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ANCIENT REPTILIAN BRAIN - Oblivion.
Something that should not have hit you right now.
Or ever.
At least you expected that.
LIMBIC SYSTEM - But you are here now.
ANCIENT REPTILIAN BRAIN - You should not be here.
ANCIENT REPTILIAN BRAIN - Still, you are.
In this primordial darkness.
LIMBIC SYSTEM - Nothing no feeling.
No happiness nor ecstasy or trill but no pain and anguish either.
ANCIENT REPTILIAN BRAIN - It's not like you felt much of the latter.
- What if I want to be here?
- Maybe I should stay here?
YOU - What if I want to be here?
ANCIENT REPTILIAN BRAIN - Do you truly want to be here boy?
VOLITION [Medium: Success] - No you don't.
LIMBIC SYSTEM - That big ball full of apes is your home.
It is so big so vast.
VISUAL CALCULUS [Godly: Faiure] - So big you can't grasp the eternal vastness it holds.
CONCEPTUALIZATION [Easy: Success] - You are but a speck of sand in the desert.
LIMBIC SYSTEM -Full of everything.
ESPRIT DE CORPS [Trivial: Success] - Your colleagues.
EMPATHY [Easy: Success] - People care for you.
PHYSICAL INSTRUMENT [Medium: Success] - You didn't work so hard on this body just to throw it all away.
ELECTROCHEMISTRY [Trivial: Success] - There is so much fun to be had!
SAVOIR FAIRE [Easy: Success] - Deals to be made!
PERCEPTION - So many sensations you yet have to feel.
LOGIC [Medium: Success] - Questions that need answers! Where are you? How did you get here?
DRAMA [Challenging: Success] - Your act isn't done sire!
You merely took a break.
VOLITION - Life is beautiful and you want to keep on living.
LIMBIC SYSTEM - And you barely tasted all of that.
ANCIENT REPTILIAN BRAIN - Do you want to spit on it?
LIMBIC SYSTEM - Well, you are choking on it.
INLAND EMPIRE [Challenging: Success] - This will be your graveyard if you stay much longer.
Task Gaind: How did You get here?
Task Gaind: Where exactly are you?
- How did I get here?
- What if I want to be here?
- Maybe I should stay here?
- [Volition - Impossible 30] I want to get out!
YOU - How did I get here?
ANCIENT REPTILIAN BRAIN - You just are.
INLAND EMPIRE [Challenging: Success] - And not even here by your own design.
VOLITION [Challenging: Success] - You would never do this to yourself.
LOGIC [Trivial: Success] - So it must be someone else.
The how and the why of why they would do it escape you for the moment.
INLAND EMPIRE [Easy: Success] - They made sure of that.
ANCIENT REPTILIAN BRAIN - But you are here nonetheless boy.
- How did I get here?
- What if I want to be here?
- Maybe I should stay here?
- [Encyclopedia - Impossible 30] Try to remember how you got here.
- [Volition - Impossible 30] I want to get out!
YOU - Try to remember how you got here.
+2 Not my own doing
-1 Escapes you
-10 They made sure of it
CHECK FAILURE
ENCYCLOPEDIA [Impossible: Failure] - Nothing.
Your mind is empty on that detail.
As if it has been thoughtfully scrubbed of those thoughts.
INLAND EMPIRE - They were thorough. Very thorough.
LOGIC [Medium: Success] - That in itself implies some sort of lobotomy.
PAIN THRESHOLD [Medium: Success] - You would be aware of it.
And there is nothing wrong with your head apart from the usual.
ENDURANCE [Easy: Success] - Or with your body, you are perfectly fine.
ELECTROCHEMISTRY [Trivial: Success] - So fine I say we deserve to reward ourselves!
How about we get some hard wi-
VOLITION [Challenging: Success] -No.
ELECTROCHEMISTRY - Cut it out Crowny! Let the man have some fun!
ESPRIT DE CORPS [Trivial: Success] - An officer doesn't drink on the job.
It is against regulation.
REACTION SPEED [Medium: Success] - Are you even on the job right now?
ELECTROCHEMISTRY -Oh who cares about that?
ESPRIT DE CORPS [Trivial: Success] -Me!
AUTHORITY [Medium: Success] - Me too! So stop your blabbering vermin. And leave our newest recruit alone.
ELECTROCHEMISTRY -You guys are no fun.
- How did I get here?
- What if I want to be here?
- Maybe I should stay here?
- [Volition - Impossible 30] I want to get out!
YOU - I want to get out!
+3 People care for you
+2 So much to be done
+3 You won't throw it away!
+2 Questions left unanswered
+3 My act isn't over!
+10 Life is beautiful!
CHECK SUCCESS
VOLITION [Imposible: Success] - You don't want to die. You want to live. Whatever is waiting for you out there! Whatever pain it isn't enough for you to die.
YOU. WANT. TO. LIVE.
ANCIENT REPTILIAN BRAIN - You sure do boy. The world is waiting for you.
LIMBIC SYSTEM - Time to rise and shine!
DRAMA [Challenging: Success] - Curtains up sire.
Let the show begin anew.
It can't start without you! The actor on the centre stage!
- [Open your eyes.]
- Maybe I should stay here.
YOU - [Open your eyes]
PERCEPTION (SIGHT) - Your eyes open and you are greeted with a classroom.
LOGIC [Easy: Success] - A school. You are inside a school.
SHIVERS [Godley: Success] - Big, very big.
