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A Meeting of Minds
Mar. 7th, 2012 09:27 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shepardShepard is not used to organizing civilians. She'd spent the last eleven years of her life in the Alliance Military. Almost everyone she knew was in the Alliance Military -- and those that weren't were damn close to it by virtue of working with her. These people weren't soldiers and they weren't used to taking and obeying orders.
So needless to say, she wasn't exactly sure how best to organize them.
After a few days onboard the space station, Shepard decided they needed to have a meeting -- to share information and knowledge and skills. They were quickly approaching a full week onboard the craft and aside from cleaning and exploring, virtually nothing had changed since they found themselves teleported to the Porta Ianualis after their short tenure in quarantine.
If they wanted to have any chance of getting out of here, they'd have to work together. And so, Shepard began to spread word of a meeting at the Porta Ianualis; whoever she spoke to personally, she asked them to tell others. The likelihood of her being able to meet everyone personally onboard a craft this big was slim-to-none.
Shepard is standing in the Porta Ianualis long before the appointed meeting time. When people stop trickling in, Shepard begins to speak, her voice booming over any still-speaking voices.
"I like to believe that we are all here for a reason. And eventually, we'll figure out what that reason really is. But in the meantime, we can't just sit around waiting for answered to be delivered to us on a silver platter. We need to work to find those answers ourselves. We need to work together."
Shepard suddenly lifts her flashlight skyward; wrapped around its handle is a length of black material. At a distance, it is probably difficult to make out what that material is, but upon closer inspection, it appears to be a scrap of material from one of the sweatshirts they were wearing when they first found themselves onboard the space station.
"This," she says, "Is going to determine who is going to be talking when. When -- and only when -- you have this flashlight in your hands are you allowed to speak. I know there's a lot of things we want to say to one another -- and by the time this meeting is done, there'll probably be more. But while the meeting is going on, we need some semblence of order. Save the chatter for afterward."
Shepard lowers the flashlight to her side.
"When you have this in hand, I want you to start off by telling us your name and something about yourself. Once you've done that, tell us what skills you have that might be useful onboard this space station. Everyone has something they can bring to the table," she says, looking at Nuada, "regardless of if they realize it or not. Then tell us if you found something useful onboard this ship. That can be anything from a physical item you've found to information you've discovered. If we're going to get off this ship, we need to use everyone's skills to our advantage; we need to share everything that we find. I have no doubt that with our combined abilities, we'll find some way off this craft. Once everyone has had a chance to speak, we can discuss whatever needs to be said."
(Open gathering thread. Sorry for the whole flashlight thing, but Shepard would want to make sure that everyone has a chance to speak. Top level your character saying who they are, whatever they would like to say, and then pass the flashlight on. If your character is not the speaking type, feel free to post a comment passing the flashlight onto someone else when the flashlight is passed to you. Once you've introduced your character, feel free to talk in threads. Feel free to jump in late if you happen to miss the introductions.)
So needless to say, she wasn't exactly sure how best to organize them.
After a few days onboard the space station, Shepard decided they needed to have a meeting -- to share information and knowledge and skills. They were quickly approaching a full week onboard the craft and aside from cleaning and exploring, virtually nothing had changed since they found themselves teleported to the Porta Ianualis after their short tenure in quarantine.
If they wanted to have any chance of getting out of here, they'd have to work together. And so, Shepard began to spread word of a meeting at the Porta Ianualis; whoever she spoke to personally, she asked them to tell others. The likelihood of her being able to meet everyone personally onboard a craft this big was slim-to-none.
Shepard is standing in the Porta Ianualis long before the appointed meeting time. When people stop trickling in, Shepard begins to speak, her voice booming over any still-speaking voices.
"I like to believe that we are all here for a reason. And eventually, we'll figure out what that reason really is. But in the meantime, we can't just sit around waiting for answered to be delivered to us on a silver platter. We need to work to find those answers ourselves. We need to work together."
Shepard suddenly lifts her flashlight skyward; wrapped around its handle is a length of black material. At a distance, it is probably difficult to make out what that material is, but upon closer inspection, it appears to be a scrap of material from one of the sweatshirts they were wearing when they first found themselves onboard the space station.
"This," she says, "Is going to determine who is going to be talking when. When -- and only when -- you have this flashlight in your hands are you allowed to speak. I know there's a lot of things we want to say to one another -- and by the time this meeting is done, there'll probably be more. But while the meeting is going on, we need some semblence of order. Save the chatter for afterward."
Shepard lowers the flashlight to her side.
"When you have this in hand, I want you to start off by telling us your name and something about yourself. Once you've done that, tell us what skills you have that might be useful onboard this space station. Everyone has something they can bring to the table," she says, looking at Nuada, "regardless of if they realize it or not. Then tell us if you found something useful onboard this ship. That can be anything from a physical item you've found to information you've discovered. If we're going to get off this ship, we need to use everyone's skills to our advantage; we need to share everything that we find. I have no doubt that with our combined abilities, we'll find some way off this craft. Once everyone has had a chance to speak, we can discuss whatever needs to be said."
(Open gathering thread. Sorry for the whole flashlight thing, but Shepard would want to make sure that everyone has a chance to speak. Top level your character saying who they are, whatever they would like to say, and then pass the flashlight on. If your character is not the speaking type, feel free to post a comment passing the flashlight onto someone else when the flashlight is passed to you. Once you've introduced your character, feel free to talk in threads. Feel free to jump in late if you happen to miss the introductions.)