video / text; @sugarcane

[seafloor]

[ The video opens with a view of some undecorated Everlight dorm room. Panning around reveals little of interest: a made bed, a few cans of vending machine non-alcoholic sake—

And suddenly, the sound of a waterfall surging fills the feed with peaking audio. Bright blue blurs the edges of the feed until the space suddenly becomes a dingy city alleyway. A scarred hand lifts as if being inspected before it rapidly takes on a liquid appearance and the noise returns and the scene shifts again.

Now it's at Tokyo Bay. There's a brief pan of the seascape before the feed cuts. ]

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Oh, shit. My bad.
I didn't realize that got uploaded.
This tech is still weird as hell to me.
I miss flip phones.

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text @kijyo

[saudadist]

I didn't think anyone missed flip phones...

[seafloor]

It sucks that they can't match the capabilities of smartphones—at least, back when I'm from.
We traded style for convenience.
Also, hi.

[saudadist]

Hi I...guess
never really dealt with smart phones myself so I have no frame of reference there

[seafloor]

Then you lucked out.
I mean, they're very useful, but...
They all look the same. No individuality.
But maybe I'm just being a salty old millennial.

[saudadist]

not like it matters now

much easier to just talk like this
fewer misunderstandings

[seafloor]

Perhaps.
I suppose it's just the nostalgia talking.

Is there anything you miss from back home?

[saudadist]

nope

[ She answers too readily, as if anticipating the question. There are people she misses, but they're only a handful of bright spots in an otherwise dank and dark cave. ]

[seafloor]

[ He's not surprised, given their last talk at Tokyo Bay. ]

Fair.

...Was the whale sashimi any good?
I don't eat seafood, but I was curious.

@NIGHTFALL, text.

[yuwon]

I didn't think anyone still used them.

[ is this an age-related issue, or ... yeah, an age-related issue. ]

[seafloor]

Tch.
I resisted to the last...
But eventually I had to switch over so I could use LINE...

[yuwon]

Apparently, they still use that here so you're in luck.

Not the type that's into tech?

[seafloor]

Not really.
You can imagine the learning pains when I first arrived.

I've got it better than the folks whose worlds don't include technology, but, y'know.

[yuwon]

It's not like anyone is going to understand the system here right away.

But, maybe you could just settle on being the second to the worst here.

[ he's mostly kidding. since he caught his mistake, he probably isn't too bad at all of this. ]

[seafloor]

Second worst?
There's no merit in being second, some say—
But I'm honestly more interested in who could he bungling around with this tech worse than I am right now.

[yuwon]

Too bad you didn't make first.

Who knows. Though, it's hard to say since the network has its fair share of troubles at times.

un: sanda

[thundercrashes]

Sorry to have to tell you this, but you'll have to get used to these things broadcasting whatever the hell they please until you figure out how to make them not react to recording this or that for everyone to see.

[There's a pause, before he then decides to be the one to ask--]

What was that, anyway? Did you fall asleep or something when it suddenly decided to share that?

[seafloor]

Apology accepted.
I've been getting a little better at not subconsciously recording, but it's still tough.

[ A beat. Kaito goes to review the footage.

Oops. ]

Oh.
No, it was from a few minutes ago.
I was bored, so I decided to go loiter around the beach.

[thundercrashes]

Ohhh, I see. It was such an abrupt jump from your room to the city and Tokyo Bay that I got a little confused by it.

[Though... god that would be deeply concerning if it turned out that these ocular implants were somehow capable or recording and broadcasting someone's dreams or something while they're asleep...]

[seafloor]

I'm honestly surprised the recording managed to snag fragments of my teleportation's initial activation.
Technology is crazy.

[ Sorry, Jun. This narrator doesn't have the definitive answer but wouldn't put it past the implants to be capable of such a feat. ]

[thundercrashes]

Teleportation? That's what you had done?

[Interesting...]

You're the first I've met that can actually do something like that. No wonder it took me by surprise seeing that sort of thing caught on camera from your POV.

un: shiro

[cranekin]

🤸📞

A flip phone?

(It sounds fun.)

[seafloor]

✅

Correct.
If I could project an image of it for you, I would.
I suppose all phones are irrelevant in this day and age, so it doesn't really matter...

[cranekin]

I didn't know phones could be exciting.
What did it do exactly?

(He's literally imagining... a phone doing a flip.)

[seafloor]

[ Unfortunately, Kaito is only going to make this misconception worse. Unintentionally. ]

Bah, they're just like any other phone, y'know?
Make calls, send texts and emails, all that.
But it's the flipping that made them cool.
You couldn't do a thing if you didn't flip the phone first.

[cranekin]

(what he is literally imagining: (ﾉ>｡<)ﾉﾐ📱)

What an interesting mechanism...
How did you flip it?