At least three floors. And too many rooms to count.
More importantly, you aren't alone here.
INLAND EMPIRE [Challenging: Success] - Two souls are in this room.
HALF LIGHT [Easy: Success] - Shit!
PERCEPTION (SIGHT) - There is little to take note of.
PERCEPTION (SIGHT) [Easy: Success] - Other than a wiped blackboard glued to the yellow painted walls there is also a clock above it.
PERCEPTION (SIGHT) [Meduium: Success] - Its hands are missing.
LOGIC [Easy: Success] - To destroy our time perception?
CONCEPTUALIZATION [Medium: Success] - Or implying that time has no meaning here.
PERCEPTION (SIGHT) [Easy: Success] - There is a teacher podium.
ENCYCLOPEDIA [Medium: Success] - A desk is the standard but a podium such as this is still acceptable.
PERCEPTION (SIGHT) [Meduium: Success] - On top of it stands a pamphlet.
- I probably should check that out.
- There is still the back of the class I didn't check out.
- I think I checked all this class has to offer. [Leave]
YOU - There is still the back of the class I didn't check out.
HALF LIGHT [Easy: Success] - Yes! Never let you back unguarded!
LOGIC [Trivial: Success]- I doubt that someone will attack you inside a school.
PHYSICAL INSTRUMENT [Medium: Success] - And even if they do look at you!
Coach Physical Instrument says you can beat the ever living hell of anyone who tries.
LOGIC [Trivial: Success]- Plus there is no one here other than us.
PERCEPTION (SIGHT) - There are five net rows of desks that last till the fourth.
You can barely make out the back of the room due to the shadow that neatly covers it.
REACTION SPEED [Medium: Success] - Listen closely.
- To what?
YOU - To what?
PERCEPTION (Hearing) - Silence.
PERCEPTION (Hearing) [Challenging: Success] - But for a second you could hear a faint sound. Then silence once more.
HALF LIGHT [Easy: Success] - Someone?! Quick Grab a chair and throw it there!
EMPATHY [Easy: Success] - No need just calm down.
COMPOSURE [Medium: Success] - You inhale and exhale. Then repeat again.
And again.
Till you are completely calm.
HEALED MORALE +1
COMPOSURE - Now you can start.
VOLITION [Medium: Success] - And don't throw the chair. And if you will do it as the last option.
- Should I even bother with this?
- Could it be the wind?
- [Perception - Challenging 12] Try to find the source of the sound.
- Wait a minute! Why should I throw a chair? Couldn't I use something else?
- [Physical Instrument - Legendary 14] Throw, a chair into the darkness.
- I think I will deal with this later. [Leave]
YOU - Could it be the wind?
LOGIC - It is a possibility.
SHIVERS - Iron bars don't allow wind to go through windows.
INTERFACING [Medium: Success] - Especially not through those!
They are so tightly sealed onto the windows that I don't think you could remove them without equipment and some oil.
AUTHORITY - Why haven't we been made aware of this from the start?!
PERCEPTION - My bad.
VISUAL CALCULUS [Challenging: Success] - Don't be so hard on him. The perspective from which we looked at the room didn't show them.
- Should I even bother with this?
- Could it be the wind?
- [Perception - Challenging 12] Try to find the source of the sound.
- Wait a minute! Why should I throw a chair? Couldn't I use something else?
- [Physical Instrument - Legendary 14] Throw, a chair into the darkness.
- I think I will deal with this later. [Leave]
YOU - Try to find the source of the sound.
+2 Two souls
+1 A strange sound
+2 The sound came from inside
CHECK SUCCESS
PERCEPTION (Sight) [Challenging: Success] - Nothing at first then you blink.
And then blink again and again.
ENCYCLOPEDIA [Formidable: Success] - Rod cells. The photoreceptor cells in the retina of the eye function in lower light better than the other types of visual photoreceptor cone cells.
Rod cells are usually found concentrated at the outer edges of the retina and are used in peripheral vision.
PERCEPTION (Sight) - And eventually.
You can make out a silhouette sitting in the back corner on one of the wooden benches.
LOGIC [Trivial: Success] - Sleeping or unconscious.
PHYSICAL INSTRUMENT - Shake them awake and ask some questions.
AUTHORITY [Medium: Success] - Do it.
EMPATHY - Gently.
- [Size them up first.]
- [Gentley shake their shoulder.]
- Physical Instrument - Medium 12] [Pull them up and shake them awake.]
- I will let them rest. [Leave]
YOU - [Size them up first.]
PERCEPTION (Sight) - There is not much else you can take note of in the dark.
All that you can make out is that they seem quite smaller than you.
VISUAL CALCULUS [Challenging: Success] - You can guess they are around 170 cm in height.
PERCEPTION (Sight) - Somewhat of a scrawny build and long hair.
REACTION SPEED [Medium: Success] - Wait a moment I'm the only one that got the picture?
LOGIC - Short, long hair and scrawny build she is a-
ENDURANCE [Easy: Success] - Wöman.
VOLITION [Medium: Success] - This does not change anything.
EMPATHY [Easy: Success] - Just be extra gentle.
ELECTROCHEMISTRY [Trivial: Success] - We would not want to damage the 'gods'.
Right guys?
ENDURANCE [Easy: Success] - But of course.
PHYSICAL INSTRUMENT [Easy: Success] - Naturally.
VOLITION [Medium: Success] - Oh shut up.
