Audio - un:N.SHIROGANE

[killjoyprince]

I realise that this might be an odd question.

But has anyone noticed the gas stations here? I'd not seen any while walking on foot, but if I begin to run low while driving I find one around the corner. It's as though they've shown up overnight.

...Not that this would be the first time this has happened.

[This place... At least the butcher's disappearance and the casino's appearance had seemed random. But the timing was oddly convenient.]

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voice; un: ushiromiya

[entreats]

[ .. huh. ]

Are you saying they only appear when you're driving? Not at any other time? [ After all, that sounds way less coincidental and random than most other events in this place. But then again-- ] How many times has it happened? It could really just be a coincidence if it was only a few times. Even a small possibility is still a possibility, after all.

[ This is what happens when too many detectives start talking to each other.. ]

[killjoyprince]

Twice so far. Though I've only had my scooter back a day... It makes canvassing the area a lot quicker.

What's odd is that I'd not seen them before, in person or on a map.

[entreats]

That's so weird.

[ If it isn't just coincidence. Ange still isn't fully ruling it out.. ]

I don't think this place has ever bothered to meet our needs so directly before. Why would it bother to start doing that now, and with something so specific?

[killjoyprince]

I'm not sure. Given the transport options here, I'm not even sure why they'd have a gas station. I was surprised my scooter even worked to begin with.

[Technically it hadn't been standing long. But it'd just appeared, parked and ready to go. Like how she'd left it the day she'd arrived.]

[entreats]

[ Ange huffs. ]

I mean, we didn't even have a relatively modern city like this until a few months ago. [ So the idea of a scooter showing up and actually working isn't so strange to Ange in the face of that. This place has proven that it can suddenly adapt to a wildly different sort of society, with wildly different levels of technology. ]

It's learning from us, isn't it? Maybe it learned about scooters through you.

[killjoyprince]

[Was it bad that Naoto was just glad for electricity and plumbing? After the blackouts when she first arrived...]

Maybe. Though I'm not sure why it'd choose mine and not Yosuke-senpai's, given how much he talked about such things back home.

[Though Naoto had been annoyed at all the walking.]

[entreats]

Maybe this place thinks Hanamura-san doesn't deserve it, considering his main contributions to this place involve harassing girls for inappropriate pictures.

[ Said with the iciest tone possible.. It's not even that Ange actively dislikes Yosuke or something, it's just that he's such a typical Man. In what other way is Ange supposed to deal with that? ]

That doesn't exactly seem to align with the purpose the people in charge here claim they brought us here for.

audio; un: grimreaper666

[rebellions]

What the hell is a "gas station"?

[ Guess whose world has long since moved on from using fossil fuels... ]

[killjoyprince]

[Hadn't he mentioned something about that before?]

Fuel... For vehicles.

[rebellions]

Huh... Come to think of it, they don't have a lot of those around here, do they?

[ Despite the upgrades Aldrip has received after the, uh, "incident", it's still pretty backwards when it comes to commute. ]

[killjoyprince]

No. The only transport I've seen used by the locals has been animal-based... From what I can work out, mechanical vehicles are ones like my scooter. They just appear.

[rebellions]

You'd think an AI would manage to dream up a better alternative.

[ Though judging by the short interaction he's had with it, he wouldn't exactly call that one imaginative. ]

Unless the goal is to discourage travel, but then why bring those back as gifts?

[killjoyprince]

I wonder if it's due to the change in the city. As if the transport is several steps behind the city. [It was possible that the would be another 'update'.]

It's like everything else here. Nonsensical.