Texts: post-separation fortifications

Texts: post-separation fortifications
Date of Scene:	04 December 2023
Location:	Texts
Synopsis:	Kazuo and Mamoru text about quitting Obsidian.
Cast of Characters:	Mamoru Chiba, Kazuo Saitou

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(PHONE) Mamoru Chiba texts: so my commit date for quitting my job is Dec 18.

(PHONE) Kazuo Saitou texts: do we have post-separation fortifications in place

(PHONE) Kazuo Saitou texts: what the hell would they even look like

(PHONE) Mamoru Chiba texts: well im planning on texting it from near usagi or sailor pluto, who can get me to a secure location really quick. do you want to be there too

(PHONE) Kazuo Saitou texts: of course. possibly with party hats

(PHONE) Mamoru Chiba texts: :D

(PHONE) Mamoru Chiba texts: the secure location is also one i can't get out of by myself, so if you're coming with, probably bring snacks. there will be books but they might be in imperial lunarian apparently, so i don't know if i can read them lol

(PHONE) Kazuo Saitou texts: party hats, snacks, battery packs

(PHONE) Mamoru Chiba texts: and your own e-reader if you're coming with to the secure location!

(PHONE) Mamoru Chiba texts: i'm texting the other guys and relevant other parties that day too. after i text her. i don't think it's safe to do anything else, which is killing me a little bit

(PHONE) Mamoru Chiba texts: but i don't think they can come with me yet

(PHONE) Kazuo Saitou texts: any idea how long you'll be securing? presumably TBD but hours and months are different scales

(PHONE) Kazuo Saitou texts: and if that last talk was representative... you're correct. that might change, but for now, you're right.

(PHONE) Mamoru Chiba texts: Unknown! Unlikely to be months. Possibly days. But Sailor Pluto or Usagi would presumably be checking on me.

(PHONE) Mamoru Chiba texts: yeah it was. neph thinks it might be in too deep in them for me to fix it with whatever contract stuff i can figure out

(PHONE) Kazuo Saitou texts: Of course, the problem is that it might be making him think that. Thirty thousand unreliable narrators.

(PHONE) Kazuo Saitou texts: I'll see if I can figure out some way to get my mother out of the way for a bit.

(PHONE) Mamoru Chiba texts: Because they know your name?

(PHONE) Kazuo Saitou texts: Also because if I'm not coming home at night for a few days, she'd probably panic at the police.

(PHONE) Mamoru Chiba texts: i could buy her cruise tickets and you can say you won them but don't want to go or something, she can go with a friend

(PHONE) Kazuo Saitou texts: Possibly but I will see if I can come up with something slightly less sitcom. (probably not) (not without waking forces best left in their winter naps)

(PHONE) Mamoru Chiba texts: 'sitcom' like as if your mom is into embarrassing media as much as you say she is she wouldnt eat it up

(PHONE) Kazuo Saitou texts: does it come with singing ice skaters on tap

(PHONE) Mamoru Chiba texts: i could probably find one that does

(PHONE) Kazuo Saitou texts: ...

(PHONE) Mamoru Chiba texts: like disney on ice or whatever

(PHONE) Kazuo Saitou texts: I made the mistake of searching

(PHONE) Kazuo Saitou texts: monopoly on ice on a cruise ship is a thing that exists

(PHONE) Kazuo Saitou texts: I am glad I did not know this during that conversation

(PHONE) Mamoru Chiba texts: during which conversation?

(PHONE) Kazuo Saitou texts: nobody needed me helpfully lobbying for burning just specific bits of the world, no matter how tempting

(PHONE) Mamoru Chiba texts: ahahaha

(PHONE) Mamoru Chiba texts: i wasnt sure how to say i liked the world too much to burn it

(PHONE) Mamoru Chiba texts: so i just did it

(PHONE) Mamoru Chiba texts: said it i mean. anyway i am also trying really hard not to go after himeko to pull her out of the killer death void at the front door of her shrine, fyi

(PHONE) Mamoru Chiba texts: it ate her

(PHONE) Mamoru Chiba texts: she's still there in the back of my head, just really attenuated and if i check i can tell she's having a really bad time

(PHONE) Mamoru Chiba texts: and im not sure what to do.