PHYSICAL INSTRUMENT [Easy: Success] - What was that crown face?
AUTHORITY [Medium: Success] - Shut it!
You are not going to make comments on an unconscious girl!
So stop before I muzzle you like the dogs you are!
VOLITION [Medium: Success] - Thank you.
AUTHORITY [Medium: Success] - No need I was only upholding our honour.
INTERFACING [Medium: Success] - Well the options should be tuned up a bit.
- [Size her up first.]
- [Gentley shake her shoulder.]
- Physical Instrument - Medium 12] [Pull her up and shake her awake.]
- I will let her rest. [Leave]
YOU - [Gentley shake her shoulder.]
Mystery girl - "Uhhhhhhhhhh..."
PERCEPTION (Hearing) - Soft groaning came from her lips.
AUTHORITY [Easy: Success] - After that answers.
LOGIC [Easy: Success] - I doubt that she has any more knowledge from us.
EMPATHY [Trivial: Success] - No no no.
She is going to be dazed.
Just help her.
Mystery girl - "Wha..."
PERCEPTION (Sight) - She stops immediately and then she gets up and takes some steps in the light.
EMPATHY [Trivial: Success] - And away from you.
VOLITION [Easy: Success] - Need for personal space.
HALF LIGHT [Medium: Success] - Fear.
VISUAL CALCULUS [Medium: Success] - Now fully into the light and standing straight up you can have a better picture.
Also, you seem to be right about her height.
PERCEPTION (Sight) - Looking at her fully you can see she is beautiful.
Her long lavender hair is the first thing your eyes go to.
It flows down to her back a sole braid can be seen at the side in contrast with her free flowing hair.
Her big purple eyes are the next thing that your gaze moves due to their unusual coloration.
CONCEPTUALIZATION [Easy: Success] - A mirror to the soul.
EMPATHY [Trivial: Success] - They are coldly beautiful.
ESPRIT DE CORPS [Chalangeing: Success] - You saw that kind of look. In the past, a lot of it did it too. She is looking for any detail that she can get out of you before even speaking.
COMPOSURE [Medium: Success] - You are doing the same.
So you don't much as flinch you will let her do it as long as you do.
SAVOIR FAIRE [Easy: Success] - A transaction without any words.
PERCEPTION (Sight) - Moving on from her face to her clothes in clear contrast with her porcelain skin.
PHYSICAL INSTRUMENT [Medium: Success] - That can't be healthy.
PERCEPTION (Sight) - Her clothes consist of an ornamental dark purple leather jacket that stands unpositioned on top of her white blouse, with a brown tie neatly done around her neck.
ELECTROCHEMISTRY [Trivial: Success] - Fianely the goods! Now describe them in detail!
VOLITION [Formidabel: Success] - No. Don't. Just continue.
PERCEPTION (Sight) - Gloves as well.
ESPRIT DE CORPS [Medium: Success] - You saw similar models worn by your half brothers. But it isn't exactly the same.
SAVOIR FAIRE [Easy: Success] - Gloves can be bought anywhere.
PERCEPTION (Sight) - On her lower half there is much. Merely a skirt the same colour as her jacket and black boots.
PERCEPTION (Sight) - Her gaze went to your eyes.
RHETORIC [Chanalging: Success] - Code for "I'm done. You should be as well."
Mystery girl - "So..."
PERCEPTION (Sight) - She touched her braid.
COMPOSURE [Medium: Success] - Old habits die hard.
Mystery girl - "Kyoko Kirigiri."
VOLITION - Introduction. You are a bit out of it but you got this.
ENCYCLOPEDIA - Harry du Bois.
Your name, in case you have forgotten.
RHETORIC [Medium: Success] - Harry.
Just Harry.
It rolls better off the tongue.
ESPRIT DE CORPS [Trivial: Success] - Present your badge.
AUTHORITY [Medium: Success] - Splendid Idea recruit.
She shall know she is in the presence of a man of honour!
EMPATHY [Easy: Success] - That would intimidate her.
ESPRIT DE CORPS [Trivial: Success] - I don't think so, I have a feeling it would put her at ease.
INTERFACING [Medium: Success] - If you're going to use it is in the right pocket of your jacket.
CONCEPTUALIZATION [Medium: Success]: - Yet again, Harry seems a bit simple, maybe you should try something else?
VOLITION [Medium: Success] - There is nothing wrong with your name.
DRAMA [Easy: Success] - I would advise not switching characters in the model of a play, sire.
- "Harry Du Bois."
- "Harry."
- "The Law!"
- [Present your badge.]
- [Conceptualisation - Legendary 14] Think of something else.
YOU - [Present your badge.]
INTERFACING - Your hands move into the pocket of your jacket.
ESPRIT DE CORPS [Trivial: Success] - Standard issue all officers receive one.
INTERFACING - And then you rummaged true it.
SAVOIR FAIRE - A paper clip.
A pack of mints.
Oh, there it is!
PERCEPTION (TOUCH) - You feel the cold plastic's touch on your fingers.
Item gained: RCM Badge LTN-2JFR DU BOIS
DRAMA [Easy: Success] - Now sire, present it.
Dramatically!
ESPRIT DE CORPS [Trivial: Success] - No need, it can do the talking for you.
RHETORIC [Medium: Success] - No no no.
Present your name and use the badge as a way to add emphasis to it.
You both have been acting like boring stiffs until now.
