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logsinthenight2019-12-09 01:08 pm
pure_havoc) wrote in logsinthenight2019-12-09 01:08 pm
Round 2 [open]
characters: Cao Pi and everyone who wants to show up
location: town hall
date/time: Dec. 8, starting at moonrise
content: Community meeting, take 2! After the Dreamer/Defender incident, there's a lot to talk about and Cao Pi has encouraged everyone to come and publicly share what they learned while asleep or what ideas they have to make the next massacre less massacre-y. Feel free to handwave catching his post or hearing about it from a friend.
warnings: none likely but lmk if that changes. Threadjacking likely; if you don't want to be threadjacked, make some sort of indication.
As before, Cao Pi arrives ahead of time to ensure the town hall is ready for a session, righting any chairs that might have been thrown about in recent melees and checking the logbook for recent information. When a fair amount of people have arrived and he can see the waxing moon rising through the leafless trees outside, he rises to begin with a short intro.
"By now we know that those who succumbed to the food at the feast had a strange experience - they shared dreams with each other, in which they found themselves seeing Beacon as it was in the past. I encourage all those who dreamed, and remember it well, please tell us all what you saw. There may be considerable clues to our purpose and progress in even the smallest detail.
"The rest of us, well. We managed to make it through and I believe those who were killed are whole again, but for our part we can go over what worked and what didn't. Defending ourselves isn't merely a matter of being trained to use weapons. The spirits which attacked were formidable, powerful. We will need more than just our strength to outlast another attack. Ideas are welcome, as is any new information we have on everything from communications to threats."
That's all he'll ramble about this time, he'll take a seat and allow others to have the floor before he makes any more grandiose speeches.
location: town hall
date/time: Dec. 8, starting at moonrise
content: Community meeting, take 2! After the Dreamer/Defender incident, there's a lot to talk about and Cao Pi has encouraged everyone to come and publicly share what they learned while asleep or what ideas they have to make the next massacre less massacre-y. Feel free to handwave catching his post or hearing about it from a friend.
warnings: none likely but lmk if that changes. Threadjacking likely; if you don't want to be threadjacked, make some sort of indication.
As before, Cao Pi arrives ahead of time to ensure the town hall is ready for a session, righting any chairs that might have been thrown about in recent melees and checking the logbook for recent information. When a fair amount of people have arrived and he can see the waxing moon rising through the leafless trees outside, he rises to begin with a short intro.
"By now we know that those who succumbed to the food at the feast had a strange experience - they shared dreams with each other, in which they found themselves seeing Beacon as it was in the past. I encourage all those who dreamed, and remember it well, please tell us all what you saw. There may be considerable clues to our purpose and progress in even the smallest detail.
"The rest of us, well. We managed to make it through and I believe those who were killed are whole again, but for our part we can go over what worked and what didn't. Defending ourselves isn't merely a matter of being trained to use weapons. The spirits which attacked were formidable, powerful. We will need more than just our strength to outlast another attack. Ideas are welcome, as is any new information we have on everything from communications to threats."
That's all he'll ramble about this time, he'll take a seat and allow others to have the floor before he makes any more grandiose speeches.
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[That's going to be the hardest part of this, he figures. It's already absolutely freezing out there, and it's only December. They have limited time to accomplish everything in. What if January buries them in several feet of snow?]
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I don't suppose we have the supplies necessary for a winter weather expedition then.
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[Coats and blankets are fine and all, but eating cold food and drinking cold drinks on multiple-day expeditions below freezing sounds dangerous. They'll be limited to shorter trips, and every crew will probably want a medically-trained person with them in case of hypothermia or injury. Maybe some of the magically-inclined will have the ability to make warm shelter or heat drinks. Maybe.]
If there's anyone in Beacon who's familiar with winter travel, it would be good to consult them.
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[Which could mean the weather getting worse in the meantime.]
Unfortunately, I never got assigned to the joint training exercises at Briggs. [He's not going to know what that means, so Maes shakes his head and adds.] I mean, I unfortunately don't really have that expertise. We had cold weather in Central, but I mostly got to enjoy it from the comfort of home or out of the cold in the office.
[Desert survival on the otherhand...that he could get you though, but he had a feeling that just because they were opposite environments did not mean you could necessarily apply the opposite in terms of survival.]
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[It'll have to be generic, and maybe Rastus won't be able to get everything they need, but even a few extra pairs of snowshoes and skis and gloves and whatever else would sure go a long way.]
I've done my share of work in every type of weather I can think of, but less in snow than the others. I know what works for me but I wouldn't be that good at advising the inexperienced on how to prepare. Might be worth doing even for those not intending to explore, if we can find anyone here who's used to harsh winters and willing to tell people how to handle them. If nobody here knows, I can do my best.
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[Maes makes a note in his notebook. He taps his pencil on the edge as he recalls what he can about Roy's complaints about Briggs.]
All I can figure is layers to protect from the cold. We don't need to worry about snow blindness at least since there's no sun.
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[That's a generally good precaution anyway, though, it turns out.]