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There's been so much call to go and do something about the current situation and no one's followed through. I'm done questing. There's no need to point me at that. I spent my time playing games which are boring as hell here, wasted my time in a lot of ways. I'm getting antsy. All talk no action and it's pissing me off.

[He's bored and angry and both of those things are more than enough to be a dangerous combination for him. He knows it and kept up, so will a great many other people.]

Until someone with a set enables PVP in all areas for this guild war, because we know that things are just going to get messy anyway, I'll see what gets nibbled on here. Lost something to someone else? I'll go get it for you as long as you don't ask questions on how I got it back. Someone piss you off? Tell me the story and we'll see if I care enough to handle it for you if you can't. I'm just tired of sitting back doing nothing. No I'm not interested in fighting you, fighting randos in the lobby isn't what I want or I'd have said it. Frankly it's beneath my giveadamn level.

Alternately, a conversation that isn't boring as hell might be all this place is capable of. I'll take that too.

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Well, if you're so bored...

I dropped a coin in the bay the other day. I think a fish ate it.

Go find it.

Also, what's PVP?

Or jokes that'd normally tick me off, sure. I'll accept those in the mood I'm in too.

PVP. Player versus player. Person versus person if it's easier.

Sorry, couldn't resist. But you wouldn't believe how many people will put up a request for something like that and be completely serious about it...

I feel like I'm missing the nuance here, but I should hope it's not us fighting each other. Not in the sense they're talking, anyway.

With how stupid people can be? I believe you. I'm antsy enough to be one of those stupid people and grab a fishing pole.

It's us fighting each other and fighting the other cities, or their subjects and breaking off into factions to do whatever it was they voted for. It's already begun happening, wanting to usurp this slow burn of a visual novel unfolding at a snail's pace. When a land has a leader, they should lead.

Visual novel...? Forgive me, my world is apparently not as technologically advanced as many others seem to be.

[A novel, but visual? It sounds rather self-explanatory, at least.]

I said the same thing to someone else, that this doesn't seem like a good leader's choice of action. It makes him look wishy-washy. Or that he's posturing to see what we think, so he can go with the popular choice in case his isn't received well. And it's easy to think he would have preferred to go with the war option just to get it all over with quickly, so to speak.

I thought you were done questing.

Have you tried reading a book?

I can talk a long time about many things, including literary correspondences I've carried on for years, but if you have no idea what interests you, how the hell should I?

I've done what I feel I want to do for a moron that can't lead their land and the useless abroad.

...I have not tried reading a book.
Reading a book seems stagnant at face value. I'm not a reading type of guy, most of the books I read were a waste of time. Except comic books, those are fun. If you're as versed in books as you claim to be, I'm interested.

[Shigaraki's tried a pun. Shh.]

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[PUNS YOU SAY --]
[Now Shiguraki's done it. He's getting a haiku.]

Libraries are free
Full of new worlds to explore,
Discover yourself.

I really liked Treasure Island. There's a lot of movies about it, but I didn't know which to try, so I figured the book would be best to start with.

What did you do in your world, besides video games? I assume you're not interested in Go or cards either.

[Once in a while he lets his hair down. Just once in a while. He's not uneducated and seeing those lines flowing as they were, he recognizes it instantly. Alright well he'll take it. He's never seen someone do that before.]

So you've got a literary forté and you're a poet. I read a comic book based on Treasure Island once. I don't think it shared much aside pointers to the original story from what little I know about it. What'd you like about the book?

Hmmm. I was leader of a group of supervillains with commonality in tearing down societal norms in any way we found necessary, of course. Cards, though, aren't something I can do. I can't hold them properly fanned out.

[Is he joking? No. Is he going to hide it? Not really.]

Tell me about comic books?

Adventure! The pirates. Treasure. I like all of it.

Societal norms suck! [Listen... Nobunaga is just sort of like "Oh cool, same." Without the superpowers part. But probably more genocide??? Also everyone teaching him asinine modern slang should be ashamed of themselves.] Do you have hooks for hands?

...You don't know what a comic book is? Or you just want to hear more about them?

This place must thrill you with its adventure times. Do you quest a lot?

[Shigaraki should never be allowed to teach anyone anything. Ever. He looks down at the prosthetic finger son one hand and finds it amusing.]

They do. They get worse the less they're kept in check, but... Prosthetics for a couple fingers, does that count?

