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[As much as Naoki's wanted to say some of this since... well, since halfway through the mess in Misericordia, he decided to hold off and gather his thoughts first. As bad as that was for him and Kanji, it was worse for other people, and from what he's gathered the other jaunt wasn't exactly a picnic either. And then there was the party, and making that many drinks is more attention-consuming than you might think - and, well, no point in dumping that on people in the same moment as Armin-san's list of the departed. But he doesn't want this to wait until after the next jaunt.

It may not make a whole lot of sense to the new people, but hey, they can get explanations along the way.]

Okay. Now that we've all had a little time to decompress, I have a couple things I want to get on the table.

We need to start pooling information about where we've been, considering how often lately it's turned out to be where at least some of us are going. I know there's not much to be done about Moebius or anything that came before it, but... if we'd had more than half-panicked half-information halfway through everything in Misericordia, we might've been able to save some of our group a world of hurt. I'm not looking to cast blame for what's already happened, I'm looking to improve our chances going forward. [Alcuin and Ambrose tried, and it's not their fault things happened as they did.]

Whenever we can be prepared, there's no reason we shouldn't be. I'm sure some of us have been keeping private records, but we need something everyone can get to. If we can keep a log of the basics of these places - the nuts and bolts, maybe a note of what Trumps showed up if any - it'll help keep us out of a little trouble, anyway. I don't know the best way to do something like this, but I think we need at least one physical copy, since not everyone can work backwards on the network. Probably multiple copies of it, to cover for split groups and infiltrating and all that. A computer that people could Interface the information from might work, but that runs into the same storage issues, not to mention needing a computer for it in the first place.

Helena-san's trying to write up Purgatory as a story. We settled on trying that one because I know the most about it of anything I've been here for but she hadn't. Depending on how well that goes, she'll probably want to talk to people about some of the others, and either way I think we'll have a starting point.

If anyone's willing to help, donate notes, offer a place to keep everything, whatever - I'll take any help I can get with this thing. It's a resource we need, especially if the split-group situation keeps happening.

Another thing that came up in Misericordia before everything went to hell was the idea of trying to run a Sift on a familiar face. This one I'm mostly leaving to everyone who kept Sift - I bet the parameters would be tricky, from what Naoto's said about it before, but establishing a good set would give everyone a chance to try it, next time we run into one of them. All I can really offer on that end is my Assistance, if I'm there and myself when the chance comes.

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Tobi. But he usually dies.

Maybe we could catch him before he dies?

Or he'd be a decent candidate as a corpse. I mean, no worries about him noticing what's happening and running away or fighting back.

Oh hey, and then we could autopsy him and see if there's anything different about their bodies!

You adjust quick, don't you, chere?

[She doesn't have that thing that lets you project your face for psychic conversations, but if she did she'd be blinking.]

What do you mean? Doesn't it make sense to perform the autopsy if we have the corpse?

Most people, they do a bit where they take a moment of silence. You jump right in. Not that I'm complaining.

I'm kinda used to cadavers, that's all.

Some Jaunts, you'd need to be in an awful hurry for that.

[OH HAI CAJUN GUY. Thanks again for the cake help back during the spoopyramid.]

He doesn't always die that quickly, does he? I mean, it's not like he's Kenny.

Twice now, he showed up dead already.

Oh Jesus.

Come to think of it, both times maybe an autopsy would have helped a little, though.

See. Next time we'll totally autopsy him.

You know much about forensic science, chere?

Enough. I'm not a professional, but I had to assist my old boss with stuff sometimes.

Better than I could do.

You haven't seen me autopsy anyone yet. Ideally, I'd like Leo or one of the other science guys, since they're probably better than me.

How much did they know back in Da Vinci's day? Apart from the art appraisal, history was never my subject.

It's not so much what everyone else knew as what Leo knew? The dude did like a shitton of anatomy drawings. Really good ones too. If I got my hands on a corpse and I didn't share it with Leo, I'd be super fucking disappointed in myself.

Also, don't call him da Vinci, dude. He hates that shit. I know that's what people call him, but it's not even his last name. It's just his hometown.

No? I make a note. We don't speak too much, the maestro and me.

Yeah. He's like Cher or Madonna or Bono. He only goes by his first name.

I figure he earn that much. Least as much as Cher.

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As much as any of them.

I know a teenaged vampire who would hiss at you for that.

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