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[coolerjunpei]

[Good day city-zens, it's User Name Junpei here with another paranoid rant about god only knows what. Just kidding, he's laser focused his paranoia these days, so, ahem:]

Hi, uh, I'm Junpei, if you didn't know. [A brief pause, while he internally laments that he will never get his goddamn codename, but okay. He's made peace with it. He holds up two fingers.] Two things.

[He leans forward and his head and shoulders go out of frame for a moment, while the rustling of papers can be heard somewhere beyond the camera. Should he have gathered his materials beforehand? Yes, for sure, but such is life. Enjoy this view of his t-shirt while he swears and drops something back there...

When he leans back into frame he doesn't hold anything up just yet.]

First, since it looks like people are going missing now, do you guys think we should have... I don't know, a system? To keep track of each other? I don't mean something like the buddy system— [Although he doesn't NOT mean the buddy system, always investigate mysterious liminal cities with a friend!!--] —But... something. Besides running around looking for signs every time. We need to figure out where they're going.

[He's convinced they're still in the city but Taken Somewhere, you see. Where, though... mmm. Workshopping that. He sits there looking grim for a beat, then sighs himself out of it and lifts up one of his papers.

It has beautiful birds drawn on it. Some people may recall his canary symbol idea from Setsuna's meeting, ahem...]

Second is... this. Somebody out there's gotta be better at drawing a bird than me. If you see these hung up anywhere... be careful of whatever's around. [Another beat.] And, uh, if anyone wants to contribute to the cause, I'll pay you in beer and gummies? Normal gummies.

[sorry, he has no edibles. also never mind that one can get beer and gummies without joining his danger birds cause. sign up for art club!!!]

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[coolerjunpei]

[Please, child leash him so people stop kidnapping him, that'd be great.]

I'm extremely kidnappable. [sigh, anyway,] But yeah, there were people behind the scenes—well, they kept talking to us the whole time, but one time was a recording and the other time the guy was just in love with the sound of his own voice.

Kinda surprising no one's come forward to show off being behind it all here, but there's still time.

[wingclip]

Is there?

[Nice cryptic response, very helpful.]

Unlike those puppeteers these haven’t even hinted at showing their faces. I can’t help but wonder if we’re all part of some sort of project they’ve put together for their own benefit. Something similar to an ant farm.

Although I’m not sure how I feel about being studied without my permission!

[coolerjunpei]

[They've been sitting around for this long, why not have unlimited time to sit around and get masterminded...]

We're already here, so I dunno, you could lodge a complaint at City Hall? I'm not—I mean, it's completely fair to be pissed off, but... we're already here.

[Cool. Bleak. Anyway,] Uh, so, I think if we can figure out what we're here for, we can figure out how to stop that and get out.

[wingclip]

I see.

I honestly hope it won’t come to facing our captors head on once this is said and done. Mostly because I’m sure by the end of this there will be many long-term effects that we will be dealing with afterwards.

… Perhaps that’s something I could be assisting with as of right now.

[Mostly thinking out loud but Junpei and co have everything else covered probably??]

[coolerjunpei]

[Please don't trust Junpei and co. to have everything in hand, Junpei at least is just bonking face-first into things--]

You mean, like... therapy? Are you that kind of doctor?

[wingclip]

Unfortunately I’m not. I specialize mainly in rehabilitation, both mental and physical aspects of it.

[Her words are getting a little slower, like she’s thinking of something else entirely while her mouth talks for her.]

But if that is what these people need among everything else then it wouldn’t hurt to expand my scope, so to speak.

[coolerjunpei]

That's therapy-adjacent, if you ask me.

[Don't ask him, obviously.]

But uh, do you want to handle rehabilitation? I kinda realized someone should write down who's volunteering help with what, and I guess the local scribe is me, so...

[wingclip]

Among your other many talents, I see!

[It's a brief bright comment that swiftly sobers into More Thoughts.]

Rehabilitation is a very broad term. I'd like it to be known that my services will be available to anyone who feels they fall in that criteria even slightly— in addition to helping Daan when needed.

All anyone here can do is their best, no?

[coolerjunpei]

Ah, uh... sure, like art.

[Ha ha. Okay, he's writing this down once he shuffles around for some paper, hold on... rehabilitation... Doctor Daan...]

Honestly, I'll settle for "not fucking each other over," at least until we learn more about why we're here. Guess it's a huge ask for people not to kill each other.