[OPEN] moving day!

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Who ⬤ Minato, Eiichi, and anyone
What ⬤ July substories in a get-along “shirt” / knb camera footage / catchall post.
When ⬤ July to August because it’s already middle of the month orz
Where ⬤ Various
Content Warnings ⬤ Substory 2 has the naked guy? The camera threads may discuss elements of violence and horror imagery.

[ Around one of the Sutoku residential buildings, it’s a nice peaceful morning broken by the sound of an argument. What else is new. ]

[ The excuse for Minato’s presence this time (not that anyone in this building is buying it now) is he’s helping Tama with packing and moving. It’s a relatable plight to many others, honestly, after their residences were made uninhabitable after the cursed month. The arrival of their mutual friend Eiichi has only made the move that much more urgent. ]

[ That isn’t the cause of the argument. But it might be easy to guess, considering that for the rest of the day, Minato and Eiichi can be found together. Quite… literally together. Is… that a set of handcuffs…? ]

[ The sight of them makes for an odd mirrored effect, given their similar appearances. The only real difference is their expressions: Minato looks distinctly harassed, Eiichi has a permanent scowl — they do seem to be agreed on one thing: Doggedly go on with their day as if there is nothing weird about the situation. ]

(( All Substory logs below are duo threads with both Minato and Eiichi handcuffed together and trying to play it cool. Though if you’d rather only tag one or the other, it can be handwaved that they’d gotten out of this daft predicament at some point. If there’s something else you have in mind, hit us up or pm watermemory / frogmarched. ))

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[ ... ]

[ ..........what sword, ]

[ He surreptitiously, in a way that is not surreptitious at all, sl,owl,y stretches his arm behind the door, to lean the wakizashi sword against the wall instead of drawing it. Wiping a hand on his shirt as if to further separate himself from what he'd almost done (i.e. run his fellow faction member through, a fine thanks for looking out for Tamamori on that last awful day), he'll offer a hand in case the man needs it, but if Kamui doesn't, he'll gingerly pick up the laptop and hand it back to him. ]

Abilities, [ he says a little blankly, standing in the middle of the cleaning supplies and shampoo bottles that have been knocked around in the chaos. ] Do you mean to say you... uh... how far away...?

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[Hand, thank you very much. Kamui accepts Mina's hand and carefully gets to his feet before bending down to pick up his (thankfully, undamaged) laptop again. Would be a real issue to have the reason he even came here get smashed in transit...]

A few blocks away. I could go even further at home, but it looks like that's my limit here. Please, excuse me for the trouble.

[At least until Toraguma or whichever powers that be deem it necessary to give him more, which. He won't contemplate right about now. Looking a bit sheepish now, he places the laptop in Mina's arms... and starts picking up some of the mess he made. Sorry, neighbor.]

So, [he says, setting a shampoo bottle back inside the shower,] about the recording. Have you tried to adjust it in any way yet, or am I the first one helping you out with this?

with weariness in my bones, i look up when the word "teleport" was coined (supposedly 1931)

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Sorry, I -- you can... translocate yourself. From across the street or more.

[ He shakes his head, trying to find some vague equilibrium back -- Mina had gotten to the point where he'd almost been able to look over Kamui's reflective silver eye. He'd believed the man was like, oh... himself or Kawase, baseline humans keeping company with the supernatural. (He mentally counted Tamamori in that too, really, especially now that the bridge spirit lay dormant.) ]

[ Regardless, he waves Kamui out of the bathroom, a spraybottle of cleaner in hand and the laptop under the other arm. It doesn't look like the weird lightshow he'd glimpsed did anything to the tiles. That's good? This was not something he ever anticipated talking to the new landlord about. ] Go on, I'll pick this stuff up later, don't worry about it. [ Kamui was basically a guest, after all. Unorthodox entrance nonwithstanding. ]

...eh, n-no. That is, yes, you're the first one I asked. [ He coughs. ] The last five, ten minutes of it is damaged. I didn't want to risk making it worse.

omfg lmao period canon struggle

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Yes! Exactly. [For his part, Kamui only sees Tamamori as anything out of the ordinary-- Mina's talent with a sword aside-- so he's doing his best to, well, gloss over the details a bit.]

If you're sure...

[There's probably a passing youkai on the street who thinks they might be losing their mind, but that aside, there's no damage except to the bathroom's organization. The teleportation's linked to the fabric of reality, or something, don't worry about it. The laptop's more important: Kamui sits seiza in front of the low table, sets down the laptop, and boots it up.]

Damaged how, Mina-san?

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I. See? [ Why. Why is Kamui talking like this is normal. Minakami gives the bathroom one last concerned look-over, before closing the door behind him. He doesn't join Kamui at the table yet, going to mop up the water Mina spilled on the counter a minute ago. ]

[ At the question, he throws his hands up helplessly, still holding a dishcloth. How the FUCK do you contextualize glitch effects. ] I don't know how to describe it. You know when normal film get water-damaged and scratched with dust? Only worse, and in colour.

[ Some of the glitches did make him think about some of Tama's hallucinations, when it seemed like his friend didn't bother with (or didn't want to look at) a particular detail, and the space was carelessly filled in with discordant colours. Somehow he thinks the comparison would be lost, here. ]

Anyway, the rest of the footage is fine. It's only when I tried to record the-- [ He goes back to drying the counter, like the normalcy of the action makes what he's saying less outlandish. ] --if that public statement was to believed, the 'god' holding the Enma hostage. ...I suppose it didn't want to be seen.