Wings of Wonder: Comms

[voidtreckermods]

Talk to All

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For the third option, a list of passengers appears and names can be searched for by letter. Anyone who has been working to try and make communications happen on their own devices will find those linked in to this network- though it is still only possible to use voice. If they have headphones from the music room they can make it so they work like earpieces.

The comms are a bit crackly and can distorted especially if trying to talk over islands but they do work.

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Nebula 7

[jingyeets]

Lan Jingyi calling from the South Island. We've made contact with the sali down here via their Forever One, too. I'll be working to help bring the sali affected by the storm to a building the rest of the sali have marked out for it—they're people who value equal exchanges and direct offers, you know? So if you're available and able to help, we've got birds causing problems all over the island, and people attacking their own thinking they're intruders. Be straightforward, say you're responding to the call put out by my and Ryo—he's consulting to see if his skills can be useful in healing here, and to what degree.

Sali showing red eyes are among the affected. Please take care with them, and with yourselves, they can work plant magics and will get to thorn vine whipping if bow and arrow doesn't work in driving you off. Yeah, it's been a time of it down here. Anyone else on South Island right now, sound off, I can probably find you and get you rallied to the points the sali have indicated.

[happyends]

Um.. I know where the sali's shelter is too, so I can also help out guide people in the right direction..

[ Said more shyly though, because oh gosh, is speaking to everyone terrifying. But Madoka wants to help out, so she knows she has to speak up!!

Besides, since it sounds like he has been talking to the sali too, she has a question-- ] Have you found anything yet that helps with snapping those red eyed people out of it..?

[jingyeets]

Other than getting them to where a Forever One can reach them?

( he breathes out in an audible, obvious sigh. )

No. Best bet is to get them to Enshala down here.

[happyends]

[ Dang. It's a bummer, but on the other hand, Madoka expected as much. If there was an easier solution, surely the sali themselves would've found it already.. ]

Ah, thank you for answering.. [ Ever polite. It's important. ] I guess it's going to be difficult then, considering they're not exactly, um..

[ Is she trying really hard to find a diplomatic word for the brainwashed sali?

Yes, she sure is. ]

.. cooperative.

[jingyeets]

Yeah, they're... not listening, but I do find that it means they might chase you more readily. If you can get their arrows away from them, the worst they do is try to use their vines, and you can kind of bait them staying out of range and having them run after you all loudly.

( WHAT A PLAN were sorry Madoka )

[happyends]

[ A lot of people might protest to that sort of idea.

Madoka is not 'a lot of people'. ]

O.. Oh. [ But she sounds a little hesitant (read: worried) all the same. ] I will.. try my best to do that then...

[ IT'S ON YOUR HANDS IF SOMETHING HAPPENS TO HER NOW, JINGYI. ]

[jingyeets]

( look he's with the people that send out their fifteen year olds to fight monsters he's from the WRONG CONTINGENT TO ARGUE AGAINST A FOURTEEN YEAR OLD TAKING THE WORLD ON )

Sure, just not alone, right? Need to work in pairs!

( he is however of the contingent called teamwork so like

one saving grace )

Also—okay, I hate to put it this way, but how normal are you?

[happyends]

[ Congratulations, Jingyi, because now you're just convincing her that she has to do this with Romeo as soon as he's here with her. So now you're sending a 14 year old with an 11 year old to do this together..

But that's not what Madoka is thinking about, considering she is instead very much mulling over that other word he's using here. ]

.. normal?

[ B-by.. whose standards.. ]

[jingyeets]

... Oh, hell. Where are you?

( congrats you just earned a babysitter, Madoka and Romeo??? )

[happyends]

[ Jingyi, you just used a bad word.. Thankfully the situation is serious enough that Madoka isn't going to call attention to it. ]

Me? [ She sounds surprised. ] I'm near the sali shelter right now..

[ W-Why, is he coming over? Madoka sounds so confused. ]

[jingyeets]

( Hell's not a terrible word, it's a factual location, okay, thank you, tiny child. )

Right, sure, then it looks like... huh. Ryo? Ryo and I should be finding you, I can work with you to bring people in, Ryo can keep an eye on them there and work with whoever to do whatever healing stuff they've got in mind.

[happyends]

Oh.. Okay..

[ At least she seems to grasp the plan now he's putting it in those words. And while Madoka apparently - for god knows what reason - doesn't have any objections about herself participating in such a dangerous plan, she can't help but ask: ]

Are you sure you don't mind doing that though..?

[jingyeets]

... I did put out a call asking people to help do the thing I'm telling you I'm going to help you do too, right. I did say that?

( madoka we're just.

we're so sorry. )

[happyends]

[ Please Jingyi, some of us are sensitive, overly polite children who aren'T USED TO YOUR DIRECT WAYS OF DOING THINGS. ]

I--I was just making sure! [ There's definitely an 'eep!' kind of tone to her voice as she's saying that. Like she's ducking her head, even though it isn't visible. ] But if we're going to work together, then.. u-um, I promise to do my very best..!

