call me maybe

[from_scratch]

Cam is out flying. There's a decent cloud of atmosphere around the gold plane, now, millenia of demons making air around themselves for comfort and not sealing it up because why would you bother. There's a small forest, here - the effect is kind of ruined by the lamps it has to grow under, but it's still pretty.

He feels an open summons and lets it grab him -

with the Joker (kappa)

with Ripper (kappa)

with Darren (Aestrix)

with Minus (kappa)

with Emma (Marri)

with Facility 3141592 (armokGoB)

with the admin (kappa)

with Jarvis (kappa, Aestrix)

with Miles (kappa)

with Hank (Nemo)

Comments

[eversomuchfun]

"Out the front gate of the graveyard, turn left, keep going, turn right on the helpfully named 'Main Street', it's the building with the big sign out front that says 'Sunnydale Public Library'. If you go out the wrong gate you'll find that the graveyards you pass are noticeably more run-down the farther you go; retrace your steps and try again."

[from_scratch]

"Okay, thanks."

Cam heads up for the crypt exit, coat-clad, and is conscientious about not letting too much sunshine in.

[eversomuchfun]

And Sherlock goes to bed.

[from_scratch]

Stroll stroll, they're probably not going to serve him without a shirt so now he has a t-shirt made while nobody's looking, oh there's the library.

Cam made this coat with plenty of pockets he could obtain things "from". He looks at the date on a page-a-day calendar behind the circulation desk and the time on a clock on the wall, makes a correctly-set watch with these and other functions, takes it out of a pocket, and puts it on. Then he goes up to the help desk. "Excuse me. Does this library have a way for me to use the internet with my own computer or do I need to use a public one?"

[pythbox]

"You'll have to use one of ours," says the person behind the help desk. Helpfully, she adds, "They're over there past those shelves."

[from_scratch]

"I can't unplug the cable and attach it to mine?" asks Cam with a sigh.

[pythbox]

"Definitely not."

[from_scratch]

"Okay, thanks anyway." Cam proceeds where directed.

[jellyinthemix]

There are computers! It's early enough that only one of them is in use.

Well, sort of in use. Mostly in a condition of being glared at and hesitantly prodded.

[from_scratch]

Cam picks a different one and looks for whatever pathetic excuse for a browser is on these things.

[jellyinthemix]

The dreaded Internet Explorer.

Judging by his posture, the other computer user in the room has just given up completely.

[from_scratch]

Cam grumbles but opens Internet Explorer. He has to concentrate not to lash his tail more than once. It's so lashable.

[jellyinthemix]

The person who has given up on his computer is now looking at Cam.

[from_scratch]

Cam looks up at him, a kind of what do you want expression on his face.

[jellyinthemix]

...He shakes his head distractedly and goes back to his apparently very incompetent computer use.

[from_scratch]

Cam's not all that much better. He's used computers like this before, but he kept up with the times, so it's been literally more than a hundred years. He pokes his way to Wikipedia, pauses to attempt to remove dust from the mouse, and starts looking up various historical events. Then he looks for anything so promising as a USB drive on this device; maybe he can conjure up a... ludicrously condensed version of his notes to compare against. His current computer model is sure not going to pass without notice here.

[jellyinthemix]

The library is not well funded. The computer is old enough to have a floppy drive. USB is not in evidence.

The frustrated computer user gives up again, and this time he walks away to go look at books.

[from_scratch]

A floppy drive. Holy shit, this library is terrible. It's supposed to be 2008, he was what, past twenty in 2008, he doesn't remember being out of his teenage years and using fucking floppy disks. Maybe he'll just see if Sherlock wants to pack up and travel to a halfway decent city. Well, at least this device can get him Wikipedia. Sloooooooowly. Is the Earth the right size and shape and location? Yes. Is China where it belongs? Do kangaroos exist? Is Coca-Cola popular? Yep. Wikipedia, how Cam loves you.

[pythbox]

Wikipedia is unlikely to love Cam back. Their relationship is doomed.

[from_scratch]

Alas.

Did the Revolutionary War happen circa 1776? Did Pol Pot kill a shit-ton of people? Are there weird rumors about the Bermuda Triangle? Yes and yes and yes.

Cam will be at this for a while, keeping an eye out for discrepancies.

[pythbox]

Discrepancies seem to be minimal! Surprisingly minimal. Astonishingly minimal.

[from_scratch]

Yeaaaaah that's weird.

He opens the Wikipedia page on vampires.

[pythbox]

Vampires are mythological or folkloric revenants who subsist by feeding on the blood of the living. And onward from there. It certainly doesn't seem to think they're real.

[from_scratch]

This is way closer than it ought to be with completely different underlying magic and nonhuman species. And yet Sherlock did something, faster than an angel could have and not something a demon, a fairy, or any kind of tech Cam is familiar with could have accomplished. And no one has the time to mock up an entire 2008-era town with floppy disk computers in it just to screw with him. This is weird.

Demons angels fairies - similar results. Mmhm.

He looks up Revelation and finds stuff about the Bible and nothing about his own antics back in 2007 in his own world.

Speaking of which now he kind of wonders if he has a double here. George Washington did, why wouldn't Cam?

[pythbox]

If he does, the local Cam lacks a Wikipedia page.