text | un: k. jarrus

[blindrun]

The Mayor and I had a heart to heart in her office. Reporting on details:

-The Companions, the fake people, aren't controlled by her, but by the Sun. It's not just an advanced monitoring system - it's alive, and it's keeping everyone here hostage. Making everyone pretend to be the town we see. It's also behind replacing people with the Companions.

(Side Speculation: Could this be connected to the list of people? She might have been noting people that are drawing attention and getting on the Sun's bad side?)

-All of the Companions shutdown during my talk with her and they don't seem to be getting up again. She said it's because we've made the Sun mad. There's no way to communicate with the Sun. Either they make it happy or angry and they've been trying to stick with the former to stay alive.

(Side Note: The Sun could hear us the entire time and she spoke quieter and quieter through our talk. We need to be careful what we say aloud moving forward. It's listening to all of us.)

-She has no idea about the orb or where it might be. Really hoping it isn't the sun itself but it could be something connected to it.

-She wants the town to be free but she's afraid. All the people here are. But I don't think they want to keep taking it anymore and that's why they're acting out. We might be able to get them to cooperate with us if we break the pretenses about just being a bunch of new move ins.


Whatever is going down, we need to bring an end to it fast. We can't leave these people to suffer. This is just a mission for us, but it's their lives on the line.

[ ooc: this is a post relegating info from the npc thread -- feel free to use this as an open post to discuss and share other information! ]

Comments

( text | un: ahsoka )

[unjedi]

The Sun.

That makes things harder. How would we even get to it? Without a ship, it's impossible.

Unless it has a power source somewhere in the town.

[blindrun]

Yeah, that's my biggest worry. I don't get the impression this place has any craft that can reach that high.

It could be the Sun is guarding the orb? The Mayor had no clue about it so could be in a place she doesn't know about in the town.

Text | un: Tamer

[deadanimemom]

If it has the orb, it wouldn't need a power source here. But if it's this influential it's probably not millions of miles away, it might only be a few hundred feet up.

text ↪ un: うちは

[blackfire]

Your altruism is noted.

（ it's amused, more than derisive. he can see why viveca chose this one. ）

Which part of your conversation coincided with the shutdown of the Companions?

[blindrun]

[ Ack. Did he get a little too emotional there? He feels just a little mortified about it. ]

It was right at the time I suggested the Sun could be the orb. The Mayor seemed a little surprised at the idea, and then the Companions suddenly dropped outside.

text | un: S.H.

[astudyinviolet]

[ Hullo, pretend Father. Sherlock's actually alive, though he feels horrid and is probably just lying on the ground somewhere. ]

They aren't living. They're surviving. We help them.

Does anyone have a method to blind the giant eye up above? I am not the only one still seeing that, am I?

[ Sherlock is not sure. He is just not sure about anything he sees anymore. ]

[unjedi]

I don't think we have a lens big enough.

Unless we converted every roof into one.

[blindrun]

Definitely not the only one.

I'm not sure if we can blind it, but maybe there's a way to distract it? Like if a group of us caused a diversion and occupied its attention. But I don't know what we could do that would make it want to do that.

text. un: Aleksander

[cruelyethuman]

I might be able to blind it.

un: emilydyer

[medicative]

Where do people go to be turned into Companions? That is surely where we need to go, the closest we can get to the Sun.

Some of us may need to overtly draw its wrath to have the path opened.

text; un: y.mikotoba

[softshoes]

If it is in the morgue, I haven't been given access.

[blindrun]

I don't think the Mayor knows. She has nothing to do with who is replaced by Companions.

But I think you're onto something. The method by which people are taken away and replaced by Companions could be a way to get closer to the Sun.

text; un: y.mikotoba

[softshoes]

Thank you, Mr. Jarrus. I'm... afraid this is all beyond me, but I'm grateful you were able to get more information.

[Kanan's done all he could, Yujin's sure, but it's still very worrying that there's so little left go go on...]

Are you safe after speaking to her?

[blindrun]

Yeah, it's kind of over my head too. This is a lot more complicated than I first thought.

[ He thought the Mayor was being forced into working with the Sun, that she might know a lot more about what goes on in this town, but she's as much a victim as anyone in this. ]

I'm safe. If the Sun wanted to do something to me, it probably would have by now.

text; UN: Wei Wuxian

[singlelogbridge]

how does the sun control people? I mean how does it dole out punishment? were you able to learn anything about that?

[blindrun]

I didn't. The Mayor doesn't know anything about the Companions other than they are controlled by the will of the Sun.

She was scared when they turned off. She thinks they've incurred its wrath.

text; un: Tamer

[deadanimemom]

We could always try deliberately making it angry. If we make one concerted push, it might get mad enough to give us an opening for whatever everyone decides to do.

[blindrun]

I think that's the way to go. Even talking about it openly and on rebelling against it got it angry.

Whatever happens next, I think we're going to see the Sun retaliate against us and especially the people. We should all be ready for that.

text; un: shinn.asuka

[lostdestiny]

Have they ever tried asking the sun what its deal is?

[blindrun]

[ Hah. ]

Like going to the town center and screaming "Hey Sun, what's the deal?"

text | un: stardust

[shadysided]

Okay, so. The sun can hear what's going on down here.

What if we just... try to talk to it right now? Offer it a deal: Leave the planet as is and come with us to reconnect and become more whole and powerful with its fellow orb... Hell, I offer myself as tribute -- I'll try to talk the thing down.

I have a jetpack, I can get closer. Anyone got any better ideas than that?

We'll call it 'Plan A', for 'A Dumb One That Maybe Works'.

[legalcy]

And how would it communicate with us? Have one of the Companions speak on its behalf? Should we take this to a courtroom to make it official?

[Text, un: pianoman]

[servesyouwright]

If I understand all of this right, the strange circumstances surrounding the orbs usually have to do with someone making a wish. Seems pretty likely to me that the orb either is the sun or created the sun to watch over this place, acting on the request of someone who wanted some sort if idyllic life. And then it just spiralled out of control.

So it would make sense to find the orb up there. Right? Since it's the only thing still left.

[blindrun]

[ hm... ]

I wonder how old this place is. The Mayor made it sound like this has been going on for a long time. There have been others in her role before.

text; un: f.s.

[fortitudosalutis]

You think they're the kind of scared that swings into freeze, or fight?

[blindrun]

Depends on the type of person. Some of them are already going a little mental, we can direct that to our advantage. The scared ones... can't blame them for it.

[Text, un: dr watson]

[hadbadays]

[ Oh, look, he was right in that the mayor is protecting them and the Sun is suspicious. If only he could be more pleased about it rather than wondering what the fuck do they even do now. ]

This is probably impossible but is there any way we could shoot it out of the sky? Build a catapult? We've got people with all kinds of talents here, right?

text | un: Tamer

[deadanimemom]

Whatever we do we need to do it quickly. If we're going to build something we need to figure out how to keep our activities hidden.

But I do think shooting it down is going to be the best idea, if we can't talk things out.

— text | un; cal

[hindsights]

The Sun has ears now?

[blindrun]

It's probably less a Sun and more of a mass monitoring system disguised as a Sun.

But yes, it does.