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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Teaching Dojima Personas

[disconinjafrog]

A group of the IT goes to see Dojima in his hospital room, to try and explain to him exactly what's been going on, both back in their home world and in Hinoto-Ri. (Dojima goes first also to establish setting and stuff!)

[papadojima]

It's a good day in the hospital today, in Dojima's opinion. The drugs are as efficient as ever, he actually feels better and the doctor even agreed that he could leave soon!

Now if only the food could be more up to par, because really, the mush they had given him, with some rubbery fish on the side, had not been worth sitting up for.

[feminine_carnivore]

Don't worry Dojima-san, your future cadet in training has plenty of food on her! As on all days, Chie has a pack of beef flavored gum in one pocket, and a half-empty package of beef jerky sticks in the other. Just say the word and she'll share it with him.

"Are you feeling any better?" With the rest of the team Chie stood around the policeman's bed, with her hands stuck deep inside her jacket pockets. Last time she had seen him like this he had gotten better, so she hopes it will be the same again..

[papadojima]

"Yes. Thanks, Satonaka. I should be able to leave soon." He looks around at the gang assembled around his bed. "I'm not sure you all came all this way just to ask me how I'm feeling, though..." He hopes it's not about Nanako...

[disconinjafrog]

Yosuke glances around before speaking up first. "Ah... right... you heard that Yu isn't in the city anymore, right Dojima-san...? We're not sure why, or exactly how, but he's left Hinoto-Ri for the time being... We have Nanako-chan at the Amagi Inn right now, and we've been taking care of her, so you don't have to worry about her."

He rubs the back of his head a little nervously, before continuing.

"Another thing... we kind of wanted to talk to you about everything that happened back home, and about what's been going on here. Hah, back home you probably never would've believed us, but in this place we can actually show you what we mean... Have you heard of Personas?"

[papadojima]

"Yu's gone?" Judging from his tone, it's obvious it's the first he hears of it. He wants to ask how the hell that could happen, but Yosuke already said they don't know... This is not starting out well.

"Yu told me about Personas. Nanako even told me she had one." He grimaces, but not in pain. "Honestly, I still have trouble believing it at all. Even if you do tell me about it, it doesn't make any sense... it won't make any sense in any official explanation or report or anything. But," he takes a deep breath, "this is for Nanako. If she has a Persona, then teach me anything you know about it. I want to know so I can protect her."

[celebrity_commentator]

"It's kind of complicated and not, at the same time," Rise said. "It's all very psychological, but at the same time actually using them is kind of instinctive, I guess."

At least, it had been for her. "The Government here has a lot of information on the details, but the gist of it is like having a guardian angel that's part of yourself, I guess."

[papadojima]

Psychology was a little above Dojima's head, to be quite frank.

"How do I access this info? And how do I use it if it's inside me?"

[celebrity_commentator]

"Well, you call it out," she said. "It's hard to explain exactly how to do it, especially because Personas here work differently than they did back home...but basically, if you're in danger or something and you concentrate hard enough, they'll come out and help you fight."

She took out her COMP glasses as well. "There's a few different experts who have accounts on the network thing, but Personas are so common here there's probably stuff on them at the public library if you look..."

Not that Rise would know personally, but you know what she means.