[Public Channel] Radio Mingle, Day 48+ after closing time

[worldlyafflictions]

'evening, Carnival!

Since we'll want ta help each other out while we're out here in the stacks, 'n since not all of us have been here years or however long you vets have been hanging in there, why don't ya introduce yourselves before ya read off anything interesting ya've found? Seems like a good time ta get ta know each other, right~?

I'll start!

Shima Renzou, reporting! And rright nnoowww.. [A pause and there's a shuffling of loose papers, possibly being rolled on or swum through.] I've found the biggest mountain of old newspaper clippings I've ever seen. Do Fae have newspapers? Ah, some of it might be poems--let's see...

"A few young sages one bright day..."

'Sages' is promising, right?

"Disputed, doth an old tale say,
Which is the prettiest part of women:"

Oooh...

"Some said the cheeks, and some the eyes,
And so they sought the beauteous Lais,
And asked her to award the prize.
The lady said, perhaps displeased,
These thoughts I cannot understand.

"If you could have them where you pleased,
I wonder where you'd put your hand?
'Twould be, you would see,
On their..."

...Oops, ehehe! I can't say that out loud ♥


((ooc: Mingle! This post is for sharing readings with everyone--dumb stuff, little plot stuff, 'anonymous' CR-related stuff to accidentally embarrass people in the carnival if you've found something on them, whatever your character might put on the air. Thread jumping encouraged! Shima will respond to anyone to who addresses him directly, feel free to show up just to roll your eyes at him.))

Comments

[soft_focus]

[She's Here-] ....Why can't you say it out loud?

[hippocarnival]

[Can he cover ears through the radio.]

It's--[How does he phrase this in a way she isn't going to ask??] Something only adults are supposed to look at. Don't worry about it!

[Don't ask why don't ask why don't ask why--]

[starseedling]

Is it their BUM?!

[Here comes Steven, out of nowhere.]

[spaghettimonster]

Bum doesn't rhyme with hand... Maybe it's just a very bad poem!

[He's helping.]

[hippocarnival]

I haven't seen the poem. [He will confirm nothing over the radio.] But Shima said he couldn't say it out loud, so...

[worldlyafflictions]

[stifled snickering] It's totally butts, ahaha--[more laughter before he's cut off. Good thing there's no one around at the moment to shush him, wherever he is.]

[soft_focus]

Are bums bad!?

[GENUINE CONCERN]

[bananaspeedrider]

You know Yuya, I don't think you know kids like her as well as you think you do.

Also Reira, it's maybe because it's a butt.

[hippocarnival]

Yugo, she's like seven. [At least pretend to be a good influence!]

[soft_focus]

So butts are bad...........

[She's learning so much, in book world.........]

[dontpokethat]

They're not really bad, Reira, it's just... kind of rude to talk about them in public.

[He is trying SO hard to maintain a straight face and be the responsible adult here, but also this is really funny.]

[soft_focus]

...So Shima is being polite...?

[She says it with dripping skepticism.]

[dontpokethat]

If he were being polite he wouldn't have made a big deal of how he couldn't read the rest.

[Also he's guessing that last word is not "butt" but Reira doesn't need to know that.]

[soft_focus]

[.....................................but]

....why didn't he just say it then...

[hippocarnival]

It's... it's more like what they're doing with it. But Ginko's right, he's just being rude. [At least someone gets not talking about butt touching in front of the child.] You don't have to listen to it.

[soft_focus]

...I already listened...

[hippocarnival]

I mean don't think too hard about it. Or at all.

What kind of books have you found?

[royalpurple]

Thank you for your concern, but I'll take it from here.

[This is directed at everyone but Reira.

The infamous and chilling Akaba Tone (TM).]

1/2

[hippocarnival]

[What a strangely familiar icy tone, wonder where he's heard it bef

























waitafuckingminute]

[hippocarnival]

Reiji?! [WHAT THE HELL.]

[royalpurple]

Yuya.

[That's like 'hello' in Reiji.]

[hippocarnival]

What are--when did you get here? [Just now?? How has he not heard Reira screaming about this, he assumed she'd be elated?!] Where are you? Are you with Reira? Did you make a contract?

[How do all his friends keep finding this place?!]

[royalpurple]

I made a contract, yes.

[Is there any other way he would be here and in possession of a radio? No, really, he'd like to know. ]

Truthfully, this is not how I hoped to reveal myself to you.

[But sometimes people tell long, incredibly bawdy rhymes on public channels.

Apparently.]

If you have more specific questions, I suggest you save them for another time.

[hippocarnival]

[Maybe Reira's sharing, he doesn't know.]

I'm free. I can come find you now. [He doesn't sound like he wants to debate this.]

[royalpurple]

[If he must, Reiji isn't going to stop him. Or able to, really.

One hopes Yuya is at least prepared for the several extra feet of tail that have replaced his legs.]