Fish
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World: Ararat
Pronoun: He
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Post by Fish on May 28, 2015 23:12:07 GMT
I supposed I shouldn't be surprised they've forgotten about telegrams in the future. A telegram is like a letter, except that you send a message the way you would send a phone call and it is then delivered to the door from the telegraph office.
Do they have phones in your day? I gather computers connect by something similar, though they look very different to the computers I'm familiar with. In any case, messages travel much faster by phone or computer network than by being carried in a lorry or similar, and if I wanted to send a letter quickly to someone far away, I might send them a telegram, so that it only need be carried the distance between the local telegraph office and their home.
Telegrams are considered quite old-fashioned in most parts of the world now; it is much more common to make a phone call for quick messages or send letters by air mail.
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Post by Kit on May 29, 2015 0:57:31 GMT
We can phone with computers. Telegrams sound slow, so it's good we don't use them anymore. Computers are better.
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Post by Andrew on May 29, 2015 4:07:51 GMT
Computers with Internet connections are in fact better in most ways than telegrams. Most Internet connections do go over phone lines, with the computers turning the data into sound and back. The sound is not something humans can generally understand, but the computers can.
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Lantern
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World: Glazed
Pronoun: They
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Post by Lantern on May 29, 2015 4:20:49 GMT
Yes computers, yes net, connection by wires, sent as light through air,...,. Letters in the past, used many pages. Phone=_? Telegram=letter, -transcribed to file, sent between computers, printed to pages, delivered as letter, -other?
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Post by Ahrotahn on May 30, 2015 1:55:37 GMT
(I'm not completely sure whether this is real or a roleplay site or something, so if I'm just missing the joke then please feel free to delete or edit my post.)
I'm on a website that looks like a generic web forum. I can only access the site when I'm proxying my internet connection through the Lattice, though, which... I don't know how you did that, but haha very cute. Also useful I guess, if you want to be selective about who you let in?
Anyway, yeah, I've got my laptop wired into my KI and it's a website.
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Post by Leaf on May 30, 2015 2:22:27 GMT
Lattice? KI?
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Post by Ahrotahn on May 30, 2015 3:58:50 GMT
A KI device is a communication device worn on the wrist. It can project a holographic display, which acts as a touchscreen. The Lattice is the communications network that the KI devices connect to. The whole system is based on refurbished D'ni technology, so it's pretty rough around the edges compared to the Internet, which is based on stuff we actually understand. The main advantage of the KI is that it lets you communicate between different worlds.
...And now you're going to ask about the D'ni. They're a (mostly) dead civilization; the survivors/descendants went off to a newly-Written world to start over again, and people like me are messing around in their old ruins.
Edit: apparently the default avatar it assigned me is a picture of a KI device. Makes sense, I guess.
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Post by Andrew on May 30, 2015 5:51:06 GMT
I don’t know what you mean by a newly-Written world, but it sounds like your world is (worlds are?) fairly technology-heavy. Thus, magic might convince you this forum is real (there seems to be a general trend of more technology meaning less magic, for some reason). Even if you do have magic it might not be able to produce the same effects. Magic making you more likely to believe statements, which can apparently only be applied to true statements and which still allows you to disbelieve the statement if you are suspicious, can be found hereMagic which presents the given message in a way you are most likely to understand can be found here. Note that many people (including me) find this quite creepy, but it is a useful communication tool.
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Post by Ahrotahn on May 30, 2015 19:35:44 GMT
By newly Written I mean that the Descriptive Book was composed and scribed specifically for that purpose.
The first link produces a sensation reminiscent of the gahrohevtee, but pulling instead of pushing. I don't understand why it was in English.
The second link is certainly very well-written, but the cultural references might indicate only that the author has spent time hanging around in the Cavern, which was likely anyway. And there can be some weird stuff in different worlds anyway.
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Post by Meletiti Entelecheiai on May 31, 2015 1:02:35 GMT
Hm. That was the intended response, certainly. Unfortunately it came out a tad too precise, and generally digs too deeply into personal details.
Perhaps I simply got lucky, with you? Else I would like to see what went right with you, that did not with others. There is another post, longer, with the same effect upon it, in that thread. Bearing in mind that it may indeed disturb you (and that I do not, in fact, know what it says), would you mind reading it and telling me what you see?
We do not know what a Descriptive Book is yet, though I will likely scry your world-cluster soon. (And what did you mean, by pulling instead of pushing? Also, gahrohevtee is a word unknown to us.)
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Post by Ahrotahn on May 31, 2015 4:20:44 GMT
Um. I've read that second post, and I somewhat do mind telling you what I saw, since it referred to some embarassing memories that I would have preferred not to dwell on. If this is just people messing around, then that post crosses the line from cute roleplay site to weird unsettling prank targeted specifically at me.
...That weird post mentioned gahrohevtee, but I suppose that's compatible with either interpretation. Anyway, if I'm going to explain the Art, I should probably do it in a different thread.
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Post by Meletiti Entelecheiai on May 31, 2015 5:19:14 GMT
I apologize, then, for the embarrassment. I am working on a less... traumatizing version.
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Suchi
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World: Yarth
Pronoun: She
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Post by Suchi on May 31, 2015 19:04:54 GMT
I built a transastral pentagulator to home in on a stray cat that may have accidentally gotten teleported into another world, and instead I found this signal on the same frequency and modulation the cat should have been. It was a simple attachment of a modulated dictaphone to make it a two-way process.
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Post by Ahrotahn on May 31, 2015 20:02:11 GMT
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Post by Hajene Anda on Jun 3, 2015 18:33:09 GMT
I found this Ancient machine in remarkably good condition, it appears to be like one of the computers some of you have mentioned, although it does not have an obvious source of power like I understand these machines usually require, perhaps it is powered by some variant method I have no heard of. We leave understanding Ancient things in detail (or attempting to) to the people over at Frihil.
Since we do not have a functioning Internet (it may have existed in Ancient times?) I don't know how this works. This "forum" obviously operates on its own rules.
I am currently very annoyed that the writing device on this machine does not have the script for my native language, but a variant of the script used in the language called English by its native speakers. Therefore, I am forced to write in a language that is not my native language because attempting to transliterate my native language into this script would be more complicated then I care to attempt. This is my break time.
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