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

[sweetnessandfight]

I can shoot as well, [Sarai interjected. Until now, the Au Ra had mostly been listening and nodding.] Though as may be obvious, I'm better with a bow than a gun of any sort. [True, she had some other duties, but she was not going to slack if anyone else wanted to learn!] I might be able to ask Feanor or one of his sons to help there, as well. I can even craft bows suited to an individual, though that does require both wood and tools...

[thebiggestguy]

Maybe someday I'll get an astrolabe and I can teach that. [Dread's wry chuckle said just how likely he found that to be.]

[runs_on_batteries]

Great! Sarai and I can work on teaching them how to shoot.

Dread.. what the hell is that?

[thebiggestguy]

Oh, I'm a student of Sharlayan astrology and astromancy.

[He's grinning, because he enjoys confusing Tony.]

[runs_on_batteries]

Astromancy?

How is Sharlayan astrology different than any other astrology?

[sweetnessandfight]

There's other types of astrology? [ Sarai looked startled at that for a moment, blinking up at Tony, now.] What does that involve?

Sharlayan astrology uses the constellations to read man's fate. The magic is called astromancy, and is mostly used for healing, though it can give...oh, boosts to luck and skill, at times. Depends on how attuned the astrologian is.

[Sarai's a bard, it practically behooves her to know about these things...]

[thebiggestguy]

There's Ishgardian, you know that. [Which is germane to nothing but Sarai's comment about other types.]

[runs_on_batteries]

I was assuming since our worlds have different stars it would result in different astrology, but I don't normally take any interest in astrology. For our worlds it's just a bunch of made up crap science.

[tinkerheart]

And you will get all the help you may need, Sarai. From any of us.

[Fëanor smiles when the Au Ra speaks up. She's been silent up to this point but her addition to the discussion is no less meaningful. It was on his mind too.]

Wood needs to be acquired, tools we can make. I agree on a general idea of bows or any ranged weapon. I could have really used a bow against those flying goblins.

We can even make a set up for target practice in the storage carriage. [The smile turns to a smirk.] I know at least one wall we're very unlikely to damage by any projectile in our possession.

[An astrolabe you say? Dread, you've got his attention.]

Astrology? Most interesting. I don't want to derail current discussion but on another occasion, I'd love to hear more about it.