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★ 004 | Video | Night 10PM

[The broadcast begins from a well-known selfie position, held aloft in one hand by one Josuke Higashikata, a marvelously pompadour'd Heropa youth...with the sky-scraping buildings of Nonah at his back.]

Lighting's pretty shitty out here, huh?

[He flashes the camera a cheeky smile before waggling a flashlight beneath his chin, casting a bright glow over the angles of his face and blacking out the cityscape behind him.]

Anyway, it's the last few days of spring break! But work's been kinda slow, so I haven't been able to afford doing all the things I wanna! Which means I've been stuck looking for a second job.

[Mostly to support his upcoming and lofty summer plans, but he's definitely had to bail on an all-nighter at the local laser tag center, and that wasn't cool.]

Which brings me 'round to a question I wanted to ask! I gotta wonder, there any imPort businesses hiring right now? Just lookin' for something part-time that's willing to work around school hours. Uh, something that can hire a sixteen soon-to-be seventeen year old? [Because legally the casino can't. Talk about a bummer.] I'm good at a lot of stuff, and great at fixing broken things.

And that brings me to the second thing I wanted to talk about.

[His brow furrows a little in concentration as he lowers the camera so that it's leveled out before him.]

I guess I've been hanging out in Nonah most of last night and today, checking out the shopping scene and chilling with a friend...so I couldn't help noticing that huge flash and all that shaking earlier! Thought maybe it was just some kinda freak storm, but after Mr. Gamagori's post about it and what he had to say, I had to go see for myself if it was all true.

[He twirls the flashlight around so it's pointing away from him now, followed by the camera itself. At first, all that can be seen is a lot of dirt. Slightly uneven ground, free of tracks, spotted by stones of different sizes all very pale in color under the assault of the flashlight. And then—

—a sudden

d r o p o f f

out of nowhere, sharp and steep, and blacker than black, the strength of the beam generated by the light Josuke's holding being nowhere near strong enough to penetrate that depth or diameter.]

...and sure enough, here's the pit he was talking about! It's hella big, even if it's hard to tell 'cause it's so dark out here. But it looks like it's close to...forty meters wide? Maybe fifty! Would hate to piss of the person who did this...

But I gotta say, it's gonna make for one hell of a place to board. Thanks for the free spring break hangout, whoever you are! Even if you kinda pissed off Mr. Gamagori in the process!

['Kinda' he says. But let's be real, here. Pretty sure Gamagori blew out some eardrums over this whole thing!]

[OOC: Branching off Lara's mini player plot for Uvo!]

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Are you actually planning on boarding that?

uh

yeah

ur gonna try 2 right? u can borrow my hoverboard

Huh.

...Okay. Maybe tomorrow? Unless this is a limited time offer.

[ okay so many she's now feeling out of sorts from NOT being on a near constant adrenaline fueled feverdream. or she just wants exercise endorphins... and another adrenaline spike in her system. ]

awwww come on it'll be a lot of fun

u need to

[Wait, hold up. Rereading...

She...agreed?]

i mean! nah no limit

this thing'll be here a while neway i think, so 2morrow is good

Ah, so you were expecting a no.

I'm not sure how they're going to fill it in... they'd need to pull dirt and stone from quarries or something, wouldn't they?

[NO COMMENT. Because he did totally expect a no, but he's glad he got a yes!]

ur asking me like i know this stuff

i got no clue. doesn't even look like something i can fix! i mean it's not JUST a hole

everything's GONE

as cool as it is, can't lie. kinda freaks me out too. i'm just glad it wasn't done in town

That's what I mean. Nothing's left there, so it was either so completely obliterated, or it was transported elsewhere. Filling it in will take hauling tons of rock and dirt from outside the city.

I heard Gamagori say there was no structural damage... I wouldn't have been able to tell looking at the pit alone yesterday, since nothing was left. What had even been there before? Just open space? That part just outside of Nonah isn't one I know as well as the rest.

what i mean is idek if theyre gonna bother filling it in, not like i know what was out here b4 either or if filling it in matters a lot cuz of expenses n stuff. i'mnot from nonah, remember?

but u felt it when it happened, u were right there with me. it was strong, but far enough outta nonah that all it did was rattle stuff in town. like we got rl lucky or something.

They'll... probably do something. Turn it into a lake? That could... be useful...

