2020-09-09: A Webcam Casualty

Webcam Casualty
Vic unknowingly meets a celebrity and gets a damaged webcam out of it in addition to crossing paths with Vivian again.
IC Date	September 9th, 2020
IC Time	morning
Players	Blair, Kameshi, Konno, Vic, and Vivian
Location	Tech Addictions

Its early morning and Vic is hanging out in Tech Addiction where she's enjoying a large cup of coffee and a pastry. Her bag is laying on the table within reach of her left hand and her obviously custom laptop (due to it not looking like any known major manufacturer's model) is sitting on it right in front of her. On the floor beside her is a paper Tech Addition bag with her purchases in it.

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As the door opens, Kameshi sashays in, a large slideseel plastic bag with a broken high end webcam's parts inside held in her right hand. She looks around a moment, "Um... can someone help me with this? I sort of had an accident, and this was the casualty of war." shaking the bag as she pouts and shifts her weight from one leg to the other. Despite the relatively cool temperature, there is a bit of persperation on her brow, arms, and collar bone area.

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Vic looks up at the busty woman as she enters and speaks. With a glance towards the other patrons, who are shying away from the grogeous woman as they are completely intimidated just by her presence, and the half asleep employee on the deep end of an overnight shift, she decides to take the initiative and waves to Kameshi before saying, "Let me take a look see at it," as she reaches into a pocket and extracts her Swiss Army CyberTool and sets it on the table just to be prepared.

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Smiling sweetly, Kameshi strides over, either oblivious or so used to the intimidation effect on some people that she doesn't even acknowledge it. She looks at the pretty brunette, who probably intimidates most herself, "Hi. Thanks. I sort of got a bit exuberant taking some guys out in the new Exit Wound Ultimate Royale, did the dumb unconscious thing where I swung my controller and myself to the left to dodge roll, flipped my chair, and kicked my camera across the room with my steel toed boots." blushing a bit in embarrassment at her rookie mistake, especially considering she is fairly high ranked on leader boards and gamerscore in almost every game she plays.

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Vic swallows a bit nervously as Kameshi approaches but nods. "So... you kicked your camera with steeltoed boots," she repeats a bit incredulously. "Alright," she hesitates, "Let me take a look see at this."

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The door to Tech Addition opens to reveal a short-haired blonde woman, who gazes about the room slowly before focusing on the myriad of products available. She begins to make her way over before glancing over at the pair and doing a double-take. With a wide grin, she changes directory and raises a hand in greeting to Vic, "Hey, Laundry Whisperer!" Her eyes turn to Kameshi who earns a quick squint before widening in recognition with a snap of her fingers. "Oh! I remember you. You did that impromptu musical number at that classy bar that was having ladies night a few weeks back." She smiles sheepishly, rubbing the back of her head, "Sorry, but I can't quite recall your name."

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Glancing over a the pageboy haircut woman, Kameshi smiles politely, "Actually been considering that myself lately. New town, maybe time for a change, start using my middle name, or more specifically part of my middle name, instead of my first name anyway." she extends her hand to Vivian, "I'm Kameshi Hemolele Endellion, but been really considering going by Lele, fewer syllables, pretter, sounds less like I think I'm a rule 63 Namekian deity of Earth." she looks back at Vic and scrunches her face, "If it helps, it was off the wall, off the door, into the hall, through the railing, down the steps, over to the the den, nothing but hardwood floor." yeah, she is trying to make light of a probably one in a million accidental bicycle kick that would make Pele proud.

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Vic examines the webcam, unfolding the knife blade on her multi-tool and poking at the bits and bobs of it. "Well... Its dead, Jim," she says with a grim chuckle. "That said, might be able to revive it but it'd require me working on it at my workshop not here in a store." She looks at the gorgeous celebrity with nary a hint of recognition in her slightly awestruck expression while explaining her diagnosis of the damaged electronics. She also, however, nods to Vivian and says, "Greetings fellow laundry mat patron," to the honey blonde woman before returning her attention to Kameshi and saying, "I don't even know if it can be made to function again, I'd recommend simply replacing it," and quickly if a bit awkwardly adding, "I'm Victoria... but I go by Vic," stumbling a bit as she gives her first name apparently unintentionally.

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Blonde eyebrows arch slightly as Kameshi reveals her name, taking the offered hand and shaking it firmly; Vivian's own are rough and calloused, a worker's hands. She nods slowly. "I see," she says, "Pleased to meet you, Ms. Endellion or Lele, if you'd prefer. I'm Vivian. Pretty damn new here myself." She flashes a wide grin, "In fact, that time you sang at the bar was, like, literally a few hours after I first arrived in town. I was living in a crappy hotel at that point. Speaking of!" Vivian turns her attention back to Vic. "So I actually went to that apartment complex you said you were staying at, Vic," the blonde states, "Even got an apartment, briefly. Until I found out that it was literally a crime scene. I canceled my lease and moved real quick... found a much better place. It's slightly more expensive, but -sooooo- much nicer. You and your friend should be a bit careful." She rolls her shoulders in a shrug, "I imagine you'd probably know this already, but I thought I'd add the warning just in case." She does eye the broken webcam curiously, but makes no comment on it.

