001 [video]

[mcpimphat]

[The image at first points to the floor as it blinks to life, before swinging around to point at the wall. It’s then covered completely by a pale hand, which continues to manipulate the camera with no particular objective. Apparently, one of the fingers on said hand accidentally pressed the ‘on’ button on the camera, and the owner of that finger has no idea he’s turned it on.

Briefly, the image passes a stone-faced youth with killer sideburns and a slick hat, but almost immediately passes by to point at the other wall.]

Oooh, is it a camera? [A small, female voice chimes excitedly, and the image once again swings up to the youth’s face. The source of the previous voice is a tiny winged woman hovering just behind the young man’s shoulder, excitement painted on her face in contrast to the complete lack of emotion of the human’s.]

It’s too small to be a camera. [Which just gets a pout from the Pixie.]

Maybe that's what cameras look like in the future.

[Ignoring her, the young man studies the camera a bit more before speaking directly to it.]

I was informed that I can keep in contact with others with this... contraption. If anyone can indeed hear me, I am Raidou Kuzunoha the 14th. It's a pleasure to meet you. [His tone remains flat as he says the words, almost as if they were rehearsed. Though he would feel a bit silly if he was just talking to a box, he would trust the words of those who gave him the item. If all else failed, he could just sell the thing.]

Comments

[jonny_talbain]

[Hmm. A stoney-faced young man confused by future technology. Someone can relate.]

You've figured it out well enough. It's working.

[Jon seems completely unphased by the Pixie. He's seen weirder things, after all.]

[mcpimphat]

[Were Raidou one to emote, he might actually appear surprised that the device was talking back to him. Instead, his expression remains as blank as ever.]

I see. [Pixie, on the other hand, is far too excited for her own good, and her face fills the screen as she hovers in front of it.]

Hey, you're my size! What are you doing in there?

[jonny_talbain]

This is a device called a computer and you're looking into what's known as a screen. It can make large things seem smaller... I can assure you I am much larger than you are in the flesh.

[His own face was fairly expressionless as he directed a question to Raidou.]

What year was it when you left whatever place you were last?

[mcpimphat]

[Pixie screws up her face at the explanation. It's a bit too much for her to take in at once, so she just flutters back to behind Raidou's head.]

It was Taisho 20 in the Capital. [It didn't even occur to him that the Japanese system for numbering years might not make much sense to foreigners.]

[jonny_talbain]

Ahh. Right.

[A pause.]

I've no idea when that was. Do you know the year in European terms...? 1940? 1950? I AM Assuming you're from Earth?

[mcpimphat]

[Oh, right. Some quick head math later...]

1931. [Japan was in a transitional period, torn between tradition and modernization due to western influences. Most people still used the old system of numbering years.]

[jonny_talbain]

Blimey... the time you come from pre-dates my birth by about nine years and I'm considered a relic by some folk.

Hold on to your stylish wee hat there, chum. This is 2012. The computer you're using is one of the more common tools you'll find here, but it's not the most advanced.

[mcpimphat]

[Raidou nods. The year, he knew about. That was one of the benefits of using the Arakana Corridor for time/dimension travel; you knew where you were going. Of course, it didn't make him an instant expert on anything from the time or place he traveled to, hence his trouble with technology... not that he was particularly good with technology even in his own time.]

I will ask someone for help with it.

[jonny_talbain]

Fair enough - I left my time in 1959 and even I've had trouble here and there adapting to things in this day and age.