Oh hey, look who got ditched (Main Jaunt Network)

[all_onis_are_true]

Ah, if I could possibly get somebody's attention?

I was... briefly sidelined for a bit, and when I came back to Liminal Space, it seemed most of the people here had already moved out on a Jaunt. Is there something I should be doing in a situation like this? I must admit I am a little, ah... confused at the moment. Perhaps I could be watching over something for somebody if worst comes to worst?

Comments

[awitchdidit]

Sidelined? What precisely happened, if I may ask?

[all_onis_are_true]

Apparently one of the Arcana took a profound interest in... an idiosyncracy I possess.

[awitchdidit]

Oh? One of the more studious ones? It wasn't ROSE, was it? I know there's a few more who seem intent on learning about us, but she made rather a point of it when we spoke...

[all_onis_are_true]

I... am uncertain? They had a mask on and lived in some place with a very peculiar mirrored floor.

[Not getting into the specifics of it unless he HAS to.]

And yet even on her vacation she can't help but cat herd

[thornsofmalkav]

Honestly, you needing to play catch-up is probably as good an excuse as any for everyone to pool information about what might be going on here, especially because if Jean is right, this is going to be a short Jaunt. I'll start:

Number one: one of the bands (called Symulakrum) disappeared the night before we got here. Possibly they just ditched everyone, but possibly something sinister happened.

Number two: if Claudia's right, there is at least one person from a Mysterious Organization here.

Number three: There's some weird bullshit going on with Phillip but then he's Phillip so weird bullshit is basically normal.

Number four: Kinji's Infiltration somehow possesses the means to disguise himself perfectly as David Tennant by way of Prince and is using this power to have a musical career and flirt with Yakumo. What's notable is that he doesn't resemble the actual David Tennant of this time period who'd be a pimply-faced teenager, but 21st century David Tennant.

That's what I think is significant. Anyone have any other info to share?

gdi thorne also im so sorry

[theflyingone]

So the Prince is here?

Re: gdi thorne also im so sorry

[thornsofmalkav]

... no. Shooting Star is just trying to do his hair like him and dress like him.

[theflyingone]

And who is David Tennant?

[rustyhonesty]

There has been one more disappearance. One of the members of Shooting Stars has gone missing.

[all_onis_are_true]

The Shooting Stars? Another band, I assume.

[rustyhonesty]

Yeah, one of the bigger names. They performed on stage today.

[thornsofmalkav]

Oh jeez, which one?

[cloudpotter]

His job is to drum up interest and create scandals. I daresay he'll flirt with any who cross his path; there's no need to single me out among them.

[he does also have Relevant Information-slash-Theories™ to share, but priorities.]

[all_onis_are_true]

[You are really bad at this whole "hiding your relationship/near-relationship" thing. And Hiroshi is ACE, so that's saying something.]

I will take your word for it. Have you seen anybody else he has flirted with, and does it seem angled towards any particular purpose?

[thornsofmalkav]

Hey, maybe his Inner Kinji is doing the flirting? I mean, you guys are working up to dating, right?

[finalizes]

[...]

Shall I test that theory?

[all_onis_are_true]

Kinji is infiltrating? And... I apologize, but David Tennant?

[He's not that kind of nerd, man.]

I suppose that is less important, however, next to the disappearances. Have there been any solid clues identified?

[thornsofmalkav]

He's a British actor. Well, Scottish? He was in Blackpool and he played Casanova and, like, Hamlet opposite Patrick Stewart's Claudius and he's done, like, a bunch of other stuff.

[Including some things she won't mention because Minerva might end up backreading this later.]

As far as solid clues... not that I know of?

[meanballerina]

Some of us are putting together a band to take over for the missing one. If you know anything about music, they could probably use the help.

[thornsofmalkav]

I'm already at the rehearsals. I was the one taking notes for band names.

[all_onis_are_true]

I have some experience with the piano if that helps.

[We'll just not count the experience that includes wiping blood off keys with vinegar, mmkay?]

later in the day

[rustyhonesty]

We might have an actual serial kidnapping going on for whatever reason. I met a young girl in the backstage who said she saw the Symul... something band got abducted. Of course I can't be sure if she's making stuff up or not, but she did tell me what the woman who was part of the kidnapping looked like. And it seems she's still around here somewhere.

The problem is, she apparently looks very much like many other concertgoers. Black jeans and tank top, black messy hair... though she is a bit older than a teenager it seems.

[all_onis_are_true]

And neither an infiltrator nor an investigator. Hmm...

Has there been any common thread among the abducted?

Re: later in the day

[thornsofmalkav]

Welp, I'm pretty sure this is what we're here to solve now.

[awitchdidit]

Oh good, we're dealing with crime. I was worried we weren't going to get any direction.

Did your witness give a name, or can you describe what she looked like?