o10 :: The SSS

[magentarific]

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[ Filtered to Hermione, 89% unhackable ]
Any luck? I know it's been a while, but I'd still like to see if we can get that thing we talked about going. No specifics over the journals for obvious reasons. Want to meet somewhere?




[ Filtered to SSS Members+Officially Designated Consultants, 89% unhackable ]
Hey everyone! First of all, we've lost a lot of members because they've gone home so we need to get recruiting again. Secondly, I'd like to go ahead and go over a few projects for us that I've been working on with some more recent members. Part of it is a challenge we received from another group in Luceti to test our strengths and the other part.. Well, I'll talk to you guys about it in person. It's a little more confidential than I'm willing to risk putting on the journals, but I'll go over what it means here.

[ There's a brief pause. You know, to make sure everyone's got time to start listening up for real! ]

The SOS Brigade has challenged the SSS to a competition. We'll have to protect something and they will try to steal it from us. We've got permission to use any means necessary provided it is non-lethal. I haven't accepted, but I think this would be a good test of our base skills. Especially considering our need to be able to protect ourselves and others against the kidnapping droids-- if we can't at least manage one thing against people in Luceti, we need a lot more training before we can effectively accomplish anything. That's the basics of the challenge. I'll accept if no one has any objections or comments.

[ Normally she would've just said yes and they'd be doing it, but she knows she's got a lot of people in the SSS who are less likely to cooperate than the SSS in her world. Stepping back and asking their opinions will make everyone feel safer, like they have more of a say, and generally encourage a more trusting environment. That's what she's hoping anyway. ]






[ Filter drops completely. Open to all now, because Yuri wants to attract anyone who this sounds attractive to. ]

I think a lot of the problems with the SSS here so far have been that we're all seeking different things out of this. Some members signed up because they were bored, some signed up because they wanted to kick some ass, and some don't even know why they signed up. So I'm going to tell everyone here exactly what we're here for and what we're going to do. If you're not on board with it let me know.

Luceti is not a safe place. No matter how many superheroes are here or sorcerers or robots with souls or talking animals, it remains that for the most part, we don't have any organized way to protect ourselves from the very people who claim to be in charge. The Malnosso may be good guys, they may be bad guys. There's a lot of debate about what people seem to think about them but no matter what, I'm fairly certain no one thinks that the kidnappings and experiments are okay. What seems to go on is that people are busy gathering information and finding ways to fight the war on their own fronts, but from what I can see, there is very little going on to protect the people here in a more direct manner.

We don't have a lot of tools to do this. Right now, there isn't a way for people to even alert people that they need help immediately besides screaming and by the time we figure out where that screaming comes from if there even is any, it's usually too late. This isn't an attempt to guilt anyone or saying that we all need to shift our focus away from what's already being done. There are places for learning how to defend yourself. The Battledome is designed for self-training and there are groups that work on a per-request basis. If bad things go down, from what I've seen most of Luceti only reacts. There is no proactive force to attempt to stop bad things before they happen.

Maybe it's not much, but I want the SSS to start working on protecting people from basic things like in-home attacks and kidnappings from the Malnosso. We aren't police and we aren't people who have been trained to tell right from wrong, so we can't judge the others in this compound-- we can't have people call us because they're being robbed or assaulted by other Luceti residents because for all we know, we got played and we're fighting the wrong person. But the Malnosso droids we know aren't here for good reasons and we know that they're not the ones who need protection.

Those of you in the SSS or those of you who just want to work alongside us as consultants: Someone else and myself have been talking and we're going to see if we can't manage a way to do this so much more effectively. No details here, I don't trust the journals personally. If you want to ask in person, fine, but I can't promise anything just yet. I'll get the information out to everyone once I've got some definitive results on how this is going to work.

Just the SSS isn't going to be the one to be able to solve all of the problems here in Luceti. From what I can tell, everyone else is fighting to figure out how to get out, get information on the Malnosso-- so I want us to be a unit that's here just to rebel against them by protecting each other and anyone else in Luceti. It might not be as big of a dream as completely taking them down, but I think that's something the whole of us are going to have to do, rather than a part.

Any questions?






---Oh, last bit of info that's more fun and less important...

The coffee shop is definitely underway, but I realized a tiny problem with... well, electricity. So I've got two questions:

1. How do the other shops get electricity to them and can we just jump into that?

2. If not, I need a carpenter who can build me a water wheel so we can generate our own power. We're right next to the stream, so it should work that way right?

If we can get through that little hitch we should be up and running soon!

Comments

[redjacketthief]

[He adjusted his scarf--an almost fidgety gesture--and gave her a 'thumbs up' gesture. He had it covered, just get him somewhere to put his stuff down.]

