April Event Plotting

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April Event - OOC Post

You know the drill! The actual post itself is already up, so we're forgoing a summary this time. This is a post for OOC plotting, questions, maybe even some collaborative effort on figuring out what the more mysterious parts of the event are all about... Oh, and this time around, investigation as well. Please reply here with a link to a thread where your character is in the process of exploring location(s) with another, and we'll let you know if they'll find anything amiss! <b>Characters:</b> Just a list of the characters in the thread! <b>Thread:</b> A link! <b>Description:</b> What are they up to? Which areas are they looking to explore? As always, if you have any questions about this event, please leave them here.

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QUESTIONS

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INVESTIGATION

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[bedream]

Characters: Kyouko Sakura, Sayaka Miki
Thread: here!
Description: They're in Chuuou-ku, eating their way around the mall's food court!

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As Kyouko and Sayaka wander the food court, they may find a slip of lined paper that's fallen to the ground near one of the stalls. In messy writing, it contains the following words:

potential fugue state outbreak

Re: INVESTIGATION

[eatdavesbabies]

Characters: Bro Strider and Karamatsu
Thread: Here
Description: Bro is a petulant manchild and has decided stealing a maid costume at the maid cafe would be a wonderful use of his fucking time.

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As Bro and Karamatsu make their way around the maid cafe, they will notice sheets of paper scattered beneath a few of the tables.

Upon closer observation, they're defaced print-outs of some sort.

Re: INVESTIGATION

[ceasetoexist]

Characters: Pokey Minch
Thread: Here
Description: Heading to check out Constellations and say hello to the proprietor.

[noplan]

Alrighty so just a real quick note since it's getting late, I should be getting to bed and not everyone's going to be piling into Discord:

The name here Bonnie got was Kaneko Kouzai. Meaning of Kouzai aside (it roughly means 'both good and evil', using the kanji for either light/happiness with the kanji for evil/darkness), Kaneko was the name of a magi Sachiko Hatsu fought with previously.

Also worth noting, the translations of the runes. Ni and Neko translated them early on Saturday, and they read 1:1 from a passage in Peer Gynt, one of the books Bonnie found in the basement of the shop.

"In your left eye, first,
I’ll scratch you a bit, till you see awry;"

"but all that you see will seem fine and brave."

"And then I’ll just cut your right window-pane out
See,
here are the glazier’s tools."

"Blinkers you'll wear,
like a raging bull"

"Then you'll recognize
that your bride is lovely
and ne'er will your vision
be troubled, as now,
with bellcows harping
and sows that dance."

"Just think how much
worry and mortification
you'll thus escape from,
year out, year in."

"You must remember
your eyes are the fountain
of the bitter and searing
lye of tears."

Any English majors in the house?

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Since this is an NPC location, anything noteworthy will be pointed out in the NPC thread itself.

[ceasetoexist]

Got it my apologies.

[ironicoolly]

Characters: Dave Strider, Gary Smith
Thread: here!
Description: Exploring a college campus!

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As they approach the front of the admissions office, they will find a childishly-drawn poster that has been left discarded on the floor. Small bits of paste and paper stuck to the door hint that it had once been hanging there; it must have been torn down by someone.

[dokkans]

Characters: B.B. Hood and Kainé
Thread: This one!
Description: Killing blobs, potentially looking around the mall.

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As Bonnie and Kaine look around the mall, they may find a slip of lined paper that's fallen to the ground. The writing on it is messy and disorganized.

suzume saito

mother of child that went missing during case last year
was cooperative until recently, sought news coverage in order to incite continued investigative efforts
recently became uncooperative, displayed inconsistencies in testimony

[oathshackledbird]

Aside from Magi Hot Topic, what other kinds of shops can we safely assume are in the mall area? Primarily, I am wondering about a bookstore and perhaps an alternative medicine/herbal remedies type store (or maybe just your typical incense shop gasp). I assume they would both be okay, but I also don't like assuming, especially when my 'real mall' experience equals about 2 places visited over the years. LOL!

[lapidarius]

so

if one were to investigate, what is the verdict on finding people that might resemble sachiko/does the woman with blue hair in minami-ku look like her at all? ALSO is the incense smell on the girl in kita-ku recognizable to someone who, say, burned illgotten gains from an evil incense shop

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Neither a bookstore nor any sort of alternative medicine / incense shop can be found in the mall. Eateries aside, it's mostly dedicated to clothing, accessories, and beauty and personal care products.

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The woman at Minami-ku does not resemble Sachiko in any way, and Sachiko herself doesn't seem to be around.

The girl in Kita-ku is not recognizable.

[oathshackledbird]

Thank you! Glad I asked. /thumbs up

Re: INVESTIGATION

[pleasereset]

Characters: Ryoko and Asriel
Thread: http://soulgemmed.dreamwidth.org/74931.html?thread=10904243#cmt10904243
Description: Spying on apartment residents in Minami-ku

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As Ryoko and Asriel snoop around the residential area, they will notice a low, melancholic whine coming from a rather spacious-looking house. Peeking into the window will reveal a Great Pyrenees, roaming the room as if in search of something.

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[relieable]

Characters: Osomatsu Matsuno, Karamatsu Matsuno
Thread: here
Description: Osomatsu has a sweet tooth, and Karamatsu's hungry. they share some dango (no they don't) and head to the sweets store in Chuuou-ku's mall.

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When Osomatsu and Karamatsu enter the store, they will notice that some sort of medical report or notice appears to have slid beneath the checkout counter. The writing on the page is faded out and obscured by stains, but it's still possible to make out the title.

Termination of Patient for Noncompliance

[relieable]

so... reading some information about this passage, and the whole play. Peer Gynt is a Danish play, but it was written by Norwegian dramatist Henrik Ibsen. the play follows Peer Gynt's life story, and he's... shall we say, a lot like Osomatsu, is what i thought upon reading the synopsis.

Peer Gynt is a Norwegian farm lad who wastes his time in lazy dreaming, boasting and brawling--a symbol of the man who ever colors truth and fact in wishful compromises, evasion and selfishness.

the character that is speaking in this passage is actually the Troll King, who I believe wants Peer Gynt to marry his daughter? but she's super ugly (Gynt likened her to a sow), so the king is basically saying he'll adjust Gynt's vision so he won't be able to see how ugly she is.

THE TROLL KING: Yes, my son, you certainly must undergo some treatment to cure this troublesome human nature.
PEER GYNT: What will you do ?
THE TROLL KING: I'll scratch you slightly in the left eye [....]

also a glazier is "a person whose profession is fitting glass into windows and doors." since i did not know.

then later, Gynt says to the Troll King "and it says in the family Bible: 'If thine eye offend thee, pluck it out.'"

this passage is... ah, i fear meaning that something bad is probably going to happen to eyes.

Re: QUESTIONS

[crosslaced]

Are books available anywhere in the city?