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I think I've made a breakthrough in understanding FaeFone's interface

Princess AlicePrincess Alice
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You know how the dialpad is just a bunch of squares in different colors? I think this might be how you turn them into numbers:

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  • AshUpquarkAshUpquark
    pretty much some white kid
    Woah, you might be right!  I thought maybe it had something to do with wavelengths, or RGB values or hex triplets, but nothing I've tried has worked so far...

    I have to try this.
  • AshUpquarkAshUpquark
    edited 2016-06-17 02:12:42
    pretty much some white kid
    OK, now this is weird.

    As far as I can tell, the first and second colours you input specify a "number" between 0 and 76.  I say "number" in quotation marks because it actually represents a digit in, of all things, a base-77 number, and its place value is determined by the third colour you input, the multiplier.  In theory, you should be able to repeat the process until you have a base-77 number, which you convert into decimal to get the number you want to call.

    However when I tried this I got stuck when I hit an error message informing me I don't have enough "red mana" to input red again.  Furthermore sometimes certain coloured squares turn into strings of Cyrillic characters and I'm not sure whether this is a bug or if it has some function I haven't figured out yet.
  • Princess AlicePrincess Alice
    You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    (oh my gosh that's so much funnier than anything i came up with)
  • TachyonTachyon
    imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    (i just kinda took your idea and ran with it, glad to have amused)
  • lee4hmzlee4hmz
    ⚠ THIS MACHINE KILLS FASCISTS
    I totally read that as BaeFone when I first saw it
  • HavenHaven
    Let me tell you. About Fallen London.
    AshUpquark said:

    However when I tried this I got stuck when I hit an error message informing me I don't have enough "red mana" to input red again.
    Have you tried dialing near a mountain?
  • Sredni VashtarSredni Vashtar
    “I'm surprised. Those clothes… but, aren't you…?”
    lee4hmz said:

    I totally read that as BaeFone when I first saw it


    BaePhone operates on a Leprechaun Romance-based dialing system. Much less confusing, but breakups are so much messier.
  • BeeBee
    edited 2016-06-18 00:17:40
    what the hell is faefone

    the only thing i can find is a misspelled payphone sign in the philippines
  • Princess AlicePrincess Alice
    You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    https://covering.space/centralia/FaeFone
  • AshUpquarkAshUpquark
    pretty much some white kid
    Haven said:

    AshUpquark said:

    However when I tried this I got stuck when I hit an error message informing me I don't have enough "red mana" to input red again.
    Have you tried dialing near a mountain?
    ...I haven't, not yet, but I really hope that's not it.  It was bad enough trying to get a signal on my old phone!
  • Sredni VashtarSredni Vashtar
    “I'm surprised. Those clothes… but, aren't you…?”
    Bee said:

    what the hell is faefone


    the only thing i can find is a misspelled payphone sign in the philippines

    You really need to brush up on your elaborate forum in-jokes. This is easily one of the best.
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