voidtreckernet | Council Meeting: Video/ Dining Car's ICP is Muted

[ooc: Each header is different topic for the council members to discuss. Please tag as one group thread underneath. If you want, you can add new headers for additional conversations. Handwave Tony either bringing this up for your character or when he asks if there is any other business, your character presented the topic. Also OOC note, this was the best way I could come up with, so hopefully this works.]

[Following an announcement early that day, Tony let everyone know where the council meeting was being held and that they were going to have it over the ICP so everyone could see it. He promised at that time that there will be a chance for asking questions at the end.

Tony has rigged the ICP in the dining room to stay on video and it's angle is at one end of the long table and he is at the other. The volume on the ICP in the dining room has been disconnected, but everyone else can hear it.

For the council members, they will find a stack of agendas and pens when they arrive and at a side table there is coffee, tea, lemonade, and a few hor d'oeuvres prepared.

Tony is wearing his three piece suit instead of the usual train garb and greets everyone with a mildly friend smile.]

Welcome, please take a seat. Grab a refreshment if you'd like.

[Once everyone is settled..]

Thank you for coming to our first council meeting with our newly elected group. Congratulations, you just got handed a thankless job that everyone will have strong opinions about how you're screwing this up. That's politics and you need to be able to take some heat because of it. Fortunately, there's a majority on this train that believe you have shown great leadership skills and you've earned their trust. If we all do our best, then we can sleep with a clear conscience.

So here are the cards we've been dealt. We're a group of very different individuals from a myriad of backgrounds and skill sets who have been taken against our will from our lives, our family, our time, and our world. For some of us, this is a positive, but the majority it is not. We want to find a way to get people home who want to go back to their old lives. In the meantime, we're tasked by an unknown power to save worlds on the brink who badly need rescuing. We've been given a limited amount of resources to do that and everyone here could likely list a dozen or more things that should be here to complete those tasks that aren't. In fact, probably everyone here has their own set of goals that may or may not coincide with the ones the train has given us or our train-mates would be pleased about.

The goal of this council is obvious. We want everyone to be safe, healthy, and supported on this train. Exactly how we're going to achieve that is what's up for debate.

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

Is it time to create a set of agreed upon rules/ guidelines/ whatever we want to call them? What are our thoughts on how to deal with people doing harmful deeds?

Guidelines are good, yes, though, given we all come from very different worlds and cultures, each with their own moralities and ways to judge things, whatever we set, we must accept that the worlds and cultures we come from will inform us on how to deal with anyone who breaks them.

We also need to be ready to explain these guidelines if questioned, and if that means we have to play twenty questions in doing do to get a better understanding of why someone is asking, then so be it.

See, I've been thinking about that and I think it might be everyone's best interest for us to have some sort of introduction class on every new person day-that way they can explain a bit about the worlds or universes they're from and we'll have a better understanding of how they might react in certain situations.

And, as I was telling Tony, I think it'd be good to establish a train wide age that's considered adult. My personal vote it either nineteen or twenty-for humans anyway.

Or perhaps that week, Doctor? Considering how many folk we have now, and it's all new to everyone, it might take that long...but perhaps the classes could be short, if perhaps plentiful. I do like that idea.

[Sarai ponders the man's next comment for a few moments.] That should work for most humans or humanoids, but what of say, the elves? I should like to assess Nerdanel and Feanor's opinions upon that. Though I was using them mostly as an example. What of Charlotte, as another? She seems adult in conversation, but how old is she?

If we're going to make rules, they should be firm or we shouldn't bother. Ambiguity or making the decisions easily bent can make them ineffective and unfair. That's not to say we can't ever take the circumstance into consideration. Of course we would. As a whole though, these should be something enforceable. I realize we come from different places, but if we all agree to the rules then that is the decree of the people here.

And of course we'll have to answer for them. There's no doubt about that. However, if we make these rules, then we all must back them up. Similar to that of this council. Once a decision has been worked through and made, we need to stand together as a united front.

