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Does the word 'Shinsengumi' mean anything to anyone?
[OOC: 'Shinsengumi' = 'newly selected corps', more or less. Actual historical group so knowing doesn't fourth-wall him]
[OOC: 'Shinsengumi' = 'newly selected corps', more or less. Actual historical group so knowing doesn't fourth-wall him]
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Date: 2010-12-05 08:07 am (UTC)From:[He remains silent in thought for a moment, recalling the details of that particular memory.]
Was the punishment for trespasses stated?
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Date: 2010-12-05 08:32 am (UTC)From:Ritual suicide.
[And despite all he can't remember, he does remember what /that/ is.]
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Date: 2010-12-05 08:30 pm (UTC)From:That's consistent with what I've remembered. [So they're probably talking about the same thing. Interesting.]
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Date: 2010-12-05 10:13 pm (UTC)From:What else do you remember? I know...the list of other trespasses. But not what the samurai code covers.
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Date: 2010-12-05 11:39 pm (UTC)From:According to the samurai code, after a failure, one is expected to commit seppuku. [He pauses, and glances away.] I don't know the full definition of 'failure'. But it seems that... receiving a back wound is counted as one.
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Date: 2010-12-06 01:07 am (UTC)From:I...was justifying my reasoning for killing a man.
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Date: 2010-12-06 01:51 am (UTC)From:Are you a samurai?
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Date: 2010-12-06 02:20 am (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2010-12-06 03:13 am (UTC)From:[That his dream involved fighting is to be expected, considering what the man chose to name himself. Rain thinks for a moment, then goes back to something else Daitou had touched on.]
You said you know the list of other trespasses. [He's curious as to whether the rest of them are just as familiar.]
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Date: 2010-12-06 07:55 pm (UTC)From:Leaving the Shinsengumi. Raising private funds. Engaging in private litigation. Engaging in private fights.
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Date: 2010-12-07 12:12 am (UTC)From:...That all sounds familiar. [Like it's something he should know as well as his own name, except that he's forgotten that, too. He looks away, out into the distance, then closes his eyes with a slight sigh.]
We may both be guilty of leaving.
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Date: 2010-12-08 06:27 am (UTC)From:Even if it was against our will. I suppose we'll face the consequences whenever we return home...
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Date: 2010-12-09 05:32 am (UTC)From:[With everything Daitou's said sounding so familiar, Rain recalls their first meeting at the dojo, when he briefly wondered if he'd seen the man around before. He brushed aside the feeling then, but he realizes now that they almost certainly must have known each other. And that Daitou is the first person he can say that about. His next question is spoken before he thinks it through properly.]
Did you see a young woman in your memory? [He immediately regrets asking - he doesn't want to talk about her - but too late.]
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Date: 2010-12-09 11:23 pm (UTC)From:[Daitou's eyes had fallen at the thought of what awaited their return. He wanted out of this place, but that was a hard price to stomach. He glanced up at the question, though.]
No, only the boy. And...there was someone else's name, but I missed it, I think. The person who wrote the code.
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Date: 2010-12-10 02:25 am (UTC)From:[It isn't anything that Rain has experienced personally, but he's aware of the phenomenon. If the tree doesn't want you to remember something, it simply won't let you hear it, or see it. He has heard a few names in his memories, but can't offer any insight as to who may have written the laws. The mention of a boy brings a vague sense of familiarity though, and it takes him a moment to place it. Not from a memory; from his birth dream.]
I heard a boy once, although I didn't see him. He was... very loud. And upset. [Rain frowns.]
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Date: 2010-12-10 03:32 am (UTC)From:Blocked, maybe. The memory-me said something that sounded as if it should have had a name at the start.
The boy in mine was upset, too. Angry.
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Date: 2010-12-11 03:31 am (UTC)From:I've not had anything blocked from me in that way, yet. I've heard the names Masuya, Yoshida, and Hijikata. [And Sen, but he's not going there. That's personal. He glances back at Daitou.] Are any of those familiar to you?
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Date: 2010-12-11 08:58 am (UTC)From:What was the last name you said? I couldn't hear it over the wind.
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Date: 2010-12-11 10:04 pm (UTC)From:It was Hijikata.
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Date: 2010-12-12 03:11 am (UTC)From:I missed it again. Like something was trying to keep me from hearing it.
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Date: 2010-12-12 07:49 am (UTC)From:[If Rain had needed any more confirmation, there it was. They both knew this Hijikata, and he was someone important enough to Daitou that the tree didn't want him remembering just yet. Rain turns to face the other man straight on.]
I believe we must have known each other.
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Date: 2010-12-12 10:57 pm (UTC)From:If you know a name this place won't let me hear. What do you know about that person?
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Date: 2010-12-13 12:16 am (UTC)From:Next to nothing. I believe he was someone of authority. I... may have reported to him, but I can't be certain. [He pauses briefly.]
Can you tell me anything more about the boy?
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Date: 2010-12-13 12:49 am (UTC)From:The boy's name was Tetsu. He was small - spiky red hair. He was upset with me for what I had done.
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Date: 2010-12-13 03:40 am (UTC)From:I can't hear that name.
[So he's remembered someone important to Daitou - a name and perhaps a voice, at least - and Daitou's remembered someone important to him. And they're prevented from telling each other much. Well played, Edensphere. And why would a loud little boy be important enough that Rain can't hear his name?]
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