[senri is actually in the lab pretty often. not because he knows how to use anything in it, but because he actually just needs to charge his cell phone and is too afraid of the new rule to risk taking one of them out. so he'll plug in his phone to charge, and look around
oh - this guy's pretty handy, right? senri offers up a smile]
Hey, any chance you could put a good word in and see if anyone's up for trying to put together a brick - [wait. that's slang that might get misunderstood. hE'S LEARNING] - uh, portable phone charger?
wednesday works my man also i hate how much that shitpost made me laugh
[THIS NEW RULE SUCKS HE WANTS TO TAKE HIS TINKER TOYS BACK TO HIS ROOM :(
Guy looks up out of the miniature nest of wires and metal he has for a workspace, a screwdriver tucked in his mouth. Ah. This kid! The hair's hard to miss, but Guy can't really pinpoint what he's ever seen this guy doing... well, other than wiring up that little light up rectangle.
He lets out a light hum from behind his tool, slowly setting down the circuit he'd been working on.] Hmm-- [Oh, right, talking. Putting the screwdriver down.] Depends.
[senri has been staying far away from any of the tools. like. so far away. he has no idea how any of them work and at this point he's too afraid to find out.]
Hey, it's just an option. If one of us goes and asks for parts to build one, we'll basically just be doing the same thing, but you'll be waiting longer for it, right?
I'd say try that first. Ask your patron, or whatever god you want to ask. I'm sure we wouldn't mind helping you out if that doesn't work out. You're always welcome to hang around here in the meantime.
That little gadget of yours must be important if you want your energy portable like that.
[Good thing you're here to preach the good word of Samsung and Apple to him, right]
What exactly do you do with it? It looks like a little computer screen. [The kid types like nuts on it and holds it up at weird angles doing who-knows-what with his facial expressions sometimes, but that's about the extent of his knowledge.
Maybe he's just using it as a mirror. What a waste!]
You know what a computer is! We're already leagues ahead of everyone else!!
[HE'S VERY HAPPY,]
It's like that - but it does aaaaalmost everything a computer can? It's smaller so I can't really write my essays on it - not that it's stopped me from trying. [this is why he's got bad grades smh] But it's good for taking notes and pictures and recording audio and video and playing games -
but he'll just nod and bounce back over to where his phone's plugged in]
Sure! I can still use it even when it's charging, so just head over this way.
[and he'll pull up the photos app after he unlocks his phone? he's been taking a lot of pictures - guy will probably easily see senri's taken a lot of selfies with patience and there's also pictures of cakes and other people in the castle. there's one of ray covered in sparkles in feathers, three of takaomi with a sparkly cheek though those are kinda blurry....]
His entire six foot frame is immediately crowding right next to Senri as he flips through the pictures, enraptured. It's actual captures! There weren't fonons here, so how in the world did they get light to WORK like that? It wasn't a mirror, either...
He's like 99% caught up in the technological aspects of it, but the picture of Ray does get a good laugh out of him as it slips by.]
How in the world did you manage that one? He seems like such a quiet guy.
He doesn't know I have it, so keep it a secret between you and me, okay?
[and he'll swap back back back to a video - this actually isn't related to the game, it's just a video of the tokyo skyline from a train that senri took that he uploaded onto twitter later.]
See? Video too. And it does just audio....
[he'll swap to a different app for that - and play it. that's how guy gets a treat to hearing sasuke uchiha say:
He won't, and Senri's moved on before he can gawk about it too much longer. Though it still catches him by surprise, it's pretty obvious the clip doesn't hold the same spark that the visuals did. Something made a record of the reverberations of the sound, then? He won't pretend to figure out how, but at least this much makes a little more immediate sense than... moving... pictures...]
Geeze... and it all looks so simple on the surface, too...!
Was that a friend of yours? The one you just had there?
Pffffhahaha! That's a good joke, Guy-san! No, that's some guy in the castle... Uchiha Sasuke!
[he's been working hard to memorize the statues]
There's games and stuff too - I used to be able to look up information on the fly, but there's no internet here so that doesn't work anymore. The internet is like... an interconnected tech web that lets people all around the world talk to each other instantly?
