Day 337 [Open]

[daughterofursa]

Who: Zuko and everyone!
Open: Open!
When: Day 337
Where: Near the Monument
What: Zuko tries to Speech. Let her Leader you.
Format: I'll match
Warnings: Honor

[Late in the morning, Zuko's voice comes over the amulet network to ask everyone to gather near the monument so she can update them on the situation. There was a lot of commotion yesterday, and a lot of information is still limited to small groups or one-on-one discussions.

Of course, some of it's going to stay that way, since there's still potentially a spy in their midst, but Zuko is at least going to cover what she feels is important for everyone to know.

Once enough people have gathered, she speaks up, using her best Commanding Officer voice.]

I don't want anyone to be in the dark about our situation. This affects all of us.

The people who attacked us sent us a threat. Six days from now, they want us to return their people, or they'll attack the Ura camp.

We've already made plans to help the Ura. We're also sending a group to meet with these people, and try to negotiate with them.

It's possible that they'll take the opportunity to attack us here while our forces are divided. The rest of us have to be prepared to defend the Bastion. I don't expect those of you who've never taken up a weapon to fight. We need you to stay safe, and out of the line of fire. You can help with preparations, and now's the time to brush up on any first aid training.

Everyone who can fight, I want us to run battle drills. We have a lot of experienced fighters, but we don't all have experience fighting alongside each other. We'll need that.

We're trying to learn as much as we can about these people, but for now, we're preparing for the worst. It's still my hope that we can resolve this without more conflict, but either way I know we'll get through it together.

((OOC: Feel free to ask her clarifying questions or use this post for mingling. Like I guess if you wanted to ask Colin questions instead that's okay. Zuko understands not everyone hates him like she does.))

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[amphibian]

[PUTS PINKIE FINGERS IN MOUTH, WHISTLES REAL LOUD IN ENCOURAGEMENT

and immediately after she's done being rambunctious she runs up to stand beside Zuko. She should be scared—and there's worry in her, there always is, but when Zuko says—because Zuko says—we'll get through it together, Aoi believes her. They can do this. They'll be okay, this time.]

And hey! Hey! The monument can give you a lot of useful powers if you use shards! There's a healing one, most importantly, but there's one to make you run fast and a few fighting ones! And if you don't have the shards to get them, I have a lot saved up, so come see me! And if there's anything else that'd be helpful, I'll get that, too!

[Doing the Speech thing is super not her forte and right, attracting people's attention is kind of uncomfortable, she almost forgot for a moment there!! She fidgets and glances away.] ...Y-yeah!

[Also maybe she has kind of ended up taking Zuko's hand without thinking about it while she's been talking, welp.]

[daughterofursa]

[Zuko doesn't notice when the hand-holding starts because she's become pretty used to it, but when she notices Aoi getting uncomfortable she gives her hand a reassuring squeeze and uh. Oh.

They're holding hands. In front of basically everyone. Not as embarrassing as kissing but that was only six people.

She clears her throat, and she is not quite so great at public speaking while obviously gay. Gonna have to work on that.]

R-right. If you don't have the shards for anything you need, ask. We need to be pooling our resources here.

[dragonsorcsandwolves]

[A bit later, once Zuko and Aoi aren't the center of everyone's attention (and presumably for ease of threading the two of them aren't next to each other anymore unless you want them to be), Rob approaches Aoi, big ugly scars on his cheek and shoulder, bare-chested, and with rabbit bones hanging around his neck like he's been for the recent past.]

Hey, uh, we were talking yesterday about plans for this and I came up with a few things, but, I, uh, I realized I don't have enough shards for everything and won't be able to get enough before the deadline.

[No, he hasn't actually asked her for shards, but the whole idea of asking people who he doesn't know that well to give him not!money is kind of awkward for him.]

[amphibian]

[man what is it with this dude and wearing bits of dead animals but not shirts, what the heck]

Yeah? Like what? [It might almost be ruder to dance around it, but tact is super not Aoi's thing anyway.]

[dragonsorcsandwolves]

Some alchemy ingredients, and a Pokémon. Um, we're going to need to be stealthy getting over to the Ura camp so I wanted to make some potions that would help with that. And heading over to the lagoon and getting stuff ready quickly here and at the Ura camp, I was thinking that potions that let you breathe water and carry more might be useful.

Uh, as for the Pokémon, um, the note they left specifically says that they'll burn the Ura camp to the ground, so we were thinking that if we could make it rain that would help keep the camp safe. It's possible for some Pokémon to hatch knowing how to do that, so I wanted to get the Monument to make an egg for one? And there's an item that makes the rain last longer if a Pokémon holds it. And, uh, a Pokéball would be good to help keep it safe if it gets too dangerous, since it'll still be a baby and all.