[let's talk about all that orb barrier stuff] - text (un: major.yzak.jule)

[coordination]

Before the location of our last mission is pinpointed, maybe we should have a discussion about what Viveca mentioned regarding the barrier holding up.

Namely, alternatives to every one of us giving up our reason for coming here. She did say to start thinking about it.

The commander's powers notwithstanding, plenty of us on this team undoubtedly possess abilities that could be offered in support. And there are plenty of people beyond us on this station who are aware of our mission and the gravity of what we're dealing with.

We've always been pretty good at coming up with solutions and contingency plans.




(( dated to after yulevibes! and consider this an open floor to tag each other to discuss ideas in prep for the voting post on the 20th also since my ass got work ))

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[astudyinviolet]

The only help I can offer to abstain from undoing my regret and thus allowing the chance for others' regrets to be fixed. But, it is something.

[ Sherlock sounds tired, muted more than anything. ]

[coordination]

Let's not start immediately throwing ourselves onto the proverbial sword, here.

Do you even hear yourself? You don't sound like you enjoy offering that at all!

audio | un: S.H.

[astudyinviolet]

While I will admit a tendency towards the dramatic, this is less a sacrifice and more a final push. I have questioned what it would mean for me to accept fixing my regret ever since I learned what it would entail upon my arrival here. To borrow grudgingly from my brother for once, my regret never seemed worth it when looking at the bigger picture.

No, what you hear is more...

[ He pauses, trying to put into words what twists and tangles in his mind without saying too much or too little. ]

... It is more the realization that I've fallen into certain patterns again, and I question how I keep missing the signs. Not so much related to my decision.

[coordination]

[ There's a pause. But it doesn't completely scrub the slight skepticism in his voice when he speaks again. ]

A lot of people who have come and gone from this place questioned and sometimes gave up on or even switched the reason why they came here. Just make sure it's because you truly feel as though what you want isn't worth it, and not that you're just downplaying its importance because we're suddenly being met with this unknown.

Because I, for one, would rather not wrap up here knowing that anybody made any choices now because of the latter.

audio; un: naruhodo

[locumstudentesquire]

Haven't we already run into a similar issue before? Last year, when Olivia was making the station go haywire...

[Is it... Too much to hope that the same solution will work twice?]

audio (un: major.yzak.jule)

[coordination]

We did. So it's definitely an avenue we can consider again.

Though I wish it were less "again" and more something that could have been a constant this whole time. But perhaps we can look into those possibilities now.

[locumstudentesquire]

It sounds like that method would require a number of the crew to constantly stay in the room with the barrier and the orbs, though... And who knows if that's feasible? Particularly when it sounds like we'll need all hands on deck for the final mission...

[He sighs.]

There are other things to consider too. Last time, the orbs were able to turn the old crew's commander against them. What's to say they won't try to pull something similar this time as well?

[coordination]

Considering what happened a year ago happened a whole year ago, even a few more repeats of siphoning power into making or keeping the barrier stronger might have made a difference now.

[ He makes a disgruntled sound, the kind he usually makes when he's shaking his head and thinking really hard about something. But it's probably not surprising that Yzak is very frustrated about this, voice tight like a lid barely containing the anger simmering beneath from boiling over. ]

But that's what-ifs and might-haves when we need to focus on what we can do now. And that's the point I'm making; there are many things that we need to look at, including what happened last time, now that we've suddenly been given this fantastic update.

text » un: red

[reneger]

i'll settle for getting dropped off right where i was in one piece

[coordination]

Are you no longer here to undo your regret?

[reneger]

i've been in the game long enough to recognize when shit is too good to be true
am i here to undo it? obviously
but if we're at endgame with no viable way to manage it, i'm fine being dropped off to figure shit out on my own

audio; un: y.mikotoba

[softshoes]

Like Mr. Holmes, magic and the supernatural are beyond my abilities. But I won't be seeing my own regret through, for whatever little it is worth.

not here

[locumstudentesquire]

[DAD.... 🥺]

[softshoes]

[old man's gotta live with his mistakes!]

audio (un: major.yzak.jule)

[coordination]

[ Ryunosuke'd mentioned that Yujin no longer wished to have his regret undone, so hearing that doesn't come as a surprise to Yzak. ]

Even if they are, your suggestions and ideas based on what you do know of both and beyond just those subjects are plenty useful.

And I'd say giving up on what you came here for is worth a hell of a lot, actually.

[softshoes]

Thank you, Major.

[There's a slight smile audible in his voice. The kind words mean more than he's letting on.]

Well. Our fellow orbers with these abilities have held barriers like these up before in the past, haven't they? Couldn't we ask them to work with Commander Degar to determine what might be necessary to strengthen them this time?

( text | un: alucard )

[ananym]

What alternatives are there?

[coordination]

That's what I'm hoping we can put our heads together for to find.

But there have to be some.

[ananym]

Not always.

At any rate, my skills lean towards combat. Not this.

audio; un: PrinceArctic

[evicerated]

[Normally he'd rather not participate in such discussions, but considering that if they fail, he'll likely just go back to being dead...

Arctic's voice chimes in, bitterly cold and seething with anger. It sounds like the words are being forcibly dragged out of him.]

...I... Have magic that may be of some use.

[He is loathe to bring this up, especially now that he's had proof his powers perhaps aren't working right... But he feels he has no other choice.]

audio (un: major.yzak.jule)

[coordination]

[ Given the situation, Yzak doesn't linger on the tone of voice he hears very clearly since his focus is on more important things, here. ]

What kind would that be?

[ Right to the point. Share with the class, dragonpal. ]

[evicerated]

Animus magic. The only kind of magic there is, in my world.

[He's still speaking authoritatively, with a hefty amount of gravitas. And to be fair... it is indeed a very serious subject.]

I can enchant objects. Make them do just about anything you can think of...

[Very specific and helpful explanation, thank you Arctic.

Yzak also can't possibly know it, but. Admitting that he has any magic at all is a very, very big deal for Arctic. He's not happy about having to resort to it, and it's apparent in his tone.]

text; un: shinn.asuka

[lostdestiny]

Why does it have to be a barrier? Why not get rid of the damn things?

text (un: major.yzak.jule)

[coordination]

That would solve the potential of them scattering again.

And I do wonder ... how much of their power will be used when they hold up their end of all of these deals. Because there's the possibility of them weakening in those moments, isn't there?

I did have some discussion of the theoretical of 'trapping' them in an agreement to keep them here. But that, like anything else, comes with a price for the person doing that. If a properly solid agreement can even do that.

[lostdestiny]

… changing regrets is pretty chaotic. It could just make them stronger.