Luceti Town Meeting Cycle Year 5

[shadedsunlight]

Who: Everyone!
What: Town meeting
When: February 6th at 6 PM
Where: The school cafeteria
Summary: The village gets together for a town meeting. Let there be ideas, plans, and future festivities.
Rating:
With the help of some friends and friends of friends, the school cafeteria has been transformed into a meeting space. Rows of chairs and a few benches fill the space, providing adequate seating for whoever wishes to come to the meeting.

Along the back are some tables set with cookies, pastries, and tea, juice, and coffee for people to munch and sip on, before, during, and after the meeting

By the entrance is another table. On it sits a locked box with a slit on top, small sheets of blank paper, and a few pencils and pens. This is the message box, for anyone who wishes to express an idea or thought in an anonymous manner. The box will later be opened and all the messages inside will be read out loud by Ginia.

At the front sits a platform - one of the ones built for A Midsummer Night's Dream - with a table and chair resting on top. It's where Ginia will sit during the meeting, the extra height for the purpose of being able to see anyone who may be seated in the back row.

Links
Pre-meeting socializing
The meeting
Message Box
Headcount

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Comments

[all7seas]

"Sorry -- do you mean an escape from the village to the sea? Or escape from the sea to the village? Because there is a path."

Because he wasn't clear on that. And an escape from the village to the sea wasn't an escape at all.

[lol and if I had known at the beginning of the thread that the 3rd Party could in fact fly an armed force across mountains -- confirmed by Masa -- this thread would have gone differently. Sorry!]

[captainhornblower]

"From the village to the sea. From the sea to the village. Either way, it's travel through the mountains and days worth of walking, from my understanding.

Any way to stop them also stops us. Destroying possible entrances should be looked at as destroying possible retreats, as well."

[all7seas]

"Only if you leave anyone on the other side. Easy enough to kill the connection at the Barracks after evacuating the shore. And you know as well as I that the beach is no place for hundreds of people to retreat to. No water. No food. Nice long death, if they get trapped out there."

[simplestgift]

"Then it's a contingency we can plan for, Jack, not a death knell to the very concept of having a ship of war as defense. All this, it may not even happen, and any plan we make won't survive an actual invasion. All we can do is build up resources. It's the entire reason Britain lost the colonies, isn't it? And it's why we've beaten back Bonaparte thus far. We were underprepared before, and we're trying to prepare."

[all7seas]

"Britain loses the....

And for the record, I never said I was against preparations. I've had to think of all of this since I moved out to the shore a year ago. Food. Storing it up. Water. Rain barrels, caches on the roof, a collection tank. It takes a lot to support even three people by the sea for any length of time. All I do, gentlemen, is prepare. Now this is two different animals: prepare a ship, and prepare for refugees. I'm not against the former, not at all. The latter will take more than even a handful of people are capable of."

[simplestgift]

"Then perhaps you'd best bring up as a separate subject how best to go about it."

[all7seas]

"And why would I do that, sir?"

[simplestgift]

"Because you already have, and in the wrong discussion."

[all7seas]

Jack looks pointedly at Hornblower, who brought up the topic of escape to the sea. Why even bother to argue anymore with these two.

"Luck to you, gentlemen."

[simplestgift]

Just trying to get back on topic, Jack.

"Thank you."

Finally.