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compnetwork2012-11-29 09:28 pm
otakuro) wrote in compnetwork2012-11-29 09:28 pm
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Everyone!
I've, uh. Got good news! Again! It looks like we all survived the onslaught of invisible centaur archers that didn't actually show up in November! Aha. Hahaha... Uh. ...Yeah, I was wrong. I'll give it a few seconds so you can all yell at me.
[................]
Time's up! So, right. Even if we're not gonna be attacked by centaur archers, Arturia and I have been going through the library pretty thoroughly, and we have some findings to report.
First, a few of you were right about the compatibility theories. Everyone who was affected last time either had terrible compatibility with Scorpios or were fated to live happily ever after with them. If you want to take your chances, you've got a pretty good shot of finding true love from the guys who were trying to murder you before.
Second... This one's about the history of the city. It's pretty long; I'm gonna read off my notes here........
Hinoto-Ri - that's the Japanese phoenix, for those of you who aren't native. The Hou-ou. You'll see why they named it that in a little bit. Hinoto-Ri is a city in a world that's pretty much parallel to my Earth. Default Earth, I guess. We had the time of the samurai and the daimyos and the Sengoku period and Bakumatsu and the Meiji Restoration and all of that. So did they. They've got records up until the 1900s and then, somehow, things started to get lost.
It's not that history began to change around then, it's just that they couldn't find any of the modern books. I don't know why. The last book is from 1980, and it's a Japanese history textbook. It's all sealed up and preserved, and there's nothing really weird about it except that the last person to use it lived in 2012.
It might be safe to guess that 2012's the year when it happened. It. No one knows what. There's whole shelves of the library labeled Theories on the Great Cataclysm or something along those lines, and most of them are pretty out there. I mean, we're living in a world where demons are pretty well integrated with the human population, so I guess alien invaders running a psycho-cultural experiment isn't too crazy. I'd like to think there's a more rational explanation, anyway. Nuclear war or something along those lines.
There's just no data at all - and, for the record, no evidence that humans had anything to do with it, either. The people of Hinoto-Ri just woke up one day and realized that they couldn't remember what happened at all except that they were sure there had been some kind of catastrophe. This was nine years ago, and no one's come any closer to solving the mystery. This doesn't mean we're in 2021 - they have no idea how big their memory gap is. 2021 or 2051, it doesn't matter. The city's so effectively cut off from the rest of the world that we might as well reset the calendar.
Alright, that's not entirely true. They made contact with some cities in other parts of the world at first - some unidentified countries in South America and Africa, but that fell apart when the earth was cloaked in a sandstorm. Don't ask me how Japan has enough sand for a sandstorm. Since then, they've sent out planes and ships and expedition parties, but they've all been lost. They got reports about 'giant creatures' before they lost contact, so after that happened a few too many times for comfort, they decided to use their new Persona powers and demonic skills to create the dome that seals us all in. It's not there to keep us locked in; it's there to keep us from becoming a messy splatter on the bottom of Daidarabocchi's heel.
Of course, there's always gonna be some jerk who wants to wreck a good thing, so to add on to the whole post-apocalypse deal, we've got the Anoli now who want to make the city into some sort of 'paradise for the strong'. That mostly seems to entail killing anyone who disagrees with them and anyone they think is 'weak'. They assassinated the last mayor four years ago, but a new one was elected pretty quickly. It seems to me that if no one's doing it yet, a few people should try to protect him if possible. We're enjoying our stay here, to some degree, but it's not exactly paradise in any sense of the word.
...Alright, I think that's about it. I don't think I have to mention that since we're dealing with demons here, people's beliefs have begun to shift around a bit. There's a lot of material on Western psychology and old religion if anyone wants to do some more research. As for me... all I can say is that I'm sorry I didn't spend more time paying my respects to the kami when I was back home.
[Atsuro finally stops blabbing on, reaching down to take a swig from a mug of water at his desk.]
..........Oh yeah!
If you're not sick of me talking yet, I need someone who's good at sewing to do a favor for me. I'll pay you back by reading your astrological fortune!
[That's probably a joke.]
I've, uh. Got good news! Again! It looks like we all survived the onslaught of invisible centaur archers that didn't actually show up in November! Aha. Hahaha... Uh. ...Yeah, I was wrong. I'll give it a few seconds so you can all yell at me.
[................]
