[DRAGONMAIL: EVERYONE JAMIE KNOWS wait no]

[redeyedmask]

[ To Ravindra, about 10 minutes after the server goes down. Jamie had been debating this and knows nothing about Ravi since he went real but Ravi's the only person he thinks Ferrus might actually open up to. When Ravi gets it, it's been written partially in ink (with a good many scratchthroughs), and then it suddenly swaps to pencil after the first sentence. Jamie, please. ]

Hi, umthsi this is Ferurlfdlgsfdg Ferrus's player.

[ And then pencil. He cannot write Ferrus in a panic, okay. Eraser marks are common. ]

The game we used to control you guys went down and Ferrus wasn't real yet so i dont know if he's going to become real or stop existing or

[ PAUSE ]

[ sorry, ravi, the eraser marks make this part really hard to read (wow Jamie) ] please could you check on him and tell me if he's okay because i'm sorry if this is being a burden but i'm worried confused want him to exist and i don't have anyone else who's his friend that i can ask

please help him if he's okay and he needs it

[ And then the message ends. He sent it without editing it beyond typos or giving it the normal restraint he would - he's tempted to send another message, but fsdgas. That first one was a mental keysmash and he's not sure how to try and iron that over. Please take it well, Ravi??? It's also got his real name, but it's obvious he entirely forgot to write it. The dragon filled it in for him. ]

[ To Siegmund, about an hour after the first one is sent. He panicked, sure, but he had a Crippling Embarrassment Attack over himself after the letter to Ravi.

So Siegmund gets a much more refined letter. In pen. Nice. Neat. He's forcing himself to not panic while he writes it. (It's substantially less messy then any other mail Jamie's sent.) ]

Ferrus is either gone or real.

[ Nothing else. The page is blank. If Siegmund's familiar with Jamie's tendency to worry, this might be... worrying. ]

[ To Ferrus:

Nothing. At all. ]

[ Any replies will probably get ignored for the first few hours or so. Also, new friends Lera and Acher get nothing and herp ]

Comments

[bloodonthestones]

Why the government?

No one knows what happened to alts who aren't real yet?

[redeyedmask]

I think they said it was dangerous. I don't know. I don't know if anyone knows what happened.

I'm scared for him.

[ Gone like the wind. ]

[bloodonthestones]

If the server is down, the forums are too. You can't ask there if anybody knows what happened.

Someone should know. It's the internet.

[redeyedmask]

The forums are still up. I checked. Apparently, people in Zenderael can access the internet, now, too.

I don't see anything, though.

[ Siegmund, your suggestions are comforting.

But he doesn't know what to do. ]

[bloodonthestones]

You're joking.

[He hasn't been paying a lot of attention to that stuff, he's had other concerns okay]

[redeyedmask]

I'm not.

[ He wants very much to prove it, but Siegmund might already have a tablet. It'd be a waste of money to go buy one for him. ]

I talked with a real character still in Zenderael a day or two ago that way.

[ Here, have his tablet. It should work, right? ]

[redeyedmask]

[ Several minutes after the first ]

I'll be needing that back.

[ OOPS ]

[bloodonthestones]

[Oh, he wasn't expecting Jamie to send him a tablet, jeez.]

[It doesn't take much digging around to realize that this is Jamie's personal tablet. He avoids snooping and goes straight to the browser.]

[hooooly shit, that actually works. this is the internet. he is in zenderael and this is fucking wikipedia.]

[he goes to the zen forums just to make sure they really are still up, and reads the GM post about the game going down]

[suddenly homesick. it was easy to pretend he wasn't when he couldn't have any contact with Earth, but not so much, now]

[checking the news to see what's going on back home. his city seems relatively untouched, except for the Rathaus-Glockenspiel going missing (he already knows where that ended up). it's kind of a relief]

[maybe he will write home, finally... And ask for his laptop and his drawing tablet... He'll figure out what to do about power later, since as far as he knows electricity hasn't come to Pakerion yet. Maybe the mages know how to set up a temporary or portable power supply...]

Thank you to let me look.

[The tablet is sent back with the letter]

[redeyedmask]

[ Jamie's tablet is actually pretty devoid of anything. It's all defaults, no cutesy background or icons or anything. Monochromatic default, and he's okay with that. ...It does make Jamie seem a bit distant, though. Much moreso then if he'd really personalized it. ]

No problem.

[ oh god yes tablet he just sort of got exasperated enough to send it but hey he's being thanked so that's good right??? ]