video;

[notmynature]

Hooooly shit. [It's a young girl on the screen, her face very, very close for a few seconds.] This one actually comes on. [It moves back and shakes as she excitedly checks it out.] These phones store music, right? [Some beeps fill in the silence as she tries to navigate the smart phone for the first time.] Pretty easy...


...Nothing. [She sighs, dropping the hand that's holding the phone so that the viewers get a good view of her levi'd leg and what looks to be an old, crumbling building she's in.] Pft, figures.

[All the while, she has no idea she's being recorded.] What the hell can I use it for now? A flashlight?

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[grandest_delusion]

Ah, it's communicating actually. Recording if you will. [Nobuo's on his smartphone as well, as he's in between deliveries.]

[notmynature]

Huh? [Ellie quickly looks around, trying to figure out where the voice came from.] Stop hiding. [But then she realizes it came from the phone and she raises it up, the video still running. Have a nice close up of her hair as she puts it to her ear.] Now way... did I actually call somebody? [Phone lines didn't work, that was impossible.]

[grandest_delusion]

Yeah you did. Although you're connected to the community now which is a thing. Hi.

[notmynature]

Connect through the community? Is that a Firefly thing? 'Cause hey, I found this phone and finders keepers.

[Video]

[material_guy]

Who'd wanna listen to music on a phone?

[Video]

[smokepraylove]

Scavenging for recyclables?

always video;

[notmynature]

What happened to the other guy? [She shrugs, still not getting that anybody can see anything.] You could store all kinds of stuff on these things. Some people even used it for pictures.

How are we talkin', anyway?

always video;

[notmynature]

Recyclables? [The snort is loud and clear.] Scavenging for usable. Who the hell recycles?

[smokepraylove]

Using someone else's trash is recycling. Has a better ring to it than dumpster diving.

Anything good besides that phone?

[material_guy]

There should be some kinda thread or page button or somethin' if you mean you were talkin' to someone else...Press enough shit and you'll figure it out. As for how we're all talking, I think it's called the internet.

[notmynature]

No. [Even if there was, she couldn't tell the truth. She probably should get out of there right now.] Just one stupid phone.

How'd you get it working?

[notmynature]

Yeah, no shit. [But she pauses.] But how's it working?

[She laughs a little.] This is pretty high tech stuff here.

[smokepraylove]

I don't think I had much to do with it. I just got the outgoing message.

[material_guy]

Hey, I'm way ahead of my time just knowing the word internet, give an old man some slack.

[notmynature]

You don't just find a working phone.

[Except she just did.]

[notmynature]

You expect me to buy that? Whatever. I'm keeping it.

[material_guy]

S'not impossible.

[grandest_delusion]

Firefly? Dunno about that. The community connects people from different places and areas without the need for a signal.

[smokepraylove]

If I expected you to buy it, I'd say I had a hand in it and ask a fee.

[notmynature]

Should be. Was.

[notmynature]

Pft, maybe you're smart enough to realize I don't have anything.

[material_guy]

Hell of a gap between the words was and is.

[smokepraylove]

You don't look like you're rummaging for sport.

[notmynature]

The community? What kind of group is that?

[notmynature]

One phone call doesn't mean the lines are up and running again.