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[fredman72]

It's that tall lanky guy with the sandy hair and the taped glasses. The one that's here for the very first time, and instead of rubbernecking or being confused he's busy taking apart a PINpoint and looking like a kid on Christmas morning. But after he's done this, examined all the parts, and then reassembled it flawlessly, he does the same to a

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[likes_exploring]

Hmm... how'd he manage that? "Yeah, it's much more than that... It's some kind of... pocket dimension linked to the multiverse." A pause. "You figured out how those work?"

[fredman72]

"No way!" The kid at Christmas look intensifies, then turns to a blink. "Uh, yup. I don't know what all the parts in these two are called, but I figured out what they do." He holds up the PINpoint and co-ordinate finder, then yelps softly and fumbles to catch one as it falls from his hand.

[likes_exploring]

"Way. I didn't believe it at first, myself." She gives the devices a thoughtful look, interested in how they do what they do. As he suddenly drops one and fumble, she blinks, and will try to catch it if he doesn't.

[fredman72]

He's got it, and is now sticking everything but the cellphone into his cargo pockets. The phone goes back where he found it.

[likes_exploring]

"So, you know how to work them, so I guess I don't need to tell you."

Better tell him the Nexus warnings. "Still, here in the Nexus, there's little things called el-oh-els, kinda like annoying spells that last for a few days. What they turn you into depends. Just don't poke anything unattended and pretty strange looking, or take food or drink from someone you don't trust and you'll avoid most of them. There's an Anti-Violence Field here, so no one can hurt each other if they don't want it."

[fredman72]

He pauses and looks at her, patting the newly loaded cargo pocket. "You mean like things like these?"

[likes_exploring]

"Heh. Don't worry, PINpoints and PMQs are exceptions." Now she seems a bit amused.

[fredman72]

"Alright. It did seem kind of silly to sell something dangerous in that volume." He glances toward the vending machines where he'd gotten his prizes, and then looks at the sign again and notices the bowl of free PINpoints. "Oh, hey, these are slightly different. They look like the cheapie version."

Samples are swiftly secured and pocketed of both watch and keybob models.

[likes_exploring]

She's got one of her own, of course. "And they tend to go wrong a little more..."

[fredman72]

"Go wrong?" He studies the contents of the bowl with a critical eye.

[likes_exploring]

"Nothing serious, they just stop working if you use them too much. No, for instance, opening portals to hell." Wonder if he'll get the reference?

[fredman72]

"...People actually try that?" His expression says it all.

[likes_exploring]

"Nope." A pause, then she considers this. Oh yeah, she just remembered something. "...I don't think they could, anyway." A lazy half shrug. "I think places like that are locked off with bothe types of these things... I haven't been suicidal enough to test that theory."

[fredman72]

"Huh." He looks around, then gravitates over toward one of the Nexus screens.

[likes_exploring]

Oh dear. Odds are he'll be totally drawn in by those screens.

[fredman72]

He's soon got this one dancing to his every whim and giving him information that probably looks like an alien language to Faye.