after the event

[a_shadow]

Okay, if you were at the faire and are now at the camp, speak up. I want to get a head count.

I'm Tex, by the way. I'm not the leader or anything, I just want to get things a little bit organized.

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[cachedout]

You better watch yourself. That's some dangerously leaderly behavior!

[ So says a robot, apparently. He seems to be on the move. ]

[a_shadow]

Well, at least I'm trying something, I guess.

[ Whether that sticks, she doubts. ]

[cachedout]

Not it, for the record. I've done way too much responsibility lately.

[ He's helping. ]

I think there's at least a couple dozen of us, but I haven't been counting.

[a_shadow]

This also counts as a 'not it' on my part.

[ Not that she's helping her case any by trying to take a headcount. ]

If you want to know the total, I can let you know.

[cachedout]

Sure, let me know once you think you got one finalized. Then we can count again when we get... wherever it is we're going. See how we do.

[ Is this a kind of fucked up and way-too-familiar way to talk about the possibility of losing people? Yeah. ]

And, to finish off our vitally important leadership sidebar: Dammit.

[a_shadow]

I don't know if we even need a leader, but we definitely do need to gather our wits. And protect each other.

[wheyoftheadept]

A bunch of us seem to have come over from a similar situation. We were all kinda being held hostage together - long story - but this isn't our first rodeo. We did okay without a formal hierarchy.

Course, we were also united in hating the bastards who'd trapped us there.

[a_shadow]

I would hope the same goes for hating these creatures. Or whatever they are.

[wheyoftheadept]

Me, too, but you never know. It's a lot easier to hate people who put shock collars in your than an abstract foe you're arguably being forced to fight.

[she shrugs]

But if this place knows it's business, I'm sure it picked folk who can get over that when there's enough at stake.

[a_shadow]

Excuse me, shock collars?

[wheyoftheadept]

It was a real bad scene. 'Scool. We won, they didn't.

[a_shadow]

Good thing, then. I hope it wasn't too bad.

[wheyoftheadept]

[Saturday visible considers this]

I would place it at, hmm, the third worst time of my life. Wait. Fourth. Yeah. Definitely fourth.

[a_shadow]

Must not have been as bad at it sounds, then.

[wheyoftheadept]

Ah, well... remind me one time when we've both had a few to tell you about times one through three.

[a_shadow]

I'll take you up on that.

[cachedout]

Oh, it was bad.

You have no idea how much more excited I am to be here.

[a_shadow]

Considering how much worse it could be, I guess I understand that.

[cachedout]

I have now had two professional experiences with overfunded corporations that, despite their actual areas of business, also turned out to be amazingly high tier dickweasel factories.

Creepy twins and angry smoke whisps aside, at least this gig has trees so far.

I missed trees!

[ Cayde gives some bark a friendly thump for emphasis. ]