photonement | EVENING OF DAY 1

[ aand the door opens to reveal Aya with a pen behind her ear and polaroids between the fingers of one hand. definitely starting work on a paper. ]

Hello?

Oh--Miss Mahiru. Hi.

So they are polaroi--!!

[Mahiru shakes her head and takes a step inside.]

I was wondering... if I could help out. You looked like the copying really took a lot outta you... and I got some photos, too, if my memory card can go in your camera.

... You want to be an assistant?

[ oh wow, definitely lighting up at the suggestion. FELLOW PHOTOGRAPHER fellow junior journalist. ] I wouldn't mind help at all! Ayaya, if the memory card fits, I'd definitely like to take a look at some of your pictures.

[She's taking it out of the camera and handing it over to Aya. Poses noted in OP! Example of her work itself here??? Supposedly they're good.]

I think the readership would probably appreciate something they'd see as a little less mean-spirited. [Huff.] They don't seem to understand how hard this kind of thing is. We should be polite to each other, sure, but at some point we're gonna cast aspersions on one another.

Was it mean-spirited?... That said, most of my readership doesn't appreciate my hard work even back at home. [ no self-deprecation, just the hard sad truth. she examines the card, then her own camera for a port. ]

Good thing you have at least a couple people to vouch for your dedication... That's different from merit, but all news is good news. [Leaning over and watching Aya transfer with great fascination! If she really can develop these things that's a dream come true]

I think the same thing!

About news, not about my vouchers. They'd definitely dispute that title. [ she hesitates for a moment before inserting the card and waiting for the pics to load. let's see~ ]

[Literally nothing but pictures of people smiling, until she scrolls all the way back to day zero pictures of the park itself.]

Well, that means we just gotta work harder to show them how much this can help. You think you're gonna get more submissions?

[ wow, a huge contrast to her own sensationalist photos. ]

I'd like to hope so. If I could publish one clue that could help us all, it would be worth it.

These are... nice pictures.

I'm counting on Aya-chan for that... I'm not very good at capturing hidden clues.

[Her smile springs open wide; she doesn't exactly like it when people just tack generic positive adjectives like nice or amazing onto her work, but since Aya's in the field herself she probably at least means it when she says it]

Reporting on a situation like this is new news for me, too.

I find it impressive how many pictures of smiles you can capture, even at times like these. [ almost nobody smiles for her pix!!... for good reason. ]

Aw, that's just... what I like to look for the most. I've had some time to practice. It's hard to keep trying when despairing things are more newsworthy to a lotta people. Thank you...

[She leans on a wall for the moment, eyeing the room itself.] Do you have anything written up already that I should start copying yet...? It's okay if you don't, I just don't wanna keep distracting you while there are all those prints to make.

[ the room is messy as a crow's nest, with sheafs of paper (scrounged up from anywhere and everywhere), similarly-collected pens, and a few cups of cold coffee scattered about.

she taps a pen against her chin, then picks up and offers an article. ] I'm still working on the headliner, but perhaps you could start copying this piece? Surprise Engagement Sealed With Honeymoon Teacup Ride. Take a read.

Okay, the lede looks pretty good... but do you think after the jump there would be room for 172.jpg? "Fictive Kinship Increasingly Convoluted."

[As she lets Aya think that over, Mahiru starts gathering the necessary amount of paper, organizing the blank pieces into tidier stacks.]

Ayaya, that's perfect--every reader loves a good family drama. Let's see if I can write something fitting for this shot... [ examining the photo in question hmm hm yes she can feel the story gears clicking into place already. ]

Edited 2014-09-25 19:02 (UTC)

Well, after 172 there's 175 - in between, 173 and 174, they have Kuzuryuu in them so they didn't come out that great. I figure there's probably only space for one of them, so it's your call.

[While Aya thinks that over Mahiru dashes off two short paragraphs and fixes her introductory sentence so the two-part article is now rough complete.] How's this look? Any more changes? We could probably print this as teacup photo on one side of the sheet and trial photo on the other side.

[ printing out the selected polaroids as she nibbles on the end of a pen. ] Paper space is limited since paper material itself is, but that looks like the most productive format. If I can resize the picture without losing too much detail, we could squeeze in a few more words too.

Ooooh, we could have a side caption since you have it at that width. [Pointing to the edge of the resized polaroid.

They pass by several happy minutes this way working their way until they have about forty copies of these sheets. And then a stack of paper finds its way under the door. Mahiru gets up to retrieve them cautiously and instantly cracks a grin as soon as she reads the first two sentences.]

Tanaka, oh my god. Get a load of this. [Rifling through the stack... wow, it's thick; ten double-sided sheets!!] We might have to publish this as a limited-run extra or something... he really went all out here, look. [She places the first four pages next to Aya.]

[ looking up from ink-spattered fingers and pages, what's up.

oh wow, that's up. time to skim this hardcore rebuttal. ] ... I have to admire the conviction these two have.

Limited is right. But let's see how far we can get in copying before night falls.

It takes a lot of commitment to hone your talent until you can be selected to attend Hope's Peak Academy...

[A bittersweet force tugs at Mahiru's mouth at the opportunity she thought that acceptance letter granted, but she keeps it shut.]

Seriously, though, I'm not sure where the asterisks should go in mammaries.

This whole debate is almost footnote-worthy in itself...

Hope's Peak? Is that where you're from? [ always got time to snoop into peoples' backstories. ]

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Sorta, yeah. The school where we were all supposed to go.

[Writing writing writing writing]

You can see he really probably knows his stuff...

Were you on your way there when you found yourself here?

Sorta... but we were taken on an unscheduled school trip to an island instead...

Ayaya, a sudden island vacation detour? What a twist!

Only gets worse from there. You should interview Gundam about it, he remembers more than me.

I might just do that if we have a spare moment between voting and clues and bodies.

Yeah........

[She's tabbing back to the carnival picture to guage its sizing but, thinking:]

You know what I keep worrying about... the room searches. Not being able to give out our stuff, that's really inconvenient.

It rather is. Unless we cut off the limb of the deceased to swipe it, anything inside is lost.

And it seems like most of us ruled that out earlier... you know what I never figured out? Would we even have anything sharp enough? Does a kitchen knife work for that?

Maybe if someone applies enough force. It'd be messy work, though--you'd have to be really desperate.

It really looks like we're almost all resigned to playing this game by the rules instead... but that can't be helped.

... I agree with you that it's a shame the rooms are locked in. If there were valuable clues or information someone couldn't--or was afraid to broadcast before they died, it'd be lost forever.

Yeah... It's just one more time this game pushes you into the corner of trusting another person... or ending alone. You could leave a trail of clues to a drop point, but then anyone could solve that!

That might be the gamemakers' reasoning. In a place like this, trusting someone is definitely a leap of faith, even though any of us could get killed anytime.

[Nod]

If only we could all tell each other everything, we could single out those VIPs right away and that would be that.

It wouldn't make much of a story, but I admit that would be a nice outcome regardless.

You just have to pitch it right! Why not make it a big scandal for the organization responsible?

Morbid Kidnapper Group Gets Scheme Unraveled Within A Day... it has a nice ring to it.

EVENING OF DAY 1

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i knew i wanted an ibuki and mabel photo in here somewhere... this is the perfect opportunity thank

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