[open] ain't no discussion party like an open discussion party

[psycholawgy]

Who: Anyone and everyone
When 1 February
Where: CERES Gardens
What: IC Dicussion Post
Rating/Warning: None so far!

[ At 5:30 in the morning, each person will receive a text: ]
Good morning!
If you'd like to know what happened during the CERES tours, please come to the gardens at 12 noon.
Lunch will be provided.

[ All these texts will come from Athena Cykes, so if you'd like to respond, head on over here! ]

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[ Athena's managed to convince the manager of the Little Sister Cafe to cater at ther CERES gardens, so there are tables, a spread of food, and at the center of all the tables is a small platform-like stage with a microphone. A part of the gardens now looks like this. With less balloons, of course.

Once there's enough people, Athena Cykes steps up. She has crutches, and she rests those crutches by the side of the platform as she speaks. ]

I'm sure we were all expecting a safe tour, but most of us - if not all - ended up being in danger. But, despite all this, we learned a lot of things. If we can all get up here one by one, in an orderly manner, and speak of what we've learned, we would be able to help one another survive in Cerealia better.

I don't think we need to keep this a secret anymore; Mr. Mosley and the rest of CERES have their eyes on us at all times. But still, we shouldn't try to withhold information from one another. Information is key to be able to survive in this place. Whatever you know? Please tell us.

The food is also from the cosplay cafe. Please come visit if you enjoy them. Thank you.

[ With a bow of her head, she steps down and heads to her table. Anyone is free to take the stand now and speak. ]

(( Make your own top-levels, and then there can be discussions for each top-level! I won't be running this post, so treat this as a mingle!

GROUP FIVE / GROUP SEVEN / GROUP NINE / IN-GAME TITLES ))

Comments

INFORMATION UNRELATED TO THE TOURS-

[psycholawgy]

[ Athena presents with a holographic screen before her, thanks to the CereVice. The screen should be big enough for everybody to see. ]

Ada Vessalius - Unfortunate Creampuff
Ai Thao Kha - Blue Fairy
Alex - Arcanus
Andy Hinomiya - The Dogsbody
Anna - Miss Feisty Pants
Aoba Seragaki - Mind Breaker
Archer - Drowning in Ideals
Atem - King of Games
Athena Cykes - Courtroom Révolutionnaire
Aura Blackquill - Robot Overlord

Bansai Kawakami - Deaf Man
Botan - Skilled Trust Faller
Bulma Briefs - World's Smartest MILF
Butch Cassidy - Brilliant Desperado

Cain Hargreaves - Earl of Poisons
Celty Sturlson - The Black Rider
Changge Li - Princess Yongning
Chibi - Kinda Preachy
Cinder Fall - Shots Fired
Ciel Phantomhive - The Queen's Watchdog
Cliffjumper - Suspicious Universe Jumper
Cole - Compassion
Cynbel Lightfoot - Fairy, Quite Contrary
Cyrus Crautz - Grumpy Mc. Grumpants

If any of you know what these mean, then please share your thoughts. Think fast.

My name is on this list - and I plan on changing how the court system at my home works. Perhaps these are titles that reveal our true identity? I don't know...

But CERES definitely has an entire list of this. These are the only ones I've recovered. If this breaches any privacy, then I'm sorry, but if we all put our minds together to figure out what these mean, then that'll be easier for us to figure out what CERES actually wants from us.

[emotive]

... Which floor did you find those names, Athena...??

[Ai looks apprehensive as she looks at the list of names, especially her own.]

[prosecutory]

[Edgeworth squints at the list and scans the names given. Several are familiar, including Athena's. Some of the titles seem apropos...like Anna's and Aura's. But Archer's...?]

Are these supposed to be...code names? Why are we given them, if our real names are already in CERES' records?

[He wonders what kind of description he has.]

[niceguypose]

[Rock Lee listens carefully to what she says. First, he tears up when he sees Archer's nickname.]

