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[chemistries]

[Kon's outside the library, smoking at a computer he built immediately after arriving, staring up at the sky instead of the camera.] So this has all been surprisingly boring so far. I don't care about living in dorms, but playing violent games for points? That got old before high school. I'm more interested in the fact that we all understand each other. The language barrier? It doesn't exist and it should. We're all from different dimensions, right? Someone should definitely be speaking in clicks and grunts.

[He exhales a stream of smoke and rolls his eyes toward the camera.]

Anyway, I've noticed that a lot of the people here are eating takeout and then regretting it later. Would anybody be interested in cooking lessons? I mean, you'd have to be willing to bet that I'm not going to poison you and take your wallet, but look at what you've been eating. It might be worth the risk.

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[VOICE]

[heyheyhey]

[Well if he wants a language barrier, then Marx will give him one]

Click click... clickclickclick... click... clickclickclickclick...!

[VOICE]

[chemistries]

[Hangs up please try again.]

[VOICE]

[heyheyhey]

[And he does]

Hey hey hey, what's the big idea?!

[ushishishi]

'shishi! This place seems advanced enough to translate for us. Of course, some of us speak multiple languages as well.

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[...Hm, speaking of cooking-]

A prince is not going to cook. How much would it cost for you to do it? [Worth stabbing him for it or not?....]

[chemistries]

It doesn't matter what language you speak -- it all sounds the same.

For me to cook for you? [lololol] A lot.

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[techissexy]

Huh. Never even thought about that, but you're right; we shoudn't all automatically be speaking English, unless they've got some sort of piece of the Tower of Babel or something. [ is she joking, is she not? who knows? ]

You did a pretty good job with those drinks, so I'd trust you in the kitchen, but you've seen the dorm kitchens. Yikes. Yikes.

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[chemistries]

Yeah, except I'm speaking Japanese right now. And so are you, as far as I can tell. [Or maybe he wasn't; but what he said and heard registered so familiarly in his brain that it felt like Japanese. Who knew.]

And hey, they've got modern appliances -- if we can just scrape off the pasta sauce that's started to crust over everything, it'll be good enough. I won't go easy on you, though. [He smirks.] Are you sure you'd be up for it?

[voice]

[iwagmyhair]

[Too shy for video, but there's news in this post that's new enough to her that she'll stop lurking.]

But I thought everyone was speaking Japanese... [No, wait, that's less important.] H-hold on! What different dimensions?!

[voice]

[chemistries]

Have you been paying any attention at all to what's been going on around you?

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[outfoxing]

[he had actually been mulling over the language thing earlier, but first things first:] I have a basic skill set, but I certainly wouldn't mind learning a little more.

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[chemistries]

What are you willing to give me in return?

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[8fold]

You think cooking lessons are less boring than playing games?

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[chemistries]

Have you played any of the games here?

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[gatto]

But it's real convenient that we can all understand each other, yeah? I dunno about you, but I don't wanna have to go around looking for everyone who knows Japanese!

[Besides, that would make winning harder.]

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[chemistries]

Sure. It's just uncanny is all.

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[mellowyellow]

Man, are you a language professor, a science professor, or a home ec teacher? Pick one! If you're gonna sound pretentious, stick to one subject at least. You'll make everybody else look bad!

[It is debatable whether Masaomi knows the exact definition of the word "pretentious," but he continues nonetheless.]

But the answer you're looking for is that we've all been dumped into a bad sci-fi tv show. That's why all the aliens look and sound human.

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[chemistries]

I don't make a habit of going out of my way to make stupid people feel better about themselves.

Why would someone go through all the effort of luring us here for the sake of a shitty tv show? It'd take a considerable amount of power to pull something like this off; surely they could make it prime time if they wanted.

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[ousawagi]

I guess it's better to be able to understand each other.. [ There's no point questioning the conveniences supplied. He's sure that everyone will want to exploit them regardless of the mechanics behind them.

On the next topic, though-- ]

.. but, um, on the other hand-- learning to cook would be nice.

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[chemistries]

Obviously.

Yeah? What could you give me in return?

voice.

[binaries]

I uh, I d-don't know about lessons, but I would be interested in an exchange, um. Be it monetary or even just a task...

voice.

[chemistries]

Are you offering to be my lackey if I feed you?

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[ofgalaxy]

Are you commenting on our ability to understand one another and then offering cooking lessons in the same breath?



Because I'm interested in both of these things.

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[chemistries]

Yeah? Do you have anything interesting to add to either subject?

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[guielliotine]

_{[Cooking lessons. Elliot Nightray has never cooked a day in his life. He's never even made tea. That's what happens when you grown up the son of a Duke and attend a private school.]}

It'd be pretty stupid if you tried to poison someone and take their possessions, especially after saying as much.

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I'd be interested, but I'm not sure what I can give you in return.

/tenderlysinks teeth into your thigh and latches on

[chemistries]

Which is why I wouldn't. Nobody's been here long enough to have anything worth stealing anyway.

Well I'm not going to sit here and try to play twenty qeustions with you; do you have any useful skills?