[text; UN: OneTruth

[deductiongeek]

WHO: Shinichi Kudo
WHERE: Network
WHEN: July 17
WHAT: A Detective arrives in Kaisou
WARNINGS:Probably None.

Libra. The seventh sign of the Zodiac. Usually represented by scales, a reference to the scales of justice held by Themis in Greek mythology.

[There is a short pause.]

An interesting choice for an app which appears to have downloaded itself on my phone without permission. And which seems to be impossible to delete.

Anyone care to fill me in?

[Another short pause.]

Also has anyone lost a skateboard? I just found one tied to a tree outside of my rental.

Comments

Video; un: antonio

[speaksanimal]

[And should he look, he'll find one young boy looking at the screen.]

No but what does it look like? I could have my animal friends go around and ask for people.

Video; un: OneTruth

[deductiongeek]

[If Shinichi had bothered to make a guess of who would be the first to answer, he wouldn't have expected a child. But he rolls with it and turns on his own camera.]

Thanks. It is blue, with a yellow rectangle design on the top.

[He pauses.]

Your animal friends?

[speaksanimal]

Mhmm, my animal friends! They usually help me out whenever there is trouble and to greet new people when they get here.

[Speaking of which?]

Maybe they can come and greet you one day too.

[deductiongeek]

[ Right. That somewhat made sense. ]

That's okay. By the time they came to meet me I wouldn't exactly be a new person here, right?

[speaksanimal]

No, I don't think so but they'll still be willing to help anyway! New or not! We need all the help we can get when things get so strange here.

[deductiongeek]

How does it get strange here? A lot of people have mentioned that, but I'm trying to get an idea of specifics.

[speaksanimal]

I know there was a soccer game that hurt a lot of people a while back.

[He said before pondering to himself.]

And there have been people telling me that now with things being so dangerous, children need to have an adult to go to the Spirit Realm too.

[deductiongeek]

A soccer game? [Shinichi's attention is caught. But, right. If people got hurt maybe he shouldn't be pushing a kid to tell him all about it? But also soccer, and a mystery.]

Do you know anything about what happened?

[A pause.]

That seems... oddly responsible. Have you been going to the Spirit Realm?

[speaksanimal]

I know a lot of people died because they lost. I just hope that they're okay.

[...]

But no, I haven't. I know it's scary so I stayed away from it.

[deductiongeek]

[And that makes Shinichi pause.]

How are they okay if they died in this game?

[speaksanimal]

They were brought back to life.

[...]

Which I think makes it even scarier since they know they died.

[deductiongeek]

[And that was more than a little concerning. Shinichi frowns.]

I have to say that that isn't something I've run into before. Does anyone know why they came back?

[speaksanimal]

[Again, there was a fairly long pause on his end.]

I'm not sure but maybe they felt bad that happened? It seems fair when they lost the match.

text; un: imahoot

[traaaaaash]

aren't you ever the deductive one

and yeah at some point we all have that app installed in our phone by zodiac

i still don't know what their end goal with this is

[deductiongeek]

I am a detective, after all. Its only expected.

Zodiac, is it? A place to start, at least. Do you know if anyone has been investigating them?

Video; un: Melodiousnocturne

[ocean_songbird]

So the skateboard is probably a fairy gift. They gave me an axe. And also a washer and dryer.

[If you think that's unhelpful, just give him a moment.]

And the people running this app keep sending us on free vacations that everyone swears aren't free vacations? But they sent us to the beach? And that definitely seems like a vacation to me. Also they paid me to go on the vacation for some reason which feels like a scam but I dunno. Maybe it's just run by an eccentric billionaire.

[He's saying more unhelpful and incorrect things. Sorry.]

[deductiongeek]

Why do you think they're fairy gifts? Or free vacations? [Because that was a somewhat... questionable conclusion when you were talking about large appliances and skateboards.]

[ocean_songbird]

Someone on here told me all about axe fairies. I just figured if there are fairies who leave axes, there are probably fairies that leave washers, dryers and skateboards too.

[It would be easy to label Demyx a troll. But he sincerely believes this theory. To be fair... probably no one knows where they actually come from. Fairies is as good a guess as any.]

I mean... everyone keeps saying the people who made this app like... want us to work for them? But I haven't done any work at all soooo... that's a vacation, right?

