[closed] So before they get to you, do what you've gotta do

[zerotohiro]

Who: Hiro Hamada, Yu Narukami and Dipper Pines
When: Morning of IC 5/17
Where: Hiro's workshop at the tech and auto shop
What: A genius, a wildcard, and a mystery lover walk into a shop and put together an information-sharing ring.
Rating/Warning: Will update if needed


[He'd spoken to Yu a few days prior about everything and he'd passed on the message to bring Dipper with him back to the workshop the morning of the 17th. It gave them all time to recover from the carnival and get their bearings together.

Now that Yu knew of what he and Dipper were up to, Hiro felt it was time to get his friends together and really start hashing out how they would be dispersing information among the colony. It needed to be down to a specific science. They couldn't screw this up.

And it's for that reason he and Baymax are in Hiro's small workshop bright and early before anyone else is even at the shop, Mochi sprawled on his desk (specifically for Yu) and with what looked like breakfast from McCeres. There were piles of notes and documents and tools around him and when Baymax ushered his friends into the shop he wasted little time in handing the pair of them a set of glasses each, slipping his own onto his face.]

I know it's early, but we're kinda working on limited time here. We really need to start figuring out what we're gonna do next.

Comments

[cryptologic]

By the time we build glasses for everyone, CERES will probably have figured out a work around. Oooor they'll just send their droids to destroy all the pairs they can.

[ He's not trying to be cynical, just realistic. In Dipper's case, those two things often go hand in hand, but he hardly expects that CERES will let them get away with this forever. Eventually, they'd have to figure something else out.

He leans against the table, arms crossed. ] There's Phoenix Wright, too, but Athena will probably tell him. I think they're pretty close. If we're including Rei in that group, she'll probably tell Ami and Minako...and if Roxas and Mary are going to know, then Xion should, too.

[ Because they all live together. Not because he has any bias at all. ]

[covenantal]

We'll worry about that when we come to it. [ The entire colony getting glasses is so far off that they can't even begin planning for it yet. They need to focus on the more immediate future, like the next few weeks to few months.

Unlike his friends, he sees no need to call Dipper out for wanting to include Xion. See, guys? Maturity. Instead he only nods again, closing the notebook and passing it back to Hiro. (He devotes a little more attention now to stroking Mochi's head.) ]

Inaba Himeko has been pretty helpful to me in the past. She's great with information, and I know she'd like to help. Dipper, you've spoken to Rapunzel, right? She said she knew you. She only just got here, but she's already got theories. I'm going to talk to her again soon, but if she's onto something, she might really be able to help us.

[ There's a beat, and he pauses. And pauses. And then his eyes hood. Here, he looks directly at Hiro. ]

... Katsura-san. I'd like for him to be able to help.

[ Yu-san.
Are you inviting me to trust in you? ]

[zerotohiro]

Look if it comes to that they'll probably target me and Baymax and I can take their droids. [It's easy to be so blase about it, but the idea does worry him a bit. It's something so far in the future though that he doesn't think to focus on that. What's important is to get the ball rolling.

And screw maturity, he's still smirking in Dipper's direction anyway. Right. No bias at all. Mochi purrs thanks to Yu's constant attention and Hiro nods along with his friends' suggestions.]

...I agree with Katsura. I know you guys might have different reasons but...he's the one who really pushed me to start looking into what CERES was doing to us. And he was on the last raid with me. I trust him a lot even if he's...sort of crazy. [He bites his lip, thinking again.] I'd like to include some other people I've met recently, too, in the list of people who should at least have some clue of what's going on. Mitsuru Kijiro, Trowa Barton, and Jack Frost. The first two are people that I think could really help us out in finding more clues about this place. Mitsuru's really smart and kinda scary, and Trowa was part of the military back home. And I didn't meet him recently but Jack's been around for a while. He was on that first raid as part of a separate group, and he was close to Hiccup.

[A moment of silence for Hiccup, really.] ...I'd like to keep Sorey and Mikleo up to date, too. Especially since Sorey just got back from the Nexus. Figure those two could tell the other seraphs, Alisha and Rose. I don't know if you've met any of them. ....and also Saiduq. He's given me a lot to think about and research lately. He can choose what he wants to tell Hiro and Otome.

[He's shifting to pick up a paper cup full of coffee, sipping it to make himself stop for a few minutes.] It's just a matter of sorting the list into people who should know everything we know, a second tier who knows almost everything, and a third tier of who the people in the second tier will tell. Is this getting too complicated? [He'll just flip the notebook open again to start scribbling down a bracket of who would tell whom.]

