144.98750: PUBLIC CHANNEL, D90 (evening)

[whattaprick]

[ Hey, guess who has his voice back? Turns out traveling to Mainframe gives you plenty of voices to hear. But is he actually going to report back with anything useful? ]

"All of Man’s works, all his cities, all his empires, all his monuments will one day crumble to dust. Even the houses of my own dear readers must – though it be for just one day, one hour be ruined and become houses where the stones are mortared with moonlight, windowed with starlight and furnished with the dusty wind. It is said that in that day, in that hour, our houses become the possessions of the Raven King."

[ For once, his voice isn't carrying that edge of mocking, actually managing to sound solemn and thoughtful -- not that it lasts. There's the sound of a book being snapped shut, and Lambert resumes the rest of the radio post speaking in his normal tone of voice: just a touch insufferably smug. ]

Maybe Master Strange should consider becoming a poet, if he ever gets bored of being a magician.

[ And then, as an off-handed follow-up to that: ]

All scouts and nightrunners, report in. Let 'em know what they're in for.

Comments

[insidescoop]

Oh! Actually, I had an idea!

[Uh Oh.]

[kingsroads]

[ who's ready for EMOTIONS. Because Strange just awkwardly splutters and stammers over the radio for a good ten seconds before, ]

That's from my book! How on Earth did you get a copy of my book?!

[perverses]

I dunno, sounds like a dry read to me...

[ But right. Scouting report. ]

It's a computer city! Digital people, computer programs, video games! Man, I wonder if they have any of those dating sims stored somewhere... That might be fun...

[ Unless they somehow lose to a dating sim and yet another chunk of Mainframe gets wrecked, buuuut he doesn't have to break that particular bit of news, does he? ]

[stillwinningthehardway]

Someone's got to mention that this place is one giant simulation with natural rules enforced and that means if you have any special powers they're probably damped or changed.

[Someone's still a little put out about it.]

Also you won't need as much glamor here as like in Alola, but it's there, because everything here looks low resolution and not very detailed. The people here are kind of divided into types. There are the living number people, and everyone else. If you end up looking like a living number, I can't promise no one will laugh at you.

Knowing our luck if you go out into that world it's possible you'll get caught up in a confrontation with a powerful entity from outside the simulation and if you lose you turn into a slug and lose your personality and memories. So, fair warning.

[dorkypantsuit]

The Raven what?

Did a bird enslave humanity and destroy their buildings?

[showmystar]

[There's just a bunch of rapid beeps, scuffling sounds, and one big BANG as Allen attempts to get the walkie to work. Or push the right button.

It sounds like plastic getting murdered. Hope your volume wasn't too high!]