002 [Video/Public]

[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

[echo_of_a_jedi]

I wish I could be more help, but I don't even remember what planet I was born on, or when my birthday is on Galactic Standard time. We all just had one big yearly ceremony at the Academy.

[otakuro]

...I-Isn't that kind of thing pretty important? I mean, I know what district of Japan I was born in, let alone the planet.

[echo_of_a_jedi]

I was adopted by the Jedi Order at a very young age. Not quite infancy, but young enough everything before the Academy is a blur.

[otakuro]

[Jedi?!! ...No wait that name means nothing to him though it does sound suspiciously like the Red-eye Order that used the Mass-Acceleration Factor to manipulate their surroundings though.]

Oh... I see, sorry.

...I guess it's hard to know for sure when there's so many more possibilities. When was your yearly ceremony, then?

[echo_of_a_jedi]

[Atlus's interpretation of copyright: the ultimate defense against canon-puncture.]

The date wouldn't mean anything, but it was mid-summer on our hemisphere of Dantooine.

[otakuro]

Alright, mid-summer. That's... Hm, let's go Gemini, Cancer, or Leo.

This might not be too hard to work out - Were you affected at all by the attack last week?

[echo_of_a_jedi]

I was one of the ones experiencing...unnatural anxiety, yes.

[otakuro]

Leo.

[His response comes quickly.]

Wow, you guys are pretty popular. There must be something about the lion that makes it a good month to be born in.

Cancers were special targets for the scorpions, and as far as I know, nothing happened to the Gemini.

[echo_of_a_jedi]

Leo is to lion as Scorpio is to scorpion, I assume?

...suddenly I'm glad this happened this month, and not in summer.

[otakuro]

As Capricorn is to sea-goat. ...I don't even know what a sea-goat is.

[Atsuro shrugs slightly.]

Yeah, we might even have saved the city from whatever was threatening it by then. But in the meantime... there's Sagittarius and Capricorn coming up soon.

[echo_of_a_jedi]

Well, I guess for Capricorn we can all just stay inland?

[otakuro]

Hey, for every zodiac sign, we could just rent a blimp and stay up in the air for a few days. I don't think there are any bird signs.

[echo_of_a_jedi]

There is that starship in the park district...

[otakuro]

Yeah, that girl's battleship...!

Then we'll just leave all the affected signs in the city and take a week long vacation whenever it comes up.

All in favor, say aye!

[echo_of_a_jedi]

As large as it is, I don't think we're actually going to be able to fit 11/12 or however much of the city on there. There's people here besides us guests, you know.

[otakuro]

Ohh. Right.

...They never really seem to take an interest in what goes on with us. I still feel a little like we're intruding.

[echo_of_a_jedi]

It's the same any place that has a sudden influx of people from "elsewhere", isn't it? Even if they don't particularly like us, those of us who can protect them still should.

[otakuro]

Oh, right. I'm not saying we shouldn't protect them, I just... forget they're caught up in all of this too, sometimes.

[echo_of_a_jedi]

It's an easy thing to forget, but please don't. As far as we know, this is all that's left of this world.

[otakuro]

Aha... Yeah, you're right. Sorry about that.

[...]

Anyway... I'll do what I can to think of a real plan soon.

[echo_of_a_jedi]

If you think of anything else I can do to help, let me know.

[otakuro]

Sure! And let me know if there's anything you think I ought to know, too.