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[toosmall]

Oh h-hello.

[If he's doing this right people can see him? Have a black void of a face with two big yellow glowing eyes blinking at the screen. A few gloved fingers might make an appearance too.]

Mr. Technicians? Or Ms. Technicians! My name is Vivi, but I guess... well, you know that already?

You're probably busy doing really important stuff, but I need to ask you something. Promise I won't take up a lot of your time.

[Honestly he meant to do this sooner, but he's been kind of afraid to reach out. May as well do it now.]

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[vestigemods]

❰ after about five minutes - an audio response, in the form of a lengthy impatient crackle of static. ❱

[toosmall]

[!!!]

O-Oh um, I know asking you to send me home won't happen, but...

I just need to know. I won't come to a stop here will I?

[Aka he won't die after so many months permanently. His kind have a time limit on their lifespan. It's not long. A year and he's already half way through that.]

holy fuck, pretend this came sooner

[vestigemods]

( this time, he receives a monotone digital voice - think: the Windows text-to-voice function - reading aloud the section of the pamphlet which discusses how death is impermanent, and how dying here results in coming back. )

[toosmall]

[The voice is really funny sounding, but someone is responding to him! He'll listen very carefully, shocked that apparently one can still 'stop' or die, but then come back?

Death is not permanent. What a weird thing to consider. He does in fact and it's a lot to take in. So even if he 'stops' he'll 'un-stop' and be fine again?]

You can reverse death? Golly...

[He doesn't want to bother them more than he probably has, they did answer his question after all.]

Thank you for answering. I really appreciate it.

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[backpacking]

Vivi? [ Ellie waves, but her expression is...a little concerned. ] Um...did they answer?

[ If they can actually get these freaks to respond, then...well, that'd be huge. ]

[toosmall]

Ellie, h-hi!

[He'll wave at her in turn.]

Mhm, it took a little bit, but they did. Lots of funny sounds, but then a strange sounding voice spoke to me.

[backpacking]

Strange how? Like...uh, garbled? Distorted?

[ She's thinking of how spies sound in old movies, here. ]

What'd they say?

[toosmall]

Mmm... they sounded like this?

[Vivi attempts to mimic it. It's that text to speech robotic voice. Though would that make sense to Ellie either? Who can say!]

Oh- I asked them if I would come to a stop while I was here. The voice told me I'd come back even if I did.

[It's still crazy to believe, but it seemed like the Technicians could do so much, maybe it wasn't so strange to believe they could do that too.]