A MATTER OF IMPORT: voting post for the conclusion

[ximilian]

● ● ● VOTING POST

The time has come to put some matters of import to a vote before it is time for this mission to conclude! Before that, though, here is a quick recap of new information that the NPC threads in this month's log have uncovered:

• Zandr's current deal with the orb is preventing everyone affected by ghost matter from dying, and taking the orb away will mean all these people will no longer be protected and will eventually die.

• The anti-matter will only destroy ghost matter in the atmosphere, not in people's bodies.

• After speaking to Ivy, Zandr is aware of the crew's voting process and will ask them to vote about staying for a while in order for the team's healers to try and see if they can help those affected by ghost matter.

• Meanwhile, Yujin has successfully obtained the codes to the harvester on Deumia through his contact with Emerton.

· THE VOTE

For the conclusion, we ask you to place your votes ICly underneath the following categories:

• (1) The anti-matter and its potential success
• (2) The Nuhiri rescue effort
• (3) The Deumia infiltration and harvester take-over
• (4) The aftermath: to stay and try to save the ghost-matter afflicted or not
• (5) Anything else

In this particular case, you are free to place your vote underneath any relevant categories — for example, if your character has been working on anti-matter and wants to stay and help the afflicted, you can then place a vote underneath the two categories. Or if your character is part of the rescue effort, then goes on to Deumia, and has an opinion of the aftermath, you can place a vote underneath all three categories. And so on.

We ask that you place your votes by May 27, 6PM GMT.

Comments

[peasant]

alina is, reluctantly, team leave.

while she is sympathetic and believes that formulating a cure could be a viable option for the crew, she'll bring up ciraiwei and e23-b as examples of what can go horribly wrong — in staying here for too long, they can't be sure what the impact will be on future missions. she fully believes they could be putting yet another world and more innocent lives at risk, creating yet another ciraiwei situation where they arrive too late to fully save/help a world. it feels unlikely they'll be as lucky as they were with ciraiwei, next time.

as someone with no healing abilities or medical background (and who has had her power used without her say in it), she also doesn't feel right volunteering anyone else's power or skill set to fix the situation without their express permission. if those specific crew members and the majority of orbers do decide they want to stay, alina would +1 nat's suggestion of placing an agreed-upon time limit on it, though she'd advocate for a single week to see if any hopeful progress can be made.

+1

[blackfire]

#teamleave. Alina's point about Cirawei was a pretty prime example of their actions having consequences down the line and as much as he doesn't want to abandon people in need — if the team can successfully neutralize the ghost matter they will have given the inhabitants of these worlds more of a chance than they had up to this point.

Between the local medical sciences and the powered folks who will suddenly have access to their powers again he's pretty comfortable leaving it in their hands pending a discussion with Zandr and Emerton and/or those that those two seem willing to trust. If the locals think they have it under control, he would push more to leave. If they ask for help he would be more inclined to agree with staying for sub-one-week. Foregoing that local connection/asking permission was their big misstep on E-23-b and he wouldn't be eager to repeat that mistake. Mr 'I make decisions for other people whether they like it or not' learning from experience, oop.

He'd agree to a few days if pressed, and would assist with his own limited healing abilities if there was a need or a use for chakra. If anyone tried to stay longer than a week he'd want to throw them in a lake, tho*

*would not actually do that, but would be Very Annoyed.

+1

[heyciri]

For both asking first if anyone wants reasonable, viable help (she isn't the one to define this though, Space Travel is beyond her for what limitations it removes, and powers in general too varied), and for a hard deadline underneath a week.

+1

[heyciri]

There's more evidence that the orbers believing they can do what no locals have leads to consequences in the timelines of which Viv and Degar become aware of orbs in other places/universes.

They're not the problem solvers here, they don't inherently know better. Give the terminally ill a little time to make last goodbyes and go. There's so much this place needs to work on, to her this feels like people wanting to do A Good Thing without asking or helping with the rest of the fallout, which she thinks they realistically cannot do, as the time needed is far beyond what they spend in any mission (years, she would think).