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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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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

[reveilation]

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??

[reveilation]

[ 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 ): ]

1/2

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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...

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um. wait never mind i forgot you dont know english well. theres a translating app in the phone, its white and blue. i assume you set the phone to japanese already. itll show some botched translations but it should be workable for the most part... it can override all everything in the phone to japanese

anyway after you do that go to "files" and can you send me the "blackbox.txt" file?

[ Now Kido has access to literally everything in his phone--somewhat. Most of it is google translate-level, but with that white and blue app that doesn't require internet, literally everything in his phone can be in Japanese. But while in that mode, you can't edit/delete files. Future technology sure is amazing. She can even drag and drop the EMERGENCY app and it'll convert everything, even the audio.

Terry only told her about the translator app out of convenience though, since he thought it would be easier to fetch the file that way. He doesn't seem to think ahead for these kinds of things........ ]

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[ One day she'll snoop around everything and I'll have to make you write it all out haha

But okay, cool. The translating app is easy enough to use, "files" is easy enough to find, and instead of sending the text file she opens it up to read, because she's a hypocrite who tells Terry to stop pinpointing people but she can be nosy if she wants. ]

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[ There's a password on the file. RIP Kido. It's not his old lockscreen passcode either. ]

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[ /: fine

She sends the file over, but also ]

What's the password?

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thanks!

its mmddyyyy of when i was created

[ File get! It's a pretty easy password to him, but. Well. Kido can go snoop through hospital records to find out, but she probably won't find the accurate year on there due to how time shenanigans work. She could look through his wallet if she ever gets the chance, but it's a fake ID, so his birthday is also listed as an incorrect version too. She'll have to guess... ganba kido ]

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[ That's too complicated and she doesn't care enough to put in any more effort than to ask again. ]

That's not helpful. When's your birthday?