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Luceti Town Meeting Cycle Year 5

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.

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Pre-meeting socializing
The meeting
Message Box
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[Maybe you've been helping with set-up. Maybe you came by early so you could ~~grab more cookies~~ get a good seat. Or maybe you've wandered in accidentally and aren't sure what's going on. Either way, feel free to mingle and mix around here before the meeting begins.]

Edited 2012-02-06 18:35 (UTC)

[All topics for discussion will go here! Please put the subject of discussion in the subject line, and use a new comment for each different idea. This will make it easier to focus on each topic and give it proper attention, while the subject line will make topics identifiable after comments collapse.

Since this is a big flowing discussion, to feel free to jump in as you wish. Also feel free to have conversations with your neighbor, get up to get another drink, scoff at something someone just said, anything goes. If things begin veering too far off-topic or getting rowdy, Ginia will try to rein things back in.

The initial comment can be written however you want; prose, brackets, bulletpoints if it's a long topic of discussion. Just remember your character is essentially giving a presentation in front of everyone present. Feel free to play with nervousness too.]

[This is the message box! If your character has something to say, but wishes to to remain anonymous or is otherwise shy about speaking in front of an audience, leave a comment below! Unless it's largely inappropriate, Ginia will read whatever is written verbatim. (So feel free to troll away.)]

[Bulletpoints because you really don't want the tl;dr on this. Use your imagination and pretend it's a speech with visual aids.]

Function: A way for people to get quickly organized in a time of crisis.
-Can also serve as sections to patrol during New Feather cycles
-Is not a police force or any kind of law enforcement. Just volunteers willing to guide and organize incase something happens.

Plan: Divide the village into six different sections.
-Each sector will have a team assigned to it. This team will help in evacuations, get out warnings, guard and defend any non-combatants and/or injured people.
-Each section will have a building designated as a meeting place/safehouse that will be stocked with supplies (first aid, non-persishable food, emergency supplies).

Here is a proposed map of how the sections could be divided. Buildings with a blue X are possibilities for safe houses.

(Yellow could use the school, pink could use the clinic? Green could use CH1?)

The teams:
-Ideally each group would have 5-8 people in each one, can be altered depending on the area they cover.
--There should be backups or a regular rotation in the event of kidnappings, people being sent home, injuries, or other circumstances.
-The primary focus of each team is getting non-combatants and the injured to safety and guarding them; NOT engaging the enemy.
-Not intended to replace any of the existing groups.
-Each team would have people with a variety of skills (combat, medical, magical, etc.)

[And it's over! Feel free to talk with your fellow villagers about what might have been discussed, recruit a few people for your plants, eat more cookies. Mingle, mix, have fun.]

Keeping in line with the idea of emergency preparation, I would like to discuss forming some sort of alarm system independent of the journals. While the journals are an effective way of reaching the village, there's always the possibility someone might not have a journal or them, or the posts are inaccessible in one way or another.

Any sort of alarm system is something that should be easily seen and heard across the village at all times. The easiest would be some sort of bell, with maybe some sort of visual element added on. Creating some sort of spell that would also work as a warning system has also been suggested.

I now open the floor for discussion.

[Were it anyone else running the meeting, Adele wouldn't have helped with the set up, and certainly wouldn't have made her way to the front for a better view. But...it was Ginia. And while she still hasn't read that letter she's certain there's something to the effect of 'look after' or 'support' involving Ginia and Helios. So she's here, as she said she would be.]

[While Ginia definitely isn't racing around like a chicken with her head cut off, she's been walking around at a brisk pace. With Ami off on her mission, and Giles... well, gone, running everything has fallen onto her shoulders.

Catch her at any point, whether she's personally thanking the people that pitched in with setting up and/or catering, grabbing a cookie and some water for herself, or off in a quiet corner looking over her notes.]

Edited 2012-02-06 19:23 (UTC)

[This probably comes sometime after Ginia's whole speech about the patrols and whatnot. Because it's an obvious segway into it and something she's been considering since she saw the Mission Rewards.

Worth noting is that Haruhi's making a concentrated effort to look older here. She's 20, even if she's physically 17 - so she's dressed formally (perhaps more than is necessary), has her hair all straightened up (it's down to a little below her shoulders now) and her hair-ribbons are replaced with something more like this. That said, she's a good public speaker, so there's no hesitation-]

All of you realize the some of the buildings you're referencing - namely that Rec Center and the Barracks - are ones that were built by people in Luceti, right? There's some other ones - the docks, that beach house, that other stone one by one of the lakes - but those buildings are ones which won't get their damages fixed in the event of, well. An explosion or an invasion or anything like that.

