[Accidental Video]

[batteredog]

From: Nicolas Brown
Date: Sept 22

[ The video turns on showing a black cat pawing at the device. In the background, a young boy can be seen on his knees digging through an overturned trash can in the alleyway of a familiar bar in the Farshore. Between the cat swiping at the device in play, snippets of his movements can be seen. He finds a piece of salami, cleans it up and feeds it to a cat. Next, it's a piece of chicken from a pasta dish which he feeds to his two other feline companions. Then lastly, he finds a half eaten sandwich which he quickly consumes before ripping open another garbage bag to continue the process all over again, except this time, there's a noise up ahead as someone opens the back door to the alley and Nico swiftly looks up before quickly gathering up the three cats and taking off. A small, gloved hand manages to swipe the device off the ground as he passes by barely escaping detection.  ]


[ ooc; nicolas woke up this morning in the middle of an open field with three cats. the temple that was once his master's is now gone, along with his god, Noctis, leaving him with three cats to care for. ] 

Comments

[yasei]

[ Recording was a new word to him too.

Obi nods. ]

It's making images show up in other peoples phones too.

[batteredog]

[ An owlish blink before he looks down at the device. Noctis always told him to keep it with him and even showed him what it did once but Nicolas was entirely too unfamiliar with technology to understand how to use it. He pushes a few buttons now, all random and when he suddenly see's his face on the screen he quickly pulls back and looks up at Obi for direction.

'What did it do?!' ]

[yasei]

[ Obi shifts a little, so he can see what Nicolas is doing. ]

I think that's the camera. I actually don't know much about these things. The first time I saw one was a little over a month ago. But it can save images and videos in it, so you can look at it later, or show it to people.

[batteredog]

[ Nicolas just stares at him with the same awkward expression. He understands a little of what he's saying, but only a little because he's never been on the network so he has no clue his face could be seen by anyone but himself. So, when he opens his mouth to sound out the word in a grainy broken voice it's clarification and nothing more. ]

K A MR AUH?

[yasei]

[ He probably pronounces it wrong but Obi can't pronounce it properly either, not entirely. And Nicolas has an excuse, where Obi does not. ]

Yes. Look, like this.

[ He picks his own phone out of a pocket, opens the camera, and takes a picture of the trees opposite of them, then opens the picture and shows him that the image doesn't change even though the phone is moving. ]

[batteredog]

[ Nicolas stares at the picture, then up at Obi and then back at the picture before he brings up his own phone and points at it. ]

H OW ?

[yasei]

[ Obi puts down his bag and presses the button on Nicolas' phone that leads to the home screen, so they can start from there.

Then he shows him, making sure not to do it too quickly, how to access the camera, and how to take a picture. ]

[batteredog]

[ Nicolas is a fast learner, he has to be, so he carefully watches every step with steep concentration noting every screen he goes too and each button he uses to finally snap a picture. The idea of taking a picture of something without drawing is still foreign to him but he takes change well. So, he turns off the device so he can reach the home screen - it's the only way he knows how to get there - and follows Obi's instruction until he gets to the camera and not long after that he raises the phone and snaps a picture of him. ]

[yasei]

[ Obi grins at the boy and the camera. ]

Did it work out?

[batteredog]

[ He looks down at the camera and there, centered on his phone is a still picture of him. He turns the phone around to show him before nodding profusely in a very obvious way. 'Worked'. ]

[yasei]

Ooh. That's great!

[ And that's one of those strange hair ruffles, accompanied by a huge grin. ]

1/2

[batteredog]

[ He's blinking up at the hair ruffling unsure what to make of it. It's not something he's used too - someone being nice to him. So, he decides to merely take another picture of him before one of the cats in the box meows loudly at him. ]

2/2

[batteredog]

[ Nicolas sets down the camera to look over at the three kittens and stares down at the device to check the time, noting it was past their lunch time. He sets the device in his pocket and jumps up into the tree, grabbing a branch to launch himself higher where he kept his stash of cat food Alex had bought for them. When he comes back down again it's with a small backpack he'd stuffed the food in along with two used bowls. He pours dried cat-food into one bowl and opens his canteen to fill the other before letting the three kittens have at it. ]