[cryptologic]

[ Is he pointedly ignoring that smirk Hiro is leveling him with? Yes, yes he is. Instead he addresses Yu. ]

I'm with you on Inaba. Rapunzel is...yeah, I met her. She's...definitely got a head full of ideas, I'll give you that much.

[ He keeps listening as names are rattled off, though he pushes himself upright at the mention of Katsura's name, looking between Yu and Hiro like there's some kind of joke he's missing out on here.

Granted, Dipper had only talked to him once, but that conversation had been...unusual, to say the least. It's not that he found Katsura distrustful - just unpredictable. But if Yu and Hiro were willing to trust him, Dipper would follow suit. ]

I think complicated is just the way it has to be if we want to be at all efficient. Fortunately a lot of the people in this list know each other. It's just a matter of sorting it out - like a phone tree or something.

[ Though he's admittedly a little uncertain of the idea. There are already a lot of people on this list that he doesn't know personally, and while he trusts Hiro's and Yu's opinions, how much was too much? ]

The question is...do we draw the line somewhere? I mean - if we keep spreading the information, how long before it ends up in the hands of someone willing to sell us out to CERES? The more people involved, the higher the risk that everything we're doing will be compromised.

[covenantal]

[ Yu is quiet throughout a lot of the rest of this talking, as he tends to be around other, more talkative people. At some point during all of this chattering, he will take up a pencil and lean over to add two more names to Hiro's list:

Flynn Scifo
Lili An

Other than that, he keeps his peace until Dipper raises his question. ]

Yeah. I think we can trust the people we've been talking about so far, but we need to be sure about what information we're giving everyone. We don't want to overwhelm them, either, and we're not certain what they each know. Maybe what would be best is if we write down what we want everyone to know, and decide from there.

[zerotohiro]

[A name he recognizes and another he doesn't. He gets why Yu didn't verbally mention them and it's when the older boy brings that up that he connects the dots.]

You mean like...maybe making an actual list. Like the timeline Athena and the others made. A document, sort of, but not something we can store on the CereVice? [He glances almost woefully at the journal.] My notes are pretty scattered...I've been meaning to get them organized but more things keep happening so I've been throwing it together when I can. You really think that might be best?

[cryptologic]

Definitely not something that could be stored on the CereVice. Old fashioned notes are difficult to hack. [ Especially is it was encrypted - he's still got a cipher on hand they could use if they deemed in necessary. ]

What exactly do we want to share, though? We've learned a lot since we started investigating. There will also be more that others might have to bring to the table. How do we incorporate that, then. Update when we get something new and just send out a new sheet?

[covenantal]

[ Yu nods at them both. ]

Handwriting everything would take a while, though... think we could use your laptop, Hiro? We compile a document, encrypt it using one of Dipper's ciphers, and print it out. Anyone who reads it has to have a pair of glasses on.

[ He taps a finger on his chin. ] We'd have to update it manually, but I don't think that's too big a deal once the initial document is done. As for what to share... Hiro, you've been on both forays into the CERES headquarters, right? There's also our trip into the jungle. Plus, each of us can add whatever theories we have based on the evidence we've seen. That's a lot to go on as it is.

[zerotohiro]

Not a bad idea. I'm pretty sure the laptop isn't part of CERES's system and if I'm wearing these to write the thing up we should be safe. Dipper's been working on a pretty good cipher. [He shoots an encouraging smile at his friend because hey, he's kind of proud of him. Dipper and Hiro have been working on this together...for a while now.]

Updates wouldn't be bad. We can have one document solely dedicated to this and any time any of us have updates we can come here, put on the glasses and work on it. I'll have to password-encrypt it too just in case. [But then Yu asks that question and he slows down again.] ...I was on two of them, yeah. There were the tours that happened right before I got here and I have a little information on those. Katsura was on those, I think. Yang and Phoenix too. We have both trips to the jungle, my two trips to the tower, some of the theories me and Dipper talked about...

[A low, long exhale.] This thing's gonna be massive by the time we're done, but it's the only way we can keep it organized.

[cryptologic]

[ Dipper nods along with Yu's ideas, and then Hiro's. Using the laptop would make it easier to update the information and ensure the accuracy of the cipher. ]

Better to give people too much information than not enough, I think. I mean, maybe some of our ideas aren't going to go anywhere, but we won't really know unless we follow them, right? And there might be something someone else has learned that can answer a few of our questions already.

[ Which brings him to another idea he's been tossing around... ]

What do you two think about having in-person meetings with the group where we can actually discuss things? Glasses mandatory, obviously, so it might be awhile before we can get everyone together. But it'd be a great way to hash out some of our theories.