[Sure, it's not the most exciting thing, but Percy is pretty enthralled by this, as someone who likes to get hands-on with machines. He looks up at Jonesy.]
I've traveled quite a bit, and if there's one thing I've learned about languages it's that one language tends to have multiple variations. [Pointing at the tablet, careful not to touch it.] What's this dialect? Do you know if the computers here speak a similar dialect to the one you know?
[Tell Him Everything.
As for Diplomacy, he taps the currently inert core embedded into the back of the glove.]
Yes, pretty much. It's supposed to be charged up by lightning. You hold this up to a lightning bolt, magical or otherwise, and then the core stores up the electricity as a charge. We're lacking in lightning bolts around here and people who can cast lightning spells, but there's quite a lot of electricity, so I'm working on an alternative method of charging it.
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I've traveled quite a bit, and if there's one thing I've learned about languages it's that one language tends to have multiple variations. [Pointing at the tablet, careful not to touch it.] What's this dialect? Do you know if the computers here speak a similar dialect to the one you know?
[Tell Him Everything.
As for Diplomacy, he taps the currently inert core embedded into the back of the glove.]
Yes, pretty much. It's supposed to be charged up by lightning. You hold this up to a lightning bolt, magical or otherwise, and then the core stores up the electricity as a charge. We're lacking in lightning bolts around here and people who can cast lightning spells, but there's quite a lot of electricity, so I'm working on an alternative method of charging it.