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

[componere]

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 ]]

Comments

[componere]

[ 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.

[componere]

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.

[componere]

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...

[componere]

[ joshua doesn't have a lot of time on his hands but he does set a small amount of time aside every day to viciously imagine how his dear neku-kun is doing OuO ]

No need to make a hard decision now - I'm hardly your school counselor. I'm sure you'll weigh all of your pros and cons about a half hour before registration. But... on another note, do my ears deceive me, or do you care about what others think of you?

[poweryetunknown]

[Shh no need to give away his secret decision plan. But he shrugs.]

It... makes things easier when people don't hate you.

[He's improved, okay? ... He's still a jerk sometimes but he's improved.]

[componere]

You engage. That's certainly a new one, isn't it? [ joshua might be scooting his hand over to nab a nuggie. ] I can't imagine the headache you struggle with when you jump through hoops you don't like...

[poweryetunknown]

[Aaaand the container shuts. His nuggets, buy your own. 8|]

Yeah, well. ... With everything that happened, I kind of...

[Have to? No. It's something else.]

... I've seen it's not so bad all the time.

[componere]

[ joshua pulls a face at neku. ] How mean!

Do you take it as a challenge? Don't tell me you enjoy it...!

[poweryetunknown]

I didn't say anything about that.

[Josh why you gotta be a brat.]

[componere]

It's just "not bad", mm? [ joshua pauses, then turns to go, stuffing his hands in his back pockets. ] Suit yourself... Not that that's hard, right?