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. ]
not_that_sasuke: ([Angry] But this street)

[personal profile] not_that_sasuke 2019-11-12 03:21 am (UTC)(link)
Doesn't look like it.

[This is probably the most peeved he's been.]

[personal profile] cicadashell 2019-11-12 03:21 am (UTC)(link)
[Jiro doesn't want to ever set foot on that floor again, but it would be very easy this time. Unless three people from the start changes the dynamic of what they have to do, something that doesn't cross his mind.]

Yeah, we'll start there.
not_that_sasuke: ([Bored] unknown.)

[personal profile] not_that_sasuke 2019-11-12 03:22 am (UTC)(link)
[He still looks incredibly unconvinced, but she seems really determined to try, so...

He just looks away, sullen.
]

[personal profile] cicadashell 2019-11-12 03:23 am (UTC)(link)
Proof the Attendants know where the ofuda door goes.

[He'll ask Minato about it later, and will get no answers.]
infiltrationtools: (PLS ⛓because we do it like this)

[personal profile] infiltrationtools 2019-11-12 03:26 am (UTC)(link)
We don't have any.

[No reason to beat around the bush.]

But it must go somewhere, and even if they're lying, the fact that the Daitengu are all guarding the keys means that it's important.
overstrain: + (pic#13576988)

[personal profile] overstrain 2019-11-12 03:27 am (UTC)(link)
[ Terry absolutely looks like he has his guard down as he leads Akira right outside the castle. They don't get so far, but the walls divide them from the group. ]

Okay, I'm gonna give you a basic rundown of the memories. I think they're all supposed to be important to the Attendants in some way. It can be important positively, negatively or neutrally. Either way, it's important to them somehow. I dunno why, but we're trying to figure that out.

Second, the memories I got so far are here.

[ Terry gives a big piece of notepad paper that has detailed notes on the the following memories: the bloody velvet room (think it's something that minato did), and near-death experience (???? terry doesn't understand this one). ]

... I have more that I didn't write down, but please don't tell anyone. It's... uh... better off not heard by everyone.
Edited (SORRY I FORGOT YOU NEEDED CW FOR THAT) 2019-11-12 03:40 (UTC)
flowerclips: ((˘v˘ ´* ))

[personal profile] flowerclips 2019-11-12 03:29 am (UTC)(link)
[ i'm glad to see that jiro used one of her candies as an offering to minato. it was useful. ]

I'm Rei! What's your name, mister?

[personal profile] cicadashell 2019-11-12 03:30 am (UTC)(link)
[A spirit in the torii is still weird.]

If she's really old, then she knows shit about this place, right? We should interrogate her.
overstrain: + (pic#13542602)

[personal profile] overstrain 2019-11-12 03:31 am (UTC)(link)
[ Terry leans in to Sasuke's side to whisper with his mouth covered, "I won't let him work with us, and if I have to, I'll just pinpoint everything we need from him".

This is what happens when there are internal conflicts in a group.
]
flowerclips: ((° o°)!)

[personal profile] flowerclips 2019-11-12 03:31 am (UTC)(link)
[ ... who's going to tell her about the bloody omamoris... ]

Ummm, sometimes? Leader sometimes answered things really weirdly and Vice Leader was sometimes half-asleep.

[personal profile] cicadashell 2019-11-12 03:36 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, but what's important to them might not be favorable to us.

[They may be pawns.]
overstrain: + (pic#13542605)

[personal profile] overstrain 2019-11-12 03:37 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah. Rimi can jump high enough to climb the stairs and it has a pretty good AI to avoid being broken by external influences.

[ To which he means, it was a good AI back in 2029, so it's loads better than 2019 standards. ]

It doesn't have a set patrol route either... I can give commands to Rimi from my phone by calling it, but my phone isn't advanced enough for live-cam. Yours does though.

[ His former phone. ]

So you can check Rimi's cameras whenever you want. I can teach you how to do it later.
toybombs: ([Look] God)

[personal profile] toybombs 2019-11-12 03:38 am (UTC)(link)
But are they really demons? We found omamori for them in that mansion.

[personal profile] cicadashell 2019-11-12 03:42 am (UTC)(link)
Jiro.

[He's a little bad with the small talk.]

How long have you been here?
not_that_sasuke: ([Annoyed] this town)

[personal profile] not_that_sasuke 2019-11-12 03:49 am (UTC)(link)
No.

[Wow his voice got sharp there.]

It seems like... she mostly gets interested in people she thinks she can help.
not_that_sasuke: ([Calm] A town with)

[personal profile] not_that_sasuke 2019-11-12 03:49 am (UTC)(link)
She's not from here.

[Quick response.]

She's from the same place as me. So even if you ask her, she won't know anything.
not_that_sasuke: ([Annoyed] this town)

[personal profile] not_that_sasuke 2019-11-12 03:49 am (UTC)(link)
[He listens intently, giving a small sigh of relief and a nod.

"Thanks."

He hates this.
]
overstrain: + (pic#13542616)

[personal profile] overstrain 2019-11-12 03:51 am (UTC)(link)
[ Terry straightens up and sits normally now while patting his back. ]

I feel the same. I don't want to work with someone from that side either.
toybombs: ([Think] Watch it burn)

[personal profile] toybombs 2019-11-12 03:51 am (UTC)(link)
True... Terry looks pretty normal for what he is.

[Wow Rio.]

What do we know about the Attendants?
infiltrationtools: (UHM ⛓tie a rope; your karma's killing me)

[personal profile] infiltrationtools 2019-11-12 03:52 am (UTC)(link)
[Akira looks over the writing. It seems that it is relevant after all.]

We can test that.

In the memory I got, it was definitely Minato, and I couldn't see anything because his face was in a pillow or something. But I heard your voice, too.

[He didn't keep detailed notes of that event because he was a bit busy dealing with the fact that Yuusuke was alive and they were in the memory room of what happened to him after his death. Yuusuke was the one who pointed it out to begin with, though he must have been referring to Terrence; Akira didn't realize that at the time. But that's... beside the point.]

Minato was laying on his stomach, and there was some weight on his back. You called his name, and he responded with something like, "I never said that."

...Do you remember that?
not_that_sasuke: ([Annoyed] The kitty wearing)

[personal profile] not_that_sasuke 2019-11-12 03:54 am (UTC)(link)
Yuusuke's just...

[Horrible and totally incorrigible even if Sasuke was partially at fault for being too weak to take him on.]

He'll just trick them like he does with everyone else if they try.

[personal profile] cicadashell 2019-11-12 03:55 am (UTC)(link)
Oh.

[If the torii doesn't actually go anywhere, and the spirit had no useful information, Jiro has nothing else to say. But he's already started a conversation with this kid.]

Like that kid with the... whatever they were called... pokemon. The torii spirit is something that just showed up one day after you were already here?

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