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Who: Philip, Ankh, and Eiji
Where: Fortuna's temple
When: April 15
What: Philip learning about Fortuna. A LOT about Fortuna. Oh and finding a place to live.
Warnings: None yet

This place was entirely new, and despite any helpful hints that might have been given to him, he had very little idea how or why he was here. For a little while now, he'd been investigating, which was half walking around seeing what there was to see, and half being lost in his own mind. Not much talking to people. Figuring out where he was going using his vast store of knowledge seemed easier than asking for directions, or at least more interesting. Despite a lack of memories, he got the distinct impression that he was never very social. Besides, they mostly all seemed busy with cleaning, anyway.

It didn't take him terribly long to wind up at Fortuna's temple, since he at least had that much to go on for what he was supposed to be doing. After finding the temple empty at first glance and then poking around some of the back areas, he decided that no one was home. A bit inconvenient, considering, but he could occupy himself well enough. He hadn't even scraped the surface of knowledge related to this place.

Whenever they got back, they'd find Philip standing by a wall that had conveniently turned itself into a whiteboard, completely absorbed in looking at a book in his hand and scribbling notes all over the board. Probably not all of them would make sense at first glance, but there certainly seemed to be a theme among them of being somehow about Fortuna.

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They had gone to get rid of all the pillows. After the weird dream - memory? - Ankh felt too restless to stay in the temple and had decided that he and Eiji needed a few supplies that they couldn't get from there. So they were gone for a while since supplies for Ankh included ice cream and for Eiji new underwear for tomorrow. The temple itself seemed to settle to a more passive shifting of objects and items, more of the accompaniments turning slightly Roman in nature, though there was an added bonus of butterflies appearing along with the wheel and eye motif.

When Philip appeared, the temple at first wasn't sure what to do with itself before deciding on the whiteboard across the one wall from floor to ceiling. It even made sure to add a stepladder attached tot he wall that could be pushed around so Philip could reach the top of the wall while he wrote. It really was a nice building to do that, even if it did kinda seem to to darken as Ankh and Eiji came back.

Ankh didn't bother to look at the new person at the moment, having to take his ice cream and get it to the freezer before all the goodness melts. Once that was done, he hopped onto a stool and tilted his head at the jumble of words and phrases all over the whiteboard.

"What are you doing?"

The new underwear were of course boxers with colorful patterns on them. Even without his memories he was still drawn to them and preferred them to anything that was just one plain color. All in all, it was a good shopping trip to cap off cleaning out all of the excess pillows that had piled up in the temple.

Unlike Ankh, Eiji does stop to look at the person who was in the temple and the whiteboard that hadn't been there before. What was going on?

"Can we help you?"

Oh, there were people there. Guess who didn't actually notice until they started talking to him. Luckily for them, he had been waiting for that to happen at some point, so he wasn't so thoroughly absorbed in his researching as to ignore the questions. He turned to look at the two of them, curious. Who were they? Similar cases to him, perhaps? They acted like they belonged there, in any case.

"I just got here earlier and I was told to find Fortuna." Which in no way actually explained the whiteboard or any of the notes scribbled all over it, but he didn't seem to even consider that being odd. "Do you know where she is?"

"'Her'?"

Ankh's nose wrinkled and he glanced over at Eiji before staring at this new guy. So. This was probably the source of his weird dream that morning, causing an explosion of the pillow population and the depletion of his ice cream stash. He had thought that he would lose the dreaming thing once he was dead, but now it looked like it was turned into him seeing the death of a shinki.

Which might be useful if he had a clue as to what he had been seeing. The 'Kamen Rider' bit was almost the same as OOO but at the same time, it felt different. He would try to figure out more of it, but, well, he couldn't force memories on his shinki. It was considered bad though why hadn't been explained in that much details.

"I'm Fortuna, though I prefer to go by my real name Ankh."

This was the second time Eiji has heard someone think Ankh was a woman but he doesn't say anything. He meets Ankh's gaze when he looks his way and turns his attention back to the young man, more or less in sync with Ankh.

So he was a new arrival and was told to find Fortuna...

"Ah, are you a new shinki then?"

Philip was mildly surprised by the correction, but not the slightest bit offput. If anything, it just made him look at Ankh more closely.

