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[reapoman]

Who: Anzen + visitors (I see you, Sherlock Holmes)
When: Post-game
Where: The Anzen dorm!
What: Definitely not having a nervous breakdown.
Warnings: We're all haunted as fuck so idk maybe some spider mentions.

[ Hey we are all here and some of us are adjusting to the idea of ghosts being real! How's that going? ]

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[ordimame]

[. . . heh? peering from behind tall guy's shoulder]

Hey. . . ?

[ratiocinations]

[help is everyone just fanned around Ivan]

Evening. [He should've prepared a script at this point.] I'm from Kin'un. Dropping by to discern the state of things.

[AND TO SNOOP]

[ordimame]

[yeh, it's cute]

"Discern the state of things" is an awfully polite way to say "I'm here to be nosy."

[ratiocinations]

[Well. Yeah.] Those are your words, not mine. Still, will that be an issue? Information is critical, and sorely lacking.

[ordimame]

I don't particularly mind.

[stepping back once tall guy does so he can enter]

. . . what are you looking for?

[ratiocinations]

Whatever you are willing to share. I cast my net wide.

[But he will be helpful, adding more as he enters.]

But... I am particularly interested in the journal you might've read from, your yearbook entries, and anything you feel you might share, personally, that could help me understand why we were "chosen" to be here.

[ordimame]

[okay good, because otherwise he would have just been like. SHRUG!!]

The journal? Yeah, you can look at that. Hard no on the yearbook, though. There's some personal information in there.

[and he will not be handing it out willy nilly]

[tailsofwoe]

[ The observant will notice her gaze flick over for a passing moment. ]

[ratiocinations]

[The observant? That's him.]

I'll not investigate more than I'm allowed. [If that is her concern.]

[tailsofwoe]

[ A slight frown, like she's annoyed to have been caught, but she immediately smooths that back into an opaque smile. ]

We would quickly see you out if you failed to observe house rules, so I would think not.

[ratiocinations]

[Hm!] A courteous guest would not even think to push his limits. [lol]

[ordimame]

[the observant DOES notice!! the observant politely does not acknowledge in the presence of strange company]

[ratiocinations]

Age, height, and birthday?

[Yes, that's personal information, but also. Very mundane?]

[ordimame]

[raises a brow, as if daring him to push any further]

[ratiocinations]

[Pah. That only makes him want to know even more, but.

He is also not unaware of the courtesy they are plying him.]

Very well.

[ordimame]

[EXACTLY]

[guiding him towards the coffee table where their cute li'l journal sits]

There isn't much to it, though. Only two pages have been written on.

[ratiocinations]

[To the coffee table! Holmes immediately crosses around it to get a better look at the inscription.]

Safety and protection. [Hm. HMMM. He gestures at the journal.] May I?

[Flip through those two pages?]

[ordimame]

It seems that way.

[nods and folds his arms; their intrepid visitor may pick up the journal as he wishes]

. . . what's yours?

[ratiocinations]

[He is immediately picking up and flipping through, reading. And then flipping through again, just to check the blank pages.

Distracted, yet still from memory:] "Financial success, so that they may never want for anything."

[ordimame]

[. . . with amusement]

Better go buy yourself a lottery ticket, then.

[ratiocinations]

[Humphs!]

Gambling is not my preferred vice. [...Ah, what would Watson have to say about all of this?] Besides, I believe our "blessings" more accurately represent the opposite effect.

[Clicks his tongue, re-reading the second page.]

As your journal may also imply.

[ordimame]

The opposite. . .?

[blinks a little]

What do you mean?

[ratiocinations]

My blessing is stated as financial success, and yet I'm afflicted with the desire to own things that do not belong to me. I have tried to steal an item from someone, with disastrous results, for example. As for you...

[Turns the journal around, finger on the part that reads:]

"Even when I'm with the others, they'll always come after me first..." To have terrible things drawn to you is very much the opposite of feeling safe or protected.

1/2

[ordimame]

[FACE OF A MAN WHO HADN'T CONSIDERED THAT POSSIBILITY]

[ordimame]

[christ. great. is he a ghost magnet now?? should he be more worried about his wellbeing??]

— should I be taking that from you so you don't walk away with it?

[that is their journal, sir!!!]