fried | pc ♠ marcoh

Oh.

[ Thinking... ]

I think he tried to get me to throw my stuff.

He bent all the knives in the kitchen.

[ :knife: ]

He wanted you to throw... your stuff? Such as?

Did you want me to bend them back?

[ He just shows the phone. ]

This.

[ okay, that first bit makes him laugh a little. ]

No, but I appreciate it. I'll resharpen them later.

[ squints at phone. ]

Do you have those where you're from?

Alright.

[ But let him know if you need them unbent. ]

No. We have television, I think it's the closest thing to this I can think of. But you can't touch a television to control it...

It's like the cafe thing?

It is. It's supposed to function as a communication device as well, but it doesn't seem to do that now.

[ he will pull his own out, fiddling with it. it takes him forever to get to the camera function. ]

But it can take photographs. Sushang used to inform me that that's the primary use. For "selfies".

Somebody mentioned that too. I don't know what that means.

Like a phone?

[ Then Jiaoqiu says photos. ]

Or a camera?

Both. A phone that can take pictures, and keep notes.

[ takes a picture of marcoh because why not ]

I had one before I died, though I really only used it to talk with my General and her left hand.

...?

[ Have a pic of his nonplussed reaction. ]

Her left hand...? Oh, as in -- okay.

... The only phones I know are attached with cords and cameras are thicker than this.

His name was - is Moze.

[ ear flick. ]

That makes sense. Your world seems to be a little behind in technological means. Do you have electricity?

Yes. It's not that behind. It is 1942.

We're past the whole Age of Darkness thing.

I'm only curious! A... friend of mine enthusiastically described Jarilo-VI to me when I saw her last, and I am reminded of it. Disconnected, but still thriving in difficult conditions.

Jarilo-VI?

What happened there?

The way I understand it, there was a Stellaron that infected the world and plunged it into an eternal freeze. While of course that likely isn't what happened in your world, the survivors of the disaster had limited technology until the Astral Express found them.

It was a rather disjointed explanation. Miss Stelle is an excitable storyteller first, and an accurate one second.

... It sounds like a story. Like, something I could find in a book.

[ Stellaron??? Astral Express??? These are just words. ]

It does sound rather fantastical, doesn't it.

If you told me about your world, I might feel similarly.

My... world isn't interesting.

There's no Stella things, there's no "eternal freeze", there's no space trains.

It doesn't have to have those things to be interesting. My homeland doesn't have any of those.

Well... it's just Vatican City. It's a nation founded around the Ministry of Darkness. The Church is really big.

Do you follow this Church?

I'm not a Dark Priest or anything but, yeah, I went. Listened to the sermons and everything.

[ i have been on the star rail wiki too much today ]

I don't think I've ever attended any sort of service. [ aeons are weird ] What's that like?

[ When you gaze into the wiki, the wiki gazes back into you... ]

You sit in a big church hall with a lot of other strangers and listen to the attending Father... follow along with prayer and stuff. It's not really much if you're going on a Sunday.

There's more if you volunteer and things like that but I didn't have time.

[ jiaoqiu hears this and thinks wowee! that sounds awful. anyway. ]

No? Busy elsewhere?

I worked most of the time.

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