(OPEN) probably the least secret secret meeting, all things considered

[elswhisperer]

WHO: Setsuna F. Seiei (elswhisperer) & you!
WHAT: The code word log!
WHERE: City Hall Park
WHEN: July 12
WARNINGS: N/A


[ Over the course of the past few days, you may have noticed simple, nondescript flyers posted here and there across the city. All handwritten, they list a location (a particular statue in the City Park) along with a time and date (3:00 PM, July 12). Below that, an extremely brief message:

For establishing safe communications.

- moment.

On the day of, you'll find a young man in a red scarf waiting by the named statue. He has with him sheets of blank paper, pens, and pencils. ]

My name is Setsuna F. Seiei. 'Moment' from the network. The purpose of this meeting is creating a way to safely disseminate information to each other all at once. If one of us found an exit, or determined the identity of our captors, we'd be jeopardizing ourselves by revealing it openly over the network. At the same time, the network is our most efficient method of communication. We need to make the most of all the tools at our disposal.

We can accomplish that with the use of code language. One that's not complicated; that anyone could remember and pass along. What that code is and what we want to communicate with it is something one person can't determine for themselves. That's why I wanted us all to meet.

Without cooperation, we're not gonna get anywhere.

[ ooc: just a couple things! go ahead and mingle/threadhop as you like (especially bc i may not be the fastest tagger rn), and if setsuna has already mentioned to your character that he's been working on something, feel free to assume he left some kind of vague message about checking flyers over the inboxes or smth. ]

Comments

[zangetsu]

Sure, people could be brainwashed or lying.

（ but the thing is... why would they lie? it's hard enough getting one person to keep a bullshit story straight, but so many of them? and it would have to be many of them. ）

I don't know. I'm not going to spend a lot of time dwelling on it. Kinda above my paygrade.

[strongroots]

[ Robby doesn't particularly want to push it, either. He doesn't know what to think, though he's not one inclined to just think people have powers or are from future or past.

So he falls a little silent briefly, letting the subject slide. Asking eventually: ] So what is your paygrade? Investigating, testing limits? People were talking about the kiosk and trying to get it to tell something.

[zangetsu]

I just graduated highschool, so...

（ a bit of a helpless shrug. paygrade: Just A Normal Guy. ）

I mean, the kiosk was put here and is probably controlled by the same people that kidnapped us and put us on a train. I'm not sure trusting it is really the viable option here.

[strongroots]

'Grats, [ he manages to slip in when the shrug's given. But as for the actual answer: ]

Dunno if it's about trusting, and more about playing their game. What we know so far? Anything is. [ Playing to what they want. ]

But they might like the effort.

[zangetsu]

（ well. ）

Fair point.

（ he hates how it makes him think of yhwach. that helplessness, coming against someone who knew everything you'd ever been, or done — and everything you ever could or would or might do. how monstrous it had been.

so, is this a 'the only correct move is not to play' situation? or —

he sighs, and rubs his fingers along the bridge of his nose like he's trying to preemptively stave off the mother of all headaches. ）

But we're here, so no matter what — we have to keep moving forward. If they don't like it they can come down here and tell us themselves.

（ at which point he will fight them.

— of course, there's always the chance that any one among them could be the person (or persons) in question to begin with. but that requires a level of paranoia and mistrust he just doesn't have the energy to maintain, not after tsukishima. ）

[strongroots]

[ He breathes. Truthfully, he wonders what moving forward means in this context: digging around, or waiting to see what happens (make them come down here; but both options could result in that action). It probably doesn't matter; some people will try finding answers, others won't be pulled into the same action.

But he does know some of what this guy's willing to do. They agreed to do it together, after all. ]

Well, I'll still bump around some tunnels. [ Hm. ] If you try marking somethin'--smashing windows, writing on the walls -- does anything happen to it?

[ Everything is fairly clean. No one's just smashed up the shops for fun? ]

sorry for all these delays, province is on Fire :(

[zangetsu]

（ hahaha, robbie is asking the juvenile delinquent the right (wrong?) questions. ichigo stares at him a moment, and then reaches up to scratch idly at his cheekbone as if in thought. ）

Uh. Yeah. It goes back to normal within twenty-four hours, far as I can tell.

holy heck, no worries!! please take care :(

[strongroots]

[ ...not to call a guy out, but: ]

'Far as you can tell'?

[ oh yeah, buddy?? ]