First Essay [Video]

[pardonmylanguage]

[An extremely annoyed girl is looking at the camera.]

Okay, what am I doing here, and where did this thing come from? Did I get abducted by aliens this time?

[A meowing noise comes from off-screen, and she bends down, picking up a cat in her other arm.]

Don't wander off, Pig.

[Video]

[unknownrival]

Is there really any way to run a temple or something like one from an apartment?

I'd need to make sure of that before I rent one, of course. Although I'm turning eighteen on Saturday and legally could manage it, and with my jobs I can afford to rent one, if it's impossible to do anything significant with it I might as well just stay in the hotel.

How is everyone else holding up after all of that?

[Please don't ask about him and that event.]

001 [Video]

[lostherstrings]

[The video option on the phone seems to have been activated while someone was examining their phone, leading to a rather unsettling view that keeps moving without focusing on anything. A soft, somewhat sing-song female voice can be heard from off the screen.]

What a curious piece of machinery.

[The view finally settles on the woman's face as she finishes her examination. From what can be seen in the background, she appears to be sitting on a bench in the shopping district, and is far calmer than most new arrivals tend to be. Her clothes seem decidedly odd, though.]

Prospero, is it? Though I came here through a fire and not a tempest. A character who's place in the story had ended, a player who's role had come to an end, I had thought to be put aside to be used no longer. Yet here I find myself in another story. But then, a story's start is a happy accident, the end the fate for which it's meant. I wonder what sort of story this will become?

[She lifts the hand that's not holding the phone up to show it to the camera. The back is scratched up a bit, though not bleeding seriously.] I haven't experienced pain before now. It's sharp and jagged, just like the jewel that represents it. What must I do to make this feeling go away? I don't like it.

[Accidental Video]

[doudemoe]

[The scene opens with the dark boy tapping away on his laptop. During the process, he seems to be talking to himself.]

 

Okay...finished. Let's take a break.

 

[A couple more clicks, and video game-like music can be heard.]

 

It's tough. Next week is a full moon. Only a few days after the 5th.

 

...I wonder. Does that make me 17 now? Let's see...April. Arrived here in December so that means it'd be...November? The exact date...hmmmm.

[He ponders a bit, before shaking his head and shrugs.]

 

Oh well. Better not to think it too hard.

 

 

[action]

 

[Later that evening, Minato can be found at the arcade center, completing a DDR run. Come and bug join him?]