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]

[If this was spoken, he'd stop this thought, but..]

... You're suggesting someone without friends.

[kokuyoyo]

I'm suggesting someone with common sense.

[kouteipenguin]

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

[hachitaro]

Look. Can you get them to hang back far enough or not? If you can't, then the whole thing's gonna get screwed up.

[kokuyoyo]

Exactly. We're being asked to put a lot of faith into a group of people who so far have only come off as panicked and overly protective.

[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.

[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.

[kouteipenguin]

Except you're refusing to work with those who do anything that isn't part of your initial plan. You're refusing to even hear us out.

To be trusted by others, you must also trust others. I have no reason to trust you. Yet until now, I've chosen done so in the interest of working together - of survival. That's what we need to be doing - working as a group. That won't happen if you refuse to factor everyone into your plans.

[kokuyoyo]

Are you saying you've done better?

[kouteipenguin]

Will you let me?

[kokuyoyo]

I don't really have a choice.

[kouteipenguin]

Well, yeah. That's the idea.

[hachitaro]

Fine. Then there's no issue.