Scene #3714: Persona(l) Matters

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Hoshi Amakasu	Though it was slowly starting to roll around to the end of January, the town of Alberichstadt is still very cold and very snowy. The weather had gotten somewhat warmer, perhaps, but cold weather gear was still a very good idea. Even bundled up, Hoshi still shivers occaisonaly as she makes her way into the less modernized half of the city, towards the town's library. A small ghost of a smile comes to her face when she sees it. It's been a pretty long time, since they'd started using the shack. She probably should've just called the meeting at the mall, or something... But she thinks there's something important about the place that everyone should see. After she pushes her way into the store and gives a nod to the librarian behind the desk, she immediately goes for the room containing the giant mirror. There she steals one of the dusty chairs lying around, and starts mass texting to Die Reisenden to see if anyone would come.
Makoto Yuki	Arriving had been the strangest thing. Having good transportation available is nothing new to Makoto, but being able to simply take a stroll into infinity is new even for him. New, he should think, to most anyone. The one that appeared on the dormitory's roof only to be covered by a false storage shed was surprising enough, but they had cropped up enough to disrupt normal life for a little while before everyone went back to their daily routines. Arriving at the destination and exiting into a cave had not been unexpected, but it was still surreal, like walking through a dream. You know what's going on because everything is self-explanatory in a dream, but even so it can still be completely nonsensical, and it was. It could be said then that Makoto had drifted along, until he and his companion arrived at what could be called civilization. The library, they had said. Makoto and his companion arrives a little bit later than intended. This place is new to them, and even with some directions they got lost trying to find their way. He consults the librarian at the desk, vaguely indicating that he was meeting someone, and offers thanks when he's pointed in the right direction. His companion enters first. Aigis looks different in winter clothing. You wouldn't know that she's a machine, except for the headphone-like ears. Where Makoto drifts dreamily, Aigis has definitive purpose in her way of moving. She offers a simple, "Greetings." before stepping aside to allow Makoto in. Makoto is tucking away gloves and a winter cap in his pockets when he joins Hoshi and Aigis. He offers a quiet, "Hello." but seems uncertain. These circumstances are very strange, and he's not sure how best to get this little meeting started.
Damita Stark	Damita is all up for meets and greets or just hang outs. That and she needed to do some library stuff anyways for school, so she finds herself quite easily tracking from the mall back towards the Alberichstadt library when she gets the text message from Hoshi. Damita doesn't head straight for the back room either after breezing past the entrance, waving politely to the people on the job. Instead, the teen dips through some of the bookshelves before pushes her way into the back room, behind Makoto and Aigis. "Hello, then!" She says, her Spanish accent rich and warm, rolling off of her tongue. "You mus' be the new ones that don't live out here. Hey, Amakasu. I'm Stark, Damita Stark." She kicks up a couple of extra chairs for the pair before dropping into one herself, settling the math books on the table.
Kotone Yamakawa	IT would not take long Kotone to arrive, she was a light blue haired, japanes woman wearing a motorcycle riding suit. She seeme friendly enough as she entered a bit after Makoto and Aigis. She paused looking Aigis over then Makato for a moment before she speaks up. "Welcome to our little hideout. I'm Kotone Yamakawa and I'm helping here. Don't have a personal but I have some experiance in occult problems." She looks to Hoshi and then to Damait as they enter. "Good to see you both, have things been all right for you both?" She also takes a look at Aigis again sizing her up thoughtfully.
August Kohler	Kohler arrives not long after Kotone, and he looks incredibly tired. It is obvious by the bags under his eyes that he did not sleep last night, and maybe not the night before! Quietly entering the room, he takes a chair and slumps down, nodding his head at the others before speaking. "Kohler. It's a pleasure." He glances briefly between Makoto and Aigis, but is way too tired to notice anything out of the norm about the latter. "So, what's up?"
