cetana | [open] 9/8 hirajiro mystery gang

[ 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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...Have you been struggling with your Persona for a while before all this happened?

[ And is that why he's been hiding out in the Velvet Room, because his Persona can't come out in there ]

[S-sort of...]

...Since the full moon. I've been avoiding using it since then.

[Why bother with going out during Lockdown when you can just chill in the Velvet Room, right!!]

Since last month's full moon...? You've been getting through the dungeons at the school and in the lake without your Persona?

[ Amazing. Sasuke's fearsome and Kido is impressed ]

When I have to go into the dungeons, I just try to hide instead of fight.

[Much less impressive.]

Oh.

[ Yeah, that's kind of disappointing ]

Well, that's mostly what I do, too. I can sneak by all of the Shadows with no problem, and if needed, one stab from behind will bring them down. I'm not too keen on fighting more than one at a time, though.

It's the same with me. I know a few things about fighting, but getting stuck by yourself against a group is pretty much the worst case scenario.

[Ninja are more about stealth and infiltration than head on fighting for a reason.]

[ It's the smarter way to fight, Kido agrees. ]

Still, it's best to go with at least one other person, when you're down there in the dungeon. If Minato or Souji weren't able to tell us as quick as they did, I wonder how long it would have taken to reach you?

[Oh, he uh.

He goes quiet at that part, because not being found out was actually kind of the plan.]

[ SASUKE.........

It was a rhetorical question, so Kido doesn't think anything more of his silence, at least. ]

Scary thought, huh? If you don't have any other partner in mind, you can always call me. Since we're both used to going through the dungeons without drawing attention, it might work easier for the two of us together.

[.........YEAH CONTINUING NOT TO COMMENT ON THAT FIRST PART, BUT.]

Yeah. My Persona has a few spells now, so maybe they'll be useful.

[You know, the. The ones it used on Kido and Terry.]

[ Oh yeah, she definitely remembers. Sasuke's shadow was a pain in the ass to take down, so she thinks he'll definitely be an asset in any battle. ]

Your Persona will definitely be useful. We'll figure out a way to make things work between us.

[Nod.]

Then, next time you're planning to go, you can probably find me in the Velvet Room. The door's right there, so...

Oh. Sure. That's smart, starting the dungeon from the Velvet Room, so you don't have to swim all the way through the first floor.

[ Don't tell her he actually lives there ]

Well, I'm there anyway, so...

[Hey Kido guess what.]

You— just stay in the train all the time? You sleep there??

[ Sasuke!!!!! Admittedly, yes, it's free housing, but it's also a train and the music gets grating after the first half hour and both attendants are frustrating to deal with, so it's basically inhabitable by Kido's high standards. ]

It can't be very comfortable without a proper bed, and there's people coming in and out all the time; you'd have no privacy, even in your own room.

[ It's a step up from the forest, but you're still a hobo, Sasuke... ]

[...Well, yes, but...]

It's pretty much free since I gave Souji all those cats. It made it easier to save up since I can't fight Shadows that well.

You're the reason why that train is covered in cat fur?

[ Cats are cute and she loves them, but also... cat fur in a small enclosed space with zero ventilation. ]

[Yeeeah...]

At first I just brought him one cat since I thought he'd like the company, but after that, ten more started following me. I couldn't take care of all of them, so I thought he'd be a better option.

[ Sasuke is an irresponsible pet owner, dumping his cats on Souji like that /: ]

Stray cats are stray cats... You could just feed them once in a while, and let them take care of themselves. It's not like you had to turn them into house cats.

[Well...]

They wouldn't leave me alone, and...

...I was probably taking advantage of his kindness a little, too.

[Souji likes cats, and giving him one was enough to secure a place to sleep for a week. It doesn't take a genius to realize he might extend it even more if there were more cats.]

So? There's nothing wrong with taking advantage of someone's kindness, when they aren't harmed in return. Souji was pretty happy, wasn't he?

[ It sounds like a win-win situation, if anything. Minato may or may not suffer from cat allergies, but that's his problem to deal with. ]

[...]

You sounded kind of annoyed.

No, that's just how I sound.

[ Just sort of annoyed at everything, yeah ]

It really doesn't bother you, then?

[Gotta make sure.]

Does what you choose to do depend on whether it bothers somebody or not?

[ She sounds annoyed again HAHA ]

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