[Open] Underground Meetings Literally Underground

[concealingeyes]

Date & Time: WAY BACKDATED to February 15th with Morning / Afternoon / Evening options
Location: The catacombs which look cool if you forgot (cool is important)
Characters: Kido, Kano and anyone who wants to stop by for a gang meeting! You're free to assume your character was spoken to if you want, too. Handwaving the recruiting is cool with us. Or your character can just happen across them?? Whatever works!
Summary: Kido and Kano have been recruiting for their gang, the Mekakushi Dan, and now is the meeting. Feel free to mingle! Become a gang family.
NOTE! They would also inform characters to stick around for the evening meeting if they want to hear something more serious.
Warnings: Uhmmm none that I can think of!



Morning Option:
[The morning is the most relaxed. Kido and Kano have a lot of work to do when it comes to cleaning up the catacombs! Of course, they had to pick a larger area not too far in, away from the sewer areas so it isn't as damp and gross. It's still cold, though. They put up arrows so no one would get lost even though it doesn't take much to find the area.

There aren't chairs or anything like that to sit in but bricks and old rocks are being cleaned up to make sitting space. Also, there's soda and various snacks sitting on a particularly large rock.

Come help if you want and possibly get some early information out of them!]

Afternoon Option:
[After running around, chatting with all the newcomers Kano's decided to speak up. Now's an excellent time to get down to business! He's hopped onto one of the rocks to elevate himself (being short is hard) and shouts:]

Hey, hey! [He waves his hand rapidly in the air.] Ah, first--thanks for coming, everyone! We wouldn't have known what to do with all these snacks if you guys didn't show up.

I'm kidding, I'm kidding! But really, we appreciate your interest. Let me explain what we plan to do!

When most of us arrived we were a little overwhelmed. I knew I was. Being dropped into another world is a pretty heavy experience, right? Some of us weren't sure where to go or who to turn to! It's a very disheartening way to begin a new life. [Kano snaps his fingers.] So! We, the Mekakushi Dan, will help those new transports!

Whether it's through food or clothes or even umbrellas, we'll lend them a helping hand and show them that we care. We'll be the welcoming committee that Exsilium doesn't have, the newbies' unofficial family! With your help, we'll help them settle in and ease into their lives here.

We're open to ideas, so if you have any... feel free to shout them out!

Evening Option:
[By the time things wind down and it's getting dark, Kido steps up. She's perfectly at ease with this part of things. When she speaks, it's in her usual gruff but serious tone.]

...I don't know how much you guys know about the Initiative but they aren't praiseworthy. It's a war, so no one is clean, but they haven't treated us the best. It isn't just this. I've been looking into the network and past posts. I'm not going to tell you what to think or how to act towards them, though.

[She shoves her hands into her hoodie pocket.] What I'm saying is that I'm putting us first. We need to keep an eye on anyone that might threaten us, that might use us or hurt us. So, if you want to help with that or you're interested in looking closer at these Initiative people and the ones they're fighting, we'd appreciate the help.

It's your call. If you only want to be part of the community help, that's fine. But you know at least what Kano and I are going to be doing. We'll keep you updated if you want, too. We're going to keep you guys safe as best as we can from anything.

Comments

[duplicitoussight]

Picked up, huh? I see, I see. [Maybe it's a troll thing. Either way, it's pretty cool.]

Well, Honorary Lamp, thank you for coming to help us--hee hee--shed some light.

[speakveryclearly]

Ha ha ha. [She's moderately amused, but it's spoken laughter.]

I've been here over four months now, so I'd be just as amenable to serving the figurative function you mentioned.

[duplicitoussight]

[That's great, actually, since he'd been hoping for some older Transports to come as well to share their experience.]

That's perfect! We need some veterans to help us out--after all, we're still fresh recruits. Any stories-- ah-- information you care to share with us would be a huge help~

[speakveryclearly]

Well, it's been some time, I'm not sure what you want to hear... I've been thinking if there's enough interest in this group I might prepare a document, actually.

[duplicitoussight]

A document, huh? Would it be like a guidebook of sorts?

[speakveryclearly]

No, I think you're better placed to write that sort of thing - and my friend Feferi has written one herself, actually, I should reference that to you. My idea is more... a recapitulation. For people to know what events are like here.

[duplicitoussight]

So... [He tilts his head.] A history book or record of sorts?

[speakveryclearly]

Yes, exactly that!! A history.

[duplicitoussight]

Hmm. It would be nice to have something other than those books in the library. Not that they aren't informative, but they are written by the Initiative! It'd be nice to have a second opinion, you know how it is~

[speakveryclearly]

Especially because our time here is short enough that the events I'm describing haven't actually been transcribed in anything published.

[duplicitoussight]

In that case, I'd say that it's an excellent idea! I, Kano, number three of the Mekakushi Dan, officially approve of this mission!

[speakveryclearly]

I'm assuming Kido is part of that number - who's the third in that case.

[duplicitoussight]

Eh, you mean member number two? Well... he's not here, as you can probably tell. [It feels so weird to say that. The three of them have never been apart for more than a day. He's still adjusting to the idea of not seeing Seto's cheery face around. But he keeps all that to himself and just shrugs nonchalantly.]

I think you'd like him! You like green, don't you? My friend looks like a giant frog with his hoodie.

[speakveryclearly]

Oh. I thought at first you'd appointed a new member already. That's a much more sensical explanation than my assumption of someone supplanting your rank.

[She speaks quickly and verbally sidestepping with the deliberate grace (enduced grin with her subsequent subject shifting statement) of someone very familiar with the problems of fractured casts.]

I do love green and am in fact particularly partial to frogs.

[duplicitoussight]

Well, it's too much trouble to change the numbers, even if the other members aren't here. We'll keep it the way it is.

[Traditions are important!!]

Aah, then you would've been good friends with him. You both could've caught frogs together or something of that sort.

[speakveryclearly]

That is exactly what we could have done! Or bred frogs. The island could use that. The few specimens I have found here are heavily, undesirably mutated.

[duplicitoussight]

Frog breeding? Pfft-- That's an unusual hobby! Do you breed them for better legs so they make tastier dishes?

[speakveryclearly]

It's a long story. Basically..... we bred them for optimal health.

[duplicitoussight]

How funny! So you're a professional frog breeder, is that it?

[speakveryclearly]

I used to be. In a way.