Axe 01 - Audio - Open to Both Courts - Forward-dated to October 2nd

[gloinul]

[Not a video, just audio. It’s clear, however, that the person on the other end is inspecting the locket]

--hmph, thought as much. "Say a phrase and the magic will work", hm? Ridiculous. Who ever heard of speaking over distances with a locket.. Not even Legolas with all his fanciful Elven stories would have come up with something so foolish.

[More tapping and poking can be heard]

There’s nothing special about this at all. No gems, not even made of precious metals...and those creatures expect me to believe their stories? [A snort] I’d sooner believe there’s a man in Rohan afraid of horses! [He pauses, and then scoffs] Bah, listen to me, talking to myself. Legolas must be rubbing off on me more than I thought!

[Click goes the locket.]

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[gloinul]

[Excuse him, he didn't expect to hear the locket talk back to him, so he actually drops the locket in surprise as is indicated by the clattering of metal-on-stone.

Apparently the faeries were telling the truth. Huh. That's...worrisome, really, because that means they might have been telling the truth about other things.]

Hmph. And why is that?

audio;

[jaywalks]

A portable communication device that fits into your pocket and has a range that's basically one end of the continent to the other that's issued so that everyone only gets one? Take a guess.

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[gloinul]

...fair enough. That would be very useful, assumin' it was sturdier than this looks to be.

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[jaywalks]

Which would be the reason why someone'd pay so much for an extra. It does a bunch of other stuff, too.

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[gloinul]

Such as? The...creatures who gave it to me weren't terribly forthcoming with what, exactly, this did or how it works.

audio → video;

[jaywalks]

Try opening it.

[ and as if to demonstrate, mako does that for his own, his image flicking into existance in the air above gimli's as soon as he does the same. draped over his shoulders is a serpentine creature with jade scales and a golden mane, sleeping with its head tucked in the folds of the scarf around his neck. ]

It'll send messages in writing too.

video;

[gloinul]

[He opens it and has to try very hard not to gape at the thing around his neck. She's pretty, but...very very dragon like.]

And how? I couldn't fit a scroll or note in this if I tried!

video → text;

[jaywalks]

[ here have an appropriate explanation of how it works — and an example on its own. ]

it's got a steep learning curve, but it's worth it by the end.

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[gloinul]

[Gimli frowns, but really that's more or less his neutral face]

Hm. Think I'll stick to simply talking at it. That, at least, makes some degree of sense!