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A Partial and Potentially Outdated Bedlamite/Black Hood Dictionary
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Atsuko compiled the list by the light of her computer monitor. She deleted it twice. She prepared an opposite list once. She had been reading Bedlam since she had seen the URL spray painted in one of the stairwells, and it had been the most compelling argument that these ex-humans weren't "ex" anything. Many of them seemed to be dumb kids playing the sorts of games that dumb kids always played.

The thought of sending them off to the slaughter made her nauseous, even if many of them were the perfect asshole combination of hormones and overwhelming power. They were dangerous, but the execution-style killings that her cell had carried out -- that she carried out -- were horrific in the light of what she knew now.

Still, she wasn't about to risk anything. She set up a VPN that would read as coming from the Maldives, registered an account, and got to work. She wasn't about to reveal herself, but "hey, I've been feeding you all intel, I can prove it" might be something that kept them from killing her if she was discovered.

A Partial and Potentially Outdated Bedlamite/Black Hood Dictionary
 
Post by: BackInBlack
Date: 2014-XX-05 at 04:18

A group of black Hoods -- a Cell
The voice on the other end of the radio -- Control

A persona user -- Infected, Ex-human, "Them"
A persona -- Apparition
User: Solomon -- Agent
User: C0ff3eGrrl -- Spark
User: MisterNg -- Sideburns
User: EnterTheDragon -- Gumshoe
User: Izunome -- Shellshock
User: ToxicMedusoid -- Slasher
User: SatyaHarbinger -- Scar
User: GuardianAngel -- Oaf
User: Mayocchi -- Target Alpha
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Post By: Izunome
Date: 2014-XX-05 at 04:24

I must have left an impression when they attacked Naoya at the metalworks. In retrospect, I probably shouldn't have let them see me like that. They have no way of knowing that the way I was back then had nothing to do with being a Persona-user. They probably thought a monster inside me was driving me insane or possessing me or something. Damn it and damn Himura for making me like this.

If we could just make peaceful contact and explain everything, maybe we could put an end to the killing. I've probably made that harder just by being me, though.


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Post By: C0ff3eGrrl
Date: 2014-XX-05 at 04:31

Don't you get all self-blamey on us now, Chika. We don't even know for sure that their leader has legit good intentions yet. For all we know it could be some Torinozoku asshole using this shit as a front for his own ends. We won't know until we find out who "Control" is.

Assuming all of this is legit. Hey there, lady. You must be the Black Hood girl who escaped the ruins with nothing but a half-assed explanation and a frontrow seat of me trying to keep the Reaper off your ass a while back. If that is you, thanks for confirming just how little these murderers know about the people they're killing. There's a whole laundry list of cleverer code names they could have used for me if they knew a flicking thing about me. Like "Busybody," or "Succubus," or "Chatterbox." Maybe even just something like "whore" if they knew what I was like before I came to Nagashima and had to deal with the whole monsters-and-magic schtick. Spark is such an inappropriate name for me. I only even had lightning powers when my Persona degraded for a few months.

...I digress. Check your inbox, lady.


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From: C0ff3eGrrl
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I know exactly who you are, Atsuko. I have a good memory. And I remember how quickly you beat feet when "Shellshock" showed up while we were talking a while back.

The only thing that stopped me from calling you by name the night you awakened was knowing there were others there. I've been keeping an eye on you ever since. I know where you live, I know you finally decided to go back to the ruins; I even know you took that clunker of yours to Ichiban recently. You and your people tried to kill him once already (and after he was forced to kill a former friend to protect your sorry asses during that whole sinkhole mess, too!), so don't think for a moment that I've been leaving him unguarded.

