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

[unpurify]

[The circles in question seem context with just floating behind the Batter for the moment. There's no fight so there's no real reason to move around.]

I am capable of combat and healing, so if you require someone with those abilities to be somewhere, I'm willing to listen.

[attheclocktower]

Y-you make it sound like I'm like... in charge or something.

[So much for that not seeming nervous thing.]

Well, we're still sort of trying to figure out where everyone will be. But Chol is probably a pretty safe bet. I know I'll probably be there, and... unless they're protecting people on the islets or Enso or something, a lot of the fighters probably will be too.

I'm sort of just... trying to make sure we're all working together, and we know what's going on. As much as we can at least.

[If... that means directing people a bit then she'll do her best.]

[unpurify]

[Yeah, it's pretty obvious that Xion is nervous about this. For all the Batter doesn't express, he tends to not miss emotions in others. That being said, she still continues on.

And that alone seems to be a very good thing.]

Okay, that makes sense. I am not a dedicated healer but I can help those on the battlefield assisting with combat and injuries. But I have my limits.

[Mainly CP limits. Ah, meta-RPG shenanigans.]

The Jormun have agreed to help us as well. They want the creatures destroyed as well.

[attheclocktower]

One of my friends, Keith, mentioned that. I... I think I'm going to try to talk to them later, to figure out how exactly we can work together.

[More like how they can supplement the Jormun's ranks and efforts; they clearly know what they're doing more than Xion and the Storyteller's other charges seem to.]

I'm about the same, so far as I can do. I was planning to try to be on Chol. Both so we can better fight the monsters, and so we can better help anybody who's hurt get to safety.

[unpurify]

[That was true. The Jormun clearly have more knowledge and experience dealing with the upcoming threat then the Batter and everyone else on the islands. At least they are willing to share said knowledge with others.]

If others have spoken to them then we should share that information.

[Better for everyone to know everything rather then one person only holding bits and pieces.]

Those who cannot fight need a place to stay. We cannot protect all of them.

[If he's being completely honest. If everyone was out and about, there as no way to cover them all.]

[attheclocktower]

No, we can't. Especially the more spread out we are.

[At the same time there's a danger in all conglomerating in one place. Then again, if the monsters are heavily focusing on the sun as is... Well, they'll likely run into the same problem the Tower residents ran into the June the power first went down. They can hope that any secondary base for noncombatants will mostly be left alone, but she doesn't think they can really ultimately trust that.

There's so much to consider.]

Yeah. I know that there's a camp set up on Monsun, were a friend of mine is staying. We've managed to keep safe there so far, so it's somewhere to consider.

I'll ask to see if anybody else has talked to the Jormun about plans and working together, besides Keith.

[unpurify]

It is.

[The Batter personally didn't like Monsun that much, although that had to do with the physiological effect it had on those who stepped foot on the island. He couldn't go on one side of the island because things would go very bad, very quickly.

But a safe zone is a safe zone and it's very likely that it isn't set up on that side.]

Magic may help. [Barriers and such.] And some of the Jormun, if they're willing.

[There really is a whole lot to think about for this. The Batter save his world but he did it through destruction. This is new to him.]