[ Her very best.. at being bait... ]

[jingyeets]

( release him on everyone from Japan, sounds like a horrible time for literally... everyone... except him )

Right, why promise to do anything else? It's fine, promise me you won't get injured or hurt or run off into a scythe or something.

( Jingyi. Jingyi. Anyway, he is, well, going to head her way with... a good chance of leaving Ryo to talk with sali healers outside of where they'd been talking to the sali and their Forever One, by proxy. )

[happyends]

...

[ There's a moment of silence, but then-- ]

I promise I won't run off into a scythe!

[ Out of all the available promises.. apparently this is the one she chooses to squeak out.

Good luck, Jingyi. ]

[jingyeets]

... Seriously, where's the rest of the promise! That's all you're offering?

( young lady what in the world this sounds like a promise to YES I WILL GET INJURED BUT I DIDN'T PROMISE I WOULDN'T

take it from a guy who swan dives through loopholes, he can understand )

[happyends]

[ At least that wasn't born from dastardly avoidance, and more from the fact that Madoka started panicking and just agreed with the first thing that came to mind.. ]

I'm not planning on getting injured! [ This is the one honest promise she can make. Even if Jingyi is a stranger, Madoka can't just go and lie to him. Do people do that? Just lie to strangers?! ] But.. those red-eyed sali are really aggressive, so it's not like I can know for sure what will happen, you know..?

[jingyeets]

( Jingyi would say yes, people lie all the time, though he wouldn't count himself in their number. If that's... good or not... no one should say. Really, don't say. )

You know, for a moment I was appreciating the resolve of 'I'm not planning on getting injured' but now I'm wondering if I should have Ryo talk to you so you've got an additional reason to not get injured. How good are you at dodging arrows?

[happyends]

I've.. done it before..

[ If not just by sheer virtue of these missions making it impossible to not have had to do that at least once. ]

But, um, only in this place. It's not something I practiced back home.. I only learned how to deal with all that fighting since I showed up on the train. I've.. done it before..

[ If not just by sheer virtue of these missions making it impossible to not have had to do that at least once. ]

But, um, only in this place. It's not something I practiced back home.. I only learned how to deal with all that fighting since I showed up on the train.

[jingyeets]

How long has it been since you got abducted on board?

( dear everything what further chaos has the train strewn as it goes? he at least knows what it is he's earned out of this: he's a warrior by training, to degrees by nature too. he sighs. )

Okay, important but not the only important thing. Look, unless you're very confident in dodging arrows, take one of us who's more used to it with you so you're acting as backup, not bait, okay?

[happyends]

[ A little softer: ]

I'm not very confident in anything, though.

[ At least it's a honest admission, even if it's a.. rather sad one at the same time, huh.. ]

B-But I don't mind the buddy system. We can go together, like we said. And-- [ Added, almost more like an afterthought since she was so busy saying everything else first: ] I've been on the train for about a year now.

[jingyeets]

Ooookay so we've got a lot of work ahead of us. Is there anything you're confident in. Anything?

( HEADING HER WAY by this point, and if he were seen, his frowning at his SCA while the earpiece is properly in ear would be fairly obvious. )

So you've been only fighting a year, and in this kind of chaos? Sounds like utter shit to me.

( He claps his hands, and as the guy who has trained his entire life to be thrown into situations handling the dangerously absurd, he adds: )

Okay, Little Sister, we're buddies. ( Whatever the buddy system is. Buddies! Sure. ) Keep out of sight of the birds and any of the sali with red eyes for now, okay?

[happyends]

[ DAD JIANG CHEEEEENG, SOME BOY OVER HERE USED ANOTHER BAD WORD!!

But yes, thankfully Jingyi is easy to spot, and Madoka is already walking right over to him, giving him a shy little wave once she's in front of him and turns off the line over the SCAs now its function is practically moot. ]

I am.. keeping out of sight. I think.

[ Unless there's some around here right now and no one told her. But the coast seems pretty clear to her, even though that.. too.. is something she is not very confident in.. ]

And, um.. about the other question.. You might have to define 'confident', i-if you don't mind..

[ That's bad news, huh. ]

[jingyeets]

( as she's not yet assaulted by mind-altered sali or flying animals, she's achieved out of sight in his opinion. his opinion on bars to meet can be really low at times. higher at others.

he unshoulders the bow he'd arrived with, keeping it ready in hand. only to pause, his tailtip twitching as he stands there in a sali nightgown with a sali half cloak pulled over him, staring at Madoka for a long moment, like he's not sure he heard her right. )

... Is that not a word in your vocabulary? Confident means you believe you're capable of doing something. Anything. You're confident you'll wake up in the morning, if you're most people. Or you're confident that you're hot or cold or breathing or crying or a good cook or a terrible liar, confident is a belief.