Makoto Yuki	"Makoto Yuki. Nice to meet you all." Makoto's voice doesn't have much warmth to it, but that just seems to be the kind of person he is. One eye slides across the new faces, the other neatly obscured by his hair. He pulls up one of the two offered chairs, seating himself in it up against the wall next to the door. Briefly, his gaze seems to linger on Hoshi, darting rapidly between her face towards her hands and back again. Whatever it was he was looking for, no real change registers on his expression. It's the more adult woman, Kotone, who gets a bit of an odd look out of him. It's a bit strange to have an actual adult around... Aigis catches on that she's being observed, and looks pointedly towards Kotone when she speaks, "I am Aigis. Is something the matter? Is there something on my face?" Her introduction is, ironically, less cold than Makoto's. But she seems to be quite aware that she's being sized up, without having the social awareness to actually know what to do with that information. Makoto is content to just let that conversation unfold all on its own. He says to August, "We got a little lost on the way in, but otherwise, not much. I had club activities last night, or we would have come then. We should discuss our mutual problems. And... a little bit about ourselves, I think." "Do german schools push clubs as aggressively as japanese schools?" He asks, seeking some kind of common ground to work with.
Hoshi Amakasu	Hoshi has spent a lot more time around robots and cyborgs than some, but she doesn't quite seem to catch it. The headphones are given an odd look, but maybe she just likes listening to music. What can she say? As soon as both Aigis and Makoto are inside, Hoshi stands and bows from the waist to both of them. "Thank you for coming on such short notice. I'm Amakasu Hoshi. I'm a high schooler at Drachenblatt Academy, not far from here. It's nice to meet you both in person." Noting Makoto's unsease, she forces a more welcoming smile to her face. "Everyone else should be getting here soon, then we can start." Speak of the devil, in comes Damita. When the kendo girl hears the door open she waits expentantly to be joined... Only to rub her forehead and sigh when she hears Damita shuffling around the bookshelves. When she finally does come in, Hoshi gives a small wave. "No Kohler, Ms. Stark? I'm a little surprised." Hoshi takes the time between Damita and Kotone's arrival to pull up some chairs for those who hadn't grabbed one yet. Better to be polite in situations like this. And soon the rest of the party decides to make it. Kotone gets a small wave and a shrug. "Doing okay, I guess. This stuff about more Shadows is bugging me. Same with what happened to Admiral Nagato." Hoshi's brows shoot up with Kohler stumbles in. "Kohler, come on man. Do you ever sleep? What do you even do at night?..." It doesn't seem like Kohler's able to do much explaining right now, but Makoto's willing to start up the conversation. "It's fine. We do have some clubs here, but I'm personally not part of one. There's no kendo club here."
Damita Stark	"German? Nah, not really. Spanish schools don't either." Damita remarks, flickering a look at Hoshi. "I'm in a couple too, mostly the school spirit and the archery club, and I hang out with the cheerleaders every so often." She shakes her head when Kohler does show up, a hint of exasperation on her face. "Kohler, jesus, I can't do much healing outside of the Forest, you know that." She says, giving him a look before she goes to touch him gently, before remembering her manners and dropping them with a grimace. "Why didn't you sleep?"
August Kohler	"What are you talking about?" August is going to straight up pretend nothing happened, yep. It's what he usually does, anyways. "Clubs are optional. I'm not in one." He slowly replies to Makoto, thinking. "Though, Die Reisenden is basically a club. That's our group. It means 'The Travellers'. We have a logo in the works, and everything." August seems very proud about that part, grinning slightly. "What are teh clubs like in japan? Which ones are you in?"
Kotone Yamakawa	Kotone shakes her head a little bit at Aigis. "No problem, Aigis. I was just curious don't mind me. There's something about you." Kotone herself migh seem a bit off to Aigis, there's none of the little flaws humans have physical on her. Well she doesn't seem to have any ither way she seems friendly enough. "Never been to school in Japan, until after highschool." So she really wouldn't know first hand. "I'm pretty sure August waits rather than sleeping." IT's a good natured rip from the tone in her voice. "Ones In Canada don't force it either. Heck a lot of them cut club funding and we were own our own."
