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

[beastfang]

You incited this by giving only a bare bones explanation that came off as demanding we categorize navigators by worth and thus toss some into potential death. Thus, causing concern that is not being filtered as normal due to this mental communication.

You yourself have been more free with your opinions then you normally are even when speaking face to face. The disagreement as well between yourself and our captain has only made you as bias in this as well due to conflicting viewpoints regarding teamwork.

All while in the midst of a battle where adrenaline is high and thus no one has the time to filter their thoughts in any form. Nothing regarding this has been ideal, but it can be salvaged if both sides compromise and stop antagonizing one another.

We are a team that can and do move swiftly to and from one another when directed and Kidou knows this and while he is determined to not have us there, he also knows how to order us ideally to our best in a given situation. Add in he'll be even more invested in making the plan work to avoid any of us being needless injured will galvanize him to following a plan and keep us in line as well.

[touketsu]

You better hope it isn't you if your dumb plan gets anyone hurt!

[sociallyarcward]

Right. And why I'm trying to get you to listen to the collection of people that have actually been collecting notes on all of this since day one.

He will work with you and his teammates will too if you'd just let them. We're all a little wound up right now, but I promise if you come up with a cohesive plan with them then they will execute it pretty well. They're way too strategic to just let it blow up.

Otherwise it's just a liability because he may take his group and try something on his own without the rest of us involved and without a cohesive plan.

[touketsu]

I fought to protect you before. I'm not going to let you throw away your life this time, either.

[kokuyoyo]

That depends on how well we can figure out the layout of this place, thus organizing people into groups and setting out the bait Navigators in a place that will still seem vulnerable but allow for immediate protection from Combatants or escape for the Navigators.

We don't have any other options, Jaune. These rats won't stop coming, and they're going to wear us down if we don't take action soon, along with the threat of the lockers.

We need to lure the main source out.

[kokuyoyo]

I can heal.

[kouteipenguin]

Stay out of sight. Only step in once necessary.

[This isn't soccer, this is way too dangerous, but... he knows how this is supposed to work in theory.]

[kokuyoyo]

And so far none of you have bothered to show me otherwise.

....Genda has been helpful, at least.

[kokuyoyo]

[There's a long pause- which might be actual thought, defending himself, or arguing with another person. Eventually, however-]

So you can guarantee that everyone in this argument can actually work under pressure?

[forsteri]

Genda's discipline is something ingrained into all of us. Our team values skill and control. The problem with that is that thought is a lot harder to control than action.

When you told Kidou one of us had almost been eaten by a rat, were you talking about me?

[Just because he doesn't respond to everything doesn't mean he doesn't try to listen to all of it.]

[kouteipenguin]

If protection is really your goal ... don't be reckless with your own life. You can defend nothing if you're not there!

[beastfang]

When given a clear goal to work towards. Even Fubuki, despite his confrontational ways, is also goal driven. We were trained to win. Some of us at any cost and two of us had such tested when cities were at stake.

[That's more then he should likely have said but he needs both sides to at least compromise or agree to disagree long enough for a plan that means more of them survive is agreed on.]

[kokuyoyo]

[Another slight pause, and a mental sigh.]

I'm getting tired of all these rats...

...I guess someone has to break in the end. I had other things I wanted to do while I was assuming I wouldn't be needed, but I guess.... Someone with the ability to heal and get rid of poison is going to be important.

Although I'll have to figure out what plan has actually been solidified. Someone was busy yelling at me and made it hard to hear...

[beastfang]

Agreed. I'm attempting to help get everyone onto at least agreeing on a plan if not who will be on said plan.

If nothing else at least getting out of this hallways should be first priority and then we can argue on how to lure out the true power behind this.

[kokuyoyo]

How can you trust them so easily?

[kokuyoyo]

Genda is the only one I've seen use it either way.

When doubt or criticism is leveled your way, "you don't know us" is an answer. It's the problem.

[And there's a brief pause and a faint white noise as he tries to remember.]

...That might have been a couple of you.

[He's busy, right now, so he's not going to sort out his memories while he's trying not to get devoured by more rats, or lockers.]

[beastfang]

If you need to do something regarding another person there is no need for you to sacrifice such for this. Enough of us are willing to do this that can be shuffled.

[Yes, that is a glaring clue that someone has been following network threads and can put two and two together regarding your reactions to a specific newbie.]

By your own logic you are just as valuable as another with those skills. More so as you are also a navigator. As a combatant I'm less likely to be targeted while keeping others alive and you can direct as needed while maintaining your own quest.

[And considering how the arguments have been going he also adds in without even realizing it.]

If it does somehow fall apart it won't be no fault of your own and not being personally involved means you can mitigate any damage from said fall out due to not being at the center of it.

[kokuyoyo]

It's not my first choice, but if it's necessary, I know what purpose my life has. Although it'd be preferable if you found someone else who can heal.

[So in other words- he'll do it because he knows that this plan is all they have, but he'd rather not if he can get away with it.]

I doubt that but this isn't the time to talk about that kind of thing... Just make sure whatever decision is made that you succeed.

We can't last much longer at this rate.

[kouteipenguin]

Well, yeah. That's the idea.

[forsteri]

"Let's have someone be bait" is only the first step of a plan. Were you planning on just letting them walk into it and leaving them to get eaten while the rest of us hang back and hum over what to do? Having a navigator stand there and wait for something to attack them is all well and good, but if you expect no one to volunteer to back them up when that happens, you're just throwing them away for absolutely no gain at all. One instead of many is a good plan, but when you can get away with no losses at all, it's foolish not to take that opportunity.

Maybe it seems strange to you that we're answering impulsively, but I'm sure you're aware what we're all doing right now.

[kouteipenguin]

You're asking me to put a lot of faith into someone who seems uninterested in people's survival that isn't his own.

[hachitaro]

Fine. Then there's no issue.

[kokuyoyo]

If I had no interest, I'd have given no advice, and I wouldn't be pointing out what we all need to do to survive.

[osakanpride]

[ Of all the times to have a convoluted discussion. Even worse that he recognized a fraction of these voices that spoke. All of which were debating on how to draw out the main objection (whatever that was). It was a little difficult to simply write it off as hallucination, especially when he engaged in this activity before he even reached the school.

There was some method to achieve this type of communication, and Heiji just hadn't figured it out yet, regardless, all this talking and fighting was giving him a headache. ]

You idiots are annoyin'!

How many separate debates are ya gonna have at a time like this? If ya still need a 'navigator', I can step in.

[ Heiji hadn't actually come to terms with it, not fully, but he was willing to do whatever it took to put an end to this ordeal. As fictitious as it was... ]

Healin' is preferred, correct? I have that...spell...

[ Not that he'd be able to use it until he was under pressure again, anyway (unbeknownst to him). ]

[kouteipenguin]

They can. I know it.