adregem: (the truth is somewhere out there.)
Roland Crane ([personal profile] adregem) wrote in [community profile] voidtreckerexpress2020-12-05 05:19 pm

We're all in this train-gether 🚂

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.)

najaran: (Angry tear/sweat)

[personal profile] najaran 2020-12-14 12:05 pm (UTC)(link)
"I am not fighting any of you! This is crazy! A duel is one thing but wanting to fight because you disagree with me and then threatening to use your magic to take away my choice?" she shook her head, disgusted.

"We're supposed to be working together, then you decide that you need to prove something by trying to get me to destroy half the train in a fight that doesn't even need to happen? What are any of you trying to even solve?" she started getting angry.

"Lady Najara," her cane said quietly. "Are you Najaran or Zeneth?"

She reeled back like she was slapped, then her eyes narrowed. "Fine. Just fine!" She stalked towards the nearest exit. "My own fault for thinking we were supposed to be a team, I guess," she growled as she tried to leave before her temper snapped.
shadowslipping: (Oii oi)

[personal profile] shadowslipping 2020-12-14 01:30 pm (UTC)(link)
While she can't say that they didn't just threaten magic...

"Did anyone say such a fight would be so destructive? That in itself would have been in your hands. Did anyone say working together was never the goal? We have, this entire time, been speaking of your actions in regard to the whole," she countered- briefly, but gently, reaching out with an arm to stop the girl. But not for long. She'll bring it back soon enough, and Najaran will be free to leave even before she's done speaking.

It's clear after all, that words will not change her mind. "We are telling you that your words and actions have consequences that can get your team killed, while you insist, over and over, that won't be the case. That somehow, when the team sees your actions, it won't affect their own. So who among us is truly forgetting what being a team means?"
najaran: (Battle Ready)

[personal profile] najaran 2020-12-14 02:21 pm (UTC)(link)
She spun to face the person speaking now.

"Fights with Cepters ARE that destructive! It is why my father would NEVER fight a non-cepter! Some of my creatures would rip through the train just by being summoned!" She shook her head.

"Lady Najaran is also still learning control since her powers have recently increased."

"I want to work with the team, but my choices have to be mine! I am willing to stand with anyone else who wants to stand with me and I won't think ill about anyone who prefers to run. Well fine, I might THINK it, but that'll pass. I'm not asking anyone else to risk their lives, but if I risk mine that is MY choice! Goligan trusts me, my cards trust me. I'm not asking anyone to like me, I'm asking you to trust me to know what I am risking. Because I cannot and will not stand aside and watch someone else suffer if I can protect them! And not acting is not protecting, it is choosing to sacrifice one group for another. And I won't do that. I don't want to die, but I accept that it could happen. And that I will still stand up to protect people." Always.
najaran: (Her strong back)

[personal profile] najaran 2020-12-15 04:21 am (UTC)(link)
She did want to stay and discuss the rest of what she could do to help. But if she stayed... no one would discuss anything else, they'd just keep arguing with her. So it was better if she left, so they could talk about what they needed to. And if they kept talking about her even after she left... at least her temper wouldn't flare again.

She fixed her grip on Goligan and nodded her thanks to Roland and if no one else stopped her, would leave.
so_dark_a_road: (in the unmeasured night #3)

[personal profile] so_dark_a_road 2020-12-16 10:08 am (UTC)(link)
Curufin gave Najaran and Goligan a warm and sympathetic look as they departed. It was also a meaningful one, it said that Najaran should feel free to talk to him later.

He nodded to Roland, appreciating that Roland was doing his best to moderate and mediate. And then he spoke to the rest.

"I think there are better ways than a personal duel to decide such an important question as whether to go along with the train's decision to evacuate in the middle of a mission. This particular decision requires a lot more knowledge than we have at the moment. I think that trying to acquire that knowledge should be our first priority. Trying to get the train to tell us anything it knows about those deadly shadow-beings would be a start. And we need to know more about the train's situation, because I'm theorizing that it may have jumped from one alternative world or timeline in order to escape that peril, only to find that the shadowy world-eaters can do the same."

He thought about the implications of this. "If we can find a way to destroy that peril, then it probably won't be necessary to deal with the question of whether the SCAs can or should be modified."

And then there was that other question. "We need to know more about tethering. It would also simplify things if we knew whether the train can accept refugees from the mission worlds. I'm thinking that none of us were tethered to the train until it decided to collect us, and it didn't seem to have any trouble with that. Furthermore, it can sever that link anytime it wants to, as we see every platform day when passengers leave and never or rarely return. I don't see why it couldn't tether the people we bring on board in order to save their lives."
Edited 2020-12-16 10:20 (UTC)