Children (and spider) are leading the way, apparently

[attheclocktower]

My name is Xion. I've been here a couple months now, and there's something I want to talk to everybody about.

The Jormun have been talking about the sun dying. That it's going to be really bad - with darkness and monsters and other dangerous things. But I haven't... really seen that many people talking about it. Or at least what we're going to do. Before I got here, I came from a place where things like this would happen all the time and it helped a lot to work together, or at least not all fight on our own.

And if we're going to do that here, there's different things we should probably do:

• We need to get supplies together. Things like food and water, and clothes to keep warm. Maybe wood for fires too. We probably have healers but medical supplies too, in case powers don't work for some reason, or there isn't one nearby.
  
• We need places we know will be safe. Like camps, or bases. They'll need some kind of defenses, and people there in case monsters try to break through. We should have at least one place too for people who don't want to fight, or can't.
  
• If we have enough people with different skills, it might be a good idea to figure out who goes where, so that not everyone - people who can fight, or heal, or things like that - is all in the same place. Unless we all are in the same place, I guess.
  
• Has anybody talked to the Jormun about working together yet? We should probably figure out if they're okay with letting us help them, and if they are, how we can coordinate.

There's probably other ways we can prepare that I didn't think of. I'm sort of new at this. Sorry.

I'll try to stay around this message so I can talk to anybody interested. Look for a girl with black hair and blue eyes. If I'm not there, please leave a note and how I can contact you.

[True to word, Xion can often be found hanging around the communal rock, with a strange catpup thing in tow, if anyone would prefer to talk to her that way.]

Comments

[thermalwind]

I talked to the Jormun. They're fine with us helping out. The elders had a few things to say about how they used light last time.

If we work with how they're setting up their defenses and shore up whatever gaps exist, that would give us a lot to work with.

[attheclocktower]

How they used the light? Did the monsters not like it?

[At some point someone is going to tell her about the Undertale cast and she's going to feel very bad.]

That's good to hear, though. Once we figure out what we can offer, we can plan more with them.

action

[souris_keteer]

[Mickey heads on over to greet and thank Xion - but he stops at the... cat? He assumes it's a cat.]

Gee, Xion, whaddya got there?

[attheclocktower]

[Xion blinks in surprise, eyes drifting from Mickey to who he's looking at. Then she smiles softly.]

His name's Excalibur. He's a friend.

Action

[prettypurpleparlor]

[Muffet pauses at the rock on her way back to the mana pool, checking to see if there are any important new messages. She's pleased to realize that someone else is working on preparing for the upcoming week of sunlessness, and is about to start writing a reply when she notices Xion nearby.]

[She approaches her with a friendly smile and asks:]

Excuse me, are you the one who wrote about preparing for the darkness?

[attheclocktower]

[Xion looks up from her task: sorting through the contents of her hip pouch. They really had all been restored wonderfully - the letters, the shells, even the paper animals Yu gave her.]

Ah- yes. That would be me.

[A talking spider? ... she's seen stranger, honestly.]

Action

[shineinside]

[After seeing the message, Yuka hurries back to her shack, then returns to the vicinity of rocknet, looking for Xion.]

Xion! I was looking for you!

[Wave! She's carrying a jug of something.]

[attheclocktower]

Ah, Yuka!

[Xion's not hard to find at least, standing with her back to a tree nearby.]

Is it about the message?

[Why else would people be looking for her right now?]

[despairing_hope]

I wonder how often this happens....

[attheclocktower]

The sun dying, you mean?

[walkietalkie]

I don't have any supplies, but I'm good at hiding and fortifying and staying alive. I can show you how to keep monsters out of buildings and make sure they're safe enough to sleep in.

[attheclocktower]

All of that sounds like really good ideas. I don't know what all places we're going to be setting up camp, making it hard for monsters to get in will make it a lot easier. Maybe we can keep some people's homes from being destroyed, too.

Also um, who is this, so I know who to look or ask for?

OTA: the lifeaftr support-maining subforum

[crosslaced]

Who are our healers/medics/people with first aid experience?

Where do you plan to be?

[hyperlit]

3 healing packs
on chol

[They, ah...they didn't sign the message. Very helpful, Drifter. Thank you.]

[attheclocktower]

Did you want to help figure out where all our healers should go,
or something like that?

[ PLEASE LIFT SOME OF THIS RESPONSIBILITY FROM HER SHOULDERS... ]

This is Xion, by the way. And I can do some healing, and I know a little bit of first aid.

[ If by "little bit" you mostly meant watching Shion those times he'd had to do it (often on her) and also that one time Reno coached her through removing shrapnel, at least. ]

[thisisourfuture]

This is Hinata. I can do field surgery if I have the tools.
Hopefully, it won't come to that. I'll be at the temple.

I can step out and clear the path if someone needs to get to me.

[yourattention]

can do basic first aid
dunno
cj

[Good job, Connor. Sign it with your nickname nobody uses and has never seen you write.]

red chalk

[bloodyashes]

I've got a decent grasp of first aid, at least, and I'll be sticking to the desert camp as usual. I imagine Ardyn will also be there, contributing... Whatever he feels up to contributing.

-Asch

[unpurify]

I possess healing skills and some healing items.

I plan on being wherever I can. However I cannot go on the eastern side of Monsun.

[It'll end really badly for everyone involved.]

[journalname]

I have some healing magic, as well as fire magic. I can keep an area warded by flames for a while if need be. Is there anywhere that would be most helpful? I am only recently arrived.

- King Asgore Dreemurr

[wow what a fancy signature! he second-guesses it almost as soon as he's made it, but it's sort of a habit]

[prettypurpleparlor]

I have healing magic, which seems limited to about three uses a day by this place, as well as the ability to create magical food which heals when eaten.

I intend to make certain as many noncombatants as I can manage are adequately supplied and out of harm's way, then proceed to Chol to join the fighting there.

[encircling]

My healing magic is fairly powerful.

I will be on Chol most of the time, but I plan on moving around to the different islands.

--Mira

[Action AS PROMISED]

[bloodyashes]

[Asch makes it a point to come in and check the board once a day or so in his slow circle between the Monsun camp and the islets, and he just happens to arrive -

to see

what on earth IS that thing?

Meanwhile HERE COMES THE LICKING in a way that will probably remind Xion all too much of another Asch at another time with another disaster fast approaching and everyone preparing as best they can.]

HERE WE GO

[attheclocktower]

[And yep, as soon as Excalibur sees Asch he lets out a positive trill of delight and immediately leaps up to cover every bit of exposed skin he can reach with sloppy, slobbery Dream Eater kisses. HI FRIEND HE REMEMBERS YOU FRIEND.

The sound of his delight makes Xion look up in surprise, but as soon as she sees what's going on?

Well.

She laughs.

No just a giggle or chuckle, but an honest-to-goodness, open-mouthed clutching-your-sides laugh. The kind that nobody has seen her do since her arrival at LifeAftr, because it hasn't happened. Unfortunately, Excalibur only seems to take that as encouragement, and his enthusiasm increases.]

action

[unpurify]

[Sup Xion, have a guy in a baseball uniform followed by two large glowing circles of pure light. The Batter read your message and figured it might be easier to talk in person.]

You are the one who wrote the message about planning for the sun dying?

[Just to make sure he's got the right person.]

[attheclocktower]

[Xion nods doing her best to not seem nervous about this whole thing. Though admittedly she's eyeing his companions curiously. Not enough to ask yet though.]

Yeah, that's me.