Hoshi Amakasu	Well, new things she learns about her friends. A small grimace comes to Hoshi's face. She never understood the concept of cheerleaders, and the ones at Alberichstadt weren't particularly friendly. She notes idly, "It's a wonder they keep talking to you. Then again, I guess we don't really hang out at school together very much." Most of them were pretty bottom of the barrel, popularity wise. A tiny grin comes to her face as she watches the moment of intimacy. August lies, again, and Hoshi casually leans over to swat his arm. "We're not blind, man. Anyway... We should probably talk about the big elephant in the room already." To whit, she motions over to the giant mirror. "We already kind of told you on the radio, Mr. Makoto. About the Mirror Forest. This is one of the entryways we use. Though, from the looks of things, we can go into any mirror we want. It also might mean that the Shadows can access every mirror too. There've been abductions..." She grits her teeth. "If you want, we can show you inside later. For now, why don't you tell us about your world?"
Damita Stark	Damita starts to glower at August. She doesn't really do that. Her pretty face folds grumpily as he lies. She leans back in her chair, crossing her arms. "I have a question. Can we summon our persona outside of the forest?" She asks, her voice soft. "I ... haven't actually tried, I was a little too worried about the potential for trouble."
Makoto Yuki	"Has he been spending a lot of time in your forest?" Makoto pipes up, when Hoshi questions August's current status. He looks towards the other young man, suddenly sharp-eyed again. He explains, "The Dark Hour is very taxing if you're awake during it. The same thing might be true of your shadow den." Having no other terminology to go with, he makes some up as he goes along. Shadow den seems like a good enough descriptor as any. A sharp nod is his answer to the club situation. He says, "That's too bad. I'm involved with Gekkoukan's kendo club, but it must be a very niche hobby out here." Makoto looks towards Damita now, "One member of my team is a part of our archery club. I'll have to introduce you later... we're trying to limit off world expeditions so we don't have too many people unavailable if something comes up." "Officially, clubs are optional. Unofficially... you get press ganged into one. I chose the kendo club. It seemed more interesting than the track team. SEES is officially a school club as well, but our actual purpose is not disclosed to the student body." He reaches into one of his coat pockets and produces a red armband with SEES written across it. Makoto slips it on, evidently having simply forgotten to up until this point. He probably should have been wearing it, since he's here on SEES business... What kind of school lets a club call itself an EXECUTION SQUAD? "What about me do you find curious?" Aigis continues to question Kotone. She certainly isn't offended by what some might perceive as gawking. Actually, she'd probably be willing to answer questions. She's certainly quick enough to throw them out even when the situation is a little awkward. It doesn't look like she's picked up on what's off about Kotone... or else she simply doesn't think it's off to start with. Now it's Makoto's turn to explain a little bit about his world. He leans back, crossing his legs and looking contemplative. So much of it is common sense stuff by now. Where to start? "I've already explained the Dark Hour," He begins, "but the central point of interest in the Dark Hour is the location of Gekkoukan High School. During the Dark Hour it turns into a tower filled with Shadows. We call it Tartarus. Most Shadows don't leave Tartarus, but occasionally they will venture out and kill someone. On the night of a Full Moon, very powerful Shadows that sometimes nest outside of Tartarus will become active and attack." "... Sometimes people who would ordinarily not be active during the Dark Hour will hear voices calling to them, and wander out into Tartarus. We've had to rescue people like that regularly." Makoto leaves it at that for the moment, turning an interested eye towards Damita. He starts digging around in his pockets, looking for something on his person.
Kotone Yamakawa	Kotone Yamakawa says "Oh I was just curious if part of your body was prosthetic. That's why I was sizing you up a bit there, to be honest about it. I was just curious about off world cybernetics I'm not a native to this world either." She grins for a moment and then it fades as Makoto explains about the dark hours and grimaces. "I see so more trouble and something's luring them in, this does not sound good. Then again? We can perhaps help each other?"
August Kohler	"Wow, excuse me for not exercising." August smiles faintly as he replies to Hoshi. Otherwise, he nods in response, before shaking his head at Makoto. "No, that's not it. I'm fine, promise." He then listens to the rest, thinking. Doesn't quite have a response yet. But he might also be falling asleep. Who knows?