I genuinely don't know. I'm from 1582. It also means I get less bored here with so much to catch up on, but I still understand, I used to be extremely bored in my own time.

Every chance I get.

You could try Go instead. Or I might be able to rig something if you really wanted to try.

...I shouldn't have been surprised as I was to see how far in the past this place could reach to.
They're graphic novels. Sequential pictures in order drawn to tell a story instead of be educational on the side of book to represent one part of the words. If you had comic books worth their time you wouldn't be bored.

[That's a same hat. Interesting.]

I'd have to find players who don't suck but Go sounds moderately better. Ngl. Rigging something is a weird way to put it. Rig what?

I know someone whose parent is a comic manga-ka, but it hadn't occurred to me to read any yet. Are there any, in particular, you'd recommend here?

I haven't been defeated at Go for a few decades, if you're willing to give it your all.

Or I could rig a device to help you spread your cards. I'm awful at cards, so if you care more about winning than playing, then you might want to stick to that. Mitsuhide, my vassal, completely defeats me at every card game we've tried, and also Monopoly, but if you wanted, such a device would be easy enough to design I wouldn't even need Mitsuhide's genius. He designed my gun, but that's more to do with his mastery of explosives and sharpshooting. Are both hands prosthetic, or just one?

I haven't read anything here I think's any good. If I do I'll send the name your way. Why'd you never read it if you know someone in the business? Even through their parents.

I never back down from a challenge. Decades? This is the part where you tell me you're an all powerful Vampire. I'm on air for your origin story. Unless you recognize the word "quirk".

Hang on, hang on. You mean you can service prosthetics? It isn't my whole hand it's just part of my hand.

They didn't exist 500 years ago. I'm from 1582, and only met Miwako here.

What is a vampire?

[His origin story is REALLY REALLY stupid, are you sure you want to know? Well, actually Shiguraki probably knows the history book version, unless he literally skipped all classes and never watched tv, but still. Once he hears Nobunaga's version, he'll probably be a lot more disappointed, but possibly more amused?]

Don't misunderstand, I'm still trying to understand the mechanics of computers, but I can certainly devise something to act as a fan for cards. If I get really FANcy, you could probably show off with it and make others jealous. I'd have to see in person how much strength and mobility you have with them, but if you can handle videogames, I can definitely make something that works for cards.

You had comic books back then. They were just in different formats, shittier formats. Pictures are worth a thousand words, ask your friend for a few titles too. I recommend straying from superhero bullshit, it's all idol worship and idle worship if you ask me. You didn't that's my opinion given for free. Did you have a man named Leonardo da Vinci?

Thank god. I thought this origin story was going to be lame.

[If he's honest he's joking about the origin story, but now he's gone and invested himself in giving a damn. Yes indeedy it's time to be more amused and disappointed than normal.]

I see your pun. I'm upset by it because I actually found it funny, not because of the pun itself. Games I could handle I used to have a hard time with things I had to touch a whole hand to. I don't need anything too FANcy, just the tension adjusted on the fingers potentially.

Wood carvings and scroll paintings depicting religious myths is nowhere near the same. Though I guess the pornography and iconography stays the same. Avoid superheroes, got it.

I'm not especially familiar with Italians. I wasn't able to freely travel to Europe on a whim, so they would have to visit me in my lands, and I've been working for years to convince them that there is even valuable reason to do so. Alessandro Valignano is the only Italian I can think of that I met with personally. He's a missionary. I knew Amerigo Vespucci circumnavigated the New World from the merchants and missionaries, but most Europeans ignore Japan entirely. Mostly we had Portuguese visitors, and Luis Frois is someone I had a years long correspondence with, but he's Portuguese. So even if Leonardo DaVinci was from my time period, I don't recognize the name, sorry.

:) I can adjust the fingers probably. And if I can't, I can still make something separate you can hold and easily manipulate. It would be good as a concealed weapon too.

[Just casually offers to make a dagger fan for a stranger. AS YOU DO?!]

[Oh, she knows who this is. How could Ochako not, when Shigaraki himself contact her privately that one time? It's weird to see him addressing the populace like this, and she furrows her brow at him getting bored and antsy...that's never good when it comes to any villain. She knows Shigaraki wouldn't do anything rash - he's not fucking stupid; quite the contrary, in fact...which is why he's so dangerous - but it still makes her very uncomfortable to know he's getting bored.

