Council Meeting # 1!

[runs_on_batteries]

[ooc: I thought this might be easiest for people to tag and talk. So the invitation to the dining car is going to be through the ICP, the actually discussions aren't. I'm listing a few topics as starts, but add your own if you'd like. Please indicate which conversations people should be able to threadjack and which ones they shouldn't.]

[ICP Part: OTA?]

[Mid-morning on Basoon 15, Tony appears on the ICP looking freshly showered and still in his sleeper 1C room.]

Council members, please join me in the dining car. It's time we finally got together and discussed some matters that have come up on board. Ash, that means you too.

[Council Meeting Part: Council Members Only]

[When the council members arrive, they'll find tea and coffee have been freshly made and a freshly baked coffee cake with small plates and a spatula are next to it.]

Welcome everyone! Please, get yourself some refreshments and have a seat. Since Manabu appears to be missing, I've asked Ash to join us as the alternate.

[ooc- in case anyone forgot the council members are: Tony, Feanor, Manabu, Sarai, Dread, and Lightning with Ash as the official alternate.]

Comments

Topic: Team Strategies

[runs_on_batteries]

The first thing we need to discuss here is that Blue needs a few more adult leaders to back Ignis up. It isn't right that he has so many children on his team without also providing him with support as well. I propose Renee and Ash join the blue.

Another thing is I'm going to start offering hand to hand combat lessons to anyone who wants them starting tomorrow morning. I want you to encourage any of the children to join me. As much as I hate that they're in these teams with us, we need to make sure they can protect themselves.

[faithfulsupport]

[They've gone over this about his team and Ignis has definitely defended them to Tony. But he won't bring it up again in public.]

If anyone assistance with any sort training, then I humbly offer my services to that end as well.

Re: Topic: Team Strategies

[thebiggestguy]

Absolutely without meaning to step on any toes... I might be a better choice for that particular training. Or we can take turns or different classes.

[faithfulsupport]

Different classes would work, as we could then each utilize our greatest strengths to teach others.

[runs_on_batteries]

Excellent. Dread you and I can take the hand to hand training. Feanor, would you and one of your sons- Curufin maybe- be open to training in blades? Ignis, where are your strengths? I know you have your lance, but I'm unsure how that would work in a class setting.

[faithfulsupport]

[Ignis nodded]

I use daggers for close range combat.

[tinkerheart]

[He won't elaborate on Ash as they barely spoke but he has a few words to say about the other candidate.]

I agree on Renee. She did a great job on the last mission connecting the teams and helped me with refugees after I got caught up in the mudslide. She might need some guidance but she's independent and thinks quickly. It's a good choice.

[Certainly not only children will need encouragement with the fighting lessons. Reigen for one seemed pretty lost down there.]

I'm sure anyone in need, and I don't have only children in mind, would benefit from different approaches to the subject.

My skill is with blades, swords and daggers, those I can teach but we don't know what we will be against next time nor what weapons, if any, we would have at our disposal. It would benefit all to know at least basics from whatever specialty each of us here has.

[He would sneak a couple of questions about your armor, Tony. Just makes sure first Curufin is withing the earshot to hear any answers.]

i can move this to a new response if needed, i just felt she was responding directly to his points

[bombashbunny]

[ Ash listened to him with her full attention, nodding in agreement at the points he made and his ideas. ]

I agree. Renee is intelligent and resourceful. Her powers are also well placed in any group. She has a good heart and tends to be well meaning. She has shown to be willing to listen to a guiding hand.

I do not like to speak of myself for fear of appearing to grandstand, but Renee has shown to be willing to listen to me and trust me. I think that it would not be bad to keep us together, at least to start.

...If she wants to of course. We shouldn't force her to do something she would not like.

[ She took a sip from her coffee. ]

I also agree with respect to training. After the last mission I know I could certainly benefit from training with blades, not just hand to hand combat.

Mayhap another questionnaire is in order to try and assess what skills everyone has? From there we could devise who could train their respective skills.

It's a big group discussion :D It's a little chaotic, so no worries.

[runs_on_batteries]

If you're on board with this, then would you and Ignis present the idea to her? I think if we have the two of you join them it should be enough to keep the Blue team from drowning.