Ah... So many ideals must be touching the heart of Archer-san!! I am happy to hear that.

[Then he looks over the list more seriously.]

These all must relate to us in some way... Perhaps it sums up things about us! But there are some terms here I am not familiar with... Such as...

[He squints.]

Does anyone know what 'M I L F' stands for?!

[bluespearmanofthewind]

[Putting those information aside, Athena's text about free lunch pumps Lancer up to see what's up here.]

Yo Athena! I heard there will be free lunch here! Can I grab one?

[So, unrelated... Excuse him please.]

[dereban]

Is it bad that only half of these sound serious and the other half is hilarious?

[ ... She's sorry, she thought this was kind of hilarious. ]

[swordboning]

I have no idea what it's talking about.

[Archer always has an idea how terrible is he.]

[changeably]

My name is also on the list. I suppose they thought rhyming my species and some description of my personality was very funny, but I can't see that there's much else to it!

[He does not seem impressed about his title at all.]

They must be there as an alternative to our actual names, so we wouldn't know what they were referring to, if we heard them without knowing this list. Which means, they are most certainly keeping some kind of record of us they don't want us to hear of.

[roboticists]

I like that. Aura Blackquil, Robot Overlord. It sounds better than the "Twisted Samurai."

[ But curious as to how they came up with that name in the first place. ]

[jyajyaaan]

Atem, King of Games... [He stares at the list with his mouth hanging open for a moment longer before he groans and shakes his head.]


He'd really like that, wouldn't he? What an ambiguous compliment!

[One that he has no intention of explaining, already because he's not 100% perfectly sure that his source of information is right. But if it is it's a damn flowery way of saying that the guy can be a capricious murderous bastard.]

[capforthat]

[This is very interesting but there's something important she has to get out of her system first:]

World's Smartest MILF!!? What kind of sicko came up with that!? WAS IT MOSLEY!?

[Apologies to the ears of anyone within ten feet of her.

Possibly more.]

ooc note: Vegeta may pop in to conversations! If you'd rather he didn't, please drop a note to either of us

[faithfulflame]

Are these just some sort of absurd nicknames?

[buildyourworld]

[ He saw some familiar names and could draw comparison to the files in his possession but that's not something he can discuss with anyone. ]

Sounds like some kind of title that could reflect our actual identity...

[ He's still very confused with all this sudden surge of information so he's not going to be able to offer much input other than try and keep up. ]

Do you mind if I make a copy of this?

[kirkwalled]

[ have a genuinely surprised look over here ]

Cole? He isn't here any longer.

[ but ah ]

I can't say for certain what "Compassion" means in regards to him, unfortunately.

[ she looks a bit unsettled by that. some of these are pretty odd, she wonders what hers might say. ]

group 5 info!

[harepiece]

[When Oz gets to the front to talk, he pauses for a second.]

Um— I was with Miss Shepard, Mister Katsura, Hinata and Rei. Mister Katsura already mentioned this on the network earlier, but we found a woman locked up on the... I think it was the seventy-third floor? Mosley left us there and then an alarm went off, and the guards opened fire on us. We were able to escape- [THANKS KATSURA the true shonen protag of the group] -and found a room past the hall. That's where they were keeping her. She was chained up and in a cage, and there were a lot of cameras watching her. Miss Shepard tried to talk with her, but she seemed wary of us... Angry, too. She thought that we were with CERES at first, but even when we told her we weren't, she said we can't change anything if we don't know anything. [He purses his lips briefly.]

But before we could really talk to her, she got upset and said that CERES was there watching through us. I think we all blacked out after that... I was blind in my left eye for a while after, and my CereVice didn't start working again for a few hours. Oh— did anyone else get a thank you message at the end of the tour, too? [THAT CREEPY ROBOT.]

[dereban]

Yeah. [ Inaba just nods in response to the last question. ] I think we all did. That robot really is creepy.

