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Mikio Seiji (canhasurpencils) wrote in disappear_plot,
@ 2010-04-12 23:52:00

Investigatin's at the fort.
Who: Tom and the tomcrew
What: Investigation
Where: The fort
When: Early September
Why: Seiji is a creeper.

The playground was quiet as it usually was. The fort itself had seen a lot of what a very generous person might have called 'improvment' while everyone had been away.

The places where the scrap wood didn't cover were now covered over with sheets. A valiant attempt had been made at painting it, though whoever had done so had run out of either paint or patience a little way through. There was also, regardless of how little sense it made (it was the wrong size, it wasn't properly attached to anything, one could just go under the sheets that made up parts of the walls and where had Seiji even got that?), a door.

It still didn't look at all safe. Indeed, on inspection from less flattering angles it was revealed that one side had collapsed in. Closer inspection also revealed that the paint was covering a lot of impolite graffiti.

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2dbeauty
2010-04-12 11:15 pm UTC (link)

Toru remembered the playground from the incident with Reizo and Kouchisei earlier that summer. The fort, however, was new. In a way, it made his stomach crawl. Maybe it was the shoddy, ugly construction.

Maybe it was the door. There was a certain quality of doors that more than worrisome to somebody on the team, especially concerning Seiji.

He ultimately stated the obvious. "That's... a door? What on earth?

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the_nadeshiko
2010-04-12 11:30 pm UTC (link)

Kai actually thought the fort was vaguely charming in its ugliness, but then his taste was questionable to begin with. Maybe it was because he hadn't been around enough to start considering something as simple as a door suspicious, but to him it all looked quite harmless.

"Imaginative..." he mumbled, not quite a response to Toru's statement. "Does Mikio-san really hang out here?"

Kai walked closer to it to take a good look, and soon got distracted with reading the graffiti scribbled across it as if it could give him a clue. (Partially because he wanted to look helpful without actually having to speak and reveal that he had no idea what to do.)

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	ofmanydevices 2010-04-13 03:17 am UTC (link)
	Tom walked forward quickly stepping around the outside of the structure. He'd made sure to wear his cloves, and brought his tools. He wasn't used to doing the whole investigation with people, so he didn't really think to discuss. He moved to caved in portion. carefully pulling it aside to see if he could access the inside of the fort without passing through the door. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	apathyisboring 2010-04-13 07:12 pm UTC (link)
	Meanwhile, Kiriko passed him with a raised eyebrow, yanked the door open rather harshly and poked her head inside, moving the sheets this way and that. "Maybe he left something behind. A diary, or something." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

sakurabamasami
2010-04-13 07:22 pm UTC (link)

Masami stepped through the door behind Kiriko. She had brought a bokken with her(one could never be too safe when investigating possibly Paradise-related things), which she held in one hand while she used her other to brush aside sheets and whatever else as she searched through the fort.

"I'll keep an eye out. There has to be some clue in here..." she replied to Kiriko.

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	2dbeauty 2010-04-13 07:26 pm UTC (link)
	Toru hung back, not wanting to crowd the small fort. As it stood, it didn't seem like Seiji was there, and the area wouldn't exactly take long to survey. Half to himself, half to whomever was near, he remarked. "Doesn't look like he's here... but... doesn't this door seem weird?" (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

daioujou
2010-04-13 08:39 pm UTC (link)

It was safe enough to mess with the door, Kou guessed. He was turning the handle towards him and below, and was becoming distracted by the thought of how they entered that world - and how it was one he was reluctant to revisit. He had developed a dislike of string. He kept flipping the handle till he was distracted by a voice, and looked over his shoulder.

"Humph. If we're thinking the same thing, he hasn't seemed out of the ordinary. Just seems like a door to me."

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lotus_beyond
2010-04-13 09:00 pm UTC (link)

"Mikio-kun... seems like the sort of person for whom almost nothing would be out of the ordinary."

Renju had made her way around the taller investigation members and joined those inside the fort, peering around as best she could. It was... sort of a mess, really, but not in a way that jangled her nerves like every other bit of strangeness these days tended to. The alarm bells in her head were sort of muted for the most part, but that door...

"But it is a little bit suspicious, all things considered."

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the_nadeshiko
2010-04-13 09:13 pm UTC (link)

Kai directed his attention to where people were actually looking - because, hey, maybe everyone was over there because "over there" was important! - but, like Toru, hung back for the moment to avoid crowding. He barely knew anyone here, and picking around someone's abandoned fort looking for clues to a magical mystery with them felt so surreal that he really had no idea what to do with himself.

