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

[crosslaced]

I'd like to believe that they'd need only a gentle pushing, but we'll see how the self-distribution pans out.

Where will you be, Xion?

[attheclocktower]

I'm not sure yet. Wherever people need me most probably.

I can fight too, so maybe it's a good idea for me to be on Chol, in case anybody gets hurt while fighting and needs help getting back.

[crosslaced]

Coordinate with the other Chol medics? Chol will be very medically demanding.

You should get a evacuation system going for serious cases.

[attheclocktower]

If what Keith said is true, Chol might be one of the safer places to be. The Jormun have a lot of experience defending it. It'd make sense for them to have somewhere to rest and heal the people who get hurt. Hopefully they'll have room for us too, there.

[And the Storyteller's temple will help a great deal for anybody so badly off the need to leave the battlefield, but they won't find that out the Storyteller tells them that's an option.]

[crosslaced]

My dear, The Jormun presence is strong on Chol because Chol is the frontline. Chol is what every undersea beast will be trying to conquer. It's hardly safe.

It will do us good to work with the Jormun, yes, but don't expect- or demand- too much from them.

[attheclocktower]

[Wow okay first of all.

She doesn't know exactly why, but she feels a lot like a kid who just got scolded. And not in a good way.]

Well they must have some sort of plan. I'm not expecting them to take care of us, but if they know what they're doing it's stupid not to ask.

Wherever people who are hurt or aren't fighting are, we're going to have to keep it as least as well protected as Chol, if not more. And that's something we almost definitely can't count on the Jormun for. There aren't a lot of us. We have to be careful about what we can handle.

[She'll probably feel a little silly about this once it becomes clear the Storyteller's Temple will be offered as a very solid safe haven. But for now...]

[crosslaced]

[kittenyellsatbemusedcat.mp4

He's not going to spend the time fighting over details when they are generally in agreement.]

Yes.

Are you going to name a location for it or are we agreed on the Temple?

1/2

[attheclocktower]

[Hnnnnggg this is still kind of frustrating but the worst part is she can't really put her finger on why.]

I was also going to suggest the camp that's been put together on the desert side of Monsun.

2/2

[attheclocktower]

[And then, after the dream conversation with the Storyteller has made some things abundantly clear... Well, there's an unpleasant mix of frustration and mortification swirling in her stomach, but she can at least admit defeat with some dignity.]

The Temple is fine.

[We are never speaking about this conversation again.]

[crosslaced]

[it's just a feeling he gives, fam. no hard feelings. if it helps, he's also not one to rub shit in…. usually.]

Why not both? We have the manpower to staff some extra space.