video; un: ihavequestion

[emyoji]

[ Seimei is relaxing in one of the restaurant booths, apparently having a hot cup of coffee when he decides to pop up on the network. ]

Hello everyone! Has anyone figured out if we can go through the top yet?

[ Since powers all seem to be dampened and no one he's met yet can fly, it might actually make sense if the city had an opening above them. Well, it's at least worth setting that thought out for the public. They might get a chance to test it eventually. ]

Ah, but for an empty city, it's strange how consistent this place is when it makes us food. You would think that we would get some bad cups of coffee at least. It's more strange that it doesn't make mistakes.

[ He takes a sip to demonstrate. See? Perfect every time! ]

Since I'm talking about weird, my friend said that the only people brought here are strange ones. I thought it sounded like a good theory, so I want to ask: what is your strangest experience? Yes, we're all different from each other, but are you different from the people you came from? Or if we see things that are strange, sometimes we attract more things... Or maybe you're completely normal and this is a fluke?

I just wonder if this is really the first time something like this happened for all of us.

[ How many isekai veterans are in the city? This is important. ]

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audio; un: loveless

[limbical]

And how do you propose we go up? We seem to be lacking in any aircrafts. I'd be curious to know the results myself.

Though to your point about food: I wonder where the meat comes from, exactly? Presumably from livestock, not that we've seen any.

[As for the last part of the post... Daan conveniently decides to just avoid it.]

text | @stray

[kampfgeist]

at least the food is good?

[ it could be consistent and shitty! ]

[emyoji]

[ The response may be only a call, but he'll take it. At least it's a reply. ]

Well, we might not get whole people up at first, but that's where the strange part comes in. I'm sure at least some of us have experience related to just such situations. If there are enough of us with some ingenuity, we could work together and figure out a plan, right?

That's why I'm asking which of us is the strangest.

[ Perfect logic. ]

There might be a farm or something similar outside of our current boundaries. I'd like to try finding out more about that possibility as well, but it seems a bit harder.

[emyoji]

What a positive way of thinking!

[ Oh, he likes that answer. ]

So you're getting along comfortably, then? Have you found a home yet?

[ With a username like "stray", he has to ask. ]

text; un: susuwatari

[catmemes]

[ It takes him a moment or so to decide if he's the friend. Does Seimei have other friends? It sort of sounds like something he remembers, so maybe close enough? Except... ]

That is not what I said.

[emyoji]

Ah? Isn't it? I'm pretty sure it's what I remember!

[ He's putting in an amount of amae there. Come on, big brother. ]

[catmemes]

[ Sir why are you like this. ]

If you want to ask questions, you could just ask them.

[emyoji]

[ He takes a good minute of consideration, sipping from his cup. ]

Do you like coffee?

[catmemes]

.........why

[emyoji]

You just said I could ask questions if I wanted to. Why not? It's an easy answer.

[catmemes]

Abe-dono, nothing is ever easy with you.

[emyoji]

Now, that's just not true. Anyway, didn't you say that everything in the city was strange? Are you saying you didn't mean the people?

[catmemes]

You're strange.

[ Ah, maturity. ]

[emyoji]

[ He's smiling broadly even if it's just to a text. ]

Do you want to have coffee with me?

[kampfgeist]

[ that's heine for ya, a real half-full kind of guy. (he wishes.............) ]

yeah i'm good, took over one of the apartments
nobody else there to be bothered about it so

[ really more of a metaphorical stray than a literal one! ]

no interest in finding out if we can go out the top though

[emyoji]

[ He'll be optimistic for both of them. ]

You don't? Ah, well, what about finding out other things about the city? It's fine to get comfortable while we can, but aren't you curious about anything this place does?

[ Some might not be, but he's going to insist. ]

For instance, where the supplies come from or who constructed everything? That could be important.

[kampfgeist]

curious sure, but don't underestimate how freaky the sky is when you grew up underground

anything on the ground i'm already looking into though
feels like i've covered half the city on foot at this point and haven't found anything noteworthy

[emyoji]

You grew up underground? [ See, that's exactly what he was talking about. ]

Is that where everyone lives? What happened to the the sky?

[ Not that he even knows what world this person is from. It could be anywhere. ]

I've walked around a few times and noticed only a few changes, but it does seem to change now and then. Of course, it's hard to get everywhere. The city seems to have a lot of closed doors.

[kampfgeist]

not everyone, but probably two-thirds of the people in my city

think like... two plates stacked on top of each other
top level is where things are nice, you got good money, fresh food. bottom level is all crime and shit money and shit food

nothing happened to the sky, we just can't see it from down below

what changes have you noticed?
the closed doors bother me too. i clocked the city limits day 1 when i tried to walk the train tracks but the number of buildings we can't get into was surprising

[catmemes]

Did you actually need something or are you just bored?

[emyoji]

What if I want your company?

[ He says that in a much more sultry tone than he needs. ]

Hah, just kidding! But don't tell me you're already done with me, Kai-kun?

[limbical]

I think you need to specify by what you mean by "strange." Either way, I suppose if we had an engineer to make something like a balloon or whatever go up into the sky, I could see the merit. Though frankly it wouldn't shock me at this point if there were people capable of flight or something, too.

Yes, it's a thought. It's not exactly on the top of my questions, but you have to wonder how they end up with such immaculate produce and meals. Maybe they just have very good chefs, or some kind of spell or whatever.

[emyoji]

Ah, yes, I see! So you're actually from a pretty difficult place, huh?

[ Oh, that was probably too blunt. ]

But that means you have a lot of experience with strange things, right? So you won't be surprised by anything that happens here.

[ Never mind that those two things don't have anything in common. Seimei has decided Heine must be capable of handling anything. ]

Well, the tourist center wasn't opened at first, and now we have that, the bank, and even more entertainments available. And if you walk past the limits of our districts, you apparently cross a great distances without any effort. Or maybe you just don't cross through?

[kampfgeist]

[ it's not like he's wrong, on either count: heine is from a difficult place, and he can handle pretty much anything.

also, he's hard to offend, so the blunt statements roll right off him. ]

better to be ready for anything. otherwise it's a waste of precious time

interesting. the tourist center has been opened since i got here
and the limits of the city have been the same size, unless my walking speed has gotten a lot faster

was it smaller before?

[emyoji]

That's exactly what I want to find out. Strange for one world is probably different from strange in another. If we don't compare, how do we know how strange this city is? We've all been picked out, haven't we? Maybe there's a reason, but if everyone is used to something different, it's harder to tell what reason that is.

[ And this is definitely how he gets good ideas like this! ]

Even spells have to rely on resources and are often prone to errors if they're used too frequently. Isn't it a little weird that we always have food and supplies available if we need them? And we don't owe them anything at all? I think that's strange, personally.