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exsiliumlogs2013-02-22 08:52 pm
concealingeyes) wrote in exsiliumlogs2013-02-22 08:52 pm
[Open] Underground Meetings Literally Underground
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.
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.
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You're right. Do you know that, Nepeta? I've had to live in denial of that for over four seasons now, but - you're - right. Anyone who doesn't accept basic logic about our abductions here disrupting the damned alpha timeline's flow, starting right now, is no longer worthy of my attention!
[Her arms are spread wide, fists clenched, every exposed part of her body flickering brightly, but the mouth on her angered face isn't quite warped into a grimace, her solace taken in Nepeta keeping it quirked up crookedly halfway into a friendly smile.]
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You tell them, Kanaya, you are your own person and you don't have to live up to anyone's expectations but your own!
[Contrary to what some might think, Nepeta did not pass out physical affection left and right. That was usually reserved for Equius and Vriska only but at this moment she just felt so cathartic and happy that she couldn't help it--she gave Kanaya a hug]
I never thought there'd be someone who'd understand or agree yet there you've been all along, if I had only actually bothered to speak up.
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She puts her arms around Nepeta and takes (not pulling) fistfuls of her long conditioned hair. It is a beautiful echo of the Disciple and Dolorosa. Everything is greenbloods and nothing hurts. This close Kanaya can feel and smell her olive pumpbiscuit; beating unanswered by her own dead ribcage.]
We don't have to go back and remember fates that aren't ours and never see each other again. We're alive here; or at least you are, but I mean our eyes aren't white here. There's a future for us that we'll discover by existing and not being told.
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You're right. [She hugs Kanaya a little tighter, as if she's an anchor and lets out a heavy sigh, upending a heavy weight from her shoulders.]
You're absolutely right. It'll be what we make of it. [Between this and her conversation with Disciple, bit by bit Nepeta is growing happier with her life. There are still uncertainties, that anxiety and depression still comes back to bite her, but for the first time since that day she saw her moirail die Nepeta is finally beginning to feel like she can overcome it. Her face is a little hot but she closes her eyes and feels the tears recede.]
Thank you, Kanaya. [And since she can't help but feel by her tone that there is still something being unsaid, she speaks again] If you ever need someone to just listen, let me know and I'll be there.
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Thank you, Nepeta. [The stress isn't quite as pointed the tacky "no thank you" but it's that inflection order rather than a bland repetition.]
For having faith in me, and in you, and in all of us, and in - everything. It's what we need to get by and go forward.
[On the grounds that it's been four tags, this is when she lets go.]
I will, I swear - go to you whenever this interdimensional song and dance is too much. And you can do likewise.