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?????? 10/8
WHO: All of Yogen
WHAT: Something is brewin...about to begin.....
WHEN: 10/8 afternoon
WHERE: Everywhere!
WARNINGS: ┐(´ー｀)┌ Will update if needed.
[sometime in the afternoon, after the student council wraps up for the day, someone takes control of the overhead system. the voice sounds some sort of way, but it starts anyway.]
Good afternoon! I’ve decided to break up the monotony and the dreadful tones we’ve had over this past week with a little game. It’s a scavenger hunt of sorts, because I have information on some of the murders that you all haven’t figured out.
But I’m not going to just give it to you, so you’ll have to participate!
I’ll give you the first clue.
“On the rare occasion that the average detective takes a break, he needs somewhere to store his things. Small, perhaps, but he may have something deadly to hide!”
Let’s see how you do!
[the audio cuts off...
but then a message pops up on the message boards.]
u can help each other out!! but u gotta do a little bit of leg work!! u wont win just by sitting around talking 2 each other on here!!
remember: friendship is magic!!! (˶◕‿◕˶✿)
oh, oh, oh!!
You have until midnight to find me.
Fail, and face erasure of the facts.
WHAT: Something is brewin...about to begin.....
WHEN: 10/8 afternoon
WHERE: Everywhere!
WARNINGS: ┐(´ー｀)┌ Will update if needed.
[sometime in the afternoon, after the student council wraps up for the day, someone takes control of the overhead system. the voice sounds some sort of way, but it starts anyway.]
Good afternoon! I’ve decided to break up the monotony and the dreadful tones we’ve had over this past week with a little game. It’s a scavenger hunt of sorts, because I have information on some of the murders that you all haven’t figured out.
But I’m not going to just give it to you, so you’ll have to participate!
I’ll give you the first clue.
“On the rare occasion that the average detective takes a break, he needs somewhere to store his things. Small, perhaps, but he may have something deadly to hide!”
Let’s see how you do!
[the audio cuts off...
but then a message pops up on the message boards.]
u can help each other out!! but u gotta do a little bit of leg work!! u wont win just by sitting around talking 2 each other on here!!
remember: friendship is magic!!! (˶◕‿◕˶✿)
oh, oh, oh!!
You have until midnight to find me.
Fail, and face erasure of the facts.
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You look like you're having fun...
( ...
anyway, he'll nod to the locker in front of him, knocking his fingers lightly against a folded paper note that's taped up against it. all yours, akehoshi-kun. )
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subaru'll get the candle lit first, setting the matches atop the lockers and then taking the note carefully off the door so he can let amami hold onto the pillow art before he carefully holds the other note somewhat above the flame, careful not to catch fire.
he just wants to see if there is some invisibile message here, appearing with some good ol' fashioned heat treatment.]
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When you're done with that, Komaeda-kun has a joke to tell you.
( he lifts his hand to shake the pda a little bit. subaru can read it off his own pda, but amami could hand his over too. )
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... ... ...]
Maddy knows jokes are supposed to have a punchline, right?
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Hey, found the next clue yet?
[He's got a small paper lantern dangling from his hand and I'm gonna say he arrived in time to watch them toasting the paper and stepped forward once that didn't seem to be working. Just so he can guess there is maybe an invisible ink there.]
Let me have a look? I've got something we can try at least...
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he has to go tho he had a moment with amami so he has to leave gl u two]
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( in the meantime, amami's kind of eyeing the funky little lantern in shin's hand here. )
What were you thinking?
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Anyway, his attention turns back onto Rantaro as he holds out the paper Subaru just handed him back towards Rantaro. It's the cycle of paper.]
It's that sort of thing again... H-here, hold it, I'll just show you.
[It just keeps occurring with these things and Rantaro that it's faster and easier to show than say. Once Rantaro's got a grip on it he's got both hands free to both hold the lantern by it's little ring and turn it on, bathing the area in general and paper in specific with marbled ultraviolet light.]
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the ultraviolet light goes on, and amami immediately is not a fan — not sure what it is about that light, but something about it is hard to look at, makes a piercing ache pulse in the back of his head the moment he sees it. his expression turns from something more serious to a visible grimace, wincing slightly, as he tries to focus himself on the paper instead, because he guesses they're going for the multi step process on the invisible ink here. )
Jeez, where'd you get that thing?
( it's awful.
anyway... he does hold it up to the light in the way he guesses is expected of him. any hidden messages this time? )
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perhaps...they're overthinking it?]
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Honestly it would be spookier if there was. That would imply things about just how closely they're being watched, and they're already being closely watched enough for it to have Shin discomfited and on edge, the way a vibration runs through teeth.]
