citylogs | [open] plot clue club meeting

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.

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

[ Ha. Sorry, he's gotta be That Guy for a moment-- ]

We're at least into 3056, going by publication dates. I thought you'd like to know.

[ Today's certainly been something. He'll sip his room temperature water. ]

In addition, you can add we're most certainly iteration 50; if we are into 3056-- or better yet, 3057 since they seem to be reflective of that year's gathered data, then Dr. Sumalee's publication in regards to "Assessing Community Stability" plays well into what's been written about the iteration that may have taken place that year, 47. Do you think the ones between that round and our current one didn't make it to the point that we're at now?

[........he'll rub that year out with his hand and correct it. Thanks Guy. He adds a bullet point summary of these points, too, a little hastily so he can keep up. It's getting crowded... he'll start a new column. With arrows.

The whiteboard can be organized later.]

Maybe not? What do you think they could have screwed up so bad that they'd get tossed out? We don't even know if we're the only group running at a time.

[ This whiteboard is the most hideous thing he's ever seen, for the record. And he's looked at his brother-in-law. ]

We don't, but let's say for the sake of simplicity that we are. Each year they have a different iteration within the same setting, learn something new from it by adjusting the variables from last year's, and finally draw up conclusions they then publish. It doesn't matter if the people they've pulled from across worlds, timelines, so on and so forth are the same or not, because it's been proven countless times now that they're able to pull from and mess with our minds.

[ Thank goodness he asked to be caught up last time they had a meeting. It's a real boon. ]

Perhaps the last few groups did turn onto one another and end things early, but given I've heard we very much do not stay dead I rather doubt that's a factor...

[ ... He'll stand to go flip through the documents again, careful not to fuss them too much. ]

"Long-term Effects of Degraded Psychological Security" and "Community Network Resilience". These are the unaccounted for years, if we are 3057's current experiment. Do you know what either of those might entail, Junpei? There's no wrong answers, so feel free to say what you'd like.

[That's not very nice, Roland is like an 8. A high 7 maybe. Junpei's whiteboard, on the other hand, is like a 3, only because his handwriting is pretty decent.]

Well now it feels like I'm back in college...

[Please let him answer questions without the gentle guidance, Professor. He considers this, anyway. It's taking a pretty conscious effort to put the "but doesn't all of us being from different worlds fuck it up???" idea at the back of his mind, since no one seems to particularly care about that...

So, okay. The documents.]

The first one sounds like they might have messed too hard with that iteration's heads, doesn't it? Most of us are just accepting that sometimes getting our memories erased and whatever else— maybe that group couldn't handle their version.

As for the other one, it sounds like that group would have done better, if they're talking about resilience. Could be the opposite, but I don't think they'd shy away from saying that directly. "Network" is probably just, you know... like what we're doing here. And the diner, that kind of thing.

[He shrugs. How did he do, did he get an A.]

Charming answers, but I'll have to give you half points.

[ It isn't his field. But you don't get to be as high as he is, and far more in touch with leading a variety of people as he has, without a little know-how. And gentle guidance. ]

Psychological security is what we demonstrated now -- that is, being unafraid to put out ideas, criticism, so on and so forth. Communication. A degradation of it'd mean they began to punish or ridicule their subjects for... non-conformity of opinion, perhaps. They wouldn't be doing what we're doing now, and probably accepted their fates and attended the experiments as prompted.

And, in a sustainable city as it mentions, it refers to our needs being met without our worrying if we're gonna be eating the next day. Vices too, such as drinking and smoking. Taking them away over a long period of time is the degradation of that, though I'm not particularly worried since we'd just need to become nomadic to survive.

[ So, communication and survivability in essence. ]

As for the second, it's just a fancy way to say what you did: taking it apart, a community's resilience in dealing with particular disasters and such by how they might work together to ensure its success, and network for, well, networking. If we kept to ourselves and ultimately did nothing to bond, then that would be counted as a failure on their part if they were hoping that circumstances would drive us to open up.

We can't know for certain the aims of these experiments, but the culmination of them can be seen in how we're being dealt with now. "Integrating Community Perspectives" in the first might refer to those surveys that've popped up every now and then on our devices. You've been worried about our being from different worlds messing with their data, but aren't we perfectly suited for experiments dealing with providing a variety of solutions for problems they throw our way and seeing if we'll become friendly despite our many differences?

I thought my answers were worth more points than half...

[grumble mumble. also:] Apparently the supplies are coming back slower. Just so you know.

[And then he will hush and stop interrupting, for the rest of this college lecture. Will there be a quiz. Shall he take more notes.]

If you think about it in terms of pure data, I guess it's fine that we're from all over the place... Let's say that they're thinking, oh, okay, these guys from all over can work together, so us psychos in Phoenix who aren't total strangers will be completely fine! Something about that still sounds like crappy science to me, but whatever—I'll go with it.

How important do you think those surveys really are? For our "success"?

[ Just so he knows. Good to know. Argalia, who eats for one and doesn't particularly have any vices that'd reappear slower, hasn't had much of a problem. ]

It's flawed, since I'm sure they haven't accounted for those who'd like to see it fail just for kicks. [ Some people like to see the world burn. ] But it isn't a completely bad idea either. The less control they exhibit over us, the safer we think we are -- those of us who attended Tsuruno and Robby's get together had no intentions of going to this city's party, and yet we found ourselves there a number of ways.

[ With the confidence of someone, like those who've spoken before him, who'd had first-hand experience with it. Regardless, ]

As for the surveys... it depends on what they're looking for. They're gauging our reactions to their stimuli on a simple ranking system, but do they care about that portion? Or is it only the second part, where they ask a question that seems to have little or nothing to do with what occurred, that they care about? We'll really only know if we swing a vote one way or another, and agree on which question we're doing it on.

Yeah, I stayed home from both of those. I guess they don't really care if you're not giving them the finger about their creepy parties.

[More power to the rebellion, etc, but that was not Junpei's best social month, and yet The Directors did not give a shit about it. Much to think about.]

So we've got to pick a question, huh... Well, we've probably all been saying their parties suck on the surveys so far, so... should we get everyone to vote that they were great, next time?

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