She can't exactly help, but maybe she can at least talk him down from his bad mood. ...probably not, but it's worth a shot. He want's a decent conversation, right?]

If you're interested in space, I know a few cool things that were slated to happen in the year back home...
I marked each event on my calendar, then memorized them. [Because she's a NERD.]

[He did do that, and provided on his end where he promised he would to pay his debt to the big dog. Hearing from one of the hero side isn't what he thought his day would include, but here she is. Alright, interesting. He'll bite.]

Alright, let's hear it then. Read it in this case.

[Honestly, even Ochako is surprised with herself responding to this - she partially didn't want to...thinking it best to just continue ignoring Shigaraki's presence in this world until there came a time to address it or fight. He hadn't done anything since he arrived, and judging by this post, it was driving him wild...which is never a good thing for a villain like him. If she can at least give him something of a distraction, or even something to amuse him for just a bit, then maybe she can steer him away from getting into trouble.

Besides, if it gives Ochako a chance to talk about one of her lesser known hobbies? All the better. Switching to voice, she clears her throat a little bit, still sort of nervous, considering who it is she's talking to.]

Well, I'll start with the most recent then. There was a scheduled shuttle launch taking place on the American east coast today and NASA was going to be showing a live broadcast of it online at, um...9am the following day Tokyo time!! It's rare for there to be a shuttle or rocket launch, they so often get scrubbed because of bad weather and other things, so I've been looking forward to it ever since it was announced in various space circles I'm in!!

...Which kind of stinks, because now I'm missing it anyway. [Ochako sighs, heavily, her previous energy sort of deflating.] I guess the next thing is there's going to be another Supermoon toward the end of this month on the 25th!! I don't know if any of these cosmic events translate to this world, but it'd be really nice to see a supermoon again...they're really cool. And judging by how this island doesn't seem to have nearly as much light pollution as the cities back home, it'd be really easy to view.

Oh and after that, exactly a day after, there's slated to be a full lunar eclipse!! [There's a soft pap sound, followed by a lot of shuffling. Ochako is bouncing up and down with her hands on her cheeks back home. Seems she's come out of her shell and gone into Nerd Mode™.] It's taking place mostly on the Pacific seacoast where it's most easily viewable, but mmmhh!! I love Lunar eclipses! They're so cool and creepy and amazing, especially when you get a full lunar eclipse because the moon is big and round and RED like in a murder mystery novel or telenovela, or something. It's so cooool!!

Blood! Blood for the blood moon!! Muahahhaha!

[The nervousness is clear when she starts off, clearing her throat and all. The more she speaks the more he's listening and not just because he has no choice. He can shut it off if he wants to, but her enthusiasm for this is palpable. It seems unstoppable too but he's more interested in just seeing how much she has to say before she--

Blood for the blood moon? He'll remember that the next homicidal crusade he runs comes around. Maybe she'll recognize it while he massacres the masses.

Christ if that wasn't a god dam trip to sit through. ~~And mun loved it~~.]

...So you like space. Have you tried mapping the stars here and seeing the difference from Earth?

[Shigaraki, no. If that happens, Ochako will pray for every goddamn avian in Camelot to take a shit on you when you go outside. Any time, anywhere, you will not be safe from being shat upon by some sort of bird. She could probably make it happen, too, if she paid some sassy witch or, dark mage, or something to curse him.

But, as it stands, none of this has happened, and Ochako actually...temporarily forgot who it was she was talking to. She just kind of went off, huh? Oops. Astonishingly, he was still listening, though? Most people sort of just...stop after a while, when she vomits space geekery. Better than what she usually vomits, in her opinion, but details.]

Mm, I hadn't thought of that, but...it sounds like a really fun thing to do! You think there's some sort of observatory or something around here? It'd make sense to have one... [Considering how many fantasy races are so intrinsically tied with the stars and positions of the sun, moon, and planets.]

[A hilarious but bad idea. Either way, she's not his mom, he can do what he wants, there's no stopping him. Except when there's stopping him.

Like the stopping him in his tracks when he was listening to her talk about space for so long and actually didn't mind hearing it. This place makes for a different experience at least. Some of them are tolerable but he'd still turn their head around backward if they tried to come after him even if it was his fault.]

