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005 ☓ voice

[The voice that comes over the feed is sounding even more surly than usual, today...]

I am looking for a remedy for skuntank spray. Anything potentially helpful would be appreciated. Simple washing does not seem to be working.

[See, children? The ill effects of not forwarding that chain letter. Tsk tsk.

...Are those bees buzzing in the background?]

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Then congratulations for your superior luck.

Have you ever thought that maybe you're too narrow minded?

There is a great difference between narrow minded and outright foolish.

So what would prove to you that this isn't just a really unbelievably specific circumstance?

Why does it matter? I'm not going to be convinced that some message put a spell over me that caused me to be sprayed by a skunk. It's all nonsense.

A message that made you be sprayed by a skunk and get chased by Beedrills.

[It's an important correction.]

Kirikou!

[Whoa what's that, it sounds like someone in the background.

Maka was listening and then came to the realization that she recognized the voice of the man that she helped during the storm.

Naturally, she's going to intervene when her friend is being a jerk.]

Don't harass Mr. Scar! I've told you repeatedly that those chain letters are a load of garbage, I didn't forward any and nothing bad happened to me.

[Oh shit]

[Goddammit Scar look what you've done]

Hey, first of all, I gave him helpful advice. Second of all, this is way too specific to be a coincidence.

Doesn't sound like it to me, it sounds like you're being a jerk to him just because he's having a bad day.

What exchange have YOU been listening to?

I told him how to get the smell out- yeah it's not gonna be easy but it's how you're gonna have to do it- and then when I said "so now you're gonna get chased by bees"- First he outright lied about there being any bees even though I could hear them, and then in the middle of saying they weren't gonna go after him, they did.

That's what I was laughing at.

My hearing is just fine, and it's never acceptable to laugh at someone for being attacked by bees. Is that any way to represent the Academy? This man's had it rough enough, he was the one I brought in from the hurricane!

Maka, it's fine. Leave it be.

No it's not.

[Sigh.]

This idiot is my friend, I feel responsible for him.

Idiot he may be, but there is no sense in getting worked up over some foolish chain message that we all know to be made up.

It's not the stupid chain letter, it's that he's laughing at you for having bad luck. It'd be like if he laughed at me for being mauled on a mission.

[A pause, she sighs again.]

Tomato juice doesn't work. Mix a quart of 3% hydrogen peroxide, a quarter cup of baking soda, and a teaspoon of liquid laundry detergent. It can be used on your clothes and your skin. Make sure to take a hot shower after putting it on...it may take a couple of tries.

If you went into a house for this, boiling vinegar gets rid of the smell in buildings.

There is a great difference between being sprayed by a skunk and... getting mauled.

...Thank you, though.

[There is NO such thing as false equivalences in Death City, don't be silly.]

Not really...both are pretty annoying bad luck results. Not that I've been sprayed by a skunk before, but I'd feel the same way about it.

[MAKA...]

There's an option for a search engine on here, sir. I think you should probably familiarize yourself with that next time you have a question, people on the network aren't nice all the time.

Your priorities are miserably out of order, if you equate being sprayed by a skunk to being mauled.

[HE'S GOING TO BE BLUNT, HERE...]

A search... engine?

[You're going to have to explain what that is to Mr. 1920s, Maka.]

I was raised in a different culture, sir, my priorities are normal for my world. Kirikou would tell you the same.

[Telling a girl who has scars all over her that being heavily injured isn't a minor inconvenience is like talking to a wall. A wall with pigtails.]

You'll see a magnifying glass on the screen, if you click on it you can type in a question or word to search for, pushing the enter button--what you use to make paragraph breaks--will bring back results that you can read for information.

[Oh no. The wall is cute.]

I see...

[Thanks, Maka, he hadn't exactly picked up on that little bit, yet. He's fiddling around with it now.]

Then this might give me the answers, without my having to blindly reach out over the net?

[Nah, just stubborn.]

Yeah, not unless you actually want to talk to people. But a lot of them are weird, so...why would you?

[Maka you're pretty weird yourself.]

...I don't mind weirdness.

[What a... well... weird thing to say.]

So, should I have not jumped in to tell my friend to stop harassing you about the scam known as magic letters that curse you if you don't pass them on? Because that's pretty weird.

There is a great difference between 'weird' and 'rude.' Your friend falls under the latter.

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soundmind - 2014-09-06 21:05 (UTC) - Expand

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envy_the_sinners - 2014-09-07 03:32 (UTC) - Expand

...Maybe that was another chain letter he didn't forward. [Kirikou no]

But fine, fine, I'll let it go.

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