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[There's a burst of static, and a garbled sound like someone talking for a brief moment before it clears, beginning a voice message.] -doesn't this thi-[More static, along with the sound of buttons being pressed. Likely buttons that should NOT be pressed, if the beeps that keep sounding mean anything.]-ith instructions or something?

[That? Is the sound of TEN MILLION BUTTONS being pressed. One of them has to let him write. But WHICH ONE?

Until now, this has been a mystery to Sora.

But apparently he figures it out, because suddenly, text!]

jkl;q23fa8sdpj

oh, there it is! Now I can send messages to people. This is neat!

but writing everything out like this takes forever. [Because guess who's typing one. letter. at. a. time.

But there must be another way! Maybe if he can figure out how video works...

Oh, hey. Time to abuse the terminal's keyboard again.

This goes on for a few minutes, occasionally accompanied by various warning beeps and error messages. Finally, the video flashes on briefly, revealing the face of one (1) VERY SURPRISED Sora, who...was maybe starting to think that this wasn't going to actually work.

...but then he has the biggest smile because GUESS WHAT? IT DID. Computer: 58, Sora: 1.

He's definitely catching up, okay?]

Alright, it wor-huh?!

[And all of his hopes are dashed when the screen turns bright red, and the video shuts off after another, this time much angrier, error noise. Apparently, the terminals do not take kindly to misuse.

Finally, there's just a minute of silence. Then...]

...did I break it?

[Meet the future savior of all worlds, everyone.]

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Yes, you broke it.

[It's said with a straight face, too!]

[Sora... please don't go destroying the terminals.]

Do you need some help?

Edited 2012-04-03 04:41 (UTC)

...I think you did. [Hm. Maybe he should possibly offer some help.]

First time using a computer terminal?

[OH GOSH, and now the computer sounds like Riku. Just what did he do-

...OH.

wait. wait.

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Hey! That's not funny.

[NOT COOL, BRO.]

[Just. Smirking. Sora, you make this way too easy.]

Nah, it's totally funny. You just missed the punchline.

Nah, that's okay. I think I've got it working now.

[By which he means "It's recording my voice, so I just won't touch anything ever again."

Super effective strategy, right? Rightttttttttttt?]

Edited 2012-04-03 04:49 (UTC)

[... Whatever you say, Sora. There's a head tilt.]

If you're sure.... [There's a hesitance, though. She's weeeeeell aware of his technical incompetence.]

I didn't mean to...

[But he might as well just admit it - he has no idea what he's doing.]

Yeah. I didn't really use anything like this back in my world.

...Would you like some lessons?

[Hey, he tutored a kid before and helped out part-time at a daycare. How bad could it be?]

People from my world are familiar with most of the electronics, here.

Funny to you, maybe!

[HE REALLY THOUGHT IT WAS BROKEN, OKAY? Geez.

He's not really upset or anything just...stupid computers. being complicated and silly.]

Well, it should be fine as long as I don't press anymore buttons...I think.

[He doesn't sound too sure about that, though.]

...it will be okay if I don't mess with it, won't it?

Edited 2012-04-03 05:07 (UTC)

[... That did sound like one angry error message.]

... Maybe?

You're going to have to figure out how to do this again the next time you want to use it, so....

[...Sora, that's not helping your case. Nope. Riku's just gonna laugh.]

You make this too easy, you know.

...really? You can show me how it works?

[He definitely sounds interested.]

I can at least show you the basics, yeah.

The way you are going, it's likely.

[Hey Sora! Guess who saw that post, decided to get right to the point of origin instead of trying the network and is now leaning against some wall and wearing the straightest face of them all.

...Except that he may be smiling. But hush, nobody saw that.]

...It's still recording. You haven't broken anything.

Better kiss it goodbye. It doesn't like you very much, I'm thinking.

[ His sarcasm is SEETHING. Anyway, hi, derp. ]

... Do you want some help with the terminal?

Eh, even if you did, it'll probably get fixed pretty soon.

...Heheh. I never thought of it that way! Press everything, try everything! You know, I wanna try and see what stops working when you stop what process now...

[That minute of silence would be Sora crossing his arms and putting on the biggest stubborn face he can muster. Riku may not be able to see it, but it's probably easy enough to imagine.]

I'm serious! I really did want to figure out how it worked.

[He just...didn't know where to start. So pressing all the buttons was the best solution, obviously.]

...yeah, I guess you're right.

[He...hadn't thought about that, yet.]

I just didn't think it would be that hard to figure out.

[....]

[Now would not be a good time to say that she didn't think it was very difficult, herself.]

Everybody needs help sometimes.

[there's a low chuckle from your computer, Sora]

Something tells me you've got a habit of getting carried away.

That would be great!

[You may not be able to see him smiling, but you can practically hear it. Sounds like he's eager to learn!

That probably won't make teaching him how to work a computer any less of a challenge, though.

HAVE FUN, YU.]

Huh?

[Well, that caught him by surprise. Sora jumps at the voice, turning around and...spots Riku, standing right there with a perfectly straight face (except was that a smile? He saw that!).

gdit Riku. This appearing out of nowhere thing? Not fair.

Sora rubs the back of his neck and stares off to the side, the way he always does when he's embarrassed. Except he's not embarrassed at all. Really.]

Hey, don't sneak up on me like that!

[Avoiding the subject of his ~~lack of~~ technology skills? Nope. Not at all.]

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