IC Contact/Voicemail

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[VOICE/TEXT/VIDEO; OPEN TO ALL]

"You've reached Kiyotaka Ishimaru; I seem to have missed you! My sincerest apologies for that - but if you leave your name and state your business, firmly and concisely, I'll return your contact as soon as I can!

Until then, I look forward to speaking to you; do what you can to make your day pleasant and productive, and be sure to keep your head up!"

[Please state in the subject line if OOC planning is preferred and we can handwave like the wind, but otherwise IC will be assumed!]

Comments

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Maybe...

[...Although, uh.]

They also don't like drying out very much; that's why we're having issues with it now, the cold isn't helping with that.

Whatever the Bronzongs think they're doing with the rain isn't exactly helping us, though.

[nostabbing]

Huh. Maybe that's why they keep trying to play on the pool cover. It's full of puddles because of the snow melting.

[:|a]

Do you think they're stealing the rain back?

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...Well, if they're from another dimension that would explain why there's no information on them.

[nostabbing]

No, I mean the Bronzong. The Dex says they steal rain from other dimensions, right?

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So what if the reason why it's been really dry lately is because the Bronzongs in the other dimension have been stealing our rain, and now our Bronzongs are stealing it back?

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[...]

...That makes as much sense as anything else around here, doesn't it.

[nostabbing]

That's what I thought.

[Fuck yeah, thief logic.]

Hey, don't get hypothermia if they've been getting you all wet in the ice cave.

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...I'm trying to make sure we don't, yes.

[You know, as opposed to Naegi having to make sure he doesn't. He's...trying, anyway.]

How have the Eevees been?

[nostabbing]

They're good! They keep going down the laundry chute looking for you but I can usually find them before they get stuck downstairs for too long. Oh, and I got them to sit once. For a couple minutes.

I was thinking maybe if it stays warm and dry out I'd build them an obstacle course in the backyard or something.

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Ah, they'd probably like that, yes! And it'll give them something to do with all the energy they seem to have - well, something that isn't stampeding every time the door opens and bothering Celes-kun from time to time.

[nostabbing]

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It's not like it's a bad thing that they bother her, though, right?

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...There's a reason I haven't tried to train them out of it.

[nostabbing]

I'll try to teach them some stuff. I think they're listening to me a little better.

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Sometimes I pretend to be you and I think they like that.

[ardent]

Do they...?

Well, you'll have to show me when I get back - it shouldn't be too much longer. We want to spend some time in Blackthorn, when we get there, but then we should be returning, I think.

[nostabbing]

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You sound really good. I hope you're doing as good as you sound.

[...]

Um.

When you get back, can you maybe help me with something?

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Yes, of course - what is it?

[nostabbing]

Can you show me what people do when they want to go to high school?

[ardent]

[Well, whatever he was expecting, it wasn't that.]

...You know I'm the last person to say 'no' to something like that, but...can I ask why?

[nostabbing]

I guess I just...kind of want to see if I could've gone. Like, listening to Hardison and Eliot and everybody talk about it, it always seemed really weird and I was always kind of glad I didn't?

But I guess now I just wonder if I...could've. Or something.

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[Hmmm...]

Well, I don't know what it's like where you're from, but we have to take an entrance exam before we're accepted into high school. I could send you some of the topics sometime soon, if you'd like to study for it beforehand.

[nostabbing]

I think we do something like that, too. The only thing I really remember about having to go to school is they took me in and I had to have parents because they signed a bunch of forms while I waited. And then they made me go into a little room with carpet on the walls and I had to do a ton of tests in front of an old lady.

It's the stuff where they make you look at pictures and say what it makes you feel like, right? Do they do that for high school?

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[...Parker, what...]

...I don't think so, no - at least, I don't remember anything like that.

[nostabbing]

Huh.

[ :|a ]

Maybe it's different in America.

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Maybe! But our exams are entirely academic - English, mathematics, social studies and science, I think, would be what's on yours. We had a section on Japanese as well, but you probably wouldn't have to do that. For obvious reasons.

[nostabbing]

Yeah, the only Japanese I know is the stuff you taught me.

[Ritual suicide, good manners, gold filling in broken plates, and meat flavoring. Yup, she's all set.]

I can probably do all those, though.

[ardent]

...So you actually want an exam, then, or do you just want an example?