IC contact for maskormenace

[devoutish]

You've reached Alfie Solomons. Leave your name and state your business.

Alfie can be reached via the imPort network, or via a home phone and answering machine. He does have a cell phone, but it's not publicly available.

Comments

Delivery [ Forwarded to the 31st ]

[ghoulking]

[ Kaneki only celebrates New Years, so that's the day he'll be dropping off gifts. For Alfie there is indeed a gift, which will be home-made mochi (rice cakes) and sake ]

I don't know if you enjoy sake or not, but it's something different from rum, I can assure you.
Happy New Year.

- Ken Kaneki

[devoutish]

[Alfie's first thought: he really needs to get to work on procuring that backup apartment, because what the hell, apparently people can just find his address at the government housing complex.

Alfie's second thought: these rice things look delicious.

He sends a text message back in response:]

Thanks, mate. These are Japanese?

[ghoulking]

[ yes they can. Heck, the nanites can tell where someone is too, though nobody but the russians thought about hacking them, or else everyone would know where other people currently are ]

Yes, all of them.
Sake is a Japanese rice wine, and the cakes are also rice. Both edible. [ they don't have people in them. ]

[devoutish]

I should hope so. They're delicious.

[Well, at least the rice is; it's the only thing he's tried so far.]

[ghoulking]

I'm glad you like them. I made them myself, since cooking is a thing I enjoy a lot.

[devoutish]

And the sake?

[ghoulking]

I don't know how to make sake - I'm not that amazing.

[devoutish]

Well, that's all right. I'll forgive you for it.

[ghoulking]

Thank you, then. Still, at least it's not hard to get if you want more.

[devoutish]

Seems you can get nearly anything here, at these big supermarkets.

[ghoulking]

That's globalization for you. It can be pretty great.

[devoutish]

Mm. I do prefer the smaller stores, myself.

[ghoulking]

How so? Too many people?

[devoutish]

Too many items. I don't need aisles upon aisles of things I'd never think t buy.

[ghoulking]

Someone still wants them and buys them, or they wouldn't be there.

[devoutish]

But I don't need them, so I don't shop there.

[ghoulking]

[ modern times must be so difficult for Alfie ]

I was going to tell you you can also use the internet to buy everything, but I've a feeling that would be even more overwhelming.

[devoutish]

People honestly do that? Fucking hell. I want to see the man I'm buying from.

[ghoulking]

There is more diversity and price range using online transactions, but the risk of faulty items.

Personally I like it because I don't have to go into a shop and being stared at for being an imPort.

[devoutish]

I've got my strategies for dealing with that sort.

[ghoulking]

How?

[devoutish]

The strategy depends on the person. I'll tell them to fuck off, or I'll stare back, or I'll do something to make them feel uncomfortable.

[ghoulking]

I think I'm far too polite for it.

[devoutish]

They'll sense that and take advantage of it. Blood in the fucking water.

[ghoulking]

Like sharks, hm.

You'd think they'd be more scared and yet...