>> @SWORDARTONLINE | @ALL

[prizeneck]

[At the equivalent of 03:45 AM, you're getting a voice message because fuck your text feature. ]

Right, question.

Actually two.



First: Imagine you're being chased for a long time. You're unarmed, and yer injured. About to keel over. You can only carry one thing as you're running: a cell phone [a pause, and a rustle - he's waving his hand] or whatever you people use to communicate; or some food.

Which one do you take, and why?



Second question: who here can deal with high tech gadgets? I got a thing that needs checking before we head to the next mission.

Comments

@COWBOYBEEPBOOP | text

[crownless]

food

u need energy to keep moving, and probably yr phone wont even have bars or whatever knowing how this kinda monkeys paw bullshit works

Why are you even asking??/

voice

[prizeneck]

heh
call it a social experiment

@PERSONALSTAFF | text

[garbagepilot]

Food.

So you don't die.

[How is that not super obvious holy shit.]

I can take a look at it. Where are you now?

He’s going to permavoice like crazy here

[prizeneck]

Even if it doesn’t mean you’re not captured?

[this is all about the first instinctive answer though]

I’ll head to the rec room now. [some rustling! He’s on the move.]

poor dude, all these rude texters

[garbagepilot]

What is the person you contact going to do for you, talk you through your capture? At least if you have food you're more likely to make it.

I'll be there soon. Tell me who I'm looking for.

Goddamn millennials

[prizeneck]

Depends. That’s okay, I’d get the food, too.

I ain’t hard to miss. I’m blind.

[garbagepilot]

You have to try harder, my roommate wears a blindfold.

I think I remember you, though. We met when I was putting together a radio?

[prizeneck]

Huh. Guess I can’t say I have seen them.

Yeah. I was wearing a gas mask. Now I’m wearing sunglasses. That’s what I’d like you to take a look at.

[garbagepilot]

Funny. Are you here yet?

[She's just now arrived, and now that she knows who she's looking for it shouldn't be too hard to find him.]

[crownless]

Yeah
Bullshit
don’t pull this out against me later, weirdo

[prizeneck]

Yeah.

[That’s not said to the comm, he’s actually approaching her now. He had been sleeping in an empty room that’s a lot nearer than the rooms, or at least attempting to. It’s actually easier for him to recognize her instead, now that he got the cue of the radio. He’s holding two things in one hand, a cane and a Japanese sword.

He may have spent very little time in his room since he arrived. ] That was quick. Most are asleep at this time.

@CRUELLA | text.

[reillumination]

[ The voice message doesn't faze him. Ryo's sleep schedule had been poor before arriving here and was even poorer now. At his age, the last thing he'd wanted to worry about was a war. Never mind two. ]

Food. [ That's the obvious choice. ] Some people have grown up without the convenience of long distance communication devices. [ He certainly did. And he's certainly lived through similar scenarios without one. He was still in the brick era, where cellphones couldn't fit in anything and lasted about an hour if you were lucky. ] Depending on the kind of chase, your line could be tapped and too much movement draws attention anyway.

[prizeneck]

What, can’t I just want to know my fellow recruits a little better?

[crownless]

You do that by asking us what our favorite animals or colors are, not with this philosophical crap and not at THIS hour

you woke me up btw. jackass

What do you really want

@GOTTAGUN

[goodandtrue]

The only means of communication were ravens and scrolls.

I'd do better with food.

Why the strange question?

@AEGONNER

[northerndragon]

That depends on where you're running to or from, and who's chasing you, and why.

I've been in the situation you're describing, with three arrows in me.

[prizeneck]

Favorite animals and colors aren’t really useful knowledge when we’re in some sorta militia.

What about the hour? [Microsoft Sam going “it’s three fifty two AM”] Huh. Shit, didn’t notice.

[a very low chuckle] Funny that you’re getting pissed off after you answered. You could’ve just ignored it.

voooooice

[prizeneck]

[while the reply is not very different from the rest... ]

Huh, you actually gave some thought to the answer.

[prizeneck]

Ravens and scrolls? Like you use courrier pigeons?

What if you had the chance to use one of those?

I’m just curious.

[prizeneck]

Huh. Where did they hit you?

[northerndragon]

Two in the back. One in the leg.

Why do you ask?

[prizeneck]

Could be telling if they wanted to keep you alive or not.

[northerndragon]

She didn't want me dead just then. I saw her kill from a few hundred paces away — she was closer and missed my heart by six inches.

But others who were with her would have killed me if they'd caught me, and the wounds didn't help me get away easily.

[prizeneck]

Huh, she wanted you to escape, then.

Second question, then, since you put some thought to it: what guarantees you that the food will give you enough energy to get ya out of their sight.

[northerndragon]

I know she wanted me in pain. I don't know if she wanted to make it easier for someone else to kill me. If she really wanted me to escape, she didn't have to shoot me at all.

The food doesn't ensure anything, but at the time, I was something like a messenger. We don't have your phones or anything like the BCE. People bring messages, or we send them tied to a raven that knows where to go. Only one of your choices would have a point to it there.

We could put the food against a war horn for a choice, but a horn wouldn't have done me any good then.

[But seriously, COST: why aren't war horns standard issue? They're unhackable! You'll never find Kebechet in the curl of it where he doesn't belong. You can't say that for the BCE.]