Tao | please indulge me

[inlets]

[Pick your poison:

• A reputable high school, populated by students in white uniform. Are you perhaps a transfer student? A teacher? A new addition to the security guards?
  
• You're on a computer or some database or another when the screen behaves strangely. You are now being hacked.
  
• An electronics store. Tao is picking up a copious amount of parts, almost at what looks like random, and not bothering to be quiet about it.
  
• Your choice.

Mmhahahaha.]

Comments

[uncalled]

.... I can't make any sense of it at all....

[This is Sakon. He probably has some free time on his hands.

And he's kind of just. Observing as Tao picks up all the parts. And tilting his head and swinging his feet back and forth at he sits on a random counter someone should tell him to get off.]

What're you even gonna make, man?

[inlets]

[Whatever, man, as long as he's not sitting on a counter of valuable parts Tao needs.]

There's a couple of things I need to make for my coworkers. After that, these are for my personal use. I was thinking, I could do with another laptop . . .

[uncalled]

Wow! You can build a laptop just out of all this?

[sakon do you think laptops are made out of magic or something]

That's so neat. What else do your coworkers need? How can they get any more complex than a laptop?

[inlets]

[Sorry, man, but Tao ain't a witch.]

It's not really that complex. What they're getting is smaller.

[uncalled]

Yeah? Like... Mini laptops?

[but they already go on your lap does that make them-]

Like a wrist laptop? That'd be cool.

[inlets]

A wrist laptop? That's a good idea. But the screen might be too small . . . It'd be more like wearing a phone on the wrist instead.

[uncalled]

[He's just tilting his head at that.]

But doesn't the fact that it's attached to your wrist make it less portable? You'd need to put your hand up to your ear and look like a weirdo.

[inlets]

[Is that even supposed to be an insult.

Weirdo.]

It wouldn't be that unusual for people with earpieces. They do it all the time.

[uncalled]

So you have an earpiece connected to your wrist? isn't that a little unnecessary?

[seriously this is the most sensible sakon will ever be and he's mostly just doing it to be contrary]

[inlets]

[They're destined to just misunderstand each other forever.]

Ah, no, the part about raising your hand to your ear, because you'd be wearing the earpiece there . . . But you're right. A wrist phone doesn't sound all that practical.

[uncalled]

So maybe not one of those-

Oh, I got it! A hoverboard!

[in case you needed ideas, friend]

[inlets]

[It's a nice suggestion, but not what Tao is looking for. He waves good-naturedly as he continues rummaging.]

I think that's a little too exciting for them.

[uncalled]

[Just tilting his head.]

Wow, what kind of boring people do you hang out with? Who doesn't want a hoverboard?

[inlets]

[He hangs out with people who wash dishes every day.]

Well, we spend most of our days working. Can you imagine bringing a hoverboard when you report in the morning? Most places would call it "unprofessional."

[Tao is not professional to begin with.]

[uncalled]

Hmmm? Where do you work?

Doesn't sound like a place that really reeks of creativity if you ask me.

Hoverboards could be the way of the future and we'd never know!

[inlets]

Where I work, there's a lot of kids. At this rate, I think we'll be seeing them with hoverboards before we even get to touch that sort of technology. It might be a good thing. Maybe the ones who are always late will even start showing up on time?

[uncalled]

Or they'll be busy practicing cool tricks out in the skate park instead of showing up at all!

[aka what sakon would probably do]

1/2

[inlets]

[ . . .

That is indeed a terrible possibility.]

[inlets]

Is that what you would do?

[uncalled]

Yeah, probably.

[HONESTY]

At least until the trend wore off. Or if none of my friends showed up. What's the point in having a cool hoverboard if no one's there to share it with? Or show it off with?

[inlets]

[Wow, that honesty.]

That's true. That would be lonely, wouldn't it? Then it'd be no fun at all . . .

[uncalled]

[his loyalties are few in number and his studies are not included]

Not really!

But if wherever you worked at invented the hoverboards, kids would probably come flocking!

[inlets]

[If only.

"Get straight As, receive a free hoverboard!"

Maybe he can suggest it to the principal, once he manages to make a few. Nothing is impossible, for he is Tao!]

It would give them an incentive, for sure. We've got so many kids coming in, there's always the handful that trickle in later than expected . . . and then there are the ones that sleep through everything . . . That's right, I'll see what I can pitch to the boss.

[uncalled]

[That's the sort of thing that Sakon likes to hear! He's brightened up quite a bit now that there might be some fruition to his suggestion-]

See? That's the sort of the thing I mean! Awesome!

If you can sleep through a hoverboard, then I dunno, man - those are some serious issues you've got to work out.

[inlets]

[Bingo.]

Haha, some people can sleep through anything. Isn't that amazing?