retrospec | Point of Order

Hitori Togusa shared a photo.
5/11 near Recolle Police Station

So. A few things.
First. Dave! I want my membership card! Talking robot spider tank with a grenade launcher. Apologies to Koutarou for stealing some of his modeling clay to make my toy up there. I still remembered nothing about myself, though, so the betting pool is still open. Anyone who wants in on the 'What Is Togusa Repressing' pool, let me know. I think the odds on 'samurai' just got a lot longer, though.

The second thing is a little more important. A few of us made it into the subway, which is supposed to be shut down, the lines were damaged. The trains sure aren't running, but either it's shut down intentionally, or someone has taken advantage of it. Throughout the line connecting Enprise to Tisse, there are these QR codes all along the floor. They're those things you can scan with your phone to see a picture or other information. Scanning them didn't get any data, though.

The other area I went through, I don't even know how to explain what I saw. Try going to the middle of town. Next time, I ought to bring a camera with me.

I know that as soon as I post this up, Retrospec will probably try to lock it all down even tighter than they already have. But seeing as how I was assuming that's how they were getting things through the city without us noticing? If we can make them stop using it, I'll call that a victory.

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She nodded. "That sounds like a friend to me," she said, firmly convinced. "Surviving an attack from giant spiders is definitely a good way to bond, and besides that, you have the time of him as an old mentor. Friendship can take many forms, though I will admit that I am easier about that word than some are."

"Besides, crawling through the subways isn't something you'd do with someone you aren't friendly with, is it?"

Togusa has to laugh. He had been sitting across from Dante in an interrogation room of the police station only weeks before. And then he'd been waiting (with some hidden glee) for Ardyn Izunia to show up and make the entire situation more complicated. These two drove his co-workers absolutely insane, his fellow officers that Togusa is supposed to stick behind no matter what.

But they kind of deserved it. These are the friends you have made, Togusa.

"I guess not." He still thinks this is entirely too funny.

He looks down at the decoder ring, he's still absently playing with it with one hand. "Maybe it's better that we're all friends, if we're all in this together now."

She smiled as he laughed and nodded. There was clearly a story there. Maybe she'd hear it one of these days. "I think so. It helps us to learn to trust each other, and if we don't trust, then this would be that much more difficult. If anything, these trials makes us more close to each other."

And that could be risky, but she was willing to accept the risk.

"It's unavoidable, really. We're all learning things about ourselves that even we didn't know. And then sharing them with each other to try to see if that'll help someone else solve their own personal mystery. At least we have to trust that we're all telling the truth. The closeness just sort of," Togusa waves a hand back and forth, "comes along the way."

"If any of us are going to figure this out, we'll all need each other's help."

"Yes. There's no way around that," she said, sighing. "About the blueprint, if you manage to find anything out, let me know. But I think I'm going to visit the library and find some books on drafting and architecture. I might be able to figure it out with time." A lot of time, but she might still learn something.

"We'll work something out with enough time. And what one can't do, the others will help fill in the gaps." Which was a round about way of saying that she'd decided that if they needed rules bent, she was willing to help on that.

"There's got to be an architectural student, or a construction manager, even a contractor, somebody who has experience with this on the network. It's got to be faster, but it this is the best you've got, then go for it." Togusa nods firmly.

The chair scrapes on the ground as Togusa pushes away from the table. "I should probably get back to it. But, thanks. For, well, everything that you've been doing. I'm glad some people are being active about looking into things."

She nodded. "There might be, but I don't want Retrospec to have any idea, if I can possibly help it. If I managed to sneak this without them knowing, it might be a chance to learn something, even a very small something, from the document."

"And I really should as well. I'm glad for you too, but we both have to get back to our daily lives. It is not just appearances, no? Musn't let them overwhelm everything." And with a nod to him, she smiled and waved before heading to the door.

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