Is there a way that we can weaken the hold the Cap'n has on his people?

Wu Xin thinks a number of people might benefit from not being on the enforced pirate crew.

But he honestly isn't sure who to go to with that information. He's not making a big network post, so possibly messaging people that he thinks would be able to help with that.

WALTER'S SERIOUS TALK WITH NANA ABOUT LEAVING THE INDOOR KITTY FROG WHERE IT IS... TAKE 2

ancillaries: HEY, IF IT LETS THEM STEAL NS CREW IN RETURN, KEEP THAT FROG.

No like... The NS crew ARE the indoor kitties

Don't!! Decide for them!!

Walter having this lesson on the enposib when he did a bad and then immediately watching the exact opposite happen

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I think Wu Xin would definitely tell Tendi, Abel, Will, and Thrawn about what he learned from the Admiral.

tell Hanna too!!! he needs it.

BBitsaboi: ..... Wu Xin doesn't think Hanna is the responsible type. >.>

BUT if we handwaved that Hanna talked to Will about having a best friend on the NS, he might?

It's a public thread anyway, yes?

Because then it pertains to him.

ancillaries: It's... a communications with the Admiral. I'm assuming those are kinda coded?

since it isn't an Admiral request it should be public unless stated otherwise? BUT. if you intended it to be private that's also good.

Also, Wu Xin isn't going to make a decision for people, Walter! People have their own choice. (Even when he kidnaps them, he absolutely gives them 'choice'. too.)

and also Hanna has been hanging around Conrad the entire time they've been on board and annoying the shit out of him and Conrad is not quiet about how Hanna ruined his life so xD

it isn't a secret that he's got a friend as part of the NS crew

The admiral made this a normal communicator post just like anyone else with default public replies. If you want Wu Xin to have switched it to 1x1 then sure. The separate admiral request post is default 1x1

Okay, handwaving that Wu Xin would have noticed his gaming buddy has a buddy from home.

In that case, Wu Xin probably should have switched to private in case NS could read. Or Cap'n can.

I would just edit your last thing to make sure people know it's private

But it's about the "hold". Usually when the admiral talks about the hold, it's an explanation for "disappearances" which are totally random. And Admiral has explicitly said he's taking back every barge passenger regardless of whether they want barge, NS, or let go and die

LOL, they replied, I'll retro that

And he really seems to have the perspective that NS characters are a monolith, victims of being dead, he'd save "anyone he can". loosening the hold could very much lead to "rescuing" NS characters who do not want that

Wu Xin is new.... he's allowed to ask all these beginner questions.

Why he's involving Thrawn, because that man is Smart in his books and he thinks he might figure something out.

All this is just explanation for why Walter would see things a certain way. There's no rush and I now know the thread wasn't intended to be public

Actually friend I think you should edit your comment a little more because it doesn't indicate retroactive private ausio

... I wonder if Wu Xin might involve antipositional since Steve's the oldest person on the Barge that he knows of.

Switching to private audio part way through a thread is very common

Nope, it doesn't.

I decided to let it sit as it is.

Since the Admiral didn't answer that question.

Okay!

So people could see oh, there's a chance, but nope, there's no way. And leave it at t hat.

Wu Xin will chase after what's necessary, and then inform the people of what he learned from there.

quantumvelvet I'm wondering if Wu Xin would privately approach Clint and ask if he wants to join them on the Barge.

He feels that donor Barton is a nice guy, so he might just ask that and feel out Clint's response to willingness to leave first. Before giving any details.

He can approach, but Clint's 100% a no.

Both because his people are going to need all hands to fix things after this is over, and because he actually is one of those people who doesn't think he deserves it.

And because I can't play both him and Yelena

He wouldn't be opposed to the idea for, like...other people. And would be willing to do what he could to get them a chance.

(Yeah, I figured that part.)

But I'm thinking that he would want to talk to Clint about this because Clint seems honestly a nice guy despite being such a gruff person. Wu Xin is clearly a good judge of character. >.>

quantumvelvet: Do you want me to set up a spam with him for that, or handwave that?

He has his moments!

I'm good with playing it out.

I'll set up a spam section for that then. He's the only one on Narrenschiff that Wu Xin thinks would be good. .... Not sure about Remy.... They talked. But I don't know how much handwaved CR they have to assume if they would have further contact.

Remy probably comes off shadier, even if he's actually by far the nicer of the two.

quantumvelvet Is he still in the Infirmary by the time of these Admiral/Captain messages?

He's not laid up any more, he's accepted magical healing. But he's guarding the infirmary, so same general area.

Remy kinda said he'll make sure Wu Xin gets vegetarian meals while he's n the kitchen. So that makes Wu Xin thinks he's not a bad guy. Lol.

Feed the monk. It gives lots of brownie points.

Feed him actual brownies (vegan) and you get a gold star.

Yeah, and he will have kept to his word (and spread the word to other kitchen folks), because starving people isn't cool.

Wait, is Remy yours too?

Yes.

I didn't intend to do a full Marvel slate, but I only had bandwidth for so many characters.

LOL. Well, we know Wu Xin likes Barton enough to talk to him. You want me to bring Wu Xin to Remy or no?

I'm gonna say no for now, just to leave my options open. Remy would jump at the chance, if it actually became possible, but I'm not 100% on whether I'm going to app him.

(And having him say yes and then "oops, the Admiral fumbled" if I didn't app him would be kinda a shitty outcome for Wu Xin trying to do him a good turn.)

Or, well. I'm not 100% on apping him now, I probably will eventually.

(Nah, that's not Wu Xin's fault. It's the Admiral's! Just poor Remy to get his hopes up.)

And hey, Vincent would say 'wanna go' too so options if Wu Xin's wrapped up but he's also the sort NOT to bring it up necessarily so if you think about whether you want to app him after all, there's two routes for Remy.

I could have said that more coherently.

In other words, Vince is a back up plan in case Wu Xin didn't ping him.

... right? Or that's what I got from that.

yup! tho i get this is more a 'will remy be apped. situation

I'm also open to handwaving Remy having been informed that this is a possibility by Wu Xin if quantumvelvet wants to do anything ICly with this for the guy.

Tendi likes Remy. He's a comfortable kind of shady in her opinion. But she also doesn't want to make promises she can't keep

Yeah, he's not promising anyone anything. Just a heads up that it's possible.... and at the same time, it's also highly impossible without some force.

Cloud's summoning a meteor strike on the NS.

Just saying.

He's distracted by Hela

Thrawn is like “ooh interesting thank you” so amazing

"People have their own choice. (Even when he kidnaps them, he absolutely gives them 'choice'. too.)" They're...gonna have to work on that later. >_> But for now, they'll have to see how things shake out!

cannibalherpes: Thrawn is his super smart buddy. He trusts him with problems.

siderealtime: they totally 'agreed'!

omnomivore: aww is that the materia Sephiroth gave him?

I think the meteor bit is not happening because of Hela, but I'm not sure where he got the materia

eep didn't even look to see the name; I assumed Cloud's player was talking and clicked reply ^_^;.

omnomivore: yarnzipan: I think he mentioned it somewhere... I think on Nammah's plurk?

theSSjuli is Cloud's player, but yeah, I think it was Nammah's plurk too

I just missed the Hela part because I'd just woken up and was desperately trying to catch up on plotting

omnomivore: yeaaah, he just really wants a fight. And hela offered boss fight. Lol

The Hela part came about later, and was spread across a couple different plurks.