video;

[brokethecamera]

[The feed is slightly shaky as Mai is recording from her cell phone. She has a crooked smile on her face as she looked at the camera.]

I don't suppose anyone's gotten any strange...gifts today?

[She turns the phone so that the camera focuses away from her, and instead reveals a desk with a broken video camera set on it. Broken pieces of the lens are scattered around it, and there was a large crack along the side of the camera's body.

Mai's voice could be heard off-camera.]

It's the camera I broke back when I first met Naru. I'm almost sure of it. [For a moment her voice is almost sad. She sighs slightly before her usual cheer picks up again.]

I'm just wondering if it's community related or something else. So any other strange things going on?

Comments

[aquaticrush]

I think so. I just got a glass of juice... I think it's really old. It's definitely gone bad.

[brokethecamera]

A glass of juice...? That seems pretty strange.

[aquaticrush]

I'm not sure what to do with it.

[brokethecamera]

Leave it alone maybe? If it's from the community then I'm sure it will go away sooner or later.

[aquaticrush]

I suppose... *sigh*

[brokethecamera]

Can you just pour it out? Or does the community do something weird with it?

[promisedknight]

Nothing like that on my end, but it's probably a virus.

[brokethecamera]

That was my first guess. I'm pretty sure Naru got rid of this thing after I broke it.

[promisedknight]

Why would a virus bring back a piece of garbage?

[brokethecamera]

Well, it's more than just garbage.

I mean it is...but it isn't. It means more than that.

[promisedknight]

Then if it means something, your friend wouldn't have thrown it out. Virus or not.

voice;

[selfished]

.. 's just a virus, yeah? Just gotta ignore it and it'll go right away.

[ But it's almost like she sounds a little avoidant.. ]

voice;

[brokethecamera]

Well it isn't doing much, so it's pretty easy to ignore, I guess.

[selfished]

Just drop it in some corner or whatever. Or even throw it away if ya wanna. Not like it matters with this kinda stuff.

[ Stop sulking like a kid, Kyouko. ]

[brokethecamera]

I don't know. It kind of does matter. To me at least.

[selfished]

But.. ya said it's just a camera ya broke, right? Doesn't sound all that special to me.

[kendoleaf]

Yeah. I think it's something going on with the community. I... I got an old shinai of mine that broke when I was a little kid.

[ Her first one, actually. She remembered being pretty upset about that when it happened. ]

[brokethecamera]

Maybe it's a virus about broke things...?

[kendoleaf]

Maybe. It's not like it makes any less sense than all of the other viruses that we've seen so far, right?

[brokethecamera]

Exactly. Things are always a little strange when it comes to the community.

[kendoleaf]

Yeah. I know. I mean, you'd think it'd want to give it a rest with everything sometime, right? Though I guess it doesn't need a break since it's not alive.

[voice]

[shadow_spread]

Didn't he repair it?

[voice]

[brokethecamera]

I think he bought a new one, actually.

[voice]

[shadow_spread]

Ah, he does have good funding.

Though, it does look like you're not the only one finding something.

[voice]

[brokethecamera]

Mm, yeah. I wonder what the connection is though.