Hoshi Amakasu	Prosthetic? Bemusedly, Hoshi looks between Aigis and Kotone for a moment, frowning. "We... don't really have cybernetics, Yamakawa. Not like yours, anyway. Not really much of anything, to be honest..." The thought slowly dawns on her as she takes a moment to look deep into Aigis' eyes, and her headphones... Suddenly, she smiles a bit, and nods slowly as if she understood something. No word on what it was. THe kendo girl winces when she realizes that they'd never really told Damita about what they knew about Personas. "Ah--yes, we can. In fact, you should probably start getting used to it. The Multiverse isn't exactly the friendliest place ever, sometimes. You should get some practice... Fighting with a Persona isn't like fighting by yourself." August gets another swat across the arm, though it's a little gentler this time. "Har har." She then goes completely quiet to listen to Makoto's explaination of the events in his world. This all sounded pretty familiar. "A tower coming out of school... Not so far from a forest made of glass behind mirrors, huh..." Hoshi says slowly, frowning down at the floor. "We haven't noticed any particular pattern to any of our problems. Only that when something weird is going on, the mirror will show it. Shadows crawl across the mirror and show things if there's someone inside. And they... go crazy if someone like Alfonso happens." Everything sounds so freaking similar! Scowling, Hoshi rests her forehead in her palms as she feels the inevitable confusion headache starting to set on. "Voices... The people are kidnapped, in this case. We think. There's one person we rescued, Alexis. Some of the people that went in saw a vision of her being lead, or carried, by that one weird Shadow... That's right! Have any of the Shadows spoken to you? Seemed intelligent?"
Damita Stark	"I... oh. Well, that's... that's good to know. I mean... it would be kinda silly if all we had were our own talents and not our Personas to fight with, huh? We'd be horribly outclassed, compared to the rest of the Multiverse, but..." Damita trails off. "Wait, what, Alexis what- what haven't I been told yet?" Looking at her side, she eyes Makoto warily in response to the look she gets, before she gently leans in towards August, her voice dropping low as she murmurs in his ear, "Wake up, lover. Now's not the time to pass out." Oh, yes, going for the shock value.
Makoto Yuki	"Yamakawa's observations are not completely incorrect. However, it is imprecise to say that I have prosthetics. There is no part of me that is not artificial." Aigis explains to Kotone and Hoshi, shifting slightly in place. The way she stands is slightly off compared to a normal person, though the actual shape of her feet is well hidden by her clothing. Some sort of add-on prosthesis to conceal what she really is from most onlookers, most likely. It probably isn't easily noticed by somebody who isn't looking for it to begin with. Makoto starts rummaging around in his inner pockets, evidently still looking for something he's misplaced. He asides to August, "It's none of my business... but if it's like the Dark Hour, eventually overdoing it will just make you ill. A few of us have wound up confined to our beds for a while while exploring Tartarus across a full hour one too many times. If you're being honest it's not a problem, but if you're not be careful that you don't pass out while you're alone." Aigis looks towards Hoshi as the situation with the forest is described. She nods slightly, "While the Shadows do not communicate, they could be described as intelligent. The Full Moon Shadows have been known to coordinate, create nests outside of Tartarus, and assume control of machines for their own use. It is probable that some Shadows have the ability to speak, but no reason to do so." Makoto stops rummaging abruptly, drawing what appears to be a gun from an inner pocket and pressing it to his temple. He's just about to squeeze the trigger when he gives a wary glance towards the door, and lowers the evoker to his lap. "Have you called your Persona here, or are you trying to keep the situation concealed?"
Kotone Yamakawa	Kotone Yamakawa Says "Ah I see so an androdi then." She doesn't seem bothered by this information atl all and Hoshi has learned a lot too about her too. She looks Aigis over one more time. "Your creators did a good job on you." Kotone seems to let the matter rest now, and she looks to Makato and then to Aigis as they explain more. "Sounds like it's going to be a time of it, but I can't turn you away if the both of you need help as well."
