[video] Technology: 1; Crotchety Old Man: 0

[theblackstaff]

[when the video blinks on, the only thing visible is a white ceiling, and the sounds of somebody moving around in a room]
Fool thing, what's wrong with a communications spell...

[the camera shifts, but instead of focusing on a face, all you see is some hair, and then an ear, pressed against the camera. There is also an overly loud, overly enunciated

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Voice

[tinybutfierce]

I'm going to have to run a tutorial for you wizards on how to actually operate these things, aren't I? [sighs, like she didn't have enough to do]

How is that thing still functioning around you anyway?

Video

[theblackstaff]

[have some shaky camera angles as Ebenezar drops the phone on the floor] I press the buttons it tells me to press, Sergeant. Ain't my concern if they designed the fool things to be too complicated. Got a perfectly good rotary phone on my farm.

[thumbvideo as Ebenezar leans over and picks up the phone again] Don't rightly know. Magic, I suppose. [did he just make a joke? Maybe]

Voice

[tinybutfierce]

[pause, low voice almost like she doesn't want to admit it] I'm not a Sergeant any more, sir. I don't think they're that complicated.

[then again, she wasn't born in a century when the wheel was considered advanced tech, she doesn't say this though]

[she does snort bemusedly at that joke]

[theblackstaff]

[gruff sigh] Sorry to hear that, but you're still the best thing we got to law enforcement around here, Ser-- Miss Murphy.

[Ebenezar is so old school he invented the wheel] Complicated enough. I dialed that BOB thing like the directions said and all it did was ask me what sort of po-- Obscene things, this technology.

[tinybutfierce]

Thanks. Guess in a way it frees me up a little, I don't have to worry about this most recent mess coming back to bite me in the ass.

BOB?

[theblackstaff]

Doing the right thing usually does. World's unfair that way.

BOB. This fool thing's instruction page said to text BOB for assistance, but all I could make it do was show the locations of brot-- establishments.