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[recollecters]

hey. looks like you're all busy right now and joanne is down with a cold, so this probably doesn't have to be fancy. r&d doesn't report anything major for the next month so don't be dumbasses and make a problem of your own. don't fuck with the liaison, we're not replacing him. looks like there's some weird fucking stone at city hall now. enjoy that, i guess. pretty sure zee warned you about the stones, but if you broke it, that sucks and we don't know how to fucking fix it yet so good job, idiot. you might need to be a little proactive. r&d probably has something in mind, but good fucking luck getting a straight answer out of any of them but the kid. maybe they'll at least tell zee what they need, though. or if you're chill with the loss, whatever. that's about it. wait, right. joanne wanted to thank two of you for letting her help with holiday shit last month. thanks for not being assholes. the kid likes having stuff to do, i guess. and that's really it. later. Wendy Guo Security/Archivist Retrspec Incorporated Per the mod plotting post, you may use this post to obtain this month's freebie! This month's freebie can be earned by turning in a thread on this post that has 10 or more consecutive comments from you. Please feel free to use this post as a network mingle. Every toplevel can be considered a new post, and threadjacking is permitted. No NPC response will be given. Usernames are the character's full real AU names, not aliases or chosen nicknames or usernames, and seemed to have filled themselves in; nothing characters do can change or obscure their names currently. Additionally, the heart stones from February are still in effect! They will be in effect until 3/3 and will be addressed on the event log. Thanks!

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[cardcaptured]

It's possible one of them happens at a later point in time than the other? I don't know if there's any real way to tell the timeline of these things aside from the obvious, though.

Just how are they contradicting one another, though?

[promisedyou]

It's impossible for one to happen at a later point.

Also, I can't tell you how they contradict each other.

[cardcaptured]

Then what's the point of posing the question or asking people for their theories if you're not going to explain the situation?

[You can practically hear the 'MI-RON' tacked at the end of this]

[promisedyou]

Because you of all people aren't allowed to hear it. I don't mind telling other people.

[cardcaptured]

[WOW MIO???? WHAT THE FUCK????

It'd be one thing if she just wanted to keep her memories secret-- he could respect that, understand that, even-- but to deliberately leave him out and tell others??]

That

THAT'S NOT

Why are you leaving me out of this?!

[promisedyou]

Because it's for your own good. Some of the others can handle it better, but I don't think you would be able to. And don't bother complaining, you still won't hear it from me.

[cardcaptured]

We just walked out of an underground city full of fire, dragons, demon horses and rock golems. I'd like to think I can handle things just fine, and it's insulting that you think otherwise. [NOT THAT SHE'S WRONG IN NOT TELLING HIM SINCE SHE REALLY SHOULDN'T.... but a lot of this quest of theirs has made him feel pretty inexperienced and useless, so this isn't exactly helping matters.]

[promisedyou]

Trust me on this one.

It's worse than that. Much worse.

[cardcaptured]

... Mio.

What's going on? You've been acting odd since the whole incident on the ladder.

If there's something you can't tell me, then-- is there something I can do to help?

[promisedyou]

Have I?

I've been totally fine. ☆

[ That's a lie, of course, and it's not just one that she tells him, but also herself. ]

Don't worry about me. There's nothing that can really be done about it.

[cardcaptured]

[HAND OVER THE DOUBT BUTTON???]

I'm not worried. [Lies, he's totally worried??] But Leon's going to be, if he isn't already. So I hope you can at least tell him about it.

[promisedyou]

I can at least promise that I will at least tell him. I'm sorry that I can't tell you, but like I said, it's for your own good that you don't know.

It's not that I'm treating you like a child... it's more that you shouldn't have to hear these things, even if I do want to know the answer. I care about you a lot too, after all.

[cardcaptured]

[Good thing they're not talking face to face, as the last comment does get a flush to creep up his cheeks, but that doesn't lessen his concern any. Didn't he have a similar conversation with Shinji a while ago in that vein? About things people at certain ages shouldn't see? But now that he was on the other end of it, it was frustrating, and he hated being left out of something that was hurting someone close to him... but how awful could those memories possibly be? (Very awful, Xiaolang. Don't open this Pandora's Box if you can)]

... fine. Just as long as you're talking about it with someone. It does help, you know. [Like when Sakura comforted him after he remembered her falling down the chasm and all.]

