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Phantasmal Rift Mods ([personal profile] phantasmods) wrote in [community profile] phantasmalrift2018-06-10 11:47 pm
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IC INTRO - JUNE '18

After the fight with the siren has settled, those characters with phones hooked to the KEystone network will get a text -

Okay, everyone, you had better come back in. There's a storm brewing just off the coast.

Even given Up's usual professionalism, it seems rather... subdued?

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For once, there are no androids at all to greet you upon your return, or arrival, as the case may be. A shelter has been set up for the boats on the shoreline of Glitterstone, however. By the time you tromp up the lighthouse stairs to the level of the Station itself, the sky is beginning to grey with the promised storm.

There's not the typical feast outside, but there is a fairly extensive taco bar set up in the common room, left unattended as well. The room sign-up sheet and boxes of freebies are also there, complete with the Braille versions, and a note at the bottom of both room sheets reads "If all rooms are full, space has been made in the meeting rooms on the top floor. We'll have additional rooms available as soon as possible."

It does appear that someone has updated the murder counter while you were away, however, for the turning of the week. It now reads 15 weeks without murder.

Other than that, you're free to explore, including in the newly finished sections of the Annex (should you be willing to brave the storm to get between buildings). However, wherever you go, the androids are almost conspicuously absent - even in the medical bay and Down's workstation in the command center.

The meeting room they have for their own private use is securely closed and locked.
foolishjustice: (Strange isn't it?)

[personal profile] foolishjustice 2018-06-15 05:06 am (UTC)(link)
That's never happened to me...the only time I see cards is when form or deepen a Confidant bond.
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[personal profile] biddentodance 2018-06-15 05:28 am (UTC)(link)
Confidant...? Sounds like a...Social Link... [His head's getting foggy again, but he's not sure if it's from all these discrepancies or just the fever.]
foolishjustice: (May I help you?)

[personal profile] foolishjustice 2018-06-15 05:54 am (UTC)(link)
Confidants is what Akira called them. The tangible bond between a Wildcard and another person, represented by one of the major Arcana. It's entirely possible you just call it something different from us, since Confidant does rather fit the Phantom Thieves image our group has.
biddentodance: (All is lost again)

[personal profile] biddentodance 2018-06-15 06:58 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, that's a Social Link. You're...thieves?

[How does that work. A light headshake.] SEES is more like a team of soldiers than anything else, I guess.
foolishjustice: (Strange isn't it?)

[personal profile] foolishjustice 2018-06-15 08:48 pm (UTC)(link)
In a sense...we steal the metaphysical representation of twisted views and desires from people who use them to justify callous or selfish actions, so that they understand the weight of their actions.
biddentodance: (All is lost again)

[personal profile] biddentodance 2018-06-15 09:22 pm (UTC)(link)
[Right... Akira had said something about that. He hadn't mentioned anything about stealing, though.]

It still sounds so dramatic compared to what we do. Our operations only affect normal people as far as slowing the spread of Apathy Syndrome...
foolishjustice: (People are exhausting.)

[personal profile] foolishjustice 2018-06-16 12:45 am (UTC)(link)
Well, we do have a dramatic leader.

[The mention of Apathy Syndrome, though, seems to bother him.]
biddentodance: (All is lost again)

[personal profile] biddentodance 2018-06-16 01:55 pm (UTC)(link)
Seems like it.

[...There's still more to explain, maybe that's what's bothering him?]

Can tell you where the Dark Hour came from, too. If you'd like.