WEEK 2

[akudamods]

Saturday passes uneventfully save a little rain. It's on Sunday that you get a little notification of probation for new areas: Neo-Nipponbashi and Chuo. It'd be possible to investigate, to check out some anime, or to worship the defunct Shinkansen. But maybe it's hard to get excited about any of that when Friday’s events suggest that you have simply been provided some additional photogenic places to commit murder. Are you going to bother either overseer after their participation in some mockery of justice? Troll the internet? Get a bat out of Hyper Zone and just take out your frustration on everything?

Those of you who entered the pods will experience fewer “painful bursts of color” as your body is unaffected below the knees, though the same amount of “slight teleportation” glitches. Those of you who abstained from the pods will continue to experience all of the above as well as electric shock sensations occasionally when touching metal objects.

INTERNET | SUNDAY | MONDAY | TUESDAY | WEDNESDAY | THURSDAY

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INTERNET

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SUNDAY

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MONDAY

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TUESDAY

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WEDNESDAY

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THURSDAY

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AN INCIDENT

[akudamods]

[There’s a manipulative, melodramatic, magnificent X-Class Akudama called the Alterant among you. Or, there was. When you go outside at 8 in the morning to investigate a loud noise much like thunder, you catch a glimpse of Cangrande Vicenza. Just a glimpse. Quite literally bits and pieces of his beautiful visage are scattered in some two-meter blast radius. Suspended in some horrible network of impossibly bright, crackling colors. The edges are, unfortunately, bleeding; the skin is pale from shock.

This area is impossible to approach - whether personally or with projectiles, you end up jolting backwards in a more intense, disorienting version of the ”shift to the side” glitches.

By 8:35, a white van shows up, followed by the Physicist coming out of a taxi. She taps bitterly on a smartphone. A group of workers in hazmat suits are presumably following her commands. They take out thin cords that expand into shimmering hardlight tarps, to wrap up the entire grim display and drive it away.]

PODS

[akudamods]

[11:00 AM to 11:20 AM. Five minutes for questions, fifteen minutes to spend inside. Multiple pod lids lifted open at once with tentacles. Your overseer is not patient.]

[your_best_friend]

[* Flowey has been vigilant in making sure that his little detective account rises up throughout the last week, even if very slowly. Carefully cultivating it and picking his words as carefully as possible so that no one is the wiser. But how much progress has he made since last week? Surely, he's gained at least a few followers.

* Other than that, he looks up as many detective stories as he's allowed to. And anything about human biology. And anything that would make him more useful in investigating human bodies and human culture. He will not be useless like he was at the trial. He may even take to forcing 10chan into a reverse-AMA. He needs information and will ignore any and all irrelevant and hateful comments.]

daily life + investigation (J's Denki)

[fixingtodie]

[The pod procedures have been rescheduled for tomorrow, so it would seem that her Sunday is more free than she expected. So she decides she she probably put that time to good use.

So instead she opts to investigate J's Denki. She inherited the Loremaster's research after all. And if any place is going to be useful in taking that one step further, it's this place. So she's going to snoop every shelf, leave no product unturned! And definitely make some purchases for herself while she studies the place and the people who come and go.

That's not the only place you can run into her though. She does browse Mainichi Treasure for a while as well, although she's not into lavish comforts so much as she is practical additions.

But she can also be found feeding herself in the museum cafe or staring with wide eyes at the Hyper Zone like part of her wants to go but doesn't dare.]

[akudamods]

[A robot at the door chirps "Welcome to J's Denki!"

So, continuing Loremaster's research, huh? Anything in particular she's looking for, or is she just winging it?]

Daily Life + INVESTIGATION

[your_best_friend]

"A monster wears a YELLOW name when you can SPARE it."

[* When you wake up and go outside, there's something that sticks out like a sore thumb. A sign that says "FREE YELLOW NAMES, X-CLASSES ONLY", pointing in a specific direction. Look elsewhere, there's even more signs saying the dame thing. Should you choose to follow them to the source, you'll see Vessel, or Flowey, if you know his name, right next to a neatly-stacked pike of... you guessed it, yellow names.]

Howdy! I'm glad you came. After what happened in the trial, I made you a yellow name!

[* He takes it out of the pile and hands it to you. It's... just a series of floating letters that are colored yellow.]

Is Anime real? - INVESTIGATION

[* Flowey can't help it. He knows Mew Mew Kissy Cutie is trash, but... he can't help but see if such a title is among all this anime. And who knows? He may actually find some anime he actually ENJOYS.]

Museum meandering - INVESTIGATION

[* What do you get when you take a flower who likes new things and a museum he's never seen before? The answer is Flowey fawning and examining each and every single artifact he could lay his eyes on.]

[fixingtodie]

[...! Greeter robot.]

Thank you...

[Of course. Loremaster was willing to trust her with the password to her data so she has to try. But this is new to her so she's... she's definitely winging it.]

IS anime real?

[akudamods]

[Forgive us, Alphys, for this store is neither kissy nor cutie. At least, not in that particular way.

Animart carries a variety of DVDs, but the most popular 3 selling right now are...

