TWO.

[blessingone]

[Written/Accidental Voice]

[Fenimore is still not very adept with the journal system, so she spent about ten minutes trying to turn on the voice feature before eventually giving up. Unbenownst to her, though, she actually did turn it on, so the following is a mixture of voice (normal text) and written (italics).]

[sigh] This isn't working. Shirley will know. I'll ask her later. Now where did I...?

[A few moments later, printed words appear. They look pretty unpracticed, being both slow and somewhat messy. Strikes are basically scribbled out, but since she didn't put much effort in people can probably read them with a little effort.] Is there someone named Can I talk to Charlotte, I have something for you.

...Did that work? Hmm. ...Oh, yeah.

I also have If someone lost a hat [There is a pause, with a couple of inkdrops falling on the page.]

[After a moment, she picks up Seles's hat and turns it around in her hands.] What should I call it? I can't say it looks like a pancake....

brown, ridic round hat, I have found it.

...Good enough.

Comments

[throwshammers.livejournal.com]

...A brown, round hat that looks like a pancake?

Oh! I know that hat! It's Seles'!

[blessingone]

Huh? I didn't think-- ["I had written pancake anywhere." But then she shrugs]

Seles? So, do you know where she lives?

[throwshammers.livejournal.com]

Yeah! She lives with me, in House 18. Sheena and her big brother Zelos are here, too.

[is this written or voice, by the way?]

[blessingone]

House 18? I guess I could ask Walter where that is. Thank you.

since half of it was in [voice]

[bitterhopes.livejournal.com]

[have an offended mutter, Fenimore]

It does not look like a pancake.

[Written]

The hat you are describing sounds very much like one of mine that has recently gone missing.

and Fenimore has not realized yet that any of it was in [voice]

[blessingone]

...I didn't think I had-- [Pause. Shrug.]

[Written]

So you're Seles? [Spelled right because it half looks like it's in Relares.]

nice job, fishlady. and now it's all [written]

[bitterhopes.livejournal.com]

That is correct. I see that you have spoken with Miss Colette on the subject at hand.

oi, no special slurs, but it is still [written]

[blessingone]

Yes, I have. Is there some place you would like to pick it up?

[voice]

[prayingone]

Ask me what, Fenimore?

[voice]

[blessingone]

[Oh, now that Shirley's used voice, she guesses that voice got turned on.]

How to start the...talking part of the books.

[voice]

[prayingone]

Well, usually the journals record your voice just by talking into them... but you have to be careful; sometimes they'll pick up and record things that you don't mean for them to.

[Like, perhaps, right now. But she won't say that.]

[voice]

[blessingone]

So, you don't have to...put your hands on some part of it, or hit it in a certain way, or anything? It just happens?

[Then Fenimore will continue in ignorance.]

[VOICE]

[hazelrink.livejournal.com]

Oh, you got a present for me?

[VOICE]

[blessingone]

Er...not exactly. I...found some clothes, and someone named....Adell said they were yours.

[VOICE]

[hazelrink.livejournal.com]

Oh... [...Wait she's missing some?] I don't think I left clothes anywhere.

[VOICE]

[blessingone]

Uh...you didn't.

[voice, because Slayers defy writing!]

[herotypical]

Did somebody say pancakes?

[voice, because writing is for losers]

[blessingone]

Huh? Yes, but...how did you know that?

[voice, and for people who write well]

[herotypical]

Probably because you actually said it, like five seconds ago?

[voice]

[albionsorel.livejournal.com]

Pancake? Ridiculous.

[voice]

[blessingone]

...Well, it's round, flat, and brown.

[voice]

[albionsorel.livejournal.com]

Ugly.

[voice]

[blackteriques]

You could have conveyed the message vocally, Fenimore. It would have been ... clearer.

[voice]

[blessingone]

I meant to, but I'm still not sure how to do it.

[voice]

[blackteriques]

It takes awhile to get used to, yes. It's a somewhat awkward form of communication -- it's common to accidentally record yourself.