[There you go, Dick. Junpei seems satisfied enough to let Dick take care of his own hand because he's not sure where to go from there, but there's a sigh when he hears the answers from both of them.
He's also getting up to go get said-shirt, speaking a little louder so they can hear.]
Exactly. Possession's our big contender right now, but if that's what we're going to be up against...that's not gonna end well for anybody. Everything started reacting weird in our room, too, when we started going on the right path. [He returns with the shirt.]
So. The next question is...either of you have any suggestions on how to make sure we aren't caught off-guard with this? Or have either of you had experience with this?
I've definitely never dealt with anything like this.
If it is possession, how much do you think... Whatever it is... Knows about us? Should we make code-words that it wouldn't know so that we can check that we're ourselves? Like - "say something only Junpei would know." That kind of thing?
[ dick takes the shirt with a grateful nod and he's gonna just. take out a fucking? knife? from his pockets? to cut a bit of the shirt with his left hand? it's fine he's doing construction over there, don't mind him, he has to rip it smaller in places so he can wrap it around his fingers and the rest of his hand equally.
it's a good thing pain isn't real??? moving on ]
I've dealt with multiple variations of possession and mind control. Depending on what it is, it's possible whatever might control us could have access to our memories. It's a good fail-safe, but not infallible. Until we know how it operates, creating counter measures will be... difficult.
[ sure, let's go with that. anyway-- ]
The good news is, the breaker box was labelled. That's how I knew what the room we were in was called. By process of elimination, the other two locked rooms on that floor are a grand ballroom and a... well, a gift shop. There was something called a panthouse, too-- with an a? It's gotta be higher up in the hotel.
[He doesn't seem too shocked, so cut away. Junpei's going to go sit on the edge of the tub again, bringing a knee to his chest to rest his chin on it.]
That's a problem in multiple universes, so we can't rule it out here either. [Mind control bad. Mind hacking also bad.] We'll have to see if anyone else gets a room open and what they find out about our demon hosts.
[That said...he grins suddenly at the news about the rooms.] Nice job. Panthouse seems to fit the theme of this place, but...could be where our captors are hiding. And maybe the gift shop is where they're keeping our stuff that's missing. All your gear, Escha's bombs...that kind of stuff.
Do you really think they're just... Behind a locked door, like that?
I really hope we can get into all those other rooms, soon. For our stuff, mostly. I feel like I can already guess what sort of thing is in the gift shop, and I don't know that I want it...
[ let's all just casually talk while dick wraps up his own hand one handed after making makeshift bandages. sure. he goes for the whole of it instead of just three fingers because i'm not about that aesthetic. idc that it's a lot more tedious??? ]
Sitting cozy above us and watching us is a pretty classic bad guy move, but I don't know. [ he tilts his head in thought ] You seriously think they'd put our stuff in the gift shop for free nabbing? We've been breaking into these pretty steadily so far. It's ... a bit too easy.
[ anyway, to. completely. finish his report-- ]
The door unlocked on its own when the power came back on. That's about all that happened in there. No haunting, no vision, nothing. Even after spending a few hours in the dark.
[Well you judged his first aid? He's just letting this happen.]
I'm still not convinced they aren't among us. That's pretty classic, too. [Bitter? Nah.] I do think it's possible, because I never said we'd be able to nab them for free. It's a gift shop. That means we'd have to pay for it somehow. And if there's no money...
[...well. You know. Fuck to pay, etc.] Makes you wonder what the difference is, why we got ghosts and you got burns. Maybe there isn't an answer.
[And a glance to Escha.] What do you think? [About. All of that. Especially since she's the one making a map.]
[ Escha is just overwhelmed - and not a medic! He seems like he's more competent than she is, even one handed... u_u Anyway she seems a little confused at Junpei's unfinished thought, there. It doesn't occur to her that sex could be payment?? Hm? How do we get money, Junpei??
Oh well. Mostly her thoughts are on: ] Wait, you think the person who set this up could be one of us? [ Escha come on, this is a basic. ]
Trading sex for favors and items? Who's gonna be keeping track so they can receive that payment?
