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[postictal]

[Hey, everybody, guess what? Tim's been a busy boy.]

alright 2 things

1. i got 30 flare guns. each has 4 rounds with 2 colors: red and blue. blue is if you need help. red is to tell everyone to clear out cause of serious danger. i'm at the storyteller's temple if you need one. don't need to trade anything but like i said i only have 30 so if you travel in a group and keep together you should just have 1 between you all. if you run out of flares you gotta ask ST for more.

2. who here knows how to fight. just putting it out there it might be good to have some people we all know can handle themselves if someone needs help. guard task force security group call it whatever you want itd just be damn handy to know who to ask for in a fight

thats all

-tim

[ooc: feel free to respond here via the iStone 5s or via an action prompt at the Storyteller's temple!]

Comments

[postictal]

Monkey compound's still got a lotta lumber we could use, if we need it. I guess we could always pull from Monsun if we need to, but...

[He trails off with a grimace and a shrug. Personally, he'd rather not venture back to that wooded side if he can help it, but the option exists. As long as he's prepared for it, it might be easier to stomach, if only for a brief period of time.]

[prettypurpleparlor]

[Muffet looks equally unthrilled at the idea.]

We can work with that if we have to, but honestly I think if we're going to be trying to cut down trees anyway, it makes more sense to start in the nice, non-psychically-threatening forest we have here already.

[postictal]

If we end up cutting down all the trees we have here, we're gonna get stuck waiting around for years or asking the Storyteller for more to grow. [Hence the need to outsource.]

The other islands might not even last forever. So if we can grab what we can while they're around, I'm thinking that's the best choice we got.

[prettypurpleparlor]

I suppose I could just stand on the desert side of the river and toss a line of magic at the nearest tree, then try to pull it over...

[Yes, Muffet did just suggest fucking lassoing a tree like that's a totally reasonable plan. In her defense, it worked with Ignis?]

[postictal]

...well, we have time.

[They have time to figure it out, should it come to that.]

Probably shouldn't start building until after the, uh, sun has died. Doesn't make sense to put stuff like that together if a bunch of night-things are just gonna take it all apart again.

[prettypurpleparlor]

[Aw, fine. Operation: Tree Lasso has been put on indefinite hold. Because you have no sense of adventure.]

That does seem like a sensible precaution, yes- although we do still want to stockpile food beforehand, even if we won't be using these buildings in particular.

[postictal]

[SOMEONE has to be sensible (????) for the brief time window they have.]

Sounds good to me. We could use the temple, I guess, or...the monkey compound, maybe?

[prettypurpleparlor]

[Look, she's spent most of her time on this island being sensible at people, let her have this one crazy plan.]

It would probably be best to ask the Storyteller before using their temple for anything, out of politeness. But assuming they agree, I think perhaps a slightly smaller stockpile in both locations might be safer than a larger amount in one spot- that way, there's another option should one of the two be unavailable.

[Ideally they'd have a lot more backups, but their supplies can only stretch so far and she's trying to be realistic.]

[postictal]

[He kinda hopes that she feels solid enough to ask the Storyteller herself - in general, he doesn't like interacting with them unless he absolutely has to. Call it a grudge, call it leftover bitterness over Ozuma, call it leftover bitterness over the caves, but he doesn't trust himself to be diplomatic. He knows himself too well.]

I'd say we should cache stockpiles all over the place, but I've got no clue if anyone has a good way of containing stuff so it doesn't spoil, or so that nothing gets into it.

[prettypurpleparlor]

As I mentioned, it's been something of a work in progress trying to figure it out.

[Muffet is more than willing to ask the Storyteller, next chance she gets- she's on decent terms with them, and she holds politeness to be important enough that she'd go to the effort even if she wasn't.]

I also don't want to spread our resources too thin- it's a tradeoff between quantity and quality at the moment, though it'll be less so once we've had time to build up our supplies further.

[postictal]

In the meantime, I guess the mana pools cover the ground that we can't.

[It's not as much of a logistical nightmare as it could be, but it's pretty up there. It's pretty goddamn up there, between the sun dying and everything else.]

Christ. This is gonna be the definition of a "long night".

We can probably wrap this soon, unless you want to do more with it?

[prettypurpleparlor]

To say the least.

[Muffet's tone is grimly sympathetic. She spent the first couple decades of her life without ever seeing the sun and she's not thrilled about going back to that, but someone has to organize this shitshow and it might as well be them.]

If we can find volunteers for the job, it wouldn't be a bad idea to have people guarding the mana pools during that week- the last thing we need are those creatures the Jormun mentioned using them to take us by surprise.

nah we can wrap here

[postictal]

Well, we can start there.

[It's high time they started making preparations of their own, after all.]