There has to be and if there isn't, there's enough Alchemists and craftsmen that something can be done. If you're serious about it, then I'll look in to it. I don't care what our worlds look like back home, I want to go. If this means a way back, I'll work with you not against you for now.

[...There is. SO MUCH. To unpack in that tiny span of time.

Ochako pauses, blinks, and then looks like she's been slapped across the face by it all and is so, so happy she's not on video, because surely he'd either laugh at her expression, or make some sort of snide comment about it. Firstly, he's helping her with recommendations to actually chart and map the stars and planets, getting someone to maybe make her a telescope if an actual observatory isn't available...then Shigaraki is talking about actually wanting to go back home and working with her--them?? To get back???

Give her a minute to just. Process all of that.]

You--...haaaah? Wait, I...hold on. [Deep breath.] I think I'm going to need you to explain, Shigaraki-san. You actually want to work together? Why? I don't get it - your reasoning, I mean.

[ Bean, once again using a new username every time he logs onto the Nets so that no one can track him. ]

If you can find out a way for us to change our "familiars," then I will pay you actual money.

If I can find out, you'll be the second to know. What'd you get stuck with?

Big ugly thing that I am personally responsible for killing a lot of.

[ Vague. Vague is good. Vague is hard to trace. ]

It's like the "powers that be" want to give me some kind of guilt complex.

Called what? I'm not a toddler I can make connections between a species and familiars.

They probably do. This place is a god damn joke.

So, here's a question. What's got you so itching to start a war? Are you trying to get it over with? Boredom? What's got your dander up so badly?

you're really big on video games, huh? i'm not really the type myself, never could see the appeal.
which one's your favorite? maybe if i hear about this kinda junk from someone who's into it, i might see what's so great.

[It's a good thing she has no idea who this is, because honestly? Jiro would hate to miss a chance to get someone rambling about their hobbies.
And it feels like it could be a good distraction from that destructive energy he's got pent up... if he feels up to chatting, anyway.]

[At least there's people who aren't insufferable to the point of insanity that know gaming well enough.]

I'm good at video games, I don't think there's one I haven't beaten to completion yet.

[Well, before he had to pull up his non-socks and be a big supervillain. Even less in the recent year. As in not at all.]

You want me to explain to you why video games are exciting? Not only are they things you have to work at, they're things you can dominate in. Be strategic, be cunning, be smart, be a god. I'm a DPS main. Do you know enough about games to know DPS style of play?

[Oh boy, she expected video game questions... but honestly, the most she plays are rhythm games.
Maybe some party games and a couple of old platformers.

She has to think for a second.]

that's one of the damage dealing types, right? in mmos and stuff?

[Yeah, that's... that's all she's got. Any other guesses would feel embarrassing to make, so she ain't making'em.]

Damage. Yeah. "Damage Per Second". The higher output the damage the more you can do.

Curiosity kills more than cats, so, which would you be? Healer, Tank, or would you try DPS?

well i guess that depends
are those the only options? i can say for sure that tank's out. that's the one that's usually some big buff dude, i think

[There's just a short moment here, as she pauses to think.]

i guess dps would be closer to my speed. that would mean stuff like lots of little, high-power attacks, right?
at least if i'm reading into the "per second" part correctly

Normally those are the options but you can have mixed ones like a battle priest and be a healer with less healing output I guess. It's fine if you have competent DPS and a tank that knows when to pull back from gathering aggro. You just have to know your team and their limitations if you're going to spread it out like that. Sometimes DPS can be tanks in short bursts, too. Just depends on your play style.

Side note: lithe women can be tanks just as easily.

Yeah, and AOE- area of effect. So we have two dps, three potentially. All we need is tank and healer.

"area of effect"?

[Another pause. Bear with her, Shigaraki, she's gotta translate this in her brain somehow.
Something that affects a specific area, that's gotta be...]

status moves? or no, wait
if it's from someone who focuses on damage, then that's what an area of effect would do
kinda like the subwoofer versus the speaker. something that gets the whole place shaking, not just whatever's in front of it.

[Surprise! The only way she can translate this correctly is through sound tech and music hardware. She'll take her "biggest nerd of the year" award now, thanks.]

what do you mean about having dps though? if you're asking if i'll play with you, you'd gotta be okay with me sucking ass for a while

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RL is murder rn.

HOPE IT GETS GOOD SOON!

Me too! Thank you for understanding. ♥

♥!

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