(open) infodump meeting

[coolerjunpei]

WHO: jumpy coolerjunpei and OPEN
WHAT: The sequel to the prior secrets/infosharing meeting. Also, separately: Art Club.
WHERE: A conference room in an office building. Art Club is in a random apartment near City Hall.
WHEN: Sept. 14-15
WARNINGS: kromer probably. tba on the rest

INFO MEETING
[In Setsuna's absence but wanting to continue the usefulness of the info-sharing Secret Meetings, Junpei has taken it upon himself to spread the word about the newest physical meeting place. As before, nondescript handwritten flyers are posted around the most heavily trafficked areas of the city (with a scattering more in apartment buildings and less-popular areas), all reading roughly the same thing:

Infosharing time again. Under new management?

Come as you are, buzzkills only allowed if they bring snacks. 2nd floor conference room in the office building across from the bank.

junpei

It was cool when Setsuna could leave his mysterious network username but unfortunately Junpei is still living with his fool-ass choices... Regardless. It's dated for the afternoon of the 14th, and on the day of, Junpei has brought paper and writing supplies and a clipboard and a cardboard box for fun later to the conference room.

He's holding the clipboard because it makes him feel important, and occasionally flipping pages to squint at it while people wander in. Eventually:]

Uh, hey—Junpei here. If you were here last time, you know what this is about already, buuut if you weren't: we're planning, more or less. All of our information is spread around, so... this is an effort to get it all in as many heads as possible, when more of us inevitably disappear without a trace overnight.

[Ahem. Okay,] Last time we were also planning some projects, and Setsuna was going to help me make a drone to explore the parts of the city we can't physically get to, but he's gone, so... I'm taking applications for Drone Team?

[..........,]

That's all I've got. Let's mingle and do some info-magic.



(OOC PORTION: hello, please treat this as a FREE MINGLE and post TLs to your heart's content. Infosharing is the main goal but if you want to recruit ICly for a Project, feel free!! There are also SNACKS ABOUND. enjoy.)

DON'S SEMINAR (tm) | Yesod's Suggestion Box efforts | Drone Team & Kiosk database

Comments

art club in a separate building on a different day

[coolerjunpei]

ART CLUB!!!!
[Art Club is similarly advertised like the info meeting: handmade flyers around town, Junpei's version and Don's version. The date is set for the day after the other meeting, September 15, in an apartment... that isn't Junpei's, but is like, a few doors down the hall and otherwise unoccupied. (because his place is messy...)

A bigger flyer, poster-size, is stuck on the apartment's door to welcome Art Clubbers.

Inside, Art Club features a plethora of art supplies of varying levels of Fanciness and Complexity, and the promised snacks and beer. And some off-brand Sprite, if you're not into cheap beer. It's a very chill and relaxed hangout-slash-semi-party, primarily for Hanging Out and with less emphasis on the looming horror of how little they really know about this place.

So that's going well!

THIS IS ALSO A MINGLE... mingle within a mingle. Feel free to TL under this if you want to Do Art. Junpei is basic so he's only collected supplies in the realm of markers, nice paper, and some acrylic paints.]

[localweirdo]

[Well! Hu Tao just got here but she might as well try and make some new friends here, right? While she might not be the best at art, that doesn't mean she won't try her best! That said, as she looked the masterpiece before her, she gave a huge smile as she placed both of her hands on her hips.]

What do you think? I must say, I think I out did myself!

[Nevermind that it was just a simple bunny drawing with some flower and grass. Was she being serious? Who knows....]

[icanfixer]

[ holy shit ]

A rabbit! Oh, I do adore the way they bounce! Have they caught thy fancy for the same reason?!

[coolerjunpei]

[Oh what's this, what's she got... oh, a rabbit, nice.]

Oh—hey, that's cool. But is it really "outdoing yourself" if you only draw one rabbit...?

[This is a Challenge. Draw more bunnies.]

[worldexecute]

( a bunny...... cute. )

It's very cute. What made you want to draw one? Does it have a name?

