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[voidbound]

( ooc: assume that this has been passed around among the AU'd characters or something. )

I'm sure we all heard Gwen's news. It seems that the kaiju has mental effects that the ability to influence memories and emotions. I believe that is the reason for the strange behavior that some of our coworkers have been exhibiting since our arrival.

Since that appears to be the case, what should our plan be? I would like to open this forum to hear suggestions. Personally, I don't believe casting them out will be beneficial to us in either the short or long run.

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[zauneyete]

Ostracizing them would do no good, I think. That may serve to make it worse, or force them to dig in.

[ yeah
silco's the one saying this
he's so helpful! 😊 ]

Thus far they haven't shown resistance to the Kaiju, so perhaps we should focus on eliminating the source of the problem. Once that is done, they should remember who they are without issue. They may be upset, a bit, but...

It is better than driving them away in the short term, especially since we may need their assistance to take out the Kaiju.

[voidbound]

I agree. Compromised or not, they still are our coworkers.

Our friends, too. Some maybe even more.

My concern is that...if the Kaiju has already taken root in their minds, then who's to say that they won't be easier to manipulate further?

[zauneyete]

I know. It's difficult to square it with what could end up being a fight with them.

But remember, you all saved me and the others when we were corrupted by the rift. We cannot simply turn our backs on them.

Perhaps the option is to have some sort of alternative method to contain them. Something to knock them out, should they prove to be fully under its sway later. We may need to be ruthless, and handle them at the first sign of betrayal.

They will forgive us after, I am sure.

[misclassed]

yuji's strong as shit and youre made out of toothpicks and paper mache so good fucking luck oyaji

[voidbound]

I can probably take him on, if strictly necessary.
And I imagine you'll help, too.

But let's avoid fighting each other if we have to.

[zauneyete]

He had his mind altered too?

I spoke with him and he seemed fine.

[misclassed]

[ FUCK ]

you know he wont want anyone taken out of play like that

[zauneyete]

I'm not suggesting we kill them, just...

Perhaps we could knock them out.

[voidbound]

Being ruthless for the sake of a better good...

It would be difficult, but I can do it. They need our help, along with the rest of Windsor. Leaving them behind would be cruel. Awful.

[zauneyete]

I know, it's not the best approach, but it can be necessary sometimes.

We won't leave them behind, boy. If we have to be ready to stop them until we defeat the kaiju, then so be it. The alternative is what I find distasteful.

@shiro

[cranekin]

Silco-san is correct!

( Can't believe he's Silco-san and not Silco-kun anymore. )

I'm also worried about our dear, precious friends and allies but we also can't forget our mission.

Our mission is to fight kaiju and the reason is because they're causing trouble here.
Regardless of what we all believe, we know this to be true because our problems began when we arrived here.
If we defeat the source of our problems, that should be enough. The fairytales will come to an end.

[zauneyete]

Thankfully, I don't think anyone has forgotten that.

I just hope the monster is the one doing this, and it will rectify the problem.

The question then is, what do we know, and how can we come up with a plan. What relevance does everything we've seen had to this?

[cranekin]

( Who is this person... )

You're very optimistic, Silco-san.
It makes me feel very assured.

Fortunately, while we might be divided by our memories, we're all still working together.
Our friends have shared a lot of information that they've learned since being here.
Unfortunately, we still don't know much about our enemy.

[zauneyete]

[ isn't silco weird without trauma? ]

I don't know about optimistic, but I'm certainly not willing to just think the worst of everyone from the get-go.

And yes, there is that. We are still working together.
So perhaps this is just a testament to how well LILITH planned all of this, isn't it?

[ silco you are LITERALLY the most useless member of lilith ]

@kon, text.

[shadowban]

shouldn't we also account for the possibility that their memories won't return?

[zauneyete]

A slim possibility, but yes, we may want to.

However, every other time we have been brainwashed, it's resolved itself once the Kaiju has been defeated. That should be our first order, and then preparing for the possibility that we may have to live with our companions having other memories second.

At least they aren't violent, or attacking us.

[ smashcut to tezca shooting daybit ]