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xp_logsBackdated to yesterday, the group in Tokyo meet to discuss their complete lack of anything resembling information.
The streets of Tokyo were crowded and bustling as always, especially as the day wore on and people emerged from their offices to either go home or run errands. Not all places were busy and the small cafe across the street from one particular apartment block was an oasis of calm. Most people who went there lived in the apartments but it wasn't late enough for many of them to have made it home yet.
The waitress looked in askance at the three strangers who grouped together around a table in the back. "~Would you like to see our menu?~" she asked, bowing slightly.
"~Perhaps you would be so kind as to suggest something for us?~" Doug asked, his accent flawless as usual. He covered ordering for the table, and the waitress made another slight bow before scurrying away. "So, what have you guys found?" he asked quietly, his voice pitched low and like a normal private conversation, but soft enough not to carry beyond the space just around their table.
"We checked out the apartment, and there was nothing." She played with the straw in her drink idly. "Seriously. Nothing that was supposed to be there was actually there. So now we've got a missing guy and missing papers from Summoning 101."
"I tried the apprentice," Doug said, drumming his fingers on the table. They'd agreed that he was the logical choice, since he spoke fluent Japanese. "He doesn't seem to know anything, where the papers are, where Nakamura-san might have gone to...seems like our guy kept his apprentice in the dark for the most part."
"What exactly is the point of having an apprentice if you aren't actually going to include them in your nefarious activities? They could at least try to make it easy for us." Sarah rolled her eyes, a grin flashing across her face before disappearing as quickly as it came. "What about his parents? Were we able to get anything from them?"
"I wish we could figure out who this blond person is," Doug said pensively, tapping at a few pictures of the missing young man that lay on the table. In several of them, the same blond man could be seen at the outskirts or background of the photo. "Nobody I talked to was able to place him. Friend, coworker, lover, nobody seems to know anything about him."
"Groupie?" Sarah looked up from the pictures, and shrugged. "Well, if he's cool enough to have an "apprentice" that he can ignore, maybe he had collected himself a stalker? He could have lived nearby, possibly."
"Hm. That's a possibility." The lack of information was somewhat maddening. "I hope the others are having more luck finding things than we have..."
The streets of Tokyo were crowded and bustling as always, especially as the day wore on and people emerged from their offices to either go home or run errands. Not all places were busy and the small cafe across the street from one particular apartment block was an oasis of calm. Most people who went there lived in the apartments but it wasn't late enough for many of them to have made it home yet.
The waitress looked in askance at the three strangers who grouped together around a table in the back. "~Would you like to see our menu?~" she asked, bowing slightly.
"~Perhaps you would be so kind as to suggest something for us?~" Doug asked, his accent flawless as usual. He covered ordering for the table, and the waitress made another slight bow before scurrying away. "So, what have you guys found?" he asked quietly, his voice pitched low and like a normal private conversation, but soft enough not to carry beyond the space just around their table.
"We checked out the apartment, and there was nothing." She played with the straw in her drink idly. "Seriously. Nothing that was supposed to be there was actually there. So now we've got a missing guy and missing papers from Summoning 101."
"I tried the apprentice," Doug said, drumming his fingers on the table. They'd agreed that he was the logical choice, since he spoke fluent Japanese. "He doesn't seem to know anything, where the papers are, where Nakamura-san might have gone to...seems like our guy kept his apprentice in the dark for the most part."
"What exactly is the point of having an apprentice if you aren't actually going to include them in your nefarious activities? They could at least try to make it easy for us." Sarah rolled her eyes, a grin flashing across her face before disappearing as quickly as it came. "What about his parents? Were we able to get anything from them?"
"I wish we could figure out who this blond person is," Doug said pensively, tapping at a few pictures of the missing young man that lay on the table. In several of them, the same blond man could be seen at the outskirts or background of the photo. "Nobody I talked to was able to place him. Friend, coworker, lover, nobody seems to know anything about him."
"Groupie?" Sarah looked up from the pictures, and shrugged. "Well, if he's cool enough to have an "apprentice" that he can ignore, maybe he had collected himself a stalker? He could have lived nearby, possibly."
"Hm. That's a possibility." The lack of information was somewhat maddening. "I hope the others are having more luck finding things than we have..."
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