I don't want to hate you. I don't even want to blame you. But my friends and my loved ones are the most important things in my life, and I've put too much of myself into trying to save this city from itself and the Shadows and whatever causes them to keep reappearing down there. The Black Hoods lost all of my sympathy when they attacked Masumi Suzuki's house and refused to listen to any of her attempts to resolve the situation peacefully. Don't you fucking forget that to us, you guys are the people hunting down innocents and killing them, and whatever your motivations might be, you know a hell of a lot less about what you're killing than we do. When we go underground to fight Shadows, we know they aren't people. What do you guys know? That some unidentified voice over the radio that inexplicably has a means of detecting our weaknesses told you we're not humans?

Sensing Persona-user attributes is a Persona power, for the record. Why don't you think about what that could mean for a little while.

"Ex-humans." What a fucking joke.

You and me. My office. Tomorrow, two hours after school lets out. I'm getting tired of making friends and then learning they're secretly ex-murderers filled with remorse and self-loathing for their actions, or whatever. I know who you are, but I want to hear it from your own mouth and I want to know why you thought it was a smart idea to start treating humans like "ex-humans" and exterminating them without even making an attempt to learn more about their situation. Don't make excuses, don't pretend. You didn't know shit and I just bet, even now, you're thinking like, "If they find out who I am, I can pretend I'm on their side by proving that I gave them all this arbitrary information." You have no excuses. I may be the most forgiving fucking idiot on these forums but I do not sugarcoat the truth.

No, I'm not gonna kill you, I'm not even gonna punch you in the face, though I'd like to at this point. I may yell and shout a bit. Or a lot. That part depends on whether or not you try to bullshit me, though. All I fucking want is honesty, yeah?
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A Partial and Potentially Outdated Bedlamite/Black Hood Dictionary
 
Post by: Solomon
Date: 2014-XX-05 at 05:01

Where is this person posting from? Can anyone figure that out?

Also, why "agent"?


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Post by: MisterNg
Date: 2014-XX-05 at 05:06

Dude, I think it's a Matrix reference. The Hugo Weaving character?


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From: SatyaHarbinger
To: Izunome

Chika? I know that you feel like your actions made things worse, but I'm really glad you were there, that one time. The situation might have been difficult, but I thought I was going to die, and I'm not sure I ever really thanked you properly for protecting me.

Please don't feel bad about it.


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From: BackInBlack
To: C0ff3eGrrl

Yeah, I'm not going to do that.

Look, I'm sure that you're convinced that you're doing the right thing. You seem to be that sort of person. Right now, me giving you all any information? I'm not convinced that's the right thing. You say I should have searched out more information? Fucking WHERE, dude? You think there's any shit on you guys at the library?

Let me give you the information you'd get from such a meeting right here and now. December 2012, I was in school far away from here. Male-dominated field, lot of pressure to succeed, I cracked. I had a breakdown, I came home. Wah wah, life in ruins. I begin working shit jobs, I land a total jackpot of a boyfriend: he's in school, he thinks I'm awesome, he's helping me get my life back on track. Encourages me to go to the Compsci department at Rokketto, but doesn't make me go, you know? Things get serious, my parents think I'm normal.

He's in the park one day in August, hanging out with his kid brother. Kid brother dies, boyfriend ends up in the hospital with wounds that don't heal right and sure as shit don't seem consistent with a special effects accident or a helicopter crash or any of that shit. When he isn't sleeping or crying he's babbling about monsters. He dies three days later. Cause of death is inconclusive: his bones had been splintered by some kind of vibration.

Life in ruins part 2.

I talk to others. People who were there but didn't die. I get bits and pieces of the story. You know the story. I'm not going into it. Police aren't looking into it. No one knows why. I meet somebody who tells me a story and gives me evidence: video of a redheaded girl that becomes a monster in the back streets; a cop pulling some scooby-doo-doors bullshit; people jumping from rooftop to rooftop; a fight between monsters in the old industrial district. People turn into monsters and cause destruction. Nobody does anything about it.

So we get together and do some shit about it. We didn't know who control was, but I never knew who more than two other people in the organization were. Everything is dead drops and clandestine walkie-talkie messages.

