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Popular Culture [Thrusday, October 4, 4th Period]

"Afternoon, kids," Rose said with a nod, "so, continuin' on from our last class we're going to go on with communication. Specifically, the popular ways of communicatin' in this era. An' that would be mobile phones an' the computer."

She passed each item around. "Mobile phones or to Americans, cellphones are portable communication devices, wireless phones. Technology permitting you can call anybody 'round the globe with these little buggers-- er, I mean, these little gadgets. Every year these things get smaller an' smaller or turn into these," and proceeded to pull out an iPhone. "Beautiful thing, ain't it?"

This she also passed around. "Almost a computer in itself. Speakin' of computers," she gestured to the laptop, "these things have really come around since it was first invented now people can do practically anything with computers an' not least, you can actually speak an' see the people your talking to." Rose pressed a few keystrokes and a screen with another person on the end appeared, it was a blond man with spiky hair who looked like he'd been roused from sleep.

"What?"

"Hey, Jake--"

"Rose??" The man glared, "d'you know what time it is?"

"Say hello to my class, Jake."

"Bugger off." He said by way of greeting.

Rose shook her head and grinned. Something in her smile indicated her timing was planned. "Good to know your still up, go back to your beauty sleep." She cut off the connection. "See? That easy. So I'm gonna hand over these things to you folk and let you guys get accustomed to these wonderful technologies. As for our show and tell Blackie ~~if he's here~~ has agreed to do our show and tell for today and show us the wonders of Hell."

(OOC: ~~Please wait for~~ OCD up. As always, SP is life.)

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Name and serial number

Blackheart, who thinks serial numbers are for losers and mortals. And loser mortals.

Faile, who has no idea what a serial number is.

Robin, has heard of identity theft and is therefore not giving out that information.

Liz Sherman

Yasutora Sado.

....five?

Chat and drool over the pretty technology

Lookit the phones (http://regmedia.co.uk/2006/08/30/samsung_ue_phones_bg.jpg) and lookit the iPhone (http://www.ianbell.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/06/iphone_inhandhome_c.jpg), isn't it purty?

Blackheart eyed the iPhone warily.

There were many, many buttons.

...

He hoped his father would never figure out how to use these things. The man would become so much more annoying if he did.

"Hopin' to call anyone?" Rose asked.

"Hoping my father never learns about technology like this," Blackheart clarified. "Though I think the back lighting might turn him off. There's hope, yet."

"Back light," Rose mused, "the way to salvation."

Blackheart laughed a little at that.

"I suppose that's one way to look at it."

Of course, back lighting didn't turn him off one bit. So salvation wasn't quite at hand.

"Maybe you can have your minions dance around to a very horrible song." Rose suggested.

Faile had figured out the phone in her room. But these... the first had too many buttons and the second had too few. She could probably figure out the first, but the second just made her blink.

The mobile phone began to ring.

Faile stared at it for a moment before picking it up and holding it to her ear.

"Hello?" she said, but the phone just rang again.

She pulled it away from her ear and looked at it again before setting it back down on the desk.

The phone persisted on ringing, this time, louder... RIIIIIIIIIIIIING.

Faile frowned at it and looked at the buttons on the phone. She noticed the two in the shape of the receiver like the one in her room. She chose one and pressed it. It just happened to be the right one and the phone stopped ringing.

When Faile realized this, she picked it up and said, "Hello?"

The voice on the other line said: "Pizza delivery?"

"I do not want any pizza, no," Faile said.

"They're still all big to me."

Rose 'hmmm'd' and rummaged her pockets then took out an even tinier phone. "This do?"

"Oh wow, how do you guys not lose these?"

"Think the incentive is that these things are so bloody expensive they'll never want it out of their side."

"I guess that makes sense." Robin nodded. "That is a good size for me though."

"Tell you what," Rose said after considering, "I can loan it to you for a bit while you're in Fandom."

"Really?" Robin gasped. "That'd be cool!"

Liz was quite impressed with the phone.

"Fantastic, innit?" Rose asked with a grin.

Liz nodded, "they don't have these type of phones back home,"

"Don't worry your on your way there," Rose pushed a button and suddenly there was a video of a dancing man on the iPhone.

Go on, prank call someone while they're sleeping. It's fuuun!

Faile had no one to call and she didn't like computers anyway.

Rose approached Faile, "Need help? These things can be intimidating if you're not familiar."

"I had to use one over the summer," she said.

"Did you have a hard time?"

"Does wishing I could have used my knives during that class count as a hard time?" Faile asked with a wry grin.

See what Blackheart can come up with, maybe he'll give new meaning to 'Special Hell'.

(Please wait for Blackheart to ping-in)

Blackie, somewhat unsettled over the nickname 'Blackie,' grabbed an iPhone and pulled a candle from his pocket. This was all simply a business endeavor. Really. Blackheart could do business.

"There's a lot of culture in Hell." he began, eying the class up and daring anyone to interrupt. He'd like that. "This can be attributed to the fact that potentially anyone, regardless of race and nationality, could end up there ~~pending they prescribe to the corresponding beliefs system, work with me here~~. So I'm not going to bother going into explaining all of the social nuances. There are far too many, and people typically spend their time screaming anyhow."

He held up the candle and he grinned.

"Today, I'm just going to play with fire." The wick of the candle flickered, and then seemed to light itself as he held it forward for the class to get a better view. "Fire is the be-all and end-all of technology in Hell. If you have a problem, you can burn it away. It serves as a method of transportation, a means of binding a mortal to a contract..."

His eyes might have lit up as he broke into something of a grin.

"And an excellent way to modify metal-based accessories to suit your personal sense of fashion."

This, of course, was the important part.

He held the iPhone in the flame, and the fire seemed to creep over it as though it was trying to engulf a gasoline spill. In turn, rather than melting, the metal twisted and shifted, little claws and spikes emerging from it, all surrounding a fanged skull that was centered on the phone's case.

"For the most part, it really doesn't have much more than aesthetic value," he explained as he held the... somewhat modified iPhone up for the class to see, "but it can be used on anything made of metal."

He set the candle and the phone down on his desk, smirking a little.

"If you have anything metallic that you'd like to try it on, feel free before I blow out the candle."

Rose sighed when she saw his modification. "Well, I did ask for it."

Oh yes. Blackheart was most certainly smirking at her.

She had asked for it, after all.

"You do know the policy right?" Rose asked with a raised eyebrow, "you break it, you bought it."

Blackheart gave a shrug of his shoulders.

"It isn't broken. It just looks different."

And probably checks e-mail en route from Hell. But he wasn't going to mention that part.

"But if you insist, I suppose I've just purchased myself a new phone."

"See, benefits can go both ways now." Rose said then mock punched his shoulder. "Good things all 'round, Blackie."

Rose is collecting all the gadgets. If you want to annoy her, talk to her or drool over said gadgets go ahead.

As if there's ever a post without an OOC!

OOC is important in order to keep the world from ending.

Also, I apologize over my show-and-tell running just as long as the class lecture. Blackheart, he's ever the showoff.

He'd apologize about the phone, but he thinks it looks better this way.

Haha and what a showoff he is!

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