[hE'S TRYING REALLY HARD TO EXPLAIN STUFF HE'S NOT QUALIFIED TO EXPLAIN]
[STOP SENRI DON'T DO THIS TO HIM HE'S GONNA DIE OF PURE NERD DESIRE AND NOW HE HAS SO MANY GODDAMN QUESTIONS]
Oh man, you can't just drop something like that on me and not explain a little more! Is it just a giant database? Except you said it involves realtime communications, so it has to be utilizing at least a few different programs at once...
Ummmmm - I'll do the best that I can! It's actually super common where I come from, so I sort of just accepted it as what's always been there? Buuuuut - [he'll tap the web browser app on his phone, even if it brings him up to a network not detected page] - I use that app! Normally this is where you could look at a bunch of different websites that other people make. You can use them for messaging, or shopping, or looking at funny videos people take of their cats.
[that's the internet.]
It's just that easy! Does that mean in Guy-san's world that you still use... letters? Carrier pigeons? Smoke signals?
Ahahah... oh come on, smoke signals? We're not that primitive.
[HE'S HURT, SENRI, GOD.]
The other two are good guesses, though. Carrier pigeons tend to be limited to the government and military for emergencies, especially in wartime. Everyone else sticks to letters or just communicating in person.
We have machines for collecting and processing data when it comes to different types of construction or information gathering, but you have to be sitting in front of that machine to access any of that, or have a disc with the data recorded for transfer. [So like, a CD.] To have access to a communications network entirely by machines sounds like it would save a ton of time!
[BOLD OF YOU TO ASSUME THAT SENRI KNOWS HOW HISTORY WORKS
but goddamn. senri nods - at least it helps paint a better picture for him. so a place that has CDs, but haven't mastered the wireless stuff yet.]
I don't really know how it all happened - but you're pretty close to it, I think! Maybe if Guy-san can take all the stuff he learns here back with him to his home, then your world get there even faster! You tinker around in here a lot, right? And you seem really interested in this sort of thing... so I'm sure you could do it if you wanted to.
senri ran off for a few hours and - in all seriousness, he makes himself hard to find on purpose. he's upset, and so far he hasn't heard of anyone else who was as super close to shiki, and that just makes him feel all the more alone. but he picks himself up, as senris are wont to do, and will make his way back up the temple stairs from where he was sulking amidst the clouds.
problem is
he skipped two meals so he's kinda whoozy and once he's made it back up to the top he stumbles - ]
[It's late and Guy is also finishing up being anywhere but in the courtyard because that was a bad morning
He remembers hearing Senri, though, seeing him running down the halls calling for Shiki as he'd been emerging from the East Wing. It's not too hard to imagine why the kid would want to disappear for a while.
So when he sees that ball of orange hair at the stairway, he pauses, gently making his way over to try and intercept--
Well, until Senri starts to fall over.]
Ah-- Whoa, whoa, easy--!
[GOOD THING HE'S FAST???? Except catching someone with one arm is
bad
In trying to grab Senri and right him, the momentum doesn't break, twisting Guy around and
well I guess they're both falling to the ground now but at least it isn't down the stairs!]
[ASSUMING THAT GUY WILL BE IN DAATH - senri will be wandering around. it looks like he's taking a walk to clear his thoughts, though when he sees the familiar head of blond hair, he'll actually offer up a weak little smile]
[He is indeed in Daath! He'll be seated on the enormous staircase that leads up to the cathedral proper, watching the shadows of the cityfolk mull back and forth, still without his sword. Senri actively approaching, though, gets him to meet that smile with one of his own, though it's kind of sheepish and tired.]
I'd say I'm surprised, but Ambition already chewed my ear off for talking like that this morning. [WHY DO GIRLS ALWAYS HAVE TO DO THIS TO HIM :(] I'm really glad you're okay, Senri.
I'm just glad Luke got a break. I think he was really worried about a lot of people last night.