Can you at least tell me what happened when we went investigating, though? You said you felt a shove, but you were being strange before all of that. Was that because of one of these memories?

[promisedyou]

[ It takes her quite a while to actually answer this message, if only because she's contemplating whether or not it's a good idea to tell the truth or to be completely cagey. She decides to go for a middle ground -- to tell him parts of the reality of the situation but not all of it. ]

I know.

[ Better than anyone, she knows. She's always felt better talking to someone about her problems, and while if things were normal, she'd tell her sister, but this-- it's not something that she can tell Kotone, either. If she wanted to be honest, she wished she could just brush it all off, pretend that things were normal. That's she's completely fine.

Maybe under normal circumstances, she could. ]

I heard later that Leon got shoved, which is why I felt that. But, yeah... I remembered a few things when we went down there.

[cardcaptured]

[With the amount of time it takes for Mio to respond, Xiaolang's assumed that she dropped the conversation, or refused to tell him even that much. So it's a surprise when she finally gets back to him, and even more so that she's being... well, at least sort of honest. It's not much, but it's a start.]

I see. That explains a lot, then.

[And while he wants to ask WHAT she remembered, exactly, or chide her for not informing the group as it happened-- he knows it's pointless. She wasn't going to share that with him, no matter how much he insisted, and had he remembered something terrible up there, he would have hidden it too. But it did bring something else to mind...]

A few people have told me about those partner effects. You were feeling whatever he was experiencing, right? When you were with the elders, discussing the punishment... did you manage okay? [Considering Leon burned his arm and busted himself up in a drop during their chase, for Xiaolang's sake, he's going to feel mighty guilty if Mio had to endure that all, too.]

[promisedyou]

I'm fine.

[ To be honest, she was definitely a little (read as: very) concerned about what was going on during their end, but she managed to endure it. Besides, it was nothing compared to what she felt during those memories of hers, not to mention that thankfully it wasn't as bad as the ladder drop.

Definitely not. And she managed to bury it all in front of the others, especially when they were discussing things that she'd rather not hear.

It's selfish, but she wished that there was someone that she was closer to in that group... but at the same time, the outcome of it all might have ended up a lot more messy than any of them would have wanted, considering what actually came up. Not that she'd.

Bring that up with him. But it's something to think about. ]

I mean, I felt it, but... it was probably worse for him than it was for me. Thankfully we weren't doing much outside of our discussion, at least.

But enough about a gloomy subject! Hey, are you free on the 14th? ☆

[cardcaptured]

[... so she did have to suffer through it. If Leon being shoved was enough to get her to fall off the ladder, then no doubt she felt a similar amount of pain during all of that, too. Of course Leon would have had it worse, but...

He was about to type out his apologies, take the blame for what had happened, but the last bit of the message takes him by surprise. That was certainly a topic shift.]

In the afternoon, yeah.
Why?

[promisedyou]

[ It definitely is a topic shift, but it's one that makes the atmosphere feel a little less tense. ]

Well, the 14th is a really important holiday, so I need to give you something for the chocolate from last month. ♡

[cardcaptured]

[And thank goodness for that-- between this and Sakura's need to talk to him about their own regains, he needed a topic that wasn't about to worry him sick (even if he won't acknowledge it himself).

--although he has to resist from keysmashing the moment he sees that heart emote]

Th

That was just something as thanks for letting me use your kitchen. And you already gave me something for Valentine's Day, so I don't see why you need to give me something else.

[... although...]

... wait, what sort of holiday is happening on the 14th? Pi Day? [........of course that'd be the one that sticks out in his mind. OF COURSE.]

[promisedyou]

Oh, you wouldn't know, would you... well, in Japan, we celebrate White Day which is a holiday where people who got a gift on Valentine's Day had to return the favor.

I mean, I did give you something for Valentine's Day, but it's just tradition, you know! There's even the term of sanbai gaeshi where the return gift has to be two to three times worth the Valentine's gift, so just the chocolates I gave you on Valentine's Day won't do!!

[cardcaptured]

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