Open Info Collection Post

[thaumewturge]

Who: Rhel + anyone who wants to help out
Where: Pokemon Center
When: August 8th
What: So Rhel wants to get all the information folks may have learned written down! Come help?

[Rhel can only hope that other people are of the same mind when it comes to gathering information. She doesn't know much about this place, she doubts other people know all that much about this place, and the more information they can get and make accessible the better.

So she asks Minato for help and tells the people she recognizes what the plan is and on the eighth of the month she settles down for a day-long info gathering fest.

She's quite pleased with the rather pretty journal and pencil she managed to find, too.]

OOC: Like it says in the explanation, Rhel wants to get all the information everyone's been gathering piecemeal and write it down! Feel free to threadjack if everyone's okay with it, I just play a nerd who'd do this sorta thing.

Comments

[thaumewturge]

[Well, that's a terrifying thought.]

Not a bad idea. It would help others find things that may belong to them, after all.

[thetyger]

Yeah. Sort of a directory.

[Atsushi looks around the immediate area, very conspicuously, to make sure a certain person is not in earshot, if she's attending this meeting at all.]

I'm particularly concerned about the magically appearing weapons because... Beatrice? She um... she's made threats against us all and think that should be documented. They were vague, so I don't know what she's planning to do, but she's not to be trusted.

[thaumewturge]

Against all of us? Just out of hand like that, completely unprompted?

[thetyger]

W-we were talking about the storm blocking the island off, and she said she was capable of doing that herself and other "much worse things".

[In his opinion, she was being very blatant with her intentions.]

She went on to say that we won't know what she's planning until it's done, but we'll know who did it. It's a threat, right?

[thaumewturge]

[This may be a record for "fastest time Rhel's been threatened", though she's never met this woman before.]

It does sound like one, though in my experience people who say things like "you won't know what I'm planning until it's done" rarely manage to get anything...well, done. Still, can't hurt to be cautious.

[thetyger]

You think she was bluffing?

[Toran overall has been fairly calm compared to his everyday experiences, and he's just waiting for someone like Beatrice to unveil an elaborate plan of some sort.]

I suppose people... exaggerate.

[thaumewturge]

At least a little. The most terrifying people are the ones who don't tell you what they're planning, after all.

[thetyger]

That's true.

[Another thing to worry about. What else did he have to say? Oh.]

My other topics are, I guess, more... announcements? One, is that I have a supply a pure Combee honey and I'm selling it for Pokemon bait; uh, anyone can drop by the boba shop for that. Also... can we trade Pokemon? I'd like to exchange a temperamental Spearow...

[thaumewturge]

Oh, once I figure out how the bait works I may take you up on that trade. Flicker isn't going anywhere, but maybe another little one would help with the...

[She glances down to where her Litwick is all but attached to her leg.]

Clingy-ness.

[thetyger]

I'm not sure how the bait works myself. Minato suggested it.

[He looks down at the Litwick. It's... cute.]

It doesn't burn you, staying that close?

[thaumewturge]

Oddly enough, no. She doesn't like me trying to touch her flame, but she hasn't burned me yet. Nor has she melted.

[thetyger]

Mine are all animals, or animal-adjacent.

[Object Pokemon are still an oddity.]

[regression]

[ Joonghyuk has only been listening in, but this gets his attention. ]

... If people are able to regain items, it shouldn't be out of the realm to think they may recover their abilities from their world in the future.

[ At least, from his experience, to keep one's mind open is important. It's better to prevent than to act after the deed is done. ]

Threats shouldn't be taken too lightly.

[thaumewturge]

Well, yes, but in my experience nothing short of a god can do this sort of weather...shite and if whatever brought us all here can do that to a god, then I think we've bigger problems to worry about.

[thetyger]

[Joonghyuk at least finding the prospect of threats credible gives Atsushi more confidence to continue the topic. The thought of regaining abilities is not something to gloss over either.]

I've seen some... very powerful people, and I really think that at least we should... keep an eye on her.

[regression]

I agree with at least keeping an eye on her.

[ While Joonghyuk doesn't disagree with Rhel, he doesn't want to deal with infighting and other obstacles thrown in their way when it can be prevented early on. ]

We can't handle the bigger problems if the thorns in our side lodge in deeper and poison us.

[thaumewturge]

A fair point. I've still never met her, so I've no idea who to watch out for, but all the same.

[regression]

I haven't, either.

... Maybe we should designate someone as her keeper.

[thaumewturge]

That...hm. Perhaps not a "keeper", just someone who knows what to look out for? Threats are worrisome, yes, but you can threaten to do most anything and it isn't actually a concern unless you start to make good on them.

[thetyger]

Maybe... a confidant? Someone who could get close to her, or befriend her.

[Someone who hasn't met her, and is capable of subterfuge.]

[scension]

[As far as Sagi knows, everyone else here is smarter and/or luckier than him, and his own investigations haven't been going great, so he'd intended to just hang out quietly in a corner. Joonghyuk mentioning "abilities", however, makes him look a little uncomfortable. And that's before the other lady, unprompted, brings up "gods"...

He's compelled to chime in. Hesitantly, since he doubts how much it'll help, but compelled all the same.]

He's got a point. I think that might be what already happened to my wings. They felt weaker for a few days, but they're fine now.

[Well, up until about ten seconds ago he'd thought the explanation was something else, but that's beside the point. That's just the story of his life.]

If that small amount of power can survive crossing over to wherever this is, a god could too. Easily. So infighting might even be part of the plan.

[thaumewturge]

[Oh dear. Rhel bites her lip, trying not to sigh.]

I suppose I was being a bit optimistic, hoping that no one would ever try something like that, hm?

[scension]

I don't even think it's that. [He gestures vaguely.] It's more like - stick a bunch of people with their own agendas in one place, and sometimes they... make mistakes. Then throw some kind of power imbalance in there, and those get bigger.

[But after that, he lets his arms drop to his sides, aware that he's drifted off into speculation.]

...Um, I wasn't planning to pick any fights. Just for the record.

[thaumewturge]

Oh, no, no, I didn't think you were! I just still, somehow, like to believe the best in people.

[Despite knowing damn well that some people are bastards.]

Though that does make me curious: is anyone's agenda here anything other than "get home" or "find out what's going on"?

[thetyger]

Aside from Beatrice, I haven't encountered anyone who seems to have a different goal apart from figuring things out to go home. But I haven't met everyone.

[Those with hidden agendas won't be as obvious.]