I. Handwritten

[wastingtime]

You know, when I bought a new notebook, I wasn't aware that it could do this. Come to think of it, I'm not sure I heard anything about this in the news. Did I happen to get the notePad, or whatever it's called nowadays?

It's quite interesting, if nothing else. I've only had it about half a day and already I'm enchanted, though I remain baffled as to why it was only a dollar.

My name is Elian, by the way. Does anyone know if there's a manual I could study up on to understand what, exactly, is going on?

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[Handwritten] (Drawing done by MC~)

[shiromadoushi]

The magic isn't in the notebook. The magic is in you!

permahandwritten

[wastingtime]

Charming as that is, I'm hardly a magician.

Or an artist like you.

Ditto

[shiromadoushi]

But you learned the magic spell, didn't you? The numerical alchemy that turns anything you write it on into a way to talk to others.

[wastingtime]

I'm not sure I believe in magic.

Though I suppose it's a better reason than senility.

[video | PC]

[reapsthewind]

[She actually turns on her long-unused webcam for once! SHOCKING.]

[She looks skeptical, and then worried, and mostly skeptical, and also like really, God? Really? Wryyyyy]

Uncle Elian is that seriously you. Seriously?

permahandwritten

[wastingtime]

[he takes a little bit to respond; mainly because, magic or not, seeing a moving picture in a book is a little...well.]

I feel as though I should be more surprised to see you, but oddly enough...

Hello, Christobel.

[vidya until i say otherwise]

[reapsthewind]

[fffffffffffffffffffuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu]

[Deep breath]

Okay hang on a sec.

[She just kinda casually takes out her contact lenses. Whatever deal w/ it. And haha yeah those sure are creepy mechanical red eyes.]

Okay, that part's over with. So. Right. Hi.

[ BIG SIGH. FACE IN HANDS NOW.]

Why is my life so crazy that my students, college friends, and now my own great-uncle are mixed up in this?

[Looks up at the screen and peeks through her fingers. ]

So, um, I guess. I should explain. Things. To you. Everything is insane.

[wastingtime]

[contacts? he didn't know you ha-

oh.

that's.

odd.

Elian taps his pen against his mouth for a few moments, taking even longer to reply this time. he can't say he wasn't surprised to see that...]

Continue.

text|phone (tralala a little gentle threadjacking if you don't mind)

[exloserspromise]

Oh my god is that really what Chris is short for?

don't mind at all c:

[wastingtime]

In her case, yes. I've never understood why she prefers 'Chris'.

( handwritten )

[argents]

Some of us were talking about putting a database together, but it's nothing exactly official. We're still learning too.

I've never tried this, so if you could be patient with me for a second.

[ Linking by computer or text was obviously easy, but he's ever tried anything handwritten. Neatly, he writes down the network ID for Hajime's post on all the information they currently had. ]

[wastingtime]

I'm afraid you may have to be the patient one. I have no idea how to work this 'magic'.

[and...more numbers. okay. he'll be trying to figure out what to do with those.]

[argents]

I don't mind. I wouldn't say it's magic, but I don't have a better explanation either...

I wonder if that even works. Maybe tap on them? Or write them out?

[ Also totally playing it by ear. ]

[Text]

[chalicejoker]

There's no instruction manual.

Short version? Your life just got more complicated than anyone's ever really needed to be.

[wastingtime]

Somebody should make one.

But so much for this being a quiet few months, I take it?

[chalicejoker]

It'll have to be someone other than me. I'm not that great at explaining things.

Oh, sure, it's been quiet, as long as you consider weird mutant animal things trying to kill us and some kid getting himself and his family killed because he tried going to the police with this to be quiet. And that's beside all the memories and things people are getting.

[handwritten]

[gentlebrother]

That's Notebooks really don't work that way. It's something else.

And I'm pretty sure it doesn't come with manuals.

[wastingtime]

So I'm learning. Though the only explanation I've heard so far is magic.

[gentlebrother]

That's what a friend of mine told me. I think it's possible.

I mean it works on other things. Like [There's a bit of a pause before he continues to scrawl the words.] I've talked to people through my Nintendo.

[text]

[elfstoned]

Hello, Elian. Welcome to Wonderland. I'm Aaron Strider, and I see you've been filled in for the most part.

[wastingtime]

A pleasure, Aaron. For the most part I think I may have a grasp on it, though I'm not sure I understand it.

[elfstoned]

Neither do the rest of us. We're all groping in the dark, I'm afraid -- we don't know why any of this is happening, so we can do little more than react. For the moment anyway.

text

[withregret]

If you haven't been filled in already, access to the network isn't exclusive to notebooks.

handwritten

[wastingtime]

So I'm learning. I should have known it was something far more complicated.

[withregret]

The network is barely the start.