🎧 homophonic | pcs | kyoko kuremi

[silicone]

I whipped up a special new coffee blend.

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wknd 0, friday

[silicone]

[ hello eiden is just flopping down on some furniture and sinks deeply into the pillows with a plush shark while topper explores the immediate area, tail up. he squeaks aggressively and sits up on top of the head of a matching arm chair, watching. ]

Topper, relax... come on. Dying's kind of rough.

[ he can't remember how he died... so... well. it's extra rough. ]

[factoring]

Just kind of, hm?

[She's walking down the aisles, content to take in the new area.]

[silicone]

Oh—hi.

[ whoa. he blinks a little and sits up a bit. ]

Yeah. Granted, I have twenty bucks to my name so that sort of sucks. Least the chicken nuggets are free.

[factoring]

They were generous enough to give us something to work with. I wonder what kind of tasks they'll be asking of us in the future.

[silicone]

Mm, it is better than nothing. Could have definitely been nothing.

Wondering what kind of weirdos trap a bunch of people, tell them they're dead, then say they're going to make us form teams... sounds like a bad gameshow.

[factoring]

They are asking us to make our own teams. They don't seem to be particularly bothered about the specific composition.

Are there any shows with this specific premise?

[silicone]

Not with all of those things together, but... probably a few out there with some of those qualities...

[factoring]

I haven't watched many. My job tends to keep me busy.

[silicone]

I haven't really had access to TV in a year or so... trends change pretty fast.

What kind of work do you do?

[factoring]

I deal with hacking and cyber anomalies.

[silicone]

Whoa, what?

That job sounds cool as hell. What's it like?

[factoring]

Mostly it's getting hackers to give back stolen accounts and data. Occasionally looking into company conspiracies.

It's not always exciting, but it can be.

[silicone]

So you've had exciting jobs before? Like what?

[factoring]

Hmm... There was an interesting one about a hacker who was stealing people's appearances and locking them within the network, unable to log out again.

[silicone]

[ he sits up more ] What? Seriously? How do you lock someone inside of it like that?

[factoring]

It does depend on how you log into the web. Essentially, if you lure in someone's consciousness and then dispose of the body while there's no one in it, there would be nothing for that person to log out to.

[silicone]

Wait, so their consciousness goes into the web every time they want to access the Internet...?

[factoring]

When someone connects into EDEN.

[silicone]

EDEN is...? Sorry, this sounds way different than what I'm used to. Is it like some kind of... virtual reality thing?

[factoring]

Yes, it's a virtual reality. A next-gen web service that users can mentally enter into.

[silicone]

That's next level... We're not even close to touching that back home. Or where I just came from. That's really cool. So are you like a VR cop?

[factoring]

I run a private detective agency, though we do occasionally work with the police.

[silicone]

So you're a detective... that's really cool.

[ topper unburies his tiny white stoat body and perches his forepaws on eiden's head. ]

What do you think of the whole situation right now...? You think we're really dead?

[factoring]

[ Topper you are SO CUTE ]

Can you remember how you died?

[silicone]

[ ... ]

Not really. It's pretty fuzzy. It's weird.