towerofanimus | Fellowship of Animus | First Council of Sages

Characters: THE FELLOWSHIP OF ANIMUS aka pretty much everyone
Setting: Floor 38, early afternoon - forward-dated to July 29
Format: Party style - pick your poison
Summary: After repeated delays, Zelda and Gandalf have finally called the populace of the Tower to discuss productive means of dealing with their situation.
Warnings: None yet, will edit should something come up

It's taken far too long to get to this point.

Come Sunday, the various couches and armchairs of the uppermost lounge have been arranged in vaguely semi-circle-like patterns, with chairs from other floors scattered amongst them to increase seating even more. The semi-circles face inwards towards a central point to facilitate discussion among a large group of people. Though this is by no means a party, small slices of Lembas bread are available on tables around the perimeter - though there is no shortage of food, the hungry tend to be less cooperative, all the same.

Outside, the sun shines brightly without a cloud to obstruct it, but the atmosphere inside is much less carefree. Considering the purpose of gathering here this day, it's to be expected. Should this council succeed, it may very well change life in the Tower as everyone knows it. If not, well... one should certainly hope individual efforts begin to bear more fruit than they have in the past.

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"Whaddaya mean, no point?!" Momotaros - hitching a ride in Ryotaro for this meeting, as his regular appearance might make some people uneasy - all but jumps out of his chair, and glares in the direction of the hooded girl. "It shows these assholes that we aren't gonna take their crap lyin' down! That's point enough! And besides, if the jerks in charge of this place ain't gonna come out and face us, we gotta get to them!" As he speaks, he gestures a bit wildly - those sitting next to him might need to move out of the way.

He's off to a wonderful start...

"And if they have the power to ensure we can't strike so openly without certain death?" Ryu asked, loud enough to be heard, but not rising from his seat.

He didn't even look at Ryotaro/Momotaros, but just tugged on his collar for emphasis to what he was saying.

"If one method's not working, another approach is necessary. She's not saying to do nothing."

"Tch..." Momotaros scoffs. "Then we go anyway. I ain't turnin' tail and running from a bunch of jerks tryin' to keep us down just 'cause they can kill me. If it don't work, maybe I'll figure out a way to make it work. If I don't, maybe someone else will."

Ryu seemed mostly unfazed, but he raised an eyebrow. He still didn't stand up.

"So you would just deny the chance of considering alternate options? I don't think anyone's suggesting we just run. There are other ways to deal with things than just going face first."

He paused.

"Using our heads is worth considering, at least, if our raw power's not going to do it."

"Goin' face first is all my head's good for! They wanna do other stuff, that's fine for them. I'm just sayin' that chargin' in still has its uses!" And reacted badly to the initial suggestion, because he is kind of dumb and hotheaded.

Ryu processed his next comment for a moment before continuing. Really, he wasn't one to criticize the stance. But he also wanted to just make it clear it'd be good to hear other ideas, too.

"It has its place. And it definitely has its time. We just have to make sure that when we hit, it leaves the impact we want it to. Not everyone's place is in charging headlong into battle, and we have a lot of people here. You might be good at something like that. Frankly, so am I. But that doesn't mean we can't use other methods to get us to where brute force will do any good at all."

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After Xion finished her speech, Fey reached over and rested her hand on her other's. After Momotaros finished speaking the first time, she gave Xion's hand a reassuring squeeze. But now, she can't help but speak up. Even though she's making an effort to control her tone, her blue eyes are flaring.

"She's not saying we should run away." Is she glaring? Maybe a little. "Weren't you listening? She's saying we should come at them from another angle. Change tactics, not give up."

Oh indeed, he is. Especially by blowing up on someone Riku happens to care about, who needed all her courage to say just that. He hadn't planned to speak up much, or this early into the discussions, but... he is not about to leave Xion to deal with this hothead by herself either.

When he speaks up, his voice is calm, his tone cold.

"Is it? If we die over and over again - whether due an experiment, their will or our own designs - even if we are retrieved again; only thanks to them no less... just how exactly is making a stand that's bound to fail 'not taking their crap lying down'? And where is the point in that?"

Riku has been in enough of those 'games' to tell that not playing along is rarely an option. Besides...

"As Xion said, there have been attempts before and they failed. And the only thing trying the same thing over and over again will get us is that we'll become predictable."

He doesn't have to explain just why this is a bad thing. Right?

Momo scratches the back of his head, then makes an annoyed noise. "It just does! If they're gonna make some kinda stupid experiment outta me, I'm gonna let 'em know just what I think about it!"

"If we keep tryin', it's bound to go right eventually. Maybe they'll slip up, maybe we'll get lucky." It makes sense to him, anyway. Brute-force one's way through it. Something will give eventually.

Link has been quietly listening, but something Riku said caught his attention. He waits until Momotaros replies, and then speaks up.

"Maybe, if they think we're predictable... We can use that to our advantage. Maybe sometime in the future, we could use it as a diversion."

It isn't much to say, but he feels that's all he needs to say.

"...It did partly work in the pods, but not by much."

It was still painful for him to think about, of how much the others suffered and what resulted in that time, but he wasn't going to let that keep him silent.

"While we could use it to our advantage, there's something else..." He remembered far too well how easy it was for one of them to stop his friend literally in midair. "There's also the possibility that they'll use something more substantial here than death as punishment instead, if we do. Jason wouldn't have any qualms about modification, and Ruana's capable of stopping people in their tracks with little effort."

"Except those attempts at 'getting to them' haven't gotten us anywhere." Riku groans, folding his arms over his chest. "There's this thing called insanity-- trying the same thing again and again while expecting different results."

He sighs and shakes his head, leaning back in his seat. It's tough to be put in a situation where you can't change anything, and Riku's definitely not in the mood to give up, but Xion, as well as his double, both have a point. The guys upstairs have way too much power. If break-ins don't work and people just wind up dead, they need a plan B. Something fresh.

"I think what we need to do right now is gather as much information as we can. There's enough of us here to get the job done. If we cover our bases, then maybe we can work something out that's a little more practical. Or at least more subtle."

"I agree." Suzaku had been silent so far, but as one of those who had attempted to free those in the pods he agreed with the black haired girl. "It has proven futile to attempt to go head to head with them, they have more power than all of us together. We were in the best position we have had since I have been here, since almost all our captors were distracted, yet we still didn't get close to our goal."

Fellowship of Animus | First Council of Sages

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