"What did just happen?" did the brave Elven warrior ask the sturdy looking Dwarf.
"We just went to a strange plane dimension portal, that's what happened!" the Dwarf replied grumpily.
They looked around. It was a madhouse they saw. Loads of humans looking nowhere but to some sort of box in front of them, moving their fingers rapidly on buttons beyond them.
"Are they modrons?" the Dwarf whispered.
The Elf looked very surprised.
"We came here out of utterly emptiness and no-one even noticed. That thing in front of them is absorbing them totally. It must be some sort of hypnotizing device."
It was a weird place; that was sure. There was a window, but no one to look out of it. Strange, sort of iron objects where outside, some of them moving very fast.
"I do not like this dimension one bit," the Dwarf said.
"Let's save those absorbed humans," the Elf said.
"Let them be. Humans always have been way too obsessive about everything. They now probably have invented something they find so cool that they without noticing have lost their lives to. What do you expect? They're humans. They would not thank you for helping them now. Leave them be."
The Elf all of a sudden threw a sword and sliced a computer open.
"What? Was I talking to air? You fool, you don't even know if they can exist without it anymore!"
The person after the computer seemed to get out of shock. He moved slowly and robot-like towards the hall, ignoring the Elf and the Dwarf and all others, who did not even look up. He moved toward a red device, picked part of it up and held this part to his mouth.
"Computer maintenance needed" he spoke robot-like and then stood waiting there.
"O dear... we must get away from here... quick!" the Dwarf muttered.
"Is there a way to communicate with those humans?" the Elf thought. "Maybe we could help them then."
He walked towards a girl.
"Hello," he spoke.
She did not reply.
"Hello," he said again.
She actually turned around.
"If you want to talk, use a computer and a messenger service, will you, like normal people" she said irritated.
"They communicate through these devices," the Elf told the Dwarf.
"And those aren't all that fit for people of my length, are they?" the Dwarf complained immediately.
A person walked towards the broken computer. He looked at the damage and tried fixing it.
"Hello... can you learn us how to use one of those?" the Elf asked him, still not bothering about the Dwarf not agreeing.
"We have courses for that. Just sign in for them," the man actually replied without messenger. "I will talk in this old-fashioned state since you obviously can't use a computer yet."
"You understand" the Elf sighed happily. "You understand what it's like when you cannot use one of them."
"Yup. Those poor people that much behind, those weak must we looked after for. We know our responsibility for that very well. You can sign in for the course."
"Where can I do that?"
"Well, on the Internet of course."
"And where is the Internet located?"
"On those computers."
The Elf ran away and grabbed the Dwarf and jumped into the dimension portal. After this, a sign was placed aside the dimension portal: "DO NOT GO IN! VERY DANGEROUS!"

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