3rd Rifle [Video]

[bronze_flower]

[The feed turns on to show Mami thoughtfully looking at a tarot card, though the way she's holding it only the back can be seen.]It's a little odd that they ignore us on a personal level most of the time, but then they give us these on our birthdays, isn't it? On the other hand, our birthdays are what determines which sign we fall under, so maybe

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[hernobleprince]

They sent you a gift? That really is strange....

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[bronze_flower]

Apparently they send everyone here a card when it's their birthday.

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[hernobleprince]

Huh, really? That's pretty nice of them. ... And, happy birthday.

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[bronze_flower]

Well... The contents of the card could be improved.

But thank you.

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[endlessmagic]

... Happy birthday, happy birthday.

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[bronze_flower]

[She recognized the voice - she'd paid close attention to Beatrice's first post to the network here, trying to learn more about her, though it had mostly just left her puzzled. Beatrice hadn't seem to actively hurt anyone since coming here, though, and it never hurt to be polite...]

Ah, thank you, Beatrice-san.

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[endlessmagic]

... Hoh. Another who has heard of me in this fragment, are you.... I seem to be quite the popular woman, even here.

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[bronze_flower]

...I paid attention when you introduced yourself because you said you were a witch, even though you seem rather different from the Witches I was familiar with in my own world.

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[eats_science]

[ He sees the back of the tarot card and recognizes the pattern. It certainly is one of Zodion's gifts, but he smiles softly. ]

Happy birthday, Tomoe-san. I was unaware your birthday was recently.

Should I bake you a cake as well?

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[bronze_flower]

Thank you, Seta-san. And it's today, actually.

That's quite all right, I don't mind baking my own birthday cake.

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[eats_science]

That's right, you seem to be able to handle your own with cooking. We're apparently in the vast minority... It's good though. Baking exactly isn't my specialty.

[ Small pause. ] I've found out what those cards are for... [ Wow this is kind of awkward to talk about ] I heard that doing what the card says will give you a gift.

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[bronze_flower]

I suppose many of them are having to learn the hard way then.

[She nods.] I thought that might be the purpose of the cards, since they seem more... instructional... than useful in and of themselves.

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[brotag]

Oh, happy birthday!

[Yosuke grins brightly over the screen at her. After a moment, though, he notices the card, and it takes him a bit to question...]

Hey, what's that...?

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[bronze_flower]

Thank you, Hanamura-san.

It's the gift the Twelve gave me for my birthday - a tarot card.

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[brotag]

... a tarot card? I think I've seen some other people get those.

[Not that he really gets what they're all about, but...]

What's it have on it?

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[bronze_flower]

It has, um, lewd imagery on it. It's either a suggestion on how to worship... Or instructions on what I'd have to do to get the actual gift.

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[drecks]

What a waste of time. Does anyone really care about something like that?

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[bronze_flower]

I don't expect many people to care about my birthday, no. But figuring out why the Twelve do things the way they do might be useful.

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[drecks]

No, I didn't mean your birthday in particular... I just mean any. [ a shake of the head. perhaps it's not an important distinction. ] Nearly everything they do is nonsensical. Is it really worth figuring out?

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[bronze_flower]

We have limited means at our disposal to figure out a way to return people to their own worlds. Any information we can gather may be valuable.