mental link; after everything goes down on the evening of :038

[adamance]

[As it becomes apparent that it's time to move on—to shift forward in what feels like an endless pilgrimage, one in which none of the Hosts will gain any "true" enlightenment, as they will never see this culture as anything more than a means to an end. (At least, that's as far as Lexa sees it. Perhaps it's disrespectful. Perhaps she would bristle at it herself if it were about her culture. But then, no one is calling these people primitive and uncivilized like she's heard about her people in the past.)

Not that any of this will be spoken. This mission will go on, but it's a mission that can come to an end. That is something within their reach.

Which is why she opens up a mental communication to all the Hosts.]

( We must discuss, as a whole, how we hope to proceed moving forward. Before we pack up our things, I would prefer that we have some plan in place for how we act next. It'll prevent any further need to take on actions individually as we will be acting for each other. With the knowledge of each other's future actions.

That is not to say that I recommend against actions. But we can't act in contradiction to one another. Out of impatience for each other. We all hope to be done with this mission as soon as possible.

We have confirmed the presence of the Enemy. How do we hope to proceed? How will we ensure that the Descendants do not claim control of this power?

Furthermore, I implore you all to consider why it is the Enemy would act to prevent peace talks that could secure them the Nectar. And why it is that they need the Nectar. We are only fighting one battle here.

I won't lead this discussion. But we must have this discussion. We work well under time constraints. Let's have an idea of how we hope to proceed before we continue our journey. )

[That's her way of setting a time constraint, all in hopes that people will discuss what they will have to do. It's no longer about Keya (as far as she's concerned), but about their greater mission.]

[ooc: please please please treat this as an IC discussion post where people can threadjack and discuss whatever! i figured it would be a good idea to facilitate discussion here!]

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[nastygram]

[The mental equivalent of an eyeroll goes here.]

( Yours too, I guess, so be nice to me. Last time, I got someone else to take out the guy who owned this alien fax machine or whatever. If we do that again, I need like a minute to turn it on. From there, it depends on what you want me to do with it. )

[adamance]

( I haven't used my tool to erase the memory of anyone. We may need to use it here. )

[nastygram]

( I am super interested in seeing a test run of that thing. )

[Sarcastic, even though there's truth to it, too. The thought is tightly woven with Men in Black images like GIFs, Will Smith holding up a skinny silver pen, a flash of light, civilians blinking. Wouldn't that be cool.]

( Advance warning that my way is going to be pretty scattershot. Phising in a barrel. If we're wiping memories, we might as well grab the first head dick we can find and get the info out of them ourselves. )

[adamance]

( There's a limit to how much we can erase, unless there is a trick to linking up the events. I would suggest we don't test it. )

[nastygram]

( Fine. Scattershot it is. Let's at least pick a target the other assholes are going to want to spill some deets to. My orig guy was basically a baby Second. Think we can do better than that? )

[adamance]

( We should be trying to discern how much of the Descendants are infiltrated. We choose someone from their group. )

[nastygram]

( And hope everyone uses the same friggin' fax machine to communicate, which they probably do. Cool. Let's do it to it. )

[adamance]

( If they don't, then we'll have a chance to see what it is that they do use. It might help in the future. )

[But Lexa would prefer to not have to spread themselves too thin.]