One of the mission rewards is a stupidly expensive one called an "Applied Shift." Now, I don't know if anyone is planning to collect 80 Participation Points or if they will allow for people to combine their points to purchase something, but it seems to me if we're going to rely on those buildings, we might as well use a convenient method such as the Auto-Repair which is used on all the houses and buildings here, in which it'll be fixed without labor in twenty-four hours.

[A beat] I know that these Applied Shifts are relying on the Organization when we should be self-sufficient, but if it's beneficial there's no harm in making it happen if anyone is willing to collect the necessary payment.

...Thank you.

Edited 2012-02-06 19:00 (UTC)

Thank you, Haruhi. That's an excellent idea. I now open the floor for discussion on ways to procure the points necessary for Applied Shifts.

[You know what's relieving? Being done is relieving. Once the meeting is over, Ginia takes a few minutes to gather up all her notes and return them to her bag before she begins to socialize. Thanking everyone for coming, following up on a few ideas, grabbing a cookie and enjoying it in peace as she peruses her notes. Feel free to catch her at any point.]

[Vash shows up close to the starting time. He's more here to see how these things are going to be run and held. Ooh! Are those cookies he sees? He'll be near the snack area until the meeting starts.]

[Making it a point to speak to everyone at some point, Ginia lets Vash have a few minutes to enjoy the cookies before coming over to say hello.]

Hello, Vash, I'm glad to see you here.

[Ami's on the mission and he was going to be here anyway. Had to show up as a representative of the clinics. And given last night's post that he discovered too late to reply to? He wants to be here for everything else.

So here's one Law ghosting in the door silently.]

pssst--! 'Nia. Ginia. Oi.

[Lupin draws near her on quiet feet, picking his way through the crowd with an easy grace. He's sober now and, though he still had a dull headache, his thoughts were clear. The coke he kept on hand ensured that his thinking would stay straight, but also act as a cover--he realized he was acting like he was on one of his jobs again, deflecting attention from one thing to another. With what he wantd to tell her though, any front was helpful.

He did tell Tanaka he'd be discreet, after all.

He lightly touches her arm to further grab her attention. Drawing near, he speaks sotto voce over her shoulder.]

You were looking for an independent, unmonitored alarm system? [He's smiling.] I think I might know of something that would help you.

[Adele's support means more than Ginia knows how to express. She's not just a housemate showing up out of obligation, but someone with her own ideas to share withe everyone, someone who wants to make a difference.]

Thank you for coming, Adele.

I am here because I am not certain if anyone else is quite as paranoid as I tend to be about such things. [She shrugs and offers Ginia a small smile.] Someone needs to be here to ask all the 'what if' questions, yes?

[He may have ghosted in silently, but Ginia catches him later and goes over to say hello.]

Doctor Law, an honor to see you here. Thank you for coming.

Doctor Law.

[Not so strange to see him here, all things considered. It does make her wonder if there is anyone watching the clinic, but then most are probably at the meeting or holed up due to the weather. Should anyone need aid they'll be contacted.]

[Ginia is just wrapping up a conversation when Lupin comes by. She takes a small sip of her drink as she listens to him, then turns toward him and offers his hand.]

So good to see you, Lupin. Come, walk with me.

[Without waiting for him to follow, she'll set out toward a table, one further to the back. She smiles and laughs as she walks, thanking people for coming, holding short conversations all the way over there. Once she reaches the table, she takes a chair on the far side and smiles back at him.]

I'm listening.

You paranoia is appreciated. [Said with a small smile.] And all those 'what if' questions will be beneficial to us all. It's also a good having a friend in the crowd. I can't say I'm very accustomed to public speaking.

[ Helios is going to be helping out in anyway possible. With Giles gone it's obvious that Ginia needs all the support and help she'll need for this sort of thing. So Helios will do just that and he'll be walking around setting up things and making sure there's enough food and the like to last the entire meeting. ]

Then I shall sit in the front row, so you will have someone to make silly faces at you until you are no longer nervous. It is something my father would do for me at my recitals.

[Such a great bro. All the help is appreciated, as if having some of her best friends around to contribute and support her. She'll take a break from studying her notes to go over for a small chat.]

Thanks for helping out, Helios. I really appreciate it.

[Ginia laughs quietly, remembering how her own father always made it a point to sit in the first row.]

As long as you don't make me laugh.

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Luceti Town Meeting Cycle Year 5

PRE-MEETING SOCIALIZING

THE MEETING

THE MESSAGE BOX

Idea - An emergency response team for the village

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Suggestion - Applied Shifts to Key Buildings

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