Tsubomi Kido ([personal profile] reveilation) wrote in [community profile] cetana2019-11-09 08:49 am

[open] 11/9 hirajiro mystery gang

[ Over the past week and a half, either Kido or Akira have been going around asking Persona users to attend a meeting at noon on the 9th, with the meeting place being the first floor of the castle in the forest. People who Kido thinks will require dragging to the castle, she makes sure to find and drag over, since she wants everybody to be there in order to share their thoughts and get everybody on the same page. It's rare that everybody comes together like this, so she wants to make the most of it.

There isn't much in the way of furniture and the fridge in the Velvet Room is broken, so Kido can't rely on the kitchen to cook unending gyudon like she did last time. She'd stuck her head into the train this morning and saw something she really didn't need to see, so everybody else is also banned from entering the Velvet Room until the meeting is concluded. Instead, blankets are laid out on the ground and there's a stack of bento boxes which will be easy to eat while sitting outside. There's around three times as many bentos as the number of people, since she knows there's people who'd want seconds (or thirds or fourths or fourteenths... there's a limited amount this time, so no eating contests!!) and if there are any left over, people can take them home. ]


Is everybody settled? Food is on the throne over there, and there's barley tea and cups on the ground next to it, so eat up. Feel free to go back and get more if you're still hungry, but wait until everybody has the chance to get one first. When you're finished, put the box and chopsticks into the bag in the corner so I can wash them later. The cats have their own food, so do not feed the cats anything from the bento. If I catch you, you're not eating for the rest of the meeting.

[ She can't be sure if there's anything in the boxes that might be bad for cats, so it's a blanket ban, sorry cats... There are quite a few in the area, though, including Kano and Shiro. Kano especially does not get food. ]

Now, the first thing we need to talk about...

[ There are a few topics she wants to make sure they discuss, and then the floor is open for anything else people want to bring up, whether it's plot clues, mysteries people are looking into, general questions to bring up to the group, etc. Feel free to post a new toplevel for each new topic to discuss. Since it's a large open mingle, there may be threadjacking.

Also as a reminder, this month the reward for request 12 (two threads with fourth wall characters) is a plot clue in the form of a direct answer to any question your character may have. If there's something that comes up in the discussion that the characters are unsure of and think the Attendants might know (it's possible they might not), it's an option for getting those questions answered. ]
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[personal profile] overstrain 2019-11-11 09:27 pm (UTC)(link)
... The problem with that is that I can still get through with pinpointing for Minato and Souji, but I can't with that fortune teller. Disguises or not, I'd know. Besides, Souji and Minato weren't even here when the fortune teller first showed up.

[ He can see holes into his own theory, but it's the best one he can come up with. ]
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[personal profile] overstrain 2019-11-11 09:59 pm (UTC)(link)
... I can't tell you because it's worse than the kissing memory we got.

[ Kido........... ]
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[personal profile] overstrain 2019-11-11 10:03 pm (UTC)(link)
... Yeah. I can do that.

[ He doesn't want to go back into the Velvet Room either, because that's what he experienced firsthand... Terry sighs and runs his hand through his hair. ]

Good luck out there, leader Kido. Show them what you're made of.

[ danchou-chan. ]
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[personal profile] overstrain 2019-11-11 10:16 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Everything is important when you're starved for info... Terry writes down the second memory on the notepad and thinks about the first one. Something to do with Minato or Souji, last month, rain, clouds parting, a green light--

Oh.

When Terry realizes, he looks off to the side.
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... That really sounds like a Minato thing. The first one. I think the second one is also for Minato, because Souji is pretty... uh, fashion aware? But I don't think he'd go through shoes that hurt his feet.

[ Maybe Minato was forced into those shoes and zoning out, because Terry can definitely see him do that in the middle of a lecture. ]
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[personal profile] overstrain 2019-11-11 11:15 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Only if Rei promises not to tell Terry that he's Jace. Orien shakes his head. ]

The bento is for everyone else. I'm not really hungry to begin with.
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[personal profile] overstrain 2019-11-11 11:26 pm (UTC)(link)
I still think they can still be interpreted as an impactful moment in their lives, whether it's positive, negative, or neutral. Something that meant a lot to them...

[ It seems to line up, but Terry doesn't get the point of it. ]

But in the first place, I'm not sure what we're supposed to be looking for. A common thing between all of them?
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[personal profile] overstrain 2019-11-11 11:29 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Minato didn't seem as affected and maybe Souji wouldn't either and honestly, he just said it was worse than the kissing memory because he didn't want her to ask him on blackmail material...

He looks at Kido.
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If I tell you, you're going to punch me in record time despite me warning you.
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[personal profile] overstrain 2019-11-11 11:37 pm (UTC)(link)
I don't though! Lower your fist!!

[ HELP.... ]

[personal profile] cicadashell 2019-11-11 11:38 pm (UTC)(link)
I've got some advice.

[His voice is low and deceptively calm, until he snaps one his chopsticks in half and stands up to yell at everybody.]

PUT THE FUCKING OMAMORI IN THE COLLAR SLOT!

[Has anyone else even been in that hell floor?]
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[personal profile] overstrain 2019-11-11 11:49 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Terry tries to think, tapping his pen on the notepad while doing so.

...
]

You're right. They don't affect us after they're done. I asked Minato about the memories and he says that they reach him at the same time when we see them. So what if... the dungeon at the shrine area is targeting the Attendants instead while using eager Persona users to trigger the memories under the pretense of opening up a boss chamber for the Daitengu when enough memories have been sent? After all, we need to get a lot of cards and find the key room too, so that would already be a lot of attempts...
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[personal profile] overstrain 2019-11-11 11:54 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Things between him and Akira are a bit awkward as of the timing of the tag, so he doesn't think he can just waltz up to him and--

No, fuck it. He'd rather tell Akira instead of Kido. It'll be way less embarrassing. HE CAN'T TELL HIS GIRLFRIEND ABOUT THIS SORT OF THING...
]

... Fine. Anyway, the other thing is that Minato hates these.

[ He gets out the scalp massager. ]

You can try to bother him with this.

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