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Haaaa?

[The video on the network shows a middle-aged man, perhaps in his late thirties, staring in evident confusion. From what can be seen through the camera, his apartment is something of a mess, clothes haphazardly lying on the couch and floor and beer cans and bottles strewn around everywhere. At his side is a clipping from the newspaper, with coupons for pizza--which may explain what Kotetsu was trying to do when he punched in his number by mistake.]

Oi, you. [He flicks at the screen, as if personally offended by it.] Eye-phone thingy. You were supposed to call the pizza place, not randomly start recording a video.

[He sighs, grumbling to himself and unaware what he thinks is an internal “video” recording is actually broadcasting to at least a dozen others.]

Don’t see anything “smart” about this phone. What’s the point of a phone that takes pictures and goes on the internet if it can’t make calls???

I had to back up over my old one in that parking lot, didn’t I...

[Aaaand he dumps the phone unceremoniously on the couch, leaving the recording running as he goes to hunt down the instruction manual and hope he didn’t toss it out.]

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Okay, I'm sure everyone has confused you plenty by now!

[Hi, have a cheerful blond grinning happily at you and waving.]

There's something you should know though. This network that you connected to by accident? Don't tell anyone about it, apart from the people you find here. Not anyone at all, okay?

[SUP cheerful blond, have a guy who's just learned his boss and who-knows-how-many of his coworkers are child-murdering scum. Do excuse him if he doesn't grin in return just this once.]

...Yeah, that'd be...a word for it.

[Confused, horrified, betrayed, overwhelmed--Kotetsu's more or less running the gamut of (negative) human emotion this evening.]

Don't tell anyone. Right, I can do that.

[There isn't really anyone he could even tell--no one he'd want to be involved in this mess, anyway.]

[Have a small, sympathetic sound at the state of that distressed face.]

There now, sugar, it ain't all bad. Sure it's scary as fuck and the whole police thing is messed up six ways from Sunday, but don't get your broodin' hat on just yet, okay?

[His smile has softened a bit now.]

We're still alive and we're learning fast.

[It sure is rather telling that Kotetsu's brain doesn't even really snag on 'sugar' as he listens. Yeah, that whole police thing is pretty damn messed up, isn't it? Ahaha. Haha. Ha...

Yeah, if his self-worth wasn't in the shitter before, it definitely is by tonight.]

Alive's definitely good.

[It comes out a little more toneless than he'd intended, but the sentiment is genuine, at least. He just...doesn't really know what to say. What to do here, now that he can't trust his own coworkers. How he'll earn anyone's trust himself, given his line of work.]

...I'm pretty sure I'm way in over my head here, but. I wanna help. If I can. I dunno how, though.

Hey, don't sweat it darling.

[Fay keeps his voice soft, because he's really feeling pretty damn sorry for the poor guy. He looks like this has all messed him up pretty badly, and Fay can't say that he blames him. It's a pretty scary world that has opened on them all.]

Look, none of us know what we can do just yet, okay? So we've got to watch and learn and try to think quick, alright? That's really all we can do.

[He sighs, nonetheless attempting to smile.]

We're glad to have you, okay? We need all the people we can get.

[It's not Fay's fault, precisely, but a muscle jumps in Kotetsu's jaw at "we're glad to have you", mostly because...he's not sure if that would still apply should he tell the other man the truth about his profession.

But self-pity isn't something he indulges in for long in the presence of others, and Kotetsu offers the younger man a thin, tight smile.]

Thanks. What kinda thing should we be watching out for? More of the...weird visions or whatever?

[He does notice that little twitch, but he says nothing about it - he isn't much for prying, so he'll wait until (if) the other man says something. Instead he keeps smiling, nodding.]

Exactly. Strange memories, facts you didn't know before, objects turning up that you feel like you remember, your body changing somehow... stuff like that. It's been different for everyone, but everyone seems to have gotten at least one of these.

Gotcha. There anyplace on here we're s'posed to to report that kinda thing, or is it more a take-notes-for-yourself thing?

[...He totally makes a face at that, because, ew notes. Kotetsu was terrible at that in high school and even that was twenty years ago.]

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