Would you believe from the tooth fairy?
[Shin, don't even joke, people here do steal teeth to put under pillows. But he did notice that reaction... the same reason he avoided looking directly at the light as he turned it on himself.]
Ahaha... just a little something from home. [All he knows about it is from Sara, but she was fairly knowledgeable about how it worked. He doesn't like thinking about who it belonged to; of course it's the sort of thing that can psychically attack. There's a contemplatory pause as he weighs up how to bring this up... whether to bring it up.] ...you ever have memory problems, Rantaro-san?
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he'll glance up to shin again though, offering back the paper in case he wants to take a closer look at it aside from that, but... at the mention of memory problems, his expression freezes into something unreadable. tries to get a gauge on the question — it's not exactly something that he's too secretive about, but it's also a little difficult to connect the pieces that would bring it up here and now. a brief moment passes, and he'll nod. )
Something like that, yeah. That applies to all of us here though, don't you think?
( double sets of them and all that. most of these suckers don't even remember how they died. )
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Some more than others, maybe.
[...
He puts the paper back in it's place in the locker 'for the next person', his bandaged hand returning to his pocket in thought and also implicit offer, because that flicker of shadow he saw earlier has him on high alert about being watched even as he's not entire sure he wasn't seeing things again. Rantaro knows the trick, and Shin has the small shard he pried off of one of the school mirrors after the Komaeda disaster... just in case. This close to the edge mightn't be a good place for it though.]
Ahaha, sorry, that's a bit mean. This thing... it likes to stir them up, that's all.
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( oh jeez, he's been caught red-handed on that one, hasn't he? his eyes flicker with interest towards that lamp again though, because he'd figured his line made for a pretty logical response here. for the topic to be pursued anyway... guess it makes sense if there's some kind of history with that thing. either way, he shakes his head, smiling in that way he does when he's not all that pleased with the way things are developing, but doesn't really have anyone but himself to blame. )
Nah, you're not wrong, and it's not exactly a secret anyway.
( so he'll wave his hand, like he's trying to dismiss any of the heavier air around them, even if his success is probably pretty limited by the circumstances. )
It's just something simple though, so I wouldn't want to go making a bigger deal of it than it is, y'know? It'll come back to me eventually.
( or something.
it's just like when you misplace your keys — you can't forget something that important forever, right? )
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[Even knowing roughly where the holes in his own memory are, and now why they're there... they still haven't come back, two years after the fact. At some point he'd just... given up, like on a lot of things. The light threw some shadows up on the wall but he hasn't tried peering deeply with it just yet.
Still, his arm relaxes, now just resting in his pocket rather than being there with implication. Shin's so used to hiding his reactions and being picked up on from the things that slip through anyway, that sometimes doing it deliberately and not being understood is like stepping down a staircase and missing a step. And at the end of the day... he's not Sara, running around using this on absolutely everyone with voracious curiosity. If it doesn't concern him...]
Well... it's not any of my business. [He says, after having brought it up.] Is that the only clue so far?
[He knows about the dropped one from the network, and maybe that could use some UV light while he's here just to discount the possibility again... but also he's fishing a little with his own sort of curiosity.]
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Yeah, you'd think that a joke would.
( ... )
Still, you have to wonder why he'd think it's a good idea to make a joke at a time like this at all.
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[is the short answer... the paper didn't show anything, so subaru's putting it all back in place and blowing out his candle...]
I dunno how'd he think it up, but it's not a joke. There's no punchline or wordplay, 'cept that Nagiko is close to Nagito Komaeda, [weird to say his full name,] but I dunno what that's gotta do with it. He's got some kinda humor.
[... still, he guesses...]
Maybe I'll drop by the library? 'Cause it's a book and all.
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Yeah, if it's supposed to be a book, that'd be the logical conclusion. And if anyone's going to understand the references they're making, it would be Komaeda-kun, who they seem to be such a big fan of, so it's probably worth giving some weight to his words at a time like this.
( hence why amami let him tell his "joke" in the first place. )
I said I'd meet Hinata-kun here, so why don't you go on ahead? You can let me know on the forums if you find anything.
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[a beat. subaru looks down at his shoes for a moment, thinking, staring at the confetti covering the ground and then back at amami. his thoughts have nothing to do with the mess, just--]
None of this is fun. But I don't want to be scared, so I'm gonna make it fun. I'm taking it seriously though, I promise. [...] They were my friends, too.
[... that's all. a half-apology, sort of explanation about his initial bounce up-- but subaru doesn't want to hear any replies (he knows he wasn't half as close as others, but he still cherished them all the same), so off he goes with his matches and candle.]