[phone calls OTA] Technical Difficulties

[st_abby]

He'd passed by the alien, gleaming thing in his room a hundred times by now, or nearly must've done, and hardly stopped to examine it. It was strange, but so were most other things in this place. A shiny, awkward looking device attached to the wall by means of a long cable, set on one of the little tables that seemed to litter these rooms. It had neat rows of square buttons with numbers etched on, and a handle, so Vax'ildan had supposed it was meant to work some feature of the room in a way he could scarcely imagine. He didn't want to break it, but eventually the boredom and curiosity got the better of him, much like with the door locks. It would probably fix itself, if it came to that.

After the first few moments spent listening to the monotonous warble that came from the handle, Vax'ildan reached to jab a finger into a button. When it beeped but did no more, he pushed another. And a third...

OOC Note: If you would like a thread with Vax, please leave a top-level comment to this post and he will reply! No need to pre-arrange, but as one does when learning new technology, he may disconnect the call etc. accidentally or your character may tell him to leave them alone in very few words if they so choose - most of these threads are likely to be short.

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[st_abby]

There was something familiar about the voice and the jovially clipped way of speaking that seemed familiar to him, but Vax couldn't quite place a name to her.

"Movies," it came to him of a sudden. "You told me about the moving picture plays, didn't you?"

[st_accato]

Buffy blinked at the phone and then her lips curved into a large smile. She finally connected the voice but it wasn't until he'd connected first. "Hey you. Yep that's me. So you're mastering the phone, huh?"

It had taken a couple of weeks for Buffy to realize that he wasn't under the costume spell as the hottie elf. He was a hottie elf. She still was convinced that Ethan was connected to the hotel in some way.

[st_abby]

"It's a bit early for anything like 'mastery.' But I've figured out the part where you give the machine numbers and you can have a conversation between rooms," he allowed himself that much credit.

[st_accato]

"See? Mastering. So, did you ask the operator to connect you to my room or was it just luck that you punched in my room number?" Buffy was relaxing now that she knew she wouldn't have to do the 'talk' of shame with the person on the other end. She was enjoying teasing him.

[st_abby]

"Let's call it good fortune," Vax suggested. "I've still yet to sort out which numbers will connect me to what person."

[st_accato]

That made Buffy laugh, "sorry. I'm not laughing at you, honest. Just thinking of how hard it would be to remember what random number you pushed and especially if it was a stranger on the other end."

[st_abby]

"It gets more difficult as you continue to bother more strangers," Vax admitted, hardly blaming her for the laugh. How backwards he must seem to people used to a similar time and place to the inn. "What about this 'operator' you mentioned?"

[st_accato]

"Every hotel has an operator." Buffy paused, "well every hotel that I've been to, it's probably just the person at the front desk. Anyway, you call and say I want to talk to Buffy Summers, I don't know the room number and they'll connect you. I'll guess it works the same way here. I haven't tried calling anyone that I don't know their room number."