capeandcowl | 001 && [ACCIDENTAL VOICE POST; JAPANESE, TRANSLATED SOMEHOW (SUBTITLED?)]

001 && [ACCIDENTAL VOICE POST; JAPANESE, TRANSLATED SOMEHOW (SUBTITLED?)]

[sudden staticky exhalation]

Wait a minute, what do you mean "hero"? You can't just go around dragging people away from where they're supposed to be and making them police your city!

[a reply, male, too muffled to make out specific words]

This just… it shouldn't be allowed! Send me back, send me back right now! And don't you look down at me like that! …yes, I know you're six feet tall and I'm not--

Huh? This thing? It's on? What's it even do, anyway? Hey! Owch! Stupid thing!

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Aah, that's good that's all it was!

Did you just arrive?

Yeah, just now. Stupid red-and-gold samurai man.

Nice to meet you, anyway.

I don't think he's a samurai. The armour's all wrong.

Nice to meet you! I'm Bakura Ryou. I only just got here around a week ago, so I'm fairly new as well.

Well, nobody's samurai anymore. They were completely outlawed a few years ago. But you're right, the armor's too... too new, you know?

A week ago? So does he just bring new people in all the time?

A few years ago? Aah, you're from that time? Early Meji was it?

Un, I think it does. Two of my friends were already here when I arrived, and another... person I know arrived almost the same day as me.

I don't know if it's "early" because I'm not sure how long Meiji era is going to last, but yesterday, it was early autumn of 1879.

Wow. Sounds like Red-and-Gold really likes you and your friends.

Aah, that's a while before my time! It was 199x before I came here.

[[gives a soft laugh]] Maybe! I'm not sure if it's really like or dislike, from what I've been hearing on the radio since I got here. The whole thing is really very strange.

Strange is a great word for it. [A hard edge creeps into her voice. She's PLANNING something.] Infuriating's another good one. We oughta do something to Tin Man.

Eh? Something like what...? [[sounds almost a bit nervous]]

Well, Chinese Taoists are pretty big on lodestones and Shinto likes 'em too. If we could get one big enough, that big metal suit'd probably stick right to it!

[[a slightly muffled laugher is heard as if he's covering it with his hand]] Aaah, that would be hilarious to see!

[[OoC: I've been giggling at that mental image for the past 5 minutes, thank you for that. :) ]

I know it would! [Tone goes cheerfully, teasingly, sly.]] So, you want to help me make it happen?

Eh? Aah.. Wouldn't we get in trouble?

Don't tell me you're scared of a little trouble! C'mon, it's the least he deserves for dragging us here!

Aah, it's not that I'm scared... [[his protest peters out]]

Do you know where we'd even get a lodestone big enough?

Well, Tank Girl was talking about using this little box as a search thing... Maybe we could try that?

If this City's so big you can find food from every country on every corner, it has to have a really big lodestone in it somewhere!

As a search thing? [[there's some odd sounds of movement before there's a beep and a small, almost startled "aah!"]]

Aah, I'm still not familiar with this! [[he gives a soft laugh that's almost embarrassed]] I'll have to look when I'm not already using it as a phone!

A... phone? [pure weasel curiosity now] What's a phone?

Aaah, it's like a two way radio, like what we're talking over! Only a phone tends to have a shape where you can hold it up to your ear and mouth at the same time.

Yeah, I don't understand that, either. What's a two-way radio?

[pause as she thinks about something]

When are you from...?

199X, not too far back from when this place is at.

199X. Right.

[clearly thinking things over]

So a "phone" and a "two-way radio" are things we come up with, after... [long pause. She's thinking: "After I die"] ...after the Meiji era is over?

I think they're around in Meji... I don't quite remember when we started having them... I'm pretty sure there were radios then too. Though I could be wrong! [[laughs softly]] History class never really covers when things like that started being used!

Maybe the West has them? I know haven't seen anything like a radio--and there was a big fuss about the electric lights on the train platforms--but I'm from Kyoto, and Kyoto's a pilgrimage town. It's supposed to be Japanese, not full of all this "Western decadence".

Un, so any Western technology would have gotten there later than anywhere else. We've improved on it a lot since then, and now the West has to catch up to us with it! [[has a bit of pride in his voice]]

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