Hoshi Amakasu	Another wince. Jeez, how had Kohler not said anything about this? Gone for a week, and... Slowly, Hoshi clears her throat. "Y-yeah, sorry. Ms. Eberhardt Alexis. She went missing for awhile last year, do you remember hearing about it?" Maybe not. Everyone had been so... uncaring about it. They'd just assumed she'd come back home. "She got kidnapped by this Jester guy. We think he's a Shadow, but he ended up helping us find her, in the end. We fought a Shadow that looked just like her. The Countess. She tried to kill Alexis--and us." Hoshi nods firmly when Aigis tells them all what she is. It's like she thought. She'd spent a lot of time around the Fleet Daughters and Kotone, after all. "It's amazing that you guys have that kind of technology, though. As far as we know, nothing like that exists on our world." The fact that they were missing Shadows that spoke must mean there's a big difference. "So you guys might not have something like the Queen," she says slowly. "There's apparently a Queen in there that controls the Forest. No clue who or what, though. We haven't seen her." And then all of a sudden Makoto was pulling out--a gun!? "Wh-whoa, hey! What're you--" To his head!? "/What/ are you /doing/ stop--" She nearly dives from her seat to pull the gun away from him, only to freeze as he puts it back on his lap. "What /is/ that, man? Why are you pointing a gun at your head?..." Persona. She glances down at the brightly polished gun and groans, sitting back. "That's your thing you use to summon them, isn't it. Uggghh... Nobody in Alberichstadt knows, and we're trying to keep it that way. We can go into the Forest, though."
Damita Stark	Damita looks at Hoshi, and bites her bottom lip. "I had heard about that, it was before I ended up in the Forest, I think, time-wise, so I didn't think anythin' of it. I mean... jesus. Shadows that help us? Are we even sure they're proper Shadows--" She gives a groan, settling her head in her hands, before she makes a somewhat startled and ugly noise at the view of the gun from Makoto. A babble of angry Spanish trails from her lips that is essentially summed up as 'what the hell were you thinking!' That done, she drops her head to the table, continuing to mumble in Spanish (which unhelpfully, for her, gets translated), about the weirdness and idiocy she has to work with.
Makoto Yuki	Aigis appears visibly uncomfortable when her creators are complimented by Kotone, looking down towards the floor. Perhaps she's just embarrassed, but that isn't very consistent with her behavior so far. "The Kirijo Group developed a lot of technology that isn't normal by studying Shadows. Most of the world doesn't have anything like Aigis." Makoto offers, replacing his Evoker in his pocket since it seems to have caused some distress. It was the same with him the first time as well, but he hadn't really thought about it in depth. He just assumed these people also used something similar. His expression remains flat through the exchange with Hoshi, nodding slowly as she gets the picture. "It's an Evoker, and you guessed right. We'll save that for another time. What tool do you use instead of an Evoker...?" He looks towards the mirror. It would be in keeping with the themes they've described. "... About what you were saying before. All of that is different. Something about a Jester sounds a little familiar, but it must be from television or something. It has nothing to do with the Dark Hour." That flat, cold expression softens significantly at Damita's reaction to the Evoker exchange. Makoto shifts his chair so he's directly facing her, even though she's not deliberately speaking to him so he can understand. He explains himself, "I wasn't. This is what SEES does to use our Persona, and you asked whether Persona are usable outside of your forest. I haven't used mine outside of the Dark Hour, so I decided to see if I could." It's not an apology, but it seems like Makoto realizes he's caused an issue and wants to make amends. After a moment of uncomfortable silence, Aigis asks Kotone, "Are you also a machine? Your body's composition appears irregular."
Kotone Yamakawa	Kotone Yamakawa has no idea but she catches how Aigis is reacting and that gets a tilt of her head a little bit. "I see so they found a way to get ahead." She looks at it for a moment so it's not a normal use and she pauses at the mention of persona realted tools. She looks to Hoshi and the rest as it's their popwers and htier right to say. She thinks for a moment longer about the mention of the Jester and shrugs she knows nothing of it. "Not entirely conversions like this are becoming more and more common on my world. This technology came about back in the early 2000s when the third world war happened and went from there. There's what's little left of the orginal me in here." She taps the side of her head. "Don't worry about it, it was done for ...'medical' reasons."