[worldexecute]

( i. art observation )

( no one from home perceive her.

angela is nursing off-brand sprite as she mostly... watches other people-- if you're not someone she knows, she'll go peek at whatever it is you're working on. )

...What is it?

( tell her all about your cute and fun art.

now.

if you are someone she knows, she will be a little more awkward--lingering as she walks about, maybe a touch too long as she tries to figure out what it is they're working on without asking. she may lean a little too much and her sprite may tip a little onto your shirt. yes this is the privilege angela-knowers get-- )

Oops.

( ....................

can she just lea )

( ii. art therapy )

( angela is NOT PARTICIPATING OF HER OWN VOLITION!!!!!

don quixote is just extemely persuasive, which is how angela is now burdened with markers and paper. with basically nothing to do and feeling out of place if she doesn't... use them.... she will draw.

her drawings come in three flavors: little guys, the type of thing children in horror movies draw, and people around the room! pick your flavor i'll draw it myself. )

ii

[icanfixer]

[ don, ever a fan of all three, has made it her business to ensure angela does in fact draw if she's going to be here at the art club.

which is why she's sitting down beside her with her own marker and paper. ]

This is not so bad, is it?

[ heh ]

ii

[indwelt]

[ Welt is not from her home and therefore he will perceive her.

Specifically, he is perceiving her drawing little guys, all of which are quite charming in their own right. The nice thing about art is that there's no barrier, no level of good or use of particular tools to qualify someone as an artist. All that matters is self-expression and the boundless creativity of the human mind.

Unlike Angela, he looks entirely at ease in the makeshift art club room, a sketchbook tucked underneath one arm. ]

Another one of your new experiences here?

[ Hi. ]

ii as well

[coolerjunpei]

[Having learned nothing from the last time he made a Dang Fool of himself with all those bad Library names, Junpei is here with a cheap beer in hand to lean over and peer at Angela's masterworks. She drew a cool dog last time, so what's this...]

Hey, who's that?

[The choice of which partygoer she drew is in your hands...., Additionally, he holds up in his other hand a lumpy wrapped napkin, wrapped with perhaps one napkin too many so as to avoid getting Art in a snack.]

And I figured you might want a snack sampler again, so... here's a donut. [he brought her. this donut. it's in there somewhere.]

[wordchain]

[ Yesod is not an artist — he can probably draw scientific diagrams and charts to represent quantitative data, exciting... Nevertheless, he is here for reasons of his own, broadening his horizons, and he will perceive art club activities. A part of him might like to see the nice paper arranged into nicer stacks, or the markers and paints sorted into groupings by hue, but he won't intervene.

Instead, he'll pick up a (purple...) marker and a sheet of paper. ]

[icanfixer]

[ purple... don's coming to bother everyone who joins them at art club, don't mind if she literally rolls over on the ground to him covered in spots of paint. ]

Salutations, Yesod! What sparks thy creative mind?

[ knowing full well he looks like a nerd that only does graphs ]

junpei's half-baked attempt at non-leadership

[coolerjunpei]

[Junpei himself is Around, trying very hard to seem like he knows how to handle a Meeting as a facilitator and isn't just a nervous, slightly sweaty (from the nerves) guy in a cheap t-shirt. The clipboard he keeps looking at to seem busy doesn't even have anything written on it. It's stressful. He'll mill about, but if you want to catch him about one of his Personal Investments i.e. the projects, he has... set up little folded paper signs like at a real office icebreaker...

One of them reads DRONE TEAM and the other reads KIOSK BOX, the latter placed in front of that cardboard box from earlier. He's cut a slot in the lid like a good ol' suggestion box.]

DRONE TEAM
[Catch him writing down supplies as best he can manage based on what he remembers Setsuna told him to get now that those texts are gone!!! Agh!! He's got Plastics... Metal... Springs????? (with this many question marks)

It's an ordeal.]

You into machines? I could really use about fifty techies right about now...


