schoolisin | (no subject)

(no subject)

Who: All y'all
When: Day 1 – Morning
Where: Everywhere
What: School is in

[Somewhere, a bell begins to ring. You may know the type—obnoxious and loud, signalling the start of a brand new day of lectures and learning. Rise and shine, lovelies; wakey wakey eggs and bakey! And with that, just as the toll falls silent, you hear the sound you may have been waiting for: the click of a lock.

You're free to explore.]

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

Well, not really. It's a little more complex than that. Computers are used for a lot of things -- though it's mostly used nowadays for quick information gathering and communication.

You would have to turn them on to get the to work, though. There should be a power button on the monitor's screen as well as the PC itself. Here, let me show you.

[ And she'll at least help out with that much. ]

[Henry's eyes go very wide. Yo. Imagine if they had these things back in Arachenea... He watches intently as Inaba turns on the computer, and (despite himself) jumps a little when it makes a power-on noise. Okay, so that button makes the thing do stuff; he's still thinking of it a bit like a series of magic seals, because that's easier to understand than electricity, but whatever works.]

No way!

[Intrigued, he starts pressing buttons on the keyboard at random.]

Okay, what now?

Well, there's several icons on the screen.

[ She will grab ahold of the mouse and move the cursor real quick to check if they have any internet access first, before letting out a sigh. She hasn't checked the computers herself, so she needed to at least do that. But she figured that would be the case. Otherwise, what would be the point? ]

You use the mouse -- ah, the thing I was using, to move the cursor on the screen. You see that white, slightly triangular shaped thing? Yeah, you move that to either any of the icons on the left side... [ Which she demonstrates herself by moving it around in an oval shape around the icons. ] Or you use the toolbar on the bottom to find what you want.

The keyboard is mostly used to type things. Like, for example, if I opened this program -- [ And she opens up a new document of Microsoft Word, just for the sake of showing how it works. ] And then you can type in notes with the keyboard.

[ And she'll show that as well, typing in something simple, her name. Of course, she presses the spacebar every so often to change the romaji into kanji, showing this: 稲葉姫子

Which is... still her name, Inaba Himeko. ]

Or anything else, really. You could also use the keyboard to search for items, though not using this program. You'd have to use another program -- like, for example, the Windows toolbar, Encarta, or even the command prompt.

Inaba... Himeko.

[Henry cannot read Japanese, of course. That seems to be the result of the universal translator kicking in.]

What kind of stuff do you search for? Physical things, or more information, or what?

[He is now putty in Inaba's educated hands, looking too fascinated by the whole process to even smile about it. He's feeling pretty darn good right now, of course -- this is blowing his mind -- but there are more important things to do right now than emote, tbh.]

Yeah. Inaba's my name.

[ Inaba dips her head in a nod, replying smoothly as she speaks up. ]

You can search for either more information or physical things -- ah, but you can't actually get physical things this way. You can search for where those items are located, though. Does that make sense?

Nice to meet you, Inaba! My name's Henry.

[And then his focus is on the computer again, because seriously, whoa.] So it gives you maps! Can you do that for people, too?

[He'll never have to hunt for the opposing general again!!!!]

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only