chikaidestroyer | ∞ 40: Meetings [voice]

I... of course, Sir Silverberg.

May I... congratulate you on your victory earlier? [Because there is no way that Mark won that match up before. ...But he probably did give Albert some measure of challenge. Maybe. Kinda. He did, after all, kinda save the world with this tactics before. PROTIP: Mark plays defensively]

Thank you for your flexibility, Mark.

Congratulations are not necessary; it was a good exercise. We should hold another match sometime. [Good to know. :|b Albert plays the aggressive campaign really well.]

Where will this meeting be happening?

[Well Mark's whole philosophy is "Let's try to minimize casualties, lol" so the game often shows this in him trying to take as little damage to his force as possible while hitting hard at the enemy's vital weak points.

This naturally comes into conflict when the enemy doesn't have weak points (or at lease easily exploitable ones), causing him to play defensively]

House 42 on the eastern edge of town. Please arrive promptly.

[Definitely aligned to Caesar's philosophies. XD

Oh, and this meeting is a discussion about organizing the Blue Rogues and Brave Vesperia. And the other people meeting.]

...Understood.

[So Mark gets to bring up his barracks thing which has fallen to the wayside.

Now seems as good a time as any. I expected this ridiculous festival to be over sooner. It's delaying the school opening.

Where are we meeting?

On such short notice, we might as well meet at my house. The schoolhouse would be a little more central, but I do not know if you have anything arranged there yet.

Very well. I'll be there shortly -- I had to make a stop at the clinic.

The clinic?

Yes. I was picking up a key, since Kamui arranged for a small lab room to be set up for me. I had to check up on Mr. Ukitake, as well...

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...I see.

I will see you shortly, Professor.

All right. I won't be too much longer.

Sure thing. Where's this happening?

My house, number 42, on the eastern edge of town.

Got it. I'll head over, then.

[Albert really has nothing special set up for this meeting -- no huge lists, no written-out agenda, no maps or the like. But he has ideas, and soon enough he will be have bodies to discuss issues with.

Who will arrive first? He has no clue.]

[Who do you think arrives first? Of all people. Have a knock.]

[He nods in greeting as he opens the door, standing aside to let her in.] Professor. How is your researching going?

Albert.

[Raine nods, and steps inside, waiting until the door is closed before speaking]

Slowly, but some pieces are starting to come together. Or so it seems...

[He has to show up at some point. Wild Knock-On-Your-Door appeared! It's your move.]

[Yuri is the second to the house, then. Raine is already inside. Hopefully this does not seem uncomfortable at all. This is a professional meeting, after all.

In his house.]

Mr. Lowell.

[Yes, Albert. Highly professional. ~~But hey, it's better than nothing.~~ When the door is opened, Yuri gives Albert a light nod, along with his usual smirk.]

Hey. Didn't miss anything important, did I?

[assuming that he responded earlier with an inquiry about the proper time and location (^^'), Yuan has appeared outside your door. Have a knock.]

[And now that Yuri and Raine are sitting at his table, Albert has moved to stand by the door as he expects the rest of the ~~stragglers~~ invitees to march in. He nods to Yuan.]

Yuan.

[Yuan gives a curt nod of his own as he steps into the house.]

Albert.

[aaaand here's Vyse. Totally not late or anything. He's... fashionably just-in-time. It's the 'shave and a haircut' knock, ooohboy.]

Vyse. [One more for the house. Albert notes that he hasn't really accommodated so many people in his house before.

He gestures for Vyse to enter.]

We will begin as soon as Mark arrives.

Hey Albert.

[he's peeking into the house to see who's already there, before actually stepping inside]

Well, at least I'm not the last one.

[And perhaps as expected... Mark's last. With his cane and traveling cloak and a haggard look]

[Albert pauses as he looks at Mark standing at his door, then gestures him to enter.] Please have a seat, Mark.

[Mark bows his hand more than nods and removes his hat respectfully before shuffling into a seat. He feels awkward in this house...] Thank you for the, erhm, invitation.

[Once they're all seated, and there have likely been beverages prepared in advance for the amount of talking that's going to be done, Raine nods a hello to Mark, and lifts her head to look at Albert]

Well? Unless we're expecting any others, don't you think it's time we began?

No, this is everyone.

[Albert steeples his fingers, watching the others.]

There has long been a desire for leadership and organization within Luceti. We have had small volunteer groups, such as those manning the clinic and taking care of patrol cycles. The latter has since then been taken over by the Blue Rogues, and now we have other groups, such as Brave Vesperia, also developing.

I would like to bring together leaders and others of influence in the community to trade ideas. The last experiment emphasized just how disorganized we are.

