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: ([Crap] the long tail)

[personal profile] not_that_sasuke 2019-11-09 07:59 pm (UTC)(link)
We're identical. His hair is a little different, though... he has a part here.

[And he'll indicate it on his own hairline.]

He acts really friendly around people, too. [Which is... super not like Sasuke, and he knows it.]
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[personal profile] overstrain 2019-11-09 08:19 pm (UTC)(link)
I tried looking into their memories right before they got turned into a zombie. They weren't doing anything in particular, but the the trend is that the midnight shift is going on when it happens all of a sudden. I don't see anything surrounding them either. They're all the same: doing something mundane like taking a stroll on the streets, about to go into a dungeon, but all of a sudden, it just happens. If Shadows are really attacking people as the Migrants say, then they're probably being attacked from behind.

[ Though he heard what Red said about Pikachu and Espeon not noticing anything, so he's not sure what to make of this. It's not like they completely erased their presence while doing it, because it sounds like the people from the other Hirajiro have been killing the Shadows. ]

There was this other girl named "Shore", who also stopped being a zombie for a brief moment, but I couldn't find her for some reason, and before I knew it, she reclaimed the zombie status. I check everyone's statuses on most days when I can, and this is what I came up with.
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animal security??

[personal profile] overstrain 2019-11-09 08:35 pm (UTC)(link)
[ The longer you've been around here, you might have had a chance to see a white snake varying in size every time you've seen it with blues eyes that pass by every now and then. Terry's here to address that so that no one tries burning him or anything. ]

If you guys have seen a white snake with blue eyes going around, he won't hurt you. But he's gonna eat all the animals that he's not familiar with as a side of precaution, so walk up with your animal or whatever and tell him not to eat them. There's been cases where there are beings similar to shapeshifters that can spy on people, so I'm just taking extra precautions.

[ Who even likes being watched or spied on?? ]

If you're too lazy to let Orien, the snake, know, I'm just gonna say he can't spit things back out once he's eaten things, so go and let him know. If you talk to him like he's stupid, he'll sass you.

[ Yeah. Go carry your animals to the white snake. He's slithering somewhere around the place. ]
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[personal profile] overstrain 2019-11-09 08:43 pm (UTC)(link)
Which ones? And you can't say all of them.

[ Yeah. ]
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[personal profile] overstrain 2019-11-09 08:53 pm (UTC)(link)
One of the Attendants and some people from the other side have the power to change into a cat. You don't seem keen on letting them in your discussion.

[ What then, Kido.



He's also bluffing.
]
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[personal profile] overstrain 2019-11-09 09:01 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Orien will just stare at Kido and then down at Shiro. ]
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[personal profile] overstrain 2019-11-09 09:09 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Orien opens his mouth, but it's just a sigh that comes out. Once upon a time, Jace regarded every single human life to be precious. Thousands of years can definitely change a man... or snake. Whatever the hell he is.

Anyway, instead of moving to eat Shiro, he moves his tail towards Kido. It's holding a claritin-equivalent for cat allergies specifically.
]

You forgot this at home.
laconism: (moron)

[personal profile] laconism 2019-11-09 09:19 pm (UTC)(link)
[As soon as Terry says that, Red looks around. Where is Orien right now, Espeon? The Psychic Pokémon nods in the snake's direction, and then Red gets up and walks over to Orien with the Pokémon following a safe distance behind. He gestures towards them.]

...This is Pikachu and Espeon. They're my friends. Please don't eat them.

[personal profile] cicadashell 2019-11-09 09:21 pm (UTC)(link)
You still don't have any proof that door's gonna take you home.

[While Jiro wasn't involved with the first two Daitengu, he's talked to Kido about the ofuda and the door, and she didn't know exactly where it would lead. He still thinks it's sounding more like a ritual. The people from the other Hirajiro may have a point.]
not_that_sasuke: ([Kurou] Stretching out my)

[personal profile] not_that_sasuke 2019-11-09 09:24 pm (UTC)(link)
[Shirou doesn't like this either, buster. He'll reluctantly move closer to Sasuke, who sighs and gives a small shake of his head at Jace.

Yuusuke is butts, but please don't eat Shirou.
]
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[personal profile] overstrain 2019-11-09 09:26 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Orien will remember this.

He just gives Sasuke a nod in return before slithering away... probably to eat a crow or something.
]
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[personal profile] overstrain 2019-11-09 09:29 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Oh. Pikachu and Espeon are so distinct and unique that Orien doesn't even think about eating them anyway. If anyone wanted to be spies, they'd want to be inconspicuous and blend in... like within herds of cats. ]

Noted. You be careful around here. I heard you woke up from a month long coma.

[ The snake sounds like a human adult male........ ]
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[personal profile] overstrain 2019-11-09 09:33 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Why not both?

Girl... at least he legitimately cares about your health.
]

I suppose you'll let me restrain any suspicious ones at the very least.
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[personal profile] overstrain 2019-11-09 09:40 pm (UTC)(link)
The one here [ He points at the mural. ] looks like there's a big crow leader or something. The one here [ He points at the tapestry this time. ] are kinda like the Daitengus, aren't they? I asked around and the mountain peaks that the Daitengu are on are the mountains you can see when you're facing the lake from where the sign used to be.

When I got this tapestry first, the occult shop owners said that it came in a set of two. They also said that the mural here looked very similar to the other tapestry. I was wondering if someone bought it and replicated it on the walls here...
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[personal profile] overstrain 2019-11-09 10:08 pm (UTC)(link)
Please relax, Kido.

[ You know. Orien never explicitly said that he was going to eat anything in the first place. That was mostly Terry. ]

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