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Hello, everyone! You may have already noticed from the stores, but tomorrow is a holiday called Valentine's Day. I know not everyone is from Earth so I thought that it might be good to explain it.

Valentine's Day started in the West as a religious holiday, but it's turned into a holiday for showing people you love them! In some countries, you mostly give gifts to your girlfriend or boyfriend. In Japan (and Hinoto-ri) though, it's different. On Valentine's Day, women give chocolates to the men they know, and next month, on White Day, the men give gifts in return. Giving a guy fancy chocolates means you really like them! (o⌒.⌒o)♡

[If this were voice, this is where it would turn more serious.] A lot of us are waiting for people to come home, and we don't know how we can help that to happen yet. The people you love the most might not even be in the city at all. But we can still have fun for a day. And who knows... they might even show up tomorrow in time to celebrate.

...Anyway, if there are any girls (or boys, even) who want to learn how to make Valentine chocolates, come stop by the Iwatodai Dorm today. I have some ingredients ready. [attached: directions.txt] And if you have a recipe of your own you want to try, bring what you need and we'll make it, too!

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[As promised, Minako has a good amount of chocolate and related materials getting ready for use. She's got the door to the kitchen open and the stoves working melting the chocolate, but a lot of the ingredients are spread out on the large dining-room table in the lobby. She's not sure how many people will take her offer, after all.

It may seem odd to do all of this when she doesn't even know if her intended chocolate recipients will be home tomorrow. But keeping busy has always been her trademark. When she's focused on other things, or other people, she doesn't have to worry about herself. So really, this level of activity isn't strange at all.]

[Note: Feel free to threadjack in the action part! Everyone probably won't be working individually the whole time, after all.]

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Izanami....? Well I'm not sure Philemon is a 'god,' really... [But seriously, what is this Izanami business???]

It's kind of complicated to explain, but my friends all awoke their Personas on their own. Back then there was the Dark Hour, which is like the 13th Hour here, like I said. But the difference is that most people didn't experience it. Everyone except people with the potential to use a Persona, and people called in by the Shadows, transmogrified into a coffin.

A-Ah, well, Izanami, like from the story? She tried to change the world but we kicked her butt and told her that it wasn't her choice! [ Well, it was something like that. And it may have been mostly Yu's work. ]

Yeah, I guess the 13th Hour is kinda like the TV World we went into. I'm sure the others have it already all figured out though. [ Chie had just arrived, and is certain the smarter ones in their group already know about how all this. ]

..Do you have any limes? [ Over here, Chie is still trying to cook, and has currently melted down some chocolate and is already adding things to it.. ]

[First murders, now gods? Yu's team certainly wasn't slacking off...] I know the story, but I hadn't heard about that from Yu-kun yet. The TV world does sound like it's the same sort of thing, though.

[....The request makes Minako actually pay more attention to what Chie is doing to the chocolate.] Um, I don't think so. I do have peppermint flavoring though. [Mint isn't really close to lime flavor, but she hasn't really used lime in chocolate before...]

[ It was a big scary god too with like a bunch of arms! ] It must all be connected in some way, with everyone having Personas here too.

Peppermint is too ordinary, I want to make it exciting and dangerous! [ Not the best thing to think of when making food Chie.. ] Oh, this soy sauce will definitely do the trick! [ She's already adding in a few shakes before she can be stopped. ]

[Chie no. Minako reaches for her wrist to grab the bottle but it's too late. She does at least manage to keep the whole thing from going into the pot.

Okay, this isn't a huge disaster. She's heard that salt can bring out the flavor of chocolate, and soy sauce is salty, right? Maybe if they add more chocolate and sugar it will balance out...] That's enough exciting, I think! You should make sure it melts right and doesn't burn... [The double-boiler method they're using with a saucepan over a pot of water should be hard to mess up, but she's not guaranteeing anything anymore.]