August Kohler	August remains asleep for a while. It would seem he really needed it! But, then a gun is drawn, and Hoshi and Damita freak out, and his beauty sleep is ruined. Rubbing his eyes as he suddenly reaizes where he is, he blinks owlishly...and then notices the gun. That's when he falls backwards in his chair. Quickly getting back to his feet, he peeks out the door, only to sigh in relief when he realizes the librarian was on the other side of the library and didn't hear it. "Okay, so I know you probably had a reason for that, but guns are highly incredibly illegal in here and you could have gotten all of us arrested. Please don't do that." As Makoto asks about how they summon their Personas, August snaps his fingers. A heavily burnt spoon, with half of a reflective side, appears in his hand, swirling in blue energy. He lets it float up before catching it again, as he speaks. "Mine's this, but as far as I know, everyone's take different forms. Amakasu's is a locket, for example."
Hoshi Amakasu	Technology from Shadows? Hoshi's eyes go wide, and she gives uncomfortable looks at the rest of the room. Was it possible? Could someone try to do it in her world that might not have the best of intentions?... "M-maybe you should keep this a secret from people outside the Union, Ms. Aigis. There are a couple people who might be tempted to try to come up with something like that, and they'd probably not use it well." With the Evoker gone, Hoshi comes to relax again, giving Damita a side-eye as she mutters in Spanish. "Evoker. So, it's not... live, right?" It has to be a dummy. No way they'd actually blow their brains out to summon a Persona. She reaches under her sweater and tugs out a polished silver locket hanging at the end of a fine silver chain. Like August's little spoon, it gives off a faint blue light as she bounces it in her palm. "Yeah. I use this. I think they're probably supposed to mean something important. I know mine does." Speaking of Kohler, Hoshi can't help but start snickering as he falls over. That's what he gets for falling asleep here. "Welcome back to the land of the living," Hoshi quips dryly. "Hey, since we're talking about this. What's your thing, Ms. Stark? Matter of fact, what's your Persona? I'm not sure if I've ever asked." She slowly taps her lips. "Is having dummy guns illegal here? I mean, it certainly looks real, but... Anyway, yeah. Please try to be careful in Alberichstadt. Not that many people even know about the Multiverse yet."
Damita Stark	Damita stares at Makoto for awhile. "Thank you. I'm sorry for freaking out, but I'm the newest member of this little band, so I'm still very behind and very lost as far as things go-- but yeah, please be careful here. Oh, my items? You'll laugh. Trust me, on that one, but..." Damita shrugs, before her hand dives into her pants pocket. She languidly wrestles with the tight squeeze for a second. When her hand pops back up, she's holding a ivory, bone-like, shell-shaped structure, glowing blue, that she flicks open with a finger tip, revealing it as a powder compact with a reflective mirror. "As far as my Persona..." She looks around - no windows, so she just stands up, strolls over to the door, and leans on it, to make sure it's solidly shut, before she taps the compact in a complex motion, and murmurs, "Persona! Bone Princess~." A figure appears in front of her, and Damita inhales sharply. From the neck up the Bone Princess a beautiful blonde with blue eyes and a golden crown. From the neck down, she's a skeleton in a what could only be a fairy-tale princess dress, and clutches a harp made of bones at her side, which plays without any gesture from her, the tones tinkling in the air. She lets it hang there for a few seconds before dismissing her, with a sharp hum.
