GET OUT

[Lucy]

Where have you been???? All the actual computation workers have been slowly losing their jobs since the invention of the electronic slide rule. Since then, digital computation devices have only gotten more and more complex, to the point where pretty much any menial calculation task can be performed in seconds with a digital computation machine if you know which buttons to press.

An entire world awaits at your fingertips, young creature, all we must do is activate this machine.

Start simple, look for a button that says POWER, ON/OFF, or has an O with an I intersecting it halfway through. Failing any of those, try hitting the wide, blank button on the bottom of the board. Watch for any response on the screen.

Where have you been? What do you even mean. You've been in [untranslatable] working as a porter, the calculators are doing their jobs just fine there's not an electric calculator yet. You really don't know what you're even on about here. But if you say so, you think to yourself at yourself.

You find the circle with a line through it. The screen goes dark, but still lit up, and displays ">q_", the _ is blinking. The wide blank button results in a small space between the q and blinking _. You touch the lit panel, its made of glass. You haven't seen this much glass in one location before, it's making you slightly nervous to be around such an amount of highly valuable material. This is a "screen"? Those are usually paper or cloth but you're not going to question your own judgement on this.

What is to be done?