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[vitis]

REGAIN REGISTRY

john steinbeck

memories

Freebie: His and [redacted]'s intrusion upon a stand-off between two groups Though he'll be able to recognize (Kunikida), (Atsushi), (Kenji), and (Kouyou), he won't know precisely their identities.

"Seems like a fight's gonna break out any second now. It would've been a lot more fun if we'd arrived just a bit later. Wanna go? Well, it can't be helped. Since we've got our pay from the Guild, we'd better get to work!"

Trigger: Steinbeck explaining the plan to destroy Yokohama. In the meanwhile, he's driving out of the city with (Twain), (Montgomery), and (Alcott) in tow. He'll be able to recognize (Alcott) and maybe (Twain)'s annoying voice, but again, still won't know their identities.

Yeah. Stage Two of the Incineration of Yokohama, 'The Fall of Moby Dick.' If the plan is executed, this city, already wrecked by that cursing ability, will be... completely annihilated. Furthermore, the area of impact encompasses both the Detective Agency's and the Mafia's bases."
Trigger: [redacted] using his ability to hit Steinbeck and [redacted] with a truck. Involves their recovery and the two men successfully fleeing scene. He might recognize (Tanizaki)'s voice, but likely won't remember exactly what's being talked about here. Here's the nice little scene to sum it up.
Freebie: Steinbeck generally yelling about the strategic forecast, shooting vines from his hand towards the forest, and then [redacted] nullifying this before he can really get down to business. Here. Might be able to recognize [redacted] as that "ability nullifier."
Trigger: [redacted] absolutely wrecking his shit with a single hit. As such. He won't recognize (Chuuya) just yet... more just a blow and then a whole lot of pain before passing out for several pages.
Freebie: His brief conversation with Montgomery. Will be able to recognize her, Twain, and Alcott.

You've got some nerve betraying The Guild, lil' Montgomery. I wish I had your guts."

Trigger, compromised: General knowledge that Steinbeck took part in abducting people. Excludes context, such as identity of the victims, who he was with, etc. Page here
Trigger: Chuuya fighting [redacted]. Here and here. He's focused on wtfing over what Chuuya's doing, and not the fact that he's fighting a massive eldritch horror. That's apparently fine. Otherwise, generally involves [redacted]'s exposition about the "tainted/corruption" ability and having a knife held uncomfortably near to his throat.
Trigger: Having his roots ripped out. Shit hurts.
Freebie: Activating his ability, the The Grapes of Wrath: Stabbing his neck with a knife to push a seed into the wound. And then having vines grow from it. Aka here.
Freebie: Crashing the "real" Rocinante into a column. Includes blaming (Yokohama)'s roads for that, getting over it, and then accompanying [redacted] elsewhere while mentioning the mysterious package.
Trigger: Recalling that Steinbeck and his family were starving at some point.
Trigger: Torturing [redacted] for the sake of the emergency plan— "the Incineration of Yokohama." Learns Lovecraft's name. This sequence.
Freebie: The second part of implemntation of the emergency plan; this requires provoking [redacted] into activating his ability, resulting in the deaths of hundreds of people.

"There are those who hold immense wealth and power. There are those who cower and weep in despair. There are those who were ordered to interrogate children. In the crude language of adults: That's just how it is. 'Why me,' you asked? I'll tell you why. You suffer because you were born as you. If you were born with this ability, then you have no choice but to die with it, too. God exists. He just doesn't love you."
Freebie: Helping [redacted] shoot clay pigeons from The Guild's cruise ship. Steinbeck reports on the Detective Agency and the Port mafia, then to give his opinion of the situation. [redacted] recounts his first major acquisition of wealth. Here.
Trigger: Relying on his sensory link, capturing two women as they try to escape to a train. Full memory here. May be able to figure one of their names to be Haruno and the other to possibly be Naomi, a family member of the boy restrained by Lovecraft.
Trigger: Explaining to Haruno and Naomi, trapped in a car, the details of his ability. Steinbeck even gives a little demonstration, how nice. As such.

