PARADISA LOST

[Ever since the previous night, Naoto has been awake. She refuses to sleep, she refuses to do anything outside of looking for more clues and studying evidence. The kidnappings alone had Naoto working hard - not to mention the adults that had been collapsing and falling into a deep sleep, one of which she witnessed as it happened. It was a huge concern, and had her desperately trying to find answers... but in one moment, all in one single moment last night... it all changed. She was put into overdrive, and now she refused to do anything that wasn't relevant to her search. She refused to even do a simple wish for a small meal. In the library, her head would be in books, digging through paperwork, anything. There had to be something to help them. Nanako-chan was gone, and she - and the other children - desperately needed their help. And Naoto wasn't going to stop until she found something.

And it was at this moment that she seemed to have had a stroke of luck. A sheet in the folder she was looking through, marked with that red sticker. Someone had mentioned that sticker before, hadn't they? Naoto stopped to read it, and sure enough, it held relevance to the case. More importantly, it was numbered the same as those previous diary entries that had already been shown.

She'll then read it aloud, and when she's done, she'll place the sheet on the journal to assure that it was copied.]

[As with others, filtered away from the Slenderman, children, and anyone who may use this information for no good.]

0023

Pythia's been begging the castle to just send it away, because so far nothing is working. She says the castle won't, that it can't do anything about things that originate from beyond its borders. That it, the Slenderman, got too powerful, and it's all our fault.

It can't be reasoned with, so all we can do is offer up a sacrifice. No one here knows how to exorcise anything... if we sacrifice people to the creature, they might still come back in two weeks. If we don't, the kids are gone... and we don't know if they'll come back at all. If we tried to exorcise it and something went wrong, the kids would be gone, and we'd just anger it.

Not everyone agrees, though. Some people think an exorcism is the only route.

I hope this is worth it. I don't think we can handle losing the kids for good.


[She'll hesitate, and then give a sigh.]

Another one of those diary entries, marked with a red sticker. This... creature wasn't created by the castle? [She pauses, trying her hardest not to sound irritated.]

This entry brings up concerns. It was 'their fault', exorcism has its risks... Of course, the one who wrote this said they had no one who could perform exorcism... yet we do, do we not?

Perhaps that increases our chances of success.

[She'll give another sigh, this time very blatantly irritated and now it's creeping into her tone of voice. She almost wished Rise were here, there may have been a chance her Persona could have tracked this monster somehow...]

There has to be something that can work. The children - and the people who suddenly fell to sleep - need our solution, immediately.

( Souji-senpai )

[ooc: s-such tl;dr I'M SO SORRY AHHH]

[Naoto had been going up to her room, and had a small habit of looking at the nameplates of those she knew from home as she'd wander up to the eleventh floor. Though today would feel a little different as she noticed one plate missing, and two kittens sitting in front of the door.

She would give a sigh, opening the journal under her arm.]

... I'm sorry to say, but Kanji Tatsumi has returned to Inaba.

[And that's all she'd say as she kneels and picks up the kittens to take them back to her room. Now down four Investigation Team members total? That was certainly depressing.]

Who: Naoto Shirogane
What: Bein' a detective, copying notes and studying files, as usual
When: Night of January 30
Where: Naoto's room, 1111
Rating: G

( Time's a-tickin' away... )

[There's been a lot for Naoto to ponder about as of late. Such of which included the sudden notice of the upcoming ball (and whether it would be worth attending or not) and the disappearance of Souji, amongst other things. She's wandering down the halls, looking lost in thought but she's aware enough to avoid any people who may pass by. And isn't really thinking about the birds at the moment. Her gaze is aimed slightly downward as she quietly wonders aloud to herself.]

I do wonder if this is all the Castle plans on doing for the holiday...

[ooc: open, kiss post or free bother, tags still may be slow, yadda yadda yadda. have at her.]

[After spending a while in the clinic, mostly due to her own precautions, Naoto is out and currently in the kitchen, though she still has a bandage on her head for now to hide the bump on her head. She remembered what Yosuke told her when she woke up, and she actually decided to take the 'brush up on cooking' to heart. She wants to make the dinner for Nanako a good one, after all, whenever the team got around to doing it.

... unfortunately, it's not exactly going well. Being a Persona 4 girl and all. She's trying something as basic as a soup for now, and even has a cookbook nearby. She's stirring what's in the pot, and gets a spoon to taste some of it, and-]

--u-ugh! Th-That... That is terrible...

[and she's looking back at the cookbook, since she did something wrong -somewhere-... Maybe she should stick to the detective work.]

[ooc: open, as usual +v+]

[So, at the moment at the shooting range, there is one Naoto Shirogane. She's getting in some much needed target practice, since two months without it was long enough. After six rounds, she stops to reload, while her journal takes the chance to fall open behind her without her noticing.

Once reloaded, she takes aim at her target and pulls the trigger, the shot firing off- only for the recoil this time, to be much stronger than it should be.]

A-Ah-!

[She lets out a startled as it's fired, while her arms are thrown back and the gun, still firmly in her grip, hits her directly in the forehead. She's thrown to the ground with a loud thud, the gun clattering nearby while her hat lands next to her journal, and she's rendered completely unconscious.]

[ooc: And, it's a loss change for Naoto! Vereesa will be finding her, but others can feel free to react over the journal OR threadjack on Vereesa if they feel so inclined? :3]