Time's up! So, right. Even if we're not gonna be attacked by centaur archers, Arturia and I have been going through the library pretty thoroughly, and we have some findings to report.
First, a few of you were right about the compatibility theories. Everyone who was affected last time either had terrible compatibility with Scorpios or were fated to live happily ever after with them. If you want to take your chances, you've got a pretty good shot of finding true love from the guys who were trying to murder you before.
Second... This one's about the history of the city. It's pretty long; I'm gonna read off my notes here........
Hinoto-Ri - that's the Japanese phoenix, for those of you who aren't native. The Hou-ou. You'll see why they named it that in a little bit. Hinoto-Ri is a city in a world that's pretty much parallel to my Earth. Default Earth, I guess. We had the time of the samurai and the daimyos and the Sengoku period and Bakumatsu and the Meiji Restoration and all of that. So did they. They've got records up until the 1900s and then, somehow, things started to get lost.
It's not that history began to change around then, it's just that they couldn't find any of the modern books. I don't know why. The last book is from 1980, and it's a Japanese history textbook. It's all sealed up and preserved, and there's nothing really weird about it except that the last person to use it lived in 2012.
It might be safe to guess that 2012's the year when it happened. It. No one knows what. There's whole shelves of the library labeled Theories on the Great Cataclysm or something along those lines, and most of them are pretty out there. I mean, we're living in a world where demons are pretty well integrated with the human population, so I guess alien invaders running a psycho-cultural experiment isn't too crazy. I'd like to think there's a more rational explanation, anyway. Nuclear war or something along those lines.
There's just no data at all - and, for the record, no evidence that humans had anything to do with it, either. The people of Hinoto-Ri just woke up one day and realized that they couldn't remember what happened at all except that they were sure there had been some kind of catastrophe. This was nine years ago, and no one's come any closer to solving the mystery. This doesn't mean we're in 2021 - they have no idea how big their memory gap is. 2021 or 2051, it doesn't matter. The city's so effectively cut off from the rest of the world that we might as well reset the calendar.
Alright, that's not entirely true. They made contact with some cities in other parts of the world at first - some unidentified countries in South America and Africa, but that fell apart when the earth was cloaked in a sandstorm. Don't ask me how Japan has enough sand for a sandstorm. Since then, they've sent out planes and ships and expedition parties, but they've all been lost. They got reports about 'giant creatures' before they lost contact, so after that happened a few too many times for comfort, they decided to use their new Persona powers and demonic skills to create the dome that seals us all in. It's not there to keep us locked in; it's there to keep us from becoming a messy splatter on the bottom of Daidarabocchi's heel.
Of course, there's always gonna be some jerk who wants to wreck a good thing, so to add on to the whole post-apocalypse deal, we've got the Anoli now who want to make the city into some sort of 'paradise for the strong'. That mostly seems to entail killing anyone who disagrees with them and anyone they think is 'weak'. They assassinated the last mayor four years ago, but a new one was elected pretty quickly. It seems to me that if no one's doing it yet, a few people should try to protect him if possible. We're enjoying our stay here, to some degree, but it's not exactly paradise in any sense of the word.
...Alright, I think that's about it. I don't think I have to mention that since we're dealing with demons here, people's beliefs have begun to shift around a bit. There's a lot of material on Western psychology and old religion if anyone wants to do some more research. As for me... all I can say is that I'm sorry I didn't spend more time paying my respects to the kami when I was back home.
[Atsuro finally stops blabbing on, reaching down to take a swig from a mug of water at his desk.]
..........Oh yeah!
If you're not sick of me talking yet, I need someone who's good at sewing to do a favor for me. I'll pay you back by reading your astrological fortune!
[That's probably a joke.]
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A true hero never goes anywhere without his glitter paint. They'll be lining up to meet me.
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Maybe I'll tone down the heroism a bit. Outsource the library investigations.
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I like reading, but I'm also not selfless enough to spend my precious time researching for the sake of others. [Been there, done that.]
Someone like me is much more suited to an active kind of job, don't you think?
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[yes atsuro pale and disheveled much like yourself.]
It might be good for you. Expand your horizons. Try your hand at a new hobby.
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[He's probably just teasing now. ...Probably.]
...Alright, alright, I'll take care of it. You can go back to being the kind of person who doesn't do that kind of thing.
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[Ah well.]
Great! I'll get back to slacking off and enjoying my youth-!
[Hizumi, what.]
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I'll seeya around.
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