[the pictures on the walls are clearly scenes of landmarks from a variety of countries! they give off the implication that the owner of this room is well-traveled.
there aren't years written on the backs of them or anything, but there are months which correspond to the scenes on them - "June" for scenery of a Mediterranean beach, "January" for a snowy landscape, "March" for a picture of plum blossoms in bloom, and so on and so forth.
the pattern seems to be that most of the phrases underlined aren't too complicated! they're simple things that would seem weird if someone who was fluent in a language got wrong.]
[the lock screen image is very pretty. it is, in fact, venice, which sebastian will recognize even if he's forgotten the names. and yeah, they're venetian masks.]
i'm glad someone here is from earth and can do these things. once sebastian enters the italian foot mind palace, where feet are temporarily banned and becomes one with the concept of italy, yuri will just nod. and type.
this does in fact work! the background changes and the desktop loads up. this person's desktop is a mess. there are scattered icons for a variety of games, images, mp3 files, a music player, and three text files, but they're not organized into folders at all. what a fucking mess.]
Right. I'm curious about the images as well, but-- [ ye olde will control the laptop i guess. it's probably like watching your parents slowly type one key at a time, pausing to look for the next one.
[there is no order because this person's desktop organization is a huge mess, so i'm rnging which one you get first.
anyway! it's a list.]
1. Orion. Pretty to look at. 2. Cetus. Not TOO annoying... 3. Aquarius. I'm tired of puns. 4. Gemini. If I wanted to listen to a lecture, I'd still be in school. 5. Aquila. Shut up shut up shut UP. 6. Lepus. If I have to see that stupid, judgmental look one more time... 7. Virgo. Ugh. Would anyone even notice if I just drowned this idiot in the pool, do you think?
[the next file... also pretend the text in the file above was all lowercase like the one below]
mom said she'd be back this weekend, but she got stuck late at work again, so whatever. why does it matter if i accepted this job or not? i bet she won't even notice that i'm gone.
the hotel isn't too bad. it could be a lot worse. at least I'm not going to be one of the people who's actually going to have to play along with this game. i can just sit back and watch.
my coworkers are mostly annoying, though. you think if I got rid of them and did their jobs and mine, the nightman might give me another job after this for being so efficient?
[there is not because i don't want to have to come up with what it actually says if you find someone to translate it
anyway! as they're trying to open other images on the desktop... the computer glitches out, then bluescreens. it begins to restart itself, the desktop loads up, it tries to reopen the first text file -
for the first text file, it reads:
Error! File corrupted. Restore backup from [a mishmash of numbers that they will have an instinctive understanding was nine weeks ago]?
...however, it bluescreens again a few seconds later, before they can click anything.
Oh, the block is a gaming system with a name that sounds the same as like, the one French word everyone kno—
[ uhhhhhh whoops ]
.......Um, maybe wipe your fingerprints off of that just in case.
[ he will offer a clean handkerchief to do the job if needed!! let's see. he wanted to peek between the blinds and see what's out that window quick... ]
[as yuri is conceivably occupied with wiping his fingerprints while becks sneeps, sebastian will head to the window! there's not really much to see peeking between the blinds - just the light of a perpetual sunset. the light ... uh, lights up the closet whose door sebastian had closed earlier, despite how strange that would be when you consider, like. physics. it's fine.]
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there aren't years written on the backs of them or anything, but there are months which correspond to the scenes on them - "June" for scenery of a Mediterranean beach, "January" for a snowy landscape, "March" for a picture of plum blossoms in bloom, and so on and so forth.
the pattern seems to be that most of the phrases underlined aren't too complicated! they're simple things that would seem weird if someone who was fluent in a language got wrong.]
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[ he's going to wander over and actually take a look at this laptop himself so he can note the wallpaper image. ]
Oh...
[ glances to the mask wall ]
Oh! Maybe— I think these are a thing in that one place! With the water!
[ this is SO HELPFUL TO SOMEONE WHO DOESN'T KNOW WHAT ITALY IS ]
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[ thanks sebby. ]
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anyway i'm not going to waste our time making another logic connection image edit but rest assured his brain was just doing that. ]
Those masks are a thing there, I think! It's in Italy and they have boats instead of roads! It starts with a V. Uh.