KIOSK BOX
[This one is for his side hustle as Kromer's PR person... the kiosk database they've been keeping track of is 90% her brainchild, with 10% left over for Junpei to talk to people because she doesn't like to. Whew. Mostly, he's just sitting by the box, but he'll explain that it's for contributing kiosk questions that have been answered, whether or not that answer is particularly helpful. It's helpful to know what isn't helpful, right? Surely.]

Step right up, folks. Share the kiosk's latest and greatest crummy non-answers right here.


just around
[He is Around. He's doing his best. This is a wildcard/misc option.]

drone team

[worldexecute]

( girl who was a machine )

...I have experience with dealing with them. ( in a sense. ) What are you attempting to accomplish?

( maybe they can make a little helper, but like, normal. not the murder one. )

[coolerjunpei]

[Briefly, the look on his face definitely gives off "even the librarians know more about robots than me???" in vague despair. It's fine, he'll walk it off later. Onto business.]

Uh, well, you know how there are parts of the city that are all... foggy? We get turned back if we try going into the forbidden zone, so the idea is to try the drone instead and see what we can find.

drone team

[wordchain]

[ As far as the kiosk database goes, yes, it's helpful to know what isn't helpful, to avoid repeating pointless actions. The drone idea seems worthwhile as well, and Yesod is also here to watch Junpei's list writing efforts. ]

Have you finalized what you require?

[coolerjunpei]

[Hello, Purple Guy, his writing efforts are going poorly. He's relying on guesswork now, looking at the ruined text message conversation on his phone to try and recall what he was asked to get before half the conversation disappeared. Uhhh...]

Uh, barely... I think. I remember grabbing plastic and metal for Setsuna to mess with the first time, but all of that's gone now, so I dunno what else he collected to build with. Or what he was trying to make it look like, so I took a guess on that.

[He flips his paper around. He definitely took a guess.]

drone team

[indwelt]

[ Hello again, youth. ]

I worked with a few people that built various contraptions.

[ In fact, he remembers flying one of Tesla's drones back when he was a child. Also he could, at one point, make recreations of every existing machine on the human planet but those days are long gone now. Still, the knowledge itself is probably there somewhere, tucked away in the back of his brain. ]

Are you looking to build one yourself?

absolutely not drone team

[kampfgeist]

[ heine can contribute nothing to either the drone effort or the kiosk effort, being unfamiliar with machinery in general and also never having talked to the kiosk. but he's here anyway, trying to gather at least some useful information.

currently, "gathering information" means hanging out in a corner and watching people mill around, but when junpei passes by and heine gets a glimpse of his empty clipboard it inspires a sense of combo amusement and sympathy. being a leader is hard. ]

Nailing it, dude. [ encouraging thumbs up. no sarcasm. ] You need help with anything?

DON QUIXOTE'S GRAND SEMINAR

[icanfixer]

[ okay well she has INFORMATION TO SHARE that SHE PERSONALLY CAN ATTEST TO TODAY,

but everyone is so tall and she is still growing. ahem. she's standing on a chair. ]

For those who are new! Allow me to introduce myself -- I am Don Quixote, a Fixer of the Limbus Company! None of that means much to anyone, but an introduction is an introduction -- nevertheless, I shall catch thee up promptly... and speak on something new of mine own.

[ yeah guess what. she's got WORDS TO SAY. please hold for organization purposes. ]

FIRST ORDER OF BUSINESS: NOOOOOOO KILLING

[icanfixer]

A-hem!

[ ... ahem!!!! ]

It seem a dour start to information one ought to know, but it is important nonetheless. Death is impermanent here. If ill-fate befalls one, they shall find themselves without memory of the incident, as well as what and who they died from, but still alive and well come the morning of the next day! Arriving just as they had before, upon the train, yet without any questions to answer. It is thought that one loses a memory important to them as well, but I personally cannot attest to that, for I have not an idea of what I may have forgotten myself.

