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who: Openish - Floor Six Mingle Post
what: Ed and Chloe Initiate Phase II: Research and Explore
when: Sometime After New Arrivals Show Up (July 10th?)
where: Floor Six
warnings: Please hit up Ed's Permissions Post, as he's a CRAU and may recognize your character or talk about being in various other worlds.

The kitchen is laid out with whatever (reasonable) refreshments one can imagine available within the quarantine, snacks and beverages to accommodate varying tastes spread across the kitchen island and counter tops. Enough seating for 20 (10 from the kitchen, 10 from the entertainment area) had been arranged around Chloe's display, however she chose to set it up - since it had been put on her as the tech savvy one between them to do the presentation.

New arrivals, whether they cared for the research and exploration party or not would easily find themselves surrounded by books, notebooks and other papers with various notations - all regarding Riverview, the history of the quarantine, rumors surrounding it and comparisons to other worlds that similarly pull people through portals. These are out in the open and free to browse, should one be so inclined.

[Anyone with relation to floor six is welcome to attend - resident, friend of resident, etc. If you're unsure whether or not your character would get an invitation please contact the player you have CR with. Should your character be the type to show up uninvited, feel free to crash. Pretty much anyone Ed has CR with would be notified, and he'll be making a public post on the network before this event actually takes place IC. However if you have any questions don't hesitate to hit me up:

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"Hey..."

It had been kind of weird to jump right into something, but it wasn't the first time they'd done it. Heck, they'd jumped right into the Lions, too, so here they were, doing it again.

"So? What do you think? Seems like a decent plan or place to start, right?"

"Hey."

Jumping right into things wasn't a problem for Shiro. Having something positive focus on helped him, kept any issues he had in check.

"I think it is a good starting point and the plan does have merit for gathering information. There's a lot more that will need to be taken into consideration to actually act it out, but I think we can work with it and help out with this."

Keith nodded.

"Yeah, there are a few more things to consider, definitely," he agreed. "And we don't know much about this place ourselves, so anything we can learn, then that'll help."

Shiro nodded as well, crossing his arms as he glanced briefly back over at the presenters before looking back at Keith.

"I'm not going to think that the abandoned city will have all of the information we need, but anything is something we didn't have before. In terms of other things we should be thinking about is the safety of those who are going into the city. I know he was asking for people who can defend themselves, but even the best fighter is vulnerable if he's not expecting an attack so we will need people whose only purpose is to stand watch."

"No, I agree. And, even if we do find anything, who knows if we'll even be able to understand it." Altean letters on scaltrite packaging, anyone?

"Making sure we have someone to watch our backs is a good idea, too," he said. "We'll have the Perimeter Guard escort, though. So that's something, at least."

"That is also true. Someone here may be able to figure it out even so, but it will take longer to figure out what is relevant and what isn't when we can't tell what they say."

Let's be honest though. Shiro would much rather being one of the ones to stand guard than allowing someone else to get hurt.

"It is something. When we have a group, we'll have to figure out who is best where and for what situation."

"Yeah. It looks like some people have stepped up and started figuring that out already. That's a good sign."

Keith looked around the room.

"Better than everyone going at this without any clue at all."

While he probably would have anyway, Keith did feel a bit better that things were settling into some semblance of a plan, at least.

"Definitely better than that."

He knew Keith. He knew the teen would have barreled right into it so he glad to see others besides him were taking steps to make those more impulsive couldn't do that. He didn't want anyone getting hurt, but especially Keith.

"That is good. At least everyone is on the same page and taking this seriously."

Keith could work within a plan, so that definitely wasn't an issue for him. It was usually when he acted on his own that he got into trouble. So, a planning meeting was a good thing for him.

He was also pretty curious and wondering what they would find out there. He hadn't really gotten a good look at it, yet, so he was a little concerned about going in there essentially blind. He wondered just how much of it so far had been explored by anyone.

"What do you think we'll find?"

Shiro already knew Keith acting on impulse was not a good thing. Maybe being a part of this and contributing to a plan would help him see what all was needed for that.

"In terms of information? Just about anything, useful and not. As for other things we could find, the options are wide open for that too."

Shiro did tend to think very pessimistic sometimes, but it was always something consider when planning, what was the worst case scenario, what could go wrong. Only thinking about the positive meant you weren't prepared just in case.

Not exactly what he meant when he asked, but Keith nodded, crossing his arms.

"Yeah... I don't have any real theories, yet. I'm hoping we can figure out more about that epidemic they mentioned, at the very least."

Like... was there a chance they might get sick, too? Keith wasn't thrilled with the idea.

Shiro nodded at that. He wasn't thrilled about that either. It hadn't sounded good what had happened before and to have it happen again could be devastating. He was concerned for the others who were here, though probably especially for Keith.

"I hope we can as well. Depending on how long that city has been abandoned, it may not have many answers for that."

"Yeah."

There was a moment as Keith considered a few things. Gathering information was important. Figuring out how much other people around them already knew was, too. They needed to be as prepared as possible. Keith was definitely someone who ran into things half-cocked, but only when he felt confident enough to do it. There were still too many unknowns and variables to this that he wasn't feeling great about it, and wanted more information first.

"We should ask around. It looks like Ed and Chloe know a good amount, so we can talk to them. It was Ed that I talked to about this meeting in the first place."

"I agree. More information is better. Those are two options, but some of the people who were hear to listen may have some experience as well that might be relevant."

He didn't want to simply go running off into the fray. He wasn't even completely sure what kind of creatures were out there. Speaking of which...

"It might also be to our advantage to speak to other members of the perimeter guard to figure out what sort of creatures might be out there."

Keith nodded.

"Okay. Why don't we do that and we can meet up later afterwards and compare what we found out."

"Sounds good. We'll message when we have something and then meet up."

Keith nodded.

"Alright."

He glanced around a second, and then, with another short nod, he headed off into the crowd to do just that.

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