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

[repudiate]

Sure, but then again, you'd have to say Keiichi is a girl then. And he doesn't particularly seem like one, no matter how much you try to stretch your imagination.

[tenminutes]

I can stretch my imagination pretty far, you know. Especially since I don't even know who you're talking about.

[repudiate]

You've seriously never met Keiichi before? I thought he'd be the kind of guy you'd know, since he's so loud.. [ what are you even trying to imply about yuri there, ange.

but she sighs and explains - ]

Keiichi Maebara. He's my boyfriend.

[tenminutes]

Not all loud people know each other, Ange.

[repudiate]

Oh, really? This is news to me. I thought all of you had some secret club in which you decide who gets to annoy which person for any given day.

[tenminutes]

It wouldn't be very secret if that many loud people got together in one place.

[repudiate]

You probably have some sort of special sound proof hideout. That, or even a whole different dimension just for loud people gatherings.

[tenminutes]

If we had another dimension we'd be pretty lucky here.

[repudiate]

... Thinking about it like that, it's probably better for you and Keiichi to never meet, huh.

[tenminutes]

I'm going to seek him out now.

[repudiate]

Looks like I've jinxed it already.

.. At least don't go ahead and put starfish in his bed, okay?

[tenminutes]

Okay, but don't blame me if he wakes up with a floor of sea urchins.

[repudiate]

Is it at least okay to give him a warning in advance? [ judging from her tone she isn't taking it too seriously, but.. you should know better than that since it's yuri, ange!! ]

[tenminutes]

Where would the fun in that be?

[repudiate]

Sorry, but I'm not particularly eager on letting my boyfriend go through stuff that's a pain to deal with. I'm not some sort of sadist.

[tenminutes]

In which case, feel free to tell him about that. [ and expect something worse when the time comes. ]

[repudiate]

Thank you, oh benevolent overlord. [ sarcastic, of course. ]

Good luck with your wild plans.

[tenminutes]

Not interested at all?

[repudiate]

[ There's a quiet moment where she sobers up, as if she's actually considering it. Then she speaks up, a little softer-- ]

No, I'm not really one for group work.

[tenminutes]

I can find you solo work, but I need to know if you'd want to help.

[repudiate]

.. As long as I don't officially need to be a member or whatever, then.. I guess I could. I can't say my skills are particularly impressive though.

[tenminutes]

What kinds do you have?

[repudiate]

[ jumping from skyscrapers probably doesn't count, huh.. nah. ]

I can defend myself if needed, although I'm usually better at avoiding than fighting back. And I'm not easily scared, I guess.

[tenminutes]

Avoiding physically or avoiding fights to start with?

[repudiate]

Avoiding physically. Back home I never really had a choice on the latter, unfortunately. [ stupid kasumi and her men. ] It's exactly because of that I got so good at the former.