video {iphone}

[ursoreckless]

[Here, have a wide-eye bleach blond, network. He's sitting in on a curb, ignoring the fact that his leather pants might be damaged by whatever garbage is laying around, and looking like he just seen a ghost or something. Then he goes from scared to completely pissed off, though it's still not about the expensive pants. Nope, it's about the car since he turns the camera to face the poor thing with a damaged front end sitting in the ruins of what had been a couple trash bins.

He doesn't turn the camera on him as he addresses the general public.]

I got run off the road by a fucking keukegen!

[Because that's the only reason why he would have swerved. He's not that bad at driving ridiculously fast cars after all. The tow truck appears and he takes the camera off the car in order to pout a little. He's bleeding but he doesn't care.]

Okay, it didn't run me off the road but it still popped up in front of me without a warning. Fucking thing's gone now and I don't even know what I've seen except it was hairy and not exactly big. If I didn't know any better I'd call it a stray dog or something, but...

[There's an officer chatting with the towing people before turning and making his way back to Shou. Shou sighs - dramatically.]

Gotta go.

Comments

Video; Phone

[searchforpeace]

So you saw one as well.

[A little more dramatically than she had, of course.]

[ursoreckless]

[Looks at the number before answering since you know, an accident involves other people after all.]

Mm, yeah. I didn't hit it though so it must've move pretty fast.

[He's agitated so his English has gotten pretty slurred.]

Voice, iPhone

[not_good_not_wicked]

Maybe it was a chupacabra. You alright?

[ursoreckless]

I'm okay. [so says the guy who's bleeding.] It didn't look like a monkey with green hair though.

[not_good_not_wicked]

[He would know better than she would.]

You're not the first person on the network to talk about a little hairy man, though.

[ursoreckless]

[he's use to being hurt because of his tendency of trying to outrace the wind]

I didn't get that good of a look at it. Looked more like a keukegen - a lotta hair and big eyes.

[not_good_not_wicked]

You have to admit though, something is going on.

[ursoreckless]

Yeah, something is. [his car though -SOB- he is so not happy about that]

Know of any good mechanics?

[not_good_not_wicked]

No, I just moved here.

Ahh this is frustrating though. I wanna DO something! Figure out what's going on! I just don't know where to start.

[ursoreckless]

That sucks. I guess I'll have to rely on internet reviews.

Maybe something will appear. These hairy things can't just be here to make us mad.

text; japanese

[controlsdesire]

Keukegen?

[He recognizes the officer at the scene, which doesn't raise any alarms, but there's definitely something about the way the man in the video looks that strikes something in Shuji's memory.

What was the easiest way to start a conversation without drawing too much attention to himself? Maybe he could just glance at the police report when it came back to the station.]

text; japanese

[ursoreckless]

Something with a lot of hair and big eyes. I didn't get a good look at it but I think it's what a few other people have seen too.

[That report will have Shou's real name and address on it, including an account about him swerving to miss a stray dog and end up going off the road. He's not going to mention that he was seeing a monster to the cops after all.

There will also be a full tox-screen having been done to him at the scene that shows the only thing Shou had in his system is some caffeine.]

[controlsdesire]

Do you think it really was one, or just something that looked like one?

[Not that either of them would know what Japanese spirits look like, but it certainly would be strange to have creatures from his own country's mythology showing up in America.

Also, Shuji somehow manages a bit of sarcasm, which is more emotion than he usually puts into his writing.]

You should take care that you don't get sick.

[ursoreckless]

Probably something that looks like one - there aren't any raised buildings for it to hide under around here.

[Since he's in a place that might have basements but nothing like the raised platforms of a traditional house.]

I'm planning on having some tea and meditating after this.

[controlsdesire]

[And with that, Shuji's stopped replying again, clearly not one for carrying on conversations for very long.

Though looking at the report later on will confirm who Shou is, Shuji's not about to admit to anyone that he's on the network. So, he'll just tuck that info away and use it later.]

[ursoreckless]

[This person on that number is really getting to be annoying a little. Shou is so going to have to have words if they ever show up again.

Later on though, he was going to have to go to the station and sign things and make sure to get a copy sent to his insurance agent to get his car fixed. They might actually meet up there, who knows.]

voice;

[hollowleg]

You're, like, the third person I've heard talking about seeing something hairy running around. This is getting weird.

[ursoreckless]

It's getting annoying. [don't mind him, he's still sulking about his car] What the hell is going on anyways?

[hollowleg]

You should have just hit it. Then we could know what it was.

[ursoreckless]

And get slimy keukegen guts all over the place? Do you know the kind of disease those things are suppose to carry?

[hollowleg]

Well, yeah, I know they SUPPOSEDLY carry disease, but they're also not real. ... of course, lots of things that aren't real are real here. But at least your car wouldn't be banged up. Just gross.

[ursoreckless]

Well, if you were to believe what a lot of people say, what we're going through right now is not real, so I wasn't going to take any chances. Besides, who knows what one of those would do to a car besides spill disease-ridden guts all over the paint job?

[hollowleg]

My stomach and I would beg to differ on the "not real" part, man. And it'd probably be better than hitting the dumpsters! At least yokai are squishy. Usually.

[ursoreckless]

I heard that. Man, that's gotta suck a lot. Do you have any idea on what caused it?

The car's under warranty. Once I get the paperwork settled, I can get it fixed. Hopefully.

[hollowleg]

No. I mean, nothing more specific than "some weird supernatural shit". It's fine, now, but I'm hungry all the friggin' time. Driving me out of my tree.

Ha! Well, I hope so. It's a nice car, it'd be a shame if it weren't repaired.