Ikeda Kiriko | 池田 妃凛子 (![[info]](https://www.insanejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} apathyisboring) wrote in ![[info]](https://www.insanejournal.com/img/community.gif){kind=small} disappear_plot,@ 2009-10-23 14:41:00 |
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Meeting time
Who: EVERYONE.
What: Meeting time.
Where: Butterfly Room
When: After School
Why: A lot to go over.
The blackboard had appeared out of nowhere when the congregation gathered. Initially Kiriko had stubbornly tacked her note sheets to the board (what wasted effort otherwise!) but eventually caved to the practicality of its presence and written, point-form, what the problems were under the large header What We Know.
1) Paradise.
"People left in Paradise for too long will die... According to Akuba-san's shadow, the time it takes is two weeks. We knew this one already, though, right?"
2) Shadows.
"It seems like these don't come out under normal circumstances. I mean, we can all go in and out of Paradise and there doesn't seem to be any connection to the Shadow emerging, which is when you get stuck there, right? I guess it might be the Shadow that's sort of holding people there when they do get stuck...? But then it could just as easily be..."
3) Murderers.
"Well, we know now that we're being targeted. I don't understand the first two murders - except, maybe Aomori. Maybe he figured out what was going on before all of us did. Isn't it possible that Sato-san knew as well? But that's just a guess... We don't really have any idea why this is happening."
4) Angels.
"The most we know is from those angel creatures that showed up... Do you think it really matters that they look like angels, in a world like that? Er, nevermind. They said they were targeting us, and they didn't like that we use our Personas... But we wouldn't have to use them if people didn't keep disappearing, and it didn't seem to make a difference to them when I said we could stop. If they're the ones that have been trapping people in Paradise, and bringing out their shadows... Well, I don't understand why they wouldn't try to round us up and kill us off if they wanted to so badly. Akuba-san's shadow seemed to have helped them last time, so maybe the Shadow of whoever is trapped in Paradise rules it, and they're bound by that...?"
5) Butterfly.
"Or maybe it's kind of a safety-in-numbers thing. That butterfly that spoke to us - I guess you all heard it in your own voice too, right? Sagaki said it's possible there's another force out there that's just using us as its army, and it's possible that the whole thing with the butterfly is a trap... It's true we don't know much about any of that, I guess, but at the same time it's... well, it does feel really safe here, doesn't it? Anyway... It's... probably important to start working as a team. It said our true strength is through others. Normally I'd take that as strictly a 'united-we-stand' sort of thing, but you never really know with Paradise, and if the alternative is being killed..."
6) Cover identities.
"Oh, right - one of the angels also said that this was their 'true form'. You know how Shadows will leave Paradise and 'fill in' for the person who is missing? Maybe this is something like that, where those angels - shadows - what have you, have some presence in the real world. I think that would make sense. Aomori-san thought it was somebody local, right? It's worth keeping our eyes open. I don't know how to confirm if it's true or not but if there's any possible way to get them before they get us then we should do it. Sagaki, you said Ishino-sensei might be connected to the murders? Could be worth investigating."
7) Why?
"But there's still a lot we don't know... I mean, the other world seems to almost defy explanation to this point. What makes the most sense is that we're all being targeted because we're Persona users. But... The first murder happened before any of us were in Paradise. Does that mean that Sato-san was a Persona-user too? I guess it makes more sense than that he knew something, but it's all pretty ciruclar, and I don't know if we can found out why we can call Personas in the first place, either.
We also don't know why they're going after us one at a time, or why they've never targeted the same person twice... Or if they regularly work with our shadows to try to kill us."
8) Recap.
"So... We may not know why, but something is... after us. And I don't have any plans to die. And I don't think any of you do, either, so... we should follow the lead that they might be somewhere in the real world, because it looks like the killers have got to use Paradise to be really powerful.
... And I, personally, trust what the butterfly said. This place has been safe so far - no shadows, no trapping us in, nothing like that. Didn't it also say there were two more of us left, and that now we could see who? If that's true, maybe the rest of what it said also was... but putting aside our differences for the time being can't hurt.