CONCEPTUALIZATION [Medium: Success]: - And if she isn't going to colour this interaction you are.
- [Present the badge]
- [Present your badge. DRAMATICLLY!]
- "Officer Harry Du Bois." [Present your badge.]
- "Nice to meet you name's Harry. 'The law' around this parts." [Present your badge.]
- On second thought maybe I shouldn't use it.
YOU - "Nice to meet you name's Harry. 'The law' around this parts." [Present your badge.]
Kyoko Kirigiri - "Likewise, Sergeant Harry."
"I presume your recollection of how you got here is as foggy as mine?"
LOGIC [Trivial: Success] - Spot on.
COMPOSURE [Medium: Success] - You nodded. Calmly.
Kyoko Kirigiri - "..."
"So that means you only remember going to the academy as well?"
RHETORIC [Medium: Success] - Quick grab some water for this poor girl throat!
The dryness of her tone is getting on your fucking nerves.
It isn't the academy it is 'The Academy.'
ENCYCLOPEDIA [Medium: Success] - Hope Peak.
The Academy of Talent.
Made by a man in constant want and strive for talent Izuru Kamakura.
Only the best and brightest are allowed to be here and they are given the title of ultimate to recognise their status as the highest humanity can offer.
Those who are admitted and graduate-
Task Updated: Where exactly are you?
SAVOIR FAIRE [Easy: Success] - The life of riches awaits you!
VOLITION [Challenging: Success] - Being recognised for our talents was a nice feeling.
REACTION SPEED [Easy: Success] - And that talent is?
ENCYCLOPEDIA [Trivial: Failure] - The answer rang hallow.
ESPRIT DE CORPS [Trivial: Success] - A cop! You are a cop. What else could it be?
LOGIC [Chalnging: Success] - Too many branches in your profession for you to know exactly what you specialise in.
Even so, your profession and ultimate don't need to be correlated.
CONCEPTUALIZATION [Easy: Success] - You are a man of multitude.
INTERFACING [Legendary: Success] - A very delicate machine.
ENDURANCE [Medium: Success] - Who are you calling delicate!?
INLAND EMPIRE [Easy: Success] - With a vast soul.
AUTHORITY [Medium: Success] - Unacceptable! We need an answer! NOW!
- Fuck it let's figure it out!
- We are in the middle of something. [Leave that for later.]
YOU - Fuck it let's figure it out!
INLAND EMPIRE - Look inwards, and the answer will reveal itself.
ENCYCLOPEDIA - It should be somewhere in your brain.
VOLITION - Hopefully you didn't lose it in a drunk blackout.
ELECTROCHEMISTRY - Woops.
Task Gaind: What is your ultimate talent?
- [Encyclopedia - Chalnging 12] Try to remember your ultimate.
- [Esprit de Corps - Chalnging 12] Look inwards.
- I don't think I can figure it out
YOU - Try to remember your ultimate.
+2 Cop
-1 Why do I even have to ask this?
-3 Overthinking this
CHECK FAILURE
ENCYCLOPEDIA [Chalnging: Success] - You can remember many things.
But your talent is a hopeless case.
ESPRIT DE CORPS [Trivial: Success] - Really?
LOGIC [Trivial: Success] - We went over this already.
ESPRIT DE CORPS [Trivial: Success] - I.. I SWEAR TO-
VOLITION [Medium: Success] - Easy there.
AUTHORITY [Medium: Success] - You have your chance to shine recruit!
Now make us proud.
- [Esprit de Corps - Chalnging 12] Look inwards.
- I don't think I can figure it out
+1 Looking Inwards
+2 Cop
-1 Why do I even have to ask this?
-3 Overthinking this
+3 Making Authority proud!
CHECK SUCCESS
ESPRIT DE CORPS [Challenging: Success] - Location: District 41's Captain's quarters.
Date: Unknown.
Captain Ptolemaios Pryce a man of middle aged man 36, is doing some paperwork
"Damn, that Harry boy left to go ahead and join the big leagues so soon. Now I have to pick up the bureaucratic mess they left behind." He chuckled.
The man didn't get the chance to even begin his work as a cautious knock is heard on his door.
"Sir?" The voice of the junior Jean-Heron came from the other side.
"Yes yes, you may come." The captain motioned for the junior that just entered to sit down.
Now. If you are here to ask why you have not been chosen as the Ultimate Police Officer instead of Mr. du Bois, just leave, I'm out of platitudes that I could offer."
"No sir I'm here for the..."
AUTHORITY [Medium: Success] - Splendid job recruit!
LOGIC [Trivial: Success] - It would seem it was the obvious answer all along.
VOLITION [Heroic: Success] - Good, we know our Ultimate Talent, now let's move on.
COMPOSURE [Legendary: Success] - You have the information in the bank but you look as if nothing changed on the outside. Good.
Task Completed: What is your ultimate talent?
Thought gained: The Ultimate Police Officer!
THE ULTIMATE POLICE OFFICER!
You. Yes, you! You have been dubbed the ultimate police officer! For what? You have no fucking clue! Why have you been given such a pompous, luxurious title? Fuck if you know why that even happened but you aren't going to let the opportunity slip you by! The world is your oyster! After all, you are one of the Ultimates now, aren't you? You got here for a reason! Now if only you could remember why.
Temporary research bonus:
+ 1 Authority: Oversized Ego!
-1 Volition: Oversized Ego!
+ 2 Esprit de corps: The Ultimate Cop.
