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January 2018 Event Log

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May

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Perhaps I'm not as fled from... well, the old rationality.

[ It's hard to fall that conclusion irrational, given what they know now. The woman frowns, and glances at the book again. She brushes her fingers on it and then taps on it. She's sure that's going to be recorded by them, by others. But May's also right that it's not too surprising? No, it is surprising, honestly. At least that there was this train station. And then as she flips to that last note (rewriting history...)

Exhale. ]

It's sloppy of them to leave it unlocked, honestly.

Re: May

[me_matey]

Oh whoa... -May was out of her seat, refocusing her phone camera when she saw that added text.-

Rewrite history? That's... not what Retrospec claims to be about at all.

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No, it's not. And it's dated over a decade ago, right?

[ Tapping her finger there, 2007. ]

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The app started getting around early last year. This is about ten years before that... Hey, you know more about this than me, is there anything big that happened with this shit ten years ago?

-For her, ten years ago was finally leaving the care of the church and getting out on her own, but that hardly seemed related.-

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[ Ten years ago... she tries to think about it. About Retrospec? No, not that. Maybe the town itself, maybe the world in general...?

She shakes her head, but finds herself putting her thumb to her lip - a motion to bite a nail, perhaps? But her nails weren't really long enough for that - as she tries to think it through. ]

... Not that I can recall. twenty years ago is when the statues of the other three founders went up. Maybe ten was around when the current mayor first took office? I don't know, it feels like the man's been there forever.

[me_matey]

Well *somthin'* happened ten years ago. -May made sure to get a nice close shout of the writing.- Imma send you a copy of this.

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Please do.

[ She nods. She's not sure if it belongs in the guide or where, but she would love it for her personal files anyway. It'll be helpful later. ]

No, something clearly happened... I'm not sure what to make of when this was abandoned. All evidence points to the fifties other than some weird quirks.

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See, that's also weird, isn't it? Despite everything else, not all this stuff is antique. There's some relatively modern clothes in those stores. I found a walkman in one of those stores. Like oldschool style for cassette tapes.

Honestly, this graffiti seems to be the newest thing here...

Kenta

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There's one or two more, and if you look at it in totality, it makes a lot of sense.

[ she says, tapping next to her eyes.

But that said, the woman gestures towards the entrance. Should they just go down? ]

[toobigtohandle]

... It does? What does it mean?

[Sorry, he's not really up to date with his western myths and legends here.

And he will definitely start down the tunnel as they keep speaking.]

I haven't found much in my last forays. But I don't think I went all the way down.

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[ Oh, he doesn't get it? She just smirks at that, her red eyes shifting from normal to something more catlike and predatory. And ... ]

Then we should head on down ourselves, see if we can't find something new, right?

[ She can and will explain what she means! But... ]

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[...And Kenta, in true Kenta fashion, drops the subject when it seems she doesn't want to talk about it in more details. One day, someone will teach him to react better to obvious social cues, but it is not that day.]

Sure. I've heard a lot about those from people who went down, but it's my first time down there...

You don't seem to have a problem in the dark, but I'll need some light and I can't carry both the light and the sword. Can I ask you to carry the torchlight?

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Oh, oh yeah with how big it is, that makes sense.

[ she holds out her hand. What are we using, some flashlight or something? She'll just have to be careful not to put it in her eyes. It'll be harder than if she was just in the darkness but there's no need to spell that out for the man. No need to shame his biology. ]

[toobigtohandle]

[Yes, please Elda, don't shame Kenta for his biology. He's enhanced but his body is still mostly human.

Kenta does hand her a smallish flashlight. It's small but powerful.]

Were you with Jirou when he got his sword fighting back? Since you were on the same team?

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Oh no, I wasn't. I'd suspect that was Mr. Aizawa and Officer Izunia...? If that's the case, at the time I was actually playing simon says with some skeletons, because that was when we were collecting the keys.

[ . . . Wow that sounds so silly.

But hey, she'll hold this small flashlight and march on ahead down inside. ]

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Yes, Fynn brought him home afterwards.

[He is... not going to comment on the rest of that. He does not want to know. at all.]

I hope we won't meet anything like that here.

Sakura

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Sure, I'm sure!

[ The door is cracked open. But which cart is it? The music one with the memories, the food one, the one with missing persons items... I mean we all know it's ultimately the memory one but we could totally go to one of the other ones first, who knows? Either way, Elda frowns at he girl getting out in front of her and tries to glide up between her and it to get the door for her. ]

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[Gonna be the food one, in fact, in particular because upon seeing all the times on display--

Sakura's nose gives a wrinkle]

Oh... I doubt any of this is safe to eat.

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... do you normally eat discarded food you find laying around?

[ Like, this is an honest question, if you do please let her throw money at you.

... Something catches her eye in the corner though, and she's going to walk over towards it. That's a Freshens wrapper, isn't it? Has Freshens been around as long as some of the other stuff in here? ]

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[Nose wrinkle intensifies]

Oh no, but I ... know some people who would.

[And there's a silent prayer for half her friends who are poor enough to test their luck. Sakura picks her away around the train cart otherwise, dragging a finger over all the packaging she doesn't recognize (which is most of it, though on occasion she finds a Japanese branded item, which is just. mystifying).

Eventually she'll wander over to Elda's side, peering over the woman's shoulder]

Did you find something?

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Yes. I think so? It's more it doesn't make sense.

[ Because this is a Freshens branded carton of eggs, specially a six-pack, and right here in the carton as she's opening it, the eggs don't look bad or anything. Some are cracked which is kidna ... not good. But four of them look perfectly fine, albeit in a room temperature train which isn't a good thing.

But that's odd, right? Most of these are old? Old and a lot of it is rotting to some extent or another.

She offers the girl the carton to examine, and Elda - well, she's taken enough with this she doesn't hear something else rolling down the tracks. ]

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[... Mm, yes. Sakura immediately understands why Elda's so taken with the presence of the egg carton. It'd be one thing if the eggs were as old as the other batches of food, but these are fresh (or as fresh as you'll get in an underground subway train at room temp.]

Do you think maybe someone brought them down here?

[She doesn't sound convinced; it's not really a statement that holds up to scrutiny. And thoroughly distracted by her thoughts, well... she doesn't hear anything outside their train car, either.]

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Those workers who left the project, perhaps? But then why raw eggs?

[ ... You know this isn't a good thing given that there is a train car coming down the tracks opposite of the way they came onto this one. It's coming in at speed and ... look it just generally is going to be a bad time, probably, as they are in the food cart. Next tag, that is, to prolong the inevitable. ]

Tachibana

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We should introduce ourselves properly if we're doing that, right?

[ She offers a and, ]

Elda Marker.