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Contents:
 * Prologue: Intersection at the Beginning of Eve – Prepare_for_Xmas_Eve!
 * Chapter 1: Just Like an Amusement Park – Red_Wear,Big_Bag,and_Flying_Sledge.
 * Chapter 2: Changing Academy City, Eve – the_24th,Showdown.
 * Chapter 3: Black Conspiracy and the Disappearance of Barriers – Enemy_Use_XXX.
 * Chapter 4: Different World Exchange, The Starting Point – “R&C OCCULTICS Co.Ltd.”
 * Epilogue: Snow and Deep Crimson are Fully Covered – White_End. (and_Merry_Xmas!!)

Tasks

 * OT/NT wiki infrastructure equivalents
 * General OT/NT overhauls
 * Slider tweaks?

Unsorted Notes

 * Yomikawa Aiho:
 * Accelerator:
 * Othinus:

Neoka battle
 * Kamijou Touma
 * Index
 * Misaka Mikoto

Windowless Room
 * Term

Operation Handcuffs:
 * Operation Handcuffs (手錠(ハンドカフス))

R&C Occultics
 * R&C Occultics (R&Cオカルティクス) (aka R&C OCCULTICS Co.Ltd)
 * R&C Occultics Twitter

Angel Worship
 * 4-3:
 * Simple adaptation of a sanctifying vocalization, familiar/tangible metal used to envision invisible Sephirah, like woodpecker - extra 'nest' embedded in pathways between tree's sphere to alter rules of world. Sephirah/sephiroth guarded by angels, creating a fictional angel create a fictional sphere?
 * Not original, rehashed Golden. GD invented/split apart names of 72 angels (Shemha) to efficiently control colorless/formless angelic power (Telesma). Method comes from verse in OT book Exodus. Magicians before GD extract wanted text from Exodus, create temporary angels by adding '-el/yah' to end. Why hear unfamiliar names in list of 12 angels of zodiac or the archangels - no more than adaptation of this. Angel names simply way of using high-level calculations to extract specific meaning from full text, add slight modification to end of word not going to give full power
 * 4-2
 * Exodus, not sanctifying vocalization, simply adding 'el' onto end of random German words to create random angel each time need one? not care if only way to focus or if occult in works - only care technique works, history proven effective
 * Time when angel worship heating up to point of ignoring the Son, people crudely create angels never seen in Bible, ended by Pope Zachary
 * Sanctifying vocalization (聖化発声)

Hermeticism:
 * As long as power wish, don't care about rest, format not matter - fool, reference to 19th century Hermeticism? Attempt to explain all world's mythologies/religions with single combined theory based on Western ideas, pathetic attempt - force own reasoning onto words/numbers fail to understand, god standing before as independent entity - show Hermeticism can't explain everything, continue using world map hopelessly inaccurate outside of conception of Europe invented by Romans, magic always advancing.

“Gold is the sun, copper is the planet Venus, mercury is the planet Mercury, and silver is the moon. No, this process isn’t manipulating metals. 6, 7, 8, 9, 3, 5. Are they being assigned to the 10 Sephirah to reach the 22 channels linking them and thus to control the tree?” (「金は太陽、銅は金星、水銀は水星、銀は月. ううん、これは金属を操るプロセスじゃない. 六、七、八、九、三、五. 10のセフィラに当てはめて、それらを結ぶ22のチャンネルに触れ、樹の操作に挑んでいる……？」)

Maidono Hoshimi
'Maidono Hoshimi' (舞殿星見(まいどのほしみ))(real name unknown) is...

Christmas Eve Arc
The Christmas Eve Arc is the first story arc of Souyaku Toaru Majutsu no Index, covered in .

On December 24th, after having his remedial lessons scuppered, Touma decides to spend his Christmas Eve in the city, together with Index and Misaka Mikoto, who has escaped from Tokiwadai's strict oversight. Meanwhile, Academy City's new Board Chairman Accelerator prepares to initiate Operation Handcuffs - the operation to eliminate the city's dark side, a move which is not without resistance. At the same time, another threat starts to creep into the city.