Research time: ???
AUTHORITY - Do you feel it recruits?
ESPRIT DE CORPS - What sir?
AUTHORITY - That is how a well deserved promotion feels.
VOLITION - Things got a bit more heavy here.
VOLITION [Challenging: Success] - But I can manage.
- I feel like there is something familiar about her.
- "Forgot to ask but since we are at Hope's Peak what is your ultimate talent?"
- "I was saving that for after we got up. There is a pamphlet on the podium."
YOU - I feel like there is something familiar about her.
LOGIC - Posibley.
ESPRIT DE CORPS [Legendary: Success] - It reminds you of people you worked with.
Yet again you have been in the force for a year and saw a lot of people during that time.
- I feel like there is something familiar about her.
- "Forgot to ask but since we are at Hope's Peak what is your ultimate talent?"
- "I was saving that for after we got up. There is a pamphlet on the podium."
YOU - "Forgot to ask but since we are at Hope's Peak what is your ultimate talent?"
Kyoko Kirigiri - "..."
"If you wanted it maybe you should have started it yours Mr Ulitmate Police Officer."
RHETORIC [Medium: Success] - Ohohoh there is some fire there after all.
AUTHORITY [Medium: Success] - She thinks she is in control.
Ha!
Ask her again more forcefully she will break.
COMPOSURE [Legendary: Success] - I doubt that.
SUGGESTION [Legendary: Failure] - Well you can't think of a comeback that was a good one on her part.
AUTHORITY [Medium: Success] - Now that you say that out loud.
Hm! Recruit her don't he spot!
ESPRIT DE CORPS [Legendary: Success] - She does have junior officer material.
- I feel like there is something familiar about her.
- "Forgot to ask but since we are at Hope's Peak what is your ultimate talent?"
- "I was saving that for after we got up. There is a pamphlet on the podium."
- [Suggestion - Godly 16] Recruit Kyoko.
YOU - Recruit Kyoko
+1 Analytical Eyes
+1 Meet before?
+1 Dresed for the job
+3 Junior Officer Material
CHECK SUCCESS
SUGGESTION [Godley: Success] - Look at her what do you see?
PERCEPTION (SIGHT) - A girl.
RHETORIC - Dry and boring to boot.
The type who would like for you to be professional about this.
SUGGESTION - Exactly so ask.
Nothing special.
DRAMA [Easy: Success] - Add a small comment sire.
Unlike her, show you are not a boring stiff.
COMPOSURE [Challenging: Success] - You can't expect someone to act like you in this type of situation.
EMPATHY [Easy: Success] - Yes give it some time for her to open up.
- "I dig the mysterious style. We would make a good team together."
- "You have junior officer material."
YOU - "You have junior officer material."
Kyoko Kirigiri - "...really?"
"I appreciate the compliment."
"Especially since it comes from the Ultimate Police Officer."
EMPATHY [Medium: Success] - She truly meant that.
DRAMA [Chalnaging: Success] - This is the truth, sire.
SUGGESTION - Now that you buttered her up go for it.
- "I dig the mysterious style. We would make a good team together."
- "You have junior officer material."
YOU - "I dig the mysterious style. We would make a good team together."
Kyoko Kirigiri - "..."
COMPOSURE [Medium: Success] - She is contemplating it.
ESPRIT DE CORPS [Chalangeing: Success] - 'I prefer being alone.' She thinks before scanning you over once more, then the class then you again.
LOGIC [Medium: Success] - The realisation that she would be alone in a possibly hostile environment hits her.
ESPRIT DE CORPS - This time in even more detail than before. Many questions were going on in her mind 'Should I trust him? Is he stable? Why is he even asking that?' but finally, she sighed in resignation unable to find a counter.
Kyoko Kirigiri - "I'm willing to cooperate on this matter."
Secret Task Complete: Gain a partner
ESPRIT DE CORPS [Chalangeing: Success] - 'I presume I could at least entertain that for now. Who knows maybe something will come out of this.' She thinks to herself.
Kyoko Kirigiri - "For now."
SUGGESTION - Mission successful.
HALF LIGHT - Now try not to fuck it up.
ESPRIT DE CORPS - What are you watching for? Welcome her into the force.
COMPOSURE [Medium: Success] - Offer a handashe. Be calm and professional.
- "Glad to have you on board!" [Offer a handshake.]
- "My last partner was cramping on my style hope you are better!"
- "Kyoko Kirighiri! I here there bey welcome you to the honourable world of the LAW!"
- [Nod approvingly.]
- She doesn't need that.
YOU - "Glad to have you on board!" [Offer a handshake.]
Kyoko Kirigiri - "..."
PERCEPTION (SIGHT) - She looks at you once more.
ESPRIT DE CORPS [Medium: Success] - I wear gloves anyhow, she thinks.
PERCEPTION (TOUCH) - Her leather covered hand toches yours. It feels rough but nice.
COMPOSURE [Easy: Success] - Firm grip on her part.
PERCEPTION (TOUCH) - Shaken once.
Twice.
Trice.
F-
Broken contact.
Kyoko Kirigiri - "Now with pleasantries behind us."
"I presume given my location in the class. You must have checked it before any information of note."
ESPRIT DE CORPS [Medium: Success] - A rundown. You did that before you can do it again.
LOGIC [Medium: Success] - What would she want us to point out? Other than the obvious.
The only two things of note are the barricades on the windows and the fact that the clock's arms are missing.