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week 1, wednesday? yeah wednesday sounds good
oh - this guy's pretty handy, right? senri offers up a smile]
Hey, any chance you could put a good word in and see if anyone's up for trying to put together a brick - [wait. that's slang that might get misunderstood. hE'S LEARNING] - uh, portable phone charger?
wednesday works my man also i hate how much that shitpost made me laugh
Guy looks up out of the miniature nest of wires and metal he has for a workspace, a screwdriver tucked in his mouth. Ah. This kid! The hair's hard to miss, but Guy can't really pinpoint what he's ever seen this guy doing... well, other than wiring up that little light up rectangle.
He lets out a light hum from behind his tool, slowly setting down the circuit he'd been working on.] Hmm-- [Oh, right, talking. Putting the screwdriver down.] Depends.
Have you tried asking for one yourself yet?
LET GUY WELD THROUGH THE PAIN
Like... from a god?
[or one of the nerds]
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Have you really not asked your patron for anything?
[It's said jokingly. Guy doesn't want to make the kid feel bad.]
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Uhhh, we talked?
I didn't think to ask for a charger though...
[oh my god]
That's... really smart.
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Hey, it's just an option. If one of us goes and asks for parts to build one, we'll basically just be doing the same thing, but you'll be waiting longer for it, right?
I'd say try that first. Ask your patron, or whatever god you want to ask. I'm sure we wouldn't mind helping you out if that doesn't work out. You're always welcome to hang around here in the meantime.
That little gadget of yours must be important if you want your energy portable like that.
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[he tilts his head]
Do you not have cell phones in your world either? Everyone that I keep meeting that's never seen one amazes me....
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[Good thing you're here to preach the good word of Samsung and Apple to him, right]
What exactly do you do with it? It looks like a little computer screen. [The kid types like nuts on it and holds it up at weird angles doing who-knows-what with his facial expressions sometimes, but that's about the extent of his knowledge.
Maybe he's just using it as a mirror. What a waste!]
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You know what a computer is! We're already leagues ahead of everyone else!!
[HE'S VERY HAPPY,]
It's like that - but it does aaaaalmost everything a computer can? It's smaller so I can't really write my essays on it - not that it's stopped me from trying. [this is why he's got bad grades smh] But it's good for taking notes and pictures and recording audio and video and playing games -
[he kind of lucked out with his item??]
My whole life is practically on this thing.
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...Seriously??? You can do all that, just with that one little tablet?
That's awesome!
[
can he have one]
You're seriously storing images on a machine, then? Oh, right, and you mentioned "video". Could you show me?
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but he'll just nod and bounce back over to where his phone's plugged in]
Sure! I can still use it even when it's charging, so just head over this way.
[and he'll pull up the photos app after he unlocks his phone? he's been taking a lot of pictures - guy will probably easily see senri's taken a lot of selfies with patience and there's also pictures of cakes and other people in the castle. there's one of ray covered in sparkles in feathers, three of takaomi with a sparkly cheek though those are kinda blurry....]
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His entire six foot frame is immediately crowding right next to Senri as he flips through the pictures, enraptured. It's actual captures! There weren't fonons here, so how in the world did they get light to WORK like that? It wasn't a mirror, either...
He's like 99% caught up in the technological aspects of it, but the picture of Ray does get a good laugh out of him as it slips by.]
How in the world did you manage that one? He seems like such a quiet guy.
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[and he'll swap back back back to a video - this actually isn't related to the game, it's just a video of the tokyo skyline from a train that senri took that he uploaded onto twitter later.]
See? Video too. And it does just audio....
[he'll swap to a different app for that - and play it. that's how guy gets a treat to hearing sasuke uchiha say:
"I'm not an emo. I'm a ninja."
senri finds it
very funny]
Haha! That gets me every time...!!
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[?????????!?!?!?! AAAA????
It's so pretty he just might cry
He won't, and Senri's moved on before he can gawk about it too much longer. Though it still catches him by surprise, it's pretty obvious the clip doesn't hold the same spark that the visuals did. Something made a record of the reverberations of the sound, then? He won't pretend to figure out how, but at least this much makes a little more immediate sense than... moving... pictures...]
Geeze... and it all looks so simple on the surface, too...!
Was that a friend of yours? The one you just had there?
