Dante nods. "It makes a lot of sense. They've got Jim making all of these fuck-ups, and the intern gets left picking up all of his messes while Jim tries to take the credit for himself. They might be some mysterious shadowed entity, but it looks like business is the same no matter where you go."

As Togusa looks around the room, Dante moves away from the table, stepping closer to the sign for ReConvention on the wall. "Let me know if you manage to find anything out," he says, half-turning to look back at him. "I was never able to get anything out of Jim or Janet's names."

That being said... "What about all these costumes? I don't know what they're doing with all this research--maybe Maurice is taking summer biology classes or something. Or--"

He stops in his tracks, turning back around to look at Togusa with an expression of sudden realization. "Oh. Oh, no."

Excuse him, he's heading straight back toward the table, sifting through Maurice's research again with a more decisive air. He's still taking care to hold it firm to the table, so that when he lets go of the pages they'll still be in the same position, but he's paying closer attention to the animals mentioned in the research.

Horses and donkeys to create mules, tigers and lynxes to create ligers, different types of fish... selective breeding for horses for speed or size or appearance... when Dante looks back up at Togusa, he's almost stricken. "Togusa, have you remembered any monsters so far?"