(Open) - Research and Plans

[true_noir]

WHO: Chloe and whoever stops by
WHERE: The public library
WHEN: 6/3-6/10
WHAT: Researching blueprints, discussing plans to investigate further, plotting of a more clandestine nature.
WARNINGS: N/A

Chloe, as she had told a few people, was easily found during her off hours at the public library in Recolle. She wasn't hard to find, though she'd backed herself in against a wall, so that she could see anyone who happened to be approaching and conceal some of the things that she was looking at if she didn't know them for certain.

Anyone happening across her was going to find architectural books and drafting books around her (two of them at least yellow-bound and labeled 'for Dummies.'). She seemed to be looking over a set of blueprints, though only two of the documents were really of importance to her, both hidden until she was sure someone was a person she knew as they approached. The rest were there for practice.

She was doing a lot of frowning today, but didn't seem to be in too bad of a mood, just very busy, and a little cagey. Thankfully it was a quiet enough part of the library that a low whisper could be heard without bothering any patrons. It was a beautiful, gray day outside. People weren't usually in the library on days like this.

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[true_noir]

"Mmmm, I could tell you, but then you would know and not be able to unknow, no?" she said, leaning against the table and smiling up at him before shaking her head. Which was to say 'not anywhere legal.' "And sadly, it is all that there is right now. I found the torn scrap, like something left by a person in a hurry a long time ago. They did not cover their tracks so well once upon a time, did they?"

[okitactless]

That wordplay is far too clever for someone as straightforward as Yamato, but he gets the idea all the same...

Not that he particularly cares whether it was legally obtained or not, especially not when it comes to Retrospec. He doesn't pry, though, leaning down to peer at it a little more closely.

"A scrap isn't much to go on... do you think the rest of it is still around somewhere?" Or did Jim find it and burn it to pieces? Was it eaten by a rampaging chocobo? MYSTERIES.

[true_noir]

She reached up to scratch at her chin when he asked. It was sort of funny, but nobody really asked if the rest existed somewhere. "Jim, or someone like him, probably was the one that ripped it out, so I would say 'yes,' but probably not somewhere we could find easily." She hummed and then shrugged.

"It might tell us something, or it might not. Since the building as it is changes, perhaps it might tell us the real entrance if we found it."

[okitactless]

Ugh, naturally. But wait, hold on--

"It changes? What do you mean?"

[true_noir]

"The internal layout, the rooms, whether there's an elevator, how to get inside, how to get out. The building seems to change every time someone manages to get in," she said, shaking her head. "Or at least every few months. We can't get inside very often."

[okitactless]

"That doesn't make any sense." Which she's certainly already aware of, but he can't help stating the obvious.

...But then, there are tons of things that don't make sense in Recolle these days, so he supposes it won't do any good to question it. So instead of insisting on the impossibility, he simply crosses his arms, thoughtful.

"Do you think that means there are more blueprints? Of each... layout, or whatever it is?"

[true_noir]

"There is probably, at the very least, one full set of blueprints somewhere, or was at one point," she said, nodding to his first comment. It really didn't need to be said, but it was also hard not to say the obvious sometimes. None of it made sense. "But I do not know for sure where I could possibly find them right now. They wanted very badly to keep anyone from knowing this existed."

Which alone said something to her.

[okitactless]

"Do you think there's anything else worthwhile wherever you found that?" He nods towards the blueprint scrap she's got; it's as good of a place as any to start with, right? "Or in the same general area, anyway... they're probably inside the Retrospec building itself, but that seems too straightforward for these people."

[true_noir]

"There were blueprints of every big building in the city. Possibly a lot of good things could be found... or possibly just a lot of crimes that I have no interest in." She shook her head, frowning as she said it. "A person could cause a lot of harm that way. It really depends on finding places we could be sure had information."

"And you would think that, but nothing is straightforward in there."