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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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[notsogrimreaper]

[Ryoji chuckles a little at the two. They look so excited!]

Nice to see you again. I guess you don't have a lot of experience with technology, huh? No cellphones?

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[harepiece]

And you!

[The novelty of seeing miniature versions of people's faces still hasn't worn off to him, what can he say. But at that question he blinks and leans back a little.] Cellphone...? [Which is followed by a quick look toward Sheba, as if she'll know what the hell that is.]

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[seekinganswers]

[When Oz looked at her she shook her head, her expression decidedly puzzled.]

I've never heard of a cellphone before... what is it?

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[notsogrimreaper]

Well, I guess I don't have mine, anymore... but it's like a little portable telephone. You can use it to do pretty much the same stuff these computers do-write texts, talk to people, play games...

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[harepiece]

Play games? How do you play games with a portable telephone?

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[seekinganswers]

...and how do you play games on one of these?

[She gestured at the network terminal, looking puzzled. That was starting to become her default expression when it came to technology.]

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[notsogrimreaper]

Ah, on a cellphone, there are extra buttons to use for the controls sometimes. I'm not sure if we can play games on the terminals, though...

[But, if Ryoji can figure it out, you can bet he'll download every game he can find to show these two.]

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[harepiece]

[Futuristic terminal party time sounds like it would definitely be interesting... BUT FIRST THINGS FIRST]

I don't think I entirely understand how extra buttons on a phone can turn it into something you can use for a game. [He only knows of ye olde circular dial phones and even those are new...]

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[seekinganswers]

I've never really played a game with such a small thing before! Aren't most games played by people, with people?

Like tag, and hide-and-go-seek...

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[notsogrimreaper]

You know, just some arrow buttons and an enter key or something...

Oh, no, it's not like that! In these you control a character, and you do stuff like rescue a princess or fight aliens or something! They're not like those kinds of games.

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[harepiece]

[oh boy he is so utterly and thoroughly lost.]

So where you come from, people use portable phones with arrow buttons to play as knights and— What's an alien? [HE'S SORRY RYOJI]

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[seekinganswers]

...why pretend to rescue a princess when you can do it for real?

[Well, Kushinada wasn't really a princess at the time that they rescued her, but...]

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[notsogrimreaper]

An alien? It's like a creature from outer space!

And uh, in my world, you couldn't usually do stuff like that.

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[harepiece]

[He seems suitably star-struck, too! At both of them oh boy]

Like, from another planet? Do you actually have those in your world? [And then, to Sheba:] And you've actually rescued a princess?

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[seekinganswers]

Really? You can't do those things? How boring...

[She blinked at Oz.] Well, she wasn't really a princess, but she was close enough! We rescued a maiden from a dragon that she was supposed to be sacrificed to! [...she says, like it's the most normal thing in the world.]

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[notsogrimreaper]

[Oh hey, Ryoji's just as shocked as Oz.]

What? You had princesses and dragons in your world?

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[harepiece]

[THIS ISN'T NORMAL AT ALL SHEBA but wow he kind of wishes it was!! That is so classic storybook...!]

How many dragons were there? Was that a common thing?

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[seekinganswers]

Of course we did!

There were a pretty decent number... [A handful of dragonlike monsters, the Serpent, the Doom Dragon... oh, but that one probably didn't count.] They weren't as common as some things were, but they weren't unheard of, either.

...wait, neither of you had dragons where you're from?

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[notsogrimreaper]

W-Well, my friend Minato-kun had Personas that looked like dragons...

But other than that, they were just on TV and stuff!

[Oh look, Ryoji's probably just causing more confusion.]

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[harepiece]

I don't have anything like that... Not where I live, at least. [there are probably some dragon-looking chains in the abyss BUT he'll leave that off for now.]

What's a persona?

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[seekinganswers]

...and what's a "TV"?

[Back to looking puzzled it is!]

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[notsogrimreaper]

Ah, heh, you guys wouldn't know about these things, right...

A Persona is basically a manifestation of a person's inner strength. It takes whatever form the person imagines, and it helps to protect that person from harm. My friend Minato-kun had a lot of them, and some of them did look like dragons, but they were just his imagination, really.

And a TV is kind of something like this! You can see people on the screen, except you can't talk back to them. They put little shows on the screen for people to watch.

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[harepiece]

[to the screen:] They actually have things like that in your world? [then to Sheba:] And actual, live dragons in yours? I feel so left behind! Those are such fantastic things, your worlds must be so much fun to live in!

[and then BACK TO THE SCREEN because he's a whirlwind of short attention spans today!] What kind of shows do they have? Is it just people talking like we are?

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[seekinganswers]

Things from his imagination ... that could protect people from harm? [The closest thing she could think of were the Summons from Djinn, but it didn't sound quite the same...] Your friend must have been very strong to be able to have so many of them!

[And then, to Oz -] Yes, real dragons! I don't know about "fun" though... the people who lived near the dragons didn't seem to like it much. But there were amazing things to see.

It must have been the same in your world too! Every world has its charms, right?

[Then, to Ryoji again -] What other sorts of things were in your world?

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[notsogrimreaper]

He was! He was really strong. Kind and brave, too. His friends had Personas too, but they only had one each. He could have several at a time.

Dragons are dangerous, but really amazing!

Oh! Um, well, we had computers, like the terminals, and mp3 players, and game consoles. There were other things too, we just used them for stuff other than entertainment.