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[4000excuses]

...Can we not speak of what happened in the most recent experiment?

I extend my sincere apologies to anyone I met during that time. [NNNNNNNNNGH] I was not myself.

...

And might I ask if people would be willing to give me their autographs? I find it is better to ask in person, but my projects keep me indoors a good deal and I'm so far behind.

Comments

[written/voice] fashionably late, yes

[realityanchor]

[Have an autograph! Her cheerful handwriting is somewhat unpracticed, but she's careful to make it nice and neat.]

There you go. Are you trying to get these from the whole village?

[voice] sup bb

[4000excuses]

Ah! Thank you, Marica-san!

And yes...eventually. I would like to collect them all some day, but slowly and over time.

[voice] sup home slice

[realityanchor]

I imagine it'd be tough getting signatures from the more, uh, dangerous types around here.

[voice] it's hot orz

[4000excuses]

Ah...yes, but I suppose....I could...

[But what if they were famous!! How could he... Oh...]

Perhaps that would be best done over the journals.

[voice] /stuffs snow down shirt

[realityanchor]

If you could manage to persuade them. Though I'm not sure why you'd want their signatures in the first place. [She figures he's collecting them to commemorate friendships or something.]

[voice] YES

[4000excuses]

For the novelty? They are like rare cards in a deck. Sometimes they are not the most useful or even the ones you especially want, but they are rare and so they must be had. A collection is not complete without the rare cards!

[voice] ... /backs away warily

[realityanchor]

O-Oh. [......... Kind of like collecting every Starbearer on the Tablet of Promise. Not that she could ever say that out loud.]

Isn't it kind of an endless mission, though? There are always people coming and going.

[voice] ; ;

[4000excuses]

That is the joy of collecting! A never-ending struggle against time and tides to achieve the perfect collection!

[voice]

[realityanchor]

Well... It must take a lot of dedication, that's for sure. Did you do this back home too?

[voice]

[4000excuses]

In...a way. [Yes. But not with people like this. 2D people coming to life!!!! It is so much more exciting.]

[voice]

[realityanchor]

It's lucky that your hobby was able to carry over here.

[voice]

[4000excuses]

It is, yes.... Although it is a bit more complicated here as I cannot tell people why I want their signatures without breaking a fourth wall or damaging someone's vision of reality.

[And now he sounds like he's talking to himself.] Although some might not be so upset with the truth should I tell them... While others have a hard time accepting even some truths which are quite normal where I am from. Not that I can--

[---!!]

Ah, pardon me. I got away from myself.

[voice]

[realityanchor]

Fourth... wall? [Damaging someone's vision of reality?]

That sounds like some serious stuff. Don't tell me our signatures have some kind of... mystical powers in them or something.

[voice]

[4000excuses]

Only in Akihabara.

[voice]

[realityanchor]

Akihawhat?

[voice]

[4000excuses]

A holy place for some of my people. [He won't say which of them because that would be fourth walling, too.]