[ still can't think of it. she'll figure it out one day. hopefully it's nothing too important! ]

For the one who struck the other down, their consequences are of a more visible kind! This I have not experienced at all, but I am all together certain of its validity due to the one who I had asked to kill me for the purpose of such findings; Young Wufei has left us, as has many others whom I had met then, but I shan't forget his kindness when indulging me. [ ur a real one wufei ] Um... To put it simply, they cannot speak about the incident whatsoever -- rather, it is too difficult to manage. They cannot see the faces of others, having to rely on another way to recognize those around them, and have difficulty putting thoughts together. All of this happens moments after the incident has occurred, I have heard, and it lasts a week.

[ she pauses for a sip of water like all of this isn't the least bit alarming or unusual and continues. ]

Lastly, even those who bore witness to the event, I am sad to say, face repercussion as well -- I am sorry to those who experienced it on my behalf, for I am certain it was a terrible time indeed. Each time they attempt to sleep, be it nap or otherwise, they recall vividly the death that they witnessed as if it were their own. This also, I learned, lasts a week.

Therefore! If thee seek to harm another, ensure it is not fatal! However, know that if it is unjustified, I shall bring justice down upon thee!

[ ... ]

SECONDLY: THE PAST TWO... HAUNTINGS

[icanfixer]

[ now, secondly: ]

The past two months have been something of an interesting ordeal for us who inhabit this place. The commonality, as far as I am able to see, is that it deals with the pasts that we have left behind -- items of worth, be it sentimental or not, appearing in the bank which houses nothing but memories as an example. Ehm, I have not opened mine yet, for I have been warned against it and also I am not interested in that which lies behind me, but I have been told that one experiences memories connected to that object. I shall allow another to have the floor if they wish to share their experience with that.

Only last month were we beset by those we had left behind, or perhaps the memory of them in some cases, in the shopping mall of the same District. When touching, or being touched, by them, they would... inflict a most painful death upon thee, be it one pulled from the past or simply a possibility. However, it did not effect one the way a death normally -- normally for here, mind -- would, though I cannot say it was easy for many involved. These figments roamed ceaselessly, and whilst they could be spoken to they held naught worth mentioning.

[ whew. okay. whew. ]

Fret not, however, for both are safe as can be now! I would still exercise caution in each, and advise thee to bring a friend along.

FINAL: THE NEWEST STUFF

[icanfixer]

Finally, the last bit I wish to offer thee, and something that shall be new to all here.

[ ... well, to most here. don's told a very sparse amount of people. aka like, two know. shout out. ]

Closer to a week hence, I found myself upon the train as if I had died and returned. However, my familiarity with the sensation left me somewhat befuddled -- for I had not lost any memories that I could think of, but had gained them instead.

For that single night, I found myself home in the City -- my City -- alongside the companions whom I had missed somewhat, and including the two whom are here now. Many things happened in that span of time, and I know for a fact that it is different than what my roommate, who arrived the same day as I prior, recalls. In addition, I found myself in the very moment I remembered just before finding myself here in the first place, for those who are worried about being missed back home.

I am not certain what to make of it, for assuredly I had not disappeared completely; if that had been the case, then all of my existence would have been wiped as it has for those who have found their ways home. I simply thought it important to share.

[ okay. okay. that's all. she'll take a seat on the table instead she's done with her. her many talks. ]

Suggestion Box Project

[wordchain]

[ On the table in front of him, Yesod has a piece of paper to collect any suggestions as explained on the network. A few existing requests — such as "zoo" and "bouncy castles" — are already written down there in Yesod's neat handwriting. ]

The purpose is to determine whether certain requests trigger any response. It seems best to formulate our submissions carefully.

[worldexecute]

( HMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM well she's had a lot of time to think since the last time he asked her, so here she is... )

Some sort of print shop. I hadn't realized how tiring it was to handwrite everything. ( Human bodies are so inconvie ) I don't know what the particular terminology would be, but a "place where one can quickly and efficiently print books and other media" sounds fine.

[killed]

[ Well, he might as well state the obvious one... ]

It's odd that the city doesn't have a hospital as of yet. That is one building that every city should have, don't you think? No matter where you go, there will always be accidents and emergencies.