video;

[fuckinstoplights]

[HOORAY, EVERYONE CAN SEE AGAIN.]

[Which means the video image of this loser can be seen loud and clear, so to speak. He's not up on top of the phone booth anymore, which is probably good. But now he seems to have found a bench or something to huddle up on instead. He seems to be chewing over his words, uncertain how to ask these questions...]

Everyone who arrives here... do they really have a place to stay? Just given to them?

[Because being outside on the street during the blackout? Not fun.]

[When he fails to ask anything else, his creepy little Keramon peeks around the side of his shoulder. Apparently, Kagerou has graduated from ignoring it to letting it sit by him. It ducks its head, apologetically.]

Would someone mind helping him find his place, please? We tried earlier but the blackout happened...

[If it had anything else to say, Kagerou cuts it off by ending the video. Good job, buddy.]

Comments

[Audio]

[ladyspiderlegs]

You're lost? Oh you poor thing.

Wish I could help you out.

[Audio]

[fuckinstoplights]

I'm not lost.

... why do you wish that?

[Video]

[fullofthorns]

Hoi hoi, don't go clickin' off without droppin' a line, love!

[ Bandaged and bruised, Roze is out marching the streets, helping injured digimon and people alike, getting everyone to safe quarters, clearing debris and just trying to feel useful. Voyeur that she is, she always keeps her terminal handy. Though she hasn't had time to catch up on old videos, new ones get priority. ]

I can be over there pretty quick if you need a hand gettin' over to communal livin'. And yeah, everyone gets a place to stay. Little three-room affairs. If you want somethin' fancy and private you gotta pay for it, but most people like to stick together anyways.

Hold your D-T up if you don't know where you are so I can get a bearin' and I'll scoot my hot ass over that way.

[ Despite her injuries, the pink-haired woman was all shark-smiles and green-eyed mischief. Always loved to meet the other people around the place, she of the infectious charm. ]

[Video]

[fuckinstoplights]

Love--?

[Oh -- oh no what is this. This is super social human being person. He has absolutely no idea how to respond to someone so... outgoing.]

[Fortunately, his Keramon is not so socially inept. It takes the device again.]

We would appreciate the help, thank you. We were staying in a phone booth until the blackout.

[And, as she suggests, the digi-creature lifts up the device.]

Like this?

Re: [Video]

[fullofthorns]

Yeah! Thanks pumpkin. Geez, a phonebooth? Really? That's major crap, I'm sorry. Alright...hmm. I think I know where you are. It'll just be a few minutes. You guys alright to wait there? Nothing crazy going on?

[ She tilts her head, smiling crookedly before wincing and rolling a shoulder sporting a bloody bandage. ]

Unless you've got pressin' business, I'll be there in a jiffy.

Name's Roze, by the way. Welcome to the Thunder Dome.

[Video]

[fuckinstoplights]

Yes... he wanted to be up high, I think. I couldn't get him down.

[It nods its head. And glances up at Kagerou, who seems to hunch in on himself a little more.]

Yes, we're okay here. Thank you.

[But then Kagerou blinks, his one visible eye narrowing a little.]

You're wounded? What happened?

Re: [Video]

[fullofthorns]

[ She was about to close the D-T and just head straight over when the man questioned her. Blinking, she looked at herself as she walked, offering a laugh. She sure did look a sight, didn't she? ]

I got my ass handed to me by a big devil-woman. This one here-- [ She tilted the D-T to show her Kotemon ] --was fightin' somethin' called a NeoDevimon and we got smacked around in the dark. Most of the damage is superficial, don't worry about it.

I'd like to say we showed the crazy bitch, but...well, we didn't. She tossed me into a couple buildings and flew off with Musashi here. Took him clear across town. It was days before we met up again.

Meanwhile, everything I ran into I had to handle myself or run from. My pride is just about shit right now so helpin' around town is my back-up plan. Do something useful, don't feel useless. Pretty simple philosophy.

[Video]

[fuckinstoplights]

In the dark... You were fighting those things we heard? The noises in the darkness?

[Wow, look who suddenly decided to be part of the conversation.]

How? How did you do it? They say I'll have to -- but not how. No one told me anything like that.

[His voice starts getting a little unsettled, almost desperate, until his Keramon reaches out to touch his arm. He falls quiet, after that.]

Thank you for helping us. It sounds like a good plan.

[video]

[hot_nunchaku_fury]

From what I've been told we all get a place, and they are all in the same building too, until you get that crest thingy mabob.

[Mikey smiles happily and friendly, somehow his eye mask just framing his happy expression more.]

I'm sure you are on there, if you tell me your name I could check where I found out what my room was, for you.

[video]

[fuckinstoplights]

Get what?

