Round 2 [open]

[pure_havoc]

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.

Comments

[callada]

Yes, that's exactly it. I'll keep tracking them and if anything changes, I'll let everyone know, but in order to do so accurately I'll need help. The bulletins from Robin miss people every now and then. If people know things that she misses, it would be good if they could add a note on the network.

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.]

[pure_havoc]

Mm. It's still possible for some to slip through the cracks, if they don't wish to make a note, but it's better than nothing. That is, keeping genuine track of the coming and going is a low priority but also fairly easy to manage through such self-reporting methods. Especially if everyone is aware that the bulletin will note your death anyway so it makes no sense to be secretive about it.

[callada]

Right. Like I said, the bulletin doesn't always note every death, but this way with two methods for keeping track, maybe it'll be a little more accurate. In any case, an estimate is still likely close enough. And I can always keep an eye on which usernames have been removed from the contacts list as a third check.

[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.

[pure_havoc]

It does. [though there's no strong emotion in his voice, in saying so. Like, whatever, he only cares about so many of them and the rest can die if they're not useful. Ahem.] As you please, commander. We have a great many things to accomplish but there are plenty of people who can take up some of it.