[open] we could strike the chord

[headinjuries]

CHARACTERS: Anyone who wanted to go to the vigil!
WHERE: Royal Street Gaming Parlor.
WHEN: DAY :031
SUMMARY: Concordia honors the dead. Hosts honor the dead, or maybe just do a little 007ing. As in snooping, not macking on hot ladies. We hope.
WARNINGS: TBA.

This is here for any and all of your mingling needs. Start your own top-levels, harass each other, etc etc.

Here is what we know is happening, courtesy of our fearless mods:

The hosts will be few in a throng of relatively peaceful people. Most people in attendance are younger (30s and below) and a proportionally large number of them have some kind of physical modification, though most are relatively low-profile mods. There's also a small contingent of androids in attendance.

A low platform has been erected in front of the Royal Street Gaming Parlor and the speakers for the vigil either stand on it or, as is the case with some more high profile appearances, they speak across an extranet connection via a holoscreen projected onto the Parlor itself. For the most part the speakers are small time: a few workers from a small local chapter of Mind Life (accompanied by a few skittish looking androids), a beta block councilwoman, a Mother and Sister from a nearby Church of Lirinity. Most of them have nothing more than words of support and condolence.

Somewhere close to the middle of the vigil, Seong-Hye Ngazi, the Public Security Commissioner for Concordia, speaks via extranet connection. She seems somber, competent, but also confident, and speaks about condolences for the losses, regret for the circumstances of the attack, and Public Security's dedication to finding the party responsible for the attack.

Otherwise: it's your fairly standard memorial gathering. Poems are read, some tears are shed, there are some people with signs and a small contingent of rabble rousers on the fringe of the gathering that quickly get chased off by Public Security, etc. You're welcome to create and interact with your own NPCs if you feel so inclined!

Comments

[tropism]

( Her speech will probably be recorded. No doubt it'll be online later on, and someone will probably provide a transcript for the entire thing.

You can view it again later provided you mark when it was that you felt something was wrong. )

[ given how complicated things were at the moment in terms of security and politics, there is a sizeable amount of info that needs to be examined before sam or someone else is probably able to pinpoint where it is that he felt she was 'off'. doubting her sincerity will do them no good if that was the best that sam can do, although he doesn't begrudge him at all.

that sam is able to tell, however - that is interesting to him, and he makes a note of it in his head. (for future reference.) ]

( I'll suppose we'll have to watch her closely, from now on. )

[headinjuries]

( Yeah, I'll...look at it later. See if I can pin it down better. )

[ He sounds a little distracted, and he is - partly by turning over what's being said in his head, despite agreeing that he'll have plenty of time to look at it later, but mostly he's just trying to not throw up. Puking all over the stranger standing in front of you at a vigil for the dead is definitely the opposite of this keeping a low profile stuff they're supposed to be doing.

And leaking nausea all over his brood is probably a great way to get five people annoyed with him. ]

[tropism]

[ his face certainly doesn't scream comfort. if anything, to him, sam looked like he was suffering a headache, and giorno was a little worried. ]

( How long does this effect usually last for you? )

[ he mostly wants to know if this is going to undermine any future investigations, although he'd like to extend a modicum of trust towards sam with regards to his powers. ]

[headinjuries]

( Usually it's fine once people shut up or stop lying. But that's just listening. I've never really tried to...pick it apart before. )

[ Knowing it was there made him feel sick, sure, but once the lies stopped coming, that was that.

But pushing himself to try and figure out the truth is feeling a lot rougher, so far, so he wouldn't be surprised if it lingered. ]

[tropism]

[ oh. that's a handy thought. he files that in his mind for later. ]

( How did you even find that out? ) [ srs question, did you just puke everywhere until you figured out it was an ability or what ]

[headinjuries]

( At first it was just a feeling? Like, on top of the wanting to puke, I'd just feel really sure that somebody was full of it. So then I started paying more attention to what people were actually saying. )

[tropism]

( That's a lot less complicated than what I've heard of other Hosts discovering their latent abilities. I hope mine is as simple as that. )

[headinjuries]

( Well, it's a lot easier to run into someone lying than to figure out you can set something on fire with your brain, I guess. )

[ He's had many chances to notice.

Oh so very many. ]