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[he's been working hard to memorize the statues]
There's games and stuff too - I used to be able to look up information on the fly, but there's no internet here so that doesn't work anymore. The internet is like... an interconnected tech web that lets people all around the world talk to each other instantly?
[hE'S TRYING REALLY HARD TO EXPLAIN STUFF HE'S NOT QUALIFIED TO EXPLAIN]
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[STOP SENRI DON'T DO THIS TO HIM HE'S GONNA DIE OF PURE NERD DESIRE AND NOW HE HAS SO MANY GODDAMN QUESTIONS]
Oh man, you can't just drop something like that on me and not explain a little more! Is it just a giant database? Except you said it involves realtime communications, so it has to be utilizing at least a few different programs at once...
How in the world did you even access it??
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Ummmmm - I'll do the best that I can! It's actually super common where I come from, so I sort of just accepted it as what's always been there? Buuuuut - [he'll tap the web browser app on his phone, even if it brings him up to a network not detected page] - I use that app! Normally this is where you could look at a bunch of different websites that other people make. You can use them for messaging, or shopping, or looking at funny videos people take of their cats.
[that's the internet.]
It's just that easy! Does that mean in Guy-san's world that you still use... letters? Carrier pigeons? Smoke signals?
[how far back is he going]
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[HE'S HURT, SENRI, GOD.]
The other two are good guesses, though. Carrier pigeons tend to be limited to the government and military for emergencies, especially in wartime. Everyone else sticks to letters or just communicating in person.
We have machines for collecting and processing data when it comes to different types of construction or information gathering, but you have to be sitting in front of that machine to access any of that, or have a disc with the data recorded for transfer. [So like, a CD.] To have access to a communications network entirely by machines sounds like it would save a ton of time!
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but goddamn. senri nods - at least it helps paint a better picture for him. so a place that has CDs, but haven't mastered the wireless stuff yet.]
I don't really know how it all happened - but you're pretty close to it, I think! Maybe if Guy-san can take all the stuff he learns here back with him to his home, then your world get there even faster! You tinker around in here a lot, right? And you seem really interested in this sort of thing... so I'm sure you could do it if you wanted to.
[that sure is a lot of faith in guy]
week 1, friday
senri ran off for a few hours and - in all seriousness, he makes himself hard to find on purpose. he's upset, and so far he hasn't heard of anyone else who was as super close to shiki, and that just makes him feel all the more alone. but he picks himself up, as senris are wont to do, and will make his way back up the temple stairs from where he was sulking amidst the clouds.
problem is
he skipped two meals so he's kinda whoozy and once he's made it back up to the top he stumbles - ]
Whoa...!
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He remembers hearing Senri, though, seeing him running down the halls calling for Shiki as he'd been emerging from the East Wing. It's not too hard to imagine why the kid would want to disappear for a while.
So when he sees that ball of orange hair at the stairway, he pauses, gently making his way over to try and intercept--
Well, until Senri starts to fall over.]
Ah-- Whoa, whoa, easy--!
[GOOD THING HE'S FAST???? Except catching someone with one arm is
bad
In trying to grab Senri and right him, the momentum doesn't break, twisting Guy around and
well I guess they're both falling to the ground now but at least it isn't down the stairs!]
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His smile drops for just a brief moment, picked up again on the edges of a bittersweet chuckle.]
Ah... damn, you're a flatterer.
Well, I sure hope so, Senri. The least I can do is try, right?
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Mm! I think trying can count for a lot.
Don't you?
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but
is this really all that better?? they're sure in a pile now and senri is just ????????]
Wh - Guy-san?! Are you okay?!
[like he's a little bumped too but he kind of deserves it for forgetting to
fuckin eat]
week 7, friday
Guy-san!
You made it. ♪
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I'd say I'm surprised, but Ambition already chewed my ear off for talking like that this morning. [WHY DO GIRLS ALWAYS HAVE TO DO THIS TO HIM :(] I'm really glad you're okay, Senri.
I'm just glad Luke got a break. I think he was really worried about a lot of people last night.
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[he tilts his head]
Any chance he talked to you about the game plan for the end?