[open] plot clue club meeting

[coolerjunpei]

WHO: Junpei coolerjunpei and You
WHAT: Secret Info Club Meeting and general Plot Clue mingling
WHERE: a conference room. with snacks!
WHEN: roughly DECEMBER!!! 12 this never once said nov
WARNINGS: tba

network preamble

[Having come into some fascinating information, Junpei—

obsessively studies it for a solid day

—and then un: junpei posts something very short and simple to the network for once:]

hey, it's junpei. i'm in the 5th floor conference room in the district 2 building by the bowling alley if anybody wants to know some *big names* and read some pages that aren't half blacked out. you know, for fun.

i've got some chips too. come check it out if you want.

log part

[The conference room is all decked out for some frantic information sharing, or rather:

Junpei has hastily set out some snacks, that is: some bags of chips and a few soda bottles, mostly what he could grab as quickly as possible from the nearest convenience store. He's also tossed some pens and notepads kind of randomly onto the table.

On the wheely whiteboard he's pushed up to the end of the room, the head of the conference table, he's written in big ol' letters:

INFO CLUB MEETING
TAKE A DOCUMENT SHARE A DOCUMENT
IDEAS???

DON'T SPREAD IT AROUND TOO MUCH YET, WE MIGHT GET PHANTOM ARRESTED OR WHATEVER

The most orderly thing here is the stack of ✨✨Documents✨✨ up by the whiteboard. These, he has put in the effort to not make a frantic mess of. Welcome to the club.]

OOC: this is a mingle for the ✨plot clue✨ junpei has received and it is open to anyone who might be interested in the information! if you have cr with junpei or have talked to him even once about The Mysteries, you're welcome to handwave that he sent your character a personal cryptic text about something important, come see. otherwise, seeing his network message and showing up is just fine too.

Comments

[justscribing]

It never happened? There's a photo posted on the network that says otherwise.

[Kaveh is well and truly fucked in the era of social media.]

[fussiest]

[ AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH ]

And don't bring that up too! E-everyone who indulges in alcohol has a few incidents like that here and there! How is that anything to harp about?

[justscribing]

A few. [It's not even a question he's just daring Kaveh to rebuke that.]

[fussiest]

A few! [ kaveh covers his face. ] And there's something to be said for this being a different world entirely - I assert that there have been only one notable incident since I arrived here, so doesn't that count for something?

[justscribing]

[Alhaitham hums.] It's true that you've been drinking much less heavily since we arrived.

[Despite the general hell of this place, and that it would have been an easy vice for Kaveh to hide from them in. Alhaitham, of course, had noticed. When Kaveh's hands and mind needed something to focus on, he's continued to turn to building with them.]

You propose you should get a clean slate because we're in a new environment?

[fussiest]

[ kaveh looks. of course, it would be alhaitham who notices. he rolls his eyes. ]

On this. I can almost feel your brain churning to connect this to the several dozen other things you think we ought to get new slates for, or, conversely, the several dozen other things that prove that this isn't a new slate. This is the one aspect of it that ought to deserve it, and the reason why? Because it makes me happy to think it.

[justscribing]

If we made allowances on feelings alone we'd never be able to be consistently accountable for anything. [...] But I'll allow it this time.

[Because it makes Alhaitham happy, too, that Kaveh hasn't been routinely drinking his sorrows away. For all the general terror of this place, this is something Kaveh can be proud of.]

[fussiest]

If we didn't make allowances on feelings alone, then the need for consistent accountability would never be acutalised. [ says kaveh, right-quick. but he is smiling. the smile is wry. ] But thank you, I suppose. I was going to continue on as I were, but it does make feel better that I've your permission.