[Video] [Fourth entry, July 26th]

[weaktobullets]

[The video feed clicks on to show an angle of the floor of what looks to be some empty building. It's obviously well into the darkness- into that awkward late-night/early-morning area, probably an hour or two before the morning sirens. A man off-screen can be heard breathing heavily, as though to catch his breath, but a second speaks.]

I feel like

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[1/?] Action.

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[Slowly stopping in dancing.]

[2/4] Action.

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[Pause to let himself become red.]

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[Becoming pissed.]

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[Points toward it.]

I got an idea. How about I let this thing go and you can just figure out how to take it down by yourself, asshole? Seriously. That was an insane dick move, man! How could you even ask that?!

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[madeinoblivion]

Wait, wait- If you're gonna do a victory dance, let me cue up my 'final countdown remix'.

Nice going. I've never been able to take down one of those things. After the cats, I've just tried to keep two steps ahead of the ones that look nothing like people.

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[weaktobullets]

So long as it don't draw more've the damn things.

I'll sure as hell be takin' tomorrow to patch myself the fuck up. What're the cats like?

[voice]

[madeinoblivion]

[Annnnd, there are those deliciously 80's bars of synthesizer intro...]

Me and Riku ran into them our first week here. It's more like one cat that made this noise like it was dying then unleashed a pack of tiny little nightmares.

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[weaktobullets]

[Shinji will just. Be confused.]

Hell. I'll watch out for those. There was just the one've these we ran into-- and it wasn't too hard to lure it a bit farther out.

[voice]

[blitzfaust]

He went on a date with Mitsuru?

[voice]

[outbursting]

NOT YOU, TOO, AKIHIKO!

[voice]

[blitzfaust]

Well I didn't know, Shinji just said on the-

-did you?

[voice]

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No. I mean, I thought that it was, but it wasn't, and then--!

IT'S LIKE HAVING TO DEAL WITH THE EMBARRASSMENT ALL OVER, AGAIN!

[Private; text]

[gaveherwings]

[Well. That's...inconvenient. Of all the people Shinjiro could be out with, it had to be a coworker. And on a night he's working at Skye and not free to jet down to the labs, no less.

But Yosuke knows him well enough, and owes him for spotted acts of grace or two, to keep side work private.

And its Lucky he's taken to carrying certain equipment on his person. Can run a very quick patch-test, in the back service stairwell.]

Tissue sample, if you would. I'm curious about how it would respond to ultraviolet exposure.

Where are the two of you?

[Private; text]

[weaktobullets]

Sector nine, in some abandoned building.

What part do you want, and how and when do you want me to get it there? Also, we gonna get paid for this?

[Private; text]

[gaveherwings]

Come around the north facing side of Skye Medical, use the service door around the corner from the ER. I'll meet you there, as soon as you can get down here. Tell me when you're close.

I'd like a small skin sample, and a blood sample, as well as one of the barbed ends.

What would you find a fair price?

[Private; text]

[weaktobullets]

Right. What Sector's that in again?

I'll do what I can. And it took us a bit to take it down. Couple hundred, at least, if the samples are good.

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[Chuckling. You know, that laughing that comes out when you're watching small puppies bump into each other.]

Cute.

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[weaktobullets]

[That is a good analogy!]

What, the Octo-dog?

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[Shinji's the puppy with the spiked collar.]

The whole thing in general.

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[weaktobullets]

[Who keeps biting the other puppy on the tail.]

...Dunno if 'cute's the right word for it.