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Halloween Reaction Videos - [Open] [Network - Video]

Date: [October 31st]
Characters: A string of numbers yet to be determined (Russell)]

[Mid-afternoon, Halloween, a video post becomes available on the network. It's coming from a slightly odd angle, pointed as though someone had tapped their number on a mirror and propped it against the head of a bed. Front and center in the view is Russell, sitting a few feet away, with a pile of things in front of him. Two different cell phones, a few colorful sketches, and... several bones. There's no dirt on them, but they sure don't look like plastic.]

I am having. A day.

Multiple times, today, I've had that... that dizziness, and emptiness, and found myself remembering things or finding things. I can't go to my door without tripping over something that sets it off. Is that just me?

And, can anyone tell me about this?

[He gestures at one of the cellphones, and holds it up close to the mirror so the charger port is visible from the mirror's feed. It's not any of the standard ports, or even an obscure one. And something about the style of the phone, there's no match on Earth for it.]

Did one of you drop this off with the bucket, or do the rest of all that... decorating?

((ooc: Tag in action/prose as you prefer, and I'll match! And if anyone has the technical skills to examine a strange electronic device, and especially to devise a charger for it, I'd love to pursue that option.))

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[Walter has been out of the flat for much of the day investigating, and the entirety of the evening thanks to winding up at Jim's place.

The showcasing of the new tech draws him a little out of his Echo-induced shell, however.]

In order: no, unfortunately - I ran across a lot of familiar faces with the same problem.

[He has also been having this problem, but HE DOESN'T WANT TO TALK ABOUT THAT NO]

Second, it looks like a mobile. How heavy is it?

[He's had a look at the strange new thing in Jim's kitchen by now, okay? Tech-that-isn't-from-Earth may as well be commonplace, now.]

And definitely not.

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[By the time of this video clip it's far later and he's on the couch, the view angle as if holding a phone up in selfie mode.]

I figured you weren't the mastermind behind this, I found this with that bucket you almost tripped on.

[It would have been the perfect way to make Russell find it, pretending to trip over it and draw his attention... but no. If anyone's on his suspect list, Walter's not on it. He's mentioned the suspects to his flatmate before, and so far it's mostly the two mystery persons who've showed up; that anonymous voice who's announced fears about escaping animals and bombs, and the bald man who'd ever-so-conveniently escaped from suspicious near the bomb by sneaking off in the wake of strong memory surges.

He hefts the mystery mobile in one hand, demonstrating its weight, then holds it up for easier inspection. This close to the camera, it's easier to see what he'd told Sadie earlier - no familiar logos or hints of brandnames on it. Nothing very obviously futuristic about it, though the screen's dark. At the very least, it's a custom case.]

It feels like a mobile. Weighs... maybe a little light for its size, but nothing too strange.

[He taps the screen, and it lights up to show... a photo album of skeletons. Or maybe just one skeleton a bunch of times, posed in different positions.]

Except for this.

[Walter nods along with the inspection, then just stares at those pictures.

~~It is too early for this.~~]

Someone really likes skeletons.

[It's not immediately obvious if it's been taken by a skeleton!]

[He laughs, because yeah, this is the photo album of someone who is very interested in skeletons. Look, he's scrolling down, and it's still mostly just skeletons in some room with magenta walls. They're (almost) all clothed, in random and erratic but clean-looking clothing, but he can't help but wonder...]

Right, but also... there were all those graves dug up, all over town. What if the prankster behind that left this phone, as a clue? Should I contact the police, or would that just incriminate me...?

[And there's a distinct smack as hand meets head.]

That's... distressingly possible.

I would hold off on telling them unless you're absolutely sure, though.

[Between this, the bald stranger last month, and Jim's shenanigans, he does not need them to end up on the police's radar.

Why have their lives come to this.]

I'm not sure. And I don't expect to find proof, there aren't any unearthed graves in the most recent pictures...

[Russell rests the strange mobile on his leg so it's easier to keep scrolling, past where he'd looked before, just in case something had broken with the recorded dates of the saved images. Then he frowns and pauses.]

Huh. Where have I seen that before...?

I don't live in your head, I can't see your memories.

... What are those dates, anyhow?

[He can't actually make out the numbers from this angle.]

Yeah, thanks for that.

[With an eyeroll to his tone of voice, Russell pulls the networked mobile closer to the mystery mobile as he taps the image of a counter in a fish-wallpapered kitchen, focused on a battered and burnt pot, to bring up the info of the photograph... The network's view wobbles and goes akilter.]

They're... hmm. They're not right. That's... years from now.

[The exact date is [redacted] because of timeline ambiguity in Undertale, but the number is at least years ahead of 201X.]

[That cookery looks terribly used, but that's not the aspect up for scrutiny here.]

