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[wizard-kit.livejournal.com]

So, say there's an iPod. An iPod that insists on always playing the same song over and over and over.

And say the song is something annoying like 'Bill Me Up Buttercup.' (Or, if you like that song, the most annoying song you can possibly think of.)

Then you may understand why Kit is sitting at a table fighting with his iPod in the Speech.

"Please. Stop playing that song. Spare me."

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[amanda-darieux.livejournal.com]

"You could just turn it off." a woman at a nearby table suggest, because his complaining is starting to bug her. Her attention turned towards him rather then the book in her hand.

[wizard-kit.livejournal.com]

Kit raises an eyebrow, and goes back to delegating with the iPod.

She shouldn't be able to understand the Speech, not really.

[amanda-darieux.livejournal.com]

[OOC:Says sorry. What is the Speech?]

But she is still irritated at the distraction. It shouldn't stick out in a bar like this but it's somehow distinctive, perhaps because she doesn't understand it.

Closing the book as it's more likely then not that she is just frustrated with the difficulty of learning Ogham.

Offering a corgial smile, "Hi. What seems to be the problem?" as the fighting with it is obvious enough.

[wizard-kit.livejournal.com]

[A canon language used in wizardry; usually it sounds like loopy sounds or absolutely nothing to a nonwizard. Ms Duane is vague on it.]

"It's just hell-bent on annoying me, s'all. Won't turn off or stop playing this stupid song."

[amanda-darieux.livejournal.com]

[OCC: nods]

"Oh, that would be a problem." she thinks, "Where did you get it?"

[wizard-kit.livejournal.com]

"Radio Shack. It's just an iPod."

A crazy iPod in a bad mood, but still an iPod.

[amanda-darieux.livejournal.com]

"Why don't you return it and get one that works properly?" she mentions casually as she waves down a wait-rat.

[wizard-kit.livejournal.com]

"It's not that easy to go to Radio Shack Bound. Besides, it's just a bad day. There's nothing wrong with the software except being easily offended and moody."

[stopped-signal.livejournal.com]

"Having trouble?"

Hey, it's technology. Like a magnet, for this guy.

[wizard-kit.livejournal.com]

Kit removes an earbud and turns up the volume.

"That explain anything?" he says, weakly. "It's stuck on repeat and doesn't feel like dealing."

[stopped-signal.livejournal.com]

Mr. Universe listens for a second, then recoils.

"My sympathies."

[wizard-kit.livejournal.com]

"You'd think," Kit muses, "that being a wizard who usually works with nonanimate objects -- 'inanimate's offensive sometimes, to them," he explains quickly, "I wouldn't have this problem."

The iPod, clearly in a bad mood, turns up its own volume and blares louder.

[stopped-signal.livejournal.com]

Mr. Universe stares at it.

"Did that just operate its own controls?"

[wizard-kit.livejournal.com]

"Um."

That's a bad habit, chewing on your own lip. But Kit does it anyway.

"Yeah, I think. Wizardry kinda leaks around my house a lot."

[stopped-signal.livejournal.com]

"...wizardry. Like... magic?"

Duh, Manny.

[wizard-kit.livejournal.com]

"That's the most commonly associated term, yeah. Doesn't feel like it, though -- just a lot of words."

[sky-high-max.livejournal.com]

Max notes the iPod.

...Technology from her time and place. Alternate dimensions couldn't have iPods, after all.

She notes the frustration with it, and quickly relates. "Need help?"

[wizard-kit.livejournal.com]

"Eh, I think it needs therapy."

But Kit's still willing to share the trial.

"You be nice to other people, okay?" he explains in the Speech to the iPod, which doesn't react at all, because it's not speaking to Kit right now.

[sky-high-max.livejournal.com]

"Might just need the software reinstalled."

The mun's had that happen enough that she figures Max probably has too, as much as she loves that thing.

She looks a little confused by his talking to the iPod, but takes it at face value: talking in a language she doesn't know to inanimate objects. Not like she's never done it.

"Can I see?"

[wizard-kit.livejournal.com]

"Maybe it'll like you better. It's giving me the silent treatment."

Pause, as he hands the iPod over.

"-- I'm not crazy. I'm a wizard."

[sky-high-max.livejournal.com]

She perks a bit at that news. That makes the second she's met.

"Oooo, do you play Quidditch too?"

She's grinning as she looks over the iPod, checking all the settings. Her own'd be with her to compare it to, but it was recharging when she got bound.

[wizard-kit.livejournal.com]

Kit is, in fact, not a big reader. That's Nita.

So even if they do have Harry Potter in his 'verse, he probably wouldn't know much about it.

"... what's Quidditch?"

[sky-high-max.livejournal.com]

Ah, see, while they may have Harry Potter in Max's verse? She didn't get it there. She got it straight from someone in the bar who plays the game.

"It's a wizard's game, or so Angie told me."

She thinks for a moment.

"She's from Britain, though, so maybe it's only played there?"

Possible explination. She'd certainly never heard of it before, despite living on the same planet in about the same year. It hasn't occured to her yet that they might just be from planets with the same name and numbering system.

[ooc=Sorry for the repost, I wanted to clarify something.]

[wizard-kit.livejournal.com]

"... I don't think Ronan knows it either, and he's Irish, but I could probably ask."

To Kit, different planets and different planes would all make just about the same (very clear) amount of sense.

"One way to find out anyway. Manual? If you would?"

The dog-eared hardcover on the table by Kit opens and turns its pages about, then shuts, defeated.

"... well, that limits the possibilities."

[Don't mind at all.]

[venusadept_2]

There is a Djinni nearby, who might be heard to chuckle.