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[Well, being almost!human sucked. Joshua, unfortunately, after a day of exploring the city ~~and discovering many fun shops!~~ is currently rediscovering what it means to be tired. What can he say. The battery life of an average human being is pathetic at best. 12 hours? 16? 18? Awful. The sun's going down, and the stars are out. He's currently walking to the apartment he's been allotted, but physical exercise is boring. Very boring. So! A transmission as he walks, mainly to kill some time.]

Howdy.

So~ While the little welcome get-together was indeed quite charming, I have a small question. I want to help with this little war that's going on. The faster it's over, the sooner I get back to doing what's important to me. If I can be some help in that it's better for everyone, right? Anyway, What's the best way to do that? Is it a case of simply walking to the Shibusen, banging on the door and signing some liability waivers or...?

[He's inside the apartment complex now, fiddling with a set of keys as soon as he clears the first hallway. A swing of a door later and...]

By the way. If anyone in charge is watching, kudos for the room.

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And normal people have to work very, very hard for that.

Edited 2013-03-19 01:38 (UTC)

[[Yet another hesitation.]]

Everyone here works hard too...

[[but he's already second guessing things now, and the doubt is likely very evident in his voice.]]

[Joshua is like a shark. They smell fear, he smells secondguessing. And fear.]

Oh yes. It's very difficult of us to go about menial tasks and take all the work there is available here and live in housing they no doubt subsidize.

[[Fear is the wrong word in this case. Doubt. Worry. Uncertainty. But not fear.

..not for this chat, at any rate]]

That isn't it at all... When the witches attack, we're the ones who defend the city... and the ones who go out to try and stop things from getting worse.

Lucky them.

[[Blink. Blink blink]]

...Who?

The citizenry, of course. Though by what you said earlier, they don't quite share the same sentiment toward their shining heroes.

I don't think anyone who's involved in a war is lucky...

[[The sarcasm is starting to get him a little. But he's doing his best to not show that. He might be failing at that, though. ~~like with everything else that afternoon~~]]

Exactly.

[And unpredictably, his tone turns less predatory!]

Anyway, what do I know. I've only been here a few hours. What do you think the reason for the riots are?

[[a bit of a pause. He has put a lot of thought into this topic]]

I think something's taking advantage of people's frustrations... Even before, if they were upset, it was never like this... and it happened so suddenly... and not long after we stopped an invasion too... Things should have gotten better then, with the emitters gone.

[And that is way more believable than the citizenry suddenly for no special reason at all losing it in a conflict that's apparently gone on forever anyway. Of course, the fauxpolitics were suggestion, an outgrowth of his desire to not be looked at as more than a random jerk.

This guy's theory has way more merit than that already, especially since Joshua knows that such things exist in the form of Orange Noise in Shibuya... oh, he's listening.]

...I don't suppose there's any way to confirm this?

Not unless we find what's causing it.... either a sort of Madness where only the people rioting are being exposed to it or something else...

[[Like the Morality Manipulator... but that was less and less likely the more he thought on it. Which was a good thing. Too many of his friends had gotten hurt because of that last time...]]

Likely something else since people exposed to Madness aren't this organized...

...Hm.

[Yes. This person is worth the time to get to know.]

What's your name?

I have something which could have picked up energy spikes around the city. Though now it's pretty useless. Someone uninstalled the program on it when I arrived. It would have likely been quite handy in this situation. Tell me, do you know of anyone off hand that could reactivate it? And I mean someone competent. I'm not about to hand it over to a psychopath with a hammer and chisel.

Aa-- Bakura Ryou, sorry for not introducing myself earlier!

And there are a few people who are really good with that sort of thing here... if you asked on the network, I'm sure someone would look into it. It'd likely need to be adjusted, since I think a lot of things between worlds are different enough that it wouldn't quite be the same.

Kiryu Yoshiya, though my parents call me Joshua. You can too, if you want.

[He's quite unsure if the phone would need to be adjusted, since Hanekoma was pretty clued up about the fact he'd be using it in different dimensions. But one can never know...]

...Hm. If something can be arranged, I'm sure we can take a look together. It's your theory. I wouldn't dream of letting you miss out on the fieldwork.

[[there's a touch of a rueful smile that can't be seen, but is likely heard in his voice]] It's a theory a bunch of people have been working on, I think. Since a lot of us are working together on this. But I'd like to see that, if we could get it to work. It'd be really useful!

Mhm. I'll see what I can arrange.

Just so you know, the device goes nowhere without me. There's sensitive things on there I don't want to hand to strangers. If that's a problem, I'm afraid your people will have to come up with something else, I'm not going to budge on it.

That shouldn't be a problem. If it's something from your world anyway, it'd make sense to have you there in case there are any questions, right?

That too. I'll let you know if it's settings can be restored. If it can be used, it'll likely pick up all sorts of signals just from everything that's going on here. Most things it does detect won't be what you're looking for, but it's not like we have any option but to narrow down the list ourselves.

[[and he's getting more relaxed and upbeat as the chat goes on. Something else he can work on and help out with!]]

And finding out any thing else that's around that might even be similar should be really helpful! Even just to know what else is out there.

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