[open] 9/8 hirajiro mystery gang

[reveilation]

[ You know what? Now's a good a time for this as any. When the Attendants send the call out to everybody on 9/4, Kido takes advantage of everybody being together to give them the address to the house she, Terry, and Rei are staying at, and asks them to meet there on 9/8 at noon if they're able to make it.

The original point of a meeting was to recruit for a gang, but with shit going down and people disappearing and personalities splitting off, it's turned into Kido needing to reach out to anybody who's a Persona user and consolidate everything that they know about everything. Personas. Shadows. The town itself. Anything.

If you're directionally challenged, it'll be easy to spot the house on Sunday afternoon because it's the only house on the block with two dozen crows perched on every inch of roof and telephone line there is around the house, and a five meter wide spider crab hanging around on the front yard, its front pincers bound so it can't snap at anybody, but it still scuttles around irately. ]

Sorry about the lack of furniture... Take a seat where you can find space, either on the couch or the floor. There's rice, miso soup, and gyudon in the kitchen if you're hungry; go ahead and help yourselves. We've got lots to talk about today.


[ Feel free to use this log to discuss anything your character is interested in or is looking into, whether it's plot clues gained from bonuses or discovered through asking questions in the logs, methods for getting through the current dungeon, how people are making enough to stop sleeping on the streets, etc.

Please write your own toplevel for each point of discussion. ]

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[overstrain]

[ THE DICKS HAVE EARS

Terry looks appalled, but that would make sense, since he's Akira's Persona and... god... why does this keep happening. ]

I can't carry ice on me all the time!

[infiltrationtools]

Just...

[He puts his head in one hand.]

You really get used to him after a while. I swear.

[Does Akira really prioritize Persona utility so much that he keeps Mara around long enough to get used to him? ...Or is there some other reason?]

[overstrain]

... I think I'm already getting to that process of getting slowly used to him...

[ And it kinda scares him. ]

What do you use him for anyway? Other than scaring people.

[infiltrationtools]

He's actually really physical.

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[ WAIT ]

...Um.

Physically strong. I mean.

[overstrain]

[ Terry put his lips to a water bottle and he's about to drink his water, but then he hears what Akira says and he feels like he's going to die. His face turns so red as he chokes on his water. After some coughs, he whines: ]

You should have said that first!

[ AAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa ]

i can finally use this icon, thank you god

[infiltrationtools]

Shit!

[Akira puts a hand to his face, ostensibly because there's water, but really because he's also blushing and that's a bad look for someone so doggedly committed to coolness and detachment.]

I— look, I'm sorry, it came out wrong!

[overstrain]

That's not the only thing that came out wrong!!

[ Terry's just wailing now... poor Akira. Even though seeing Akira blush is amusing in its own way, Terry can't deal with dick jokes while drinking his water. ]

[infiltrationtools]

[He just groans quietly and puts his head in both of his hands.]

I thought I was over this! Mara! Fucking Mara—

...

[He groans louder.]

[overstrain]

[ At this point, Terry just feels like he wants to die and never come back alive again. ]

This... this isn't working... this is worse than when they surrounded me with two dick chariots... I want to die...

[infiltrationtools]

[Akira just. Leans back against the wall. His face is bright red, and now more than ever he looks like he's hiding behind his glasses and bangs.]

[There's another pause.]

Hey... did you guys bring alcohol?

[because he could rEALLY USE IT not that he's ever had much more than a weak drink or two that Lala or Ohya snuck him.]

[overstrain]

[ Terry just looks at Akira for a second. He doesn't care about drinking laws as long as nobody is feeding little kids any drinks, but... it's like noon, so he talks in a whisper. ]

... Kido's gonna kick us out if we drink inside.

[infiltrationtools]

[...Hm.]

[He tilts his head downward, and responds:]

Damn it. I don't want to leave.

[There's still some free food to be exploited. ...And, uh, important conversations to be had about Shadows and crows and stuff.]

[overstrain]

[ ... ... ...

Terry gets up and gestures Akira to follow him to the kitchen. They gotta make bad decisions now. ]

[infiltrationtools]

[Oh.]

[Akira gets to his feet, picking up the remains of his latest serving of Kido's top tier home cooking. He's playing it cool. So cool. See, the blush is even starting to recede.]

[overstrain]

[ When they get to the kitchen, Terry makes sure no one else is around and gets out a water bottle from the fridge (they have a fridge now. thank). It looks pretty normal, even when Terry gets out a plastic cup. ]

So, do you drink vodka straight or with ice?

[infiltrationtools]

Ice.

[Akira has made many drinks for many people. None of those people were him, and he doesn't know offhand from a taste perspective what the major difference is between straight and iced. Aside from, you know, the experience of drinking other things with ice in it.]

[But he's not telling Terry that. He just half-smiles like he's perfectly in his element.]

[overstrain]

[ Terry shoves some ice into the cup from the freezer and pours the vodka in. There. It looks like regular water with ice in it. He'll even add a little slice of lemon and stick it in the rim of the cup.

Then he hands the cup over to Akira. Here's your vodka on the rocks, boy.

Meanwhile, Terry just chugs from the water bottle as if it's actually water and puts it back in the fridge after screwing the cap back on. Who cares if he got wasted the night before with several bohemian absinthe cocktails. Drinks are where it's at. ]

Don't get caught.

[infiltrationtools]

[The smile gets bigger, and sneakier. When he speaks again, it's almost whispered.]

I didn't get this far by getting caught.

[After taking his plates over to the sink, he returns to take the 'ice water', and draws a very small sip from it. --Urk, god, yeah, vodka with nothing in it, okay. He swallows and tries to keep the expression steady.]

[At least no one can say he's drinking on an empty stomach?]

[overstrain]

[ Terry looks back at Akira as he's leaving the kitchen.

... ... ... ]

First time?

[ He thinks so, from his age, or the fact that he doesn't seem to be casual about it otherwise like walking around while casually drinking "water". ]

[infiltrationtools]

Usually I use it in a cocktail...

[He's had vodka in a drink before. Once. --Still, he's looking off to the side.]

I'm still in the kitchen. It's fine.

[overstrain]

Alright, well... call me if you need me, okay?

[ He makes a phone gesture with his hand and goes off to resume talking with the others in the house. Ganba, Akira. ]

[infiltrationtools]

I will. Thanks.

[He does stay in the kitchen a little while longer, at least long enough to fix himself another plate of food, and then walk out looking like he just grabbed a cup of water to go along with it. He does make a point to find a place to sit as he eats this round, though.]

[...Maybe he's drunk off one thing of vodka. Or maybe he's just in a really cheerful, talkative mood because his stomach is full. Who knows!! He sure is sitting down a lot? He knows what people say about drinking water with alchohol, so he does that, but also it's difficult to tell what's vodka and what's actual ice water. He's definitely not going to call Terry though, because he's got this Totally Under Control. The room is starting to get a bit disorienting? It's fine. Just don't stand.]

[At some point in the afternoon he does excuse himself from whatever awful drunken conversation he got into, and goes to take a nap in the bedroom he thinks is Terry's. (It's Rei's, actually.)]