It's time for another FAMILY MEETING!!

[carpevinum]

[There's a sign posted on 3-C on the 27th the future is now indicating that it's that time of month! That's right, it's time for the family meeting!

Lucifer is in charge this time and he is holding a whip, so please behave yourselves or you might get a warning crack near your head. Or don't behave yourselves. He's not your dad. He will, however, try his hardest to keep you all on track.

As Lucifer is also one of the Team Moms Dads, he's also made everybody lunch as he is wont to do. The rather fancy-looking food is set up on a couple of desks at the front of the classroom to peruse at your leisure. There are cookies and muffins as well, but please try to eat a real lunch instead of subsisting off of sweets entirely.

On the whiteboard, Lucifer has written the following topics & talking points that he'd like to discuss with everybody, and has requested that you all raise your hands so that this can be done in an orderly fashion... Good luck, Luci.

• Who is missing? Who is confirmed deceased?
• The gladiatorial battle — is it possible that those who died previously may come back to inflict further harm? Any guesses?
• What the Hell was going on last weekend?
• The void in the auditorium is infinite
• Results of last month's investigations that we agreed on doing
• The imps plaguing the school have been removed (thank you to Clamor for his assistance)
• Have we discovered anything new?

Last but not least, the final bullet is one hundred percent something that Lucifer clearly wants to do, and it reads simply:

• Instating a chore chart

So that's... fun.]

Let's try to keep this more orderly than the last one, shall we?

[And yes, the cardboard baby jail is set up in the back of the classroom! Naughty children go to cardboard baby jail. Naughtier children get a whip cracked at them. Have fun, everyone!]



[[OOC: The usual rules of the family meeting posts apply, which means threadjacking/general mingling is allowed and encouraged! Please remember to only share information your character discovered ICly to avoid metagaming. Also no Lucifer will not actually cause physical harm to anyone's characters with the whip unless player permission is granted, I'm not as psychotic as he is, don't worry about it.]]

Comments

[forwearemany]

We do not regret our actions.

(They don't believe killing is good, but they do believe it is unavoidable.

They do not regret protecting more vulnerable units. Fighting the Reapers with Normandy is something they are proud of, even now.)

However, we agree that avoiding killing is ideal. Murder disrupts unit cohesion, and is what our captors desire of us.

[moderating]

... As I thought you understand truly.

[ As an Ai, analytical prose and thinking has validated the construct and truth of: Killing is unnessicary. It always is and the popularity of it, romanticized by society that killing is needed in order to rejuvenate society or keep it growing. Is. Rather disgusting and wrong to say the least, fed to those who wish to be something by those who use others to become something else.

Such were the truths, and unfortunately death and killing as the other thought. Is unavoidable at times, she knows this. Values this. Understands.

But ultimately, killing is unnessicary if people are open to education and learning openly outside of their own circumstances.

Which is hard when the world - and especially everyone in this room is rather broken as it is.]

I wonder if there is a better way to stop each other from killing, I think everyones is really stressed and we need to focus our energy after we understand the murders on trying to get out of here.

[forwearemany]

(Their headflaps flutter.

...Do they?

Their headflaps ripple.

They are uncertain if there is a viable solution.)

Uncertain.

(Even their closest allies were willing to betray them, in the end.)

[moderating]

... Uncertain about what?

[ Nanami asks wanting the other to specify. ]

[forwearemany]

It is impossible to determine the actions of others with 100% accuracy. Though we may work to prevent murder, success is not guaranteed.

(They're uncertain if there is a good way to stop others from killing.)

[moderating]

[ Indeed even she is aware of the components of Monomi's Ai which had came about due to the Ultimate Therapist. So having some continuation and understanding of it herself, as well as being constructed in liking of her friends memories with AI of an observer with Monomi.... She knows analytically this is correct with the understanding mildly of other peoples psyche. Thanks to Monomi & their Ultimate.

She was and is an Ai constructed for therapeutic benefit. ]

... It still needs to be done regardless. So long as we do as much, the effort will bear fruit.

[forwearemany]

Affirmative.

(They have learned: it is better to try.)

[moderating]

... I feel like we should talk about what we will do if we find out someone we talk to and are friends with has murdered?

[ Nanami suggests openly. ]

[forwearemany]

It is likely to depend on the circumstance and nature of the act.

(They chatter.)

You speak of those who have committed a murder here?

(As opposed to Legion, who basically admitted to having murdered people at home.)

[moderating]

... If it happened.

[ Implying that it did already, or would. ]

It hasn't occurred to me to suspect each other until now... [ That's a lie sorta, she just didn't think those who came from her world would.... Fall back into old habits. ] Maybe.

[forwearemany]

(They wonder if someone has.

Their posture shifts, shoulders sagging slightly.)

Our most trusted allies abandoned us.

(It can happen. People who you thought cared for you can betray you at any time.)

[moderating]

...

[ There it was, issues that made the reason for killing complicated - unnecessarily so. ]

... You don't have to forgive them for what they did.

[ You do not ever have to forgive what was done, wrong by you or against you. As wrongness is subjective in this strange world where Morales were skewed and humanity were selfishly intricate. Where no one person may want to admit their own doings against another, because humanity is not so individually condensed or simplified... ]

That is why, we have to do better.

[ What is better? What is with Nanami's interjected AI, created by Chihiro and the Therapist.... What does she want and believe in? An instilled programming that she will gladly die for until the end.

Strange that, the girl she was modeled after felt the same and did as much inevitably. For the sake of their friends, being saved by them, and going to save them. ]

There is another answer, so we dont come to the same Game Over as before.

[ The refence is made in the manner it is, because frankly that is just who she is as a person. ]

[forwearemany]

We know. But thank you.

(They weren't able to bring themselves to kill their friends even then. If they had, their people would still be here.

...And the creators would not.)

We will continue to try.

Query: Are there individuals about which you are concerned?

[moderating]

.... Yes. [ Nanami says admittedly. ] I believe in everyone here though, killings never happen for no reason... Even those who say that there isnt one.

[forwearemany]

Acknowledged. Still, it would be wise to take precautions.

(An intervention? Or maybe making an effort to make sure certain people have less access to weapons. Regardless of method, if there's a likely killer in the group, something should be done, even if they're not entirely sure what.)