zerotohiro: (Nerves of steel)
captain cutie ([personal profile] zerotohiro) wrote in [community profile] estoria2016-02-27 06:33 pm

[Open] There's a Point Where It Tips, There's a Point Where It Breaks

Who: Everyone in Cerealia who figured out the code words for this meeting
When: Evening of IC 5/31, after Hawke's network post
Where: Sanctuary
What: "A pizza party" aka a meeting about the new masked figure that appeared.
Warnings: N/A, maybe some talks about what Alien-kun had to say, etc.


[It's evening by the time Hiro gets to the Sanctuary. Anyone who had seen him this morning will have spotted him with Baymax, both of them sans their normal armor and Baymax carrying what looks like a giant box. They had preparations to make, after all. He makes his way in and out of the building a few times but by the time the first of their guests arrive, everything's set up.

Upon entering the Sanctuary, Baymax moves to stand guard and collect your CereVice in a box at the door. Please don't cheat, he doesn't like when people aren't playing fair. In exchange for the CereVice, you will receive a form and a pencil before Baymax cheerfully waves you away.

Hiro's sitting on a table at the head of the lounge watching people come in. Hawke had promised these people pizza and cake (Hawke why) and he's delivering on that promise. The stack is about as tall as he is, more than enough to feed everyone who's shown up. He waits until a majority of the people show up before he clears his throat to gather attention.]


...uh, hey! [Well. That's a great, confident start.] I know this was sort of last minute and everything, but I really appreciate all of you coming by and actually listening to Hawke. [Sorry Hawke. But there's a grin which says he's more than appreciative.] I know you're probably here for free food, but there's a couple of things you should know. [Sliding off of the table, he moves to stand in front of what looks like a small mechanical box.]

When we all got back a few days ago, I started thinking about the fact that CERES can watch us from...pretty much anywhere. So I took some plans for something else I've been working on, improvised a little bit and created this thing. It'll deflect the signal from our implants and block them out completely as long as we're in this room. I've tested it out a couple of time already, the whole thing gets thrown off. It's...why I wanted to meet here! Because that sort of leads right to my next point.

[There's a small sigh as he paces the room, Baymax waddling after him. He moves back to the table he'd been sitting on to pull up the mask he'd been given a while ago.]

All of you probably received one of these either from that fortune teller, Aria, or it just showed up. And while we were out there? Some of you probably found the terminal like I did and spoke with a masked figure. [A beat.] I'm starting to realize that it told all of us something different, but the most important part is that it's with the Flamine Federation. You know. The guys who supposedly destroyed our planets. Baymax gave all of you a form--um. [And here he pauses, unsure if it's really appropriate to be ordering people to share information but then again that's what they all need. He's always believed everybody needs to be aware of what's happening.] Basically I guess just...answer what you can and tack it up on the board--[A gesture to a large bulletin board he pulled from who knows where.]--and talk amongst yourselves about what happened out there? Alien...the monsters, that weird altar? A bunch of you saw that, right? What was that about?

[Dear god somebody help him.] ...look, I tried. There's free food. This is about all I could throw together so fast before something else happens here. So...yeah. Let's just start figuring out what's really happening here, okay?

[Vague hand gestures? Vague hand gestures. He shuts up after that and sort of shrinks back into his hoodie, jumping back up on the table to hand out food and keep an eye on the room. All right, colonists. You know what to do.]

[ooc: Welcome to the info-sharing mingle! The idea behind this is for characters to ICly fill out this form (coded by the wonderful Fidgey/Katsura-mun) and have it displayed for everyone to view that information. You can post your sheet in your comment or link it to a post elsewhere in your journal, or even post it in the post I made that the form's posted into. HOWEVER this is open to everyone even if your character didn't speak to the alien and just wants to check stuff out! As a note: characters will start to feel sick after about two hours in the Sanctuary due to the frequency deflector. Sorry about that! Any questions hit me up via PM or plurk at [plurk.com profile] alternatively]


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debossy: (tell me more about this Nuru massage)

[personal profile] debossy 2016-03-06 07:25 am (UTC)(link)
[No argument here; he slips right into it himself. To anyone listening to them, they probably sound rather similar in more ways than this one.]

They have certainly wired an inclination; it takes concentration to do this, when it should not. What a vile thought! But an inclination is not the same as a preference. For that matter, if they truly wanted to prevent such attempts at rebellion as this very meeting, they could very well hardwire a preference for complacency into all of us. And yet it seems they have not.
succeeder: (62)

[personal profile] succeeder 2016-03-08 04:20 am (UTC)(link)
Complacency is a more complex topic than primary language. While one seems relatively easy to switch back and forth, the other might involve excessive "corruption" of our data. It is possible that we are needed in good condition, if not mint.

[ Hard to say when he doesn't have a firm idea of what they're needed for at all. ]
debossy: (all drinking and merry in a factory)

[personal profile] debossy 2016-03-09 02:43 am (UTC)(link)
One can only assume that is the case. And yet they subject us to all manner of petty torment and perpetual opacity in their dealings, to say nothing of the continual failure of their technology. The only conclusion one can draw is that no matter what they are attempting to do with us, they are ludicrously inept at it!
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[personal profile] succeeder 2016-03-10 03:34 am (UTC)(link)
There's certainly some degree of that regardless. But petty torment is less intrusive, too.

Some of the inconveniences they force upon us seem so completely meaningless and arbitrary that I might be inclined to believe that they are mistakes, or at least random experimentation instead of a focused attack.