REACTION SPEED [Medium: Success] - Don't forget the pamphlet.
RHETORIC [Medium: Success] - See easy. Just say those things thing and all will go well.
Start from the top and go to the bottom.
VOLITION [Medium: Success] - And don't say the last one.
- "Sure I can give you a rundown recruit."
- "We are most likely in Hope's Peak."
- "The windows are blocked. No will of wind or air true those bars."
- "The clock has no hands."
- "Oh, also there is a pamphlet on the podium. I didn't get to check it since I noticed you."
- "Do you think I'm stupid?"
- "I think that is all."
YOU - "Sure I can give you a rundown recruit."
Kyoko Kirigiri - The now junior officer nodded.
ESPRIT DE CORPS [Medium: Success] - She started to fidget with her gloves, fixing their position on her hands.
Still, her gaze is on you.
Kyoko Kirigiri - "Apreciated."
- "Sure I can give you a rundown recruit."
- "We are most likely in Hope's Peak."
- "The windows are blocked. No will of wind or air true those bars."
- "The clock has no hands."
- "Oh, also there is a pamphlet on the podium. I didn't get to check it since I noticed you."
- "Do you think I'm stupid?"
- "I think that is all."
YOU - "We are most likely in Hope's Peak."
Kyoko Kirigiri - "Possibly given the fact our latest memories end with us in front of it."
ENCYCLOPEDIA [Medium: Success] - A gigantic imposing academy bigger than everything you had ever seen but the moment you took a step. Slam! Pitch dark.
LOGIC [Trivial: Success] - What happened in the meantime is a mystery you could be on the opposite side of the world and you wouldn't know.
INLAND EMPIRE [Challenging: Success]- You are where you need to be.
SHIVERS [Godley: Success] - You are here in Hope's Peak.
- "I say we are in the academy."
- "I say we are somewhere else."
- "There is no way to know at the moment."
YOU - "I say we are in eh academy."
Kyoko Kirigiri - "I tend to agree."
"The timeframe doesn't allow for much movement."
LOGIC [Challenging: Success] - Dangerous line of thinking, implying that you have knowledge of the time.
Kyoko Kirigiri - "So unless we were drugged."
ELECTROCHEMISTRY [Trivial: Success] - Nothing in your system.
ENDURANCE [Medium: Success] - And no sight of damage anywhere.
PAIN THRESHOLD [Medium: Success] - No pain either. Quite disappointing.
PHYSICAL INSTRUMENT [Medium: Success] - Given your size I don't think you could be knocked out in a light way.
You would have felt a coming headache from the pain if you were hit.
Kyoko Kirigiri - "I would give it at most 2 hours or so."
ESPRIT DE CORPS [Medium: Success] - She is thinking about chloroform. The most common knockout agent.
ENCYCLOPEDIA [Medium: Success] - Chloroform, or trichloromethane. The effects of prorogued exposure to chloroform are damage to the liver, causing hepatitis, and harm to the kidneys, brain, heart, and bone marrow.
After effects of ingesting it include excitement and nausea followed by dizziness and drowsiness.
ENDURANCE [Medium: Success] - Nothing of that either.
LOGIC [Challenging: Success] - Could be another one any suggestions?
ELECTROCHEMISTRY [Challenging: Faiure] - Zilch.
ENCYCLOPEDIA [Godly: Faiure] - You are not a toxicologist.
- "I doubt that. No side effects, no pain, no downsiness. I doubt we got knocked out in a conventional manner."
- "I agree."
- Leave that be.
YOU - "I doubt that. No side effects, no pain, no downsiness. I doubt we got knocked out in a conventional manner."
ESPRIT DE CORPS [Medium: Success] - She just looked at you while twirling her lone braided strand of hair.
Processing your words.
Kyoko Kirigiri - "Oh."
DRAMA [Legendary: Success] - Genuine shok sire. But if it is at the revelation or the fact that you made it is unclear.
Kyoko Kirigiri - "It would seem there is too little information to make a decisive conclusion on that front."
LOGIC [Challenging: Success] - Agreed.
- "Sure I can give you a rundown recruit."
- "We are most likely in Hope's Peak."
- "The windows are blocked. No will of wind or air true those bars."
- "The clock has no hands."
- "Oh, also there is a pamphlet on the podium. I didn't get to check it since I noticed you."
- "Do you think I'm stupid?"
- "I think that is all."
YOU - "The windows are blocked. No will of wind or air true those bars."
Kyoko Kirigiri - "So it would seem."
"Makes sense given our circumstances."
LOGIC [Trivial: Success] - No point in kidnapping if you can escape. You would not be left to roam free otherwise.
ESPRIT DE CORPS [Trivial: Success] - Standard prosidure for criminals.
LOGIC [Medium: Success] - Even so, that opened another question. Why are you here?
DRAMA [Legendary: Success] - You are quite a character sire. It could be that they want a show.
INLAND EMPIRE [Challenging: Success] - Someone somewhere is watching a grin plastered on their face.
SHIVERS [Imposible: Faiure] - Where? What? Who? You are not able to tell.
The breeze that would lead you to them has been too mangled by the labyrinth of air ducts to imprint that knowledge onto you.
- "Sure I can give you a rundown recruit."
- "We are most likely in Hope's Peak."
- "The windows are blocked. No will of wind or air true those bars."
- "The clock has no hands."
- "Any guess about our abductor?"