He settled on throwing out ideas: "What was the point of putting in a door that he didn't really need?" He walked closer to the fort and poked his head inside, deciding against going in because of the number of people already in there, and tried to look around himself. "It...suggests something, I guess."

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canhasurpencils
2010-04-14 12:29 am UTC (link)

It would have been possible to access the inside of the fort from the broken wall that Tom had tried were it not so full of stuff. Two cardboard boxes and a stack of books are in the way. Some of them were school textbooks and some were the cheesy choose-your-own-adventure-with-zombies books that Seiji tended to enjoy. All were water-damaged, the sheets patching up the gaps in the walls likely hadn't been particularly watertight even before the fort had become damaged.

From the door, a small space in the centre of the fort could be accessed. Papers were scattered across the floor, some seeming to be first drafts of the ohnoetry. There were a few scribbled-out mentions of borrowing something from someone but Seiji was apparently not in the habit of annotating his own work so it was unclear what. A pink pen with decorated with panda faces lay abandonned the middle. Good luck trinkets, similar to the kind of things that Hikaru sold, were scattered around. A few lay on the floor but most were housed in a repurposed teabag box just to the side of the door. Most were similar to the kind of things he'd given to people, keychains and pendants and bag charms with positive messages burned into them. There were also what seemed to be a few small angel statues but Toru at least was likely to recognize them as anime characters.

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apathyisboring
2010-04-14 12:41 am UTC (link)

She stretched to reach the teabag box, removing it from the space first and all of the other items along with it, setting them around the edges of the fort so everyone would be able to see them. The last she removed was the not-finished ohnoetry, and she examined it while she stepped away, trying to see if anything could be pieced together.

"These aren't really very good clues."

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lotus_beyond
2010-04-14 12:58 am UTC (link)

After a cursory glance at the items that had been collected so far (despite the fact that it was most likely relevant, she tried to ignore the ohnoetry; it was terrible and Paradise-unsettling at the same time, a combination that was worse than the sum of its parts), Renju skimmed over the books--not really relevant unless they wanted to dig through absolutely everything--then went through the boxes. One contained clothes and blankets, the other a bunch of miscellaneous junk (in dated plastic bags? What a strange person) and...

... oh, that could be useful. Hadn't he mentioned something about his mother being missing, and a hospital?

Carefully, she dislodged the old medical papers from the rest of the junk in the box and flipped through them, hoping that she wouldn't find what she was half-expecting to at this point.

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canhasurpencils
2010-04-14 01:18 am UTC (link)

The unused verse seems to be detailing a plan to borrow a guardian angel to allow the writer to stay with the reader. The reason for its ommission appears to be that the writer was unable to work out whether 'guardian' with two or three syllables.

The papers might seem a bit odd after Tom's research had produced the informtion that Aoki Miho had died as a result of her poor health leading to pregnancy complications 15 years ago. Mostly because they claimed that Mikio Miho had still been alive three years ago.

According to the papers she'd been complaining of constant pain and weakness, difficulty walking and, toward the end of her life, sight problems. Her husband had been acting as carer until six years ago, when her son took over that role. And two years ago she had died in a hospital on the mainland

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ofmanydevices
2010-04-14 02:48 am UTC (link)

Tom frowned slightly at Kiriko wrenching the door open. He would have liked to have examined that. Rather then follow everyone else around and try and squeeze in, he began pulling the boxes and books out to make more room inside.

Once he'd made enough room to pass through he stepped in, and squatted down, looking at the poetry on the ground. He picked that up specifically and took a few steps back from the group to look it over.

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	sakurabamasami 2010-04-14 03:39 am UTC (link)
	Masami had taken a quick look at the poetry before, but hadn't really thought there would be anything useful in it(more like she didn't care much to read whatever Seiji liked to think was poetry). When Tom came and picked it up, she headed over to him. "Do you think there are any clues in there, Sagaki-senpai?" she asked. (Reply to this) (Parent)

pinksunbeam
2010-04-15 01:52 am UTC (link)

Misaki cringed at seeing Kiriko pull out the items. Her eyes scanned over the items and she watched as Tom took away the papers. Shaking her head Misa moved over to the remaing items and looked at the tea bag.

"Wonder if he's been hiding out here, he was really nice to me when we were talking, I mean he even covered me up when I was naping...of course that was partly because he wanted me to be noticed so I wouldn't be hurt...and well he was trying to cheer me up in his own way. It was sort of sweet."

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