jigokucho | (CLOSED TO SUTOKU) un: skewer

[It's a short while after the bombs go off that Sutoku members will get a new network notification. He still doesn't trust his voice, so text-only it is for now.]

Everyone,

The lieutenants can interject here if needed, I'll give them the floor. But given what just happened, can everyone check in, if you're able? Where are you, what are you seeing? Was anyone caught up in what happened over in Shuten?

A lot just happened in a short amount of time, and there's a lot of panic right now. It's chaotic, but I think we need to really need to see if anyone's been able to gather anything, before the city really starts to make noise and point fingers about what just happened with Iron Bear.

If you saw anything out in rescue efforts or anything tonight, it might be a good idea to speak up.

Also: I'm not seasoned enough right not to make a good enough guess, but have any key properties for the Alliance been checked yet?

[ooc: mini event check in for prompt #5, feel free to use this as an informational check in as we learn things from the mods.]

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Ah, Kou!
I'm recovering right now. I've done a lot to help, but I need time to recharge, and I think I'm going to leave the rest of this in the hands of trained medical professionals for now.

Are you well? Do you need anything from me?

Yeah, I'm fine. I wasn't anywhere nearby so I wasn't in the line of fire or anything. Just thought I'd offer!

I appreciate the offer.
Have you done any exploring so far? I feel like someone like you might be afforded the benefit of certain doubts.

A little bit. I've been looking into that mysterious cloaked figure with Nazuna.

Oh? Have you found anything interesting yet?
Even if you don't think it's immediately relevant.

Not yet! But we're seeing if we can track him down. It's a big city, after all...

That's true.
I wish I knew more about how Yakashbah operated so I could offer more ideas.
I suspect it would have been easier for this cloaked figure to operate within the city if they had come from the city, versus trying to sneak in from the wasteland.
But that doesn't narrow it down at all.

Yeah.

We're not even sure what they're trying to do here, right?

Other than sowing chaos among all of us? I don't believe so.
But it's hard to believe that they're not building to something massive.
Statements this loud preclude even louder actions.

There's gotta be a better way for them to get what they want that doesn't involve hurting people.

When a movement has reached its boiling point, violence is often the most powerful tool in anyone's box.
And this movement is boiling over.

What do they want from the city? From the organizations here? Do we know that?

I know I'm new, just wondering.

I don't know either.
But I assume it must be something critical.
The city has a history all its own before you or me or any of us.

Doesn't help that the organizations here seem to want to maintain themselves at all costs...

Are we not all fighting to survive, Kou?

People are different from stuff like this, aren't they? A gang isn't a person.

A gang is a group of people all under one banner.
If what's happening has put every single one of them into survival mode, they're fighting together.
I just don't know if what they're trying to preserve is something worth protecting yet.

That's true. I don't know a lot about the history here yet.

But it feels like they're after something that's... less freedom. Or they want to define it entirely on their own and I don't know how I feel about it.

They certainly want something that runs counter to what we have here.
But if I'm completely honest, Kou?
I don't know whether the factions are the victims or the oppressors.
I can't tell if we stole freedom from the wastelands.
I don't know whether we're the bad guys and it's not something that I had cause to consider until right now.

If it's about freedom, why try to control territory in the city in the first place? Why not just let people be?

I don't know if it's about good or bad. I just know I want to know more.

If it's not about freedom, why would Tenkohime agree to it?
There are too many questions. You're right. We just don't have the answers yet.

I guess I'll just have to find them.

A history buff, then? You didn't strike me as the type.

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I guess I am? I sort of did something similar back home. But on a much smaller scale.

Is that so? Can I ask what you were researching?

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