Makoto Yuki	"I see. So your entire body could be said to be a prosthetic. That is why you noticed my physical irregularities." Aigis observes, looking Kotone up and down fairly obviously. She cants her head to one side, "And this is a normal procedure undergone by the humans of your society? Are those no longer inhabiting their original body considered to be people?" She seems very interested in this subject. Maybe a little insensitive to the possible issues that go along with it, though. Makoto eyes August critically when he starts awake. He replies, "There is no problem. Evokers don't correspond to any real guns in design, and there isn't anything to fire in them. Or a magazine." He draws the Evoker back out to demonstrate, holding it up to demonstrate its greater lack of moving parts. The trigger is functional, but what it's connected to isn't immediately evident. It must open up onto something, or else what is the point of it? But it doesn't even have a working slide. "Your country permits airsoft guns. This has a much less complex appearance that will hold up under inspection as a toy." He replaces the evoker in his pocket again. Makoto inspects the items that they've summoned, vague surprise just barely registering on his face. He actually has to carry this dumb thing, and it's got some potential to get him in trouble. Even he thought it was a gun at first glance, even if the authorities could see that it's not once they're up close. When Damita speaks, she gets Makoto's full attention again. Mostly, it's because he freaked her out and thought she must have seen somebody shoot themselves in the head, to react the way she did. He knows what it's like to freak out over certain things. Makoto follows what Damita does with the mirror very carefully. Some of the physical effects are very similar. The blue particles that surround the actions prior to the Persona being brought into existence. His eye flicks up and down Bone Princess's appearance, and finally he remarks, "Our Persona are very similar in structural appearance. Mine is Orpheus. His head looks like mine, connected to a mechanical body. Oh, and he has a harp, too..." Aigis appears suddenly quite alert. She turns towards Makoto and drones, "It is getting late in our time zone. We should return to the dormitory." Makoto answers with a noise that must be an affirmative, and whips out a cell phone. He points it around the room. "I'd like your phone numbers. We can contact each other over the radio, but I have my phone on me even during class." He says, before rattling off his number a couple of times, first a little too fast and then slow enough for somebody to actually follow it.
Kotone Yamakawa	Kotone Yamakawa says "Yes, they are mass produced in Japan alone 75 percent of the populatiuon is argumented to some degree and many are becoming agumented by the day. Yes, so long as you register as having a ghost, or if you will a soul. Your leaglly still a person. So far as I know there's been no androids to show signs of being a ghost. Well save one thing but I suspect I'll not know for sure. Given it's some government group, Staren went on about." "At worse they'd be mistaken for a prop weapon right? I take if if one has no persona the envoker will do nothing to them?" She thinks for a moment at the mention of Orpheus. "Sure I can give you mine." She looks over to DAmanit for a moment and seems to wonder about their prsona, she doesn't know that tale she'll have to look it up later. "Don't worry Hoshi, I'll be careful with my own as well."
August Kohler	August seems wary as Makoto explains the gun. "Still, be careful. Don't want to try undue attention on yourselves and us, anyways." He's almost about to fall asleep again, but then Damita goes and summons her Persona. "Woah. WOAH! Don't do that literally twenty feet away from civilians! What if somebody came in and opened the door?" August sighs, as he dismisses his spoon, shifting in his chair. He looks like he's going to say something else, but Makoto asks about phone numbers, and it distracts his sleepy brain. He pulled out a notepad and pen from his pocket, scribbles a number onto it, rips the page out, and hands it to Makoto. "Here. Call me if you need anything. I'm going to the shack to sleep." August then proceeds to get up...and walk through the mirror, because it is honestly probably faster to go through the Forest, if more dangerous. Somebody should make sure he doesn't pass out and get eaten by Shadows, though.
Hoshi Amakasu	Honestly, Hoshi wasn't expecting Damita to summon her Persona literally /right now/. Had she known, she might've advised a little more caution. As it was, she gets a wry grin on her face when she notes Damita's item is a compact, and is about to remark before the Bone Princess comes out. Then she's left goggle-eyed. It's very pretty... in a creepy, scary sort of way. "Wow... Er, y-yeah, let's not get the poor librarians involved." She pauses, and frowns. "Though when I asked them about that mirror, they acted really odd." Oh well. Probably unimportant. Numbers are a good idea. Hoshi's phone is out in a flash to get Makoto's digits when they're offered, and she gives her own in return. "You can text me if you need something, as well. And thank you both for coming." Then... just as she's about to sweep outside, she jerks to a stop when August starts strolling right through the mirror. "Wha--hey, stupid, you're going to get hurt in there!" She palms her face and gives her trademark long-suffering sigh before following after him. "I swear it's like he's got a deathwish," she mutters darkly under her breath before the glass swallows her.
Damita Stark	"Thank you, both." Damita says, hiding a smug smile as she passes out phone numbers. "Oh, jesus, let's not leave those two alone." "They both have a deathwish, and I'm not sure which one of them might die first!" Is her sarcastic comment as she follows the other two into the forest.