to all;

[righteously]

Okay, look. We need to talk.

What the hell is going on around here? That whole 'make the summoned run around like trained jackasses' thing? Not kosher.

Before I say anything else, I'll be the first to admit, I didn't let the bug loose. It was a bad call, somebody got hurt, and I'm sorry. I really am. If I could go back knowing what it did, I'd have let it out in a heartbeat.

But that's the thing, isn't it? I mean, seriously. Let's break this whole thing down.

Those douchebags running the Free Cities (or Thorne, or Solvunn) drag us in from wherever we were, without asking, against our will.

A highly reclusive nation decides to let us come hang out for a Disney vacation in their deeply secretive community as a gesture of good faith.

At a time when Summoned from all three factions coincidentally happen to be hanging out in the same reclusive ass place, something mysterious and terrible happens. I don't know about the rest of you, but I, for one, am shocked it didn't go as planned.

Instead of sending guards, the Free Cities sends us freaking couriers with the most useless note in the history of the goddamn planet telling us to release a device we know nothing about, without telling us what it does, just that we need to be real friggin sketchy about it.

When not everybody obeys without question like good little soldiers, one of our own gets hurt, and they shake the shame finger at us like it's our own fault? Are you kidding me?

First of all, if they can send couriers they can send their own friggin guards to handle crap like this. Or, hell, have the damn couriers release the things, they have hands, they could've prepped the packages their own damn selves instead of foisting it off onto the people who didn't even ask to be here in the first place.

Second of all, even if they COULDN'T, how about they slap in a goddamn paragraph or two on what the thing is? If everything's all hunky dory, and all that little bitch does is provide a protective shield, who CARES if a note that was gonna SELF-DESTRUCT ANYWAY gets read over somebody's shoulder?

This whole thing reeks of grooming us to start following orders without full intel. Surely nothing will come of that. Except, oh wait, Libertas just got friggin' bombed. The continent's going to war, and we're getting played.

And here's the other thing: I'm pretty sure Free Cities kids weren't the only ones running around doing sketchy crap during the happy fun werewolf party. Thorne, Solvunn, you two wanna weigh in here? Bueller? Anyone?

( threadjacking is highly encouraged, so long as whoever you're jumping in with is cool with it! hit me at paingravy if you need me! )

Comments

[techmaturgy]

I'm less worried about those among us who did or did not carry out a vague assignment and more concerned with the fact that Libertas is in flames as a result of an apparent war crime. We should be coordinating a humanitarian effort, not wasting our time on conspiracy.

[righteously]

You're not wrong, but the douchebags in charge have it all shut down. We can't strap on our Red Cross uniforms and head over until they give us the go-ahead.

In the meantime, maybe if we figure out who in the hell's pulling the strings, we can keep the next bombing from happening.

[techmaturgy]

So you have no issue rejecting the aforementioned assignment from the government, but you'll otherwise respect their demand that we sit idle while a city burns? There are things we can do, here, while we wait for the military to secure a route to Libertas.

[righteously]

Respect? Hell no, I don't respect them for it. There's just no getting across highly patrolled roads on a horse without pissing off a bunch of guys with guns that are chomping at the bit to get violent. People here have been thrown in jail before for less.

Don't take this the wrong way, pal, if you wanna start an initiative, I support you. Period, end of sentence. I'll jump in, I can multi-task. I'll talk strategy here in my brain while I stack boxes or triage wounds out there with the homies. Doesn't need to be either/or.

But like it or not, if we don't start talking about this and figuring it out, Libertas ain't gonna be the last humanitarian effort we'll have to make.

[techmaturgy]

Then it's a good thing I'm not asking you to do that.

Preempting relief efforts is the bare minimum any of us should be doing. Rationalizing individual decisions to activate the device or not is pointless now.

[righteously]

It ain't about the rationalizing. That's over and done with, I screwed up, end of story. It's about what it all means going forward. Figuring out the why and the who, so we can figure out how to stop it.

[shadowthief]

And the second the military allows us to rally and help Libertas, I think most of will, Viktor, but they're staying our hand right now... In the interim, who's to say the so-called conspiracy isn't connected to the bombing?

[techmaturgy]

Do we need their permission to gather supplies? To put infrastructure in place? To solicit the help of civilians? I'm certainly not going to wait for it.

[shadowthief]

No, but how will you transport them? They're not going to let us through.

[techmaturgy]

I don't care. We can ready supplies and resources so that we're prepared to mobilize as soon as passage is secured.

[But, also, if people want to, like, go to the blockade and fight to get through, he's not going to say no.]

[shadowthief]

Nothing is stopping that from happening, just because he's started a different discussion.

[industries]

ts@Abraxas-Proxy:~$ open reply
ts@Abraxas-Proxy:~$ gpg -c -encrypt viktor.msg
> Think it might be time to for the EXO-9R to graduate from cliff tests.
> I'll get eyes on Wilson.

[techmaturgy]

The military will want it as soon as they know it exists, especially now. Do you think it's worth it?

[industries]

> If we save a few lives in the process?
> Absolutely.

[nadine_he_loves]

Plenty of us are preparing for the minute the roads are opened.

If you need something to do right now, I could use some help mixing healing tonics and other things that might be needed.

[techmaturgy]

Please. Point them in my direction. Send me an inventory, if you have one. I need to take care of a few things, but if you’re in need of an extra pair of hands, I’ll join you shortly.

[nadine_he_loves]

I have a list of ingredients I need and I absolutely need more hands.

And usually things like preserved food and clothes and toiletries and things like that are needed after a disaster, so maybe you could organize a drive. Ask people to donate and put together care packs so they're all ready to go.

[techmaturgy]

Believe it or not, I do know what kinds of supplies are most useful in a situation like this.

[nadine_he_loves]

Well there you go. Somebody has to get things organized. Why not one of our resident geniuses? You're good at overseeing and organizing.

[hextechhead]

I'll be ready to go with you when they're open.

[nadine_he_loves]

If you want to help out preparing supplies, I could use the help. I figure we'll need a lot of supplies.

[hextechhead]

We definitely will need some. Let's figure out what we need, between you and I we have some good contacts that can help, if the government doesn't plan on providing a lot of disaster relief.

[ Jayce is a little dazed at the moment but this is helping. ]

[itookashot]

You know I'm there, boss. I'll reinforce whatever you need too!

[nadine_he_loves]

Actually that's exactly what I'm going to have you do. Use your ability to fortify things. There's a lot of jars.

[itookashot]

My hands are always at your service.