SWITCHBOARD

[transmittable]

If you'd like to ask the Transmitter something over the phone, go right ahead! The Transmitter will answer the phone as soon as she's available. Leaving messages is impossible, given how old these phones are, but you should be able to reach her at almost all hours.

Comments are screened for privacy; all Patients are offered confidentiality, didn't you know?

Comments

[transmittable]

[ What first greets Asgore is a sigh, along with a healthy amount of feedback. Though the voice is a little clearer, the feedback and distortion remain, like the other day. ]

All of you really ARE determined to call us Miss, aren't you...? Oh, we give up.
Yeah, Inspiring, we have time to talk.

[journalname]

Gosh, I'm sorry. Is there another form of address you would prefer?

[It was sort of what he'd picked up from everyone else, at the end of all that talk of nicknames and titles.

...she's using "we" again. Or they are? He's unclear on that, but it seems everyone was.]

[transmittable]

Miss is OKAY, as we told Gracious, if you have to, it's just... It sounds old, to us. It makes me feel old, or formal.

[journalname]

I suppose that does sound a little formal. It is just a matter of sounding polite for me, you understand. But Transmitter it is, then! [nothing ruder than calling someone something other than what they want]

I admit, I was a little surprised to learn that you are so young.

[There's a question mark by it, but 17 had to be on there for some reason, right?]

[transmittable]

What's so surprising about it? ...I don't sound that old, do I?

[ ...Asks the girl whose voice is hard to really distinguish aside from "not as old as some of the Patient" but you know, that's just how the Transmitter is, apparently. ]

[journalname]

To be honest, I find it difficult to tell. There seems to be a fair bit of static in your transmissions?

[Not that he, frankly, has any idea what the reason for that could be. Technology.]

It is only that I would not have expected someone so young to be in charge of all this. You do not spend your entire day attending to us, surely?

[transmittable]

Uhh, yeah, that... The static's kind of unavoidable. Trust us. We've tried to fix it.

But yeah, all day, every day...which is so far just two, but, it will be more.

[journalname]

I had gotten that impression. Will you receive days off?

[transmittable]

Noooope. Which is fine, there's time to eat and...well, there'll be some night-owls among you, we're sure, but time to sleep as well.

[journalname]

That is...good. But it is still a great deal of work. Have you no friends to spend time with, or...school to attend?

[He sounds genuinely curious about this. What does he know about human schooling practices? Especially when you bring different worlds into it.]

[transmittable]

Ha, school? Nope, no school. And...no friends, either. There's the Risen, but...well, they don't really count as friends. Not much for conversation.

[journalname]

I'm sorry.

[He does sound genuinely sorry? Sure, she's part of this whole kidnapping thing, but she's only seventeen and she doesn't seem malicious, so...]

Have you spent much time with them so far? Maybe all of you can get to know each other better! I am happy to speak with you as well, but I know that is not quite the same as having others right there.

[transmittable]

[ An increase in crackling. ]

We spend a lot of time together. I know them as well as I can, and they know me too.

[journalname]

Hmmmm.

[It's just a sound of acknowledgement; he doesn't really know what to make of that. They are just colleagues, he guesses, and that is it? It's a little sad, to know someone so well and not consider them friends.

Dislikes: loneliness.]

Well, at least you are not alone there, wherever it is you are. [.....] Oh, but that is not why I called! I am going to host a small luncheon on Wednesday afternoon for our group, so that we may all spend some time together. I know that you probably cannot come - [And quite possibly would not anyway, considering how hostile some people got.] - but I would feel like a poor host if I did not invite you all the same.

[transmittable]

[ There's a significant pause, in which the feedback fluctuates. ]

Um. No. Thank you, but- no, I can't come. Sorry.

[journalname]

It is alright! I thought that might be the case. But you may consider the invitation open, should I do something like that again.

[This is a dangerous thing to say, but he is still hopeful that the rest of this time will be like the past two days have been. I guess we will see how long it takes the Transmitter to really upset him.]

I hope you are eating well, at least? It does not sound like you have much time to cook. [also lbr you're a teenager, are you just living on ramen]

[transmittable]

[ so what if she is, you can't do anything about it ]

...Thanks.

Um, I'm... I'm eating fine. Don't worry about it. Don't...worry about me.

[journalname]

[yOUNG LadY]

I would offer to make you something, but I suspect that would not work either. The variety of human food here is nice, though!

[transmittable]

[ You're not her real dad, goat man. ]

It probably wouldn't. It'd be a little hard to get food to me, I think. We uh, we just want to provide all of you with all the absolute essentials.

[journalname]

[he met her over the phone yesterday and this is the second time they've spoken, sooooooo obviously he is]

Ha, ha. I think you must know a little more about the history of the Underground than the others here, if you were responsible for the profiles. The absolute essentials are far more than we had for a very long time. I do not take it for granted, now.

[transmittable]

...I do. Some things get jumbled, but it's hard to mix up information about a giant goat man. ...Do you have unicorns, in the Underground? Stupid question, never mind it.

[journalname]

It is not a stupid question! There are certainly monsters who resemble unicorns! I think a great deal of human myths stem from encounters with monsterkind, one way or another.

[like their fixation on a goat-like devil with a pitchfork who rules an underground kingdom of evil?]

[transmittable]

Is there any truth in those myths? Like, are the unicorns friendly, or majestic?

[journalname]

[He chuckles.]

They are quite friendly! And I suppose they are majestic, too. Many of them even have healing magic - that is in the stories, is it not?

[transmittable]

It is! I've always liked unicorns, but we didn't have them in my world. ...I've been asking people who call, if they let me ask questions.

[ She can't help but sound embarrassed, and with the distortion it's kind of funny sounding. ]