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[privatematter]

So, uhm...

[ Shannon clears his throat. ]

This is belated, and not really my style, but I'd like to apologize for not getting the emergency response team mobilized or even put together in time for the attack on Terminal Tokyo last week. Now that things have begun to settle, could I get a show of hands for how many of you are still around?

[ Beat, and then he attaches the current roster: here. Well, Kera does it for him, but semantics. ]

Anyone who's interested in the idea can fill out that attached forum and I'll add you as well. This lull is probably our best bet to getting everyone up to speed and hopefully training everyone in the skills they want or need.

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[leaderkun]

None of us were as prepared as we should have been. There's nothing to apologize for.

[privatematter]

You know, there's a reason I was calling it emergency response team, and not clean-up crew.

[ Which is to say fuck that. That whole thing was just terribly shitty. ]

[leaderkun]

[Yu makes a small noise in dismay- an audible wince almost. He had defaulted to attempts at comfort, but it's obvious Shannon isn't looking for that]

There's no point to dwell on it beyond doing better next time. So far I haven't heard word of anyone dying...

[Another of those sounds, just under his breath]

...except for all the locals. Who we're here to save in the first place.

[privatematter]

That's a whole lot of someones, Yu.

We need a game plan.

[leaderkun]

Agreed. Though first things first we need to be sure everyone made it to Hospitown safely. Though... maybe everyone being spread out is better. Less of a big blinking target.

[He sighs, tired]

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[treacherous_widow]

I'd be surprised if you had a plan for giant slagging Digimon suddenly destroying the city. Even.. if it does seem to happen a lot around here.

[Shrugs.]

Anyway, yeah. I'm still here. Not sure where I'm going, but I'm still here.

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[privatematter]

We could have tried holding them apart or otherwise minimizing damage to the city while everyone else got out safe.

[ He holds in the sigh threatening to emerge. ]

That might as well make two of us.

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[treacherous_widow]

....Have you ever fought against a Digimon that level before? I have and guess what, running was the best we could do. Scrap holding them back. Just be happy there were two of them to fight each other so we could escape with our afts intact.

[Grumble.]

Great. Have you heard from anyone else or is the little defense force reduced to two people on the opposite ends of the world?

[privatematter]

Just Yu and Eli. [ Which... he's not going to clarify that "Yu" is a name and not "you". Why would he do that? ]

But there's time yet.

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[aspectional]

You don't need to apologize for that, idiot. I don't think anyone's going to give you a hard time for getting your brain all scrambled.

[Eli's sitting nearby, tossing the now Puttimon Pip up in the air, who is squealing in delight and flapping his little wings in joy whenever he's tossed.]

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[privatematter]

[ Shannon's just sitting on the foot of the bed, dressed more or less like he doesn't plan to get out of bed for the rest of the day. He's hoping he can get away with blaming it on said head scrambling. ]

That's beside the point. Nobody knows about that, nor are they going to. [ Beat. ] That's not some kind of weird cry of pain he's making, is it?

[aspectional]

Probably because that'd be really uncomfortable to mention. "I couldn't lead the evacuation because I was too busy reliving one of the memories of my previous life in which I was an insane dragon god hellbent on keeping his position and willing to sacrifice his wife and eight children to do so." [He stops tossing Pip into the air, who makes a frustrated noise at the lack of tossing, and just looks over at Shannon.] What, no, he's having fun. How could you think that was a pain noise?

...Wait, why are you still in bed?

[privatematter]

No shit. That's exactly why they aren't going to know. Thus... why I'm saying something. Fuck me if I'm going to let this fall apart because people think I can't keep it going.

[ Kera, who has been near the head of the bed and apparently cuddling up to a pillow while watching his partner be an idiot, shifts and waddles his way over to lightly poke Pip with a tentacle. ] Babies are weird.

It's just one of those days, Eli.

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[yayashton]

Present, but currently in San Francisco. [A beat.] At least they tell me it's San Francisco, but there are a lot fewer people here than I remember. Either way, I'm enjoying it.

I don't think "enjoying it" is accurate. You stole a house! [Leormon sounds livid about this.]

Borrowed. I'm borrowing the house until I no longer feel like being in San Francisco.

You really have to learn to just. . . accept that Ryan does weird things, Tugs.

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[privatematter]

Right, I remember the San Fran stop. [ He also remembers having to drag Eli back onto the Trailmon else they would end up conquering it in the name of... whatever Eli represents. Certainly not Thomas Hawkins. ] You stayed?

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[yayashton]

I'm waiting to see if the new town gets destroyed too. If two weeks go by and nobody tries to blow up that one, then I'll leave.

He said he was going to build an apocalypse bunker otherwise.

And maybe conquer San Francisco in the name of . . . France or something. I don't know, we'll cross that bridge when we get there.

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[privatematter]

Conquer it in the name of America. It's not like it's in America anymore, might as well make sure it stays in the right hands.

Bunker sounds good right about now. Could have used one of those. [ Grumblegrumble. ]

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[amygdalae]

What's done is done. At least we all made it out alive at the end, which is the most important thing.

[privatematter]

[ Due to the text, Kera is reading it aloud for Shannon. They're too lazy to find text-to-voice and this works just as well. ]

Do we know that for sure?

[amygdalae]

Do we know anybody who died?

[Very, very factually, even through text.]

[privatematter]

I have a hunch of at least two.

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[notmyprophecy]

Here. Helping out a...friend, so the travel is slow. It sort of caught us all off-guard. Sorry to say I probably wouldn't have been much help, when it happened.

[privatematter]

You're not the only one. [ Shannon was a complete and utter wreck during the attack, nearly choked his best friend and would have probably passed out in wreckage somewhere. He gets it. ] Friend doing okay?

[notmyprophecy]

He's alive. [The response is soft and quick.] I have to look after him for awhile.

[privatematter]

Get a chance to practice those herbs, at least. [ He's trying to insert some levity here. Is it working? ]