he did discover the strange little electronic device, he'd spent a good hour learning how it works before he broadcasted anything. When he's finally ready to make his virtual presence known, he first chooses the open network.]

Right - I've got the worlds idea, yeah? And the aliens, City of Tomorrow - all that. I can read what you're all saying.

[That doesn't mean he necessarily believes it, but he at least doesn't need introductory explanations.]

There's just one thing I can't figure out. If I were to push this button here, 'transport' - what would happen? What are we meant to be transporting?

[Themselves, it sounds like. He'll go somewhere - he's gotten that much, from reading the comments - and it sounds like it'd be easy to return. But this is all completely unfamiliar territory to him, and he is going to be cautious.]

[CAD network]

[But he can't help but be curious about this second broadcasting channel - one that people don't seem to be chattering away on. A backup, maybe, in case the first goes down?]

Hello. Quiet, eh?
american_alien: (i2:  eyebrow waggle)

un: smallvilleguy | CALL

[personal profile] american_alien 2016-05-07 11:01 pm (UTC)(link)
It transports YOU. To the City of Tomorrow. From what I've figured out, everyone ends up in front of the McAran Tower.
american_alien: (i2:  eyebrow waggle)

[personal profile] american_alien 2016-05-07 11:13 pm (UTC)(link)
Sorry. I just got here myself so I don't have a whole lot of context either.

So I finally hit the TRANSPORT button the other day and you kinda disappear and reappear in this really super fancy futuristic city in front of a REALLY tall tower. That belongs to some company named McAran Industries. I'm pretty sure they made the things we found, the CALL device things.

Anyway, the lady there said that that brings you to the City of Tomorrow in what's called the Seven-Fold City. It's supposed to be some weird midway ground between stories and the real world and the different parts of the city are different kinds of stories. From what I can guess, Tomorrow = science fiction.

There's six other sections. I think there's an app that gives you some information on the CALL phone thing.

Did that make more sense?
american_alien: (i2:  neckrub)

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[personal profile] american_alien 2016-05-07 11:14 pm (UTC)(link)
OH! And time doesn't pass while you're in the City! She said that too.

Sorry.
american_alien: (i2:  thoughtful)

[personal profile] american_alien 2016-05-07 11:25 pm (UTC)(link)
Uh... for THESE I have no idea. But they work a lot like a cellphone, looks like. Do you have cellphones where you're from? It's a communication device that uses radio waves to send information.

WireLESS actually.
american_alien: (i2:  hip and groovy)

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[personal profile] american_alien 2016-05-07 11:37 pm (UTC)(link)
[ There's a bit of scuffling and fumbling as the communication switches over. ]

Oh. Sorry.

[ That is a young voice, can't be older than 16 if that. And he's very clearly from somewhere in the midwestern United States. ]

Is this better? And, uh, a cellphone is like a telephone, only it doesn't use wires.
american_alien: (i2:  oh no)

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[personal profile] american_alien 2016-05-07 11:53 pm (UTC)(link)
Um... yes?

[ Technically, he's an alien. And he's not particularly great at lying, but he can usually do it when it's important. But here, he's not even sure it's important. Most people in town know about him, after all. And this was... this was even more fantastical than he was. Maybe he could be himself in the Seven-Fold City and no one would mind. Maybe he'd even find other people like him. ]

Are you, um... British?
american_alien: (i2:  watching carefully)

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[personal profile] american_alien 2016-05-07 11:56 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh wow.

[ Yeah, that was definitely necessary. ]

It's like... 2010 where I am.
american_alien: (i2:  oh?)

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[personal profile] american_alien 2016-05-08 12:05 am (UTC)(link)
Oh! No, no, uh-- we don't have the transport button stuff. That's totally beyond anything we have where I'm from. But we have cellphones, yeah.
american_alien: (i2:  eyebrow waggle)

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[personal profile] american_alien 2016-05-08 12:11 am (UTC)(link)
We have those too. I do my school reports on them, usually.
american_alien: (i2:  hopeful smile)

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[personal profile] american_alien 2016-05-08 12:36 am (UTC)(link)
Because sometimes you want to write a report and sometimes you just want to send someone a message. And you can't really carry a typewriter around, but this you can carry around.
american_alien: (i2:  thoughtful)

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[personal profile] american_alien 2016-05-08 01:31 am (UTC)(link)
You mean the HERO Network?

I dunno. I'd assume it's for calling, um... people for help maybe?

I just know they put me down as a Rookie.
american_alien: (i2:  wry)

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[personal profile] american_alien 2016-05-08 02:34 am (UTC)(link)
Well, HERO is just the acronym.

A mentor? Huh. Guess I should listen to your advice, huh?
american_alien: (i2:  hopeful smile)

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[personal profile] american_alien 2016-05-08 02:21 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh. I don't have that one.
american_alien: (i2:  oh?)

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[personal profile] american_alien 2016-05-08 03:28 pm (UTC)(link)
Same here. Just the two. But my two are different. Huh.
american_alien: (i2:  thoughtful)

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[personal profile] american_alien 2016-05-08 06:17 pm (UTC)(link)
Maybe I'll ask the lady at the front desk. She had answers for a lot of stuff.
american_alien: (i2:  wry)

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[personal profile] american_alien 2016-05-08 06:23 pm (UTC)(link)
Sure. It'll be a little bit, though. I'm up in the Satellite at the moment. You have to take a shuttle down. Those only come every hour or so.
american_alien: (i2:  neckrub)

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[personal profile] american_alien 2016-05-08 08:46 pm (UTC)(link)
Satellite. It's a big ship-like thing that's in space above the one tower.
american_alien: (i2:  oh?)

[audio] no worries ^_^

[personal profile] american_alien 2016-05-10 03:40 pm (UTC)(link)
I think we're just above the atmosphere. But I haven't really checked or anything.
Edited 2016-05-10 15:40 (UTC)
american_alien: (i2:  watching carefully)

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[personal profile] american_alien 2016-05-10 09:54 pm (UTC)(link)
[ It's kind of funny but... ]

Yeah, actually. It's amazing. I mean, I have a telescope back home and I like to watch the stars, but this is something else.
american_alien: (i2:  oh no)

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[personal profile] american_alien 2016-05-12 11:59 pm (UTC)(link)
[ A moment later, a notification pops up with a picture of a teenage boy, a few bandages on his face, smiling at the viewer. A second later, his voice comes through. ]

They can do video too. That's a moving view of me with sound.
american_alien: (i2:  hip and groovy)

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[personal profile] american_alien 2016-06-03 09:02 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Clark switches to video, waving at the camera brightly. ]

See?
american_alien: (i2:  hopeful smile)

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[personal profile] american_alien 2016-06-03 11:45 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, these things are kinda futuristically good even for me. We can't afford anything this cool in my house but it showed up so.

[ Shrug ]
american_alien: (i2:  wry)

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[personal profile] american_alien 2016-06-04 02:28 am (UTC)(link)
Our house only got one when my Ma took over the household, apparently. My grandfather didn't like them.
american_alien: (i2:  hopeful smile)

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[personal profile] american_alien 2016-06-04 12:55 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh yeah. That was like... twenty years ago or something?