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[repths]

Who: Atoli and you!
Broadcast: fleetwide
Action: ss heron if you like!
When: now

[VIDEO]

Hello there!

[It's been a while since Atoli's shown herself over the network like this. It makes her feel kind of nostalgic. At the same time she just really wants to reach out to other people and speak with them. There isn't much for her to do alone after all.]

I have a quick question for you all . What kind of games do you know? I thought I'd ask because we come from different places. Personally I enjoy playing fun games with other people, but lately that's hard to do. We are in space after all.

[Feeling a little homesick here and there. It seems to be a common thing as far as Atoli knows. She's not alone on this.]

Adjusting to life here is really difficult for me. How do I put it? It's like being in another country far away. Anyone else feel like that?

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[astrobleme]

Yeah, I... [Shinji had the foresight to come prepared. Since he had to stop by the medical bay for other reasons, he picked up a notepad while he was in there. He also brought along a cardboard box, about the size of a large book, that once contained rolls of bandages.] I can show you to play, [he agrees.] And how to make the paper fighters... Have you ever heard of origami?

[repths]

I have actually! It's pretty popular in Japan where I'm from. I used to live in the Chiba prefecture. Everyone likes to make origami artworks there.

[Atoli explains. She's heard of the term before but only because it originates from Japanese culture.]

How do you make it?

[She'll carefully listen to Shinji's explanation and memorize it well.]

[astrobleme]

[More people from Japan. Huh. Shinji is glad to have something in common with Atoli, even though he doubts they're from the same Japan. Still, he says,] I'm from Japan, too. I think I was born near to Hakone. [He actually doesn't know for sure.]

Anyway, what you have to do is... [Locating the nearest available surface, he takes a sheet of paper and shows Atoli how to fold it into a roughly human-shaped figure. He speaks slowly, carefully; he doesn't want to stutter from nervousness.]