Telepathic message, during the Awakened battle

[kokuyoyo]

We're not getting anywhere. These things aren't the real threat, and they're only going to keep coming.

Second round, pay attention.

If your username had a wheel, immediately look for people who are murdering these things with apparent experience. Keep finding more of them. Make sure a group can keep you safe. Stay away from the lockers.

If you had a pair of blades, find the people being most targeted and defend them. If these things get rid of us Navigators, you'll die easily.

Do that immediately.

And for everyone... We need to lure the true form of our enemy out. These rats are just meant to exhaust us.

If we can find a way to a larger area like the gymnasium, we should set up bait. Since these things want Navigators so badly, some of us should be what sets the trap.

[There's the sound of a mental sigh that whispers through everyone's minds.]

Unless anyone has any better ideas...

Comments

[kokuyoyo]

Combatants and whatever Navigators are left will be on standby, obviously.

If we can position things right, then it can be a fake opening: letting it think it has a chance at grabbing something but getting trapped instead.

[touketsu]

You're kidding, right? Standby isn't close enough for something like this. The whole building is alive, something could go wrong.

[kokuyoyo]

Do you have any actual suggestions...?

[touketsu]

That was one if you were paying attention. The floors are just as much an enemy as the rats or whatever form this thing takes eventually. If we leave a Navigator alone and a hole opens up beneath them...they're gone. With no one by their side to defend them. There needs to be people there.

[kokuyoyo]

And if we have people too near the bait, then the actual enemy won't show up.

[touketsu]

Why don't you volunteer to be bait, then?

[kokuyoyo]

I have someone important to me that I want to watch over and I care about him a lot more than I do you.

[POINTS FOR HONESTY?]

Still, if you're all going to be this annoying, I might have no choice if only to make sure some of us survive....

[forsteri]

What is the difference between you and us, in that case?

[transient_specter]

The difference is that I'm willing to sit on him if he tries.

[forsteri]

That's not what I'm asking.

The reason he's not volunteering is the same reason we're following Kidou. I don't understand what's hard to grasp about that.

[transient_specter]

It was a joke.

Look, we can't have a big group with this. Otherwise, those things are going to think they're outnumbered and won't fall for it.

[forsteri]

This isn't the time.

I'm not planning on standing right next to him. I have a little more common sense than that. But I don't intend on letting anyone go into that alone, either.

[kokuyoyo]

We're going to die.

[transient_specter]

No we won't.

We can pull this together.

[kokuyoyo]

We need to use Navigators as bait.

Taro alone is too unstable and not appealing enough.

Kidou has too many people who would interfere and he can't and won't hold them back.

No one else is volunteering, Makoto.

[kokuyoyo]

I'm the one who didn't volunteer for being bait and yet have so many people around that would make that difficult to do.

[forsteri]

You were pretty content to sit back and let Kidou and that other navigator throw themselves away.

[kokuyoyo]

You say that like they were guaranteed to die.

[forsteri]

Without someone waiting to protect them, they would.

[touketsu]

Don't give me that bullcrap. You think you're the only one with someone they want to protect?

[No points. Zero.]

If you're going to be a leader...at least try and be one worth following.

[kokuyoyo]

I'm not.

[.....So that explains a lot?]

I just know what it will take for us as a whole to survive this.

[beastfang]

There are ways to utilize us that work as a team while still maintaining your original plan. There are only three of us along with Kidou and if a small group breaks off seeming to be in a panic and trying to keep one of their own safe it works both as a temptation and as distraction. If a small group does the same with Taro and have them loop in a circular path to wherever the rest are setting up it compromises for both views.

[kokuyoyo]

....That could work...

The only problem I have with that is that so far nothing I've seen leads me to believe that they could keep up with that plan, even with their claims of teamwork. False panic seems like it could become real too easily with how invested they are in Kidou.

Going with a different Navigator as bait might be for the better.

[touketsu]

WHAT ABOUT ALL OF US SURVIVING THIS?!

[kokuyoyo]

If you keep acting like you are, then you'll just be shooting yourself in the foot with that desire.