[ dick is out there casually bringing escha up to cursed speed without realizing it. he seems to have finished his colorful bandage massacre, and he turns it over to look and opens and closes his fist to test it out.
he winces. it WORKS... at least... anyway. ]
Them hiding in plain sight is a possibility, just like everything else in this place. Easier to manipulate a crowd when you're standing in the middle of it.
[ but he doesn't sound 100% convinced that's in place right now ]
[...fair point. He'll concede and drop the subject for now. He's also seeming to get he should just shut up and maybe not be so biased in his opinions of what's going on, so...he settles for biting his tongue for once. He's keeping his gaze on Dick's hand, face relaxing just a hair when he sees it's still workable.]
[ Hrm. She really hadn't thought about suspecting other people. But it means that telling other people stuff is?? Dangerous? Is that what the voice meant about people turning on each other? Isn't it just feeding into it if she gets suspicious of one of their many theories? Ugh.
Ugh.]
Well... I generally tell Logy everything. But I don't know who else we should tell. Shouldn't we just tell everyone?
[ Like, she doesn't want to keep secrets... But... ]
[ he nods at Escha ] At this point in time, I'm rather certain our unknown entity isn't into play. That countdown on the computer still says "SOON". If we are looking at possession, it's better for everyone to be prepared and aware of the possibility sooner than later, especially since we've all already gotten hints of it. Could be that we'll get an announcement similar in nature to the info we've got soon enough anyway. There's no point keeping things hidden just yet.
[ ... yet, ]
Let's just spread the information as much as we can and hope word of mouth reaches everyone for now.
[ he could make a pa announcement but he's. tired. ]
[...yet. They'll talk about keeping secrets later when it's bound to come up because somehow it always does.]
We'll see. Soon is pretty vague, so...maybe we should split up who we're telling. [i.e. this way Dick doesn't have to explain to literally everyone.] I'll bring it up to Carlos and Tamamo. Beck if you don't see her first. Maybe Zero. Escha can take Logy...who else do you think you can take?
Go for it. I'll start with Higekiri and Kagachi, and then try and get the message out to whoever I can. Maybe ask Eraserhead if he's talked to anyone yet.
Izuminokami, too. If you don't speak to him, I'll update him. Prompto's a good one to talk to, too, Escha. [...wait hang on.] Who the hell is Eraserhead?
The suit, the mask, the hero names-- it's to hide my real identity from the bad guys. It's a thing we have to do back home, otherwise things could get... pretty bad. [ putting it lightly ] Dick Grayson. Hi, nice to meet you.
[ obviously they could both read that on the shell, but. y'know. the principle of the thing. ]
Well... yeah. Wouldn't be much point to superheroes without supervillains. [ hm. ] I am a crime fighter.
[ but. isn't that the million dollar question ]
It's... not a preference thing. Not a lot of people know my identity back home, even among other superheroes, so... [ that's getting into complicated territory, so he shakes his head ] Well, my friends call me Dick.
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He's also getting up to go get said-shirt, speaking a little louder so they can hear.]
Exactly. Possession's our big contender right now, but if that's what we're going to be up against...that's not gonna end well for anybody. Everything started reacting weird in our room, too, when we started going on the right path. [He returns with the shirt.]
So. The next question is...either of you have any suggestions on how to make sure we aren't caught off-guard with this? Or have either of you had experience with this?
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I've definitely never dealt with anything like this.
If it is possession, how much do you think... Whatever it is... Knows about us? Should we make code-words that it wouldn't know so that we can check that we're ourselves? Like - "say something only Junpei would know." That kind of thing?
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it's a good thing pain isn't real??? moving on ]
I've dealt with multiple variations of possession and mind control. Depending on what it is, it's possible whatever might control us could have access to our memories. It's a good fail-safe, but not infallible. Until we know how it operates, creating counter measures will be... difficult.
[ sure, let's go with that. anyway-- ]
The good news is, the breaker box was labelled. That's how I knew what the room we were in was called. By process of elimination, the other two locked rooms on that floor are a grand ballroom and a... well, a gift shop. There was something called a panthouse, too-- with an a? It's gotta be higher up in the hotel.