(PHONE) Kazuo Saitou texts: possibly start by backing up and explaining "killer death void at the front door of her shrine"

(PHONE) Mamoru Chiba texts: it didn't used to be there! but it was there back when you needed to get us a hotel room, and i didnt quite understand that

(PHONE) Mamoru Chiba texts: on the other hand it proves pyrite should probably get a promotion to actual shitennou since she stopped me from going in there over and over at one point

(PHONE) Mamoru Chiba texts: anyway you know she's a ghost. the door of her shrine currently leads to the land of the dead

(PHONE) Mamoru Chiba texts: usagi was there when she apparently went in while saying something like... if i don't come back tell nii-chan it wasn't his fault

(PHONE) Mamoru Chiba texts: she still exists though and shes still connected to me so i have to figure out how to get her out without dying myself

(PHONE) Mamoru Chiba texts: but it is absolutely why that shrine cannot be purified. even before the rest of her went in there, part of her was still in there. remember i said? when we were on the roof when i said beryl was looking for a prince

(PHONE) Mamoru Chiba texts: so no purification until i can get her out

(PHONE) Kazuo Saitou texts: how many priests and/or shrine maidens have you consulted to date

(PHONE) Kazuo Saitou texts: alternatively do we know any other ghosts

(PHONE) Mamoru Chiba texts: sailor mars wanted to exorcize her until she didnt. wako did everything she could to AVOID exorcizing her when we were defeating neph's house. theyre the only shrine maidens i know

(PHONE) Mamoru Chiba texts: i dont know any other ghosts that arent just repeaters. and i don't like... KNOW them. you cant really know them

(PHONE) Kazuo Saitou texts: no I mean do the shrine maidens have any idea how to call a ghost back, or find one, or something

(PHONE) Kazuo Saitou texts: anti-exorcism

(PHONE) Mamoru Chiba texts: it's worth checking. like i doubt it but it's worth checking.

(PHONE) Mamoru Chiba texts: maybe we can turn her into a kami again. i dont know. i don't want her to be alone. she was alone longer than i was lonely. she was alone for hundreds of years.

(PHONE) Mamoru Chiba texts: we've made so much progress, i also don't want her to lose it.

(PHONE) Mamoru Chiba texts: you know how like... if someone removes the parts of you that got angry or felt betrayed or jealous or prideful, you'd be pretty boring and also they're yours and you're not all of you without them? i need to get those parts of her out of the shrine too. her whole self. and i gotta try and do it before the 18th because i'll be off the board after that and i dont know how long she can hang on in there

(PHONE) Mamoru Chiba texts: sorry

(PHONE) Kazuo Saitou texts: so we come up with all the "i doubt it but maybe" we can and check them out till one of them gives someone an idea we can try

(PHONE) Mamoru Chiba texts: ok. aaaaaa hug

(PHONE) Mamoru Chiba texts: that wasnt an ok like zoi's ok

(PHONE) Kazuo Saitou texts: obvs, it wasnt hanging out in the middle of nowhere

(PHONE) Kazuo Saitou texts: sometimes you just need a string to follow off the circular track of must do - don't know how - must do - aaaagh into the land of Well Hell It Can't Be Worse Than Doing Nothing

(PHONE) Mamoru Chiba texts: yeah. thank youuuu <3

(PHONE) Kazuo Saitou texts: note to self, keep eye out for sales at craft stores

(PHONE) Mamoru Chiba texts: for string? XD

(PHONE) Kazuo Saitou texts: of course!

(PHONE) Mamoru Chiba texts: yeah better not to mess with the red string

(PHONE) Kazuo Saitou texts: the blue string of sanity

(PHONE) Mamoru Chiba texts: i like that string. i like you too. the kazuo string of sanity. at least i'm worried and excited and scared instead of angry right now. i need to not get angry again in the next couple of weeks.

(PHONE) Mamoru Chiba texts: well. not furious. annoyed and irked and pissed off are fine. but i need to not lose my temper.

(PHONE) Kazuo Saitou texts: Probably smart. Wish I had more advice for you on that one. All kinds of ways to interrupt it if we can carve out three seconds, but getting those is a lot easier said.

(PHONE) Mamoru Chiba texts: so far only koji and sunbreaker and takashi have made me lose my temper this year. and koji backed down which made it stop. lacrima said to meditate but that doesnt help in the moment.

(PHONE) Mamoru Chiba texts: cognitive dissonance works but thats external

(PHONE) Mamoru Chiba texts: lots of interrupts work. a big mad is a lot easier to interrupt than a panic and fortunately those are extremely rare and dont generate dark energy anyway

(PHONE) Mamoru Chiba texts: it's just internally breaking it is really hard when it's spiraling

(PHONE) Kazuo Saitou texts: maybe think about what is most important to you to protect

(PHONE) Kazuo Saitou texts: if it is bigger than what you're mad about, and getting mad about that thing would threaten the bigger one, maybe it'd help

(PHONE) Mamoru Chiba texts: worth trying! carefully