He considered the answer for a moment, then nodded in agreement. "It's not unpleasant. At least you aren't speaking in riddles." Soma cringed a bit at the thought. "I hate it when people do that." Mina's grandfather talked like that sometimes, but then, he was a shrine keeper and more than a bit of a mystic. It was part of his job to be cryptic.

"These journals... You already know their basic function is to communicate. According to the manual, you can post to the message board where everyone can see it, or you can post to your private account to get a message out to those who know where to look. You can also use them to talk back and forth with someone in real time using something called Paixao Instant Messenger, one of the journal's functions. Those are the basic functions for these things. A little further in the manual, they discuss security - how to lock certain people out of a post, or how to make it so only one person or one group can see it. That part's pretty technical."

Soma stared at his journal for a moment, frowning. "I should probably mention that there's a small amount of magic in these things. I don't know if it's just the power source or something else, and I don't have the skill to dig into it."