IC INBOX: SG

[scythersergeant]

_hello! You have reached Shinoa's contract. This shit can't be taken out of my house so I'll respond when I next return! Calls will be recorded, please leave your message after the beep. Or just send a text message! That might be easier.

BEEP_

[Shinoa can be privately contracted through TEXT MESSAGE / CALLS to a cell phone she has in her house. Her number is listed under her details on the bulletin board, and on a piece of paper taped to her mailbox.

PACKAGES and WRITTEN LETTERS can also be delivered to her mailbox.]

Comments

Re: text

[dokkans]

[ Too bad, the reply isn't delayed. ]

you know what. we have work to do.

Re: text

[scythersergeant]

[Not Lilith, right. Shinoa doesn't want a part of work against Lilith... as much as she doesn't want a part of work against Bonnie, to be fair?]

u mean the town?

yea we never did do that training camp we wanted. u wanna discuss things somewhere?

[dokkans]

luxury lodge

no weapons. i'll bring the info i have. if we want the rest of them to be ready then we have to work hard.

[scythersergeant]

k

[You'll be able to find Shinoa milling outside the Lodge, transformed but unarmed.]

[dokkans]

[ And she arrives, still dressed in her different outfit, the red hooded coat and skirt still on her. She wasn't ready just yet to commit to anything else. Her expression still indicated that she meant business, but it wasn't as far off and away as it once was.

When she sees Shinoa near the lodge, transformed... she sucks her teeth. ]

Thought so. Give it a rest, I'm not going to fight you.

[scythersergeant]

[She untransforms at the sight of Bonnie's civilian clothes. ]

Shut up.

[Shinoa holds out a notebook; inside are quick notes of what happened in the dungeon- mostly the door riddles, their answers, and a summary of the loot within. There's no info on the game however; she missed most of it exploring the rooms.]

Here's what we got from under the school. It might not be everything, but yeap.

[dokkans]

[ Which is pretty much fine. She seriously doesn't care much about that game, and doesn't figure any details on that would be as useful as actual hard notes. She flips through the notes, fairly quickly.

Looked like it was mostly revolving around Tsukudo-cho as a whole, so it was useful... but not at the moment.

She reaches into her basket, and pulls out her own collected diary entries. The one Kyouko Sakura collected.

The two she collected.

The two that jerk-off near the lake was trying to lord over her.

And the last page she collected on her own. ]

That voice that told you guys to come over here. Did it sound familiar to you at all?

[scythersergeant]

[Shinoa looks through the pages- she could say the same for these, too.]

No. It was a girl, that's all I know.

So.... what now? This town is a bad idea, but the places outside we can go to suck more.

After a while we could call another meeting, but... [haish] I think it's just gonna go in circles again.

[dokkans]

If you want to, be my guest. I'm not doing that anymore.

[ Shinoa was right on one front, anyway. ]

At least we know now. If you get the chance to leave the town, don't. It's worse in every way out there.

[scythersergeant]

[She fidgets. Honestly, she doesn't want to either- she isn't even sure what road they're supposed to be going down, let alone how to lead people down it. Why couldn't things have stuck to just killing Nightmares?]

If we stay in here though, eventually they'll screw us over again like they did with- all that stuff.

[dokkans]

They can try.

[ An unimpressed glance over at Shinoa, arms folded. ]

If your options are to run or to fight back, why the hell would anyone want to run? I'd rather be dead and know that I fought against my enemies than alive and having ran away from it. Whatever you do is up to you.