Endless Speculation

[disconinjafrog]

Who: Yosuke, Yukiko, Chie, Nanako, Kanji, Rise, Dojima, AU Yosuke, AU Souji
Where: The Amagi Inn
Summary: It's time to have a lot of Investigation Team discussions...
Warnings: None

With both their Leader and Naoto gone from the city, the team was feeling a little distraught without them. Yosuke in particular had to get on the ball quickly with these new circumstances as the unofficial 'second-in-command', and the Investigation Team needed some regrouping and fast reorganizing.

The first order of business was to decide how to stay in close contact with these dangerous times coming about, and loyalties to certain factions being rather shaken after recent events. While the entire team had originally been stationed within the Libra apartment complex, Yukiko, Chie, and Nanako were all currently living in the Amagi Inn. After some thought and discussion, it had been decided that the best course of action was to move the entire team into the inn, at least as a secondary home, considering it was free housing that was much more spacious than what was offered in the assigned apartment complexes. At least that way, the team was never too far apart. It offered some semblance of greater unity now that their Leader was missing.

Once everyone was settled in the inn, however, some business needed to be taken care of. A new leader of the Investigation Team needed to be officially decided, first off; Yosuke didn't want to just assume the position without his friends' consent, of course. On top of that, they needed to figure out what to do with Adachi who was now in the city, along with the circumstances in general... and then there was the matter of the two doubles: Yosuke's own double along with the double of Yu, the one mysteriously named Souji.

Dojima also needed to be informed of the situation at hand... something that was definitely going to be a mess to handle.

All in all it was going to be a pretty busy day...

[OOC: This log will be split up into four parts: a mingling section in the inn, the IT discussion, talking to the AU versions of Yosuke and the P4 protagonist to get them to join the IT, and explaining the magic of Persona to Dojima in his hospital room.

The discussion will be further broken up into several parts including: instating Yosuke as the leader, discussing Adachi, discussing what to do with the AU characters, and discussing the situation of Hinoto-Ri as a whole (the Government versus the Anoli, etc.)

There's no real strict tagging order, and not all threads are necessary to finish, but please keep up when you can and track the ones you're in, particularly if it's the discussions~]

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Discussions

[disconinjafrog]

After everyone is finally settled, it's time to get together in the Inn, the new Secret Headquarters for the team, and discuss what's going on.

New Leader-kun?

[disconinjafrog]

With some minor awkwardness in his voice and mannerisms, Yosuke, who was clearly not used to heading these kinds of things, declares an official meeting for the Investigation Team. "S-so! Yu isn't here in the city any more... and while we're not really sure why, there's not really anything we can do about it right now." He kind of fades off, looking at the other members with a frown on his face before staring down, arms folded over his chest.

"... We need to manage without him for now, alright guys? But in order to do that we need to instate a new leader. A temporary one, until Yu comes back. I know I've been kind of trying to pick things up since he left, but I'm not just gonna put myself in that position without actually discussing it with you guys. Whatever we decide... the decision has to be unanimous, alright?"

[celebrity_commentator]

Rise looks predictably pouty at the reminder that Yu isn't here anymore, more put out by the fact that he's gone than the lack of direction. "When I see him again, I'm going to ask Senpai some really pointed questions..."

Adachi Sux 5ever

[disconinjafrog]

The first and most urgent matter that they needed to discuss... something Yu had warned him about and that he had been way too aware about before.

"Alright, guys, I'm not sure how many of you actually heard about this but... Adachi is here, in the city... And there isn't anything we can do about it... He's above the law here." It's clear that Yosuke's trying to control his anger on the situation, and considering all of the reasons he has to hate the guy, he's managing pretty well.

"So... we need to figure out what we're gonna do about him."

What to do with AUs?

[disconinjafrog]

"Another thing I wanted to bring up." Yosuke switches the discussion once more to another pressing matter. "For those of you who don't know, there's apparently a second 'me' here in the city... There's also another guy who seems to be a second 'Yu', but he goes by Souji instead. I don't know what their deal is but they could be really important. What do you think we should do with them?"

[feminine_carnivore]

"I say we hunt them down and take back the money your double owes me!" Because surely this is the best idea without any problems. Although, now that she thinks about it..

"Or you could pay his debt too." Chie still doesn't know how to handle this who double thing, but she figures that they might as well cover for each other's screw ups.

[get_bent]

"Chie-senpai, you are one scary lady."

Remind Kanji to never, ever have any debts with the Investigation Team girls.

Ever.

[gigglesnortpriestess]

"Chie, we're trying not to scare them away."

Yukiko is quiet when she spoke up, but it was enough to be heard by everyone. Don't mind her, she's been doing double work and the girl is exhausted.

"I just want to know what happened to them back home and if we can do anything to help."

[get_bent]

"Wait, you think somethin' different happened to them?"

Well Kanji, the fact that you hadn't seem them and they weren't trying to find any of the Investigation Team was probably a big clue.