The last part is something I'm doing with the questionnaires. I ask what the lifespan is for a given species and I've added questions about adulthood. The majority of us are human or humanoids. For those we should be able to decide a train wide 'age of responsibility' so to speak, like the Doctor is saying. My vote would be twenty.

[Eva nods thoughtfully.] Introduction classes that week would be useful, though we've often only got between a few days and a six-day between the start of the month and a world.

Of course, we could also stagger it by starting team, too.

[A sigh.] My vote is for age of adulthood. The age of responsibility on my world is either 13 or 14 simply due to Arkean circumstances. Adulthood is twenty. And, age of adulthood has a more easily agreed on definition, don't you think?

Actually-as someone that's spent quite a lot of their life traveling it's only polite to adapt to the rules of the place you're visiting-will everyone be so kind as to do that? No, obviously not. But-most of the new people coming in will probably abide by them. However, Tony's right in that we'd need a way to enforce said rules.

[ He watches the others carefully, making a bit of a face as Eva's statement and then just shakes his head. Maybe it works for her world. ]

Personally, I think adulthood should be based on how developed the brain is-human's don't have a fully developed brain until twenty-six or twenty-seven but it is developed enough to know how to better process trauma by age twenty and that's the most important part, I think-the ability to fully comprehend how bad a problem actually is.

I don't know about Elf anatomy though-it'd be best to ask them about that.

Okay. So I don't think it matters if you're a kid or an adult. [Says the nineteen year old that few people take seriously.] But I think we should set up simple rules on the train.

Like no killing each other for example? I don't care where your from or what beef you have, that isn't cool. And I am saying this with someone I really want to kill on the train- [She blames ShinRa for killing her people and subjugating them and they are now on the train... at least one of them is.] -so it's not like its easy for me either.

But I think simple things like that should be agreed on and put in that pamphlet that's handed out.

I don't really like police or things like that because they always get corrupt but what about doing something like have council hearings once a week where 2-3 council members listen to any issues from people and handle them. If it seems like one of the council members is biased or whatever, then they can be switched out.

If people are already not going to like us then we might as well try it out.

It's true we don't usually have much time in between when new people come and a mission typically.

[He nodded in agreement with the Doctor as far as brain development and who was an adult and who was a child.

As far as Yuffie's remarks..]

When this is done we should talk about why you want to kill someone. But I agree with setting up basic rules that would seem obvious to us but might not be to everyone.

No killing. No stealing. Honor people's privacy and don't break into locked rooms or their cubbies. No assaulting anyone unless it's appropriate sparring. No preventing someone from their basic needs like food, access to the facilities, medical attention, that sort of thing.

Yuffie what do you think of these rules? You're the one who is the closest to people who are least comfortable with authority.

Edited 2020-06-03 21:44 (UTC)

[Yuffie doesn't blink when she answers Tony.] Oh, he killed a lot of people, subjugated Wutai and helped almost destroy the world. [She holds up her fingers.] Twice. We had to stop them both times. ['We' being Cloud and the gang.]

But yeah, I think we can come up with a list.

[She puffs up her cheeks.]

No stealing but what about trading? [Without telling someone that she's switching out their things...]

[Tony frowns at her comment.]

Who did this? We should know so we can keep an eye on them.

[His concern was replaced quickly by her next statement, turning to irritation.]

What? No! You can't take someone else's belongings without their permission. We already have no control over being here, we shouldn't add to that feeling. Isn't that part of your whole philosophy about the black team?

[Yuffie pouts.]

ShinRa... It's a company and one of there jerk operatives showed up here. [Cue all the grumpy grumbling. In reality, it's good that Yuffie hadn't attacked him on site. She's going... sorta.]

And yeah, yeah. No stealing. [A beat.] Anymore. I might have some stuff to return but it's fine. [She waves a hand as if it isn't important.] This was before team black. I was bored and had just showed up. [Hence stealing.]

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