Friday, July 31, 2009

Pour vous, une attention immédiate - dernière signaux enregistrés avant sémaphore ligne brisée


"Aha! the french pan-continental semaphore tower system - with... metal arms - a mechanical scribe?... - wobbling as I speak - Raff, here look at this oddity, another of Boney's confounded devices ... note how it moves with our very words but holds still with our silences, I have a wonder that it might be sending each utterance to Paris itself - if i wasn't aware of the work of Lagrange I'd believe it to be some Eldritch device, no wonder those peasants were afraid of this place. ...--... yes, signaling, ah yes, i can see it ...--... damn, it's in French Code - quick we need to redirect the flags to point to the Tribute, see if we can get a semaphore to the fleet, and to Sir Walston-Bilbarage at once! ..--.. yes, glorious idea, Raff, you move tha-XXX-

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