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(Note: Terry gave Kido his phone. Bought his own flipphone on 8/26!)

He has a stall set up in the market street for locating things. Feel free to thread it out with an inbox action thread or handwave it!

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There's an ofuda door in the castle and a book in the train. Both are unguarded because the two guys living there are on vacation.

[ It's already so specific, how is she supposed to explain it any more than that? ]

Does it not work if you can't imagine it? Do you need to see it in person?

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i mean like... for people, they have an identity i can search for even if i've never seen them before, but you said book in the train. like... what book? maybe they keep multiple books in the train? idk which book youre talking about

and whats an ofuda

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The book Souji carries around sometimes. The very thick one.
An ofuda is an amulet like the ones we have, except that in place of our name, it's the name of a god. Traditionally, the ofuda is supposed to be returned to its shrine at the end of the year after providing protection, but there was a space in the castle which works well enough, I suppose. Although this god was doing the opposite of protection...

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hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm okay hold on im not getting anything with pinpointing but ill go check it out myself real quick gimme an hour

[ The waiting game begins... ]

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[ It's a little over an hour, but. yeah. ]

okay i found the ofuda door but i couldnt find anything weird about it. i also looked through the book and it has everyone's info about their persona! it was like looking at a book form at what i could find out by pinpointing. it listed the persona info, the person who it belongs to, and their... arcana? but mine matched with the thing written on my charm so i guess it has something to do with that






those two are super overpowered

[ He thinks back on when Minato would be able to beat him in one second, and... well... he doesn't doubt it now. haha........... ]

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The ofuda door itself is weird, though? Are you looking at the right thing?
As for the book... I thought it would be something more than that, if he keeps reading it after all this time. I guess it makes sense, like having a roster of everybody here if they're supposed to be guiding us.

Do you trust them?

[ Kido doesn't really. Minato could drop an atomic bomb on Hirajiro with his OP Persona and she wouldn't be surprised. ]

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i think so? its the stone door with the three slots right? i mean... im still at the castle but i had to get out of the velvet room for phone signal so i can take a look at it again if you want me to, but i really cant find anything weird about it and pinpointing isn't helping me either

and um............. yeah i guess i do

[ He doesn't really think highly of the trust business, so he doesn't care whether he trusts them or not either way.

Maybe a different question would be better, lol. ]

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No, it's definitely weird. Same with the castle that got fixed up. But if you can't find anything else about them, that's fine too.

Your extended ellipses aren't convincing.

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yeah i cant seem to find anything else about the castle either. the materials seem to be pretty normal though

maybe its because i extracted info from them but i can trust them to be guides

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Is that bear still there?

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nope! no bears in the castle :)

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That's a relief. What about the raccoon?

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[ this text took 20 minutes to send ]

0! :D

[ there's raccoon meat in the freezer now. ]

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[ HOW MANY RACCOONS DID HE KILL Terry is singlehandedly destroying the biodiversity in Hirajiro, somebody stop him ]

Had to go looking for them, huh? But that's good. Sorry to send you on a wild goose chase and not figure anything out in the end. I'll look around myself later, since there's nobody there.

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[ Just... two... only the ones in the castle though. They can stay safe in the forest... for now. This text also comes about 10 minutes later. ]

its okay! i learned a lot today. a lot more than i thought, actually...

do you think the arcanas really represent a person?

[ It took a lot of pinpointing, but Terry literally just figured out what arcanas and tarots are, and he found the meaning of the Universe arcana which was listed as:

Light: Being home in one's self, inner independence, the 'mental paradise'
Shadow: False visions, being on a street to nowhere

... So that's concerning. ]

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[ asfdlkjh he can just scare them away, he doesn't have to kill them... ]

No. Why?

[ Haha, yeah, Minato's something ]

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just wondering, since i saw that souji's was the world and minato's was the universe. i didnt see anyone else that had that arcana too

[ At least the stuff he found out about the World arcana isn't as bad, which is just:

UPRIGHT: Completion, integration, accomplishment, travel
REVERSED: Seeking personal closure, short-cuts, delays

And being who Souji is, Terry isn't all that concerned about him. lmao ]

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I haven't seen anybody else with Emperor either. I don't know too much about tarot or what any of those arcanas are supposed to say about a person. I just don't think people can be summed up in a handful of words, that's all.
Do you think arcanas represent a person?

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thats true... but i wasnt sure, so i asked you! im finding out about it right now and the emperor is associated with authority, establishment, and structure. mine has stuff about courage, persuasion, influence, compassion

it doesnt sum it up as accurately as i thought. guess i dont have to worry

[ Though those are just upright descriptions. He's not going to go into the reversed descriptions lmao ]

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[ laughs, I'm looking at the Persona info page and Kido's pretty much reversed Emperor every other day... ]

Yeah, it doesn't exactly fit. I can kind of see yours, but mine's just about the whole gang leader thing. Whoever assigned these were probably just looking at the surface.

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yeah it kinda does... just surface-level stuff. people are always more complex than just labels anyway.





kido you were in a gang as a leader?! how many people did you have under your command?? is that why your punches hurt a lot??

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[ uh ]

Yes. It was four of us until recently, but recruitment got complicated just before I turned up here. And no, you're just weak.

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wow thats so cool!!! what did you do?? at least where im from there are all kinds of gangs... like theres even several charity ones and others that help people not get ambushed by creepers at night! like groups of vigilantes but we call them gangs anyway









:(

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Well... It's complicated.

[ ..........that's all she says, yeah. Because it is complicated, and she doesn't really feel like typing all this out. Kano phrases it as "Our activity now is to avoid the police’s eyes and infiltrate dangerous facilities to borrow things." which makes it sound like they just go around stealing things but ???

Anyways, if Kido were a kaomoji person, she would send Terry (ｏ・_・)ノ”(ᴗ_ ᴗ。) but instead she just ignores the sad face ): ]

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you can tell me another time when you can then! since if its complicated it must be a lot to type out

oh yeah i almost forgot. can you send a file over to me? it should be in an app that looks like folders...