First Assignment

[always_on_duty]

[The communicator turns on in video mode, but all you can see is the darkness on the inside of a pocket. Outside the pocket, though, someone is talking; someone with a very energetic voice and a New England accent.]These fireworks are beautiful, but they really shouldn't have set them off so close to a city. Those falling embers are a fire hazard

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[rules_the_north]

'veryone has th'm h're.

[always_on_duty]

...It's a phone, too?

If you've got this number, you must know the person that owns this! [Yeah, he wasn't really listening. He was too surprised to hear a voice coming out of it.]

[rules_the_north]

't 's yours.

[always_on_duty]

Now that can't be, I'd remember owning something like this.

voice

[bubbleteatime]

[since she's on the boat, STATIC EVERYWHERE for three seconds]

░▓▓▓▒▒ing on? Hey, I think I g░▒▓

I░ ░░░▓▒ ▒░░ recording Mister! ▓▒y, is e▒░rything al░ight?

[always_on_duty]

Wowsers, whoever owned this must have been popular!

What was that? I didn't copy.

[bubbleteatime]

[a little louder] I▓ ▒very▒░ing alr░gh▓?

[always_on_duty]

...Sorry, still can't understand a word. Are you in a tunnel?

[witchoftheweek]

Please read this and find shelter.

[always_on_duty]

It writes, too?

Why are those words underlined?

[witchoftheweek]

It displays another entry.

Please, read it later if you must, it is currently dangerous. More dangerous than this city usually is.

[always_on_duty]

How does it do that?

Don't worry about me, I made it inside.

[ voice ]

[sing_bluesilver]

It's not safe out there! Get inside and try not to run into monsters!

[always_on_duty]

Don't be silly, there's no such thing as monsters.

[And he's getting tired of asking this by now, but:] Do you know who this computerphone belongs to?

[sing_bluesilver]

No monsters on Earth but you're not on Earth, silly! This is Discedo!

Everyone who comes here gets one. It's now yours.

[always_on_duty]

Oh no you don't -- I'd remember if I got on a space ship.

[invisibill]

I strongly advise you to get off the streets. Now would be good.

[always_on_duty]

Don't worry, I'm already inside.

[invisibill]

Well, that's something. I take it you're a new arrival?

[always_on_duty]

I don't know what that means, but who's responsible for these fireworks? It's dangerous to set them off in a big city like this!