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

[touketsu]

[Volunteers willing to be bait are one thing, but...]

We can't let anyone play that part undefended.

[hachitaro]

You want more people to die?

[touketsu]

I don't want anyone to die, that's the point.

[hachitaro]

... Either one person gets hurt or a lot of people do.

Which one is better for the group?

[touketsu]

I think everyone making it out in one piece is what's best, actually.

[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.

[kokuyoyo]

We're going to die.

[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.

[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]

I agree, there's no use in leading anything anywhere if the ones doing so are not given the cover needed to find a suitable place.

[touketsu]

Mm. And our enemy will have a hard time getting past you and I...don't you think?

[beastfang]

If they manage it won't be because we allowed them an easy time of it.

[touketsu]

If they manage, it isn't going to be in one piece.

[beastfang]

A deterrent and a challenge if these things have any intelligence. If Kidou wishes to be bait then we'll make him seem even more important by defending him with all we have.

[touketsu]

That might be the easiest thing we do, in that case.

[Making Kidou seem important, that is. Because...well, he is that important. To all of them, and in general. Fubuki's fairly certain there aren't as many people, Combatants or Navigators, who are as talented as Kidou is at making plays. They need him.]