compnetwork | Video 01; a horrible, horrible tragedy!

[ Minato has an extremely important announcement to make. He's very upset by this turn of events because that music player - and his headphones, while we're at it - are very precious to him. Therefore, actually talking to many people at once on this device seems absolutely necessary! So he breaks his record of not broadcasting messages publically for this.

... anyone who watched the videos Yu Narukami posted the other day might recognize Minato as one of several who fell victim to teleporter accidents and wound up in the pool, though he's considerably dryer here. ]

My mp3 player got dunked in a pool the other day. I've been letting it dry since. However, it seems to be shorted out altogether.

... does anyone have any recommendations for a good place to get it fixed? Or... is there anyone here good with electronics?

I'd be very grateful for any assistance. [ pause ] For those I haven't met, my name is Minato Arisato.

ETA:
[ A short while later, he appends a picture of the mp3 player in question as well additional details as they come up. ]

It's from the early 2000s on Earth.
My sister has a working model, if one needs to be seen.

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Sorry, I just came to this city so I have no clue what's where. The handy watch gives a ton of information, have you tried looking through it? [He gives his head a scratch.]

I know of someone who's pretty good with tech-y stuff, but I'm not too sure if he's good at fixing things. Maybe he'd know? I can introduce him to you if you'd like. [But then again, Voyeur's probably going to take money with requests like this. He makes a mental note to go through his things for any useful things to give to his friend later.]

Oh, my name's Akihisa Yoshii. Nice to meet you!

[ Minato nods at the question about the watch; he has looked through it and made a note of where he should go look for a replacement or someone to repair it, but he just... thought he ought to ask here first. ]

I'd appreciate that. Thank you. And it's nice to meet you, too, Yoshii-san.

Ah -- welcome to Hinoto-ri? I hope you have been settling in all right.

No problem!

Ah, yeah. It's kind of weird being in a completely different city all of the sudden, but I've been used to living on my own. I think my only worry right now is how I'm going live on without a good source of allowance.

Maybe you could find a job you liked? You could get money that way.

I haven't exactly thought about what kind of job I want to have when I was back at home, so I don't know where I should start, haha...

But since this place looks like they're more willing to hire people without checking their grades from school, I'll give it a try!

It'd be a little problematic to ask for grades when no one's enrolled in school yet. [ He pauses, regarding Akihisa thoughtfully for a moment. ] What sorts of things do you like to do? That might help you figure out where to start.

Let's see... Well I really like spending time playing video games. [All the time, that is. To the point of bringing a bunch of games to school for them to get confiscated.] But I'm not sure if sitting behind a counter selling video games'll be any fun.

Video games are pretty fun...

Maybe you could work at an arcade? ... either way, you'd probably get an employee discount. [ This is clearly the entire reason for working in a video game store. That and being able to recommend things to people. ... but you don't see Minato working in a video game or a music store, so ... maybe he's not the person to listen to on this. ]