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jigokulogs2022-04-01 09:44 pm
kaientai) wrote in jigokulogs2022-04-01 09:44 pm
[ open ] all hands on deck
Who ⬤ sakamoto ryouma (rider) + other sutoku alliance lost souls
What ⬤ post-event emergency meeting
When ⬤ several hours after the assassination
Where ⬤ konoha — vip area
Content Warnings ⬤ none right now but will update as needed!
[ once the dust (steam?) has settled, an sms goes out to fellow sutoku alliance contacts. some might recognise the username rider more than others and know the man it's attached to but in any case, everyone who shows up will know him soon enough anyway. ]
[someone has to keep the spirit of the daitengu alive, okay?? the message also comes attached with a calendar invite. ]
[ later, anyone arriving for the meeting will be directed to the club's VIP area and encouraged to place food and drink orders as desired. this has definitely set ryouma back, but under the present circumstances, there's no better time than this to spare no expense, right? ]
☆ ooc; this is a mingle in addition to a general sort of information sharing prompt so feel free to throw your own top levels up and thread amongst yourselves! i give everyone free rein to threadjack as you see fit — just check with other individual players if you have any questions!
☆ i left the exact time of the meeting sort of open, but assume it's sometime within the next half-day or so after the assassination to account for people needing to finish up investigations, potentially heal up a little after fighting, time for him to book the club, etc. feel free to have characters wander in late too!
☆ i also provided the option for characters to phone in (since it was mentioned to me on the ooc post), so if they can't make it in person they can still be in the loop!
☆ any non-Sutoku tag-a-longs are assumed to be showing up late so as not to be sitting in on private discussions earlier in the night.
What ⬤ post-event emergency meeting
When ⬤ several hours after the assassination
Where ⬤ konoha — vip area
Content Warnings ⬤ none right now but will update as needed!
[ once the dust (steam?) has settled, an sms goes out to fellow sutoku alliance contacts. some might recognise the username rider more than others and know the man it's attached to but in any case, everyone who shows up will know him soon enough anyway. ]
Hello!
There's a lot of confusion right now, but what's important is to stay calm and not do anything hasty. I'll be organising a meeting tonight at Konoha. Let's exchange what we know and discuss next steps. You're going to have to pay for your own refreshments though, sorry! Space is on me though! (*_ _)人
Don't be discouraged! We're only getting started. (ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*:･ﾟ✧
If you think there are any other Sutoku who haven't gotten this, pass the message along, ok?
— Rider
There's a lot of confusion right now, but what's important is to stay calm and not do anything hasty. I'll be organising a meeting tonight at Konoha. Let's exchange what we know and discuss next steps. You're going to have to pay for your own refreshments though, sorry! Space is on me though! (*_ _)人
Don't be discouraged! We're only getting started. (ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*:･ﾟ✧
If you think there are any other Sutoku who haven't gotten this, pass the message along, ok?
— Rider
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[ later, anyone arriving for the meeting will be directed to the club's VIP area and encouraged to place food and drink orders as desired. this has definitely set ryouma back, but under the present circumstances, there's no better time than this to spare no expense, right? ]
☆ ooc; this is a mingle in addition to a general sort of information sharing prompt so feel free to throw your own top levels up and thread amongst yourselves! i give everyone free rein to threadjack as you see fit — just check with other individual players if you have any questions!
☆ i left the exact time of the meeting sort of open, but assume it's sometime within the next half-day or so after the assassination to account for people needing to finish up investigations, potentially heal up a little after fighting, time for him to book the club, etc. feel free to have characters wander in late too!
☆ i also provided the option for characters to phone in (since it was mentioned to me on the ooc post), so if they can't make it in person they can still be in the loop!
☆ any non-Sutoku tag-a-longs are assumed to be showing up late so as not to be sitting in on private discussions earlier in the night.
orz and sorry for being even later getting to this hhh
I'll admit I'm working on this trying to give the Daitengu the benefit of the doubt that it wasn't this easy to destabilise things...
