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[crabbycustomer]

Okay. He's done it. It took a lot of work, but he's done it

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[says_the_booyah]

Cy sees the note.

Cy is curious. Organic technology...like something out of that show with a living ship and the grumpy cosmonaut. And an interdimensional chat client. How would that even work?

He has to know more!

"Hey, you're Karkat?" He of course pronounces it Car-Cat.

[crabbycustomer]

Beep beep meow.

"YEAH THAT'S ME, GREY KID WITH THE HORNS."

He has his best manners on.

[says_the_booyah]

"Tell me about this chat client you're offering." Cy's not good with software. Well, not that good compared to some. But he's eager to learn. "It will ready work across the doors?"

[crabbycustomer]

He shrugs. "PROBABLY, I DON'T KNOW. I WOULDN'T BET YOUR LIFE ON IT YET. THIS IS KIND OF AN OPEN BETA SO I CAN SEE HOW IT WORKS OUT, I DID A SMALL TEST RUN WITH SOME PONIES AND I HAVEN'T HEARD ANY COMPLAINTS YET."

[source_fairy]

Sirona reads the announcement, then comes swanning over, delightedly.

"So it's finished!" she says. "Great news! I'd like a handset, then, where I can sign in with my trolltag."

Beat.

"Unless we get new ones, on this new system."

[[OOC: I shall pile in with my charries that I'd like T-Minus connections for; but I don't want to swamp you, so won't mind at all if we keep the threads brief]]

[crabbycustomer]

"OKAY, WELL, I GAVE A HANDSET TO THE BAR SO IT KNOWS HOW TO MAKE THEM NOW, YOU SHOULD BE FINE TO USE IT, YOU ARE NOT AN IDIOT OR A PRIMITIVE CAVEHUMAN."

"I DON'T REALLY KNOW IF YOU WILL GET A NEW TAG, I CAN SIGN INTO THE PROGRAM WITH MINE BUT THE HANDSETS AUTOMATICALLY GENERATE ONE WHEN THEY'RE CREATED. IT MIGHT RECOGNIZE YOU, TROLLIAN IS FULL OF SPOOKY BULLSHIT LIKE THAT."

[source_fairy]

Sirona grins. "I best get mine from the bar, then, and get experimenting," she says. "Fun!"

[crabbycustomer]

"YOU SHOULD BE ABLE TO SEE EVERYONE ELSE WHO IS SIGNED IN, AND THEY WILL SEE YOU, UNLESS YOU'RE INVISIBLE. SO GO AHEAD AND GET TROLLING."

[scots_wolf]

This sounds very, very interesting, so Urquhart wanders over to the grey-skinned youngster.

"That sounds ingenious," he announces. "Will your system work when the participants are out in some world, too? And how much do you want for it?"

He's actually prepared to shell out quite a lot for such devices for Moist and himself. They'll break even on the very first job.

[crabbycustomer]

"IT IS SUPPOSED TO, THAT IS THE WHOLE POINT. BUT ANYTHING TO DO WITH ACCESSING THIS PLACE IS UP TO THE MIRTHFUL MERCILESS GODS OF FATE AND FUCKING YOU OVER, SO, YOU KNOW." He shrugs.

"I AM GIVING THEM AWAY RIGHT NOW, IF YOU DON'T GET A CRITICAL MASS OF PEOPLE USING THIS SHIT IT FADES AWAY TO IRRELEVANCY ALMOST IMMEDIATELY."

[scots_wolf]

"I am willig to make a donation to the project, though," Urquhart says. "And can I have two?"

No point in sending Moist to find the troll, as they might keep missing each other or something.

[crabbycustomer]

"YEAH, SURE, I GAVE THEM TO THE BAR SO JUST ASK IT FOR TWO. I DON'T CARE IF PEOPLE TAKE ENOUGH TO BUILD A FORT WITH THEM AS LONG AS THEY'RE CHATTING."

"I HONESTLY HAVE NO IDEA TO CONVERT THE COST OF THESE FUCKING THINGS, THE ORIGINAL OPOD COST ME LIKE A TWO PERIGEES OF IMAGOSTIPEND. ENOUGH TO LIVE ON FOR... A HUMAN MONTH, I GUESS."

[ostro_goth]

"Would that work if I took it to a world and left it there?" Teja asks, approaching ext.

He remembers having talked to the boy before.

"It would work wonderfully if my people had a way of contacting me."

Even though he might end up texting bedtime stories for the children through that; but that is a legitimate use, if not a very trollish one.

[crabbycustomer]

"I DON'T KNOW, WORTH A SHOT. IT DEPENDS ON IF THE OPENING BETWEEN YOUR WORLD AND THIS JOINT STAYS OPEN, IF THAT FAILS YOU WILL BE DEPENDING ON WHATEVER INTERNET YOUR WORLD HAS, WHICH PROBABLY WON'T BE GOOD ENOUGH TO REACH HERE."

Karkat is judging your technology level.

[ostro_goth]

"No internet," Teja says. "No electrical power, either. My people live on the Swedish island of Gotland, around the year 565 of Christian reckoning. They were Goths, and are Vikings now."

[crabbycustomer]

"YEAH, THAT IS PRETTY GRUESOME, IF YOU THINK THEY CAN HANDLE IT FEEL FREE TO TRY, BUT YIKES."

"FOR THE RECORD, YOU WILL PROBABLY WANT TO CONFIGURE IT SO THEY ARE INVISIBLE TO THE REST OF THE USERS, IT SEEMS LIKE THAT COULD GET WILDLY OUT OF HAND."

[margolotta]

"Oh, that sounds so handy!"

A posh lady in a pink sweater embroidered with bats approaches, after having read the sign.

[crabbycustomer]

"IT IS, IT IS HANDY AS SHIT," he says. He remembers her, the bizarro reverse vampire.

[margolotta]

"I'd be happy to have one, to stay in contact with friends here," Margolotta says, smiling.

[crabbycustomer]

"OKAY, WELL, I GAVE ONE TO THE BAR SO IT KNOWS HOW TO DISPENSE THEM NOW, IT SHOULD SET EVERYTHING UP AUTOMATICALLY WHEN YOU ACTIVATE IT. DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA HOW TO USE A COMPUTER AT ALL?"