now the world is only white noise, frequencies that I can't understand

[helladoptera]

[ Well, that was some shit! Uh. To avoid pulling a Junpei and retreating somewhere, Max instead gathers up a couple people to help and goes to the first floor restaurant to set up some food, because fuck asking everyone to use the elevators. After getting some batter mixed, she writes up some notes! ]

Hey. Food in the first floor restaurant, if you're hungry.
Breakfast and burgers! :)

- Max, Pyrrha, Arianna

[ True to her word, there's a steady stream of waffles, pancakes, and some burgers coming out of the kitchen, as well as a bunch of (non-alcoholic) drinks on a table with a sign that says "BYOB if you want booze." ]

Comments

[cyan_maid]

Oh...um, yeah. Hi.

[Look at all this. Do you want the shipping tea, Yurika? It's Kaiba/Akira, apparently. Jane sniffs, her eyes red.]

And I'm just...sort of looking around for anything people didn't want, I guess.

[ratherdoweddings]

I've got a cell phone in my room that won't get service. Do you... want to trade anything?

[cyan_maid]

...Do you like tea?

[Offers the shipping tea]

[ratherdoweddings]

[Yurika carefully takes it and looks it over.]

Thank you, Jane-chan. "Corporate Crime..." These have weird names, don't they? Do you want to come get the phone? I've got it in my room.

[cyan_maid]

Yeah, sure. That'd be great.

[They really do have some weird, weird names, don't they? Makes a girl wonder what Lumpto Tea would taste like.]

I wonder why they've got all these funny names to begin with...

[ratherdoweddings]

[Lumpto is indeed on the option list. That aside, though, Yurika picks up what Jane can't carry and starts toward the door.]

I'm not sure! The tins are very pretty, though. I got one called "Vampire Novel" and it smells nice enough, and then there's "Latte Art." That one was just coffee grounds in a tea tin, for some reason.

[cyan_maid]

Is space just...weird? When it comes to tea?

[ratherdoweddings]

Maybe. Did you get any other strange ones?

[cyan_maid]

I don't...think so. If I did, it wasn't while we were here.

[ratherdoweddings]

I wonder what "Corporate Crime" tastes like. Or what other flavours could come out of that shop. Probably something silly, like... oh, I know! "Paying Your Taxes." That's arbitrary enough, isn't it?

[cyan_maid]

I...guess? But I'm more wondering why there's the theme of the weird names.

[It's a safe thing to wonder about. It can't hurt her.]

[ratherdoweddings]

Maybe if you put them all together, you get a complete story! Spies in the stock market, working out of a coffee shop in a bookstore! It's just like out of Hikaru-chan's Gekiganger III doujinshi, except a little more child-appropriate.

[cyan_maid]

...Those are the comics where anime boys kiss a lot, right?

[ratherdoweddings]

In her case, yes.

[cyan_maid]

They make ones where it's not boys kissing?

[Oh you sweet summer child]

[ratherdoweddings]

Well, sometimes it's girls, a lot of the time it's girls and boys, and a lot of the time it's not exactly child-appropriate! Though sometimes you'll just find some silly stories with no romance at all, so you never really know.

[cyan_maid]

Oh. Uh. So...porn, then.

[ratherdoweddings]

A lot, yes. Hikaru-chan has a bit of a stash.

[cyan_maid]

...Wow.

[ratherdoweddings]

You know, I used to think she had a thing for Akito too, every other woman in range does. Then we thought she was having an affair with one of our officers, since he was always hitting on younger women even though he was married. But it turns about she only cares about her Boys' Love stories. I sure wish things turned out that well all the time.

[cyan_maid]

...Well, so long as she was happy, I guess it's not that big a deal.

[ratherdoweddings]

Everyone should be able to have something that makes them happy! Especially when the world gets so complicated.

[cyan_maid]

That makes sense.

[...Wonder what it is for Jane, now that so much of what she loves has been tainted.]

[ratherdoweddings]

[Yurika frowns. They approach her room, though, and she opens the door. Her room is neat and organized, and she walks over and immediately retrieves the purple cell phone.]

Here you go! It's a little different from the one in the concourse.

[cyan_maid]

Really? How so?

[She'll take it and handle it gently though. Yurika is giving it to her, after all.]