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.

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[knifewithnoname]

"That do be depending. If they did be wrecking things with their dumb choices they would need to be being stopped. If I did be having to be stopping them, it would no even be mattering if they did be being my friend."

She wrinkled her nose, "Some things do be being more important."

She knew she wasn't alone on that, kings and queens got assassinated all the time, often by assassins hired by their trusted advisers.

[mtsilver_conquor]

Eva nods. So far so good and there's very much a logic she can use here. "I agree with you there. Gods knows I've stopped friends from doing dumb shit and been stopped by said friends from doing my own dumb things."

And she's done a lot of Dumb Things in her life; here not so much; she's trying to be responsible... but it's hard. "Now. What about if it was someone you respected and they made dumb choices that you didn't agree with? Would you still answer the same?"

[knifewithnoname]

"Yes." She nodded, "I would be stopping them."

It's a lot more complicated than Eva thought of course. Her own opinions on bad choices were different, it would depend if she was working for someone. On her own, as she was on this train... Getting rid of people was harder.

But for now she just nodded, with a nose wrinkle.

[mtsilver_conquor]

"Yeah, I would be too." Eva agrees.

"That was me with Stark-san when it came to the Council. Some of the choices or things he wanted... well, they were kinda stupid, selfish, or said in a tone that suggested he was going to do it anyway no matter what anyone thought. So, I had to let him know he was being stupid, even if it didn't always work."

[knifewithnoname]

"But they did no be being stupid." She glared at her and shoved another pancake in her mouth. "And he do no even be being here so you should no be saying such things. Did no one never be telling you to no be speaking bad of the dead."

No one had ever told her that either, honestly. But she had heard it from light followers enough to know it is a thing.

[mtsilver_conquor]

"My faith says to speak of the dead honestly," Eva says as she reaches up and touches a hidden pendant. "Anything less is disrespect to the person's memory."

Eva then cocks her head. "So, you agree then that what he did to two of the quiet cabins, without asking anyone else, wasn't selfish? That dismissing views just because you don't like a person or don't want to hear what they say is OK? And you'd rather we have kept the Council meetings closed to the Council only, instead of open like this, where everyone has a say?"

[knifewithnoname]

She frowned at that, she's not going to speak ill of Eva's faith. But also Eva was spreading lies, so she wasn't even keeping her faith. She didn't say anything, just glaring at her.

"None of that do be wrecking the train though. It might have been being things that I would have been doing differently if I did be being the leader, but I do no be being the leader." She pointed at Eva.

"He do no even be being here now, so you can be changing those things with no stomping on his name, with no telling people who did no never even be meeting him that he did be being bad. You can just be doing things differently, I did no be stopping you."

She shoved another handful of pancake into her mouth.

[mtsilver_conquor]

"I don't know if it can be fixed. More than that though, it's about the fact he didn't bother to ask anyone if we'd have been ok with losing two of the quiet rooms. Sure, we have more now, but for the longest time...." Eva's voice is patient as she weathers the glare. She's had far worse in over the years.

While she could say something to every part of that, she doesn't, for now at least. "What if I need to be stopped though? What if I'm about to do something very stupid or dumb and you know it's dumb?"

[knifewithnoname]

"I did be telling you. I did be thinking you did be doing something stupid just then and I did be telling you. You did no even really be listening."

She took another bite of pancake and sighed angrily. "If we do be talking dictatingships then you should be being careful."