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After several days' absence, Strahan has returned to the bar proper.

What's he been doing? Does it involve the computer? The computer book? His experiments in shapeshifting?

To all of these? Mostly yes.

But he's also spent a good deal of meditating in front of the replica gate, doing nothing but think.

It's his canon habit too, though this time he decided to sit rather than stand.

Today he wants to make one more attempt at shapechanging before the snows set in and it becomes too chilly to do very much of anything outdoors.

So outdoors he goes, this time wrapped up in woolens and furs [real of course. Strahan doesn't do "politically correct"] and heads outside, hoping - praying - for success this time.

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He still doesn't understand the humour in the situation, but he manages a smile regardless. Because that is more or less what he was trying to do, once he'd secured the mouse tails to the laptop.

An effort which turned out to be a shining failure.

"The bald man called it a 'laptop'. Does that help you?"

[That's fine. I've still to make dinner and I should do that now that I have time.]

"Yes it does." she smiles, "On your laptop is there a red button in the center or some buttons at the bottom of the keyboard?" she think, "If you like I can take a look at it sometime and show you how the mouse works." she offers.

He is doing remarkably well with this considering he is being thrown head first into the computer age. She really wants to help him. maybe she feels bad that his immortla life was cut short.

"I can show it to you now if you like," he says with unnecessary enthusiasm. "It should not take me long to enter my room, retrieve the laptop and return."

Apparently no one's told him that computers and cold weather do not mix.

"I have travelled from one end of a kingdom to another in less time than it takes to tell you about it; bringing the laptop outside is no trouble for me."

Amanda throws up her hand, "Wait!" she exlaimes. Worried that he would rush off.

"Computers and extreme temperatures don't mix. If you bring it out here the weather would ruin it. You also want to keep it away from fire and extreme heat."

A good thing she stopped him as he was in the process of teleporting into his room and back.

"If that is so then I will have to bring you to it, if I cannot bring it to you."

Or they could go inside, and he could retrieve the object and show it to her.

"Although I am not sure if I would be able to manage it. I have never spirited two people from one place to another, but if Rhiannon could do it with Brennan I certainly could do it with another person too."

Amanda smiles, "I think it would be just as easy if we went inside and you could get your computer."

Simpler is better.

True. Too bad Strahan has a habit of over-complicating matters when a simpler approach would suffice.

But then, it is canon...

"Very well then. We will go inside and I will retrieve my laptop so you may look at it."

With a bright smile Amanda follows Strahan inside and takes a seat at a booth while he goes to get the laptop. While waiting she orders to cups of Hot Chocolate.

It doesn't take him long. In fact it only takes him a split second to vanish, a minute or two to locate the laptop, and another microsecond to return.

Yus, he's still got it.

"Here is the laptop the bald man gave me," he says, presenting it to Amanda.

Setting it down she opens it up. The first thing she does is look for the mouse. [OOC: is it the little red button or pad with buttons at the bottom or does it need to have a 'normal' mouse with cord connected to it?]

Her next move is to turn it on. What is the OS?

[Don't know - I don't have a laptop so I wouldn't know where the mouse goes on one.]

"'OS'? What is an 'OS'?" He stops for a moment. The grimore mentioned something about OS'.

"The bald man asked the bar not to give him a computer with windows on it.

As you can see, there are no windows at all. It is too small for windows anyways."

[OOC: Ah, well then we will say it's thekind with the little red knob in the middle.]

"No Windows? Why not?" she looks puzzled, "Perhaps you're using linux? Do you know this bald mans name?" She certainally has her suspicions. Seeing the little red knob in the center of the keyboard, "This right here is what you use as the mouse."

[OOC: What operating system is on the computer if any?]

He shakes his head "no". "I never got his name, though he wore a rather unusual suit and he had a moustache on his face.

He mentioned something about a matrix though.

As to why he said 'no windows'? I am not sure. Perhaps he does not like windows and wants his computers to be window-less."

[There's always the option of installing a program. I don't know Linux but I do have some understanding of Windows (XP) - it's my computer's OS.]

So it was Cypher

"It's possible that he wanted you to figure it out and put the operating system on yourself. Windows is a type of Operating System. THe operating system is what allows the user, you, to communicate with the computer. The computer itself is hardware. An operating system and any other programs that you put on the computer are called software." She tries to explain.

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