[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

[keepgodwaiting]

"Individual ..." Oh! Mate, I could kiss you.

[ In fact, in a dramatic reversal from when he first came over, she scrambles to kneel on her chair, grab him by the chin, and give him a peck on the cheek. ]

I've been staring at the thing for twenty-four fucking hours. [ She lets him go and flops back down. ] "Individualistically." Get fucked, Sumalee.

[justscribing]

[There are not many things in life that can catch Alhaitham by true surprise. He is, after all, always learning, observing, and thinking, so that he may possess an immense body of knowledge to work with in his mind.

This catches him by surprise. Mostly because it's aimed at him.

Johanna is already flopping back in her seat by the time he reacts to look at her with bewilderment. The speed at which she shifts from frustration to elation clicks. It's gratitude, and Johanna is clearly a vibrant person.

Alhaitham smooths his expression out as if it was nothing.] I'd like to see the document unveiled as well. These redacted documents must be purposeful. Do you think they meant to leak their direct reports as well?

[keepgodwaiting]

[ "Vibrant" is not the usual word Johanna gets; "emotionally labile" is what her therapists used to put on her charts, if she recalls correctly, and she is certainly not regulating her emotions particularly well these days. ]

I don't know. It's been bothering the hell out of me. This one-- [ She taps the Instrumental Analysis dated "Jan. 11." ] I found on a computer in the science center. And this one-- [ She flips to the one dated "Nov. 3." ] I think was in a filing cabinet in the office. But there are memos that have just, like ... turned up. On the back of the newsletters, on phones.

It's either a mistake, or someone trying to let us know something -- but what, and why.

[justscribing]

Humans aren't infallible, but an error in judgement is as much a failing as an error in accuracy. It could be that someone involved is having second thoughts about the continuation of the experiment.

[Given it's an ethical nightmare.] The first flyer and experiment summary were found in October, weren't they?

[keepgodwaiting]

Yeah, I'd like to think that.

[ Her tone says that as much as she'd like it, she doubts it. ]

That's right, before the haunted house. And the redaction's even worse on this one. There's whole phrases I haven't been able to suss out yet.

[justscribing]

[Alhaitham nods. He still has the photo of that one on his device.] I remember it was nearly illegible. Now that the actual experiment has occurred, though, it should be easier to use the context of our experience to unveil it. It might not be as useful but we have plenty of free time in this place.

[keepgodwaiting]

[ Grim: ] Yeah, plenty of free time until they spring another experiment on us. Which'll be any day now, if these are any indication.

[ It's probably irrational for her to feel the level of urgency she does, but it feels like they need to solve this before the "apocalypse redacteds" show up. Before more "compulsion redacteds" are put into place. ]

[justscribing]

Right. It should be around the nineteenth, unless they decide they want to change something else to keep us on our toes.

[It seems like the rules change every month, which really is just telling what a terribly done experiment this is when it keeps changing its experimental and control factors.]

reaction tag, ignore me-

[fussiest]

[ kaveh, who's sitting three seats over and halfway buried in files, looks over -

and bursts out laughing. sorry, give him a minute, he's just losing his shit. alhaitham looks very much like a cat that has been spooked by a cucumber, and isn't that simply the best? ]