Background
 * Christmas Preparations
 * Board of Directors
 * Rose Cross

Chronology
 * December 24th, Christmas Eve
 * Morning Escape
 * Morning Events
 * Darts
 * Kidnapping Attempt
 * Evening Battle
 * Christmas Day, December 25th

Neoka Norito
Neoka Norito (根丘則斗(ねおかのりと)) is a member of the Academy City Board of Directors and a former rescue squad elite. (Ref)

Appearance
Ch3Pt12: Neoka is described as not having the look of a businessman, but that of a high-profile entrepreneur or film actor
 * Look maybe 30
 * Feel like adult, more like friendly homeroom teacher than principal/vice-principal
 * Fancy suit
 * Look of young entrepreneur who had only known success since birth

Ch3Pt9:
 * Good in suit but not have businessman look.
 * More like a high-profile entrepreneur or film actor
 * Look too young to be executive in suit?
 * Muscle tone visible even through suit?

Personality
Clean freak?:
 * Official looking SNS page, neat/tidy/clean - no human warmth, sign in front of corporate HQ would feel a bit warmer

Kamijou Arc
During the Board's meeting in the wake of Aleister's 'death' and the restoration of Academy City after the shutdown and evacuation, Neoka tried to seize the initiative during their discussion, but was interrupted by the arrival of Accelerator, who introduced himself to them as the new Board Chairman.

Christmas Eve Arc
On December 24th, with Board Chairman Accelerator preparing to eliminate the Dark Side of Academy City with Operation Handcuffs and standing to lose much from it, Neoka had Maidono Hoshimi attempt to kidnap Last Order to use as a hostage.

After Maidono was defeated by Kamijou Touma and captured, as Anti-Skill made its move, Neoka attempted to escape while set off an explosion and fire in his home, intending to fabricate injuries and make himself look like a victim to have Anti-Skill take the blame, using rules as a shield so their investigation would be halted and he could eliminate the incriminating evidence. Touma, together with Index and Misaka Mikoto, interrupted his escape before he could acquire injuries, prompting Neoka to attempt to kill them to eliminate the witnesses.

While Neoka initially held the upper hand through the use of magic acquired from R&C Occultics, which he presented as an application of the 'Minimum Collision Theory', Touma and Index soon realized the truth, and after Touma called on Othinus, they were able to deal with Neoka's attacks. When Othinus deduced the fact that he used to be in a rescue squad, Neoka spoke of his past and why he believed the city's darkness was necessary, but Touma refuted his reasoning. Discarding his magical tools, Neoka turned to his physical abilities in order to defeat Touma. In a cross-counter, Neoka's fist connected while Touma's didn't, but Touma instead flicked the blood in his hand in Neoka's eyes, buying enough time to use his remaining strength to knock Neoka out before collapsing himself.

Abilities, Normal

 * Rescue squad elite, manipulations

Abilities, Magic
Through R&C Occultics, Neoka acquired a method of casting magic, which he believes to be a method of utilizing elementary particles, their collisions and collapse, to simplify the world's composition and manipulate visible phenomena, something he mistakenly calls the Minimum Collision Theory (最小衝突理論). In truth, it is a method of utilizing the association between the seven, the seven , and seven of the ten Sephirah, to reach the twenty-two channels connecting the ten spheres of the Sephiroth, influencing the tree to affect the world.

The technique is described as an adaptation of a sanctifying vocalization (聖化発声), with a familiar and tangible metal being used to envision an invisible Sephirah and embedding the extra sphere in the pathways between the existing spheres of the tree (which Othinus described as being like a woodpecker and an extra 'nest') to alter the rules of the world and produce the desired effect. It utilizes the idea that, based on the fact that the Sephirah are guarded by angels, the creation of a fictional angel could be used to create a fictional sphere. The angelic construction is rehashed from a Golden-style method of forming the names of angels, with the cabal inventing and splitting apart, to efficiently control the colorless and formless angelic power known as Telesma. This in turn is connected to historical usage of the Shutsuejiputoki (出エジプト記), which pre-Golden magicians extracted text from and created temporary angels by adding '-el'/'-yah' to the end of it - a simple way of extracting specific meaning from the full text. In Neoka's case, he adds '-el' onto the end of a German word relating to the effect he wishes to produce to make the angel's name.

Neoka uses this magic via a pair of spiritual items, resembling assassination handguns the size of cards, which could be overlooked while being hidden in the user's palms or sleeves. The guns are double-barreled but instead of steel barrels, they have glass containers reminiscent of vacuum tubes. Enclosed within each of these flasks is a girl with a halo, smaller than an index finger, called a filament (フィラメント) by Neoka. Of similar essence but varying nature,  they can easily be dyed in any color, with their hair, clothing and halo changing in response to the user's voice. The guns can make a sound similar to a clockwork contraption.