[deductiongeek]

[...Right then.]

But you haven't actually seen any evidence of these... axe fairies existing?

What kind of work?

[ocean_songbird]

I mean they brought me an axe? And they also brought two other people axes.

[That's not evidence.]

I dunno, man. I haven't done any work at all. I've just been goofing off. You'd have to ask someone who's actually doing some work I guess?

[deductiongeek]

Isn't it possible that someone or something else could have brought the axes? Before you jump to conclusions, its usually best to start with the most logical explanation and disprove that first.

[ Even when you were talking about magic, Shinichi had found that that still generally proved to be true. ]

[ocean_songbird]

If you have a better explanation I'm all ears, man. But that was what the grassy dude told me. And he definitely seemed like a guy who knows about magical stuff? Being made of grass and all that.

[deductiongeek]

I may have some ideas after I investigate. [Because jumping to conclusions without evidence was the worst mistake a detective could make.]

Haas he actually said he knows anything about magic?

[ocean_songbird]

Uhh... Yes? The axe fairies? Remember? Are you paying attention?

[You are officially going in circles with this dumbass, Shinichi.]

Also... you know... being a magically sentient grass man? Unless you think science has figured out how to like... do that.

Text; un: Opera_ghost

[not_a_possum]

Oh, you don't even know the worst of it. After you get the app, all kinds of crazy stuff starts happening.

[deductiongeek]

What kind of crazy stuff?

[He needed details. Because crazy stuff covered a lot of territory. ]

[not_a_possum]

Like waking up as a two and a half foot tall imp.

[Technically, he's actually an inch shorter, but it's hard to be exact with that sort of thing.]

[deductiongeek]

That does sound like it would be rather shocking. [Not impossible. The longer Shinichi spent investigating the paranormal side of the world, the more convinced that very few things were truly impossible. Highly implausible, but not impossible.]

Did this happen around the same time you noticed the app?

[not_a_possum]

Yes. I noticed the app right before bed and I was going to figure out what it was when I woke up in the morning.

When I woke up, I'd changed into this.

[deductiongeek]

There is definitely a correlation between the appearance of the app and strange events.

Have you noticed anything else?

[not_a_possum]

A bunch of stuff has been appearing in my apartment, like an axe and these chopstick knives and a guitar. I've also been having these weird memories that can't be mine of living a life in some kind of...demon world as this imp I've turned into.

[deductiongeek]

Could these memories be something real, do you think?

[not_a_possum]

I...I don't know.

un: coffeelvr4ever

[robopriest]

be prepared for the weirdest things ever to happen to you o(*￣▽￣*)ブ

Re: un: coffeelvr4ever

[deductiongeek]

Such as?

[Being warned to prepare for weird things didn't actually explain anything. ]

[robopriest]

lots of things

the supernatural
death experiences
weird dreams
weird powers
past life stuff? reincarnation?
monsters
portals
worlds
more monsters
really really bad people
free games on this app
etc.

[deductiongeek]

Interesting. Very interesting.

Have you noticed any connections between these things?

Text; un: ShootingStar

[blurrier]

You could put up posters for the skateboard? Like when someone loses a pet?

I guess there's kind of a lot to fill in but I don't really know everything. My eyes changed color when the app downloaded on my phone, though. And then there was the Northern Lights type thing happening in the sky. Have you seen that yet?

Text; un: OneTruth

[deductiongeek]

I'd point out that a skateboard and a lost pet aren't quite the same thing, but considering I found it tied to a tree, there may be a comparison.

I'm aware of the lights in the sky, yes. I've been able to see that since I was a kid. But your eyes changing is interesting. Have you noticed anything else changing since the app appeared?

[It taken him quite a while to understand what it was he was seeing back then.... And even longer to resolve it with his logical view of the world.]

[blurrier]

That is pretty funny it was tied to a tree. I wonder if the owner thought it was gonna run away on its own?

I didn't know the lights had been a thing that long! I never saw them until the app appeared for me.

Umm... Well I found a cat and a phone. And I stumbled into another realm earlier and accidentally caught something called a Pokemon? She also looks like a cat.

[deductiongeek]

[Also very interesting. More connections to the app?]

Was this the spirit realm?

[blurrier]

I think so! The gate was in Blue Fish Lake Park? It was my first time being in the spirit realm.