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[uragiru]

I'm not exactly sure where they're coming from, but...
It seems as though there are quite a few animals showing up on the station?
I thought it might be prudent to have a sort of pet registry, so we at least know who to return them to if we find them wandering the station.
We know how dangerous this place can be, after all, and I wouldn't want any of them to get themselves hurt.

On that note, there's a white cat who followed me to my room.
I'd like to get her back to whoever lost her.

[ and there's a picture attached of an extremely fluffy white cat, sitting on top of an open book and staring at the camera. ]

Comments

[bu773rfly]

Not necessarily for practical reasons, but for legal ones.

[uragiru]

But you don't make a cat have a license for walking around.
A cat-bus is operating under the same means.
It's not actually driving, but moving as a sentient creature.

[hopefragment]

if there's no driver, who's going to stop the cat-bus from going after... i don't know, birds or something? instead of staying on course for the passengers

[ryuji]

And the seats are itchy as shit

[uragiru]

I never said it would be a good means of transport.
Have you never seen a Studio Ghibli film, Hinata-san?

[bu773rfly]

[Don't you mean Studio Ghibli's copyright-safe twin, Studio Jibbly]

Oh, that's it.

[hopefragment]

i did see a movie with a bus like that when i was a kid, but what's your point? this is ryuji's cat-bus in ryuji's story

complete with itchy seats

[uragiru]

Then I'm playing the part of a critic, and pointing out holes in his story's logic.

[ryuji]

Wait back up

Did we all see that movie?

[hopefragment]

...that is kind of weird that we've all seen that, huh?

[What was it called again...? It's copyrighted, the title is escaping him.]

[uragiru]

Of course we've all seen it. It's a classic.

[ryuji]

We're all from different universes

[hopefragment]

we're not from the same earth, but somehow we've all seen the movie with the cat-bus

maybe we should ask the others if they've seen it too

[uragiru]

That isn't strange. There are plenty of commonalities in the histories of our different versions of Earth.

[ryuji]

Yeah but what if Studio Jibbly transcends all universes and is actually the mastermind pulling all the strings behind all the shit happening here on the station?

[bu773rfly]

It's not that obscure, as I remember it. But it's an interesting data point on the similarities between our home worlds that it exists and isn't obscure for the rest of you, too...

[uragiru]

I do wonder if there's any pattern to the ways in which similar universes converge and diverge.
It's almost impossible to know which points of history and society to compare, because there's no way to judge what from our own version of Earth is "abnormal."

[hopefragment]

[Hinata, in his room alone, to himself,]

You guys don't have Hope's Peak Academy... that's abnormal.

Neither of you have a world-renowned school for talented people. I'd say that's a pretty big difference between our Earths.

[bu773rfly]

It's also hard to finger single points of divergence with the sample size we have and literally infinite potential unseen universes. The advent of VR in the 2000s is an obvious point separating mine from everyone else's, but I'd be shocked if that was the only root difference. I also can't account for minor events overseas, obviously...

[bu773rfly]

Jokes aside, an Exquisite Corpse game could be a kind of fun way to pass the time around here.

[hopefragment]

what's that? i don't think i've heard of it

[bu773rfly]

It's a type of game that can be played in different mediums. Maybe it's better to call it an activity? There's no win condition.

Basically, a group of people add onto some kind of creative product in sequence. Traditionally, they don't get to see the entirety of what they're adding onto until it's all finished, so the final picture or story comes out surreal or disjointed. It's like a more involved game of telephone.

[hopefragment]

huh...

i mean, it's not like we have much else to do around here. i'd give it a try

[uragiru]

I suppose?
I've never played.

[bu773rfly]

Me neither, actually.