Point of Order

[standalonehuman]

Hitori Togusa shared a photo. 5/11 near Recolle Police Station

So. A few things. First. Dave! I want my membership card! Talking robot spider tank with a grenade launcher. Apologies to Koutarou for stealing some of his modeling clay to make my toy up there. I still remembered nothing about myself, though, so the betting pool is still open. Anyone who wants in on the 'What Is Togusa Repressing' pool, let me know. I think the odds on 'samurai' just got a lot longer, though. The second thing is a little more important. A few of us made it into the subway, which is supposed to be shut down, the lines were damaged. The trains sure aren't running, but either it's shut down intentionally, or someone has taken advantage of it. Throughout the line connecting Enprise to Tisse, there are these QR codes all along the floor. They're those things you can scan with your phone to see a picture or other information. Scanning them didn't get any data, though. The other area I went through, I don't even know how to explain what I saw. Try going to the middle of town. Next time, I ought to bring a camera with me. I know that as soon as I post this up, Retrospec will probably try to lock it all down even tighter than they already have. But seeing as how I was assuming that's how they were getting things through the city without us noticing? If we can make them stop using it, I'll call that a victory.

Comments

[standalonehuman]

Yes, sir. Scanning them reveals nothing.

One of the other tunnels contained numbers that seem to have no pattern to them. They were close, so we were assuming they were related.

[judicatus]

Right. That might be true now, but there's no telling what the future may hold. Good work.

[ does gabranth not fully understand how QR codes work, or has he finally bought so much into the Weird Shit That Keeps Happening in Recolle that he's assuming those codes will somehow have more meat to them in the future. it is a mystery ]

Also, welcome to the club. I'd say your spider tank doesn't make much sense in terms of design, but then again, I suppose the things I've seen in my own memories make even less sense than that.

[standalonehuman]

[If only it was possible for Togusa to express bowing in pride over text.]

Thank you, sir. I'll be sure to keep you up to date if anything changes on this front.

It moves smoother than you'd expect. It can climb up walls and drive really fast, and one of its armaments is a grappling line.

And it can turn invisible, apparently. How did I know that?

[judicatus]

Invisible? Seriously?

[ he's trying to picture this thing moving in any way but clumsily — trying, and failing. but, still... ]

I'd call that impossible but god knows nothing is impossible these days. I suppose we'll know for sure if one ever turns up in this city

[standalonehuman]

Oh no. Hey, Retrospec, this was not a suggestion.

Or is this going to be like the fruits that Detective Wolf's daughter got and then they were everywhere? Great.

[judicatus]

I don't know, I'd say invisible talking spider tanks would be a far more welcome sight in this city than whatever the hell happened to all the fruit.

[ is he being sarcastic??? given the depth of his contempt for the smiling and jittering fruit, who even knows. ]

[standalonehuman]

I know what you mean. I had to start finding alternative fruits that don't smile at me.

But somehow I think these would be worse. We're having trouble figuring out how to regulate the weapons that people have already gotten. These are on a whole different scale.