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That's a problem in multiple universes, so we can't rule it out here either. [Mind control bad. Mind hacking also bad.] We'll have to see if anyone else gets a room open and what they find out about our demon hosts.
[That said...he grins suddenly at the news about the rooms.] Nice job. Panthouse seems to fit the theme of this place, but...could be where our captors are hiding. And maybe the gift shop is where they're keeping our stuff that's missing. All your gear, Escha's bombs...that kind of stuff.
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Do you really think they're just... Behind a locked door, like that?
I really hope we can get into all those other rooms, soon. For our stuff, mostly. I feel like I can already guess what sort of thing is in the gift shop, and I don't know that I want it...
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Sitting cozy above us and watching us is a pretty classic bad guy move, but I don't know. [ he tilts his head in thought ] You seriously think they'd put our stuff in the gift shop for free nabbing? We've been breaking into these pretty steadily so far. It's ... a bit too easy.
[ anyway, to. completely. finish his report-- ]
The door unlocked on its own when the power came back on. That's about all that happened in there. No haunting, no vision, nothing. Even after spending a few hours in the dark.
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I'm still not convinced they aren't among us. That's pretty classic, too. [Bitter? Nah.] I do think it's possible, because I never said we'd be able to nab them for free. It's a gift shop. That means we'd have to pay for it somehow. And if there's no money...
[...well. You know. Fuck to pay, etc.] Makes you wonder what the difference is, why we got ghosts and you got burns. Maybe there isn't an answer.
[And a glance to Escha.] What do you think? [About. All of that. Especially since she's the one making a map.]
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Oh well. Mostly her thoughts are on: ] Wait, you think the person who set this up could be one of us? [ Escha come on, this is a basic. ]
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[ dick is out there casually bringing escha up to cursed speed without realizing it. he seems to have finished his colorful bandage massacre, and he turns it over to look and opens and closes his fist to test it out.
he winces. it WORKS... at least... anyway. ]
Them hiding in plain sight is a possibility, just like everything else in this place. Easier to manipulate a crowd when you're standing in the middle of it.
[ but he doesn't sound 100% convinced that's in place right now ]
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...so who are we telling next?
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Ugh.]
Well... I generally tell Logy everything. But I don't know who else we should tell. Shouldn't we just tell everyone?
[ Like, she doesn't want to keep secrets... But... ]
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[ ... yet, ]
Let's just spread the information as much as we can and hope word of mouth reaches everyone for now.
[ he could make a pa announcement but he's. tired. ]
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We'll see. Soon is pretty vague, so...maybe we should split up who we're telling. [i.e. this way Dick doesn't have to explain to literally everyone.] I'll bring it up to Carlos and Tamamo. Beck if you don't see her first. Maybe Zero. Escha can take Logy...who else do you think you can take?
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I think I'd like to tell Prompto, too.
[ He's sweet and she worries about him... And it's just easier to talk to friendly people like that. ]
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[ ... eraserhead? ]
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oh. oh, right-- ]
Uh, right. Aizawa. Sorry, that's his superhero name. Like, you know. [ gestures at himself ] Nightwing.
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[ It's what he introduced himself to her as! ]
Superheroes get different names?
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It's... habit. Code names in the field.
[ speaking of-- ]
The suit, the mask, the hero names-- it's to hide my real identity from the bad guys. It's a thing we have to do back home, otherwise things could get... pretty bad. [ putting it lightly ] Dick Grayson. Hi, nice to meet you.
[ obviously they could both read that on the shell, but. y'know. the principle of the thing. ]
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Pretty bad sounds like putting it lightly, Dick Grayson. [But there's a half-grin.] But thanks for the introduction.
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no, wait, that's not as important as: ] But - do you prefer to go by Nightwing or by Dick?
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[ but. isn't that the million dollar question ]
It's... not a preference thing. Not a lot of people know my identity back home, even among other superheroes, so... [ that's getting into complicated territory, so he shakes his head ] Well, my friends call me Dick.
[ she can decide from there ]
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