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[mementodagger]

[He's been trying to avoid this, especially since the COMP link buried in his flesh freaks him out as much as any ghost. But now his closest friend, the only person he knows and trusts, is missing and he feels utterly helpless to do anything about it. Feeling helpless makes him rather cross.]

Hope I'm bloody doing this right.... Zael? If you can hear me, give me some sign. It's been three days, you can't be gone for good. I swear, if you've left me in this place alone....

[He takes a deep breath.] If anyone on the rescue team finds a man named Zael, have him contact me as soon as possible. [In the meantime, Yurick is going to go blow off some steam by burning something down.]

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[mementodagger]

It seems all worlds are driven by greed. My comrades only ever wanted a simple, comfortable life without struggle. Excess carries its own problems.

[Shaking his head, he follows Atsuro's gaze. He still hasn't gotten used to all the lights and strange signs on equally odd buildings. Will he ever be able to tell what's a restaurant and what's something far less innocuous?

He really doesn't want to think about that evening he wandered into a dark, loud place filled with scantily clad women and quickly blushed his way right back out....]

[otakuro]

Greed makes the world go round. ...Nowadays, we call it capitalism, though.

[Having betrayed his communist colors for the sake of a joke that Yurick wouldn't even understand, Atsuro finally settles on a decision.]

We'll go to this one place I tried a few months ago. I think it's pretty good for the price. This way. ...Maybe.

[Atsuro waves Yurick down the street.]

[mementodagger]

[Yeah, that crack went right over Yurick's head. Fortunately, hunger makes it easy to shrug things off. He follows Atsuro, trying and failing not to look like a total tourist as he takes in the sights.

Neon seems to both fascinate and alarm him.]

It's incredible how many forms light takes in this world. Those look like spell trails, frozen in time.

[otakuro]

Hm?

[Atsuro has to take a moment or two to think about what Yurick is saying there.]

Oh! Neon signs? ...Actually, I'm not sure how they work, exactly... I just know there's a tube and a sort of gas inside of it. Aha, we take a lot of stuff for granted nowadays.

I guess I could live without neon, though, to be honest.

[mementodagger]

That reminds me, I really should have you explain this "electricity" everyone keeps mentioning....

[Yurick isn't normally a chatty person by any stretch of the imagination, but Atsuro just might get grilled to the point of exhaustion tonight. The mage has a lot more questions, and guess who's the most convenient source of information?

Lucky you, Atsuro. At least you'll get to teach him about computers and video games later.]

[otakuro]

It's lightning magic.

[Atsuro knows enough about video game conventions to be able to put this into understandable terms.]

Don't worry about it. I don't even understand it myself.