"...if someone physically stole your phone it wouldn't be because they wanted a phone. It'd be because they wanted your information. If you leave it on the table at a restaurant and go to the bathroom, nobody will be able to access that information without your passcode and face, or fingerprint and swipe pattern, or whatever."

"-ah, I see. I should be fine, then, I'm already in the habit of being careful with my things." He continues setting up the security features.

And here is his phone! Does he want the tutorial or to skip it?

He wants the tutorial!

It walks him through where all the features of the phone are, though it is not prepared for the total unfamiliarity with phones he possesses and Brooklyn has to help a bit.

He's very impressed, and soon he's set up for messaging and email and banking and looking at the internet. "If I want to write something like this that other people can read," he asks of the travel blog he found when she showed him how to use the search engine, "how would I do that?"

"You set up an account - do you like the look of this site? It's using Pamphlet, you can get a Pamphlet setup."

"It seems like a reasonable enough place to start." He pokes his way through the process, needing only a few pointers. "And if I want to prove that I'm the one writing it...?"

"You can pay a confirmation service - they have demons check up on you. Pamphlet has a service for it too but you'd need more of a legal identity than you have."

"All right. I think I'll give myself a few days to get used to what I've got before I do anything else with that. Thank you, though, you've been very helpful."

"You're welcome!" She lets herself out.

He flops on the bed, spends a few minutes grinning at the ceiling, and then looks online to see how people are reacting to the news of his existence.

wow at least demons only take your soul if you actually sell it

Is it effects?

Proof Positive says it's not effects!

Okay but he's bullshitting about where his "spells" come from. There is no God but GOD and this guy is NOT His Prophet.

I predict stuffed beetles

air walk thing looks scary!!!

Yep, that sure sounds like some humans reacting to something new. Is there more context on that first comment?

but like some people who sell are innocent besides that

he said they don't even have especially good moral philosophers so it could be innocent people there too. like, crazy people who think it's evil to do some random thing so they have "bad intentions". that's not actually evil.

bet the afterlife is fake actually. they're primitives it sounds like and don't know that it's not real.

Ah. Well, they'll figure it out eventually. What do the responses on that monotheist's comment look like?

140 comments of argument about whether Islamic right-wingers are to blame for the current state of Gaza.

Whatever that is. But even if he's going to have to wade into politics he doesn't have to do it today. Any interesting conversation about whether it's effects?

Some people are contesting the statement of Proof Positive ("they were wrong about who killed Marcy Mandalay!"), some people are posting gifs of movies with similar content, some people are looking at the timestamps and saying it'd have to be awfully fast editing work.

Fair enough. He'll come back to this later. Next: 'how do I learn how to summon?' - actually no, next 'what are the days of the week?', he needs to make sure to catch the forest fairy on the right day. But then he'll look up summoning.

The days of the week are Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday. It's Saturday.

Summoning brings an angel, demon, or fairy to the human world by means of drawing a circle on the floor. It's recommended to use preprints designed by professionals.

There's presumably some kind of advice about the bargaining part of it, if he goes looking. Starting with fairies, maybe, but he wants to know about all three.

Yup, he can get textbooks, bullet point tips, and everything in between. The underlying principles are the same for all three but since you gag demons you have to approach it a bit more formally.

Gagging demons is a little weird, but possibly a reasonable reaction to them trying to buy souls. (Which is itself a little weird - daeva don't seem to have anything else to do with their namesakes except for some minor aesthetic similarities.) He'll look into that more later, though - what about the part where the forest fairy was confined to his forest, is that normal?

Many polities require daeva to be accompanied by their summoners in public; it might be that.