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Upon Vivian releasing her hand, Kameshi offers it to Vic, "Nice to meet you both, Viv and Vic. Frankly, I think Victoria is sort of a cool name. I'd have a so much better screen name than my silly Ki Blast imitating, KameHemolele one. I'd be like VictoriaS or something, which would be so cool when I won. Cause it would literally be like saying I am always Victorious, so just surrender now newbz to my awesomostest mad skillz, how can you win when I am VictoriaS?" giggling.

As she processes the statement about crappy hotels and apartments, Kameshi shivers, "Please tell me you didn't stay at the Hotel California? I spent my first 5-days in town there, I will never, ever be able to like listen to the Eagles Oldies Classic, like ever again." a slightly haunted, distant look crossing her eyes, as if the memory still disturbs her.

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Looking surprised at the information Vivian provided, Vic shakes her head. "No, I did not. I'll make sure to tell Astra but I moved out almost two weeks ago," she says regarding the apartments; adding, "Expensive is beyond my means. Heck /Falcon Square/ is beyond my means," with a slight blush accompanying a side glance at Kameshi. She smiles at the suggested name and says, "Interesting handle suggestion," she pauses a moment and says, "I'm totally going to yoink it." Then, indicating the damaged webcam again with a slight inclination of her chin towards it, she asks, "Do you mind if I keep it?" and explains, "I might be able to repair it but more likely it'll be salvaged for parts."

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Vivian blinks owlishly at Kameshi. "You're a gamer?" she asks before raising her eyebrows again, "Oh! Yeah, I think it was Hotel California. Honestly, I can't quite remember; I sort of wanted to wash it out of my brain and forget about it." Looking back to Vic, Vivian smiles brightly and nods, "Oh! Awesome, I didn't know. I hope your new place has better access to laundry services. Though I will miss our chats over crappy, poorly designed and operated laundromats." She winks impishly. "The place I'm at now is Summit Springs. Like I said, not bad for the money and it's pretty central to town, which is nice." She quiets as conversation turns back to the webcam.

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Someone definitely has a loud vehicle outside. Atleast the roar of the engine cuts down quickly enough. A Konno and another lad, darker tone, floppy boater hat, unseasonable loose coat step in. The pair are discussing something quietly between eachother. Konno is mentioning something about 'rice is a dumb idea'.

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Glancing at the Webcam, Kameshi pouts, "You can keep it, on one condition, help me find an equal or superior one." standing beside Vic as the skilled tech wizard examines the shatter remnants of a webcam, "Bad enough my main stream was down for a month while I got the whole permanent residence issue, move in, and setup squared away, can't go backwards in content quality nor have another big hiatus so soon. But, after that, it is all yours." she then nods to Viv, "Totally horrible, someone needs to track down what room plays that song over and over and over again, and show them how to check out. Glad you found better accomadations."

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The loud engine steals Vivian's attention away for a moment but she quickly looks back towards Vic and Kameshi with a shrug. "Could've been worse, I suppose," she says, "Could've had bedbugs." She quiets again, just letting the pair talk about the broken webcam, glancing around the room idly every once in a while.

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"Alright," Vic replies to Kameshi's request. She powers off her laptop and puts her multitool away before returning the computer to her messenger bag.

Vic slings her bag over her shoulder so that it lays across the middle of her back as she stands up and puts the damaged webcam into her paper Tech Addiction shopping bag before picking it up also. She nods to Vivian and walks over to a wall of electronic devices. To Kameshi she says, "This one would be your best bet for streaming if price is totally not an option," indicating one of the products. Pointing to another, "If you need to balance function against price this mid ranged item will do the job," she adds. Finally, a cheap Logitech is indicated, "If you are needing to save money this one will do well and is the one I'd buy for myself if my laptop didn't have a built in camera already." She gives a questioning glance to see if that is sufficiently detailed advice.

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Smartphone in hand, Blair ambles on in. Jeans, zip-up hoodie, he muses as he meanders along, messenger bag slung over his shoulder. He tucks the little handbrain away into a pocket, flashing a short smile to the ones he recognises, nodding from below hair in dire need of a cut. A scratch of his smooch cheek, and he meanders for the streaming equipment as well, lifting his head in a polite upnod "Morning"

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Nodding, Kameshi follows Vic, checking each camera out, then takes two of the price is not an issue highest end ones, smiling, "Thanks. As I was telling Blair Butler a few weeks back, I really need to start learning more about this stuff myself. I'm not totally inept. I can do my own basic setup, but if something goes wonky, I am totally useless." then hearing, the aformentioned half of B3, she smiles and waves, "Hiya Blair. Were your ears burning?" giggling a bit. She decides to not even think about dust mites crawling all over her.

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Vivian listens to Vic's suggestions of possible webcams to use, nodding in line which each explanation; apparently, she agrees with the tech maven's recommendations. She doesn't add anything, though, merely observing; wouldn't want to steal anyone's thunder, after all. She glances over to the doorway as Blair enters, the short haired blonde offering up a smile and wave in greeting, "Hello, sir."

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Vic nods to Kameshi. "Glad I could help you out, Lele," she says to Kameshi, using the name the beauty suggested she'd prefer. She says, "I've got to get moving, good luck with your streaming," she adds and then addresses Vivian first with, "See you around, I'm still using the laundry mat by the way since you asked," and then shouts out a, "Thanks for the coffee," to the store's employee as she heads out to the street.