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 2019-11-10 12:22 am (UTC)(link)
[ Okay, fine. He's getting Toki. He eventually ends up finding him. ]

Toki! Did you...

[ ... ]

... Never mind. Did you want to head back?
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[personal profile] overstrain 2019-11-10 12:37 am (UTC)(link)
[ Despite going to the shrine dungeon so many times and suffering from so much shit, he... didn't realize it before, but now that he thinks about it, he doesn't have good ones to give. There was one with the Attendants being lovey-dovey, another where they made out, another where they had frottage, another where someone was probably close to dying, and a bloodbath in a Velvet Room that he can already guess what it is.

...

He looks so frustrated.
]

I can write them down and I don't have much to share [ despite going there so many times?? ] but... I remember seeing something about "me" dying, but another person said that they wouldn't let "me" die. It was weird. I guess whoever's memory I was experiencing at the time was someone who was at death's door...?

[personal profile] cicadashell 2019-11-10 12:41 am (UTC)(link)
[Jiro raises an eyebrow at Terry. He was under the impression this was all Terry's idea after they had discussed whether or not to look for the locked door right away.]

I don't know his name. The short kid who kept screaming in the dungeon and punching people to see if they were Shadows. He said you were collecting all 22 of the cards to open the door.
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[personal profile] overstrain 2019-11-10 12:44 am (UTC)(link)
[ Terry has a look of realization when Jiro describes him. ]

Oh! That guy? I didn't ask him to do anything--
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[personal profile] overstrain 2019-11-10 12:45 am (UTC)(link)
[ ...

Terry falls quiet all of a sudden for several seconds.
]

That would be nice, but I'm not who he's talking about.

[personal profile] yokeye 2019-11-10 12:46 am (UTC)(link)
Yes!

[He's not going back, and he's not getting Joroko. They can have this meeting without him.]
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[personal profile] overstrain 2019-11-10 12:47 am (UTC)(link)
[ Terry has to double-take, because he knows Toki means the opposite... whatever that isn't the truth right now, so he'll take that as a no. ]

Was something wrong with the meeting? And... are you lost?
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[personal profile] cicadashell 2019-11-10 12:53 am (UTC)(link)
Guess there's another guy named Terrence wandering around from the other Hirajiros.

[It doesn't mean much to him.]
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[personal profile] overstrain 2019-11-10 12:54 am (UTC)(link)
[ Does anything ever mean anything to Jiro?? ]

There sure is, and you should stay away from him because he's an asshat.

[personal profile] yokeye 2019-11-10 12:56 am (UTC)(link)
I want to bring Joroko there.

[She's going to be mad at him for locking her away for two days already.]

I'm not lost! I know exactly where I am...
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[personal profile] overstrain 2019-11-10 12:58 am (UTC)(link)
Did you two get in a fight?

[ Him and Joroko. Well, he'll respect Toki's wishes and holds out his hand. ]

I'll take you back to town. You don't have to force yourself to be in the meeting if you don't want to.

[personal profile] cicadashell 2019-11-10 01:14 am (UTC)(link)
What's he look like?

[Because he's not thinking an alternate Terry, just some other man with the same name.]

Anyway, this asshat is gonna open the door before us. If their Hirajiro is as fucked as they make it out to be, they're doing something wrong, and they're gonna fuck shit up over here too while we have fucking brunch or whatever the fuck this is.

[Meetings are useless.]

[personal profile] yokeye 2019-11-10 01:17 am (UTC)(link)
No...

[He takes Terry's hand without hesitation. At least Terry won't make him go back to the meeting. He doesn't have anything to contribute anyway.]
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[personal profile] overstrain 2019-11-10 01:37 am (UTC)(link)
[ Terry gives Jiro a quiet, even stare before starting to dig into his own bento. ]

That's why we're trying to figure things out at large with the clues that were given to us. It's not like every single one who came from there want to ruin things here. Some of them even want to stay here because of how nice it is or something in comparison. Kinda like refugees.

Anyway, he looks slightly younger than me and doesn't wear glasses. That's the only right off the bat physical description I can give you because everything else is the same. We look the same. And I guess... he doesn't have scars on his face? But I do.

[ He takes another bite out of his food. ]

Gonna go look for him?
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[personal profile] overstrain 2019-11-10 01:51 am (UTC)(link)
[ Hirajiro has its mysteries, and one of them is making some of the most random shit happen to the Persona users. It's a trend that he noticed, but they're always temporary... so far. Terry starts leading Toki to town while holding his hand. ]

I know whatever you're dealing with will go away eventually. It happens to me a lot too, just for different things. When it's over, do you want to tell me what you saw? The memory stuff.

[personal profile] cicadashell 2019-11-10 02:36 am (UTC)(link)
It only takes one of them.

[Like Natsuo. One person who isn't looking for refuge and is convinced that this Hirajiro is doing something wrong and it has to be fixed.]

He's you from another universe?

[This keeps getting more complicated. Jiro abandons his bento boxes, because he's definitely going to go find Terrence.]

Yeah, maybe he has cards we don't.
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[personal profile] overstrain 2019-11-10 02:42 am (UTC)(link)
No, I'm his clone.

[ Thankfully, it's a lot less complicated. He's a little worried for Jiro now because he knows Terrence to be absolutely ruthless and being how hot headed Jiro is... well...

Yeah, he's not a little worried anymore. He's a lot more worried.
]

... Please don't try to fight him if it comes down to it.

[ But Terry won't stop Jiro from leaving. ]

[personal profile] yokeye 2019-11-10 02:53 am (UTC)(link)
It will?

[That's a huge relief to him. Maybe it will stop soon. Toki was really liking this place until those things started happening. There's hope now, that it won't be awful forever.]

No, I won't tell you anything. Hana-chan saw one.

[It's a lie, because Kido's name isn't Hana. Toki only has one other memory to give Terry.]

[personal profile] cicadashell 2019-11-10 03:12 am (UTC)(link)
[Clones. There's fucking clones now. He doesn't know what to say to that.]

I'm not gonna fight him unless he starts something. I'm gonna dig through his shit and see if he has things we can use.

[If he knew about the pinpointing thing, he might have made a better decision.]
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[personal profile] overstrain 2019-11-10 03:16 am (UTC)(link)
[ closes eyes... jiro......... we barely knew ye ]

... He'll probably know that you're coming.

[ Terry looks unsure. Does he want to subject someone else under that hideous torture? No! ]

Wait, why can't you just talk to the smaller guy again?!

[personal profile] cicadashell 2019-11-10 03:21 am (UTC)(link)
[Natsuo is annoying, but that's beside the point.]

I don't wanna talk, I just want what they have, and that guy doesn't have it.

[It's a stealth mission, Terry.]
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[personal profile] overstrain 2019-11-10 03:25 am (UTC)(link)
[ ... ... ...

Terry gets out a ziploc bag. Jiro can see that there's a food can label inside it.
]

I know this looks ridiculous, but keep this with you. It bounces magic back once.

[ Does Jiro's suit even have pockets?? ]

Just in case.

[personal profile] cicadashell 2019-11-10 03:34 am (UTC)(link)
[Jiro takes the plastic bag and reads the label inside. What the actual fuck?]

How!?

[He has pockets, and like nine pouches. He's Batman.]
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[personal profile] overstrain 2019-11-10 03:37 am (UTC)(link)
The Attendants gave me those when I completed a request for them. I can confirm that they work too. That's my second one.

[ But it looks like a normal food can label that can be torn easily. That's probably why it's inside a ziploc bag. ]

I guess they ran out of flimsy paper to use? I dunno.

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