[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

[coolerjunpei]

[aw, they're pals]

Do you feel any more buddy-buddy now than back in June?

[Does he... honestly he does, and that's definitely obvious despite all of his efforts to be an edgelord who is Tired of Playing Hero, but he still manages to ask the question like it's a joke.

guy who keeps organizing community collab events: lol do you guys feel like a team, cringe]

I barely passed CompLit, then I never took another literature class again.

[This as he squeakily adds "mediocre job at making a cohesive team" to his KNOWNs. He does agree with that part, at the very least; even if he comes around to the mindset of the people who want to stay here, he's never going to agree with the people who completely refuse to engage with the rest of them. Lone wolves... he'll pass.]

Well, they haven't totally fucked up the whole group, I guess. We've got that going for us! Yeah...!

[hooray............ he adds a smiley face to the board. yay.]

[gripper]

( his additional notes get a small snort from her. buddy-buddy... no, but she's working with people she normally never would, so maybe that counts for something. )

It only takes one wolf in sheep's clothing to kill a whole flock, you know. ( a surprisingly agricultural reference from someone hailing from a place called The City.... except calw was sort of a little village suburb outside of the big city. they had orchards and some fields. ) If I were them, I would've given us a solid foe from the get-go--humans love having something with a face to push against! That's the way to really get a group working together.

( not... parties. experiments dropped in piecemeal. punishments if you step out of line, damage mysteriously repaired, an endless supply of food. it doesn't matter how long the restock times become as long as they always have new stores in the city unlocking.

in a real crisis situation, there's a finite amount of supplies in an area. she's created it before, she knows! )

[coolerjunpei]

[Ah, regrettably, he agrees with this, tapping the marker on the board with Emphasis a bunch of times about it.]

That's what I've been saying! Or, you know— back then. We could have been out of here months ago if they just told us what they want us to do.

[And he does not mean because they'd have politely obeyed directives, of course. Maybe they would go on an elaborate closed-room adventure to escape only to find out that they were acting in the mastermind's real interest all along!! But that's not the point.]

Now it's probably too late for some of us. Not— I mean, like, they're not going to care that we've got names now, you know?

[gripper]

You're probably right, yeah. It's like, "Big whoop! What's that even change?"

( Those people... are probably also right. What does knowing this change, aside from giving them some context? Some people to chase after? ...Well, Kromer is happy having information—she 's hated not having any answers—but some people have probably grown apathetic, resigning to just figuring out shit to do here until they go home.

By choice or otherwise. )

Still isn't real clear what they want us to do though, is it? ( Make nice and work together... Deal with stimuli, but... ) Though I've gotta say, I'm not interested in being a guinea pig for much longer. How far's this "Phoenix" Distri... well, "city"?

[coolerjunpei]

[Don't get Junpei started on the nebulous villain of "guy who doesn't give a shit about proactively doing something," he'll never stop--]

What, from here? Probably not far, if this Assistant Director lives there. Like, they've got to commute, right? No one's commuting more than an hour, tops. No job is that good.

[Anyway, commuting aside,] We've got to get through the stupid fog barrier.

[gripper]

( some jobs are that good wdym dude )

...Alright then. Let's think about this from a viewpoint that isn't "we just keep walking into it or throwing things into it and hoping it'll work" then! ( science time. should be good enrichment for him too. ) What causes fog normally?