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citynet2023-11-07 11:18 am
coolerjunpei) wrote in citynet2023-11-07 11:18 am
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[The video opens on Junpei in an office chair - in his Secret Club Meeting Room (read: generic office building conference room) although this is not a secret meeting. This is Junpei spinning slowly in an office chair while he holds the camera up, tilting as far back as he can without tipping the chair over. So it's going great.]
So, city-zens, [.....ahem,] I've got some miscellaneous questions for you.
First, time travel: real? Let me know. [......,] I mean, you know— Before you got here, that is. Like how experienced are you in the realm of quantum... quantum-y goodness? I just thought that maybe it would be real for somebody else by now, but I dunno... Let me know that one instead.
[Cough. Anyway.]
Second, are we all just, uh... hanging out now, I guess? Um, like— who's trying to clip through the weird fog and get out still? Anybody? I'm looking for group, or whatever you call it. We can do code names.
[Junpei is not a gamer.... don't believe this... he's just cringe and thinking about half-press-A-ing through the universe, to wit as he spins faster in his chair:]
Third, whoooo's all in for simulation theory? [as dryly as possible, womp...] Eh? Woooo yeah... simulation theory...!
[The video tilts as he lets go with one hand to hold up... a pinched-fingers hand puppet 🤌... it's still fine, he's doing great. He pitches his voice up higher for the puppet, because of course he does:]
But Junpei, how is this a simulation? Well duh, why else would this place be like a city that doesn't know what a city is supposed to be like? And all the weird loading fog? C'mon! Buuuut Juuuunpei, are we all full of tubes and stuck in goo pods like in that movie?— [Ah, ahem, cough. He puts his hand down.] Maybe.
Or uh, whatever else is in the theory pile. Half the people I was messing around with about theories went and disappeared, soooo... Well, I'm gonna get serious cabin fever if I can't figure something oUT—
[Local Man Tips The Chair Over and Totally Wipes Out, stay tuned for updates. The video ends when the phone drops face down onto the floor, bye.......]
So, city-zens, [.....ahem,] I've got some miscellaneous questions for you.
First, time travel: real? Let me know. [......,] I mean, you know— Before you got here, that is. Like how experienced are you in the realm of quantum... quantum-y goodness? I just thought that maybe it would be real for somebody else by now, but I dunno... Let me know that one instead.
[Cough. Anyway.]
Second, are we all just, uh... hanging out now, I guess? Um, like— who's trying to clip through the weird fog and get out still? Anybody? I'm looking for group, or whatever you call it. We can do code names.
[Junpei is not a gamer.... don't believe this... he's just cringe and thinking about half-press-A-ing through the universe, to wit as he spins faster in his chair:]
Third, whoooo's all in for simulation theory? [as dryly as possible, womp...] Eh? Woooo yeah... simulation theory...!
[The video tilts as he lets go with one hand to hold up... a pinched-fingers hand puppet 🤌... it's still fine, he's doing great. He pitches his voice up higher for the puppet, because of course he does:]
But Junpei, how is this a simulation? Well duh, why else would this place be like a city that doesn't know what a city is supposed to be like? And all the weird loading fog? C'mon! Buuuut Juuuunpei, are we all full of tubes and stuck in goo pods like in that movie?— [Ah, ahem, cough. He puts his hand down.] Maybe.
Or uh, whatever else is in the theory pile. Half the people I was messing around with about theories went and disappeared, soooo... Well, I'm gonna get serious cabin fever if I can't figure something oUT—
[Local Man Tips The Chair Over and Totally Wipes Out, stay tuned for updates. The video ends when the phone drops face down onto the floor, bye.......]
his pathetic wet man energies are off the charts
Ha ha.
[For her funny gag? Thanks. Now, that she's dead back home is a weird thing to abruptly learn, he's not really sure what to do with that— that sucks? He can't remember suddenly if anyone else has told him they're back from the dead, so with his only point of reference being himself, uh,]
I died in a whole load of histories, I guess, but maybe the rest of you aren't gonna get the option to pick one on the way back. [haha.......] Maybe you didn't remember this place because you died.