[ a little nervous, awkward laughter because honestly. if there was ever a time to be right, he hopes it's this time. ]
Otherwise, all of this might be pointless because we might end up with this entire "alliance" just carved up by everyone who's left. But other than that — the Department of the Enma's role in this is suspicious, isn't it? Making the Kappa leadership disappear and throwing everyone else into a panic state seems like a pretty good strategy for making a power grab under the excuse of a criminal investigation and restoring "order".
[ yes, and that got air quotes and everything. he's heard plenty of discussions so far which only seems to have made him more sceptical of the department's intentions, especially given that anyone can look around and know how concerned the kappa are. ]
Of course, if the Daitengu isn't really dead then that also means they're playing games with us, but there's nothing we can do about that so it doesn't really matter.
ahhh same here!!
[ But at the same time, Kim's a realist; he knows that all too often, especially when the leader is a force of personality, that is the case. He hasn't seen it happen personally - in his lifespan, every leader that has been appointed in Revachol had been one tepid MoralIntern plant after another - but he's read plenty about it. The Daitengu's conduct did not make it seem as though that were the case, but he cannot judge another land's politics on his own understanding of what does or doesn't constitute a good leader.
He takes a handkerchief out of his pocket to wipe down his glasses, sighing. ]
The longer this goes on, the more difficult it will be to discern who's in charge. I can only imagine every opportunist out there will be eager to take advantage of this, regardless of whether or not they caused it. But Enma was the fastest to spring into action, and the fastest to isolate the area from the clan it technically belongs to. That we've listened is simply trusting in their authority. [ At the same time, it doesn't sit right with him to unilaterally suspect them; he was a cop himself, and likely would have done the same thing if it had been up to him. ]
What makes you believe that the Daitengu isn't really dead?
no subject
[ it takes one to know one. this, of course, was the side of ryouma that drew criticism in his day. for all the people he had on his side, there was a not-insignificant amount of dissenting opinions that only saw him as a greedy capitalist at best and an arms dealer at worst. well, oh well. this is hell, after all. ]
That's why it doesn't sit right with me. It's trust, just like you say. People have an expectation in the back of their minds that there are some lines that just won't be crossed, even if they're unhappy with the way things are. It makes it easy to stab someone in the back if they never expect it might ever be coming.
[ he knows that all too well, but he's glad he has a very good reason not to dwell on the past any longer than he already has just in making the connection in his mind. ]
No one knows what the Daitengu looks like or sounds like, seeing as they used text. They have no name nor gender nor do they claim to even be a tengu at all. We just assume, don't we? To my understanding, it's an appointed position. I suppose I would like to believe that the best information broker in the city might have gotten wind that something might go down at the Night Parade. If no one knows who you are then who says you have to wear the costume and stand on stage?
[ he might've also faked his own death a few times. ]
no subject
[ His tone is dry as the desert -- it's hard to tell if he's joking or not. He may, quite possibly, find himself a little amusing. Nobody will never know whether that's the case or not. Whether Kim himself blames them or not for being opportunists is yet to be seen, largely because Kim doesn't know where he stands on the matter yet. To understand the world he was born in took a lifetime. To figure out the political history and cultural mores of an entirely different dimension entirely will take more than a month. For all he knows, the Daitengu was an enormous piece of shit who deserved everything they got, and the opportunists are simply capitalizing off of territory that should have been theirs in the first place.
But regardless of his personal feelings, he still nominally belongs to the Sutoku, and his fate is intertwined with theirs. Which is why everyone is here, of course. They have no attachment to their clan beyond what it means for them personally. ]
To accomplish that, we'll need to find a good information broker -- and one that we believe is both objective and trustworthy instead of simply telling us what they want us to believe. It's unfortunate that this happened well before any of us could make any meaningful bonds with the community. We really don't know where we stand here.
[ He drums his fingers against his knee. ]
But everything you say about the Daitengu being anonymous -- that's why they chose the assassination to take place in such a public way, where every leader could see it happen with their own eyes, yes? Otherwise, they could replace the Daitengu with someone else, and we'd be none the wiser. Whoever did this didn't just want the Daitengu out of the picture: they wanted to cause political instability.