FireWriter
The FireWriter 7800 is a popular word processing device in the land of Eden. Developed by Winkie engineers during the first set of Wander Years, it is powered by the immolated cone of a Hellfire Pine. This innovation enables the FireWriter to create documents which can survive the creation of a new reality by The Seven Voices—a feat that no other writing implement can match.
The most famous document created by a FireWriter 7800 is The Tome, the primary religious text of The Sister’s Regulars—a book which documents all known myths and legends regarding the rebooting of reality, from “The Tragedy of Yesh and Jude” to “The Tale of the Seven Voices” and beyond.
The process by which the FireWriter does its thing is simple: based on user input from the keyboard, the FireWriter burns sap from the pine cone at its core onto paper that’s been exposed to The Waters of the River Without End.
It is only through this combination of magics—paper born of the The River Without End and ink made from Hellfire sap—that the famously durable texts of the FireWriter 7800 can be made real.
Mechanics & Inner Workings
The keyboard, enclosure, and central processing unit are recycled from 1980s Earthling computers. These specimens were collected from the Earth-666 iteration of reality by Edenian halflings who smuggled them across The River Without End.
Beyond the chassis itself, the other major component required to build the FireWriter is a single cone from a living Hellfire Pine—which must then be lit on fire, of course.
This sounds simple, but students of the Hellfire Pine will know that it is anything but. Every part of that species, though it craves the embrace of flame, is reluctant to accept said embrace. And that means that the Winkie craftspeople who assemble these machines must be patient above all else.
Oh my goodness- this is DEFINITELY extraordinary! Very cool callback to your Peculiar Plants entry. How many versions must they have gone through of trial and error before finding something which produced documents capable of surviving to the next universe iteration, I wonder? I love the thought you put into the components: of course 80s computer bits would be durable enough to survive the end of the world. :D
You are doing a great job! Keep creating; I believe in you!
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Thanks! And that "how many versions?" question is a great one, definitely something for me to consider when revising/updating this. Glad you liked the callback to the Peculiar Plants entry, which it turns out was the start of a whole little piece of mythology that I'm hoping to explore more for one of the other prompts over the next couple of days.