Akumatsu-san - A reboot of Osomatsu-san, with a twist - after parting ways for however long it's been since the last entry to this anime aired, each of the horrible sextuplets have become Akudama (with titles identical to the gifts, even, though Swindler and Sister are missing.) However, that's not exactly the case. All of them are faking it and all of them think they're the only non-Akudama. Will they commit to the bit long enough to pull off the ultimate heist?

The Orchid, With Scent of Death - A yuri anime that has romantic french interspersed with Japanese in its OP, which happens to be floating through the store as Flowey browses. The lead character is a determined college girl in love with a mysterious vampiress. ...They fight crime.

Samemaru & Usasuke - It's a bit hard to figure out what this is about at first, but ... this appears to be the anime adaptation of a video game targeted at Edgy Teenagers growing out of the Bunny and Shark franchise, yet still nostalgic enough to let its nefarious cash grabbing claws sink into them. Samemaru is a cheerfully absentminded blue haired teen who loves swordfighting and inventions, and Usasuke is an emo pink haired skinny teen who can magically summon dinosaurs. Together, this opposite duo goes on action packed adventures through time and space while deepening their friendship and/or experiencing immense despair. Complete trash, and the timeline is convoluted beyond belief, but it's SUPER addictive.

By the way, a guide to the programming schedule is on one of the posters in the store. Akumatsu-san airs at 11pm, Samemaru and Usasuke at 11:30pm, and Orchid at midnight. Since they're all still airing, why not pick up the previous season and catch up?]

[conways_retribution]

Ani-Mart
<sub>[You can clearly tell Jake is looking at all of the things around this place like "defuq is this shit". He's never seen cartoons quite like these...

But he has seen those animes that were aired in America in the 1960s without even knowing they were Japanese... somehow.]</sub>

Oh, hey, that's Astro Boy- And there's Speed Racer. And that's Gigantor... _{[It wasn't like, kid in a candy store exciting, but he's kinda impressed these things made it into the future.]}

[akudamods]

[Well then, in her 'winging it' mindset, maybe she will think to check the generators as a basic idea.

But she would be disappointed, alas. They are completely sold out.]

[fixingtodie]

[...assuming that this place is otherwise decently stocked and with a good variety, that seems like a bit of a surprise.

So it's time to find the nearest employee (robot or otherwise) to see if she can't find a way around this.]

...excuse me. Is there a waiting list for this item? Or... some way I could have one shipped to me when they're restocked? I don't mind paying in advance.

Re: IS anime real?

[your_best_friend]

[* ...You know what? Fine! Flowey will go on ahead and attempt to find the shopkeeper for this store. It's so strange that human shops apparently don't have shopkeepers. Why do they leave their items out in the open?]

Howdy? Anyone there?

[fixingtodie]

[While she's not incredibly hopeful at this point, Rachel will keep checking her messages and followers in case anything about that mysterious knight shows up or gets sent to her like she asked. It can't hurt. If nothing else, following those who take interest in the mysterious case might turn up something interesting she hopes.

[akudamods]

[One of the most famous real life detective stories in Kansai is about the stubborn old detective who initially got Cutthroat taken to prison. This was at the cost of the detective's own life, because Cutthroat could just throw a butterfly knife once at a person, and that would be the end for them! Brain, heart, neck, there were several techniques that got these squishy results. He was like a mysterious ghost haunting Kansai and had killed almost a thousand people before his mystery was solved. Cutthroat was later aided to escape from the prison just before planned execution, and acted as one of the Akudama Five, participating in a siege on the Shinkansen and ultimately being killed.]

[akudamods]

[She encounters an intelligent talking order screen.]

Advanced orders can be picked up from J's Denki in the future. For this item, Shinkansen orders in September are conditional on availability. Intra-Kansai manufacturing may resume in October.

[akudamods]

GREETINGS HU--

[One of the two big mecha guards is stomping over from the front of the store, teaming its sentence upon recognizing Flowey. Big creaks as it bends down to get a good look.]

DO YOU REQUIRE ASSISTANCE?

[your_best_friend]

Ah! THERE you are!

[* Time to open up this shopkeep's shop menu!]

[fixingtodie]

[A whole month? Interesting...]

...that long? Is there an issue with the manufacturer?

Weekly Loveposting

[fullswingkiss]

[ Matadoroflove has been posting consistently through the last week with a few tweets a day (commenting on the local sights, taking more follower questions, general vague statements about the nature of love and passion). But after the murder he's been silent entirely... not even replying to being @ -ed, which he usually always does. But now it is Sunday and the account is back!! ]

Well, that was a 𝓷𝓪𝓼𝓽𝔂 matter and a harsh blow for our science department 💔💔

This is TV to you all but quite real to all of us. Of course, you know this. Would it be a thrill otherwise~? ❤️‍🔥

So tell me, how did you feel about that little trial? In this virtual world without borders, let's share our heartfelt thoughts! 💞

[ Through the rest of the week posting is back to regularly scheduled programming. Prepare for some pics of cosplay outfits (sadly not on a body) with suggestive comments, also. ]