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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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A part of Riku isn't too convinced they aren't headed for an inevitable reset. A part of him also holds onto the hope that Sora will come back, he's always been able to pull off a miracle like there's nothing to it at all. A real hero, in every sense of the word.
It doesn't surprise Riku when his own failure to communicate effectively - to find the right words - results in being misunderstood. He wasn't very clear about what he meant when he said like you. He hears Quentin out, waits a moment, and then puts a hand around one of his friend's wrists.
He's not wrong. Everyone's hurt someone before. And what he said, that he's paid for it, Riku can relate with that feeling all too well. But he disagrees with the idea of there being some terrible place where people are punished for what they did while they were alive. This is another journey, another adventure, another road they have to walk. No greater power is judging them. ]
...
[ He nods. Yeah, he'd like his help. ]
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Until something new or old comes crashing out of the woods or splashes out of the water and picks them off, one of one.
Working together. Right. Sure, because Quentin had the best track record on that one. He wants it, though. He wants to be a part of the solution, to be the one to find the way out and save everyone that's stuck here. Save the world again, like it's not something that's keeping him up at night or making his blood run cold. Thinking about what the price might be this time around.
They're all dead here.
But.
With Riku's warm hand around his wrist and his eyes when Quentin looks up at him. They all still have heartbeats. They breathe. His own is almost catching in his throat as he blinks back at Riku and then, looking down at the hand on his arm, Quentin mouth opens and closes a few times.]
Was that a yes? I'm going to take that as a yes, and. I want to. To help.