citylogs | [open] plot clue club meeting

WHO: Junpei

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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

So it's not that great an experiment.

[Ha HA, take that, Assistant Director! et al. Anyway. This other thing.]

Prophecy... I don't know about that. But, uh, they might have people who can mess with the timelines, you know? Other histories and stuff. Not that that tells us why they need to put us in this weird city and run around for months...

[He waves a hand, like, never mind actually.] That's not as important as the parts about us, I think.

[ The Wanderer pauses at the mention of messing with timelines. He doesn't think Junpei is suggesting something like tampering with Irminsul, but the idea sounds similar enough, and he doesn't seem to be joking. It might just be a particular quirk of Junpei's world, then.

If Junpei is going brush over his own comment, then he won't point it out either. ]

Regardless of what's going on outside of this city, we can consider it a strong possibility that they're using us to figure out how to get people to cooperate. We'll need more information if we want to figure out why they need to use us, and not people from their own world.

[Not even Junpei really knows how all that timeline stuff works, so it's best to skip it for now anyway. Let sleeping timelines lie.]

We could just be easier. Although they're getting us here somehow, right? Well, the rest of you. If they can get people here— and people can go home sometimes— why not just escape their crisis that way?

[And before the question comes up, he leans over to point out Phoenix on the first page of the document.] I know I just brought up the other histories myself, and the year is all wrong, but Phoenix is like, one state over from where I was living before this place.

How can you be sure people are being sent home? Has someone gone home and come back before? [ not the point here, Wanderer ] It might be easier for us to go back because those are our native worlds, but they would have no connection to those worlds to use as a beacon.

[ He raises an eyebrow at Junpei. The man had mentioned Phoenix earlier, true, but now he's making it abundantly clear that he's familiar with this world's geography. ]

So this world resembles your world?

Yeah, Don. You can ask her about it. Probably some other people by now, but Don's the only one I can think of.

[Never mind that she may or may not lie about the specifics of it, for some reason? Allegedly? She did it, this much he believes.]

And... yeah, I've driven past Phoenix, and everything. It's only 2029 for me, though. It was just a generic city in here before, but now it's a generic city near a place I drove past once. Pretty big.

[ Huh. He'll have to check in with Don later then. If people were coming and going, then it complicates their understanding of the experiment a bit. What reason would they have to send people back home and then bring them back shortly after? This is a question he has no answers to. ]

That's over a millennium before the date written in this document. You certain that it's not just a coincidence?

You mean, do I think this Phoenix is the same Phoenix I've almost been to? Not exactly, no. It's almost definitely another history--well, another future--from the one I'm actually from, but odds are good it's a Phoenix in the same place, on the same planet. Just, you know... [lol,] shifted a little.

[This seems genuinely more likely than another place called Phoenix, to him. Why would there be a different Phoenix that isn't also still Phoenix. Silly to think about.]

So, uh, I'm mostly certain.

Still doesn't make your knowledge any less useless.

[ A millennium is a long time, and so much can change in that period of time. He's seen that first hand in just half of that. ]

But why are you the only one from this world's past, while the rest of us are from elsewhere? Do they consider the past and other worlds effectively the same when it comes to sourcing diverse cultures to pull from?

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