01; voice - cellphone

[schild]

[ Guess who's dialing you up...... this guy? Doesn't really seem familiar. ]

Was this someone's phone number? [ That's not quite right... ]

Does anyone...? Uh, well. [ He clears his throat. Time to leave a message using his Authority Voice. ] Hi, I'm Ryan Brown, from the Locke City Fire Department. If you have any sort of emergency, don't hesitate to give us a call.

Just whose phone number is this, though?

Comments

voice;

[schild]

Anything, huh? Have people abused that yet? What if it was like, a locker combination or something? [ He's seen people do some dumb things... ]

voice;

[eras]

...You know, I'm not sure how that would work? Would it just show up on the locker...?

voice;

[schild]

Maybe... What if somebody typed in their number in Morse code?

voice;

[eras]

Haha, now I kind of want to try some of these things. I don't think the network translates anything in other languages, so I guess we'd just have legit morse code all of a sudden?

voice;

[schild]

So the receiver would just start printing words? Isn't that kind of creepy?

voice;

[eras]

...You know, I think it kind of is...? I might not try it after all. At least - do you think it would do anything people wrote back in morse code somehow? Or...wow, I'm not sure. I feel like this is an experiment that should be done regardless of the creepy factor!

voice;

[schild]

Well, I know morse code. I could technically tap the number on a table or a wall, see what happens. If the table starts tapping back, I might need to buy a new table, though. Because that's just creepy.

I could try tapping on my phone...

voice;

[eras]

Will you let me know what happens if you do?

voice;

[schild]

I will! Lemme see if I can figure this out...

[ I asked the FAQ and everything, haha. ]

voice;

[eras]

Sure thing. Just lemme know when!

[ EXPERIMENTS RULE. ]

morse code;

[schild]

-.-. .- -. / -.-- --- ..- / ..- -. -.. . .-. ... - .- -. -.. / - .... .. ... ..--..

voice; 1/2

[eras]

[ OH, THAT DEFINITELY SOUNDS LIKE MORSE CODE.

...she did not think this through. ]

voice; 2/2

[eras]

[ PLEASE HOLD as she looks up a guide to morse code and replays that a few times to see if she can't figure it out.

No one ever told her morse code was hard.

Okay if she writes it down and then like...

C/Ps the dash/dot lines into an online generator...

she probably missed a letter or two, but context clues say: ]

Did you ask if I could understand that?

[ This reply comes about ten minutes later.

HA...HA... ]

voice;

[schild]

Yep! Good job. [ He's snickering a little. ]

This Network thing is pretty versatile.

voice;

[eras]

[ She probably should have just said "I can hear morse code" but never let it be said she doesn't try. ]

It really is...which makes me wonder all the more how it works.

voice;

[schild]

[ A for effort is a passing grade in Ryan's book. ]

Yeah. It's almost Otherworldly. Like the Twilight Zone or something.

voice;

[eras]

Except hopefully with less shocking and horrifying twists?

voice;

[schild]

We can sure hope.

[ probably not. ]

voice;

[eras]

I'm certainly going to!! It'd be nice if everything worked out.

[ #optimists ]