[open] ain't no discussion party like an open discussion party

[psycholawgy]

Who: Anyone and everyone
When 1 February
Where: CERES Gardens
What: IC Dicussion Post
Rating/Warning: None so far!

[ At 5:30 in the morning, each person will receive a text: ]
Good morning!
If you'd like to know what happened during the CERES tours, please come to the gardens at 12 noon.
Lunch will be provided.

[ All these texts will come from Athena Cykes, so if you'd like to respond, head on over here! ]

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[ Athena's managed to convince the manager of the Little Sister Cafe to cater at ther CERES gardens, so there are tables, a spread of food, and at the center of all the tables is a small platform-like stage with a microphone. A part of the gardens now looks like this. With less balloons, of course.

Once there's enough people, Athena Cykes steps up. She has crutches, and she rests those crutches by the side of the platform as she speaks. ]

I'm sure we were all expecting a safe tour, but most of us - if not all - ended up being in danger. But, despite all this, we learned a lot of things. If we can all get up here one by one, in an orderly manner, and speak of what we've learned, we would be able to help one another survive in Cerealia better.

I don't think we need to keep this a secret anymore; Mr. Mosley and the rest of CERES have their eyes on us at all times. But still, we shouldn't try to withhold information from one another. Information is key to be able to survive in this place. Whatever you know? Please tell us.

The food is also from the cosplay cafe. Please come visit if you enjoy them. Thank you.

[ With a bow of her head, she steps down and heads to her table. Anyone is free to take the stand now and speak. ]

(( Make your own top-levels, and then there can be discussions for each top-level! I won't be running this post, so treat this as a mingle!

GROUP FIVE / GROUP SEVEN / GROUP NINE / IN-GAME TITLES ))

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GROUP NINE

[psycholawgy]

[ Athena may not have been able to save the pictures and videos she took with her CereVice, but inputting data into the Mood Matrix gives everybody an idea of what they saw. She flips the screen so everybody can see. They're also able to see Athena's emotions as she recalls the events of the tour. ]

We were sent to Waste Management, where we had to go down a chute and then we found ourselves in an Incinerator Room. There was no other exit but a door, which led to something like this. [ The blue icon starts blinking, signifying fear. ] We fell into the water, and a giant fish tried to eat Miss Hawke and I... [ The blue icon starts blinking wildly, and so does the yellow icon. ]

Another fish monster eats us, and we get spit out into the... I suppose it's what's outside of the colony. [ The blue icon stops blinking, but and the yellow icon's blinking dims. ]

And what's outside the colony is a junkyard. [ At this point, no more icons are blinking. ] Everything out there? It's alive. The heaps of metal are alive, and they will attack you. If you're outside the city, they won't let you come back, because they will keep moving you further away.

... it was until Mr. Mosley came in and punched the sentient heaps of metal that we were able to get out of there alive. [ There's a photo of Mosley that can be seen when she says this, and the green icon blinks slightly. ]

We also got some stickers.

[dereban]

... At least you got stickers. [ They didn't get jack shit because of a certain someone. ]

But living junk, huh. I can't really say much about that, honestly, but-- if that's what's outside the colony, does that mean the whole planet is like that?

[psycholawgy]

Do you want the stickers I got...? They're not very nice.

As for what's outside - I have a feeling that this may be a reclaimed land we're standing on. There might be better places in the planet, with outskirts that don't look like dumpsites.

[dereban]

Hey, I'll take them. "You tried" is always a good meme. [ Inaba, please. ]

Well, the colony was bought, along with the entire planet. It didn't always belong to CERES.

[capforthat]

[Surprisingly, Bulma remains silent through the run-down, although she looks like she wants to interject at one or two points. When Athena is finished, however, she immediately bursts out with:] Excuse me, punched? Did you see the same thing I did? He clearly used some kind of device!

[psycholawgy]

[ Maybe her memory is hazy... She can easily change the data if Bulma corrects her. ]

What kind of device was it? I don't recall correctly.

[capforthat]

Well, he said it was an EMP, but I don't believe it! The technology here might be far advanced beyond what we had back home, but a pinpoint pulse is just crazy! If it was powerful enough to knock those monsters out, it should've killed the golf cart, too...

