lostcarnival | see it to believe it

Who: Lambert, Carly, YOU???
What: A basic safety lesson on what to expect in the Mainframe. Don't get ~~derezzed~~ deleted, kids!
When: Early morning, the day after Lambert's post about the Mainframe.
Where: Center Stage
Warnings: Carly being Carly, Lambert's potty mouth, probably.

Were you hoping to sleep in today? Tough shit. Because it's early in the morning, probably right before breakfast, that Carly's voice comes bawling over the public channel of the radio.

"Hello everyone!! We've borrowed Center Stage for an important demonstration! Earlier you may have heard something from our Nightrider Lambert that there's something really dangerous about the coming location ... so we've put together something to help display what to do in the event of the worst! So come to the Center Stage quick!"

Less enthusiastically, Lambert's rejoinder follows, drawled lazily: "Yeah, you definitely don't want to miss this show."

[ ooc: A show, ask, and mingle sort of log -- Lambert and Carly will be doing a short 'presentation' and then open up for Q&A, but feel free to start your own threads to interact with each other? Other nightrunners feel free to butt in. o7 ]

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[ THE PEANUT GALLERY RAISES HIS HAND and let's be real, Strange totally snuck in late to this as he got distracted from something else before realizing oh damn, Carly and Lambert had that presentation, he had better attend it. Did they cover this part already? Fuck if Strange knows! ]

I'm still not entirely sure what a 'computer' is to begin with.

[ this is gonna suck ]

Ummmm...

[HMMM.]

Oh! I know~

Imagine the inside of a radio, but if the radio did even more things~ Like show pictures, or let you look for information in an instant~

So it's a radio mixed with a book?

[ Show pictures = book. Look for information = also book. ]

Sort of.

E-Books are like computers~

You can also listen to music, or watch videos- [Ah. She pauses on the stage, staring down.] ...You've seen a VHS here right..?

[The trailers do have TVs with VHS...]

[ Considering Strange's awful standard of living, it's probably buried beneath some clothes or currently holding cups that desperately need to be washed. ]

I believe so? Those are the things with the televisions, correct?

[ At least he knows what a television is, even if Strange can count on one hand the amount of times he's actually used one. ]

So it's a radio mixed with a television mixed with a book—or more specifically, a radio mixed with a television mixed with an encyclopedia. And when we visit the Mainframe, we're somehow inside of it.

[ sure, jan. ]

Yeah, those are them!

So if you imagined the insides as their own little town and city, that's where we're going~

Or, well, not in ours. It's in someone else's computer, obviously.

[JAN INSISTS]

[ Strange siiiiiiighs, obviously annoyed. ]

I understand the concept but it's still baffling in practice. Magic makes more sense than this digital nonsense.

....

[Okay Strange. But. Consider-]

...How do you know it's not both?

[MAGIC... AND SCIENCE....

TOGETHER...

AT THE SAME TIME...]

Because I can't use my magic there.

[ HYPOTHESIS DEFEATED BY THE POWER NERF. ]

Psh, that's not a good excuse! There's been a few places I've been that were magical, where my magic just stopped!

So it can still be magic! Some of it still converts over fine, for that matter~ My fire became something called a 'fire wall', which was pretty neat...

We just can't guarantee that's what will happen, [she warns seriously.]

[ Like a petulant child, Strange just rolls his eyes. ]

Fine, fine, I'll accept that it could be magic and technology...though I highly doubt it.

Really, at the end of the day, the only thing important here is that you know enough to keep safe, you realize that right...?

[ YES, MOM. ]

Trust me, I plan on staying as safe as possible. I don't think anyone wants a repeat of the last time we were stuck in a digital world.

[ Strange is doing a good job trying to repress the Matrix, let's keep that going! ]

[Carly quite quickly sobers up from that. She was one of the ones taken by those agents, after all.] ...We can definitely guarantee something like That won't happen.

[ Strange...has completely forgotten about Carly being taken by the agents, as he spent most of the Matrix fretting about Childermass who was taken by the agents. As such, he gives Carly a confused little frown before, ]

Good. I'll be the first to admit that I don't know much about all of this digital nonsense but as long as nothing even remotely close to what happened at the Matrix happens, I'll help out you and Lambert as best as possible.

[ said as if she has somehow ascended to boss status as well, despite the fact that Lambert is technically the boss? Internal nightrunner politics, who the hell knows. ]

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There won't be anyone like those agents to catch us off guard this time. You have my word...I made sure of it this time!

And... ...w...well, it helps that we aren't trying to lure out rebels or such out as well, this time... [<small<She coughs.</small>] A-anyway, that world, it was more like just putting your mind inside..! This world is real, and solid....we can even bring things back you know!

We can? [ Somehow, Strange forgot that part of the debriefing. ]

Have you seen a bookstore in this world, by any chance?

A bookstore? [She crosses her arms.] Mmnn...they might have one! I was focused on other things while scouting things out, but they have a lot of stores that mirror what you'd see in everyday life...

I know I've seen clubs and clothing stores, you'd think they'd have at least some kind of bookstore. After all, it only makes sense. [ Or, at least, it makes sense in Strange's mind. ]

Right!

Well, the best answer I can give is to try looking, in that case. If you ask around and everyone says 'e-books', you're probably out of luck though...

Let me guess. The 'e' stands for electronic?

...Yes.

[ And then Strange just makes the most aggravated noise in the history of creation as he melodramatically slumps forward to put his head in his hands.

Computers. They're downright awful and this is doing nothing to change his opinion about the fact! ]

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