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Look, Oz, we control what comes onto the screen.which button did you hit to make the capital letters/ Aa Bb Cc Dd ! @ # !!!!!!!! :) :p :D *) **) **) **) &H

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[...it seems two of the Tower's more recent acquisitions have discovered the network terminals in the third-floor library, and are entirely computer illiterate.

Someone should turn on video and scare the crap out of them.]

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Alright, I will... ah...

[She looks down at the keyboard again and hurriedly types, hoping to get his question in before Maya responded to her first message.]

how did you use the canera and whered you find it can we get them to?

[...rushing her typing didn't go very well for her.]

video; whoops sorry about that

[mayatama]

Well, how do I explain this...

[ Maya places her hand on her chin, obviously attempting to think all of this through. ]

There should be a button on the computer that says 'record', or a big red circle, I think. I'm not that great at using these myself, actually.

[ BUT SHE'S GETTING BETTER... ]

video; haha no worries! :'D

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...record...

[Sheba looked for the button... but oh! What's that? There was a little red light...]

Um... I think one of us might have pressed it already, by accident... can you see us?

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[harepiece]

[Oops... He pulls his hands away from the screen and keyboard, looking a little sheepish.]

So, is this thing the camera? [It's pretty huge and flat and weird for a camera!]

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[mayatama]

Yeah, I can see you guys!

[ An enthusiastic nod from this end. ]

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[seekinganswers]

We can see you, too! [Well, obviously, Sheba...]

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[harepiece]

[He proceeds to wave in an equally enthusiastic way!!]

This tower has some incredible things in it!

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[mayatama]

I guess you could say it's 'amazing'...

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...what else would you say it is?

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[harepiece]

[THIS TAG IS USELESS because he's just sitting there quietly and attentively, waiting to hear what she says]

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[mayatama]

Com...plicated, I guess?

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...complicated. That sounds like a good word for it, don't you think, Oz? [She turned to Oz to see his answer, then looked back to Maya's face on the screen.]

Do you mind if I ask how long you've been here for?

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[harepiece]

It can be, I guess. [not agreeing or disagreeing... there are definitely some things he finds complicated but they're probably the most mundane aspects of the tower to just about everyone else. see: computers.]

Oh! If you've been here very long, do you maybe know how many other people are here, too? A rough estimate is fine!

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[mayatama]

I've been here for about five months, actually.

[ Not sure if that accounts as 'very long', though... ]

And I guess it'd be about a hundred? I'm not really sure.

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That long? That many?!

[There was no way she'd met everyone who was in this Tower, then. And what must have it been like to have been here for such a long time? She'd hadn't even been here for a few weeks and sometimes she already felt like she was going crazy...]

How do you bear it?

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[harepiece]

[he's actually of the opinion that five months is definitely not a massive amount of time, so he's passively silent for that part...]

Do you know what the maximum occupational capacity of the tower is? [RANDOM QUESTION seemingly, but it's been on his mind for a bit.]

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[mayatama]

I don't think there is a maximum capacity?

[ Maya just shrugs it off. Five months isn't as long as, well, other people. ]

And I just make friends and know that everything will be fine -- oh, and eat burgers. A lot of burgers.

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[That's all well and good but--]

What's a... "burger"?