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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.
Rosinante | OTA
For those who haven't met me yet, I'm Commander Rosinante Donquixote.
[A rare full name and title, but he's taking this as seriously as anyone else. Besides, there are people here who he's only seen in passing. May as well.]
I've compiled some statistics on death here in Beacon you might all want to be aware of. Spent some time searching through the past bulletins, discussions on the network, and following up on general knowledge to figure out how many people in total we've had arriving on the ferry, and what the chances of survival are here. I'd had a few people ask me, since I was one of those who arrived in the first batch of the current group, and I wanted to have an answer for them.
We've had one hundred twenty-eight people here in total since July, including survivors of previous groups. Of those, around fifty died and never returned, while approximately fourteen deaths have resulted in an individual being recovered at the church.
[Not good odds. He frowns and taps the screen, pulling up a few more of his notes.]
If you consider each death separately, your chances of returning to life are a little better than one in five. Of course, many of you have heard that in August the spirits retaliated after we went to the lighthouse to connect Robin back up to the network. Twenty-four people died or went missing from what I could find. Since that event was an anomaly, even after the most recent attack, if you remove those people, you still only have about a one in three chance of being recovered after you die here. These numbers are kind of inaccurate since it looks like news of deaths doesn't always make it to Robin, but they should be close.
[He searches the gathering for one individual. Is she here? Whether she is or not, Rosinante continues with the strange accidental finding in the list he's put together.]
There's a young woman here by the name of Eleven. She was here in July and was reported as missing in August after the massacre at the party. She returned in October, a full month and a half or so after she disappeared. All other deaths seem to take less than one week. But Eleven, when she returned, was on the ferry and not at the church. I don't know what this means, but I thought you should all know.
[And he sits back, ready to take questions he almost certainly doesn't have the answers to. All he did was comb through names, sift through data. He's good at that. Maybe someone here will know something he doesn't about the results he's found.]
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[It's an idle comment.]
Universes are vast, and have incredible similarities. There are multiple versions of all us. Who's to say it's the precise same girl?
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She has a point. I've met a few people here that I had previously met when I was with Astoria and the Circle, but they seem to have no memory of that place or who I am.
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[He'd been about to question Dr. Lutece on how she could know that, but immediately the General adds that information and man, is that a lot to consider. Lutece had told him about alternate realities briefly once, but somehow he hadn't thought that would mean there could be more than one of himself.]
So... then this portal pulls not only from other worlds, but from mirrors of them, if I'm understanding it right.
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If--
[Hm, no.]
If another version of you was brought here-- well. I'd be fascinated to see if either of you would effect the other, but that's neither here nor there. Neither him nor you would be more the original than the other.
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[ seriously, how does he know this ]
Should've just stuck with the infinite universe theorem.
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Possibly. Possibly not. Perhaps this world is the original for some version of him, come a hundred resets ago, in which case it very much will affect them.
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Well if somehow I find myself in that particular situation, I'll let you know so we can be your guinea pigs.
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[ loud enough to vouch for her-- but that's about it. Jason has no interest in adding to conversations, judging by how he's hanging back as the proceedings start. His arms are crossed over his chest, communicating well enough his closed off body language.
but he was already familiar with that concept. Especially for every person from Gotham. ]
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[Always good to have corroboration. Thanks, Jason.]
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One in three at best? Those are terrible odds no matter which way you look at it. Preventing deaths is clearly better than simply allowing them to happen with the hope that the dead will return.
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Also, I might add a sign-in sheet at the church. At least that way people who come back can be accounted for.
[Unless they ignore it, or decline to note their name and recovery date down on the page out of shame or spite. Some will probably do that but most people here seem generally cooperative, thankfully. It would be easier and less time-consuming than poring over the network for glaring absences or gossip.]
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[Of course, that only helps in circumstances where a person dies or goes missing and never returns. How long does it take for a name to be removed? Is that Robin's doing? Must be. Something to ask her about.]
None of this is high priority, but I'd argue it's still important. It matters when someone dies.
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