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[cloak]

Posted: April 10th, 1:45 AM
From: Roxas

Our current system could use improvements.

For that reason, I'm looking into two prospective methods:
— An ayakashi detection network
— An emergency contact system

I think it's worthwhile to see if those with mechanical and programming skill could create a network of monitoring devices that specifically respond to an ayakashi's darkness. This would enable us to detect them sooner and dispatch them more efficiently.

And this system would be used in conjunction with an automatic forwarding system. A message concerning detected ayakashi and location(s) would be sent out to any volunteers on a mailing list.

In addition to this, the emergency contact system could be used by gods or shinki to notify others when they're in need of assistance. Anyone who volunteers to be respondents on that system will have messages automatically forwarded to them, so they can assist in handling threats.

If anyone is interested in making this work, respond with relevant skills and what aspect you want to participate in. In my case, I can Hold the Fort but I can't Kill Ayakashi. I have knowledge of Coding, but not Mechanics.

[ooc: In response to a whole mess that resulted in needing to name a shinki to save him from being consumed and the blightstorm that followed, he's of the impression that certain provisions should be made to avoid the necessity of such last-ditch options.

Also! Please feel free to thread hop/jack! By all means coordinate efforts with folks of similar skills/abilities or heckle each other. Hoping this gives people something to play with]

Comments

[revolutionfalcon]

It doesn't sound like they're planning to be the ones to do it. If it goes on much longer, we'll have to take things into our own hands. At least, we need to make them understand they can't keep acting like this and expect not to be held accountable.

private → shun

[cloak]

Changing the system from within...seems like it might be necessary.

But be careful what you say openly on this network. The leadership being what it is, we don't know how they'll treat people. Only that they seem against change.

[revolutionfalcon]

I'm not planning to start some full-scale revolution through here, if that's what you're worried about. But some open dissent might help them see what they're doing is creating enemies within their own ranks.

And if they come after me for it, then we'll know their true colours, one way or another.

[If they did respond that way, it wouldn't be his own life he'd be afraid for.]

[cloak]

There are some around here who are likely to act out, so it may only be a matter of waiting and observing. More data would be ideal, even if I'd rather they cared more about the workings of their own system.

[revolutionfalcon]

I'll keep my eye out for them, then. Have any of us made any significant moves before this?

If they're not going to run it properly, then we don't have much choice but to make them care. It's only a matter of time before they screw something up again, and if it keeps happening, people aren't just going to lie down and take it.

[cloak]

None that I've seen.

When I questioned Amaterasu she said that concentration should allow us to detect anything tainted before distribution. It seems like such a basic measure I'm surprised we weren't told as much to start with, and that I had to ask.

I don't disagree. People didn't need to die over chocolate, and when we're tasked with protecting this world, I don't want any part of harming it instead.

[revolutionfalcon]

So the answer was that easy, but she didn't say as much from the start? That's stretching even incompetence to unbelievable levels, it might as well have been malicious.

Exactly. For people who are supposed to be offering protection, if they're this bad at it, you have to wonder how the hell they're supposed to be managing all the people outside of this place.

[cloak]

Supposedly something like this occurring was unprecedented. But all possibilities should've been accounted for, especially with so many new presences in their ranks.

That's what bothers me most. We're supposed to protect, but they made us a party to harming people instead. Casualties were not low.

[revolutionfalcon]

Right. Unprecedented doesn't mean it should never have been considered in the first place, and information that easy to provide doesn't give a good excuse as to why it wasn't.

It's that making me doubt it was entirely an accident. They must have been doing this for far longer than we've been here, making that kind of mistake shouldn't be happening at all anymore.

[cloak]

Just what I thought. The fact that I had to ask how we could safeguard against it was troubling, to say the least. Until I asked, there was just the assurance it would be looked into and shouldn't have happened.

It's possible they became lax for the same reasons, but it seems too reckless. Allowing us to spread around the things we're supposed to destroy would be a huge blunder. Maybe it was sabotage, but even so, there's no excusing it.

[revolutionfalcon]

That kind of "reassurance" isn't reassuring at all. It just makes it sound like they were trying to cover something up within their ranks. That's another possibility - some of them having malicious intent, but not all.

If anything like this happens again, all of us need to keep a better eye out. Especially if it was sabotage, because that makes it far more likely that it might.

[cloak]

Whichever way it turned out, they never singled out any culprits, or named any punishment for what happened.

Agreed. At least we can spread the knowledge that focusing on anything supplied to us will indicate whether ayakashi are present. Would've been better to know from the beginning, but what's done is done now.

[revolutionfalcon]

That just makes it smell even more like a cover-up. Something like that, you'd think they'd make an example.

It's something, even if it's too little and too late for what happened then.

[cloak]

I would've expected it, but there was never a follow-up.

Those deaths were entirely avoidable, so I agree.