office hours: round 1.

[foo_bar]

office hours daily. i'm here to help... i think.

(screened PCs with han)

Comments

[foo_bar]

What secrets do you think I'm keeping?

[lovedanime]

[Mitarai has to screw up his face in thought for a second. He didn't think he'd get this far.]

How are they going to observe us? I mean, through the fitbits or something, obviously, but, I mean... Isn't being in a stressful situation very different from being exposed to a virus? I just feel like there's some kind of missing link...

[foo_bar]

I don't think you're wrong. Maybe you should consider that it's not quite a virus.

[lovedanime]

[Mitarai nods slowly.]

It certainly feels different from any cold I ever came down with...

But Connor was very specific. A virus that came from another world.

[foo_bar]

Connor wasn't lying. But it's still not quite a virus, not how we think of it, anyway.

[lovedanime]

[Suddenly very alive as if pursuing a guess in charades]

It's a computer virus! We're all in a virtual reality!

[foo_bar]

[he just.

what.

what?????]

No.

[lovedanime]

Oh...

[he REALLY thought he was on to something]

But it would explain how it could take effect instantly... and even why Connor would simply call it a virus... [because a computer virus, and only a computer virus, is what would affect an android anyway...

but this was a REALLY stupid theory in retrospect]

[foo_bar]

Oswald's said it came from "another world." Isn't that a little more realistic than we're all in virtual reality?

[he feels a little bad for crushing his attempts to make sense of this though... oops.]

1/2

[lovedanime]

No. Virtual reality exists. Enough for immersive sensory experiences, and even something like this where memories and psychological states are also modified significantly.

2/2

[lovedanime]

[He used up all his confidence on that.]

I mean, maybe that's just in my world, and even there it's not a simple or inexpensive proposition, but... Fayflower University's summer school also isn't a simple or inexpensive proposition, so...

[foo_bar]

[1, his worked is fucked up. 2, Han doesn't even know if cost has actually factored into anything going on. once you price out human life, everything else seems cheap in comparison. But also he. feels bad again. OBVIOUSLY HE'S ABUSING HIS BURSTS OF CONFIDENCE]

Maybe it exists for your world, but this is definitely not what's happening here. Trust me, I'm really good at what I do, and what I do is programming. I would have noticed.

[lovedanime]

...I believe you. From my point of view it was the other way around, with you the programmer and Vivienne or Megumi doing... you know, whatever she does... but... I'll, I'll trust you. Anyway...

[wow this is... just so much]

I mean, it makes sense for something as bad as D-756 to come from another world. But it's still very different from a normal virus. That's what I want to understand...

[foo_bar]

[he seems to pause here, like he wants to say something-- and then he sighs.]

It's not normal. You're right. I don't know if it actually did, but given that you're here, it's not impossible, right?

But I don't know as much about it as Oswald does. It's very personal to him.

[lovedanime]

[At first he looks ready to say something along the lines of "fuck Todd", but then his eyes widen, and one word comes to his lips:]

"Jules"...

[foo_bar]

[han can neither confirm nor deny this-- but also, he would have been totally on board with the "fuck todd" sentiment as well.]

Sounds like you've already heard something.

[lovedanime]

Nothing particular, just - it's literally on his profile twice, and that word is obviously some person's name. You know?