[ She'll know for sure when she starts searching for an ammo store. She can't go around only with what she arrived holding in her gun. ]
Well, in the meantime we just gotta do more research about this place and what makes it tick. If we sit around just playing with magic that might get taken away again, we'll never get anywhere.
Why don't you start there and I'll start with a search on the internet? Modern places tend to archive their old text documents and books online so you don't need to go find the physical copy. That way we're coming at it from both angles.
[ She snags hers off the table and gets to the home page. ]
Or the computer you've got set up at your place. See; here it's called Opalink. You click it and can type in what you wanna search for in this little bar here.
He looks over at her device and then pulls his own up, and wonders what he could search. Looking back and forth between the devices, he looks up: "Bunny."
And lo and behold, he has a whole page full of bunny facts. There are even images! His eyes widen a tad, and given how stoic he usually is, this is peak amazement. ]
[ He's not the first she's taught the wonders of the internet to here, but she gets a kick out of it all the same. ]
I don't know the finer details, but it all has to do with programming. You tell a machine what you want it to do when someone looks something up, and it provides the results.
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[ For instance, he does not. Is that like a sword? ]
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[ She'll know for sure when she starts searching for an ammo store. She can't go around only with what she arrived holding in her gun. ]
Well, in the meantime we just gotta do more research about this place and what makes it tick. If we sit around just playing with magic that might get taken away again, we'll never get anywhere.
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[ Which is hard for him to navigate around, mostly because they're such big buildings and he is a sore thumb in this place. ]
I suggest we start there.
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[ He just has one more question: ]
Where is the internet? We can divide the town into those sectors, for now.
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The internet's on our devices.
[ She snags hers off the table and gets to the home page. ]
Or the computer you've got set up at your place. See; here it's called Opalink. You click it and can type in what you wanna search for in this little bar here.
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He looks over at her device and then pulls his own up, and wonders what he could search. Looking back and forth between the devices, he looks up: "Bunny."
And lo and behold, he has a whole page full of bunny facts. There are even images! His eyes widen a tad, and given how stoic he usually is, this is peak amazement. ]
How does it work?
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I don't know the finer details, but it all has to do with programming. You tell a machine what you want it to do when someone looks something up, and it provides the results.
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[ He still doesn't quite understand it, but it seems magical. ]
Thank you, for showing this to me.
[ It seems like it will be useful! ]
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I will go to the Embassy.
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[ And she really means it, instead of in a pessimistic, sarcastic way. She stands to get the door for him. ]
And you know how to get in touch if you find something worth sharing.