WHO: Bail Organa & [OPEN] (cabin 1 in particular, but not picky) WHEN: Afternoon WHERE: The abandoned Boy Scout camp near Ruby River. Then, back at Cabin 1. SUMMARY: Finding an old mobile phone. [Prompt fulfillment.] WARNINGS: None
If there was anything that Bail had learned over the many weeks and months that he'd been a part of this experiment, it was that not everything was at it seemed. The last time in his life he had spent any time camping was with his wife, during their courtship period, when they spent a week in the north country outside of Aldera on Alderaan. It wasn't much like this at all, either, as this was much more primitive when compared with the more glamorous camping that Alderaanian royalty put together.
He had spent some time at the river, which was rocky, wild, a little dangerous, where he cooled off for a while before dressing again and traipsing among the remnants of this campsite. It looked as though someone (or someones) had been staying here. Graffiti on the buildings and some of the trees, some other evidence as well. His foot his something that wasn't a rock, and he bent down to pick it up. Some kind of communication device, he thought, though nothing he was familiar with. He thought he might take it back to his cabin. Perhaps Dameron or one of his other cabinmates might find it useful.
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Back at his cabin, Bail fiddled with the mobile phone, pressed the on button even though he didn't expect it to power on. When it did, his eyebrows shot up. He pressed some of the other buttons, finding them sticky, some of them not working at all. When he held it up to his ear, he didn't hear anything. Since it wasn't like the tech he knew, so he couldn't be sure how it worked, so he left it on his bed as he ducked into the bathroom. The tinny sound of it ringing filled the whole cabin much more loudly than he would have expected, and Bail hurried back over to answer it.
He punched a few buttons until it stopped ringing and held it up to his ear again. Static, something screeching, but nothing intelligible, no matter how much he said or how loudly he said it. He punched buttons again until the static fell silent. The problem, however, was that every time he walked away from it, it began to ring again. And every time he answered it, he didn't exactly hear someone on the other side.