Open Info Collection Post

[thaumewturge]

Who: Rhel + anyone who wants to help out
Where: Pokemon Center
When: August 8th
What: So Rhel wants to get all the information folks may have learned written down! Come help?

[Rhel can only hope that other people are of the same mind when it comes to gathering information. She doesn't know much about this place, she doubts other people know all that much about this place, and the more information they can get and make accessible the better.

So she asks Minato for help and tells the people she recognizes what the plan is and on the eighth of the month she settles down for a day-long info gathering fest.

She's quite pleased with the rather pretty journal and pencil she managed to find, too.]

OOC: Like it says in the explanation, Rhel wants to get all the information everyone's been gathering piecemeal and write it down! Feel free to threadjack if everyone's okay with it, I just play a nerd who'd do this sorta thing.

Comments

[robincould]

[ akechi meets rhel on the 8th at the pokemon center. while he would've liked to solve these mysteries on his own before, there's no point in him keeping up the facade of a detective prince while he's here. doesn't mean he still can't be good at what he does, but he's more willing to cooperate. ]

Hello, Fashonti-san. I have some observations to share with you and anyone else here regarding the Boba, Gyarados, and the rain specifically. Take your pick.

[thaumewturge]

Goro. Or do you prefer Akechi?

[Since he's referring to her by her last name, it's worth asking.]

The boba has me the most curious, but honestly I'm interested in all three points.

[robincould]

Akechi, if you don't mind.

[ aka please do not call him goro not now not ever-- ]

Well, I can certainly start with the boba. It's fairly obvious that Toran's boba shop is responsible for the collapsed people in the streets; all of their stamp cards had Toran Boba's as the final stamp.

Furthermore, Nakajima-san was able to look into the boba production a little more closely. I think he can give you a more accurate description of the information he gathered.

[ He turns towards Atsushi and gives him a nod. ]

Nakajima-san, if you would?

[compendiem]

[ Minato doesn't say anything, but he keeps an ear out on this conversation. Despite the meeting not taking place at the boba shop, he is, once again, holding a cup of boba and is steadily making his way through it. ]

[thetyger]

Um...

[Why? Atsushi brought a notebook; they should all just read that. He's dying. He'd going to have a heart attack right here, but he will prevail with semi-public speaking for a minute or two.]

As I said, I work at the boba shop and, well... most of the information I was able to obtain seems to be dead ends; however there is some possibly suspicious activity with where the boba is coming from. Specifically, the honey. Sometimes, it's brought to the shop already in jars and delivered by Minato, who works with the Combees. I think that he's involved, or at least, his Pokemon is. A Yamask. I... had an encounter with her when she came in to order boba and she was... rude.

[He spits it all out as quickly as possible, oblivious to Minato's eavesdropping, and regrets his theories the second they're spoken. A rude Yamask is his top suspect; that is truly pathetic.]

[thaumewturge]

[Rhel glances over to Minato.]

I...don't think it's Minato, specifically, given how addicted he seems to be to the boba himself.

[compendiem]

[ Minato glances back. He doesn't speak up to defend himself, or his Yamask. She has a personal vendetta against Jiro anyways and maybe she has a super secret plan to kill all humans, who knows. ]

[thetyger]

[Well, there's Minato. He heard everything.]

I'm sorry! It was my only lead! I don't think that you're um, evil or anything, but... there's... evidence...

[Circumstantial at best and likely just coincidental encounters.]

[compendiem]

Are you going to follow through with the evidence?

[ Due diligence, Atsushi. He shouldn't back down just because Minato is an acquaintance, and all Minato can provide is this subtle encouragement. ]

[thetyger]

I...

[He looks over at Akechi. Help.]

[robincould]

Nakajima-san.

[ Alright, fine. He'll step in. ]

I'm curious to see if you have any other reasoning behind believing it's Arisato-san's Yamask. Do you know what its capabilities are, for example?

[thetyger]

[That's not helping!]

N-no. It can... attach to people's faces...

[Which he knows is irrelevant.]

I had a bad feeling.

[He has nothing on the Yamask except that Minato works at the Combee farm.]

[compendiem]

She can, yeah. Attach to people's faces and take over their body.

[ Which, to any normal person, should be setting off massive alarm bells right now, because hello?? Atsushi isn't wrong to have a bad feeling about the idea. It's also true he and his Pokemon work at the Combee farm. Even the most trivial pieces may be important. ]

[thaumewturge]

---right, yes, she can what?!

[What the fuck.]

[partymagician]

[ Fai has his arms crossed, smiling. ]

What observations do you have about the rain?

[ He's curious about all of it, but he'll ask specifically about this while also listening intently to the boba info. ]

[robincould]

It may seem like a small observation in the grand scheme of things, but this will point us in the right direction.

[ Quite literally, too. ]

The tide is rising more and more as each day passes, but the water level appears to be highest around the northwest side of the island.

[ What that means, well, he has no idea. He doesn't say that, though. ]

[partymagician]

Interesting...

[ He shifts, resting his chin in his hand. ]

Did you get a good look around that part of the island?

[compendiem]

[ Minato keeps an ear out for this conversation too, aka instead of submitting an investigation I can just provide flavor here.

While Minato hasn't specifically explored the northwest of the island looking for clues, he has been around the perimeter of the island just due to living here for a month. It looks like the beaches at that corner of the island are largely untouched by the locals compared to the southern half, which may have some stray lounge chairs or folded up umbrellas still stuck in the sand from past beach-goers. It's difficult to notice unless one is specifically looking for differences between the beaches, but Akechi would pick up on the fact that the sand is noticeably rougher on the northwest beach compared to the south.

What any of this means is up to him and everybody else to deduce, though. ]

[robincould]

I have, actually.

[ (Bless you, Ori) ]

The beaches there seem to be relatively untouched compared to the southern half of the island. Seems as though people were avoiding that area, though it could've also been because the sand is rough in the northwest as opposed to the southern side.

[ Hm...interesting. ]

Of course, something greater could have caused this, but that remains to be seen.

[thaumewturge]

...you know, with all the talk of Drifloons and ghosts...

[Is the north of the island rumored to be haunted?]

[partymagician]

It would make sense, wouldn't it? People do tend to avoid haunted places, after all.

[thaumewturge]

My thoughts exactly. It may be a good place to go nose around.

[partymagician]

I think so too. We might get lucky and find some answers.

[thaumewturge]

Give me a few days to do a little more poking [And for the Nanami log to happen ICly] but when I'm done, do you want to join me?

[partymagician]

I'd love to accompany you. I'll do some preparation myself in the meantime.