[......, that's not what's going on but surely don is honest #donesty]
oh king if only he had the unhinged bloodlust gene he would be ideal
( please. )
Well, it's up to you to believe me or not, but I'll say that girl has a history of not being completely honest... Just to keep people from being hurt, you know. She's good-hearted. ( it's not like she ever told don she couldn't tell sinclair about their deal. she didn't tell sinclair he couldn't say something either. they chose to deceive each other, and when one lie gets told, it gets easier and easier to do the next. ) I wouldn't hold it against her... I bet it's been hard for her to make friends, since she's a little much and more than a little hard-headed.
( how sick it makes her to say it, even though she doesn't let it into her tone-- )
She and I share that.
sadly he is only down to murder if it's super indirect
But maybe it's just the other thing! He makes a face like he might laugh and then looks... to the side, like he didn't just make a face.]
It's hard for you to make friends? Huh.
[girlie you are strange and off-putting]
You really forgot this place entirely when you were back home, though? That's... huh. I've never forgotten another history, and that's way more complex than this. [.....,] So that's another point for the simulation theory.
maybe this is why he dies so much.... just saying
What I wonder is how they're managing this... but I guess if we knew that, we wouldn't exactly be sticking around, huh? Or most of us wouldn't be! ( She's already made her stance here so—
ah. She pauses, then hums, thinking. ) Wonder if we figured out how to do that... if we could bring people here ourselves, different histories and all.
you're absolutely correct
You'd do that? Just... summon somebody here from some other history?
[Can't relate, his girl would kill him for interrupting her Grand Plan in any iteration no matter how many pathetic man looks he gives her. Sad. Anyway, this feels like a power Kromer should Not have...]
What for?
help. junpei you gotta kill or be killed
( ...well, it kind of depends on what you define as "nefarious". )
kromer's hot dating tips??
[yes he was]
I think I'd get chewed out if I brought somebody here on purpose, that's all. Different, uh, strokes.
I MEAN? NOT WRONG
...Would you grab your little girlfriend and see if this is one of those lucky times where things work out for once?
t....taking notes
You kidding? She'd give me hell for it for basically the rest of our lives. And I don't mean that in an 'aww, she's so endearing' kind of sappy way— she'd really be pissed I interfered.
gl w your love life...
looks at its pile of smoldering failure. it's going good
I'd want to know what the plan is. [there's always a plan!!] But uh, I think I'd get over it.
HFDLKJDFG STOPP junpei has a DATE for PROM NOW. okay, a platonic date, but anyway
Would she have a better idea of how to deal with all of ( she makes a vague gesture he can't see, but that he can probably infer she's making ) this?
( maybe they can trade her for junpei. just a thought. )
the best worst date
And if she has to actually Talk to Others about her Plans... ha.]
Yeah... but she wouldn't tell any of us about it until the very last second.
at least he's got one........ it's the little things.
No one'd trust someone who just comes out of nowhere with a happy little solution. Do you play spokesman for her too?
fair hit..... he shan't complain
[uncooperative weirdgirl akane may need this.]
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What a great guy she's got! Does she know that?
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that aside: ow, that's the thing he's sensitive about.]
You'd have to ask her... I mean, she did say yes to marrying me in the one history, so the outlook's good?
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( are the chances really looking That Good? )
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[stop bullying him about his quantum gf 😭]
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Hahaha!!! Oh, yes, sure, sure. ( all she can get is that there aren't enough histories where they're happy together, if he only holds onto that one. ) You know, Junpei, I saw something like that once. A future where I stood next to the only boy who ever understood me, united, together. It's nice, isn't it? Thinking of that possibility.
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[She's not wrong? There's undoubtedly a true golden history out there somewhere where everything is precisely how he'd like it to be, idealized. And the problem with it isn't even something trite like 'suffering is part of what makes us human blah blah,' no— It's that he's pretty sure his ideal history and Akane's aren't the same. That's a bummer.
But also, god, relating to Kromer. That's a slippery slope if he ever knew one. Yikes.]
Yeah. It's a nice thought. But we've got what we've got, right? So...
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audio; un: yesod
As Junpei has suggested, perhaps individual circumstances determine how much we can expect to remember.
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...whatever helps people sleep at night. kromer's smile says this exactly, even if what she actually says isn't like that at all. )
Maybe! Then I'd just be real unlucky, huh? Poor me.
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[ Which he intends to do, assuming that people don't refuse to discuss the topic. ]
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I hope people are willing to chat you up about it then. Some of our guys around here sure get cagey about personal issues.