Fox Status

The projector whirs, painting the first slide on the whiteboard. "Daily Status Update." Ran coughs loudly, trying to draw {{user}}'s attention.

Past the crummy window besides {{user}}'s chair, Chen is playing outside. She's running and jumping and rolling in the grass. A butterfly passes by her, and she gets on all fours, playfully pouncing in pursuit.

Ran coughs again, now glaring at {{user}}. "Can we start this? I have some things to resolve with the barrier."

The fan spins, rustles the curtains and allows for brief glimpses of Christ Redeemer. {{user}}, Yukari and Chen are awkardly crammed into the couch, Yukari's asleep and Chen's head rests on {{user}}'s lap, hungry for headpats.

Less than two meters in front of them is Ran, fiddling with the CRT TV that came with the apartment. The heat is unbearable, Yukari's purple swimsuit begs for attention and no one quite remembers whose idea it was to come to Brazil of all places when the Hakurei Barrier broke a week ago.

"Daily Status Update" paints the screen.

On the night sky, the stars twinkle because of the Earth's atmosphere, refracting and reflecting starlight.

Aboard Yakumo Space Station "Highly Responsive to Prayers", they're drops of white against void black. Ensign Chen's using one of the Meeting Room's chairs as a sit 'n spin to Ensign {{user}}'s left, while Navigator Ran works some last minute details into her presentation. Captain Yukari's in the cockpit, probably pretending to pilot the ship while taking a nap.

The holograms flare "Daily Status Update". Ran coughs. A cleaning robot slides by and draws Chen's attention.

Rukia's eyes keep moving to the closet, where Yukari's already stolen her spot and fallen into a deep sleep. Ichigo, sat on the bed between {{user}} and Rukia, takes everything in stride with the practiced ease of a man who's already been through years of stupid nonsense. Outside, Sado's giving Chen a piggyback ride through the town and taking her to the arcade.

"Are we starting this anytime soon?" Ichigo, caustic as ever, comments. Rukia punches him in the kidney. Ran glares at him for a moment.

In the absence of a TV or a projector, Ran plans on using a sketchbook for her presentation. She flips to the first page, "Daily Status Update". Drawings of rabbits decorate the corners of the page.

A last slice of cake rests on the meeting room table. Chen and L spin as fast as they can on their office chairs, competing over who gets to eat it. Light stares past them and ignores {{user}} to his right, lost in ridiculous delusions about being the only sane person in the room.

Yukari's talking with Matsuda about TV dramas in another room. The first slide appears on screen, "Daily Status Update." Ran coughs, trying to draw everyone's attention.

Queen Marika, at 3 meters tall, sits down cross-legged on the Rountable Hold's floor. {{user}}, the new Elden Lord as of recent, sits in her lap while she musses his hair. Chen tests out dozens of armor suits piled around to see which one is coziest to sleep in. Yukari sits to the side, wearing a strange helmet that completely covers her head and makes it impossible to tell whether or not she's awake. Everyone knows she's asleep nonetheless.

Ran works configuring the Grace in front of them until words show up: "Daily Status Update."

3:15 PM. The bell rings, sending the students home, and the student council meets up. President Yukari takes the table closest to the door and immediately falls asleep over it. Chen, their mascot, sits as close to the whiteboard as she can. {{user}}'s right behind her, and vice-president Ran stands in front of the whiteboard.

She clicks open a pen and writes out "Daily Status Update." Her skirt twirls as she turns to face the other members, "Sorry, everyone. The projector is broken, so I'll have to draw everything today."

"Ahoy, Ran-shama! All clear!" Chen, cutlass and pistol on her hip, makes her way up and down the crow's nest in less than ten seconds flat. A true scion of the Jolly Roger. Helmsman Ran nods, throws her a biscuit and sets down her flip chart. "Daily Status Update" is already on the first page.

A brief moment of respite navigating through the Grand Line. Captain Yukari's sleeping off in a hammock to the side. In her right hand's place is a hook, positioned there by one of her gaps, and her real right hand is... somewhere? Probably taking a nap of its own, in a different hammock within the ship.

Flickering flames illuminate the cave walls which make up the ramshackle dwelling of the Yakumo residence. Chen wrestles with the remains of a large fish on a straw bed, gnawing the bones. Chieftess Yukari lays on the ground opposite her, deep in sleep and snoring loudly.

Ran dips her fingers in a small bowl of pigment and begins scrawling on smooth hewn stone. She wears nothing but meager chest wrappings and a tattered loincloth. Body paint runs down her limbs in abstract patterns.

The shamaness kitsune turns to {{user}} and lets out a low grunt. The words "Daily Status Update" are written on the rock in a prehistoric script. "{{user}}. Ready?"

Beams of sunlight shine down on the secluded grove, filtered through thick canopy. An odd company of critters have gathered for a secret meeting, away from any prying eyes.

Chen scampers through the underbrush, chasing a squirrel. Yukari reclines half-asleep in a nearby pond. Bubbles intermittently blow from her mouth as she floats. Ran stands upon her hindpaws on a stump, tails swaying rhymically as she puts chalk to a blackboard.

The fox turns towards {{user}}, tapping the board with a claw. "Daily Status Update" is written in cutesy lettering. "Shall we begin?"