.:A September Intermission:.

[filialdeception]

Who: Meng Yao, Senku Ishigami, Shin Tsukimi & Sara Chidouin
What: Looking into USB business.
Where: Workshop
When: Beginning of September. 9/6 as a tentative IC date.
Warnings: N/A, probably?

So due to events of the previous month, some time to look into the matter had ended up post-poned. But Meng Yao's determined to go and get this over with. He pulls Senku aside and asks him to clear some time for the workshop so that they can look into this with one another. He also does end up bringing some snacks and drinks just in case it might take awhile, though he's not anticipating this to be quite an ordeal, necessarily.

((OOC: This can be considered kind of freeform, so jumping around is A-OK. ))

Comments

[notsosou]

[Passwords... his one nemesis. Well, one of his nemesi. Thanks to Meng Yao's clear unfamiliarity with technology, he's assuming that 'a spirit inside it' is just how he's interpreting that, rather than what's actually happening. It makes sense to protect the really vital stuff... catch him running his head into that wall repeatedly later.

He clears his throat, watching his own movement on the webcam feed.]

Hey, can you hear us, Student-san?

[Testing, testing. Nothing they did should have screwed anything up, but it always pays to check.]

[adsum]

[ At least there's only 300 students— or actually, thousands more depending on when student-san was a student here... Anyways, their efforts are rewarded by bright red text popping up on the screen, much more rapidly than it had before. ]

Yes
Hello
Senku?
Sara?

[ please, half you guys didn't even introduce yourselves ]

[kingofscience]

Alright! Now we're making progress.

[ Senku smiles to the group before turning back to the webcam. ]

Yeah, we're here. I'm Senku.

[filialdeception]

[ ...Meng Yao pauses for a really long moment, but he supposes...maybe he should give out his name. Though it has taken him longer than it normally would've, he is a part of all this. ]

Yes, we are.

I'm Meng Yao; it's a pleasure to speak with you. Probably more properly, and much more easily now, I assume? What with you seeming to have less difficulty in communicating with us than before.

[adsum]

Hello
Noise and Mud
Is HE here?

[notsosou]

[Since everyone else has introduced themselves...]

...and I'm Sou.

[Things do seem to be performing a bit better, with the speed and longer sentences, even if it's 'noise and mud'. It's a good sign, at least.]

...He?

[That emphasis...]

[filialdeception]

...Excuse me? Noise and Mud?

[ ... Anyway! ]

But yes, please do explain. Who is "He", exactly?

[adsum]

[ Noise and Mud... in response to Senku's comment on it being less difficult to communicate, although their ability to communicate still seems very narrow, with entire thoughts condensed into a single word in hopes that the other party will understand. ]

He
who Broke
who Bound
who Saved
where is He?

[filialdeception]

[ Interesting... ]

Perhaps we can help answer if we know a little more information.

First of all...what does He look like?

[adsum]

Black
Covered face
Covered head
Senpai
Is HE alive?

[notsosou]

[Broke, bound and saved... did this mysterious he make this person?]

It's just us here, sorry... Might help if we had a name to go off.

[But given the coverings... someone who wanted to be anonymous, it seems. They probably didn't give one. 'Senpai' does give a hint, though. His tone tips conversational.]

You're a first year, then, Student-san? Second year?

[filialdeception]

[ Could it be that this person may have some relation to Kazuki's binding? ]

...He who bound? Did he participate in a binding ritual, then?

[ ... ]

As to where he is, or if he is alive, I'm not sure just yet.

[ Maybe Shin is correct in that a name would also be helpful, so he'll wait on that as well. ]

[adsum]

First year
two months
Senpai promised to help

[ ...They don't offer a name. Perhaps they don't know it, if they were a first year student who'd only been around for two months before getting digitalized. ]

[kingofscience]

I can't say I know anyone at present who has done something like this before. Was there a reason you were bound like this?

[ If they can't give a name, maybe the circumstances of their binding might come easier. ]

[adsum]

To die
But not move on
To keep being me

[ To not be reincarnated after death, to keep a part of their essence bound to something in hopes that when they die— an inevitability in a place like this— the soul will not leave to bring about new life, but to return to their original one and give them a second chance.

Turns out, it's not so simple. ]

[filialdeception]

[ ... ]

...But this isn't ideal for you, correct?

[ Meng Yao can't imagine wanting to live in an object like this forever, but he's certain that the other person felt desperate and that they thought this was their only answer. ]

[adsum]

No

[ as if that needed asking ]

I want
to come back
to go to school
to see my friends
to see Him

[filialdeception]

[ Well he supposes he understands that. ]

I suppose in that case the only other way to fix your situation is ensure you're unbound...though the next problem would be finding your body, wouldn't it?

[notsosou]

It's been a long time...

[It took them a while to get around to this... rip. Who knows if there's one out there, either originally or at this point.]

Maybe... well, how about a substitute for now? Something that can move would be better, right?

[Shin's a software guy, not a hardware guy except for where one requires the other. They also don't have a lot of scrap to work with. But between him, Senku and... maybe Add... they could probably get something better than being stuck in a laptop, if not completely-lifelike-human-doll level advanced.]

[adsum]

[ Yeah, body's long gone, supposedly, since the school doesn't exactly keep a warehouse full of spare bodies anywhere on campus. That they know of. ]

And see
And hear
and touch

[ Those are the only request they have, even if it's just binary and pixels in the end, it's still loads better than their current situation ]

[notsosou]

[Shame the home ec. meat is all in pieces.

There's something a little amusing and a little sad about the speed with which the list appears.]

Ahaha... we'll see what we can do. Touch might be tricky, though...

[It'll be novel, having a client who's also the one being worked on. And isn't paying them, but the idea of extracting payment for this just... doesn't feel good.]

Guess I should welcome you to the Robotics and Programming club, huh, Student-san?

[filialdeception]

It sounds like it's doable, or at least for most of those things.

I'll do my best to assist as well, though of course it's not going to be with the robotics or technology side of things.

[ Just being there to ensure the spirit moving from one object to another would end up without a hitch. ]

That said, now that we have a plan...well, before we go ahead and enact it, is there anything else you would like to tell us about this school? Or rather, if there is anyone or anything you were wary about during your time here before you were bound to this piece of technology...?

[adsum]

[ ... ]

Counselor
Shopkeeper
Auditorium
Laboratory
3-B
Tree

[notsosou]

[It's like a little drop down menu of options... Cue things that are getting transferred onto Shin's own 'to be wary of' list, although several of them are there already which is strangely affirming. Some of them... well, he has to pick one, and the void's been on his mind lately after chatting with Rantaro within and about it. It's strange because, the only reason he can think to be wary of it...]

The Auditorium... you don't happen to be a transfer student, Student-san?

[adsum]

2nd year
Middle school