9.10. Telephones

| Chapter 9: Props: Food, Clothing, Money, Toys, Books, Electronics |

| 9.10. Telephones

Telephones are much harder to achieve than televisions and in some ways as difficult to make convincing as a human character is - though of course there are corners which can be cut: we could have the reception drop off, or the other party hang up in a misunderstanding, and so on.

A single telephone line is tricky enough to provide that one might just as well have a general solution providing a whole network. Four Cheeses demonstrates a system where we can dial either people or numbers: CALL JANET ON TELEPHONE, or CALL 7103, for instance.

While Four Cheeses provides only four-digit phone numbers, like internal company extensions, Alias shows how to manage US-style seven digit numbers.

See Saying Complicated Things for more approaches to conversation

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| Example Four Cheeses A system of telephones on which the player can call distant persons and have conversations. |
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