In Which Caroline Organizes a Town Hall

[headcheerbleeder]

Who: Everyone
What: Caroline holds court and everyone hashes it out over how to organize.
Where: The Heartstone.
When: After the leadership post on the network.
Warnings/Notes: Conversations may get intense due to the baggage characters are bringing to any conversation about authority, particularly structural authority. Threadhopping is encouraged; my notifs are off and you can treat this like a network post, just with face-to-face interaction. The mods reserve the right to shut down threads or the post entirely if it gets out of hand.

Caroline and Stacia have, by now, made little portable deer-hide cushions for every person they've counted up in the camp, all fifty three. It's taken them a while, and in the meantime, Stacia was on the mirror network announcing her candidacy for leadership, and Caroline was in the background making little tutting and tch noises. This is why she doesn't do the internet.

Finally, she gets her own mirror out and makes an announcement, then arranges the little cushions for everyone in a wide, multi-tiered circle, staggered so everyone has a view towards the center, all at perfect fifteen degree angles to the one next to them. She sets six little campfires to ensure everything's well-lit. And she folds her arms and she waits.

Comments

[wheyoftheadept]

This place is a paradise compared t'the last joint. [she gestures] Fuckers hit harder than expected, but at least I can hit 'em

An' yeah. It's a long story, but the short version is, this creepy cult was making people braindead, like, body still works but no one's home? So that their creepy extradimensional horror master could infest them with its creepy little bug spirit minions an' then they could take over the world.

Shit went sideways, had to blow the hive with us inside, shoulda died, didn't. Got thrown into the astral by the psychic shockwave instead. Been getting bounced around ever since.

[just_ace]

[That sounds pretty awful and it sucks Stacia and the others had to go through it, but it doesn't sound much worse than any number of things Pentex had going back home. Ace gives a sympathetic nod]

Thanks for the rundown. It's good to know at least some of what people have been through.

So I guess there is a place out there somewhere that if you get flung hard enough you end up in a talent pool for ailing worlds? In addition to doing whatever we need to here we should probably try to figure that out so that people can get off the ride if they want to. I'm all for helping, but it would be nice if people, you know, asked.

[wheyoftheadept]

((OOC: Stacia was not part of the bug cult thing. The bug cult thing happened in Saturday's home game, as did everything until the point where she reached Piper 90. She met Stacia in the fourth world she ended up in, and is currently in her fifth.))

Ah, well, there's a lot more to it, it's just most of it ain't relevant to anyone who wasn't getting bounced through the metaplanes with me.

[she shrugs broadly at his suggestion]

I guess? An' sure, be nice if they let you choose, but like, people used to command an' authority an' respect never think about askin'. Innit that part of why this whole fight happened?