[Vyse is trying to contribute in the conversation. He glances over to Albert, a serious look on his face. Yes, he can be serious when he wants to]

So, what you're saying is that we bring the smaller groups together to form parts of a greater whole?

Correct, Vyse. I understand that there are other groups within Luceti that will eventually have to be brought together, but the Blue Rogues and Brave Vesperia arguably contribute the most as groups during experiments. It's imperative that there is communication between your two groups and that you have a ready line of support for information gathering.

[At this point, Yuri finally looks over at Albert, instead of just leaning back in his chair with his eyes closed, simply listening. He actually looks fairly serious for once as well.]

That's something that Vyse and I already talked about. Seeing how the last experiment went, I thought it'd be best to check in on each other and figure out who was doing what, just to make sure we don't end up running around, doing the same things and making no progress.

Very good. I know you two are intelligent enough to handle a problem once it's made obvious. You will need to also be willing to micromanage your groups with tasks, and assign tasks that no one wants to be left with; for example, when the barrier fell awhile back, Lloyd Irving had the unenviable task of staying behind and guarding the village. During the last experiment, everyone focused so much on stopping the vampires that houses were literally left to burn to the ground.

I'm sure you, as your own groups' leaders, are willing to delegate those tasks.

There will be cases where you will need researchers or those with knowledge of machinery and technology to come along with your groups. For those cases, I believe Professor Sage and Yuan's experience will be very useful.

Of course. If you need any assistance, feel free to call on me.

As of right now, we don't know what's ahead of us. However, with the festival nearing completion... it's been some time since the last experiment, so we must be on our toes. Unfortunately, it has been difficult to find a pattern so far as the experiments have been going; the Malnosso tend to be unpredictable in that regard. But we must be prepared to face them logically.

We also must keep in mind that there are people who are only concerned with their own interests when things are turned upside down -- which can make any efforts difficult.

Yeah, I'd think that'd be expected of me as the current guild leader for Brave Vesperia. Might be a good idea to get a detailed list of exactly what each of my members are capable of doing, too, now that I'm thinking about it.

I actually didn't think the festival would go on for this long. Didn't think the tournament would either, but regardless; with a lot of people wandering around with their guards down, this would be a perfect opportunity for those bastards to start something. Especially since we can never see it coming.

And yeah, of course, there's the people out there who really don't seem to give a damn about anything outside of their own little world. It's to be expected, since people like that are everywhere, but getting them to listen to us at any point in time during a crisis ... I'm thinking in a lot of cases, it'll be easier said than done. Guess we're gonna just have to do our best to make ourselves seem worth listening to.

It's hard enough to get the population's attention during a time of peace. When a crisis hits, the chaos only increases by a tenfold. The fact that we managed to organize three groups a few months ago, when the barrier disappeared, was mostly due to Albert's hard work and a reasonable amount of luck. It's something I doubt we can change. Members of Brave Vesperia and the Rogues can give the proper example, guided by their respective leaders, but aside from that we can only hope others will follow obediently.

I believe it's more important to check the composition of each group we can count on, and verify the abilities of its members. Then, compare those lists. We need to avoid accidentally giving someone two tasks, or not exploiting their strengths to the fullest.

Perhaps we should make a list of others, as well, who aren't particularly aligned with either group, but may be available to call on otherwise. That past situation presented us with some who were willing to be rallied, after all...

Getting a better idea of skills and to what use people will be willing to extend their abilities is definitely something that should be seen to. And then there are... other matters, such as projects and the like, when we aren't dealing with the experiments. How we use the time in between them... it hardly seems as if we've been using that to our advantage at all.

I have a list of those who volunteered their services during the experiment in which the barrier fell. While some of them have vanished from the village since then, it was the most successful of any attempts to gather data from residents.

One of the most obvious elements missing in this village is a central space where residents may gather. Various other towns have government halls or churches to institute some form of commonality amongst the residents. The only building we have that accommodates in such a way is the schoolhouse, and that is too small; as most of you know, when I organized groups to head to the mountains, the meeting ended up being held outside of the schoolhouse due to the amount of volunteers.

If--- I may interject. [He coughs here, feeling it's speaking out of turn but even so--] I have plans for, and have been trying to recruit people to construct, a barracks. While I would prefer a church as such a place, if we were to complete my plans we would have a large structure able to fit many people for the purposes of training, evacuation, or even a meeting, depending on the need.

Hmm...

Something like that would take a lot of time and effort to arrange, though I do recall people wanting a training center as well. What if we simply renovated one of the community buildings to our purposes? It might be easier that way, and I'm certain not all of them are filled quite to capacity... at least, until a proper facility can be built later on.

Still, the more things we can get organized now, the better. We need to discuss things, yes, but we also need to -- well. Make progress, honestly, which is something that seems to evade us for various reasons.

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