one. text. locked to the visitor's network. march 16, early afternoon.

[componere]

Before our great leaders or some overly sanctimonious citizens decide to deep clean for the sake of some city beautification program, let's get a little proactive! Has anyone had a chance to grab photographs of the lovely murals around the city? Please don't say you grabbed video of one on this network. We all know it has a rather biased set of viruses. (Not a knock on you, Miss *Hyun-ae; we all know you try your best.)

Since I'm sure that this skirts the line between legality and the no-no line (encouraging terrorism? Moi? Oh no, never!), let's keep this more or less sanitized. Please don't be stupid enough to upload your picture to the network. Instead, a location and a description of what you saw there will do. Discussion of the symbolism is all right, if you think you can get away with it. If you don't think you'll be safe communicating through this network at all, but you'd still like a description of your mural here for posterity's sake, please feel free to contact me through my inbox and I'll arrange something with you.

[[ ooc: inbox link now edited to something less not his ic inbox am sorry ]]

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[componere]

In Taurus, near the west border of the district, there's a mural that appears to imitate a dark night, with buildings represented by blanks in the paint on the left side. A tall coffin with a cross in red spray paint marks off the right side, accompanied by several smaller coffins at its base, also in red. The taller coffin is rougher than the others, which appear to be stenciled in. The patterning under the smaller coffins looks liquid, giving off the impression that they may be bleeding.

The night sky on the left is strongly demarcated from the right side by a red border in a pattern that resembles clouds. In the middle of the mural is the 260 - 70 = 190 tag we all should be familiar with by now, but it has an additional yellow oval over the masked 0 at the end that appears to represent a halo. There is another yellow stroke that connects the night sky side of the mural to the giant coffin on the right, which doesn't evoke any symbolism to my knowledge.

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[greatseal]

[someone went to look at that herself after that description...]

The colors are a bit wrong, but the coffins look a lot like something from my world. The moon, too.

Not anything good, obviously.

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[componere]

Which reminds me, I did forget to mention - the moon in the upper-left corner of the mural has a face stenciled in profile.

Back to what you said, though. You mind elaborating?

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[greatseal]

We had a version of the 13th Hour called the Dark Hour. During that time, anyone without Persona potential transmogrified into a coffin until it ended. The ground looked like it was covered in blood, too.

And the 'woman in the moon' - well, a being in the moon turned out to be the cause of everything. [Not to mention the column of lights leading up remind her of Tartarus, too...]

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[jazzandtiramisu]

There are man-eating butterflies by the library. Also drugs in the food. Enjoy.

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[componere]

The blue tomatoes didn't tip you off on the latter? My, my.

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[jazzandtiramisu]

Never cared for tomatoes, really. Perhaps I should try the blue ones.

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[componere]

Everyone loves a willing guinea pig! I'd say go for it.

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[poweryetunknown]

All over Scorpio, there's a stencil of a guy in a suit with a TV for a head. One of those old ones with antenna. He's also pointing a gun to his head, kind of like an Evoker.

I took some pictures with my phone - I can show you later in person if you want.

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[componere]

The description on its own is all right, but I wouldn't mind seeing it myself. [ also he totally knows that's you neku - stalker extraordinaire, sry ] Where would you like to meet?

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[poweryetunknown]

[He figured.]

Depends if you want to meet at the apartments or in public.

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[componere]

Let's meet in public, then. Fountain Court in Scorpio work for you?

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[greatseal]

There's a poem drawn on a shop in Libra. It sounds like it's telling people to rise up... There's also a heart with an A drawn in the middle. It reminds me of the symbol for anarchy.

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[componere]

Typical rhetoric for an organization like that... I don't suppose you wrote the poem down, did you?

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[greatseal]

I did, but I wasn't sure if I should write it here.

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[componere]

Very clever. However... It may be a move well worth making. This is all a matter of recordkeeping, you know - the database is barely navigable as it is, so keeping information up on this network may be a little more advantageous towards future endeavors than losing it to whatever server our great leaders have chosen to employ. Pictures and video tend to be more direct, visual, something they don't seem to like. I was hoping a strict text-only guideline would convince them to leave this post alone. It's just text, after all - how much harm could it do?

[thisclinchesit]

My place in Pisces got hit with that masky equation like on the monument.

Though could I request a copy of all the descriptions you wind up gathering? I'm rather interested in investigating this myself.

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[componere]

Hmm... The other Narumi detective agency, correct? All of the descriptions I get will be posted here - think of this post as an information dump. I'd love to condense it all down to a nice, neat spreadsheet for you, but the fact of the matter is... that sounds a lot like extra work?? So, uh, no thanks.

Hard copies of the actual photos though... That could be a different story. I haven't gotten any at this moment in time, besides the mural I have in Taurus, but that could always change given some time.

[thisclinchesit]

Yeah, that one. The better one. Fair enough, I suppose. Didn't hurt to ask.

Photos would also be appreciated, if they wind up happening.

text just this once

[emperor_penguin]

Outside my place in Taurus, there's one that says 'in a society that has destroyed all adventure, the only adventure left is to destroy that society.'

oh dedede... <3

[componere]

Implying that a normal life in the middle of what is effectively the aftermath of Armageddon isn't at all an adventure, mm? Well, I can't say I blame them. Escapism is a hot commodity.

and video again

[emperor_penguin]

So, you think this's got anything to do with those Anoli fellas?

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[echo_of_a_jedi]

A beautiful set of white flowers in Libra with clock-like images and the number 13 on them. Didn't recognize the species, but I don't think that's important.

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[componere]

I'll take a look for myself and see. Thank you for your generous contribution, stranger.

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[echo_of_a_jedi]

Meetra Surik. I prefer not to be a stranger.