Meeting

[incrediblystressedout]

[Yes, she expects all nine of you to squeeze your butts into her bedroom with her. It'll be standing room only, but thankfully this sample bedroom isn't as cluttered with random kid-detritus as he one at home, mostly because she hasn't been to the toy store yet. She's wearing an unfortunate combination of a black t-shirt (still with a starburst on it, or something close enough Joey can pretend it is one), a leather skirt, leggings, and ballerina slippers, and has a notepad and some kind of frog mask in her lap.]

Okay. Just to put this on the table. This is a meeting for how we're going to get out of here. I am done with this bull and I think so are all of you.

There's no such thing as an inescapable prison, especially not if it's made out of a shopping mall of all things! I'm no expert in criminal activities, but I think we're supposed to have a couple here, right? All I know is the first step is to have meetings in the bedrooms: no cameras, and they're soundproof.

After that, what I am an expert in is solving puzzles. That means making a list of our assets, and a list of the problems to be solved to get out of here. I've got mad dancing skills and an unused ability to animate some object like I'm a wizard or something. What's everyone else got?

Finally...we need to keep alive. No one goes anywhere without a buddy, okay? Not even the bathroom. This is basic stuff. Ideally, groups of three, but we've got ten people, so...

[She looks over the group.]

Anywhere, we're all here, and we're all sick of this, right? What's everyone else got?

Comments

[totalbullshit]

[ Helena genuinely deliberates not going to this meeting, but her cheek still aches from the slap she has received for her assumed passivity and some part of that bugs her enough to make her way down to Joey's place. She's dressed in her baggy replacement clothes and she has a notebook and pen of her own. The notebook is one of the cheap kinds and it has 'DIARY' handwritten onto the front, if anyone cares about looking at that.

Helena hates how cramped this bedroom is and she'll try her hardest to secure a spot by the wall to avoid being pressed in between bodies. ]

I can electrocute things. Same as always.

[ In a more badass fashion than a certain other someone. ]

Can we even sleep in each other's rooms though? If not, then grouping up is always going to be difficult. And even then, I can't say I trust many of you after yesterday.

[incrediblystressedout]

[Joey shakes her head.]

Bedrooms should be safe. I don't know any way around the locks on the doors. But like, if you need to go to the bathroom at 2 am or whatever, text someone. Hopefully two someones. No one else needs to die here, but someone might get...desperate...at the motive again.

[She then thinks on the electricity.]

Do you think your electricity might be enough to overload something electrical? Like the elevator? We can't really test that without being ready to fight, but...

[theirmagic]

[ Ursula is here, but she's not looking very good. Her eyes are red, and she looks, frankly, exhausted. She doesn't say anything--what could she say? At least, not for awhile. Eventually, though, she does quietly say: ]

I... I can make... p-potions. That's... about it.

[incrediblystressedout]

[Joey's been crying herself, but fortunately as the person who called this meeting she had time to wash up and change clothes beforehand. She looks at Ursula sadly.]

That could be really important, Ursula. Actually, I have a book I've been meaning to ask you to take a look at...

[beguiledcard]

[ Somehow, some way, someone managed to get him here. He immediately went for a corner. There are no glasses on his face. And also not a lot of emotions, either, but that's for the Monday toplevel.

There's a tightening of his jaw before he gives his input. ]

You've all seen what I can do.

[ Tone steady, voice steady, but... eyes to the floor. ]

... And I'm sure you all saw what happened before Shuuichi-san and I were knocked out.

[ They do need to talk about that, consider what he remembers feeling... ]

[theirmagic]

A book? Of what sort?

[ She sounds tired. ]

And, um... I don't think I can make anything huge. No resurrection potions. But I can make repair potions, or probably luck potions, maybe...?

[theirmagic]

Yes, I saw that... what was that...? Was it because it was you two, or was it because there were the two of you?

[incrediblystressedout]

We might need a lot of those...

[Joey will do some awkward digging under her bed before pulling out a book marked "Journal", but actually filled with recipes.]

It looks like a book of cocktail recipes to me, but with weird notes scribbled in that sound kinda magicky. Does it mean anything to you?

[totalbullshit]

[ Helena considers this for a moment, then nods. ]

I assume so, yes. I feel like this power has gotten stronger again this week.

[theirmagic]

Might I peruse it? I don't know if I could tell unless I read it.

[incrediblystressedout]

[Joey hands it over. Everything she knows about it is already in the linked thread.]

The drinks I saw all looked familiar, but there were notes on ingredients that didn't make any sense to me. I figure if anyone's going to know about them, it's you.

[incrediblystressedout]

Obviously no good if we're in the elevator...but if we need to get rid of it, or we find something more important to fry, I think you'd be good to break those things.

Does that sound like like a good protest idea, Helena?

[comesaround]

[ Something about Karma just seems impossibly tense when he shows up, quiet for a few moments until she asks about what they can do. He almost hesitates before finally deciding to answer. He's got a lot to think about since the memory he received this time was... something that left a bad feeling that wouldn't go away. ]

Same as usual. If I gather energy in my fists and hit someone right, I can send them flying. Simple as that.

[ Casting a brief glance over at Akira before looking back to Joey. ]

How do you suggest us setting up this 'buddy' system to start with?

[incrediblystressedout]

[Joey notes the look. She'd gone after Karma for a minute too, because she didn't want to believe Akechi was the killer any more than Akira did, but that was behind everyone now, right?]

Don't go anywhere without another one of us within sight, especially at night, and triple-especially after we get our "motive". Two people might not be safe, but three people should be...

[totalbullshit]

[ She smiles wryly. ]

Last night I actually regained my memories of terrorism, I think I'm more equipped for this now than ever.

[beguiledcard]

It wasn't quite like anything that's ever happened to me before, but it happened after we officially declared ourselves teammates.

[ "Quite" -- it wasn't like any of those times where he felt the bond between himself... and anyone... solidify. ]

On my end, it felt like I'd suddenly gained some kind of insane power boost.

[ He's falling quiet for a second... but then he shakes his head, forcing something else out. ]

To me, it felt like we could have taken on the world, if not for...

[ ... does he really need to say it? ]

[comesaround]

...If that's the case... I'd like to stick around Shuuichi-san and Akira-kun.

[ Spoken without even the slightest bit of hesitation. After what they pulled last week, he's not going to trust them not to make stupid decisions. At least he's not thinking about all the accusations people were shooting at him throughout that one point in the trial. ]

[beguiledcard]

[ Yeah.

He noticed too. ]

Should we just focus on having a minimum of three around the time of motive announcement, then?

[beguiledcard]

...

[ Can he say he's surprised? ... not really. ]

[incrediblystressedout]

That's where we need to focus it, yeah.

I'd like us to be in pairs as much as possible anyway, though, since we still have to consider that someone's messing with crime scenes, and they might be reporting other stuff, too.

[She is more than aware she's talking about someone in this room. She's saying it in front of everyone for a reason.]

[incrediblystressedout]

I...

...

...you know what, it's a skill. I don't care what you did before you got here. Just remember we all need to get out of here, okay?

[totalbullshit]

Oh, I didn't kill anybody. I destroyed a monument, that's all there was to it.

[incrediblystressedout]

Huh. Is that terrorism or really, really intense vandalism...?

[incrediblystressedout]

Do you think it has anything to do with our other powers. LC told me they were psychic powers, so...

[totalbullshit]

[ She... tilts her head at that. ]

You have a point with argument for the latter, but it was a pretty important cultural monument. A deliberate attack on a social structure.