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Who: Rin Asano
Broadcast: open text
Action: nup
When: 11/4, midmorning

I wish they'd put some movies on this thing or something. It wouldn't have been hard. I'm pretty sure movies are in my list of top ten modern world things. Chocolate and hot running water are on the list too. Concidentally neither of those things are around here either. Maybe it's not a place for modern technology after all??

[That's a joke, yeah.]

Also on my wishlist: they could put a chess game on here or something. We could be playing Mahjong. That would be so easy. I guess we're meant to be here driving each other crazy instead.

Anyway top ten five modern inventions:

1. movies
2. medicinal things I guess
3. chocolate. I don't know if it's modern but I never had it at home.
4. Hot running water.
5. Newspapers.

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I'm not sure I could narrow what I want or what I feel is the most important modern invention, but solid food would be wonderful.

Solid food and a hot bath.

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It's OK. This is completely trivial. You can just choose what you like.

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What I want right now is hair dye. Maybe some pasta and wine. Bourbon for the evening.

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Pasta is good but only with sauce...

I would like some miso soup and dried chestnut okawa. Smoked fish would also be ok.

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I couldn't decide what kind of pasta I wanted. Since we're talking wishes, I thought I'd remain vague. Maybe a hazelnut and butternut squash sauce, that sounds great right now.

That sounds great, too. I like my okowa with unagi or pork the most.

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You know okowa?? Where are you from?

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America. My grandparents and mother are nikkei.

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Do you speak Japanese?

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Enough. I can't identify newer slang, though.

voice; Japanese;

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[She switches over, both in setting from text to voice and in language. Her accent is old, old, old - no new slang here, but maybe some from before times.]

Let's speak, then.

ditto.

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[ It takes Jill a moment, since she hasn't really done all of this mid-conversation before. She kept to video and voice with Chris, mostly. ]

It's been a while, so you'll have to pardon any mistakes I make.

voice and Japanese forever UwU

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I'm grateful for the chance to practice again... I mean, it is my language. But I don't want to get rusty, you know?

beautiful!

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Oh, I understand! I get more practice with French and English, the other languages all sort of fall wayward.

What would you like to talk about? Shall we use it as a chance to gossip?

[ Someone is unaware of the whole translation thing, whoops. ]

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[So is she. WHOOPS. :'>]

I haven't gossiped in forever. So let's. Who do you want to gossip about? Or what?

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[ Maybe they'll get mad bank for this, huh? There's the silver lining. ]

I'm not much of one. [ Because she has like, three friends. ] I haven't really been here long enough to decide anything about anyone. Guess I'm the sort of person that keeps to themselves.

ugh sorry about the wait DB

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It's good to do that too. Eh... I can tell you my crew's pretty good. That's Robin, Riku, and Michael. Cecil's nice. Nunnally is good, I think. And Emblica is nice. I guess those are the people I know.

What about that guy you arrived with?

perfectly fine, don't worry!

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Oh? I think I know a few. [ She can't be certain how common any name might be, after all. There could be ten of each here! ] I haven't really met everyone from my crew yet. I think we keep very different hours. The ships are bigger than I thought, too.

[ That gets her to pause. There are a lot of things sh could say and a lot of things she's comfortable saying. There's also a lot she isn't comfortable discussing. Mostly, though, no one has ever really asked her what she thinks of him. People usually just assume they know how she feels, what they are to one another. ]

His name is Chris. He's my partner and I don't think I could give an opinion of him that isn't biased to how wonderful he is.

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[She lets out a tiny "heh" but there's no mockery in it. Just kind of an acknowledgment of what Jill just said.]

That's pretty lucky that he's come here with you, then. Are you on the same ship?

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[ A tiny laugh is more than enough to make her feel embarrassed, however. Their relationship as it is now is something fresh and new. Perhaps it's always been as it is, but never quite with the same... stipulations? She's not sure how she'd phrase it. It's the same, but different. ]

I'm very fortunate, I agree. [ Especially since it's been two times in a row. ] We aren't on the same ship. We try to talk whenever we can. I'm not very good at expressing my feelings about this sort of thing, so I worry that I'm not... doing enough? Saying enough. I don't know.

[ Talking isn't the same. Knowing that he's not that far away and she can't see him or touch him is difficult. He isn't so petty that this will destroy them, but she feels awful nonetheless. ]

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I think you can request to change to another ship if you want one. Maybe you should do that, if you want to be together. It shouldn't be so much trouble.

[Not here to judge.]

It's lucky that you arrived with a friend, anyway. My teacher was here when I got here but I haven't heard him for a while. Who knows, maybe he's not around anymore...