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You know those films which start with a panoramic picture of a majestic house -- then you pull back and find out the picture *is* just a picture, and the REAL house behind it is a piece of... well... shit?
Uh, huh.
I think I found the Japanese equivalent to swampland in Florida. Or, rather, my not-so-rich Uncle did, and his favorite nephew received his property (not to mention debts) of the most dilapidated piece of shit "inn" on the side of the most deserted island in Japan.
The real estate lady pushed up the glasses on her face and gave me *that* sort of look. It was evident this foreigner wasn't showing much appreciation of this piece of... real estate. She was looking back at me, part glare, part desperation to close the deal. Her mousey, timid assistant sort of hid behind her, ready, trying to protect herself from the onslaught of dissatisfaction I might hurl at her superior.
"It has a lot of history," the glassed-lady said. Well, yes, I know that, because that's the only thing you told me about the inn. A dozen times. It was originally a shinto temple dedicated to some mountain god. The temple fell to ruin with the last of its keepers shrine maiden sisters who blah blah just show me the damn place already.
She turned on her heel to show me the house. She hid her face as we entered, but her assistant, turning towards me, a look of pale stress, told me what the glasses lady had felt.
Eh. Let's just look at the damn place already.
OOC: This thread is for prissy_kytten and HookerBoots, though female writers interested in playing the heterosexual partially corpeal undead may also PM to apply.
OOC: We'll use this online English to Japanese dictionary to create names:
http://www.freedict.com/onldict/jap.html
* HookerBoots: Kaisai-chan, from "Kasairyuu", meaning "pyroclastic volcanic eruption"
* Scribe: Gary, but called Ganroubutsu-kun, meaning "plaything", by the ghosts
* Real estate agent with glasses: Hanamegane-san.
* Mousey real estate agent: Nonezumi-san
Scribe.
Uh, huh.
I think I found the Japanese equivalent to swampland in Florida. Or, rather, my not-so-rich Uncle did, and his favorite nephew received his property (not to mention debts) of the most dilapidated piece of shit "inn" on the side of the most deserted island in Japan.
The real estate lady pushed up the glasses on her face and gave me *that* sort of look. It was evident this foreigner wasn't showing much appreciation of this piece of... real estate. She was looking back at me, part glare, part desperation to close the deal. Her mousey, timid assistant sort of hid behind her, ready, trying to protect herself from the onslaught of dissatisfaction I might hurl at her superior.
"It has a lot of history," the glassed-lady said. Well, yes, I know that, because that's the only thing you told me about the inn. A dozen times. It was originally a shinto temple dedicated to some mountain god. The temple fell to ruin with the last of its keepers shrine maiden sisters who blah blah just show me the damn place already.
She turned on her heel to show me the house. She hid her face as we entered, but her assistant, turning towards me, a look of pale stress, told me what the glasses lady had felt.
Eh. Let's just look at the damn place already.
OOC: This thread is for prissy_kytten and HookerBoots, though female writers interested in playing the heterosexual partially corpeal undead may also PM to apply.

OOC: We'll use this online English to Japanese dictionary to create names:
http://www.freedict.com/onldict/jap.html
* HookerBoots: Kaisai-chan, from "Kasairyuu", meaning "pyroclastic volcanic eruption"
* Scribe: Gary, but called Ganroubutsu-kun, meaning "plaything", by the ghosts
* Real estate agent with glasses: Hanamegane-san.
* Mousey real estate agent: Nonezumi-san
Scribe.
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