...but he was probably too busy running from fangirls for the past few days to think about it.

[gigglesnortpriestess]

"When I saw Souji that night, he was asleep on a bench. He didn't look very good." the priestess replied looking downwards.

"He told me that it was November before he came here."

Everyone should know the meaning in that sentence but she continued on. "I led him here so he could get some rest and maybe explain what happened but he left the next morning without any trace."

[get_bent]

Well, that wasn't good. Kanji knew all too well of what November might imply.

"Tch. So they might be tryin' to avoid us."

Still, that got him seriously pissed! He had no idea what had happened there, but he wasn't going to just pass by those guys like it there was no problem! They were the Investigation Team, dammit!

[celebrity_commentator]

"Yeah. If they're in trouble back home, it just means we need to try harder to help them," Rise said, chiming in once she'd caught up to the idea. She'd seen doubles of people around before, she just...

"I just never really expected there to be more than one Yu-senpai around, let alone Yosuke too."

[disconinjafrog]

"I met both of them by the memorial wall the day all of that graffiti started spreading around town... I honestly thought it was Yu at first, but Souji seems a little different... I want to know what the hell happened to them."

Yosuke gives a bit of a sigh and runs one hand through his hair. "We should try and track them down and talk to them, find out what happened to them in 'their world.' We shouldn't all go visit them at once, though. They already seem pretty paranoid. I mean, they won't even trust any of us, and Yu is my best friend... I don't know if it's the same with Souji, but it has to be a big deal if they're so scared they keep running off without a trace."

There was no posting order right

[celebrity_commentator]

"I'm pretty sure I can find them," Rise replied. "As long as we're in the same world and, you know, reasonably close, I think I can find anyone on the team."

"I'm just...not really sure how to start up a conversation when they don't want to talk to us."

right!!

[disconinjafrog]

"If it's just a few of us, they shouldn't get scared so easily, and if worse comes to worse we could just message their COMPs... I'd still rather meet them in person, though. It'd be harder for them to dodge us that way. But before we start throwing questions at them, we should try and make them feel more comfortable with us..."

How, exactly, he wasn't entirely sure. "Anyone have any ideas, besides offering them a place to stay?"

[celebrity_commentator]

"We could always find out what went wrong for them and help somehow?" she suggested. "That might not be a great idea, but if it'll help them out we should offer..."

Hinoto-Ri is Rly Complicated

[disconinjafrog]

And last but not least, the less pressing but still important issue at hand regarding all of their future actions within the city.

"As you all know, this place is governed by some Government run by the mayor of Hinoto-Ri, and they're in some big fight with this terrorist group called the Anoli. The problem is, I don't think we're getting the full picture here with the situation at hand. I already had a bad run-in with the government when I started pointing stuff out about how the economy here makes absolutely no sense." His entire message and his COMP had been scrambled; *Hyun-ae spent literally hours trying to fix it after the fact.

"You guys also might've seen the Anoli graffiti around town, and I'm not sure if we know everything there is to know about them either... I'm not saying either of them are the good or bad guys... but I do want to get more info on both sides. And I want to hear any hunches you have to toss around."

[get_bent]

"Yeah!" Maybe he sounded like a broken record, but Kanji's train of thought was basically like Yosuke on the subject; he knew nearly nothing about either and..."it feel's like we're just being force-fed everythin'. I say we go out and do the investigation thing!"

Wow he suddenly really missed Naoto.

"...you got any ideas? We can't just barged into the City Hall and demand answers."

[disconinjafrog]

"Before Yu left, I was thinking that maybe we should try and get close contacts with both sides. It should be a piece of cake to get some of us on the team close to the government, maybe even get some government jobs helping out and stuff, considering we're this town's local celebrities. The Anoli, though..."

Kanji, you are not the only one missing Naoto right now...

"Getting close to the Anoli could be extremely dangerous... I don't want to do it just yet, we need to be careful and plan things ahead with them. I didn't really tell anyone this before but... the day after my COMP messed up, I actually got visited by them. They left a basket of fruit and vegetables in front of my door with their symbol and a happy face on it. I didn't eat any of it, but I did save what I could, especially the seeds of the stuff that rotted the fastest." Everything else was bagged tightly and stored away, though none of it was any good any more.

"I think it was all organic? It looked different than the produce here... The point is, though, it's really easy to attract their attention. Maybe the best way to get close to them for right now is to keep showing subtle signs that we support them?? More subtle than what I did, though. What I did was... pretty stupid..."

[get_bent]

"THEY WHAT?!?!" Good things the rooms were pretty airtight, because Kanji's loudness could have awoken up the dead. "Senpai, I ain't sure if getting close to them is a good idea at all!-"

Wait.

"...so wait, they're gardeners too? They tryin' to poison you or something?"

Kanji: Still not quite understanding that terrorism wasn't just black and white.