[ squints. ]
Ven...us...?
[ if he looks for any pictures of venice specifically around this room does anything have the name on it lmao. ]
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[ HE TRULY, TRULY CANNOT HELP YOU SEBASTIAN. ]
Isn't that a planet?
[ help ]
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Yeah, but it's also a Roman goddess, and Rome is in Italy! Why do you even know it's a planet??
[ god okay he's just going to TAKE OUT HIS NOTEPAD AND PEN QUICK and try to write down a few things until one of them looks right
VENUS
VENIS(yikes)VENISE?
VENICE?
waaaaait he thinks there was some joke about the canals freezing over and getting ven-ice ]
Oh!!! Try the last one!! Uh, without the question mark. And probably not capslocked.
[ i'm gonna cry when it's venetian instead and he has to go stare at the blinds for five minutes ]
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[ WOW.
i'm glad someone here is from earth and can do these things. once sebastian enters the italian foot mind palace, where feet are temporarily banned and becomes one with the concept of italy, yuri will just nod. and type.
V e n i c e
please let them in. ]
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this does in fact work! the background changes and the desktop loads up. this person's desktop is a mess. there are scattered icons for a variety of games, images, mp3 files, a music player, and three text files, but they're not organized into folders at all. what a fucking mess.]
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[ he'll bask in the glow of this victory for a moment. ]
Maybe check out those text files? The, uh, notepad looking things.
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[ he'll hold out his hand. high five. ]
Right. I'm curious about the images as well, but-- [ ye olde will control the laptop i guess. it's probably like watching your parents slowly type one key at a time, pausing to look for the next one.
anyway.
first text file, gooo. ]
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anyway! it's a list.]
1. Orion. Pretty to look at.
2. Cetus. Not TOO annoying...
3. Aquarius. I'm tired of puns.
4. Gemini. If I wanted to listen to a lecture, I'd still be in school.
5. Aquila. Shut up shut up shut UP.
6. Lepus. If I have to see that stupid, judgmental look one more time...
7. Virgo. Ugh. Would anyone even notice if I just drowned this idiot in the pool, do you think?
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and once this is pulled up, looks back at the ven-ice joke... is this why he gets along with aquarius ]
...Uh, wow. This is kinda catty, huh.
[ foxes aren't even in the cat family!! ]
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I mean. They're not entirely wrong, are they? Cetus is pretty pleasant to talk to.
[ the next file... ]
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mom said she'd be back this weekend, but she got stuck late at work again, so whatever. why does it matter if i accepted this job or not? i bet she won't even notice that i'm gone.
the hotel isn't too bad. it could be a lot worse. at least I'm not going to be one of the people who's actually going to have to play along with this game. i can just sit back and watch.
my coworkers are mostly annoying, though. you think if I got rid of them and did their jobs and mine, the nightman might give me another job after this for being so efficient?
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[ he's used to being the only teenager at the office... ]
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[ next! file! and also an image...? ]
I'm not sure if they came here because they were bored, or feeling spiteful or both.
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completely unreadable to yuri and sebastian, as it is written in fluent french in some parts and fluent italian in others.
they open an image file, and it is: ]
1/2
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2/2
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That's a pun? It's a block in a hat.
[ are there any other images? he'll have a peek at those. and... any way to get a copy of the combinationg french and italian rantings...? ]
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anyway! as they're trying to open other images on the desktop... the computer glitches out, then bluescreens. it begins to restart itself, the desktop loads up, it tries to reopen the first text file -
for the first text file, it reads:
Error! File corrupted. Restore backup from [a mishmash of numbers that they will have an instinctive understanding was nine weeks ago]?
...however, it bluescreens again a few seconds later, before they can click anything.
now what, sebastian?]
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[ uhhhhhh whoops ]
.......Um, maybe wipe your fingerprints off of that just in case.
[ he will offer a clean handkerchief to do the job if needed!! let's see. he wanted to peek between the blinds and see what's out that window quick... ]
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