???th rebuttal; fourth wall

[superordinary]

[ It's that time of the year again, and Naegi has decided to stay away from high places this time if he gets a say in where he's going to spend the day. He'd rather just have a nice, quiet afternoon with nothing too insane happening to him. The large machine that appeared in the middle of the street from nowhere reminds him of murderschool but he remembers getting some nice stuff out of it, so it's... actually acceptable and doesn't bother him too much; it beats explosive Monobears any day of the week, really. ]

I wonder what I'll get this time?

[ There are large piles of Monobear coins surrounding the machine, so all he has to do is to scoop up a handful and shove it into the machine and see what comes out.

This site can be used to randomize the item you get out of it, should you want to give it a try. ]

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[action,] murderschool flashbacks

[fortunatetoaster]

... Huh.

[ don't mind the pigtailed girl staring in confusion at the machine like she's never seen anything like it before

... Which is exactly the case actually so ]

What's this thing s'pposed ta be? Is it a vending machine? ... A real fancy one?

[action,] so many flashbacks

[superordinary]

Something like that. [ He motions to the piles of Monobear coins. ]

You insert some of those coins and you get capsules containing various items.

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[fortunatetoaster]

Oh... uh...

[ well why not

she scoops up a coin from the ground and idly rolls it between her fingers for a moment before slotting it into the machine and it spits out

a... magazine...? ]

... s'this s'pposed ta be? What kinda vending machine spits out fashion magazines?

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[superordinary]

...This one. I've gotten some really strange stuff from it before.... Like tumbleweed and military rations. [ and thongs and vibrators but we're not mentioning those, okok. ]

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[fortunatetoaster]

Well I guess rations could be useful around here. Y'mean like food, yeah? So I guess if ya saved it, it'd be good fer like, emergency food while yer on the road.

But this...

[ she makes a face at the magazine. ]

It ain't useful at all.

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[superordinary]

Wouldn't somebody who's into fashion find it useful?

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[fortunatetoaster]

. . .

Oh.

R--right. Yeah.

[ going a little red as she pages through the glossy magazine. ]

Some a'this stuff is weird though. Like, real weird. S'wrong with eyebrows? And why would ya shave 'em off?

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[superordinary]

[ that's a very good question, labrys. ]

I dunno. Maybe it's some weird new trendy thing?

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[fortunatetoaster]

Seems a hell of a lot more trouble than it's worth though. I mean... if y'want eyebrows, why would ya shave 'em off? I mean, I'm guessin' you want eyebrows if you're gonna draw 'em back on, but...

[ flicking through a little more ]

'n all the makeup... gotta take hours ta put this stuff on.

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[superordinary]

Probably. I wonder just how early in the morning people have to get up if they want to put all that on...