When using his spells, Neoka speaks the constructed angelic name as well as a command including the metals and path involved (usually after the name); "Construct a fictional port between (Periodic Symbol) and (Periodic Symbol), aka Path (Number)"  (e.g. for Wasser (Water) with Mercury (Hg), Silver (Ag) and path 20; "Wasserel. Construct a fictional port between Hg and Ag, aka Path 20" (ヴァッサエル. HgとAgの間、すなわち経路20に架空の端子を設けよ)). The hair, clothing and halo of a girl in one of the flasks changes in response to the vocal command before coming apart, being unleashed through the gun muzzle in the form of the desired phenomena.

As pointed out by Othinus, Neoka's unoriginal magic has a number of key weaknesses. With one angel in each barrel, he is limited to a stock of four and he needs to state their names when switching from one to another. An attack seen before can be more easily dealt with and the movement of his mouth can provide warning of a new attack. Neoka is also limited by his lack of knowledge and imagination concerning the technique, only caring that it works and provides him with the power he wants.

Unsorted

 * Magic
 * Acquired magic through R&C Occultics (not a magician but a magic user)
 * Shemha
 * Angel Worship, Exodus, Zachary, GD/Hermetic

Unsorted:
 * 4-3: Lacking in inspiration, no tragedy or magic name, free use of supernatural but recreate weapon easily creatable with machines
 * Angel/Sphere, Puny human brain, hardheaded/boring type of magic - traps infinite imagination in realistic framework of metals/elements
 * As long as power wish, don't care about rest, format not matter - fool, reference to 19th century Hermeticism? Attempt to explain all world's mythologies/religions with single combined theory based on Western ideas, pathetic attempt - force own reasoning onto words/numbers fail to understand, god standing before as independent entity - show Hermeticism can't explain everything, continue using world map hopelessly inaccurate outside of conception of Europe invented by Romans, magic always advancing.
 * 4-3:
 * Simple adaptation of a sanctifying vocalization, familiar/tangible metal used to envision invisible Sephirah, like woodpecker - extra 'nest' embedded in pathways between tree's sphere to alter rules of world. Sephirah/sephiroth guarded by angels, creating a fictional angel create a fictional sphere?
 * Not original, rehashed Golden. GD invented/split apart names of 72 angels (Shemha) to efficiently control colorless/formless angelic power (Telesma). Method comes from verse in OT book Exodus. Magicians before GD extract wanted text from Exodus, create temporary angels by adding '-el/yah' to end. Why hear unfamiliar names in list of 12 angels of zodiac or the archangels - no more than adaptation of this. Angel names simply way of using high-level calculations to extract specific meaning from full text, add slight modification to end of word not going to give full power
 * 4-2
 * Exodus, not sanctifying vocalization, simply adding 'el' onto end of random German words to create random angel each time need one? not care if only way to focus or if occult in works - only care technique works, history proven effective
 * Time when angel worship heating up to point of ignoring the Son, people crudely create angels never seen in Bible, ended by Pope Zachary

Guns
 * 4-2: two guns and two barrels - four girls, halos over heads, girl in sealed space changes
 * 4-4: Four glass barrels, girls within can easily be dyed in any color, load, drop guns

