[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_ockandbarrel]

The odd machine that he'd dismantled at least four times now without successfully discovering its function was making noise. Quite a lot of noise, actually, and different than he was used to. (Bangs were far more common, in Percy's world. He'd tried burning a bit of the machine once it was obvious that everything in this room would come back in the morning. So many things about this place reminded him of Scanlan's mansion.)

Percy set down the motor he was fiddling with and went to the machine. He knew the top part came away and unpressed some kind of lever, so he began there. It did seem to fit nicely into his hand.

The noise stopped, but the flat tone that he was used to hearing was not sounding. "Curious."

[st_abby]

"You don't know the half of it yet," Vax's voice piped up from the earpiece. "Percival, is that you I hear?"