- "Oh, also there is a pamphlet on the podium. I didn't get to check it since I noticed you."
- "Do you think I'm stupid?"
- "I think that is all."
YOU - "The clock has no hands."
Kyoko Kirigiri - "Removing our time perception. How quaint."
ENCYCLOPEDIA [Medium: Success] - Temporal disorientation is the name of the process that consists in the destruction of a subject's ability to tell the time. A form of 'soft torture' as some psychologists would say, more would say it is deliberate mental anguish and should be stopped.
ESPRIT DE CORPS [Medium: Success] - You saw it in action. Is surprisingly effective.
EMPATHY [Easy: Success] - You feel bad for a lot of the victims.
- "Sure I can give you a rundown recruit."
- "We are most likely in Hope's Peak."
- "The windows are blocked. No will of wind or air true those bars."
- "The clock has no hands."
- "Any guess about our abductor?"
- "Oh, also there is a pamphlet on the podium. I didn't get to check it since I noticed you."
- "Do you think I'm stupid?"
- "I think that is all."
YOU - "Any guess about our abductor?"
Kyoko Kirigiri - "No."
ESPRIT DE CORPS [Medium: Success] - Instead of twirling her braided lock she pulled at it.
EMPATHY [Medium: Success] - It annoyed her to not have an answer.
LOGIC [Challenging: Success] - There isn't much you can piece together with the information you have at the moment. You need more.
Task Gaind: Who brought you here?
EMPATHY - Maybe you can try to cheer her up?
SUGGESTION [Legendary: Failure] - Just say it was a test to judge her.
RHETORIC [Chanalging: Success] - No say you were curious and wanted to see her gut feeling. There is no way the two of you can come up with a good answer given the timeframe and information.
- "Oh don't worry I was testing you."
- "Don't worry I wasn't expecting the correct answer. Just wanted to hear your gut feeling."
- Nah she looks like a tough cookie. I don't think she needs it.
YOU - Nah she looks like a tough cookie. I don't think she needs it.
EMPATHY - Are you sure?
COMPOSURE [Legendary: Success] - Yes she can don't worry.
INLAND EMPIRE [Easy: Success] - Aren't you just the tines bit curious about what her gut feeling could be?
- Well I presume I'm a bit curious.
- No I'm not.
YOU - Well I presume I'm a bit curious.
INLAND EMPIRE - OH YHEA!
ESPRIT DE CORPS - Time to ask some questions.
RHETORIC - Not directly recycle the previous option. And use the second one.
- "Oh don't worry I was testing you."
- "Don't worry I wasn't expecting the correct answer. Just wanted to hear your gut feeling."
YOU - "Don't worry I wasn't expecting the correct answer. Just wanted to hear your gut feeling."
Kyoko Kirigiri - "..."
ESPRIT DE CORPS [Medium: Success] - Her right eybrow is rasied.
Kyoko Kirigiri - "Understanble. But unfortunately for your curiosity, I don't have gut feelings."
DRAMA [Easy: Success] - That is a lie sire. Everyone has them.
COMPOSURE [Medium: Success] - Yet you doubt you could make her say it.
VOLITION [Medium: Success] - Not worth it either.
- "Sure I can give you a rundown recruit."
- "We are most likely in Hope's Peak."
- "The windows are blocked. No will of wind or air true those bars."
- "The clock has no hands."
- "Any guess about our abductor?"
- "Oh, also there is a pamphlet on the podium. I didn't get to check it since I noticed you."
- "Do you think I'm stupid?"
- "I think that is all."
YOU - "Oh, also there is a pamphlet on the podium. I didn't get to check it since I noticed you."
Kyoko Kirigiri - "..." The girl just looked at you with the same blank expression she wore till now.
COMPOSURE [Medium: Success] - Forcing her eye to not twitch.
ESPRIT DE CORPS [Medium: Success] - 'You could have started with that.' She thinks
Kyoko Kirigiri - She takes a deep breath. "Let's just see." Quickly she turned grabbed the pamphlet and turned back holding it between the two of you.
Pamphlet - 'Welcome to Hope's Peak!'
LOGIC [Trivial: Success] - An orientation one to be more exact.
ENCYCLOPEDIA [Easy: Success] -If so there should be a map of the academy.
Kyoko Kirigiri - "This could be useful."
Pamphlet - 'Hey there new Kid!' is rewritten in orange crayon under it in black is "The next semester is about to start. Starting today, this school will be your entire world.' Along with a very crude drawing.
CONCEPTUALIZATION [Medium: Success]: - That is a sketch of the academy. A very ugly one by your standards, whoever did it should be ashamed for the sheer art catastrophe they did!
AUTHORITY [Medium: Success] - What have you been kidnapped by children?!
HALF LIGHT [Easy: Success] - Ha! Yes! Yes! Let it be children! You can beat the ever living crap all out of them!
PHYSICAL INSTRUMENT [Medium: Success] - Easily without breaking a sweat.
VOLITION [Medium: Success] - No. Just no.
LOGIC [Trivial: Success] - In case it wasn't obvious you have not been kidnapped by children. In case it wasn't obvious.
Kyoko Kirigiri - Takes a deep breath then closes the pamphlet and pockets it.
PERCEPTION (SIGHT) [Easy: Success] - Her eye is twitching now.
Kyoko Kirigiri - "That was...I have no words."
- "We have been kidnapped by children. Don't worry I can take them."
