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, 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.]

[robincould]

That is cause for concern, Arisato-san.

[ Hm. He's got a little more respect for Atsushi now, though he won't admit it because he's an asshole-- ]

Well? Have you been keeping tabs on your Yamask? Or is there something you're not telling us?

[partymagician]

I can confirm this. I met Maya because she possessed Minato.

[thaumewturge]

And that's not alarming to anyone else?!

[partymagician]

[ He laughs. ]

Maybe I should have been a bit more concerned, but we had a nice conversation.

[compendiem]

Possess bodies. She's... the spirit of a little girl, so she doesn't wander far from me.

[ There's a grateful glance towards Fai, who is basically the only person who's Facehugger/Maya's taken a liking to. ]

Usually stays right by my side. If you want me to talk about stuff, you'll going to have to ask.

[ How does one even begin divulging all their deep dark secrets? ]

[thaumewturge]

[What the actual hell. Rhel looks down at Flicker, who just sort of nods. Yeah, Ghost types are like this! Look at her and her cute flame.

Huh.]

Is it possible she's having a negative effect on the honey crop without realizing it?

[compendiem]

Huh... I wouldn't know. The honey tastes alright to me, and the Combee are all healthy. I've been eating the honey for a month and a half now...

[ He's drank a LOT of boba. ]

Does the honey taste weird to you?

[thaumewturge]

I haven't touched the boba or honey since arriving, when I tried two of the little balls to see what would happen.

[compendiem]

How'd you like them?

[ Not "what happened?" but like... did you like them? too sweet? too thick? tell him your honey opinions ]

[thaumewturge]

They stuck to my fangs.

[Look. Have you ever seen a cat take a bite of something and Regret? That's what happened with the boba.]

They tasted like honey, though not like the honey I grew up with.

[compendiem]

That's probably partly the boba...

[ Honey on the other hand doesn't really stick in your mouth with all the saliva action going on. ]

What's your honey like? ...Garlean honey?

[thetyger]

[The Yamask is a child, so she may do things people wouldn't think of. Atsushi is a little hesitant to ask, but at least the Yamask is being discussed and he has a very tiny shred of confidence to go off of. For now.]

Has she ever... possessed the bees?

[compendiem]

[ He shakes his head. ]

She can only possess other people. Mostly, she's only possessed me.

[ And Jiro. But Jiro literally asked for it. ]