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[ryuji]

Anyone else getting a massive wave of culture shock? It's totally kicking my ass right now. I got a nice little gig set up here above a bar, but the catch is I gotta work. But yeah, people are coming and going like crazy around here. Weird outfits, weird hairstyles. Seeing everyone go crazy about freedom is pretty freakin' cool. Nobody needs some stuffy old dude sittin' in a golden high chair sucking his royal thumb and giving out orders all the time.

Not gonna lie, I've seen some pretty big palaces before, but I totally wanna raid the hell out of Versailles.

So anyway, is it like this all the time when you guys get a new mission? I've never been to Paris before, but I kinda know what it looks like from pictures back in my own time? Universe? Good luck getting your head around that shit, it's way too deep for me. I was all excited to see the Eiffel Tower, but apparently it's not gonna exist for like... a hundred years.

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[ryuji]

[It's not arbitrary at all. It's at least a level one social link. At least worthy of a baton pass. Maybe. Who's he to tell what special powers this sort of stuff gives people?

But... he does smile something wicked when Ashitaka responds to him with the same phrase, albeit a little more formal and little less thug, but he likes it. He feels like Ashitaka shouldn't lower himself down to his own level. And it's okay if he doesn't know what yoga is (Ryuji honestly doesn't know either? like a bunch of people sitting in a room doing pre-workout stretches and moaning weirdly)]

It kinda seems like anything is honestly pretty possible here. I mean... look at it. We're in the middle of a revolution that neither of us got to live through.

There's thousands of accomplishments left. One of 'em has to be what you're looking for. And if it's not, we'll figure it out!

If we know one thing, it's that time is on our side. And if it's not, we'll pluck the curse right outta your heart. :)

[That's the shitty thing about blame. It's never put in the right place. Sighing, he closes out the chat window for now and comes back to it a little later.]

Screw it, then. Stop blaming, if it ain't gettin' you anywhere.

[lonelywar]

[Ah, that's right... none of Ryuji's social points are arbitrary.]

I would have thought time to be very much against us.

[Though not in the sense that they were running out of it, but they were running up against those that could use it against them. The final fate that had befallen Xici was still vivid in Ashitaka's mind; he would not let it fade.]

You are right, though. We are told not to too drastically change the course of history, but there are many and more things that we can do to change things for the better.
And... yes. I am not sure it will be possible, but I am grateful you are willing to try.

[Ryuji's eventual response, which Ashitaka receives some time later as well, also gives a brief pause in response. It seemed like something one might not reply to verbally in person, but that's a level of interaction not offered through text...]

Yes. It is better to dedicate thought to something more productive.