"Do you know about the propagation of grapevines? Grapevines thrive when attached to other plants, so they are often propagated by grafting. Like so. The grapevines are bound to my body. This ability may not look much in terms of power and range... but through grafting with other plants, the flora in the entire vicinity will become an extension of my body. It's easy to track down a runaway by feeling the vibrations through the roots in the ground. You get me?"
Trigger: The recollection of Steinbeck's huge family and their necessarily chaotic dinners. His younger sister, because she just loves pies so much!!, would always take his share. And he was okay with that, really.
Trigger: The knowledge that one of his coworkers, Edgar Allan Poe, had the ability to transport readers into the settings of novels.
Trigger: Lovecraft and Steinbeck contemplate murdering two men. Here.
Trigger: Knowledge of Steinbeck's "Uncle John," and that sometimes their shared name made things confusing within the family.
Freebie: [redacted] explaining the "nightmare" of wealth to Steinbeck, hands him back a gun, and then proceeds to explode clay pigeons mysteriously using throwing strength alone. Ends with proclaiming his intention to take Yokohama. Here.
Freebie: His coworker, Herman Melville, and his ability: summoning a massive, flying whale that The Guild has mechanized/weaponized to use for travel.
Trigger: Using a pick-up line or... whatever that is, on his way to pick up some ladies as hostages. here.
Trigger: Discussing with a grumbling Lovecraft the likelihood of their mission being a trap, and instead doing an impression and shrugging that off. Page.
Trigger: Explaining to [redacted] that being a hideous person is just his job. This page.

"It's work. But of course, moralists like you will never understand, will you?"
Freebie: Reflecting on the countryside and explaining to Lovecraft that the "wood grains" he's counting aren't actually wood grains. This page.
-100: Steinbeck mentioning an "unreliable source" and some skirmishing with [redacted], which involves blocking bullets and capturing the man's arm with vines. Here.
Freebie: His coworker, Lucy Maud Montgomery, and her ability, Anne of Abyssal Red: creating a dimension known as Anne's Room, which imprisons people if they are caught by the monster, Anne, while playing hide-and-seek.
Freebie: His coworker, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and his ability, The Scarlet Letter: converting his blood to holy words and controlling that as he sees fit.
Trigger: The knowledge that The Guild is after "The Book," a highly sought-after, supernatural and indestructible book wherein anything written within its pages becomes reality.
Freebie: The memory of his coworker, Mark Twain, and his ability, Huckleberry Finn & Tom Sawyer: summoning two shikigami-like entities with linked minds. The knowledge that Twain mostly utilizes this ability for long distance surveillance and shooting with absolute accuracy, accomplished by attaching them to bullets.
Trigger: Watching Lovecraft use tentacles to slam two men into the cliffside. Here.
Trigger: Recalling Steinbeck's affinity for holy scripture.
Freebie: Here: A door that leads to a parking lot, how Lovecraft's ability tears heads off, and settling for grapes.
Freebie: His coworker, Louisa May Alcott—"the tactician"—and her ability, Little Women: an ability that allows time to pass at 1/8000th of regular speed, but only while she is alone in a private room.
-150: The knowledge that The Guild has a bounty out on a white tiger, or weretiger.
Freebie: The memory of his coworker, Margaret Mitchell, and her ability, Gone with the Wind: a weathering ability, which breaks down materials using the wind.
Trigger: The anime version of standing at the edge of the ocean along with Alcott and Twain. Steinbeck's leg has been broken. After watching Lovecraft jump into the ocean, Twain asks: "Who is that guy?"

"What does it matter? He's one of my few friends."
Trigger: His arrest along with Lovecraft.
Trigger: Lovecraft gets shot; Steinbeck yells about what he'd been waiting for (he fell asleep). Here.
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abilities

-450, Tier I: Growing vines & manipulation thereof.
-75: Intermediate Japanese language skills.
-250, Tier II: "Graftage"
-150, Tier III: "Sensory Link"

items

-50, outfit: shirt, black coat and gloves, pants, belt, and boots.
-30, navaja
-900, rocinante.

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