I can move mountains, I can work a miracle [OPEN]

[rassera]

WHO: The residents of Nonah 05 + YOU!
WHERE: Nonah, Residence #005
WHEN: All month long (January)
WHAT: Nonah 05 open log for January Shenanigans
WARNINGS: Obligatory Bull and Tetsuo warnings apply.


Starters will be appearing in the comments. If you want something specific from any one person (Kaneda rassera, Tetsuo iamtetsuo, Bull rideme and Ken amadaman), feel free to drop them a line and ask! Otherwise, feel free to add your own starters for the whole household or individual residents as you like.

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[missleadingquestions]

...

Iiiiis that a no?

[Maya pulls out her phone, getting it onto metube and pulling up something she's already watched.

She presses the phone to the bottom of the door, letting the audio play through the space under it.]

[iamtetsuo]

[He listens for a moment. It's some ... kind of cooking show with a giraffe? Is he hearing that right? It's hard to tell just by audio if it's translated or not; there's only a few hints here and there. Phrases flowed more naturally. It was less direct.

It took a while to tell, but he could tell.

This was a weird ass show. Maya why is everything you touch instantly bizarre.]

...the hell?

[missleadingquestions]

It's a cooking show on meTube!

[She grins, pausing it, remaining seated in front of the door.]

You can find all kinds of stuff like that.

[iamtetsuo]

That's meTube...? I thought that thing was American.

["American" isn't a language you racist piece of shit]

[missleadingquestions]

...Uh, I don't think you can really region-lock the internet.

[At least, not back home, they couldn't. She could access Japanese websites all the time back home, but... she also didn't know all that much about the internet back there, either. Just how to use it.]

People who speak Japanese or wanna translate Japanese stuff upload things on all types of websites.

[iamtetsuo]

[Okay what the fuck IS this internet. She's talking about regions...? Like.. regions, how? America probably has a few of those, it's pretty big. Japan has some. What's regions got to do with this. Does she mean like country regions?

One of Tetsuo's weaknesses has always been curiosity. Always.]

Region lock?

[missleadingquestions]

Yeah, it's like this thing so you can only play certain video games in certain countries! It's why there was no point buying the original Tonosaman game that didn't get translated a couple years ago. It wouldn't work on the game system Mia got us back home.

[iamtetsuo]

[Hang on. HANG ON.]

They have the internet in Japan?

[From the quiet disbelief in his voice, you'd think Maya just suggested something like 'pompeii is a thriving coastal town'. He'd never even considered half the things that America had could possibly exist in his own country - from fresh food and reliable water to ... most things that just didn't exist in the 1980s. Computers that people could own. GPS. Cell phones.

After all, this was the past.]

[missleadingquestions]

[Maya knows their year. 2019, just like her-- She'd found out from Kaneda. That's why she blurts--]

Why wouldn't it have the internet?

[...Neo Tokyo is awful. It occurs to her that he must never have seen a Japanese website.]

What are you doing? Come over here already and see this!

[iamtetsuo]

[He's not happy about it. But... he'll open the door, warily watching for some trick.

This can't be actually true.]

[missleadingquestions]

[Maya hasn't gotten up from her place on the floor and instead holds up the phone, tapping to a Japanese website.

It's a tokusatsu show fan site.]

[iamtetsuo]

[Tetsuo stands where he is, squinting a little to read it on the small screen. He knows when something's translated; there's no weird spacing, the sentences flow correctly, it looks right in a way he can't quite describe. This isn't. It'd be legible if it wasn't on the comm.

It could have been made by someone like him, who's stuck in America. But...]

The link to that. Give it to me...

[He's not gonna ask her to pull up any of the information tabs. Just in case it's not from Japan at all.]

[missleadingquestions]

Oh-- sure, got it.

[She pulls the thing back down and starts clicking around, getting him the link and copy-pasting. She doesn't have much a question about why he needs it-- she figures it's to read it himself.]

Alright... should be sent!

[iamtetsuo]

[Is he just gonna stand there and read it?

Yep.]

[missleadingquestions]

[She gives him a few moments, leaning her back against the door frame and looking up at him over her shoulder.]

There's other sites like that, too, y'know.

[iamtetsuo]

[Just gonna tap away at the comm more- how does he do this.... He's got something to puzzle out now.

Suddenly he's a lot more interested in working out the internet than he was.]

[missleadingquestions]

[She waits a few seconds before--]

You can even buy stuff from Japan online.

[iamtetsuo]

What?

[missleadingquestions]

You can buy stuff.

From Japan.

Online.

[iamtetsuo]

How?

[missleadingquestions]

Um, I dunno, imports?

They just send it here from Japan by plane if you buy it online.

[She opens another website.]

Like, I bought my camera from here.

[iamtetsuo]

I'm not asking that. How do you do it?

[You can't shove money through a phone...]

[missleadingquestions]

Oh--

You mean--

[Before she can explain, Maya takes her wallet out from her shirt because she's classy) and opens it up to take out a card. The wallet itself is covered in black cats-- it reminded her of Eve.]

You just use a card, and then the site charges you with the number on it.

[iamtetsuo]

[He almost reaches out for the card by staring at it. Reality never gets easier to bear; it's just one more painful reminder of what he USED to be, once.]

But how-

[What's he trying to ask here?]

I want to know how it works.

[missleadingquestions]

Oh.

Um. Let meeee look that up.

[She takes the card back, tapping on the phone until she brings up an article.]

Oookay. So, it says if you have your money in an account, the card... When you scan it at a store or use the card number on a website, that number sends a signal for the bank to send the money from your account to the account of the place you're buying from.

Huh.

[She didn't really know that.]

So it's like a cell phone number for your money!