ǣfenglōm (main comm)

Name: Lahabrea; UN: username
Date: March 1
Format: Text

I have been spending a bit of time with these.. little devices of late. They're rather primitive, are they not?

All these bland sepia tones. Little true utility.

As it seems no-one else has bothered to see what they can do with them, I've decided to put them to the test and see if some upgrades are possible and see what they're capable of if their limited technology is pushed to its limits. A small test should be enough to find out if it's possible; I intend to see if these things are capable of producing and recording true color.

Now I know everyone must simply be exceedingly fond of the sepia coloring it forces on everything and everyone, but surely your lives are much too short to render everything depressingly brown forever.

I suppose, when I succeed, I will allow for suggestions to be made on further changes. What DO your precious little hearts desire by way of improvements to these devices?

Name: M; UN: Deneuve
Date: 3/1/21
Format: [Voice]

[There's a short blip of silence; Mello knows that even his voice can be identified if needed and traced. But he remembers the pain in his chest. The swirling of the delivery truck's mirror, and everything after that, well — ]

[A sharp clearing of his throat. It's so dry.]

I know what I've been told.

[Everything is bullshit until proven otherwise.]

And I know what I'm expected to believe.

[Definitely lies. And for one: he knows he's died. It doesn't take a previous heart attack in his situation to recognize one when it tears at your chest and throat and breath like a visceral assault. Besides, he was always due for one: wasn't he?]

I don't expect honesty from anyone. [And yet here he is: reaching out. Because what else can he do?] But a Witch?

[Or so he's been told. How appropriate. Another pause; another breath.]

Is this Hell?

[He's seen nothing that leads him to believe otherwise. The mirror with the objects and reflections from home. The things that just don't make sense. Maybe someone will honestly reveal that yes, he's earned this. Maybe not.]