MOD PLOT ↠ AND THOSE WHO SLEPT (CRYSTAL)

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FORM: Crystal
SENDER: Various
RECIPIENT: Various
NOTES: This post is to consolidate (and encourage!) crystal chatter during the mod plot: updates on what characters have observed or are doing, asking for assistance with emergencies, updating everyone on injuries or losses, making the occasional joke in poor taste, asking for status reports from particular people or groups, etc. The top-level comments below correspond to the times of day in the log. To keep people on roughly the same page about when a particular discussion is happening, reply to the top-levels with any new discussions you want to start. Within those time frames, major events are happening more or less simultaneously, so you don't need to worry much about the order things are said in beyond that.

Comments

[saam]

But if we don't use what we have, we've got shitall for bargaining chips.

Are you the rabble-rousing type, or the type to talk sense to soldiers?

[charmoffensive]

[ A slight 'hh' at her point, but he cedes to it. So long as they can all act fast enough. ]

If they think they're doing the right thing, I can work with that. Don't know how much people listen to horned men [ the term he's taken from Eshal, better than that other one ] in this world, but--

[saam]

So use it! Horned men aren't an authority outside the Qun, so don't lean on that. But they're considered strong and brave. If one shows fear-- begrudgingly, slowly-- what does that mean for little humans?

[charmoffensive]

[ It's a vaguely disorienting idea, that what he is might actually be to his benefit rather than an active hindrance towards persuasion, but it's been a plenty disorienting week already. ]

Alright. Nearly there. What are you going to do?

[saam]

I'm going to make the crowd something for you to be afraid of.

[charmoffensive]

[ A brief, dry laugh. ]

Well, anger en masse will be a sight scarier than blind panic.

[saam]

Now you're getting it! Like I said, use everything you got.

[ipseite]

Shall we counterpoint one another, Ambassador?