Hell yes, I participated, because YOU ALL LOOK LIKE MONSTERS FROM THE OUTSIDE. How is that unclear? How is that even a question? As far as I know, our body count is WAY lower than yours.

Then, while I'm TRYING to get a little girl away from someone who all evidence paints as some kind weird psychic vampire, I get snatched up at turned in to one of you.

Life in ruins, part 3. Now with actual ruins.

Hell, I wouldn't even be here if the antipsychotics I stole to control the voice in my head still worked. If I was less of a coward, I'd eat a shotgun shell. So do me a favor and don't give me that "meet me in my office" crap. You're not a principle, I'm not an unruly student. We're on opposite sides of a conflict and I'm offering intel in exchange for sanctuary, because the people I used to run with sure as shit aren't letting me in anymore.

So maybe you should think things through. I've got no reason to trust any of you, but I AM one of you now, and, you know what? You all are some forgiving assholes: seems like all anyone has to do is say that they're sorry hard enough and you don't punish them for shit. So I'm going through the motions of remorse, but let me make something clear: I just want out of this whole fucking situation. I feel bad for some of the things I've been involved in, sure, but if you look at things from my side and tell me that my decisions aren't completely fucking understandable then you're lying.

You want to talk, you come find me. I'm not coming to you.
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From: C0ff3eGrrl
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If that's how you want to play it. I'll see you in twenty minutes.
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Post By: MythosObserver
Date: 2014-XX-05 at 5:08

IP pulls up somewhere in the Maldives. They're using a VPN.

Clearly, someone doesn't want to be found.


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Post By: Geminilupus
Date: 2014-XX-05 at 5:12

Ha, so the security leak our resident sibyl predicted all those months back decided to turn turncoat? How positively fucking delightful.

Considering you're dumping all of this on us and aren't running around and telling your little buddies about what you found out on here, I bet you got yourself a Persona too, huh? Finally opened your eyes up and realized that all of those kids you've been killing aren't monsters after all?

But we can't go back to living our normal lives, now can we? Because I bet you got dumped the moment your friends found out you're "infected" too, didn't they? So you're in the same boat, waiting for someone to put a molotov through your window for the crime of existing, aren't you?
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Post By: ImALighthouse
Date: 2014-XX-05 at 05:17

If I had to suffer a home invasion and a brush with death in the dead of night, at least I've been spared the indignity of being given an insulting code name.

Geminilupus-san, as cathartic as I'm sure your comment was, there's nothing to be gained from it.


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Post By: TheBigNo
Date: 2014-XX-05 at 05:22

Can't say I blame 'em for the VPN. Remember the last time we actually tried to do the law-and-order thing, how that went? As I recall it ended in ninjas kidnapping the accused and spiriting her away God-knows-where before we even figured out whether or not she could even really be blamed for it, let alone what to do about it. All that arguing and emotions-running-high preserved in the Bedlam archives for posterity and it didn't even end with you guys getting your shit together. At least I can say I wasn't in town yet at the time, Jesus. Would you trust us after finding out about that? No? Oh, what a coincidence, neither would I.
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Post By: OriginalG
Date: 2014-XX-05 at 05:27

Whoa, I mean, that's pretty crazy. I'm glad I haven't run into any of those black hoods yet. Not sure what I'd do even if I did. I mean, hurting another person's pretty low on the things I'd be capable of. Well, that's neither here nor there. No one knows what they'd do once cornered, right? The saying of a cornered rat will fight comes to mind! ...Not that I'm calling any of you rodents, mind!


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Post By: Loverboy98
Date: 2014-XX-05 at 05:30

Hrmm.. I guess I can understand the feeling that our mystery person has. Things kinda turned topsy turvy on 'em and left them in a sink or swim situation. I'm not condoning the Black Hoods or whatever, but someone who used to be one and now is reaching out to us? How can I not extend a hand to the one that's before me?
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