[VIDEO .003 | username edward.elric]

[alchemyfreak]

Has anyone noticed the message board at headquarters?

[Yes, he's talking about the Perimeter Guard missions.]

I've had a really bad feeling lately, and my suspicions are that I'm not alone on this one.

[He knows how touchy some people can be about saying against this place, but Ed and gods didn't mix well. He spent too much of his life denying their existence just to spend five years under the power of them, or at least beings claiming to be them - and if he eventually could convince himself they weren't, he'd be much happier. That didn't mean he wanted a repeat of that.]

Some of the stuff going on recently has been a little too familiar for my liking, and if there's any possibility that some sleeping god is behind it, I'm going to go check it out.

[It's not easy spending your life afraid of glitter, okay. Between the carnival, the glitter, the sudden influx of people - which he's learned just began a few months ago - this place was starting to look suspiciously like a certain other event in his life. Even if he's wrong, he doesn't even want to chance that this thing waking up is going to change the dynamic everyone had grown so used to here.

If it being asleep is what's causing the portal to function the way it is, though? He doesn't want to kill or destroy it, either. In his experience that would send most people, if not everyone, home - and a lot of the residents here didn't want that. If he was being honest, himself included.]

[ooc: Chloe and Ed are at it again, Chloe will have a log up sometime next week to get this plot going. In the meantime, Ed's suspicions are super high and no one else cares so he's none too happy, atm. I will be throwing up a public plurk for plotting and discussion, and linking it here once I've put it up.]

Comments

[alchemyfreak]

[Still, what the fuck.]

Why does everyone always say that....

[Talk about the fastest way to ensure he'll be wary. And only more-so at the sudden visual of a clock appearing out of nowhere. Yeah, this was ... not good. Even if it would be pretty handy in a battle, he hadn't exactly signed up for this

What the-

[An arm lifts on instinct but it's certainly not going to do anything to block the spell, and as he lowers it he can see she's not exaggerating.]

Okay.... how long does this last, exactly?

[thegreatninja]

Not sure.

[Yuffie replies with a bright grin.]

Just give me a second.

[She places her palm on the materia again. This time a red clock appears at her feet and it's ticking quickly. Another second and it's around Ed, releasing the slow spell while also making him faster.]

There. Told you that you could trust me.

[alchemyfreak]

[LITERALLY ONE SECOND. She cast a spell on him without his consent so he's already a bit frustrated when she adds that she doesn't even know how long it'll last.]

Yeah...

[He actually sounds a bit in awe, but he's looking himself over as if to make sure something weird hadn't happened to him in the meantime.]

Neat trick, but how helpful is it if you don't know how long it lasts? Can you actually use it against monsters or whatever's out there?

[thegreatninja]

It always last to the end of the fight.

[Yuffie rolls her shoulders in a shrug.]

Turns out that it doesn't last til the end of a race. [She used it and lost against stupid werewolf boy.] I can. If you want me to figure out how long it lasts I can time it.

[A pause.]

Do you own a watch?

[Yuffie does not.]

[alchemyfreak]

[Video game logic does not compute here.]

Considering we weren't fighting, what would that have meant for the duration? Is that the first time you've used that thing outside of a fight-?

[Or race... but at least that also had a finish. Did not sign up to be your lab rat, okay?]

No.

[That might sound a bit tense, but his pocket watch hadn't been returned to him and Purg didn't have electricity so time was more or less based on the clock tower you could see from any part of the city. If you could .... call Purg a city. He sort of lifts the device he has in indication.]

This tells the time, so I didn't see a need for one here.

[thegreatninja]

[Yuffie waves a hand as if to dismiss the thought completely.]

I'll figure it out and let you know.

[She'd need something that's outside of her sphere of influence to make sure that her spell didn't tamper with it too. She doesn't think it will but just in case.]

The phones are pretty awesome. Mine mostly reminds me when I'm supposed to be at work. [Though she's still frequently late.]

[alchemyfreak]

Yeah...

[Ed arrived with his communication device from Attollo, so it wasn't specifically a phone - but they were similar enough as far as he could tell.]

I mostly just use mine to get in touch with people.

[thegreatninja]

[Yuffie snickers softly.]

That's not exactly creative use for a pone.

[She can't help but teasing when he says something so obvious.]

Tech can do a lot of things if you fiddle with it enough.

[alchemyfreak]

[Have a quirked eyebrow, Yuffie. Sure it was modded to work here on this network when he arrived but he was sure it still functioned the same. Voice, Video, Text, Inbox. Clock on the corner of the screen.]

It's- not really a phone.

[They hadn't called it a phone, so even outside of his scope of recognition for what a phone was supposed to be, he didn't really think this qualified.]

[thegreatninja]

If it works like a phone- [Yuffie leans forward with a smile.] I think it's safe to call it a phone.

[She's used to having a phone though only Tifa or Reeve ever call her. Most of her friends don't seem to get how phones work.]

What else would you call it.

[alchemyfreak]

Well, it- doesn't do all that stuff phones do around here.

[It's not equipped to use the internet, for one. Have you seen an iphone Yuffie? It's beyond his comprehension.]

[thegreatninja]

That's true but you can play with it some and have it do some new stuff.

[She doesn't know what the internet is.]

[alchemyfreak]

Like what?

[He wouldn't either if Chloe hadn't insisted he learn.]

[thegreatninja]

Tracking for one.

[She wiggles her phone a bit.]

You can totally back feed a signal or whatever and see where people are.

[Yuffie doesn't use the correct terminology but she isn't bad at computers. She learned that she needed to know how to hack in order to become a better thief and has used that knowledge to play with her phone some.

When it doesn't work her first reaction is usually to throw it but she's getting better at that.]

[alchemyfreak]

How's that work?

[What. Yuffie, please. He's from 1915.]

[thegreatninja]

[Yuffie finds the nearest object to use as a seat and then waves Ed over.]

I can show you though it'd be easier with a larger screen. Okay. See how they have call settings? Calls are just frequency waves, so you pick a person and then you follow those waves to them.

If there phone is off it doesn't work because it's like calling someone but it doesn't ring on the other end. Then you can pinpoint where they are. [Yuffie is a skilled stalker.]

[alchemyfreak]

[He's just going to stare for a moment, because that made no sense to him.]

Ah... Sounds easy when you put it like that.

[Once you knew anything about frequencies and waves, anyway.]

[thegreatninja]

Does it?

[She asks with a short laugh.]

How about this? You run into computer stuff, call me. I got you.

[alchemyfreak]

Thanks, I'll keep that in mind.

[It was a merciful offer after the threat of teaching him this crap from both Jay and Chloe.]