IV.

[sistagonist]

[Video]

Hey...sorry if anyone was looking for me for the last couple of weeks. I only meant that to be like a three hour trip, but I'm back now.

So, those robots on the island are pretty friendly, and I see some managed to get over here. Has anyone been able to communicate? I can't make heads or tails, personally.

Comments

[notvitiligo]

You kind of have to play charades with them, but yeah, it's not too hard. They're pretty visually-oriented.

[sistagonist]

Hm. I guess that would work best. Do you think they process sound, even?

[notvitiligo]

Most of them seem to, they just have a completely different language. It's like trying to talk to a fax machine.

[sistagonist]

...I wonder if my phone...well, it's been out of charge for months now...

[bel_donna]

[Tsukasa's sounds relived to hear from Souji again, though she wouldn't admit to that if questioned on the matter.]

Hey Souji... Um, anyway, I had a little luck talking getting one of the robots to calm down, at least. Though I'm not sure if it understood what I was saying.

[sistagonist]

Hey Tsukasa.

...were they causing problems? They seem perfectly calm on the other side...

[bel_donna]

They were taking apart things that really shouldn't be taken apart and then putting them back together again. I imagine building things is their primary occupation.

[sistagonist]

That makes sense. Everything was under construction over there. They're probably set up to build the city and take other stuff apart for building materials.

[sheroic]

Don't trust them! They'll definitely turn on you. Haven't you seen any movies?

[sistagonist]

You can't trust everything you see in a movie, you know.

[sheroic]

But if you just give them a friendly punch, they start attacking you like crazy!

Suspicious, y'know?

[sistagonist]

...no, not really. Why did you punch one?

[manymasked]

Were you in the wild places? I lost time like that when I tried to explore them too. I was wondering if I was the only one.

[sistagonist]

Nope. I lost a couple of days there before, though.

Actually, I went to the island that the robots came from with Setsuko, but I couldn't get back through the gate.

[manymasked]

Oh, I see. I haven't been there yet. What's it like?

((Oops, my reading comprehension obviously sucks today.))

[sistagonist]

((Obviously, Minako is just sleepy.))

Well, if this place is a garden mostly for the sake of looking like a garden, that place is a city mostly for the sake of looking like a city, if that makes any sense. It's pretty developed, but a lot of that seems to be because the robots just really like to build.

[peachhat]

You were gone too, huh.

Haven't really managed to talk to those things, I guess only Kazumi managed. Or something.

[sistagonist]

You went straight for blowing them up, I guess?

[peachhat]

Actually, no, I didn't. Someone would have gotten angry, and that someone DOESN'T fight.

[sistagonist]

No challenge to it, or what?