statement 1, voice

[statementends]

[this is the voice of a man who sounds like he's very frustrated and trying to not sound too frustrated. and failing.]

I'll cut to the chase, is there anyone here familiar with learning to control these... abilities. More so for people who never had such nonsense in their lives.

With how utterly ridiculous it I'm half assuming there's a pamphlet or something of the like.

[if anyone is interested in (Import)Ant Gossip there are three articles written by the same guy whose name is attached to this post, jonathan sims.]

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first bite ☣ video

[epundemiology]

[Hello imPorts, there's a little girl on your feed today. She looks a bit scrawny and grungy, as if she hasn't had a decent meal in a very long time and only just gotten acquainted with the concept of running water.]

Hey, soooo. Hypothetical question for you guys. Say a bunch of space aliens landed on this planet like, tomorrow, and you had to convince them not to blow it up into a million pieces by showing them all the cool shit they'd be wrecking. Where would you start?

[Hypothetically. It's just a thought experiment and the aliens are totally not supposed to be a metaphor for her feeling totally lost and overwhelmed in this place and how much it has, when she’s used to so very little. She's way too subtle for that, obviously.]

Lists are acceptable and highly encouraged. It's um….for a school project. Yeah.

[She looks totally convincing. Even as she scrunches up her nose a little at the thought of school. Totally.]

un. video.

[fingerchewing]

[ Justine turns on the video...and immediately turns it back off.

Not once, but two times, until she clicks it on with a sigh, positioning it strategically to only capture the right side of her face, the other cheek tainted by a grisly scar. She looks into the camera, biting her thumb nail with a vigor that is, honestly, pretty disgusting. ]

I was told that I would be accepted for who I am here. That all imPorts are monsters and freaks, in one way or another. How many of you have known that to be true?

[ Oh, shit, her thumb is bleeding. Justine winces, and sucks on the tip of it, ostensibly just to stop the bleeding, but something in her eyes looks oddly...satisfied. Until she realizes what she’s doing, and puts her hand out of view, looking slightly to the side instead of directly at the screen. ]

Any injury we receive will just be healed by the nanites, right? How long does that take?

text

[siriusly]

Hi, it's Manabu.
Sorry--I think this is easier than sending the same message a bunch of times...

Probabtion ends next week. Shortly after that, the Nonah police academy decides whether or not I can continue enrollment and training. I heard that unless something catastrophic happens, my chances are pretty good. I HAVE been trying to work extra hard, so we'll see...
(And I guess saying "there's no chance something CATASTROPHIC can happen" is silly, given the way things happen here...)

In any case, thank you to everyone who's been rooting for me. I appreciate your support. Maybe all that good energy has a way of making things turn out better in the end...
Or at least, maybe I'll have a chance to do something MORE than just cleaning up lawns and digging up old plants...
If I CAN help, you can always let me know.

That's all!
Thanks.

video/audio :

[deosil]

[ The video feed opens to a petite, redhead girl sitting cross legged in an autumn hued corner of what appears to be a local park.

Chise takes one deep, shoulder stiffening breath. ]

Hel- nope! [ Green eyes bugging out of her head, Chise started to fumble wildly with the device. The feed cuts to static before coming back blank as she switched to audio. ]

Sorry about that. [ She said, like someone not entirely sure what they were apologizing for because it was done more out of habit than anything. ]

I figured out by now, maybe a bit too late, that this place takes all kinds. This is probably out of place, and really not a pressing concern right now. Just something I wanted to ask for my own peace of mind.

[ Another deep, bracing oneself. ]

So I have two questions that are little bit non sequitur: Has anyone here ever seen a faerie. And, do any imPorts do home schooling?

[Voice]

[notayoungman]

[ It's either really, really late at night on November 6th or really, really early in the morning on November 7th. Either way, it's dark and cold. And this angry old man is clearly outside by the sound of the wind. He hates doing it this way, but he's at a loss and short on time. ]

What are current laws regarding imPorts and housing assignments?

Where can I find resources to augment other world tech to access network information?

text - and i think it's gonna be a long long time

[knaval]

kind of funny how the stupid human govt here drags their organic feet on space stuff except when they can get entertainment (sending people up) out of it, right?
everyone tell me your conspiracy theories about this
personally i think when we're all up there they'll blow us up or something and call it a malfunction

[whereas riptide is confident he could survive that, so he's not all bothered.]