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Topic Started: Feb 18 2017, 02:21 PM (477 Views)
Czernobog
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AMA: BackInBlack
 
Post by: BackInBlack
Date: 2014-XX-05 at 10:13

I had a very enlightening conversation with someone this morning after my prior post.

Most likely you have a few questions for me. Go ahead and ask, but I won't reveal my identity. So I suppose it should be "ask me almost anything."

If I take some time to respond, please don't be alarmed: I have tethered my phone to my computer so that I can maintain my VPN connection. The result is a bit slow.

Go.
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Post By: HotWings
Date: XXXX-XX-XX at 10:17

How are you all aware of the magically induced weaknesses that individuals have to deal with? Were you aware of any impending or possible targets that your Cell or Control had in mind? Is there any way to dissuade an attack on an individual through either civilian presence or sheer outright strength from the person? Is a "human" casualty acceptable, i.e. someone who lives in a house with their parents or sibling or whomever?

Are you in immediate fear for your life? Do you have any possible clue as to who Control is?

(Which, if you're reading this, btw, eat shit.)
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Post By: FooledYou
Date: 2014-XX-05 at 10:19

When the Black Hoods attacked Masumi's house, back before I had awakened my first Persona, they were determined not to harm me and seemed to think they could "rescue" me. They also probably didn't know I was there. So that tells me a couple things: they can't sense non-Persona-using humans, which is weird since scanners can do that I think? And they can't sense unawakened Persona-users. Which isn't so weird, since there's like, one Persona-user who can actually do that, right?

I have a question, by the way.

Why do these people hate Persona-users? I don't get it.


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Post By: Hollyhearts
Date: 2014-XX-05

@FooledYou

You poor, innocent virgin child, I envy you your blissful ignorance. Might be a distance thing with the non-Persona-user thing, though. Maybe "Control" was too far away to detect someone who didn't have Persona power radiating of them.

@BackInBlack

Better question: why did you decide you suddenly don't hate us anymore?
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Post By: MythosObserver
Date: 2014-XX-05 at 10:22

Do you know how Control was able to detect the presence of Persona users? If so, do you think they could detect the presence of an "inert" Persona?

Is it possible that Bedlam was breached before now? I know that Susaki's prediction previously stated that the Black Hoods would gain access to Bedlam through a stolen phone, but I would have expected a mass slaughter if that came true.

How many people do you think are in the group? The use of guerrilla tactics suggests the number is smaller than it seems at first glance, at the very least.
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Post By: Light_The_Hearth
Date: 2014-XX-05

I have two questions for you. One, how many Persona Users have you killed. Not your cell, but by your hand.

And the second question is do you even have any remorse for your actions?
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Post by: BackInBlack
Date: 2014-XX-05 at 10:47

@HotWings:

1) I don't know how it works. We would get a dead drop from Control, routed through one or more other cells. Sometimes we're told to pass it along to another dead drop. It tells us the target, location, range of times, and weaknesses.

2) No.

3) Civilian presence and overwhelming strength both work. My cell always worked to reduce civilian involvement. We would also try to match the number of operatives to the "degree" of the target (what you all call "tier") meaning one three-person team per "tier" of user present. Civilian casualties are unacceptable.

4) Yes.

5) No.

@FooledYou

Look, I was presented with information related to the Ruwashi Park incident, a battle in an abandoned portion of the industrial district (Hellooo Toru Watanabe,) an incident in the back streets involving a certain policeman and two other users (one of whom turned into a monster,) and several minor incidents. That information constructed a narrative that essentially said that there was an Invasion-of-the-Body-Snatchers situation: a significant portion of the populace, as well as authority figures in the police and potentially other agencies, were "Infected" by something and might turn into monsters at any time. These were obviously individuals going rogue, but "rogue from WHAT?" was the obvious question: So, clearly, the city was riddled with corruption and empowered individuals who might turn in to literal monsters at any time.

Which, let's be honest, is only something like 30% wrong. There are empowered individuals who might turn in to monsters at [some small range of times] and there is a conspiracy of those same individuals [Bedlam qualifies as a conspiracy in the broadest sense.]

The primary mistake is thinking that that's the extent of the situation.

@HollyHearts

A lot of the detail on that answer would cross in to giving personal information. So, I'll give what I can without being too specific: I awoke about two and a half months ago, and I've been popping Haloperidol like candy to make the voice go away. Unfortunately, the Haloperidol doesn't work, so I just feel like a robot and I've got a real bad case of acne.

In the meantime, my cell has cut me out of communication. If my persona didn't insist on killing shadows, I'd probably just sell all my possessions and take the roughly 1200 yen I'd get for that and try to buy a bus ticket to literally anywhere.