[ She shivers a bit just remembering that. ]

[psycholawgy]

A woman...? Maybe she's related to LILITH?

[faithfulflame]

When you say wary, Oz-kun, what do you mean? How did this woman look?

[Rei seems genuinely curious about that.]

Was she cautious? Or in pain? Or...was it more suspicion?

[espersions]

[ People pay good money, in certain parts of this city, to get chained up and stuck in a cage, so that part of the story on its own isn't quite so disturbing, but... ]

We can't change anything if we don't know anything. Cryptic and of limited usefulness, what a surprise.

[ How very reminiscent of LILITH, ugh. ]

Did she say anything else to you?

group 7 information

[dereban]

[ Clearing her throat as she struts her way onto the stage, she manages to look rather serious about the situation - although she's good enough to joke around in some areas, there are other parts that she can't just laugh about. ]

Our group consisted of myself, Nanoha, Myriam, Kousetsu and Ribbons. Mosley took us to the library for some light reading, but then "accidentally" [ Yes, those air quotes are visible. ] fell under one of the panels, having forgotten about the traps. We found some history books talking about the establishment of CERES, the creation of the Cerealia colony, and the purchase of the planet-- there was an utter lack of the Flamines in the book for whatever reason, and the information seemed rather recent, seeing as it said that Julius Vincere was the one who dealt with buying this planet and creating this colony.

After that, we ran into a shadow creature that looked like this... [ She takes out her photo that she managed to take with her camera. ] And we found out its weakness was light.

[ Rather bitterly: ] By accident, someone took out a match and lit it up. It destroyed the creature, sure, but the fire also accidentally burnt the library down. We managed to make it into the backroom, however, where there were piles of documents all over the area.

But right then and there was when Mosley conveniently showed up and we were escorted from the premises as "arsonists".

[ That's it in regards to the tours themselves... ] Also, I'm working with Hinata and a few other people to build an x-ray machine to see if we can't figure out what exactly is inside of us. And- if it's just our eyesight that's being effected by these things that they planted, there's something I'm planning on testing.

And I have some theories on the Flamines too, but I'll discuss that later.

[bropane]

I've an idea for you. I've got a body scanner - do you want to see what kind of results it'll give me?

[ He already knows, but it's best for someone to find out on their own what irregularities there are. ]

GROUP NINE

[psycholawgy]

[ Athena may not have been able to save the pictures and videos she took with her CereVice, but inputting data into the Mood Matrix gives everybody an idea of what they saw. She flips the screen so everybody can see. They're also able to see Athena's emotions as she recalls the events of the tour. ]

We were sent to Waste Management, where we had to go down a chute and then we found ourselves in an Incinerator Room. There was no other exit but a door, which led to something like this. [ The blue icon starts blinking, signifying fear. ] We fell into the water, and a giant fish tried to eat Miss Hawke and I... [ The blue icon starts blinking wildly, and so does the yellow icon. ]

Another fish monster eats us, and we get spit out into the... I suppose it's what's outside of the colony. [ The blue icon stops blinking, but and the yellow icon's blinking dims. ]

And what's outside the colony is a junkyard. [ At this point, no more icons are blinking. ] Everything out there? It's alive. The heaps of metal are alive, and they will attack you. If you're outside the city, they won't let you come back, because they will keep moving you further away.

... it was until Mr. Mosley came in and punched the sentient heaps of metal that we were able to get out of there alive. [ There's a photo of Mosley that can be seen when she says this, and the green icon blinks slightly. ]

We also got some stickers.

[dereban]

... At least you got stickers. [ They didn't get jack shit because of a certain someone. ]

But living junk, huh. I can't really say much about that, honestly, but-- if that's what's outside the colony, does that mean the whole planet is like that?

