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

[pearlstrings]

[The peace offering in advance is a good sign, not simply because it helps announce his presence ahead of time but also because it demonstrates that he's thinking about the perception of his actions. Bruce has heard a great deal of talk around Town Hall about actions and consequences, but few people seem interested in trying to view their decisions through the lens of the spirits. The residents here know almost nothing about their way of life, their values, their customs. They can only marginally communicate.

Bruce considers this, a small furrow creasing between his brows.]

Have you tried asking any of the other spirits for input or advice? Like the postmaster?

[sunborne]

[ daylight pauses at the question, taking it into serious consideration... which is, admittedly, a worrying sign for his trip into the forests. if he's just taken that into account now.

but, finally, he answers with a surprising amount of confidence: ] If anyone can get a lot of info from the spirits, it'll be my partner- Soldat. Broody but really nice. He's going to be with me when I go in there because, um, the buddy system and stuff. I know he made good friends with a spirit or two. He gives them coffee and everything.

[ because if you know the preferred drink of someone, you know them pretty well at that point. ]