voice. [locked to residents]

[wildkotetsu]

 [It's been almost two weeks since the mission, and Kotetsu's barely managed to hold himself together during that time; a royal mess, you'd say. But with the arrival of Kaede and the underlying truth that, eventually, it'd be brought up... He decides he'll put his two cents out there.] 

... A while ago, me and a buncha' others went on a mission. It was s'pposed to be a pretty normal thing; I mean, routine stuff. But then, we were attacked... and things got a little fuzzy and crazier than it should've. [A pause, as he considers what to say. How to say it. Maybe he shoulda' picked out someone who was better at words or... hell, even wrote down what he was planning to say. As it is, he's sitting here with a few bullet points scribbled out, itching his head.]

From what everyone could tell, it was a band of dream shifters, like the kind people fought before. And that General Ass--... guy was in there, too. I met him in a dream, and he basically helped to get me out of it. Like he did for other people. It's pretty confusing, you know? That he'd help us out. But he told me... before everything got hard to keep track of, he told me that...

[He massages his temple, trying to remember the exact words.]

He said they wanted to offer us to the planet. Some--special hour, or something. That his people had a bigger plan for us. Said he'd kill me right where I was if it wasn't for everything else goin' on. Tch, he was basically just a confusing bastard. But what I could tell was that there were people like him--those third party fellas--that weren't on his side. Dream guys who wanted him to go down, because he was just as stuck as we were by the looks of it. Or else he'd just let us all die and be on his way, right? 

And--! (shi-) [flipping over a paper, one sec] He said something about.... Shamans...? That things don't stay dead without 'em. He was looking for one while we were stuck there.

[There's a hushed silence. Sounding pretty uncool there Kaburagi. Try to at least sound like you know exactly what to include.]

I, uh, don't know what else I should add. It was all a pretty big blur, but I figured... the malnosso tried to get me to talk about it, but I figured it'd be better off here. The people who were there can also add some stuff here. Leave the line open for all the stuff they can--contribute? [is that a decent way of phrasing it] Or if anyone has any questions I'll try my best to answer 'em. I think this info is just as much yours as it is anyone there. The others probably got things more thought-out than me... so...

Alright.

[OKAY I'M GOOD

I'LL JUST

STOP HERE

because talking in length about this frustrating shit is too much]

((ooc: basically a free-for-all, especially for anyone who has anything to offer from the mission! I figured we could have this up even without everything threaded out, can add replies as we go? go for the stars, n' stuff. :|))

Comments

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[wise_maiden]

Just about anything is possible. All the more reason to continue to be wary about those we engage with.

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[eyesofstrength]

And what we engage in as well. We cannot always know what will happen as a result of a mission we engage in because we know so little of the politics behind everything.

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[wise_maiden]

Indeed. While we try to look at them as a way to gather information, it seems more likely than not that we're given false pretenses to work under. It's their way of getting a job done with bodies that aren't their own number, and if something happens to any of us, it isn't as if we can give much away on what their intentions were, beyond what they wanted us to know in the first place.

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[eyesofstrength]

Or they can just kill us before we can talk as well. We have the ability to get our losses removed, after all, and the Malnosso do not.

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[wise_maiden]

In other words, we're expendable. And considering the presence of currency in some of the other enclosures, more affordable as well.

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[eyesofstrength]

Quite expendable and you are correct, we can be easily bought. Perhaps we should consider trying to emulate Vaskoth more.

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[wise_maiden]

A more united front? I wonder if that can really be achieved here.

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[eyesofstrength]

I know it would be difficult. I've seen in the journals how past attempts at establishing law or government have not been taken very well. Perhaps we should try to learn how the other enclosures handle such things when we see them on missions.

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[wise_maiden]

It's likely that they've had more time given that they don't seem to be subject to frequent changes in their population as we are, but it's worth asking for curiosity's sake.

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[eyesofstrength]

And to see what we can implement. We don't need so much to have leadership and law, but we do need plans and ways to live in case we no longer can depend on the Malnosso to provide us what we need and if the barrier falls.