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text | un: k. jarrus
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! ]
-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! ]
text | un: stardust
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'.
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If it's really the orb, it can use whatever weird... headvoice... it uses any time we hear them. It had to speak to someone in order to make a deal on this planet in the first place.
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Some of the orbs seem to like the idea. I think.
That, and the orb doesn't seem to enjoy being here as much... Not unless the eyeball isn't the orb, and is whoever had initially made the deal. But we can cross that horrible bridge when we get to it.
... And if that fails, maybe we can try blowing the whole thing up.
[EASY STRATS (CITATION NEEDED)]
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You cannot explode the sun without months of preparation.
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(Mostly.)
You might wanna let other people know that the sun shouldn't be blown to smithereens... Is it even the real sun, actually? Pretty sure it's a great big faker.
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Is that seriously being considered? Are there preparations underway? Did they confirm that this planet will survive if this sun disappears?
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I'm just saying, we've got a few people who would totally fight the sun.
So far, I don't really know what anyone's plans are. It feels like an impossible task, trying to get the orb... wherever it even is... to like. Actually show up. Or even be taken in general. But they're sentient, so there has to be SOME way to speak to it directly. Right?
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You're right. But how do it get to pay attention to one of us if it watches every single moment? Too much chaos will distract it, but a unified effort to start a conversation could be safe.
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After all, the orbs love when people try to reach out to it. Usually. Right?
But maybe we should have it distracted while we all get together.
... Somehow.
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text | un: secunit
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Guess I'll need to have a back-up in case my jetpack goes on the fritz.
I'd rather not be an oversized streak of spaghetti on the pavement.
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But nobody's tried to actually talk to it, right? I don't know what else we've got, other than trying to fistfight a super powerful orb.
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Our voices together can definitely reach it.
text | un: Tamer
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Maybe the orb would bargain with all of us, if it had the right motivation.
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But I'll work with you to try and convince it to take an offer.
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I'd like that, though. Reaching out with everyone else. Seeing what happens.
— text | un; zewu.jun
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Okay, if you had to diplomatically talk to a big eyeball in the sky, what’s your theoretical way you’d go about it? At a big fancy table?
[… she’s so engrained with “commit violence first” at this point]
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I'd attempt to learn what it wants, firstly. There is no bargaining if one does not understand that and then, if possible, appeal to why that is not in it's best interest.
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