"Is that everything?"
Who: EVERYONE.
What: Meeting time.
Where: Butterfly Room
When: After School
Why: A lot to go over.
The blackboard had appeared out of nowhere when the congregation gathered. Initially Kiriko had stubbornly tacked her note sheets to the board (what wasted effort otherwise!) but eventually caved to the practicality of its presence and written, point-form, what the problems were under the large header What We Know.
1) Paradise.
"People left in Paradise for too long will die... According to Akuba-san's shadow, the time it takes is two weeks. We knew this one already, though, right?"
2) Shadows.
"It seems like these don't come out under normal circumstances. I mean, we can all go in and out of Paradise and there doesn't seem to be any connection to the Shadow emerging, which is when you get stuck there, right? I guess it might be the Shadow that's sort of holding people there when they do get stuck...? But then it could just as easily be..."
3) Murderers.
"Well, we know now that we're being targeted. I don't understand the first two murders - except, maybe Aomori. Maybe he figured out what was going on before all of us did. Isn't it possible that Sato-san knew as well? But that's just a guess... We don't really have any idea why this is happening."
4) Angels.
"The most we know is from those angel creatures that showed up... Do you think it really matters that they look like angels, in a world like that? Er, nevermind. They said they were targeting us, and they didn't like that we use our Personas... But we wouldn't have to use them if people didn't keep disappearing, and it didn't seem to make a difference to them when I said we could stop. If they're the ones that have been trapping people in Paradise, and bringing out their shadows... Well, I don't understand why they wouldn't try to round us up and kill us off if they wanted to so badly. Akuba-san's shadow seemed to have helped them last time, so maybe the Shadow of whoever is trapped in Paradise rules it, and they're bound by that...?"
5) Butterfly.
"Or maybe it's kind of a safety-in-numbers thing. That butterfly that spoke to us - I guess you all heard it in your own voice too, right? Sagaki said it's possible there's another force out there that's just using us as its army, and it's possible that the whole thing with the butterfly is a trap... It's true we don't know much about any of that, I guess, but at the same time it's... well, it does feel really safe here, doesn't it? Anyway... It's... probably important to start working as a team. It said our true strength is through others. Normally I'd take that as strictly a 'united-we-stand' sort of thing, but you never really know with Paradise, and if the alternative is being killed..."
6) Cover identities.
"Oh, right - one of the angels also said that this was their 'true form'. You know how Shadows will leave Paradise and 'fill in' for the person who is missing? Maybe this is something like that, where those angels - shadows - what have you, have some presence in the real world. I think that would make sense. Aomori-san thought it was somebody local, right? It's worth keeping our eyes open. I don't know how to confirm if it's true or not but if there's any possible way to get them before they get us then we should do it. Sagaki, you said Ishino-sensei might be connected to the murders? Could be worth investigating."
7) Why?
"But there's still a lot we don't know... I mean, the other world seems to almost defy explanation to this point. What makes the most sense is that we're all being targeted because we're Persona users. But... The first murder happened before any of us were in Paradise. Does that mean that Sato-san was a Persona-user too? I guess it makes more sense than that he knew something, but it's all pretty ciruclar, and I don't know if we can found out why we can call Personas in the first place, either.
We also don't know why they're going after us one at a time, or why they've never targeted the same person twice... Or if they regularly work with our shadows to try to kill us."
8) Recap.
"So... We may not know why, but something is... after us. And I don't have any plans to die. And I don't think any of you do, either, so... we should follow the lead that they might be somewhere in the real world, because it looks like the killers have got to use Paradise to be really powerful.
... And I, personally, trust what the butterfly said. This place has been safe so far - no shadows, no trapping us in, nothing like that. Didn't it also say there were two more of us left, and that now we could see who? If that's true, maybe the rest of what it said also was... but putting aside our differences for the time being can't hurt.
"Is that everything?"