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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

[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.