We're all in this train-gether 🚂

[adregem]

Who: OTA. If you’re a passenger with a ticket on this train, then you are most welcome here!
Where: Upper Music Car
When: Imagination 18, at around brunch.
What: Welcome to the train’s first ever community open forum. Come for the food, stay for the best discussions ever.
Warnings: Lots of top-levels for easy access to relevant topics to your characters, but apart from that, nothing right now! (Not a warning but a heads-up that one TL will be dedicated to the dissemination and discussion of the bonus trek during the last mission. For your OOC reference, please see here.)



Someway through the 18th of Imagination, an announcement for the already spoken for meeting is shared by the ICPs, giving people twenty minutes to come to the upper Music Carriage for the gathering. While the chairs mostly face the stage, they’ve been curved to allow people to face their fellow passengers too, so not to put the sole focus in one place.

This is a meeting for all, and everyone will have their chance to speak and be heard.

The promised snack table sits to one side of the room, and on the stage, the white board from the standard coach has been brought in, written on it bullet points for the planned topics. To assist in the flow of discussion, familiar moderators stand in place to help jot things down, carry conversation further should one idea end while another is ready to begin, among other such administrative tasks to organize the forum. Plus, the ICP’s are in constant use all throughout the meeting, with basic announcements about what’s being discussed now, and how more people are still welcome to catch up to the Music Car if they hear something that interests them.

Grab a plate, settle down, and let’s get to work.

(OOC: Specific top-levels will be set-up for ease of tagging. Select ‘Show Top-Level Comments Only’ if you would like to skip ahead! And as much as possible kindly keep to a single thread in that TL, unless a very special or private point has to be made with regards to the subject! :) Of course if you will be tagging the snacks table, the extra suggestions, or the meta-thread, this does not apply any longer.

Also, very important: Please see here for an example format of how documentation of missions can go! It is most relevant during the discussion on information gathering.)

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[comefadeaway]

Well, I...

[ He started, but the truth was, he didn't really know what to think about how things were run. He was confused by it, and when they said they were going to have a meeting, he's surprised it's people bantering back and forth instead of whoever's in charge, he hasn't figured that out, just telling them what to do. ]

What would I want to talk about? I just figured someone would be telling people what to do, or maybe going over the last mission or something like that. Am I wrong?

[blitzcheer]

Nahhh, [ he starts, tipping his head this way and that as he thinks how to explain. ] It's a meeting where we all share what we think. There's no one person telling us what to do. Just us going, 'hey, what do we think about this?', and then everyone sharing that.

We got the team leads here too, and the people part of the council. [ Or, well. Most. ] So I guess we're telling them what we think... but there isn't any boss behind this.

[comefadeaway]

Oh. [ He seems to hesitate a moment. ] I'm not sure I really think much of anything...I mean...I think I could've done better.

[ He frowns. He's a little sore he couldn't take on the robots. ]

[blitzcheer]

What happened yo you at the end anyway? Did you go help deal with the panda trouble? Or what?

[ He...thinks he saw a guy like Yoite around the camp, but- did he really? ]

[comefadeaway]

No, I was at the camp when they came to attack. I wanted to take out the human woman, but the robots came and then I think...one of them exploded. I got separated and a robot came for me. [ Yoite explains. ]

There was nothing I could do about robots.

[blitzcheer]

Ugh- I was wondering how you got hurt...

[ He grimaces a little. ]

What were you planning to do? I mean- take her out how?

[comefadeaway]

Kira doesn't work on inanimate objects as much as it does creatures and people. The robots didn't even seem to stumble.

[ It might have if he knew where to aim, but he didn't. It just didn't work that way. He needed living opponents. ]

I would put my qi inside of her and explode her from the inside out.

[ He says this in the same matter of fact tone he usually has. ]

[blitzcheer]

Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh...

[ Give Tidus a second here, his expression incredulous. Confused. ]

Gross?

[ Gross. Okay, question they should've had at the meeting: Do we want to explode any jerks attacking us? Tidus is Unsure.

But- ] Can you do anything else? Move fast? Get outta the way? ...and there anything less... excessive you can do with your- ki? Qi?

[comefadeaway]

I don't typically stand close to people when they're bleeding.

[ That's obviously more comforting. ]

Yes. I can move fast, faster than the people trying to run away usually. And I can do taijutsu. [ He blinks. ] Less extensive? I...guess?

I use their qi pathways with my qi. I can destroy as much of them as I want, or fix them, I guess. Usually it's much faster to just destroy them.

[blitzcheer]

I...guess? [ This is throwing him into a conundrum. He knows he doesn't want to see people getting exploded, but what did they want to do with the miners anyway? ...what did happen with them. ]

Maybe, uh, we need to talk about what we wanna do with people like that before we make them go...pop. [ Ugh, this is so awkward. ] Y'know? I know some of us wanted to talk to them. Get answers out of them.

[comefadeaway]

Why?

[ He's genuinely confused by that. ]

Would it be better if I just took off an arm or two then?

[blitzcheer]

[ Arrgh- ] Can't you just put them in enough pain to stop them doing anything so someone else can knock them out?!

[ His voice raises in fluster than actual shouting, this never the conversation he thought he'd get in. ]

It's great not to kill someone if you don't have to! That's what I like to think!

[ You know...!! ]

[comefadeaway]

[ He considers this. ]

Oh if you want them unconscious I can damage their brain stem and put them into a coma.

[blitzcheer]

B-but can you...un-damage it?

[ YOIIITEEEEE............... ]

[comefadeaway]

[ Yoite doesn't look like he understands why Tidus is disturbed about this. ]

I suppose, technically, I have done that.