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Tweak says, "Twinkle, twinkle little bat,"

Toru Ishinomori [石乃森都丸] (2dbeauty) wrote in disappear_rpg,
@ 2010-10-11 21:38:00

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toru, yoshimi

WHO: Yoshimi, Toru
WHAT: Book-hunting
WHEN: Sometime post-Masamidungeon, after school
WHERE: The used bookstore in Subako
WHY: HOW DOES I TAROT? also paradise angst

[Toru is obviously searching for something in among the bookstore's narrowly-spaced shelves. He reaches for the top shelf, but his finger slips and a number of paperbacks come tumbling down upon his head.]

Aaah! W-wait, I-

[He's cut off by the rustling of paper and the crash of book spines on both him and the floor.]

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omgboyskissing
2010-10-12 08:13 pm UTC (link)

[The noise catches Yoshimi's attention (and the shop attendant's, though Yoshi waves him off before he can get too worried - which he has a certain reputation for, because yes, it's that sweater kid), and she peers around the corner of the next aisle over.]

"...you know, after that thing with the vending machines, I can't even say anything about this."

[Not that she'd be particularly tempted anyway, but the pot-kettle relationship still leaves a smirk tugging at her lips.]

"You alright?"

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	2dbeauty 2010-10-12 08:28 pm UTC (link)
	[Toru's got a bit of a deer-in-headlights look on his face as he turns to look over to Yoshimi.] "Oh! Ah- yeah, I'm... I'm fine. It's the books that aren't..." [He makes a sheepish gesture and then bends down to pick up the books that he knocked down.] "Didn't mean to cause a disturbance like this... I just wanted to find what I was looking for and get out." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	omgboyskissing 2010-10-12 09:20 pm UTC (link)
	"It's fine, really. I was just checking." [Yoshimi tries to mask some of her amusement, silently lamenting the fact that half of her teammates frighten as easily as wild deer.] "So, what are you after?" (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	2dbeauty 2010-10-12 11:01 pm UTC (link)
	[Toru speaks as he reshelves the books above his head.] "Oh, I, uh... heard there were some classic manga from the 1980s here. Original printing run and everything. Wanted to see if there was anything worth adding to the collection." [Once the books are back in place, he moves along to continue his search, still talking.] "What about you, Tachibana-san?" (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

omgboyskissing
2010-10-13 12:21 am UTC (link)

"Oh. Neat."

[She's missing a little of her usual energy, but she keeps up, glancing at the shelves.]

"Well, since Sagaki-senpai figured out the deal with our numbers, I've been trying to read up on tarot and everything. It might help with, er..."

[She gestures vaguely. The team really needs to agree on a euphemism for Paradise that doesn't sound totally suspicious.]

"...so I looked around online a little, but I really want to be able to take notes in the margins of something, since a lot of our experience is, um, sort of unique to us."

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	2dbeauty 2010-10-13 12:27 am UTC (link)
	"Tarot?" [Toru looks like he's trying to recall something.] "Oh, right, that thing. Found anything out about it? I'm kind of curious... since it is, er... relevant and all." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

omgboyskissing
2010-10-13 01:28 am UTC (link)

"Nothing that's useful in a practical way, I don't think."

[Yoshimi peeks around the corner to make sure that the shopkeeper is still ignoring them, and, satisfied that he is, she pulls a list out of her pocket.]

"I found out this much, though. There are twenty-one trump cards in a deck, plus the one that Sato-senpai would have had, and the seventeen of us all match up with one of them. I wrote down who goes with which one, but I don't have a clue why the, um..."

[Another vague, sweeping gesture before she decides to just go for it.]

"Why or how the angels would use them to keep track of us. It seems kind of random."

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	2dbeauty 2010-10-13 01:42 am UTC (link)
	[Toru peers at the list, apparently excited by this knowledge.] "Let me see." [After a brief look at the symbols listed, he shrugs.] "Which ones are we? And are they going in any sort of order? Is there a pattern to the... incidents?" (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

omgboyskissing
2010-10-14 02:54 am UTC (link)

"That's the thing - if there's a pattern to when people are going in, this isn't it. It's just been random numbers."

[Yoshimi points out a sequence printed at the bottom of the list: "17, 0, 13, 9, 1...", ending with a 7 and a series of blanks.]

"If there's any kind of weird mathematical significance to it, I'd expect Sagaki-senpai to have worked it out by now. And it doesn't tell you what your Persona does, because I have the same card as Furukawa-senpai, but remember how different things were when I had his Persona?"

[She sighs; there's still a part of her that longs for the Ziohno days, and her research sounds useless at best.]

"We're nine and seventeen, the same as those tiles that we got. The matching cards are the Hermit and the Star, but I couldn't tell you what that means."

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	2dbeauty 2010-10-14 03:19 am UTC (link)
	[Toru nods meaningfully as he listens.] "So it's just... random. Anybody could be next. And the numbers don't even have to do with what Persona you get? What could they mean, then?" [He raises an eyebrow at "Hermit".] "Is that because I was a hikkikomori or something?" (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	omgboyskissing 2010-10-14 03:54 am UTC (link)
	"Maybe, but why would the angels make a note of that? And not all of them can be that literal. I don't start shining at night or anything." [She shrugs. This whole situation raises so many more questions than it answers.] "I don't know much about it, but I guess that's why I'm looking around here." (Reply to this) (Parent)

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