[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

[harepiece]

[His mouth snaps back shut as Hyoubu raises a hand, since that's exactly what he'd been about to say. As for the question:]

Right, it has. It was the same for all of us, I think... It started to clear up within a day.

[espersions]

Do you feel normal now?

[ He smiles inwardly at his own turn of phrase. This kid isn't pinging him as an esper, but he doesn't register as strictly "Normal" either. ]

Feel anything in your eye or your head?

[harepiece]

[There's a little brow furrowing happening right now, but after a second of contemplation, he shakes his head.]

I don't feel sick or in pain, so I guess it's as normal as things were before.

[Which he's suspecting now wasn't really "normal" from the start, considering the the shared timing and location of the symptoms of his group. Good lord, just his luck to go from one place that tampered with everyone's brains to another.]

[espersions]

[ He certainly picks up on that. ]

Heh. I agree with that qualifier, given what I've heard so far.

[ and from his own... investigations. ]

So — if I understand you correctly, Mosley abandoned your party on the 73rd floor. Did he say why?

[harepiece]

[A GRIM SITUATION but Oz chooses not to focus on that just yet. He only nods once in response - agreement - and then moves on to answer the question.]

He didn't... First, he said that he wanted us to go through a security check, even though that probably should have happened on the ground floor. He started to get upset about something - talking about how no one would let bad people into their house - and then he just said that he had to go, told us to wait there, and ran away.

[AND NEVER CAME BACK thanks for nothing Mosley!!]

[espersions]

Right. In keeping with the other stories I've heard thus far, Mosley disappears on a paper-thin excuse and then Bad Things Happen^TM.

[ Yes that TM is audible, as well as the caps ]

At least the fellow's consistent. What do you think he meant by that, "No one would let bad people into their house"? Was he referring to your party specifically, or do you think he was talking about something else?

[harepiece]

[WHO COULD BLAME HIM. Bad Things Did Happen™... Oz feels lucky that no one died, which is a bad sign, generally speaking.]

I think that he might have been talking about something else, but I'm not sure what. It could have been us - as in, the people that CERES brings in on a whole. Maybe he was talking about the woman that they had locked up... If I had to pick one, though, I'd think it would be the first.

[espersions]

[ Nobody* dies** in Hyoubu's canon, unlike some people's. ]

Is that so?

[ A beat. His head tilts to one side as he gazes down at Oz, eyeing him intently, and then adding in a totally not-ominous manner: }

Have you met many bad people here?

[ *except for flashback chapters with secondary characters on the title page.
**or they did, but they got better. ]

[harepiece]

[HOW DOES EVERYONE LIVE IN A CANON FULL OF PEOPLE WHO CAN BLOW THINGS UP WITH THEIR MINDS please pass that knowledge on Hyoubu, Oz is in desperate need of it.

Just like he's in desperate need of approximately 100 babysitters, because he sometimes goes turbomurder and sometimes turbomoron when left to his own devices. Case in point: this shonenass response:]

I haven't. All of the people that I've met here have good intentions and mean well, so if Mosley doesn't trust us in his "house", it's probably for a different reason. ...If it's us he was talking about at all, anyway.

[espersions]

[ ...


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wait, this kid is serious. He has a sudden impulse to pat Oz's head, which he resists.

Well — should resist, anyway. But since Hyoubu's about as good as impulse control as Oz is at self-preservation, he slides his hand from his pocket and pats. ]

It's a Mystery.

[harepiece]

[SERIOUS AS DEATH. This guy and his condescending head pats sure is reminding him of someone, though...]

One that we'll figure out eventually.

[That's not even him being shonen, that's just him acknowledging the inevitability of shit going down in the city.]