Resistance Meeting 4: Live Free or Resist Hard

[clearasmud]

[ Early Saturday morning, long before the meeting could reasonably be expected to take place, there's a fresh note slipped under everyone's doors:

Please bring as many letters from the Conductor as you saved. Not only yours, but those of the deceased, if you have them/COULD find them. We NEED to compile what we know.

In the hopes of easing any understandable reluctance, every letter brought grants you the right to hear one of my secrets/embarrassing stories at your leisure.

Wow, that must have been a pain to write 10 times... let alone 26, just in case anyone else has been playing musical rooms. Or maybe Youko had insomnia last night. Who knows? What matters is that she'll be in the Conference Room from 9AM onwards, nursing a cup of that Anteiku Coffee and writing things sporadically into a notebook from time to time. She's... also still wearing Logan's spare goddamn clothes, because apparently that is going to be a thing.

But hey: at least there's two large plates piled with biscuits/cookies and the fancy candies from the kitchen! As well as 11 plates because we are not savages, oh my god. ]

Comments

[clearasmud]

[ After a brief delay, Youko finishes what she's been working on - her letters from the Conductor, with her own added notes giving the gist of what she'd originally written. ]

Here: I'm good if we want to start with mine.

[ninehundredlives]

[Susan shows up at the meeting with a rather thin stack of letters. She's written the Conductor a bit, but honestly doesn't have the patience for it that a lot of people seem to. She's also stuck that sheet music from him in there if anyone cares to see it.

More importantly to her mind, she also has three leather-bound books - red, green, and blue. She lays all of this on the table, setting the stack of letters to one side so that she can lay all the books side-by-side.]

I found these in the office. The green one's some kind of ledger - it looks like military spending to me? A lot of weapons. The blue one's got profiles on people, and I'm pretty sure we're included. Most of it's blacked out though.

The red one is about human experimentation.

[announcemyvictory]

Human experimentation? What sort? Do you mean it's what was done to take our memories, or something else?

[oftheland]

Oh, so there is a morgue? I'm somewhat surprised he isn't just feeding the corpses to that shadow thing of his.

[given what happened to Logan and Dio, anyway.]

...Do you mind if I take a look at that red book, by the way?

[icysemblance]

May I take a look at the green one? If we can track where the money went, it might help.

mods

[clearasmud]

[ If Youko looks for particular words and phrases that might single out her identifying deets - purple eyes, can transform, brown hair, amazing cleaner, illusions, balls of fire, fox, etc - would she have any luck? ]

[ninehundredlives]

[Also here's Hibiki's letters! Susan will just leave them on the table.]

[clearasmud]

[ ............................okay, there are distressing points of similarity between youko and the conductor and she's not going to think about that ]

...If he considered Lisbeth a coworker and she was stuck in the previous round, do you think that means he considers all of us coworkers? And the coworkers he's said we reminded him of were the people from last time?

[housenurse]

I found some of Mordecai-san's letters! [drops letters on the table.]

[announcemyvictory]

Rewarding those who... provide information for him? With chickens?

[clearasmud]

[ ...what diagram

and where's her gift, conductor

IF SHE'S GOING TO FUCK UP AND THAT'S REWARDABLE, WHY HASN'T SHE BEEN REWARDED why is her life so unfair ]

I was WONDERING why he got that alcohol!

[withabigsmile]

[If we're sharing letters, here are Ashley's. The first eight, at least.]

[ninehundredlives]

...Blue. How thinly can your Ditto stretch itself?

[icysemblance]

[Weiss doesn't have a ton of correspondence, but she'll bring in what she has.]

I don't know if this last letter made it out or not, but I copied it just in case.

[perpend]

[If we're showing off the letters, Cabanela has a decent stack of them.]

He's explicitly told me the shadow creature is sapient. Has he told anyone else the same?

[clearasmud]

Well... I referred to it as a pet and he reacted with... surprise that someone would call it that. [ Look, she was just repeating what she'd overheard Tabby say. ] Also, he told me that that mutual acquaintance wasn't his "God", when I asked if it was.

...What addition was it you asked him for? And while I realize it's probably not relevant - who is "Doktor Faustus"?

[ Agatha Christie, she can work out from the context. ]

[blazeit]

[ ... given his experiences, Bakugou looks like he's just having a serious ??? moment at the fact that "wasn't it obvious the shadow thing is sapient" before actually speaking up. ]

So he'll talk about the shadow thing? Did you asked if it's attached to anything?

[ This phrasing is rather opaque, but again, that's because he's got some preconceptions based off of his experiences. ]

[blazeit]

[ Bakugou has too many letters full of questionably useless stuff. That's why he compiled this script of all his letters so far.

......... Yeah, the sad thing is how much that actually gets rid of a startling amount of bullshit his letter correspondences have entailed. ]

[oftheland]

...

It sounds like the two of you have had a good time getting to know each other.

[clearasmud]

You did excellently, Katsuki.

[ It's obvious Youko is trying to sound proud and generally Fine, but. Something about Bakugou's notes have quietly stressed her the fuck out.

It's a pretty good attempt, to be fair! Maybe it'll even work. ]

[sunsong]

I never wrote the guy, since I just use the phones, but he told me about his sister, too.

[oftheland]

[Giovanni's correspondences aren't substantial, but they're there.]

...oh, right, I did get this during an investigation, as well. As you can see, Ashley had far better luck than I did.

[clearasmud]

...Were your own letters to him as short as these are?

[ Youko realizes that is PROBABLY unimportant, but... well, it's striking, not that hers have been Ashley or Hibiki-tier. ]

[openterrain]

[ Jean hasn't written the Conductor any letters because seriously, fuck that guy. He's actually starting to feel a little left out, now that he looks around.

In fact, he doesn't bring much at all. He does, however, have the first journal belonging to 'Rachel', a sheet of handwritten notes, and sketchbook filled with maps, landscapes, and Russian letters.

... He also, after a moment of hesitation, lays out Mordecai's collection of fanfiction, though if asked... ]

I'm not really sure what that all is.

[ You were a weird one, space dad. ]

[ninehundredlives]

...is this Russian?