[tenminutes]

[ She's still side-eying him. This is pretty weird, not being able to have him talk when he's right here with her. She starts heading toward the kitchen table so he can put his stuff down and she's got a place to sit where drinks are allowed. ]

You're not going to talk to me through the journals while we're both right here are you? Because that's going to be weird.

[redjacketthief]

[Another look. Lupin set his belongings on the table and fished through his bag for the notes from February and a blank notepad. They would get to the details later, but for now...]

abduction effect, nothing more. did you really think I'd kick the bucket by breaking in my new apartment with Fujiko?

[The frat boy in him didn't care about making dirty jokes around a teenager. Just because he was an 'adult' didn't mean that he was a 'grown up'.]

[tenminutes]

TMI, Lupin.

[ Even though Yuri makes up things and tries to tease the boys sometimes. Fffffff. ]

So what I was talking about, it'd be a way to at least try to prevent those abductions. We might not be able to do anything at all, but if we can move in teams and get a quick-response method then there's a much greater chance of us being able to do something.

Plus I have a secret weapon to actually capture of one of the droids, but I'd rather save it until we've got someone handy with tech. A present from someone who left this place.

[redjacketthief]

[It was a joke~~~~

--but it sounded like a sound plan, if they could get a system in place. Like the watch towers...

Lupin handed her the notes that he took in February, along with another note.]

like a City Watch? [It reminded him of the idea that Smoker and Zenigata had way back when...] or do you have something different planned?

[The 'secret weapon' had him curious.]

[tenminutes]

[ She takes them, glancing over them. She'll read them in depth later. For now she's got to focus on reading what Lupin has to write. ]

Something like that. The city watch sort of thing is about right, except with more violence since it's going to take a lot to fend off any of the droids.

The "something different" is pretty much a similar plan to something I had before but I had no way to really implement. Do you remember a guy named Scorpius? He was here a while ago.

1/2

[redjacketthief]

[Scorpius.

...]

2/--no 3!

[redjacketthief]

What does this have anything to do with--?

[--he cut himself off.]

3/3

[redjacketthief]

[His hands reached up and tightened the scarf as he looked away, chagrinned. His hand was revealed by a voice that was his own, but with a strangely hollow reverberation.

The silence was indeed still in effect, but a friend of his had found him a work around.

It wasn't something he wanted many to know.]

[tenminutes]

I'll tell you what he's got anything to do with anything once you tell me what the hell's up with your voice.

[redjacketthief]

[He flushed in shame of being caught and cornered--one again--by a young woman who wasn't even half his age. Lupin cleared his throat and, still not looking, replied.]

...It is a Shift effect, but a friend gave me a work around.

[His voice was low and husky, a trick he had learned to keep the distortion from being too apparent.] The sound isn't right, so I'm not exactly comfortable with it...but Fujiko and I are still moving in. I didn't want it to get lost.

[tenminutes]

[ Don't feel too bad, Lupin. She's an expert at this. ]

So you're like a portable Stephen Hawking right now.

[redjacketthief]

[Lupin frowned, annoyed, and threw a wadded up piece of paper at her.]

[tenminutes]

[ Yuri lifted up her hand to block it, laughing. ]

Hey!

[redjacketthief]

[He still is carrying himself like a man half his age.]

It's a whole lot classier than Stephen Hawking, thanks.

[tenminutes]

Isn't Stephen Hawking like a complete genius? What's classier than that?

[redjacketthief]

A snappy fashion sense for one.

[tenminutes]

Coming from the king of primary colors?

[redjacketthief]

They're classy okay?

--anyway, what does Scorpy have to do with any of this?

[The mere memory of the strange, imposing man with whom he'd exchanged veiled threats and invasions of personal space was agitating.]

[tenminutes]

When he left, he left me a present. That present happens to be the same thing he knocked me unconscious in one hit and then broke my arm with, so I know for a fact that it works as long as you don't go down in the tunnels.

[redjacketthief]

Eeeeehhh???

--Man, how many other people did he freak out?

You're sure that the thing is even trustworthy?

[tenminutes]

What do you mean freak out? He and I got along pretty well, we were going to try to make another one except I couldn't get the material we needed through a mission and he disappeared before we could try it.

[ ...It being a vivisection but uh. Lupin doesn't need to know that part. ]

[redjacketthief]

He had a habit of getting into my personal bubble--in more than a few ways.

[Such as the veiled threat to his workshop, and what seemed like equally veiled attempts to gather information on his compromised state through uncomfortably personal interactions.]

[tenminutes]

Oh. I mean, he asked if he could vivisect me once but it was for a good reason so it didn't really bother me. At least he learned to ask that time. The point is I've got something he left me that could probably take out one of those droids for the time being.

[redjacketthief]

He asked to vivisect you.

[Flatly. The fact that she agreed proved that she was equally insane.]

Whatever. The guy was weird and he's gone now. You really think that it can keep the droids at bay?