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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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To be fair to Malik, I'd say the vast majority of Travelers between the age of thirteen and twenty can come off as faintly terrifying when you think too hard about the things they're capable of--what with all the summoning gods out of their heads to 'fight off bad feelings' as I believe Seta put it.

And we don't all have faintly terrifying abilities after a few months here? Please.

Some of us do, some of us do not. It is all a roll of the dice. My two sons, as an example, who are both what you would call "teenagers", each came into Liminal space with the ability to summon Personas, and they have learned many things besides. I came in with nothing, and I have precisely three offensive spells after almost two years of Traveling. If, all things being equal, I was in a fight against them, especially if there was anger between us, I would be killed for certain.

[In other words: you teenagers are fucking terrifying.]

Only a temporary inconvenience here, it seems.

And exactly how often is a disagreement over psychic bullshit likely to come to murder? Whatever you people seem to believe of the gods, we do need a better reason than that to smite the nonbelievers. ...mostly. I assume the same goes for the less divine among us as well.

So once again, I suggest you find some goddamn balls.

We do not know that. We appear to be kept alive so far, but once all of us are marked, the Trumps might return our mortality so we can show them a proper war.

You tell me how often, Signora. Why did you set Thorne on fire? That seems a highly murderous action, to me. Or at the very least, one intended to maim.

With all due respect, Signora, I have offered my information freely. I have done whatever is within my power to assist the Travelers. I have only speculated that there are others who are not as eager to speak on the Network, now, because of the general vitriol I have heard over the past few months.

In short: you are preaching to the wrong man, Morning Star.

Technically, it was just my dress. [She thought she told you it was just her dress?] Which was still hella fucking rude. And, like, actually dangerous to people who aren't me, because if I hadn't gone back to liminal right away, I'd have freaked out right there in Nova Venezia. And it's never good when vampires freak out.

Then I wasn't talking about you.

[ She pauses, and then falls silent with a huff. The Devil doesn't explain herself. ]