I don't think we were lucky so much as lucky that the person (or people) responsible weren't aiming to injure so much as test something out. Or were in a fit of specific passion... or had to release energy due to part of who or what they are.

actually a lake would b pretty cool

but neway that's the same thing as us being lucky 2

whatever happened it's good it wasn't a lot worse bc looking at that thing? it sure as hell coulda been. wish i knew who did it but idk...maybe it's not a big deal? they didn't do it in town so it's not like they were aiming 2 hurt ne1

unless ppl were fighting out here? could be that too

With imPorts, it could be any of the above. If it stays an isolated incident, that'd be best. If not... we've seen the places that can lead before. We'll see it again.

isolated would be best

but the chances of that regardless of what the intent was this time...

[Not good, to say the least.]

Are low. It's difficult to say who it is... if we go with "assumptions" it may be someone newer than older. That still leaves a decent sized pool of people if we pull from new arrivals the last two months... but it seems most likely this person might be new.

hold on, this is a pita i'm gonna call u

This is better!

Do you know how annoying it is trying to text a lot when you don't got dainty fingers?

[He heaves a sigh, relieved to be able to just say everything now rather than struggle with trying to type it all out.]

So, anyway...I'm not sure how much we can actually 'assume' in this case. There's just as much of a chance that whoever did it is someone who's been around a while and either held off testing a power or just got a new one or something.

I mean it's probably more likely it's a new person, but...there's really no guarantee.

A pita, huh?

[ She can't really say she knows what it's like - she's petite all around. Regardless, Annie switches over to audio as well. ]

If it's a new power, you can still check Port-in Port-out records. Those adaptations don't come out of nowhere.

[ She says, having blipped through that herself. ]

It's not about guarantees as much as a starting place.

Huh? No, no! P-I-T-A! It's short for pain in the ass! Sorry.

[A hand wave that she can't...see...]

My point is, it's hard to narrow it down to a starting place because all the possibilities are all pretty likely in the end. I mean, there's probably a lot of imPorts who've come in and haven't shown off a huge power right away. So it could just as easily be someone who's been hanging around a while as it could be someone who just popped in.

[How many creeps or 'villains' kept their shit under wraps for a bit before they caused trouble here? That's what he's talking about.]

It's like I was telling Jotaro...it's really not worth getting up in arms about because there's no practical way of successfully narrowing this shit down to a few likely people! Best we can do is just keep our eyes open and stay on our toes.

[ PITA still sounds like it should be edible, though ah, of course, an acronym. He's not wrong, but Annie would... probably do things like consult back to Houka if she wanted to run down a list of claimed or announced powers. They aren't a limitless pool of people. It'd take time, but in the end?

It's less about who this one person is, and more about what else it means they need to keep in mind and predict. She's just...

Can she just avoid this shit for now? Doesn't seem like it. Nonah is her adoptive home in this world. Having another imPort threat to it just... ah. She should leave it to Gamagori. Maybe she can just head back to bed... ]

The same thing we should be doing anyway, you mean.

When you put it like that...

[He sighs.

This isn't his idea of a good time either, you know? But he's serious. For all they know, it might not have even been a power. There was a large flash, it could have been a test site for something technological (given Nonah's reputation) or even a bomb.

Though nothing looked particularly scorched out there...but by the time Josuke went to see, it was also too dark to tell and he hasn't been back since daylight.]

I know it doesn't sound like much, but sometimes that's all you can do.

[He's not happy about admitting that. Not at all. But it's what he believes. Especially because he doesn't know anybody himself who's been keeping power tabs or the like.]

Even waiting is an action, in the appropriate circumstances.

[ She knows that. She's lived playing the long game, knowing she needs to survive day to day to cling on and make it to a goal she doesn't even talk about now. Not in the specifics.

Some things just aren't hers to share. ]

I'm not trying to be dismissive. Keeping an eye on things is... habit for people like me. It's what I've had to do the last six years of my life, and to a different degree before then.

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★ 004 | Video | Night 10PM

text the next day

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permatext | private now too wh...oops SUDDENLY INSULAR annie leonhart

lmfao annie what's the deal with sudden private

she agreed and she doesn't feel like anyone else noticing (who can't hack it lbr)

annie ur weird

news at eleven!!!

channel surfs

surfing usa

that's it he needs to try surfing next annie ur coming too

and then they headed out to california or hawaii

califor-ni-a all the way

california dreaming

that icon is distracting...... also 1/2

AUDIO NOW! 2/2

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