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[otakuro]

[The screen flickers on to a boy wearing an amused grin.]

Everyone!

I've got good news!  You're forgiven!  The angel I summoned said so himself; God would definitely forgive you in a heartbeat because man's heart is weak, as is his mind, and we're all, uh, susceptible to the workings of the Evil One, and even as we wallow in our filth and sin, we -- You know what, forget God; I forgive you.

Seriously, no one could possibly blame you for what happened last week even if some of us were lucky enough to be scorpion magnets.  Misery has it right - the important thing is to make sure that it doesn't happen again.  If you all missed the announcements from the higher-ups, the people who were affected most severely were Scorpios.  ...If you don't know what that means, in modern times on Earth - that's the 2000s - they were born when the Sun was in the sector of the sky dominated by the constellation Scorpio.  This makes no sense if you were born outside Earth or in a time when we didn't go in for ridiculous things like pretending arbitrary sky-pictures meant anything about our lives, but the important thing is that the sun transitions into Scorpio beginning on October 23rd.

Guess what last week was.

The next sign is Sagittarius.  The sun will shift into its sector on November 22nd.

So let's clear a few things out of the way - Everyone who was afraid, can you report in with your sign?  Same thing if you were a scorpion magnet, though maybe that's more of a subjective thing.  And everyone who's a Sagittarius, do you mind if we tie you to your beds from November, oh, 18th-ish to the 23rd?  Your choices are (Yes/Of course/Definitely).  If your name is Jun, (That's kinda kinky) works, too.  If you don't know your sign, Sagittarius goes from late November into late December - so the end of a harvest season into winter in the Northern hemisphere, and the end of spring into summer in the South.

I'll keep track of the data.  It's kinda my thing.

Oh -- this has nothing to do with anything, but I'm working in the computer labs of the university now.  Drop by if you ever need anything fixed or if you just want to say hi.

Comments

[electricyousei]

In the park. You can see it from the train station.

It doesn't maneuver well in the city though. Maybe if it had a trained crew.

[otakuro]

You should probably hold off on that until you're sure you won't be smashing through any buildings. Since everything's blocked off beyond the city, anyway, it's not like there's much room to fly around.

[electricyousei]

That's why I just set her down in the park. There's no need to cause more chaos and damage to this place than has all ready happened.

[otakuro]

...But yeah! Hey, if it's that hard to miss, I'll take a look around sometime. I'm surprised I haven't seen it earlier.

[electricyousei]

Not a lot of people go to the park. There isn't much out here save for monsters at night.

[otakuro]

I... go out for the monsters. Pretty often, actually.

Geez, so now we've got like, three skyscraper-sized mecha and a battleship sitting around in the park. There's not gonna be any room for demons anymore.

[electricyousei]

Actually they've moved some of the mecha into the ship. Its safer for them there.

[otakuro]

...Your ship is large enough to fit a mecha?! Geez, I must've been blind.

[electricyousei]

Actually it can fit twelve. Perhaps coming here has been more on your mind than a white and blue space ship. Its not that important though.

[otakuro]

No way! Half the reason I'm here is for the blue and white spaceships. ...Uh, not yours, specifically, just the general... concept.

[electricyousei]

Well, she's open to visitors if that wasn't completely laced with sarcasm.

[otakuro]

...'She'?

Oh, your ship? Alright, then. Thanks for the invitation!

[electricyousei]

Yes. I'm not sure why, but I've always heard ships referred to as she, which is doubly odd given how Omoikane tends to have a male persona and is the ship's main computer.

[otakuro]

Omoikane?

...Hah, funny. I know who it is who's using that Persona right now. And yeah, Omoikane is a male kami from our old beliefs.

[electricyousei]

So there is a persona too with that name. Don't tell Omoikane or he'll get unbearable then.

[She lets out a small breath]

[otakuro]

It's... just a computer, isn't it? Aren't you in charge of its programming?

[electricyousei]

Omoikane is a fully sentient AI. I help maintain his code, but changing his personality would be as amoral as doing it to a person.

[otakuro]

........Uh.

Why did you program him to be unhelpful in the first place?

[electricyousei]

I didn't program him. I was raised along side him as he developed and he's plenty helpful, just sometimes he can be a pain.

[otakuro]

Huh.

...It's hard for me to try to wrap my head around it, but I guess he's your brother that happens to be inside a computer?

[electricyousei]

I was genetically engineered to maintain Omoikane's systems as he was being built. I don't really know my brothers well enough to say how accurate or inaccurate that is.