Alfie Solomons (
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💣 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?
[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?
un: smallvilleguy | CALL
no subject
Those are just names. Context is needed.
[This is so much more convenient than sending telegrams, wow.]
no subject
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?
[2/2]
Sorry.
no subject
[He'd written a lot - more than Alfie wants to take the time to write on this teeny-weeny keypad, certainly - and it had been delivered surprisingly quickly.]
Sent by wire?
no subject
WireLESS actually.
no subject
Why are you writing instead of talking?
[audio]
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.
[audio]
You're a Yank?
[A pause, then he clarifies:]
An American.
[Alfie most definitely isn't - his Cockney accent is very thick.]
[audio]
[ 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?
[audio]
[And here's the part that he wouldn't normally think was necessary to say, because it should be obvious - but based on what he's read and heard, maybe it isn't.]
In 1922.
[audio]
[ Yeah, that was definitely necessary. ]
It's like... 2010 where I am.
[audio]
2010, with the cellphones and no wires and the little transport buttons. All right.
[He doesn't even say it sarcastically.]
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[It makes sense. He just doesn't see why they don't just use their voices, if their phones are portable.]
There's the second station. You know what that one's for yet?
[audio]
I dunno. I'd assume it's for calling, um... people for help maybe?
I just know they put me down as a Rookie.
[audio]
[Surprise.]
Mm, look at that. Says I'm a mentor.
[audio]
A mentor? Huh. Guess I should listen to your advice, huh?
[audio]
[He spells out the letters.]
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[Well, that's interesting. He looks around on the device a bit more, looking around for other channels.]
I've only got the two.
[audio]
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[Which surely means something.]
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[audio] oh damn I'm sorry, I thought I'd replied to this
[He's still picturing airplane height.]
[audio] no worries ^_^
[audio]
[It's unbelievable, but maybe not more so than anything else he's seen so far this morning.]
[audio]
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.
[audio]
[pic][audio]
They can do video too. That's a moving view of me with sound.
[audio]
[He starts fiddling around with his own device, trying to figure out how to make it work on his end.]
[video]
See?
[video]
Fucking hell.
[It's like he's really there, right in front of them.]
That's a fair bit better than any film quality I've seen before.
[video]
[ Shrug ]
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