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

[markofthewise]

[He shrugs.]

Not really. I just figured I'd see what's going on. You know, responsible member of society and stuff.

[chikaidestroyer]

Indeed. It seems there are worries that the village is not prepared for an invasion. It would have been ... irresponsible for me not to observe this discussion. [He expected an extension of the discussion that had made its way over the journals.]

[markofthewise]

[He almost says 'do they know something we don't?', but it's pretty reckless to just assume the village is safe.]

They seem to have a lot of ideas for what to do about it. [Not all of them are new.]

[chikaidestroyer]

[Most of them are not new. He nods in agreement.]

It seems so. Now it's a matter of them presenting their ideas and garnering the necessary support for their plans.

[He wonders what success, if any, will be derived from this meeting.]

[markofthewise]

[He nods at that. For one reason or another, all those old ideas didn't go through. He wonders if-

A thought suddenly pops in his head:]

Are we old, jaded and bitter now? [He doesn't imply this to be a bad thing. Old people are kind of awesome.]

[chikaidestroyer]

[Another note for his grocery list. Lettuce.]

Perhaps not bitter, but old and jaded would not be far from the truth. A balanced society, idealists and realists, optimists and pessimists. [...] Imagine how stagnant, jaded, and bitter the outside world must seem, with those trapped in this world endlessly.

[markofthewise]

[Well, Albert answered that more seriously than he expected. Well then.]

... well, when you put it like that. For all we know, it's all a big vicious cycle. In twenty years, you and me will be experimenting on the newbies.

[chikaidestroyer]

[It's a bit strange to be having a serious conversation while half paying attention to a grocery list, but he is a Silverberg.]

If we are here and have not been sent home, quite possibly. Strange to think, is it not?

[markofthewise]

[It's an admirable skill, to be sure.]

More dark and depressing, really. I hope my skin doesn't turn blue.

[chikaidestroyer]

Have you gone through it? My skin turned red during one of the drafts. [...He tries not to think too hard about it.]

[markofthewise]

... nope, I've managed to avoid it so far. [So. Far. He is concerned. A bit.]

[chikaidestroyer]

It was one of the less ... dangerous side effects, I suppose.

[All right, now he's thinking too much about it. Time for a new subject.]

What do you think about these meetings?

[markofthewise]

[And by new, the original subject.]

We had one two years ago. I was still pretty new then. [He remembers being involved in it. Trying to make a difference.] I don't know if it will change much, but it's not bad to try. I mean, this place has changed a lot since I first arrived.

[chikaidestroyer]

In theory, these meetings should give many people focus and carry them through their projects. But some things tend to falter. Motivation wanes. [Because of disappearances? Because of experiments? Because of people's apathy?] In spite of that, Luceti's very different. But is that because of what we do to our environment, or because of what's going on outside?

[markofthewise]

... well, I guess we can't exactly take credit for an ocean showing up. [Or maybe they can take credit for all of Luceti not being an ocean.]

[chikaidestroyer]

We could, but it wouldn't technically be correct. [He looks up from his inane list.] Still, I suppose it's impressive. I never thought I would see the day where there would be ships out there.

[markofthewise]

Seeing as how it was a desert, I didn't expect to see much of anything out there.