Don't suppose Jim would know anything about this?

[Because hey! FUTURE TECH!]

[Once he recognizes the photo - maybe in a couple days, when it's not the middle of the night and he looks them over again - they can scrutinize that damaged cookery at length.]

Jim? Oh right, he's... an engineer, right?

[Russell clicks back and keeps skimming, but the rest of the photos are equally mundane aside from the peculiar timestamps. Even more skeletons posing in unmatching sportswear. One of those accidental photos, at an odd blurry angle, of snow at the base of a tree. Action figures in various arrangements.]

[Muffled speech starts up from Walter's end. And there are... two voices? One of them is definitely Walter, trying to wake up.'. someone else.]

Wha? I thoug' you wan'ned me to sleep?

[Yep, that's Jim's voice.]

A Phone? What do you mean? Oh. Right let me-

[There's the sound of a phone being picked up and some small tapping of something... then, Jim pulls up Russell's previous video on the Numbered Youtube page.]

Okay. Huh. Uhm. Hi, Russell? I don't think we've spoken before. It's not something that I've actually seen, but that could change...

I did.

[But now there is a Tech Mystery to solve.]

Not at this time of night, I hope.

[Since Russell doesn't know which parts might be helpful to see, he moves even closer to the mystery mobile, slowly turning it around and showing the different parts of the casing.]

I'll have to turn it off soon, none of my chargers fit it, and I want to try looking at it when I'm awake again. You're welcome to come by tomorrow...?

[If Walter's not intentionally hiding the state of the flat from Jim, or something.]

[There's a mrf-type noise coming from Walter, here.]

I'll try.

[Yeah, that's probably an indicator that something Wrong has happened.]

Yyyyes.

[Walter glances off to the right, slowing it down juuust enough that Russell can pick up on it.]

He's also right here and can answer for himself, though he's supposed to be sleeping right now.

Any of those action figures look familiar?

[It's practically a rhetorical question, since he's not expecting the answer to be yes.]

I can't say they do, though it's hard to say what they do look like.

[The game's narration might say they look like sexy robots, but they look more like dinosaur superheroes in some of the images. Maybe they're robot dinosaur heroes. Maybe they're just odd robots.]

Maybe they're customized.

[Like the phone, and half the clothing depicted in all those skeleton images.]

Perhaps the mobile's owner made everything themselves?

Or has connections with someone who had the raw materials, anyway.

... Or it's just a consequence of being from an alternate Earth.

[Funny how that's the suggestion that can get tacked on to the end, now.]

[There's not much else to show, so Russell drops the device for network access, and just keeps talking.]

As I said, customized.

[That's not the same as built-themselves and he knows it.]

That might be, though. Or... an alternate Mars. Alternate Venus. Maybe an alternate moon.

[If they're going to start talking alternate universes, there's too many planets to choose from.]

Alternate world, then.

[Keep it simple.]

Or dimension.

[Or not. Look, he knows his sci-fi, okay? There's differences between planets and dimensions, and some canons hark on those differences hard.]

Wonder if it reacts the same way to magnets normal phones do?

[Though in retrospect, Russell probably shouldn't test that until they can get the content off the phone and store it elsewhere.]

[Just one of those things. Specialized fields of knowledge get very particular about their terminology and distinctions. Nerds are famous for it.]

Uhh, I haven't tried that yet. I don't think I want to, not until I have a charge cable. And it's all backed up.

[Please don't go destroying possibly-evidence on him, Walter. Experimenting with the hardware isn't worth it.]

Let's save that option for later, then.

Much later.

... Can it be charged?

[Rigging up a charge port, he can try.]

Search me, it doesn't fit any of my chargers.

But it's got an icon for charge in the corner, and it's not full. If you, or Jim? have any ideas, I'd be glad to hear them.

[It's just, making a port of the right shape, with all the little wires and pins and whatever, right? It's not magic. ~~Usually.~~]

Might have to let us brainstorm a little, but we'll get back to you.

[And not just cuddle. ~~Presumably.~~

It's not as if there's a technique to create a mold of the port or something!]

You might want to try to get voltage information out of it, though; I'd hate to blow it up by giving it too much power.

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Halloween Reaction Videos - [Open] [Network - Video]

[Network - Audio, IC-ly Much Belated]

[Network - Video, immediate response]

[Network - still Audio from Walter's end]

[Network - Video for now]

[Network - Audio again] ... Would any of those photos be taken in Undyne's house?

[Network - Video a little longer] - official answer says yes to 1 innocuous pic

[Network - Still Audio here!] - Aww yeah.

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[Video winding down]

Audio// From Walter's end

Audio can be heard on Russell's end/Action for Jim

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[Video] - say another couple tags here, then it segues up to the Jim contribution?

[Video] That works.

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