[bakudanma]

_{[ Katsura hasn't made his appearance here yet, but you'll hear some laughter. Did it sound.. villainous? When was he supposed to be villainous? what is happening. ]}

Ha ha haaaaa--!
_{[ IT'S COMING FROM BEHIND A TREE. So he'll step out since he's done eavesdropping. His right arm is still in a sling, so nothing too dramatic of an entrance for now. ]}

If it wasn't for me, I would think our discoveries would be lost. The robots don't know how to respond to explosives, but they ended up in pieces.
_{[ let him gloat. ]}

What Oz-san is saying it true, though. I can't help but think that Mosley-san led us to danger intentionally. He seemed anxious when he left, like maybe he really had to urinate.
I'm convinced all of my skepticism of this company hasn't gone to waste. Nobody should trust them after all of this.

So, rise. We all should reunite together and rebel.
_{[ woah there slow down there tiger. ]}

[niceguypose]

[Rock Lee was standing firmly on the ground for once as he listened to all of these accounts, looking all too conflicted. Sure, he wasn't naive enough to think that CERES was full of people who were actually kind, but he had believed that they were telling the truth about wanting the restoration of all worlds. He trusted in that ideal.

Now, hearing such a dear friend say such things was... scary. Especially for a youth who knew nothing of true rebellion, who has spent most of his life blindly following a central authority. He looks up towards Katsura uncertainly.]

R-rebel? Katsura-kun... What would such a thing entail?

[buildyourworld]

[ Even though he's not part of the tours, he agreed to come when Athena invited him. It wouldn't hurt to gather some information of what he missed out of no thanks to him accidentally locking himself in much longer than expected.

Everything he hears are news to him and he's glad he brought Haro because there's no way he'll be able to remember everything. ]

Was everyone invited to these tours?

[puredistortion]

The tours were voluntary. Inaba covered what our group learned in her report.

[He's not surprised to see Tieria here. If there was information being distributed, he was sure to want to know. Between all of them it seemed they had learned a lot.]

You've been busy.

[kirkwalled]

[ athena's pretty much taken care of everything in regards to this and hawke doesn't really want to get involved here. so she's going to stay off to the side, arms folded over her chest as she leans against a tree and watches everything go on. this whole situation is pretty absurd in her book but at least it's like being back in kirkwall again.

... except with a whole lot more people giving a shit.

so, if anyone wants to lurk off to the side too, they're welcome to join her. ]

[shacklebreaker]

[Blackquill is definitely one of those lurking off to the side. He didn't go on the tours, and has been listening to the various accounts of what happened in each tour with the same grim expression that he would hear witness testimonies in court. They can't formulate a plan of action without first gathering an idea of the bigger picture, so his highest priority is simply to listen quietly and garner what information he can.

When he spots a certain woman standing nearby, though, he approaches her.]

Hawke, was it? Athena spoke of you.

GROUP FOUR

[bewrightback]

[Eventually, Phoenix Wright takes the stage in presenting his group's findings. He waits not to build up suspense, but rather to try to think of a way to make it sound as little fail as possible.]

My name is Phoenix Wright. My tour group was shown downstairs. Mosley left to find a lightbulb, and we wound up finding ourselves in a very old-looking laboratory. It had a number of alien creatures that were contained in tubes, and a computer.

After... um... pooling a variety of ideas between us, we hacked the computer's password. The information we checked was under a category called "Elementals", and it described four different elements: fire, earth, water and wind. Each element seemed to correspond to a different type of people. They were ranked by how easy they were negotiate with, and they each seemed to have some kind of ability which corresponded to their matching element.

Unfortunately, our search was cut short because one of the creatures managed to get loose. We assumed it was an attack, and in the panic... well... the creature happened to be fatally struck by a masked member of the team. It wasn't until it was too late that we realized that it didn't seem to want to attack us... It was actually as if it was trying to communicate with us, but we couldn't make out what it was saying.

That's when Mosley came and escorted us out of there.

...



...Um, and for future reference, does anyone know where one can get a 'flash drive'?

[roboticists]

[ Aura takes out five of them from different pockets in her coat. One in every colour. Take your pick Phoenix. ]