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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.

Comments

un: forgery.

[misclassed]

[ "AU" Info! yes he's in both groupchats. yes, he hates it. no he will not narc on either. ]

does anybody know what the fuck the kaiju actually is tho

the commander didnt tell us anything this time just that it "ongoing"

ongoing my ass wouldn't we know what we're up against then?

@BAD DADDY

[zauneyete]

Well, let's look at the facts. Gwen and her commanders haven't told us anything, so what have we learned? It's been around for some time, since they haven't been able to defeat it, correct?

So it must be particularly old, and crafty, to have evaded any attempts to defeat it. Otherwise, we may have been called before, yes? We've all been doing this for some time.

So something old, at the very least.

[misclassed]

if being old as balls and crafty was the only requirement we'd have to call you a kaiju too

[zauneyete]

Well.

There was that odd period in June, wasn't there?

[misclassed]

goth crash outs don't count

[misclassed]

i just wanna know if i need a sword or a kanabou or one of the robots

crafty doesn't mean shit if you hit it first

[zauneyete]

[ "goth crash outs" please he just got a little corrupted, it was fine ]

Most of the kaiju have been fairly large.

If you have a robot, use that.

[voidbound]

My first guess would be that we are could be dealing with what could be interpreted as fairies.

It sounds silly, but the use of unicorns as a symbol, their friendliness towards other animals, and their antiquated lifestyle that’s keeping them closely connected makes me believe that.

[misclassed]

you have to be fucking kidding me

[voidbound]

I’m not?

though I get it. The public’s idea of fairies is wildly different from how they used to be thought of.

Though this doesn’t really help us narrow it down. “Fairy” is as broad a term as trying to refer to a housecat by only calling it a carnivorous mammal.

[misclassed]

that is the dumbest shit ive ever heard but okay

how the fuck do we kill a fairy

[ he knows the answer. burn down the forest, drown them, eat them, curse them.

or an iron sword. ]

un: Goldilocks

[likemybooks]

Oh! That would be quite the exciting turn of events. Do you think we have to research old fairy tales to solve this case?

[voidbound]

Do you know about them?

[likemybooks]

I certainly do!



That is, I loved fairy tales as a boy and memorized the ones in a book I used to have but I still recall lots of details.

[voidbound]

It could be useful.

What are fairies capable of? Would erasing their memories be within their abilities?

[likemybooks]

It depends. They love playing games on mortals, and toying with memories is certainly one way to do that. We'll have to be careful not to agree to any of their terms if they try to speak with us, but the first step is finding their leader.

Oh, and iron should help keep them away. Religious rites, too. There should be a catalog of traditional rituals somewhere in this castle.

[voidbound]

Iron and religious rites, huh? It does make sense.

I would suggest that we call for iron weapons, but that's both archaic and easy to counter. If they can manipulate memories, then they can make us fight each other.

The book on rituals, however, is promising. Have you taken a look at it?

[likemybooks]

The thing is that I didnt find one.
Yet.

I'm sure there should be something that will give us thr answer to all our problems if we look hard enough.

[lifeprice]

Faeries aren't real, are they? We've fought various kaiju before, but nothing that fantastical.

[voidbound]

Hence the “interpreted as”. It’s possible that, in a place as rural as this, they see things that we see as fantastical, real.

[lifeprice]

The corgis were acting strange. Do you think it could be linked?

[voidbound]

I’ve read about fairies using them as steed the way that we used to use horses, but I’m not sure. Making the association that fairy = kaiju is fine, but I can’t understand why they would do this.

[lifeprice]

It's tactical, isn't it? Divide and conquer.