@junpei | text

[coolerjunpei]

[Now, Junpei is fairly certain they're all here for some kind of fucked up death game, because why wouldn't the third time be the charm!!— but until some mysterious costumed weirdo starts getting on all the screens and making announcements, there's not that much to go on. He can skulk around town glowering suspiciously at things for long so long.

Sooooo.]

if anybody wants my vote, it's t minus however the hell long before we all start killing each other. would love to be wrong, but if i live long enough to say i told you so, yknow. yippee.

so.

why do *you* think we're here? wrong answers only. top 3 by popular vote get a prize.

[Does he have a prize to hand out... No, no he does not. He will find some cheap garbage in one of the shops and write a 1ST/2ND/3RD PLACE on it, no problem. Eventually. Maybe even a sticker.]

and what do you guys think about picking code names? you know, just in case.

[big talk from username junpei]

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[pirateprodigal]

[ This is obviously a weird death trap and Junpei gets points for calling it.

Too bad everything's made up and the points don't matter because they are in mortal peril. ]

I haven't the faintest idea why the rest of you are here, but clearly it was my inestimable popularity that earned my abduction.

Truly, I'm surprised we haven't had a known murder yet. Seems a bit slow off the mark.

[coolerjunpei]

[He will collect these points with pride nonetheless!!]

i get kidnapped enough to be considered a hot commodity, i guess. i'm broadly desirable.

and right? you get what i'm saying. holding hands and kumbaya-ing isn't going to last forever.

[pirateprodigal]

You're scarcely living if you've not given some bastard motivation to spirit you off for nefarious purposes.

Well, worry not, blood will inevitably spill. All a fellow can do is make certain it isn't his own.

[coolerjunpei]

it's not really as exciting the third time. or the second. at least someone's having fun.

that's the goal... you could say i'm doing a public service here, but nobody's appreciating it.

[pirateprodigal]

And these damned fools are the resources we have at hand as we find our way out. Perhaps they'll make good cover.

[coolerjunpei]

see, that makes you sound like the number 1 guy to watch out for. you wanna try again?

[pirateprodigal]

This textual medium has its shortcomings. I ought to write in stage directions so you know how to read my lines.

That said, it never hurts to be cautious.

[coolerjunpei]

that would probably be kind of cool...

[sorry, he is A Dingus.]

cautious is fine. cautious is normal.

[pirateprodigal]

[ Balthier is struggling because he can only make his bouts of deep cynicism sound charming in person. His life is hard. ]

Proper caution is rarer than I'd like to see.

Any progress on that little code name of yours?

[coolerjunpei]

what's proper? double-checking the locks?

it's kind of a waste now that everyone's seen my username... got some guy to call me jackie, i guess. that's a whole 1.

[pirateprodigal]

There's little to stop you from assuming any particular pseudonym in your other interactions. Even if you did so from person to person or by the day of the week, who could gainsay you?

[coolerjunpei]

at that point? me. i'd forget. you can just call me junpei, it's fine.

[pirateprodigal]

Alas, it would do little good if your personal dramatis personae escaped you.

If not constructing elaborate alternate identities, just what are looking to do? I find myself curious as to what strategy you might employ given our circumstances.

[coolerjunpei]

i've got a 50-step plan.

no, i don't, but finding the asshole in charge and figuring out what they want from us is the way to go, isn't it? not to listen to them, but to have a place to start. that'll be faster than poking around at *everything* here and hoping for the best.

me, i think those kiosks are pretty shady. if we could get them turned on properly...

[pirateprodigal]

So we've a few steps to fill out between our present state getting our captor by the throat.

I quite agree that might be a start of a lead. Have you any familiarity with the scope of the technology hereabouts?

[coolerjunpei]

it's not going to be easy.

and yeah, this stuff's kind of old compared to what i'm used to. you, uh, aren't familiar with this stuff?

[pirateprodigal]

There are divergences from where I hail. Oughtn't take long to get caught up to speed well enough to be practical.

[coolerjunpei]

huh, really? like how divergent are we talking? you figured out how to get on here pretty fast...

[pirateprodigal]

Not so much that I can't sort out an interface so clearly designed to be accessible, yet far more than I like.

It appears driven by differing natural resources and conditions. We largely moved on from electricity to using magicite long before developing certain sophistications present here, and instead lean on the unique qualities of the stones.

[coolerjunpei]

magic... rocks? i guess computer chips are kind of magic rocks if you think about it.

uh, but never mind that, i guess. you need help figuring something out?