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] laconism 2019-11-09 05:27 pm (UTC)(link)
[Red is indeed here, sitting on a blanket next to Akira and eating from an open bento box in front of him. He didn't oversleep this time! Pikachu and Espeon are chilling on their blanket as well. He's a little embarrassed when Kido looks his way, but watches her thoughtfully as she speaks. She said that he didn't have to, but...]

Um...

[He nervously speaks up anyway. Since Red is the only one who has come back from ego death so far, it's important that he shares his experience with it.]

Before I was, um... ego dead... I didn't feel any differently than usual. I just went to bed one night, and... I guess it happened in my sleep. I never realized that anything was wrong until I woke up at the inn, and... saw how surprised everyone was to see me awake.

["Everyone" being the Pokémon and Akira.]

I also heard from one of the other Persona users that... for them, people go into ego death after losing battles with Shadows.
not_that_sasuke: ([Unsure] closely and start)

[personal profile] not_that_sasuke 2019-11-09 06:02 pm (UTC)(link)
[Sasuke looks uncomfortable when this topic comes up. He also keeps looking to a small black cat with white dots over its eyes that's been sticking to the edges of the area.]

...My twin brother Yuusuke's here. Red told me he saw him.

[And it's very clear from his tone that he's not at all happy about this development. ]

He lies a lot, and he'll do anything to complete his mission. He might work with people if it suits him, but... it might be better to avoid him if you can.
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[personal profile] laconism 2019-11-09 06:07 pm (UTC)(link)
[Red shakes his head.]

I was... staying at an apartment with Akira.

[It's not impossible for Shadows to break into buildings, but Red has been pretty lucky in that regard. Now that he's thinking about it, though, it could have been different that night. They had separate bedrooms so Akira may not have seen it, especially if he was asleep or out dungeon crawling at the time, but...

Red looks to Pikachu and Espeon.]


...Did a Shadow break into my room that night?

[They both shake their heads.]
Edited 2019-11-09 18:13 (UTC)
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[personal profile] laconism 2019-11-09 06:28 pm (UTC)(link)
[They shake their heads again. Red doesn't sleep with his window open, nor is he a sleepwalker. Also—]

Pikachu and Espeon both have really good hearing, plus Espeon is a Psychic Pokémon, so... even if Pikachu was sleeping too deeply to notice anything, Espeon wouldn't have missed it.

[Basically if even Espeon is saying that nothing unusual happened that night, then nothing happened.]
not_that_sasuke: ([Unsure] next stop.”)

[personal profile] not_that_sasuke 2019-11-09 06:28 pm (UTC)(link)
[There's a pretty lengthy pause as he decides on something relatively neutral to say.]

Just be careful if you see him. And don't just trust him at his word.
not_that_sasuke: ([Pain] “turn left at the)

[personal profile] not_that_sasuke 2019-11-09 06:54 pm (UTC)(link)
[He just scowls, glancing again at Shirou.]

...I don't think of him as a good person. His mission might be important, but he takes things too far, and then people get hurt - or killed. If you believe everything he says, he'll probably try to find a way to use you.
not_that_sasuke: ([Annoyed] The kitty wearing)

[personal profile] not_that_sasuke 2019-11-09 07:04 pm (UTC)(link)
Maybe? I can't say for sure. I've been trying to avoid him.
not_that_sasuke: ([Pain] “turn left at the)

[personal profile] not_that_sasuke 2019-11-09 07:39 pm (UTC)(link)
[He's definitely frustrated, but definitely trying to keep it under wraps.]

Just... be careful around him. He knows exactly how to hurt people if he decides they're in his way.
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Re: Castle

[personal profile] overstrain 2019-11-09 07:57 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Terry wants to say that the castle IS being lived-in by someone, but that someone is Kano, and Terry doesn't dare bring him up while Kido is here. He also thinks Kano will just listen in from the second floor or whatever. He goes to where the mural is while holding something like a rolled up tapestry in his hands.

The mural on the castle wall shows a small village surrounded by farmland, a familiar lake at the center, and flocks of crows adorning the skies with one large crow standing on the peak of the mountain overlooking the town.
]

Has everyone seen this? Because I'm gonna talk about it, so get yourself familiar with it and all that.

[ He opens up the tapestry in his hands and hangs it on the wall next to the mural. The image on the tapestry is similar of the murals on the castle wall, with a small village surrounded by farmland and a lake at the center. The sky is clear, and there are four mountain peaks overlooking the town, each with a winged figure standing on top of them.

Feel free to discuss it amongst yourselves or ask Terry about it, because he can draw up several conclusions and I don't want make this tag any longer than I want to.
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