- "It would seem our kidnapper by a shit artist with a terrible sense of humour."
- "They are making fun of us."
- "I don't know either."
- "I hate this."
YOU - "It would seem our kidnapper by a shit artist with a terrible sense of humour."
Kyoko Kirigiri - "I tend to agree."
ESPRIT DE CORPS [Medium: Success] - There isn't much behind that statement. Only her annoyance at her captor and a small bit of childish glee that you insulted them.
Kyoko Kirigiri - "Well outside of...that. We found some useful information but I think that is all that is left in this room."
- "We still have something to discuss about."
- "Yup I think we are about done here."
YOU - "Yup I think we are about done here."
Kyoko Kirigiri - "Good to see we are in agreement." She started to walk towards the door.
PERCEPTION (SIGHT) - She started to walk towards the door.
EMPATHY [Easy: Success] - You could make a nice gesture and open the door for her.
REACTION SPEED [Medium: Success] - She is only two steps in you could do it if you want.
- She can open the door herself.
- Right, I should make a nice gesture to my partner.
YOU - Right, I should make a nice gesture to my partner.
SAVOIR FAIRE - You walk around her and go to the door to open it.
PERCEPTION (TOUCH) - The door knob fits well in your hand.
- Push.
- Pull.
YOU - Pull.
Door - You pull only for the door to remain unmoving.
LOGIC [Trivial: Success] - Ok that didn't work now try to p-
PHYSICAL INSTRUMENT [Challenging: Success] - Pull Harder!
INTERFACING [Trivial: Success] - A door can only open in two ways. Push or Pull.
LOGIC [Trivial: Success] - And you tried-
PHYSICAL INSTRUMENT - Coach orders!
- Trust coach! And pull!
- Push.
YOU - Trust cough! And pull!
PHYSICAL INSTRUMENT - Pull you back into it and stand still boy.
COMPOSURE - Got it.
PHYSICAL INSTRUMENT - Now pull! Like your life depends on this very moment!
Door - The door is still stubbornly holding still.
Kyoko Kirigiri - "Um...do you need help?"
VOLITION [Medium: Success] - Good you need it. Just push, please.
DRAMA [Easy: Success] - Lie say it jammed. Just say something!
PHYSICAL INSTRUMENT - Ok now it's time for the nuclear option we are breaking it down!
ESPRIT DE CORPS [Medium: Success] - Time to bring doorknocker anonymous!
ENCYCLOPEDIA [Medium: Success] - If you remember correctly-
ESPRIT DE CORPS [Medium: Success] - Kick below the knob and the lock should break!
- "The door is jammed recruit. Let me demonstrate how 'the doorknocker anonymous' deals with that!" Kick the door open!
- Just be a normal human being Harry. Push the door open.
YOU - "The door is jammed recruit. Let me demonstrate how 'the doorknocker anonymous' deals with that!" Kick the door open!
Kyoko Kirigiri - "...ok?"
EMPATHY [Easy: Success] - She resigned herself to watching this.
ESPRIT DE CORPS [Medium: Success] - Let's not disappoint our partner now.
VOLITION [Medium: Faiure] - You already did.
DAMAGED MORALE -1
REACTION SPEED [Easy: Success] - Your leg is already in motion you can see it but you can't stop it. Not unless Coach wants to put in the extra effort.
PHYSICAL INSTRUMENT - You are breaking that fucking door! Your foot kikes it!
INTERFACING [Trivial: Success] - And opens it with a minor touch.
LOGIC [Trivial: Success] - And all that extra force has to go somewhere. To be more specific an overzealous cop standing on one leg with poor balance.
SAVOIR FAIRE - Your balance is too fuked to be able to maintain it so you fall.
ENDURANCE - Thud. You hit the ground and on your back.
DAMAGED HEALTH -1
ENDURANCE - Is sore.
PAIN THRESHOLD [Easy: Success] - Ahh.~
You missed pain the soreness jolted all your muscles back to life.
Kyoko Kirigiri - "Good job on opening the door."
DRAMA [Easy: Success] - She means it sire.
EMPATHY [Medium: Success] - She truly does.
ESPRIT DE CORPS [Medium: Success] - 'Well everyone has their quirk, that and the stress could have gone to him. It could be worse.'
Kyoko Kirigiri - "Now leths go." She extends her hand.
AUTHORITY [Easy: Success] - You can get up on your own.
VOLITION [Challenging: Success] - Just take it.
- Take her hand.
- Get up on your own.
YOU - Take her hand.
PERCEPTION (TOUCH) - The leather is cold to the touch.
EMPATHY [Medium: Success] - Yet it gives you a warm feeling. A good feeling it makes you feel nice.
ESPRIT DE CORPS [Legendary: Success] - Nostalgia this happened before before.
REACTION SPEED [Easy: Success] - Yes it did! When you shook her hand.
ESPRIT DE CORPS - No before that too. You don't know if it is her or someone else or when it happened but it did a lot, a lot lot. But the trail runs cold after that.
EMPATHY - Still it hits you with a warm feeling nonetheless.
HEALED MORALE +1
PHYSICAL INSTRUMENT - You held it firmly as you used it to quickly string back to-
SAVOIR FAIRE [Easy: Success] - And Pasaw! You are back on your feet.
Kyoko Kirigiri - "Now I think we can begin in earnest."
VOLITION - Yes you can go for it.
- Start your true investigation.
YOU - Start your true investigation.