[That sounded pretty well decided to him.]

Do any of the other teams need anything? How were they feeling to you all? I was resistant initially to the idea of training in our teams, but I believe there was wisdom in that.

[faithfulsupport]

The Blue team most certainly did not drown.

[They were fine, he wasn't.]

There is wisdom in training our teams and making sure everyone is better equipped to handle whatever may come our way. With this training, the team is more properly cohesive and thus prepared as a unit.

[A pause]

I will present the idea to Renee and let her decide.

Topic: Train Rules and Enforcement

[runs_on_batteries]

We should come up with some basic agreed upon rules for the train and how we will enforce them. I'm not saying we boot someone off the train for eating all the avocados. I mean something more serious. What happens if there's a real violation of trust and boundaries? We need to be ready with how we're going to handle this.

[thebiggestguy]

That's overcomplicating things. We don't need to label things as wrong for them to be wrong, and labeling some things as wrong will make people say that other things we didn't list are okay.

[runs_on_batteries]

No rules at all? That seems like a recipe for disaster.

[thebiggestguy]

[Dread takes a deep breath. Some things he just doesn't like doing; one of those is a lot of talking.]

There aren't enough of us. Anything someone does is going to touch all of us anyway. Laws are for a society that gets so large that some people never meet, and for a society that has some sort of way of enforcing them. A legal system and a class of guards or officers to enforce them, judges to administer them... There isn't enough of us for that. We can and will handle everything directly.

[runs_on_batteries]

[Tony was too focused on their topic to notice how much more Dread was talking than usual. When or if he did, he would be impressed.]

Except we don't know how many more are coming. It's better to start a system now than have a problem and not a way to handle it. What about that Harry kid who has been going around stealing things? What if we find someone has been attacked or harmed? What about that crazy woman who keeps stinking up the place with her cigarettes? We don't have anything in place to force either of them to stop until there are rules and a semblance of government.

Topic: Disappearances

[runs_on_batteries]

So far, we have no way of stopping people from disappearing on us. I'd love to figure out how we do that, but for the time being we should focus on a way to report their disappearance quickly.

[faithfulsupport]

[He didn't want Tony to take on any more projects and overwork himself to the point of stressing out. So Ignis isn't going to ask for anything to be created]

I propose that a buddy system of sorts is enacted. Each team has one person to keep an eye on and then report the disappearance as soon as they can to their team leader.

[bombashbunny]

Where I am from we had what were called linkpearls - they allowed for long distance communication. Mayhap we could make something with a similar function so that we may remain in contact while spread out?

[faithfulsupport]

[This has him cock his head to the side.]

I've heard of linkpearls before, so you've used them as well?

[runs_on_batteries]

How did they work?

[bombashbunny]

[ Looking to Ignis. ]

We did - you had them where you're from?

[ After his response, she looked back to Tony. ]

I cannot speak for Ignis but in Eorzea they were pearls that you would mount on a clasp for your ear, like an earring. They were attuned to the world aether, and you would tune them to the aether of others to create channels through which you could talk.

I do not think actual linkpearls are a realistic solution here. The Garleans had some sort of device they could use, but it is limited by distance.

[tinkerheart]

I'd say both suggestions are good. Having two systems in place definitely heightens the chances of the information getting where it should and quickly. Shall one fail there's the other to fall back to.

As for communication devices. Can we use our SCAs for that? Has anyone tried?

[He feels dumb for not trying it himself before. Not that he would ever admit.]

[runs_on_batteries]

I've looked at the SCA's but I can't find anything that would allow this. However, I admit, I haven't been as diligent with it as I should. We could see if we can't set up an attachment that could transmit like cellphones.

[Oh wait.. who here knew what cellphones were?]

Communication devices.

[tinkerheart]

There must be a way to divine its principle of operation. I have made long-range communication devices for my people once, a long time ago. [The Palantíri. More a proof of concept at first but they turned out to be quite useful.] They worked for both transmitting images and conversations. [Well, thoughts really, but those are details.]

The only problem I see here with recreating those is acquiring proper materials. Until I can get good quality crystals and tools for cutting them, the SCA is a safer bet.

[runs_on_batteries]

You had Elfphones?