But I suspect a few things, and looking in to them requires I interact with people. Instead of figuring that I could hide everything, which I'm going to guess would lead to a big inquisition and me getting locked in a warehouse until you all decided what to do with me, I thought I would lay it out in the open.

So...look, I don't hate you ALL but there are certain parts of your community I definitely hate. At the moment, I'm a bit more pissed off at Control, so I'm going to not pull any shit until Control is dealt with.

@MythosObserver

See answer #1 under Hot Wings. As for the second part: no idea. I don't even know what that is.

Possible, but I doubt it. There are things on here that would have been used to galvanize us if Control had known about them (the full extent of Fyodor's involvement in things and actions; the sink holes; etc.) It might be that Control is saving that. Or possibly one of the other Operatives has access to a phone and has been reading your dumb threads on erotic friendfiction and hasn't reported it because he's amused by your writing.

I know for certain that there were at least 12 operatives (4 cells,) because each member of my cell was responsible for handling the dead drops to and from another cell. I'd put good money on at least twice, or possibly two and a half times, that (8 - 10 cells.) It's possible that there are more, but I find too much more unlikely.

One of my former cellmates mentioned that it was standard procedure for a cell to split if it lost a member, with the two former cellmates agreeing on dead drop locations and agreeing to sever all other ties.

I'm going to guess that if this ever actually came up that it didn't work out like that in practice.


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Post by: MisterNg
Date: 2014-XX-05 at 10:50

So did you ever try to verify any of the information that your cellmates/Control gave you?


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Post by: BackInBlack
Date: 2014-XX-05 at 11:08

@Light_the_Hearth:

1) Between two and five, I believe. I know how many altercations I've been in, but I'm unclear how many were ultimately fatal. Two of those I'm reasonably certain of, five are possible.

2) Honestly? That's a tough question. Knowing what I know now, of course I've got regrets. I would have to be sick in the head not to.

But I made the decisions that I made for a reason, and I stand by the logic that led me there. I'm not going to bullshit you and say that I'm someone else, now. I fucked up good and proper, but I made the best decisions I could make in the state I was in.

@MisterNg:

Fucking how, dude? Not like you all are forthcoming. Besides, how much of what you've heard is stuff that you've verified? I'm going to guess that the publicly available information on Bedlam isn't 100% straight.

No offense to you all, but that's just how public records work.
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Posted by: Bard_of_Nagashima
Date: 2014-XX-05 at 10:55

Wait there are people trying to kill persona users???

That's super scary!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (″ロ゛) (″ロ゛)


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Posted by: SaintlySinner
Date: 2014-XX-05 at 11:05

Is there any chance that your former cell mates might come after you, now that you've 'turned?' Do you suspect that you might be in danger?

Alternatively, do you think there might be a chance we can be diplomatic with the Black Hood, perhaps using you as an emissary? If you were willing to do such a thing, of course.
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Post By: Hollyhearts
Date: 2014-XX-05 at 11:10

Hey, no arguments here on the whole "only 30% wrong" bit. If things had been a little different, I might've lost my shit when I found out about all of this. If you're serious about what you say, maybe I should stop spinning my wheels trying to be normal. At this point I'm just kinda watching and waiting for something to happen that gives me a reason to believe this can get better (and sleeping with a knife under my pillow, thanks for that). Me and my boyfriend aren't exactly "third-degree" Persona-users, so the sooner the city calms the fuck down the sooner I can get some actually decent sleep.


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Post By: FooledYou
Date: 2014-XX-05 at 11:13

I am going to have to ask Masumi about a whole bunch of things when she gets back from work. I am still very slow at reading and haven't read through as much of Bedlam's other topics as I would like. But what do mean by "an Invasion-of-the-Body-Snatchers situation?" I don't get it.
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Post By: HotWings
Date: XXXX-XX-XX at 11:15

You gave out a list of fuckhead codenames too. Would it be a leap in logic to think that every Cell's aware of what these people look like? Or is there so little contact that only Control would be certain?
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Post by: BackInBlack
Date: 2014-XX-05 at 11:31

@Bard_of_Nagashima

Yup. Sorry to burst your bubble, someone probably should have ripped that band-aid off a while ago.

@SaintlySinner

Probably not my former cell. Chances are it will be people that I don't know about.

Not sure about diplomacy. That would probably end up with me getting ventilated again.

@FooledYou

Wait, how old are you? Maybe don't read any more of this thread until your guardian can look over it first. I've got a bad habit of using salty language.

(What I meant by that is that we assumed that something had infiltrated the city. The movie I referenced had shape-changing aliens that replaced people.)

((But, seriously, kid, maybe read this after whoever Masumi is reads it.))

@Hotwings

I don't know. Probably everyone knows them.
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