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takamagahara2018-03-02 08:06 am
godsoffortune) wrote in takamagahara2018-03-02 08:06 am
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Test Drive #26
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Ayakashi generally have a particular method by which to hurt humans. But an ayakashi has appeared that seems to be completely random in its methods, and anyone merely being near it becomes a target of its malevolence in a variety of ways. Dispatch this vagrant ayakashi before it harms far too many people.
Hitchhiking in Japan is rare. A friendly but lost-looking foreigner on the side of the road will attract fascination, concern and compassion. But a Japanese person doing the same likely won’t attract the same positive attention. Yet here is one Japanese person praying for a way to experience the adventure of the hitchhike. What to do for your follower? Well, going as a group of three sounds good, doesn’t it? Just be sure to attract sufficient attention to yourselves so that the drivers will properly notice you!
The X-Games, popular overseas, has suddenly become a hot topic with Japanese competitors taking top spots in skateboarding events. Burning to follow in their wake, young teens have taken to the streets, parks and basically anywhere with a strip of pavement to hone their skateboarding skills (which may or may not exist in the first place). While it’s good to see kids getting away from the computer screen, they’re also becoming a public nuisance: damaging handrails, narrowly missing pedestrians, and making noise right up to sunset. Answer the prayers of the kids yearning for glory? Answer the prayers of those wishing for peace in their neighbourhoods again? (...What’s a ‘skateboard’ anyway?)
An enthusiastic grade-schooler has started a new career helping people find love! She's hooked up teachers, classmates' parents, even random strangers… but it seems like all the matches she's trying to make this month have gone horribly wrong! Is she being stalked by an ayakashi or is this just bad luck? Either way, she needs help getting her mojo back.
In the trendy Ginza area, a mall has set up an elaborate indoor display of lights set to represent the real night sky. The key feature is the evening illumination show, where the various zodiac constellations are lit up to music. Strangely, there are growing rumours that those who view the show become even more focused on their horoscopes (much to the benefit of local fortune tellers). It’s even said that people’s personalities shift to become more stereotypical to their respective signs. Take in the show for yourself and see what happens?
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x-games x-out (though i laughed super hard at the last one ngl)
He still looks really, really unimpressed, though.]
Because you're the one who's been riling them up into wanting to learn it. So it's a bit late to start making excuses.
[Also, he's looking at that skateboard like he may well break it if Yusaku tries to literally or figuratively ollie out. Possibly while he's on it.]
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I'm not riling them up, you could easily do these tricks too. If you gave it a try, you might even end up better than me.
[ ... Then again, he doesn't get the nurturing vibe of a natural teacher off of Shun either, so he doesn't imagine either of them are enthusiastic about becoming an impromptu mentor. ]
... A compromise. [ One that doesn't make him happy, but he supposes that's just what compromises are. ] I teach you first. Then we teach the kids together.
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I don't waste time with things like that. [That answer is almost immediate. Now if it was non-skateboard-related acrobatics, they'd be all well and good because Shun does those with a frankly unreasonable abundance. Apparently adding the board makes it less practical.
And as much as he doesn't like teaching people if the lessons don't involve fighting or dueling, that seems to be true of both of them, so after a moment of considering, Shun gives a somewhat exasperated sound and nods.]
Fine. It'd be better to keep it something simple anyway. [He doesn't really trust that the kids wouldn't hurt themselves with a more complicated maneuver as soon as they turned their backs anyway.]
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Alright, so the easiest one for me is a kickturn... basically, you just get some momentum going, then you lean back to push the board up and...
[ More vague gestures, less useful this time — he's trying to communicate something of a halfway turn, but it's not particularly obvious. He's not sure how to explain this other than uhhhh stuff happens, but he realizes that's not actually useful... He wasn't lying about not being the best at teaching stuff, so it's probably good that they're dryrunning this. ]
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You really are bad at this. [And Shun is exactly the kind of person to point that out with no consideration for politeness, a.k.a. that concept Shun isn't on speaking terms with.
Still, he tries to picture it based on what he seems to be trying to get at and what he's seen of the board moves so far.] So it's getting it moving and then shifting the balance to the back to turn the front.
[Give him some credit, he's reasonably good at figuring out matters of balance and movement even from unhelpful vague hand gestures.]
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[ Ah, to be so young and already so dead on the inside. He doesn't sound mad, annoyed, or sad to be called out, all he has is dry resignation to reality. But now that they're talking more specific points, he's ready to be somewhat more helpful: ]
... But yeah, basically. It's more about being able to counterbalance your own body movements than anything fancy with the board itself.
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Counterbalancing his own movements is something he's very familiar with doing, so he gets the motion on the first try, shifting his balance back and turning the board in one smooth motion before letting it drop again.]
Is that it? [Surely the other things have to be harder than this. Or maybe he's just had way too much time on his hands here to hone his already impressive acrobatic ability and control over his movements down to an art form.]