Unsorted (2):
 * Ch3Pt9:
 * Officially release info, big name in security industry, Board members mostly old - quite young for group, not child.
 * Work in fields of firefighting and disaster prevention. Donate lot of money to charity and volunteer programs, could be camouflage to hide colors (not good suppressing evil nor creating evil stronger than justice to rest easy, hopeless ally with good and justice - manipulate to own benefit or rewrite system altogether, firefighting/disaster prevention not sound particular dangerous at first glance but could abuse, disaster rescue robots could be converted in weapons, could artificially create own disaster.
 * 12 VIPs, had to have something, rumors/online info, speculation.
 * If cheating system, in position making it necessary - can't see political power balance but know living good life by throwing unseen power around, use before fist, dirty tricks/money/authority abuse/people - not enough so resort to violence (risk) to protect position, meaningless if exposed and pressure, fighting for self but not want to bring peace by sacrificing self. Only chance to attack.
 * Remade charity/volunteer work into bullets, allied with justice to create tragedies without dirtying hands, twisted form of cleanliness rob possibility/distort lives
 * Dark side - if want to protect shadow utopia - should stand in line of fire himself, used complex as shield to manipulate children. Not clench fist, pit will or join battle. Steal lives and use for own purposes, see as sign of intelligence and not see need to bother interacting, tragedies not stop
 * Enemy weakened, adult rules fail so stoop to violence, if descended - now in reach, grab before ascend, best choice to settle rather than retry when conditions tangled with politics and economics
 * Clean freak
 * Not want Accel crimes come to light, clone use self as hostage, assume trying to resolve in secret and withdraw rather than risk revealing actions
 * Ch3Pt11
 * Evening
 * Neoka's base in 70-storey giant building in SD15, AC largest shopping district, shopping mall/movie theater on lower floors, fancy corporate offices on middle, luxury apartments on upper floors, skyscraper symbol of wealth/power, topmost floors are Director's mansion, like powerful of old - look down at city from top of towering castle. Corrupt/rich cautious about own life? Protect, tall, trap during fire/attack? Personal VTOL craft on roof, as much space as helicopter carrier flight deck, can also send remote-controlled ones out along with them to make harder to hit with AAMs, rich
 * Index perfect memory, Anti-Skill making move, take up position while slipping past surveillance by changing clothes/makeup, technology available to good/bad alike - surrounding target without detection difficult, building not Neoka's alone, mall/offices/apartment - ordinary people coming/going - allow anyone move almost up to very top, thick doors in way, elevators - several layers of security, can break through ceiling from floor below to reach, unlikely intend to attack main entrance.
 * Let A-S climb from below, not accomplish much more if take same route, escape with VTOL, take rooftop beforehand - climb wall with magnetism, explosion from highest level


 * Ch3Pt12
 * BTL4
 * Former rescue squad elite, don't know where wrong turn, bet more athletic than looks
 * Mention "youth" trying to steal initiative in Aleister's absence, bold move because reason forcing?
 * Rescue work taxing, more difficult in AC, large number of risks in densely-populated city - chemicals, bacteria, EM waves, next-gen tech, berserk esper powers, not make to news - AC only stay in business if remain ideal city where parents feel comfortable leaving children. Brave hidden dangers.
 * How wander over to money/politics, rise above others, taken one of 12 seats, grow fixated on dark side where people sink into depths of tragedy
 * Accel wish to eliminate dark side, board only checks to see benefit/hurt personally, not care if attempt succeed, only interested in attacking others when wave shakes, little damage welcome, lot of damage oppose, Neoka biggest target - side too much with dark side in pursuit of personal interest, if attempt destroy economic foundation from under, trouble spending money to maintain social standing, rest of Board attack while weakened, 12 too busy attacking other to stop elimination, hard fight for Neoka, think only option if to recover, even if baseless theory and not dumb enough to think work, join forces with outside organization - qualifies as inviting in foreign threat.
 * Ch4Pt2
 * Access from anywhere, give little push by have cracking servers make enough parallel posts to bring to top of Japanese trending lists.
 * Automatic investment algorithm detect signs, if claim as own - too easy to trace, spread around as camouflage, ubiquity excellent at throwing off pursuit, 'safer' to use mass-produced knife than overseas gun
 * Only care that method works
 * Ch4Pt3
 * Do something with fingers, smoothly curved mass appear in vacuum tube
 * Only care that gives power, don't care about rest
 * Cautious when encountering unknown element, split/prioritize elimination
 * Fools feel cornered, run to god instead of trying to solve themselves, imagine that type, cheaply-bought power - only give cheap resolution, life lived before - should have found deeper lessons - words tear into core, distinct way fire guns - always aim little high - habit picked up from firing rescue guns launching ropes, used to aim towards someone but not at them - send gas balloon into water near panicked drowning person, grab before run out of strength, aim too high even missed shot leave balloon's rope nearby - grab onto rope when falls or onto balloon when rope reeled back, veneer of politeness stripped away, injure self and feign victim to keep Anti-Skill away, help from doctor but not mean no medical knowledge self, knowledge increase suspicions if done self - want someone else to do so no techniques/idiosyncrasies can be seen
 * Ch4Pt4

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