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Waver Velvet ([personal profile] velveteenmage) wrote in [community profile] themainframe2013-05-05 06:08 pm

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Uh...hi, I guess.

[A slightly awkward teenager(?) appears onscreen, sounding as uncertain as he looks. He's apparently found apartment F1 001, as the background seems to be a bedroom.]

My name's Waver Velvet, and I just got here recently. I wanted to ask--does anyone know if there's a library or a bookstore anywhere?

[He's in for a nasty shock: the poor kid can't read Japanese worth a damn.]
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[personal profile] acceptedburden 2013-05-05 11:43 pm (UTC)(link)
Greetings Waver. I am Kaldur. [Kaldur holds a hand up and then answers the question asked.] While there are libraries and bookstores available the majority of the texts are either written in Japanese.
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[personal profile] acceptedburden 2013-05-05 11:49 pm (UTC)(link)
I believe so. I have spent little time there myself so there may be some English texts. However, a young woman had trouble with the books a few weeks back stating that most of them were in Japanese.
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[personal profile] acceptedburden 2013-05-06 01:33 am (UTC)(link)
Some have offered to help translate, at least, if I remember the last person that asked about it. People offered to help her.

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[personal profile] renegadedriving 2013-05-06 12:52 am (UTC)(link)
[Have a bedridden military woman, Waver. She has a dragon dozing on her chest and she's frowning.]

You speak japanese? You're out of luck if you don't. We've had a hell of a time finding anything in english. It'd help if the Cadet could tell the difference between languages...

[In spite of her apparent grump with her partner, she pats him on the head anyways.]
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[personal profile] renegadedriving 2013-05-06 01:01 am (UTC)(link)
[She shakes her head.]

It's not all, it's just most of it. Including all of the medical books we've found, which is a huge headache.
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[personal profile] renegadedriving 2013-05-06 01:08 am (UTC)(link)
The translators will handle it if somebody reads anything aloud to you, from what I've seen. One of my roommates only speaks Japanese but I understand him just fine. It's only written stuff that's a problem.

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[personal profile] risette_truestory 2013-05-06 02:57 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Since this girl is Japanese, she had no trouble at all reading. ]

I think there is a bookstore somewhere in--- [ Gives directions to a big bookstore in the city. That sold Japanese books. And the street signs are all written in Japanese. ]
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[personal profile] risette_truestory 2013-05-06 03:11 pm (UTC)(link)
Huh? [ Was he ... a tourist? ]

Of course it is. This is Tokyo after all.
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I guess I can understand ... coming here must be a bit of a shock after all.

And its all a lot to take in.

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[personal profile] genreawareness 2013-05-06 04:40 pm (UTC)(link)
[asking about books is one of the fastest ways to get Kyouko's attention]

There are several libraries scattered across the city, but none of the texts are particularly useful in providing insight on how this world works.

Do you speak Japanese, or will you need a translator?

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[personal profile] genreawareness 2013-05-06 04:47 pm (UTC)(link)
It'd be easier on you to learn it yourself. Would you like someone to teach you?

[she speaks it fluently, after all]

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[personal profile] genreawareness 2013-05-06 04:50 pm (UTC)(link)
Then I'm willing to act as your teacher.

[a beat]

Though I may charge you a small fee.

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codes: ❚❚ GAME (and postin' "Me too!")

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[personal profile] codes 2013-05-08 11:51 am (UTC)(link)
You call that an introduction? So short and to the point.

[ A beat. ] Guess that sort of suits you though.
codes: ❚❚ OFFICIAL ART, recolored (code crackers? slackers?)

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[ Snickering. ] Wow, you're really short a few brain cells too!

Is there any part of you not affected by your size, imp boy?
codes: ❚❚ OFFICIAL ART, recolored (I call him "Money" for short)

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Yeah, you're right.

[ Holding up her head high. ] Sometimes I just have to be the bigger person in this kind of situation. I'm Tousaka. Rin Tousaka.

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