[ She just looks strangely at Minako. She's a nice girl and all, but she's way too high strung! Which...is totally Chie's fault even if she can't see that. ]

Really? I guess the soy sauce and the beef jerky bits will give it a really great meaty flavor! [ That's right, Chie's already added a bit of beef jerky that she happened to have in her pocket. ]

[She just happened to have?]

It's chocolate, though. That's not usually something you want to have a meaty flavor.

[ Chie never goes anywhere without some sort of meat (and/or meat flavored) snack! ]

Well, wouldn't it be too boring without adding anything? [ She's just lucky to have never been subjected to mystery food x. ]

I think I really got it down this chocolate making thing down! [ The hospital should probably be warned ahead of time for whoever she gives this chocolate to.. ]

Maybe, but it's not going to work properly if you just put bits of jerky in the chocolate while it's melting... It's going to make a mess. Here. [She swoops in with a slotted spoon, trying to strain out as much of the jerky from the chocolate as she can.] We can make chocolate covered meat. In South America, they actually use chocolate in their main dishes, so it might not taste that bad!

[She's. Injecting as much optimism as she can. But still, dipping the jerky in soy-chocolate and then letting it cool seems a better plan than just dumping in jerky and making a huge sticky mess.]

Really? That sounds awesome! [ She had never thought to try that, but now she can't stop thinking of how good that...probably....tastes! Maybe Minako was as good of a cook as Yu is! ]

You know, I wonder if every high school has people with Personas in it.. [ While cooking, Chie had let her mind wander. While obviously everyone in Hinoto-Ri had Personas, it wasn't that way at home. But Chie had only been to two schools, and apparently each had Persona users. Maybe there was some sort of link? ]

[She laughs.] It'd probably be hard to keep secret if that were true! But there are other people who used Personas besides us. I've talked to two people who met Philemon before they came here.

[And while she's talking, Minako tastes the chocolate. ...

It's salty.

Very salty. And soy flavored.

But not to the point that it's inedible. Maybe it will go fine with the jerky.] Do you have more of that beef jerky? [Otherwise, she'll have to raid the cupboard and see if Akihiko has any around.]

But there's no way to tell if they were from the same world as us right? I mean...you met Yukiko as a kid, so we know that our worlds are the same.

[ She thinks about it some more while Minako tastes it. Chie might be a little scared to taste it herself.. ]

But since we had Persona's before we got here, does that mean we have some kind of connection to the city that other's don't? [ It was a question she had been thinking about when she learned that EVERYONE had persona's but hadn't thought of a good way to explain it before. ]

No, I put the last of mine in there already.. [ She's a little saddened by that too. ]

I'll look in the cupboard. Maybe Senpai has some stored away...

[She starts to look through the cabinets as she goes back to the previous discussion.]

I did meet her, but it's not a guarantee that we're from exactly the same world. There's worlds out there that are the same except for some event happening slightly differently.

[It's actually more likely than not, but she's not going to get into the reasons why right now.] Still, between me going to your school and you all going to our school and then what Labrys has said, if our worlds aren't the same the changes are pretty small. Most people who come here don't know about Personas at all. I'm betting all of us who had the power before are from pretty similar parallel timelines, if not the exact same one.

[The problem is that this calls into question whether Hinoto-ri itself is included in that group. That's another idea she doesn't particularly want to bring up.]

I've seen something like that in movies a bunch. Like, everything is the same, except no one ever learned how to lie. Or like, a universe where everyone's gender is swapped. [ These multiverse related shenanigans are too much to try to understand all at once, that's for sure. ]

Labrys? My friend Rise-chan mentioned her before but I've never met her.. [ But she would be pretty excited to met a robot. ]

Hey that brand! [ Chie is looking over Minako's shoulder as she looks for jerky (she can't help it) and she face lights up when she see's a bag in the cabinet. ] That's my favorite brand! It's super hard to find, I think I bought all of the supplies in my town.

Your senpai has good taste!

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