one. text. locked to the visitor's network. march 16, early afternoon.

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Before our great leaders or some overly sanctimonious citizens decide to deep clean for the sake of some city beautification program, let's get a little proactive! Has anyone had a chance to grab photographs of the lovely murals around the city? Please don't say you grabbed video of one on this network. We all know it has a rather biased set of viruses. (Not a knock on you, Miss *Hyun-ae; we all know you try your best.)

Since I'm sure that this skirts the line between legality and the no-no line (encouraging terrorism? Moi? Oh no, never!), let's keep this more or less sanitized. Please don't be stupid enough to upload your picture to the network. Instead, a location and a description of what you saw there will do. Discussion of the symbolism is all right, if you think you can get away with it. If you don't think you'll be safe communicating through this network at all, but you'd still like a description of your mural here for posterity's sake, please feel free to contact me through my inbox and I'll arrange something with you.

[[ ooc: inbox link now edited to something less not his ic inbox am sorry ]]

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[poweryetunknown]

[Well, someone looks happy. Neku's got a little carton of chicken nuggets that he's finishing up as Joshua shows up. He wipes his hands on a napkin as he sees the other approach.]

Hey.

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Hello, Neku. I see you've been enjoying your wait as much as I've been enjoying public transit.

[poweryetunknown]

[He's not entirely sure if that's sarcasm or not. It's hard to tell with Joshua.]

Yeah. Well. I found another one after the one I told you about... something's even weirder about this one though.

[He's not sure if it's... supposed to be threatening or what.]

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[ Joshua tilts his head in mild curiosity. ] Oh? Mind giving me a look?

[poweryetunknown]

[He pulls up a picture, tilting the screen so the other can see.]

There's the first one... the second one...

[Boop boop boop here.]

[componere]

Hmm... [ Joshua peers at the screen, carefully studying both images. ]

What do you make of it, Neku?

[poweryetunknown]

The first one reminds me of summoning with the Evokers... no idea what the TV is for though.

The second obviously has a bunch of buildings from around town, but I'm not sure if it's a warning or what. I'd say they were picked randomly, but I doubt it.

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Hmm... Evokers. The tool that tournament participants use to summon their Personas, am I right? [ No where in the database did they mention that they looked like guns... ]

Tell me about the buildings you know in the image. Please do skip any unnecessary explanations, or else I might die of boredom. [ please don't explain the 104 building oh lord lord ]

[poweryetunknown]

That's right. I've been in two tournaments - though I guess the first one was just a demo.

[Yeah no he's not dumb. Sometimes.]

Well that one is Junes. It's a big department store. I think it's from someone's world. There's also a uh... popular book series around here that deals with it though in a really terrible way. It's a trashy romance novel sort of thing, I think. People have been complaining about it on the network.

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Don't suppose you placed well, then?

Hmm... Interesting. Anything else?

[poweryetunknown]

I did fine, actually.

[... He shakes his head.]

It's kind of hard to tell from the drawings, honestly.

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Wonderful. I'm happy to hear it. [ Joshua tilts his head. ] Mind if I get a copy of both of those off of you sometime? I'm planning on starting a collection.

[poweryetunknown]

No problem. I can pull out the card on my phone and you can copy the images to your phone, and then you can give me the card back.

[No cell reception is a little annoying.]

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Unless I didn't, of course, just to force a reason for us to meet again. Wouldn't that be cliché?

[poweryetunknown]

[Eyeroll for you. He'd throw a chicken nugget but you're not worth wasting the delicious.]

Knowing you, you'll pop up when I least expect it anyway, just because.

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[ Joshua puts a hand to his mouth and titters. ] Aw... Didn't think I'd be that predictable!

Regardless of your feelings on the matter... May I? [ he gestures towards neku's cell phone. cough up, yo ]

[poweryetunknown]

[At least it's not his chicken nuggets. He hands it over.]

[... Nom nom chicken nuggets.]

[componere]

[ boop! and here's your phone back safe and sound. ]

How are those tasting, by the way?

[poweryetunknown]

[Hooray, phone.]

They don't taste the same as the ones at home, but they're still pretty good.

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Hmm... You'd think chicken would taste the same in all versions of Japan. [ joshua's just checking his phone, making sure all of the image files loaded correctly. ] Considering the locale, though, perhaps they're made of something more exotic.

[poweryetunknown]

[He doesn't even want to think about that.]

Or maybe they just don't use the same recipe.

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Equally possible! I suppose we'll never know if that's chicken or cockatrice. Trade secrets and all that nonsense, you know? [ Joshua folds his phone shut, putting it back in his pocket. ] Now... anything else I should know before I bow out?

[poweryetunknown]

Not that I've found so far. I'll let you know if I find something else.

[He will continue assuming it is chicken okay? Let him have his fantasy.]

[componere]

I appreciate it.

Now... have you made a decision about school, yet? The next trimester is coming up, isn't it?

[poweryetunknown]

[... Neku stops, and stares at Joshua. What. Why would he even - how would he even - ... also did he read his mind he's been thinking about it a lot dammit Joshua.]

I... don't know. I'm not sure if there's somewhere that I could go to that wouldn't cost a lot. Or if it'd be good if it didn't. I dunno how they feel about Visitors in their school either... and I'd probably have to take a bunch of placement tests for it, too...