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Part 4 of A Box of Chatfics
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2025-02-06
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A Purpose For Margaery's Phones

Summary:

Janae
Well, we all have surnames, don't we?

Derek
…

Hugh
…

Johnny
…

Lady Margaery
do you?

Peter
i do!

Benjamin
i lost my first name for a while

Danny
what???

~

A very large cast of characters have found themselves in a place called The Dock, seemingly with no way out. Margaery has been accumulating phones for a good long while now thanks to her business. It seems, due to this strange circumstance, she might have finally found a use for them.

Notes:

I have a habit of turning to chatfics when I want to write but don't have much time/energy. This might be my most...ambitious attempt, though.

Explanation for the setting: everyone is stuck in The Dock from Escape From The Vault together. I'm sticking to longform characters for now because tagging was already enough of a beast as it is. You don't need to know what happens in EFTV because those events aren't happening in this (a.k.a. everyone's alive), but in case you don't know what The Dock is, it's basically where characters go for their story to be told (i.e. during the period of their longform) and then usually they leave straight after. I just thought it was an easy excuse to get lots of characters in the same place 😅

(See the end of the work for more notes.)

Chapter 1: Prologue - That's a lot of phones

Summary:

Lady Margaery renamed the chat to Victims Of The Dock.

Notes:

(See the end of the chapter for notes.)

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Lady Margaery created a group chat.

Lady Margaery renamed the chat to Victims Of The Dock.

Lady Margaery added multiple numbers.

Lady Margaery
right. all of these phones should be here now

that's the tedious part done

Derek
Um

Lady Margaery
what is it, boy?

Derek
Now I don't mean any offence, Lady Margaery

But when you handed us our phones back and said you were making a chat, I thought it would just be between the four of us so we could keep track of each other in…whatever this place is

Except you've added a large number of unnamed contacts to this chat as well

…What's happening here?

Titch
I'd like to know too.

Lady Margaery
they won't be unnamed forever

I've added the number of every single phone I have in my possession

Derek
…OK…

Titch
For what purpose?

Derek
Wait wow that's a lot of phones

Lady Margaery
haven't you noticed? there's a lot of people scattered around and nobody seems to have any idea what's going on

a good chunk of em look like they've never even heard of a modern mobile phone

I plan to add every single person I can find to this chat, and these phones will be going out to anyone who needs one

Derek
Oh, that's nice of you

Titch
And adding a bunch of lost strangers to a group chat was one of the first things you thought of doing because…?

Lady Margaery
well why not?

Titch
…

I have so much to say to that but I just don't think it's worth getting into.

Lady Margaery
at least be grateful I gave you and gangles your own phones back. I didn't have to! that iphone max was technically never his! but I was feeling generous today so I scoured the pile for you

Derek
And we really appreciate it!

Titch
Sure.

Derek
C'mon, love

At least she's offering people phones instead of drugs

Titch
Fair. I guess it's nice to have my old phone back.

I still don't know when James took it…

Lady Margaery
speaking of that boy, where the hell is he?

Derek
I think he's still trying to figure out how to use my old Sony

Titch
It's just a mobile phone? It's not that different.

Derek
You know what your brother can be like, though

Titch
…Yeah.

Notes:

Could we use this as an argument that we deserve an All Media Types tag...I know it's technically not accurate for our situation but like...this is a monster that's just gonna keep growing