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[mwehehe]

Sender: Futaba Sakura
To: Everyone
Subject: Question


You ever just.

Lock yourself in your room for like a month and forget what time is? I mean, I guess I ate at least, and I didn't just fall asleep for a whole freakin' month like after the Medjed thing but

like

a whole. Month. Least it was fruitful.

Which uh, leads me to my actual question: who has some technology here with 'em? Phones, laptops, things that require a power source cause I think I figured out some dream crystal things, but it might require a more... ambient dream energy. Dunno how THAT is gonna be harnessed yet, but I need to know my many sleepless nights and curryless days weren't for nothing. Testing on my own stuff is fine, but knowing it's not just a fluke is even better.

Comments

[mwehehe]

Theoretically, yes. Now that I'm thinking of it though, I may be able to see if we can't find where whoever was here first got them. They didn't just appear out of nowhere, so they had to come from somewhere. As for the crystal being drained and refilled, yeah. It's almost like a lithium battery built into something that can plug into whatever you want to charge, just... crystal-shaped. Modifying the crystal to be able to do that was a pain, but now that I know how to do it, it wouldn't take long for me to keep doing.

[For someone who is Terminally Online™, having no tech in this place was a giant pain in the ass. She Understands, Kaiba.]

Heh, I mean... it was certainly mine for a while. No tech? No phones? No laptop? NO INTERNET? That's the worst. Since I don't know how long it was abandoned for, it's hard to guess how much life these babies still have in them, but for now until we can find their actual source, this'll do.

[blue_eyed_obsession]

Right, there has to have been a source.

[The rest was intriguing but didn't require his further commentary on it. In order to get a steady stream of energy they were going to need something more reliable than this temporary solution, preferably something renewable or not too difficult to generate.

Undoubtedly they were among the few that found being unplugged for too long to be unbearable.]

At least the last place had a network, working tablets, and technology capable of producing holograms.. though in many ways it was also primitive. [This was not in fact the first odd dimensional plane he'd ever been thrust into] Do you have the coordinates for where the items were found? Even if it's been rebuilt since then there might be something that's remained that might give us a clue as to how they used to be powered.

[mwehehe]

The Index wasn't too bad... we had power and not candles at least, but still journals like this. I'd take wherever you were over here in tech, for sure.

Most of the abandoned buildings had them, I dunno how much has been cleared out, but I cleared a bunch out. They were all in the town itself, so whatever hasn't been repurposed into new businesses or whatever will probably have some stuff hidden. I haven't found much else, but you might find something I didn't, different sets of eyes and all. There weren't any outlets or anything that I saw, but I didn't rip open walls to look for power lines. I don't have that kinda strength.

[blue_eyed_obsession]

I'm not familiar with the Index, and I doubt you've ever heard of Havenwell.

It's something worth looking into. Would it be possible to see the electronic devices you already found?

[Sure, this had started out with Futaba asking for others to offer up their own devices for her experiment but, Kaiba was just trying to ensure that he got something out of the deal too... besides a temporary charge that would still run itself down without another boost from her..]

I'm just curious how much they might differ from the technology I'm already familiar with.

[mwehehe]

Sure. They're pretty different, so I've had to make modifications to fit my laptop and any other device that needs charges. Like swapping out USBs, almost. I'm, uh, admittedly not great with people in person, so if I seem nervous, I am.

[She's... really not great with people, but she's gotten better. Still nervous but maybe it won't be so bad talking tech with someone.]

I can probably send a crystal home with you, but you'd have to charge it yourself with your own dreamotion. It seems to charge while I'm asleep, so you wouldn't have to do much, but I really wanna find more of these to make life easier. Being stuck in the dark ages is really boring sometimes. Fun to build stuff, not fun to not have the tech to do it easily.