At the end of the first full day of the Story

[shakenit]

[Sumire is treating her journal... like a journal, because why not. It's not like any of the people she'd talk to about this stuff otherwise are here.]

I suppose I've at least found one useful inroad, but I still feel so lost, trying to make sense of this. Akechi-san would have it all figured out by now, I'm sure.

What we need is a way to coordinate without drawing attention to ourselves as outsiders, but I don't know what that would be.

[Guess who learned Reply All and doesn't know it! Someone may want to let her know this isn't quite as private as she intended.]

[Added after Hikaru's comment:]

Sorry about that, everyone. This is Sumire. I suppose I got what I asked for.

I found Siobhan-san - Sigrid, at the moment - and she's offered to help me get ready for the masquerade. At least I got to choose my own mask. Does anyone have much sense of what's going on besides that yet?

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A few days in

[thickasacastlewall]

[Instead of a written message, Sumire will hear a voice come out of the page.]

I hope this works? Lord Azuresky and I have been doing tests on the reading stone the maester librarian gave me.

This is Ser Duncan the Tall. I'm acting as Lord Azuresky's bodyguard while we're here, so we're both at Lord Umbra's Manor? We can probably get jobs for people there if they want them.

[shakenit]

Oh! I didn't know we could make these talk for us.

[Sumire's not sure she wants to, honestly, but she can decide about that another day.]

[thickasacastlewall]

We can. It's useful, but you have to be careful about where you use the books if you're going to talk into them.

[But since Dunk can't use his own in front of people anyway, because he needs the magic stone the librarian gave him to read it to him, it's kind of a moot point anyway.]

[shakenit]

I can definitely see where that would cause trouble, yes. We can't exactly pass these off as phones.

[thickasacastlewall]

What's a fowns?

[Medieval man is medieval.]

[shakenit]

Telephone. They're used to talk to other people across long distances.