"Interesting. You don't resemble any depiction of Fortuna I've found so far." He wondered whether that was a fault of everyone's interpretation or something he missed in his research. If the latter, were all the gods as badly portrayed as this one? That would be an interesting thing to look into.

And the wheels turning in his head were practically visible, but luckily Eiji talked before he had a chance to go completely off the deep end into that train of thought. He turned his attention to him, replying with a nod.

"My name is Philip. What about you? Are you also a shinki?"

"Is that what you're doing?"

The question was rhetorical since he could read what was all over the whiteboard. He could even read some of the words from other languages, and knew what some of the more long-winded theories came from, but the details under them had him scrunching up his nose. His quick search didn't give him that much information.

"Where are you getting this information from?"

Because that was not a computer and Ankh was pretty sure that he would have known if the guy was a magic user of some kind. Was that why the dream seemed a little fragmented? Like the guy himself was made out of code?

Eiji is quiet while Philip muses and Ankh responds back with his own questions. When Philip turns back to him he meets that nod with a friendly smile.

"Yes, I'm a shinki just like you. My name is Eiji Hino."

How was he getting that information? He couldn't really say he understood it, himself. It was just something he knew he could do, even if he didn't have any memory or access to any information about why. He held up the book in his hands, leaving it open to the page he'd been looking at so Ankh and Eiji could see.

"This." Which might not make a whole lot of sense to either of them, since that page appeared completely blank.

"That?"

Ankh's eyebrows shot up as he jabbed his Greeed hand at the book. From his perch he could that the pages were blank, though that didn't mean Philip couldn't see any information on it. So maybe the whole weird dream of data stuff was part of it? Which still didn't make as much sense, but what did he know being a creature whose body was a pile of magical coins.

"You do know that I can't see anything written on that page, right?"

Eiji also peers at the book that Philip was holding. He stares at it for a good while, his confusion plain as day.

"A blank book?"

Philip looked between them and the book, a bit confused.

"I see. So I'm the only one who can see it." He should have known that, now that he was thinking about it. It was still strange how he knew he has this ability and could use it, but had very little idea of what it actually was or how it worked. In any case, he supposed he should give them some kind of explanation.

"There's a library I have access to. It seems to contain almost all the knowledge in existence." Minus a few things he'd really like to look up, like his own past. He nodded toward the book in his hands. "If there's something I want to keep looking into after I find it, it appears in here."

Ankh tched softly, leaning forward to study the young man. Another shinki and one that can access a library that has a lot of information in it. If he was to believe that - and why shouldn't he since he knew that anything was possible - then it might be useful with their situation.

Though if this was something natural to Philip, then Ankh was certain to be getting another weird weapon whenever he figures out Philip's vessel name.

"Did you find out anything interesting about Fortuna?"

Well, that was certainly something. Eiji listens to Philip's explanation about what it was that he had access to, glancing back at the blank book briefly. It sounded like something very useful to have, even if he and Ankh couldn't see whatever it was Philip saw in it.

Well, as far as he was concerned, it was all interesting. He nods and gestures back to all the writing all over the board, easily babbling off further information attached to each of the notes. Certainly Ankh had heard a lot of it before, but Philip didn't know what pieces he would consider common knowledge since it's all new to him, so he just started at one end of the board and went from there, branching off on tangents as he remembered things he didn't write down.

There was a lot on that board. Exactly how much information do you want to know?

He just let the information babble flow. It seemed that this guy was going to be an interesting addition to Eiji, though he wasn't as sure as to what Philip would need in terms of anything. Unlike Eiji, he never been around him before, but that was something he could figure out later.

As his explanation died down some what, Ankh took a popsicle and shoved it at Philip. Whether or not he hit the mouth was irrelevant, he was only going to make sure the human doesn't go on all night long.

"That's pretty good. I'm surprised that you managed to find out so much in the hour or so we were gone."

The wave of information was both informative and very immense. If nothing else, Philip had seemingly been very thorough with his research about Fortuna. Maybe even too thorough.

Seeing Ankh move, he glances over at him and watches as he shoves a frozen treat at Philip.

"Ankh!"

Ankh succeeded in getting the popsicle into Philip's mouth, causing a second of wide-eyed confusion before he just decided to accept it. He pulled the popsicle back out of his mouth, seeming entirely unoffended, despite Eiji's reaction.

"If I know what I'm looking for, it's easy to find information quickly."

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I'm lazy and also don't want to literally write a book

XD no worries

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