[What is with all these excited people. How does he even deal with all this enthusiasm.]

Kagerou.

[video]

[hot_nunchaku_fury]

Uhh... Fluttershy said people get this crest thing, my brother, Donnie's got one, and when they get that it lets them move into other apartments. Is kind of a square peg in the square hole thing, Donnie's got the crest of love, and so now he is living in the love district.

[Mikey tones it down a little, not a lot but just a little, when he doesn't get much of a positive response from his happiness.]

Kagerou huh, interesting name.

[For a very non-Japanese looking boy, all ginger hair and freckles, he says the name without stumbling on the sounds at all. He moves a bit, the video showing a simple room.]

Leader, I'm going down to street level, you wanna come with? [The question is directed to the Salamon who is curled up on a cushion.]

No... thank you. I'm still feeling a little queasy from the roof trip earlier.

Right, sorry, you rest, I'll be back.

[With the parting comment to his digimon partner Mikey nimbly slips out his window and with jumps that can be seen based off the shifting back ground behind him, he heads down to the street below, ninja movements that are more than just some fancy trick showing up slightly in the video. Once he is at the street he renters the same building from the ground level, seeking out the apartment info for the other. He hums a little as he is looking, keeping himself busy, and focused, by doing it.]

Found it! Your room is 006 on the first floor here, you only have one roommate, someone named Bonsai.

[As if to prove it he turns his d-terminal so that it shows the sheet of paper, his pointer and middle finger sitting on it to show which one is Kagerou's.]

[video]

[fuckinstoplights]

Love... district...

[None of these words make any sense. Neither does the square analogy. His visible eye narrows a little. If it were possible to withdraw into himself any further, Kagerou probably would have found a way. Instead, he just speaks quietly, letting the confusion eke into his tone.]

Is it.

[His name is nothing special. And his eye tracks the human's progress, without speaking. In fact, he doesn't say much of anything until he's addressed again.]

Roommate. What is that.

[video]

[hot_nunchaku_fury]

[Mikey didn't have anything to do but shrug, he's not the best at explaining things and he knows it.]

Someone else could probably explain the crests and stuff better than I can.

I think it is, but I'm used to only Master Splinter having a name with those kinds of sounds, since his real name is Hamato Yoshi.

[Again he offers a shrug, unable to specify why it's is such an interesting thing to him.]

A roommate is someone else who lives in the same place. Almost everyone has one. I don't think it has to be, but sometimes I think it can be like having family.

[video]

[fuckinstoplights]

Fine.

... I don't know that name.

[And that's... all he has to say. If it's a human being, why should he know them? Why should he care to?]

[At the last bit, he visibly bristles, shaking his head.]

No.

No humans. I'll stay here.

[Audio]

[wheeljackofalltrades]

Kid, thought I told ya this all before.

What, ya didn't believe me?

[It's your fairy god-stepdad, here to check up on you.]

[Audio]

[fuckinstoplights]

I just wanted to be sure.

Sorry... sir.

[Audio]

[wheeljackofalltrades]

Don't worry about it. Just...find your roommates.

You'll see what I was talkin' about with that 'caring' thing.

[Elegant phrasing, Wheeljack.]

[Audio]

[fuckinstoplights]

But they're human beings.

I don't see why they would care about an AI.

[Audio]

[wheeljackofalltrades]

...Okay. I'm gonna be pretty blunt about this, kid.

This place brings in these 'Chosen', right? Ya gotta be 'alive' to be taken here. Humans care about alive things.


Or so I've heard.

Connect the dots.

[Audio]

[fuckinstoplights]

... It's never made a mistake?

[Video]

[neverputincharge]

Yeah, we all get a place to stay. Don't get to pick the roommates though. [Pause.]

Uh...need help getting to the building?

[Video]

[fuckinstoplights]

Roommates? What does that mean?

[He shifts a little.]

I can walk.

[Video]

[neverputincharge]

[Wow, how to word this.]

Uh, you don't get the apartment to yourself. Other people live in the apartment with you.

...well, you each get a room in the apartment to yourselves, but the rest of the apartment, like the bathroom, is shared.

[And oops.]

What? No no, not help like that. I meant come to where you are and show you to the building.

[Video]

[fuckinstoplights]

Other... people.

[He shakes his head once, and pulls back from the screen.]

I'll stay here.

[Meanwhile, the hopeful look on the hell muppet's face just... crumbles. It buries its face in its hands.]

[Video]

[neverputincharge]

Whoa whoa whoa!

[He sees you pulling back there. Does he need to come drag you, cause he totally will.]

Hey, it ain't as bad as it sounds. I mean you don't even gotta talk to them if you don't want to.