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[sageprincess]

Who: Zelda and anyone who has been investigating the cult or is interested in learning about their activities.
When: December 21
Where: The Temple of Metis
What: Zelda holds a council to discuss the cult and get everyone on the same page regarding them and other related incidents.
Warnings: Cults generally aren't pleasant things. Please mark any threads with relevant warnings.

[The message goes out two days prior.

it has come to my attention that several among our number have been pursuing their own investigations regarding the organization responsible for the forest incident and their activities. as such, i would like to propose a gathering to share and discuss our findings as well as subsequent courses of action and, if necessary, potential defensive measures to ward against future strikes against us. to this end, the temple of metis will be open to all willing to participate in this sharing of information in two days time, with formal discussion beginning after noon. as the bbs is not the most secure vector for distributing information, i would ask all recipients of this message to please pass it along to any interested parties that i myself might not be aware of. thank you for your time, zelda, princess of hyrule p.s.; chikusa, i will have a new hat for you if you extend our deal to this meeting.

In summary, come to Metis Temple in two days for an asskicking if you wanna talk shit about cultists. Tell your friends.]

[The day comes and the dumb puzzle door that usually bars outsider entry into the temple's underground complex has mercifully been left open. Luminescent crystals light the way as visitors descend a stone spiral staircase that eventually opens up to the temple's main living area. A large dining table is the central focus and many chairs surround it, including some that were clearly brought from other spaces to accommodate a large group. Some couches off to the side have also been turned away from the fireplace that banishes winter's chill in order to provide further seating for those in attendance. A beanie sits unclaimed on one of the chairs. For refreshment, a kettle of tea is available in the kitchen, as well as a plate of festive sugar cookies. Store-bought, unfortunately for those who are picky about those kinds of things, because any attempts made by the temple's current residents to cook are met with utter and complete disaster.

Speaking of festive, the entirety of the temple's interior is currently covered in glitter, tinsel, and mistletoe. Dear Amaterasu, there is so much mistletoe, and you likely aren't leaving here without finding glitter still stuck to your person hours later. Zelda would really prefer if you would not point any of this out. Minako is just very... enthusiastic about the season, that's all. Be thankful she couldn't get a tree down here.

At a certain point in time, Zelda will formally call the meeting to begin, but until then everyone is free to mix and mingle at their leisure. Just... please don't ruin her house, okay.]

_{(ooc; so this is a free-for-all meeting to discuss various aspects of the metaplot! anyone and everyone is invited; you can just say your character learned about it from word of mouth if they don't know zelda that well or at all. and if you've got any other questions, you can reach me via pm or at jamizoid!)}

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grumpy bird ota

[revolutionfalcon]

[Shun hasn't been to Zelda's temple before, so he's keeping a close eye on the surroundings of the area the meeting is being held in. It's kind of hard to see some of it under the sheer volume of decorations and glitter in here, though, and as such he's taken the cautious seating option.

That being sitting on a blue metal bird with flat, somewhat short wings that create a convenient platform. The bird's exhaust pipes are pointing at the ground, keeping it floating in a relatively static position, but it is drifting around a little bit, trying to scope out the area in a similar manner to how Shun is.

Maybe it'll come scope you out next.]

[abgrund]

[ Is that a bird?

Ain's quite conspicuous, if only because his presence creates a vacuum where there is no glitter. The murk of his shadow trails on the floor behind him, but they are very clean for shadows - leaving no trace where they pass.

For now, he's lingering near the wall, just watching. Shun should be familiar with the way he's silently edging towards the youth - his way of approaching without being in the way. ]

[revolutionfalcon]

[Ain is extremely conspicuous, and the edging vacuum of presence eventually catches the attention of Tribute Lanius, the bird turning in that direction. Shun had already noticed the marks of someone there, but now that he's actually facing that way too, he just observes the area and then sighs slightly.]

Hiding in someone else's temple is bad form. [Especially someone like Zelda. Shun doesn't sound terribly bothered by it, but he'd probably attack someone on principle for trying to conceal themselves in his.]

[abgrund]

[ Ain casts a look at the excessive tinsel and light around them. ]

I didn't want to affect the decorations....

[ You know, since he's trailing darkness and everything anathema to extreme Christmas celebration. ]

[revolutionfalcon]

Unfortunately, I don't think anything could affect them short of setting them alight. [Shun puts that somewhat dryly. He's not exactly fond of overdecoration and wouldn't have thought Zelda to be either, so he has to assume it's courtesy of her shinki she's ended up in this situation.]

Did Add send you here, or did you come on your own?

[abgrund]

[ Property destruction or no, it still feels rude. ]

I came here myself. I heard... there would be information.

[ Surely the same reason Shun is here too, yes? ]

[revolutionfalcon]

[So someone invited him, in other words. Shun inclines his head slightly.]

It's important to have a decent amount of people on the same page about what's going on here, but the BBS isn't really secure enough for something like that. I'm surprised it took this long for someone to come up with this.

[And he's not surprised it was Zelda, given what she's like.]

[abgrund]

[ Zelda is very resourceful. If not her, then who? ]

I don't have much to share, so I was considering just listening.

[ Though he might still creep people out a bit. ]

[revolutionfalcon]

I'm almost certain not everyone here has something to share. [There are a good number of them who do, but he's fairly certain Zelda's invitation didn't extend purely to those who've been investigating the incidents, or they'd have a lot fewer bites.] So I doubt anyone's going to begrudge you that.

[abgrund]

[ That's fair enough - maybe Zelda wanted this to be a info spreading session too. So he nods. ]

Did you find out anything?

[revolutionfalcon]

I've already exchanged information with most of the people who turned up, but there were still a few things I hadn't heard about yet.

[Primarily Hakkai's addition and the issue he'd been planning to follow up with Kairi on about a shinki having named a soulless shinki.]

we can wrap this one up?

[abgrund]

I should ask them, then?

[ He hasn't really done anything since arriving and it seems like he has to actually talk to people now. Just listening in is giving him only some pieces. ]

sure

[revolutionfalcon]

[That just makes Shun shrug slightly.] Everyone's going to have their own details to add.

[He doubts everyone when into the full depths of what they knew right from the start.]