[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

[gripper]

Can you fetch me one? ( raising her hand to block out don quixote's inevitable face. ) I'm getting pretty thirsty, too.

[coolerjunpei]

[does he get another good job if he does.]

What kind do you want...

[gripper]

( yes. )

Whatever you're having is fine. I'm not a picky person.

( ? )

[coolerjunpei]

So you're cool with, say, room temperature tap water.

[girlie do not entrap him like this.]

[gripper]

( oh..........? )

Is that what you're thirsting for right now, or are you just trying to get on my nerves?

[coolerjunpei]

You got me. I'm dying for whatever shitty tap is in the bathroom here.

[...........] Obviously I'm trying to get you to tell me what kind of drink you want.

[gripper]

( boy why do you care so much. are you against matching? is that it? this that i )

Did you grab any iced coffee?

[coolerjunpei]

[honestly.......kind of]

Uh... no. I got soda. Daan brought a pocket bar, it looks like. I can ask around.

[gripper]

( when they have their matching nail phone accessories....??? )

...Man, you really are... ( ... ) Nah, it's fine. I'm gonna go get some room-temperature tap water.

( help )

[coolerjunpei]

[oh are those matching too. help him]

Are you sure you don't want soda? I just don't want room temperature tap water to suddenly be my fault.

[gripper]

( i decided they are now. )

I don't like soda. It's too sweet, too sticky when it gets on you, and tastes disgusting when it gets warm. I'll be fine with water.

[coolerjunpei]

[why didn't she just sAY THAT ABOUT THE WA okay fine]

Fine. I'll go see if there are any water bottles.

[shut up shut UP he's turning and walking away to do this before she can say something Else to him!!]

[gripper]

( WHY IS HE MAD!!!!!!!!!! oh my god he's like the girlfriend she never fucking asked for.

she will wait patiently, thank you. )

[coolerjunpei]

[HE'S NOT MAD!!!! no just kidding he is a little mad about this whole suit and tie bullying incident.


anyway he'll be back with. water cooler water. it's at least chilled. he did have to put it in a red solo cup though. he has slightly flat soda, for himself.]

Here, plain water.

[gripper]

Thanks.

( which sounds more sincere than her good job to him before? his slightly flat soda gets a look, like, my dude...... well, she won't audibly judge his tastes. )

You did do a good job though. ( a wave of her cup. casual. ) Why do you think I always put the responsibility of dragging everyone together on you for this kind of thing?

( because she used to have major detractors. she still does but, well, it's mildly okay now. they've mostly reached an understanding. )

[coolerjunpei]

Hmm. You're welcome.

[he's going to drink his flat soda and like it, thanks!! it seems to be break time from theorycrafting, so excuse him, he's going to perch on the conference table instead of sitting in a chair and risking wiping out again.]

And I just figured you didn't feel like doing it...

[gripper]

I love bringing people together!

( in a sense. )

But really, I feel more at home on the field... you know what I mean? Rather than getting stuck in stuffy office buildings, or dealing with whoever's further up the line than me. I didn't even like school that much. ( skipped class or didn't participate more than she had to, broke into people's houses after being invited in like a vampire, so-on so-forth... ) Most of my time at work's traveling, purifying and consecrating land, all of that.

[coolerjunpei]

[does she though.jpg]

I... don't, not really. I hate field work. [some of them Don't like seeing viscera on the regular, go figure.] Not that I really like desk work, either... And I quit school...

[COUGH well, here's a Great subject change,] You know, I don't think I ever asked you what your job actually is.

[gripper]

( junpei what DO you like to do. )

I'm part of Nagel und Hammer—my section falls under the "Hammer" part of that. I lead a group of Inquisitors, and we travel to places either by order or special request in order to take care of whatever problems arise. Our specialty is in handling those who eschew the human experience and replace their body parts with "cybernetic prosthetics". ( a job that suits her just fine. ) Our power's been on the rise in N Corp for a few years now—Guido helped me get in when I still in school, which, ha, let me tell you, that's not the usual... even for Feathers, it's not easy.

( but she was special and had a dream and the willingness to do it. )

It's just such a horrible thing. Who'd want to get rid of being human?

[coolerjunpei]

[collect sneakers. now she can't be mean about his light up shoes because they're a hobby, right. right]

Uh. Some people need those things to live, so... I don't think that's really wanting to get rid of anything.

[now, to be fair, he doesn't know any voluntary cyborgs or anything, but still. as he sips his gross soda and glances at kromer, he wonders: could snake take her in a fight. much to think about.]

[gripper]

There's a difference between "needing them to live" and "getting rid of my arm because if I get a papercut it hurts and I really don't want to bleed again", isn't there?

( well--not to her. maybe in very specific circumstances she turns a blind eye, if it isn't really replacing anything exactly, but... indoctrination is all about steps. very easy to digest steps. )

Calw was full of people chasing the "upcoming trend" of exchanging your "old-fashioned fleshy body" for the "new cybernetic tech" ones. That's the kind of town I grew up in--I hated it. ( isolating, to think differently than them. ) So I found people who understood me and got out of dodge! Isn't that a happy ending?

[coolerjunpei]

I... guess there's a difference. Sure.

[it does sound like an extremely slippery slope, though! so he isn't keen on endorsing whatever other definitely extreme views kromer has, besides "isn't that objectively different?" aha.

boy, this is such a great soda!! wowee!! that's why he's taking an incredibly long sip.]

I've never heard of anything like trendy cybernetics, so, uh, well. What did you need to be an Inquisitor for?

[like, he can make some guesses. he's pretty sure inquisitors have not historically been great, across many worlds.]

[gripper]

To save the City, of course.

( of course. what she's doing is right, after all. )

[coolerjunpei]

[........cool, they need to talk about literally anything else. cool cool cool.]

Okay then... alright.

[couldn't they just not go where the cyborgs are-- no, no, he shan't ask, he is stalwart.]

Did you ever think about finding something to do here, just to keep busy? Like how they set up that diner...

[gripper]

( wdym junpei don't you want to hear how she's purifying the city? ridding it of filth? consecrating with blood, ash, and fire to make it a truly holy land? )

Not really. It'd feel like I was settling down—I'm too young for that. ( ...well. she sips her water. ) Well, now I'm dead, so maybe I should give it a little more thought! No idea what I'd run, though.

( fight club but you can bring weapons. )

And yourself, little man?