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

[kouteipenguin]

Even if it isn't, bait is meant to look vulnerable.

[kokuyoyo]

I'm suggesting someone with common sense.

[connivingbird]

One is still not enough. Look, you need to let others in to help this or there won't be an end to the rats. We need the space and to take out whatever is driving it. You're small, others can be with you also weaken by whatever. A group staggering away from aid trying to get away from the fight? That will draw it out. It's what a eagle would do, see the wounded and then swoop down to pick the smallest of them.

[kokuyoyo]

Then we add more Navigators, not Combatants.

[touketsu]

Hmm...I don't know.

[That's presuming a lot about the way this thing thinks. But...]

It's worth a shot. I can get some cleaners.

[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.

[megacurious]

I do learn some healing. But I'll try to cast it when the situation calls for it.

[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.

[kokuyoyo]

We're going to die.

[hachitaro]

Do not talk to me about birds okay. I have tengu problems.

... Anyway. I think the ones volunteering are kids. Easy enough to make it look like they got in over their heads.

[hachitaro]

Good. You'll need to save up your stamina so you can cast them at the right times, since I think this is gonna go long.

[kokuyoyo]

I'm not.

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

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

[connivingbird]

How nice.

[ And this one sounded odd, with a metallic echo to his voice, and a dry delivery that echoed the kind of skeptical eyebrow raise of someone who was far too use to people tossing themselves into danger ]

Keeping a level tone does help in establishing your credentials. But have you done so before?

Ah, never mind. We all start some where.

[forsteri]

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

[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.

[beastfang]

I'm a healer as well, though how far such goes in keeping energy up is not something to attempt experimenting with now.

[transient_specter]

No we won't.

We can pull this together.

[blackdogdown]

[God its like talking to the old Griffith-smitten Guts, he wants to shake the damn kid awake. The flash of conflicting emotion, anger, guilt, all consuming fear is audible even the specifics can't be made out. ]

Just...

Just remember you pick what battlefield you die on Fubuki. Make sure you don't let anybody else choose it.

[connivingbird]

How unfortunate for you that I am the King of Birds, now isn't it?

Good.

[megacurious]

Alright, just tell me where you are and I'll be on my way.

[kokuyoyo]

The current popular thought is explosives.

[kouteipenguin]

No... You're making guesses about people you don't know and projecting that judgement on me.

[blackdogdown]

Don't get caught.

[hachitaro]

Just keep those tengu away from me.

[blackdogdown]

Sounds real neat. Tell me if you find anyone with wind, ok?