[Of course, the only way to be certain would be to get her hands on the device in question. That's not likely to happen.]

[jyajyaaan]

[He snickers at the mental image of Mosley kung-fu kicking a giant metal heap.]

That sounds like quite the adventure! Did that fish really eat you and spit you out again?

[psycholawgy]

It did... it turns out, the fish was a robot sent by Mr. Mosle.

[jyajyaaan]

[Oh dear. She said the r-word.]

Mr. Mosley has a giant robot fish? That's so cool! Do you know if it can transform?! Or if it has any laser weapons too?!

[faithfulflame]

Wait, you think that the metal hulks are sentient?

[Rei focuses most on that at first, wondering what exactly Athena's getting at there. Were they possessed by something? It stood to reason that the exterior wouldn't be as solid and well made as the interior. CERES seemed like it wanted to present a good front, but had been focused and building for some time now. And that meant waste and old industry...]

[psycholawgy]

That's what I think.

I don't think they were being controlled, since there wasn't even any reception on our CEREVices where we were. It seemed out of CERES' jurisdiction.

[faithfulflame]

Did Widget pick up anything from them? Were they...actually alive? They had minds?

[Simon had mentioned Widget, so she assumes that at least is fair game to talk about. She didn't know Blackquill well, and she'd never really asked about Widget, but...this seemed as good a detail as any.]

[espersions]

So Mosley saved you. How gallant. And I suppose we all ought to be grateful to CERES for keeping us safe inside the city, rather than at the mercy of a scrappy scrap heap.

[ His hands are in his pockets and his head is tilted to one side. ]

Did he say whether your trip to the exterior was part of the tour?

[psycholawgy]

Definitely not, but he was being naggy and angry that we were complaining about how the tour went!

[espersions]

Right —

So do you think it was an accident you wound up outside the city?

[buildyourworld]

[ He listens to everything, including her conversation with others before speaking up to ask. ]

Did any of you experienced any kind of difficulty in breathing while you're outside the colony?

[psycholawgy]

Not me, no... I don't know about the others.

[newtimes]

( Piping in, )

Nah, I was fine. Ya know, 'sides doing all of that running.

[nostatus]

So, those metal things outside the colony..

[ See, he's mostly just been taking in all the information here, since it's a lot of food for thought about this place.. but this is just something that Shinpachi can't really understand. He knows he's from Ye Olde Times, so he figures these modern kids would probably understand all this modern technology mumbo jumbo a lot more than he does. ]

Are you saying they're like robots? [ If they were.. "alive", or whatever. He's still not really sure if robots are considered alive or not, considering they're not exactly things that were around during his own time. ]

[psycholawgy]

[ Athena knows robots... Athena knows and grew up with robots, but those things that they saw? They definitely did not seem like robots to her. But it's just her own suspicion, since she wasn't able to find out because her fear was in the way. ]

I'd say they were an entirely different species, [ she says nervously. It's just what she's gotten out of the whole situation. It might sound crazy, but so does everything else in this colony! ]

[nostatus]

[ His nose wrinkles a little bit as he frowns at the idea. Not really in annoyance or anything - although this whole place is pretty annoying to him, if you'd be asking - but more just since he's trying to wrap his head around modern tech mumbo jumbo. ]

Species? So like animals?

[ But that doesn't fully make sense to him either.. animals aren't made out of metal, after all, so it still can't be right. ]

[safeguarder]

[It's probably for the best that she was here, because listening to the other accounts were pretty interesting.]

At least he was helpful during your tour.

[Maybe.]

Why would they try to keep you out of the city, though? It makes you wonder what else they're trying to keep out...

[psycholawgy]

[ He made us go into the trash. That was NOT helpful at all... ]

Because it's unsafe outside - they don't want anything else coming into safety? I do think what was out there is definitely unrelated to CERES. In fact, it's what CERES is trying to keep away from us.

[safeguarder]

[Well. At least he came and collected you.]

Is there any chance that they're trying to keep us inside of the city too? I'm still not saying that CERES is involved in what you ran into, but is there a possibility of that as well?