DA Meeting #4 [OPEN]

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Who: Everyone! Reference this post for details.
What: Defense Association meeting, the fourth.
Where: Mayfield High School's Gym
When: Thursday, after dark.
Warnings: nope.gif

There isn't a whole lot of set-up to do for the meeting. Beyond a table or two rolled in from the cafeteria in case anyone needs to set something down somewhere and convincing a teacher or a janitor to let them use the indoor bleachers, that's all. There are places to sit, the lights are on, it isn't cold except by the door (which is propped open by a brick). What more could they need?

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PRE-MEETING ARRIVALS

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[People showing up, yep.]

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[In accordance to Caesar's usual pre-meeting warm-up, he's... taking a nap in the bleachers. Don't worry, he'll wake up in time. Probably.]

[doudemoe]

[Well, Minato had decided it'd be okay to come out of the house. He's by himself doing what he does best at parties: sitting back and being a wallflower. If anyone wants to talk to him though, feel free.]

Re: PRE-MEETING ARRIVALS

[answerer_sword]

[Bazett had hurried back to the high school after the SOS club meeting. She had mistakenly believed this to be the same organization as the Resistance, but now that she knew that they were different groups, she was curious as to this group's agenda.]

[Therefore, she is standing in the gym, looking around.]

Re: PRE-MEETING ARRIVALS

[infourbooks]

So this is... how it goes without sneaking?

[This... might take some getting used to]

[photonicfighter]

[Dakki is here! And as promised, she brought sandwiches. Although she arrived empty-handed, she heads to the table in the back and starts to sort of... produce tupperware containers from nowhere. A reach behind herself, a blue glow, and.... fwooosh, snacks.

As she sets them all out on the table, she hums to herself. There's egg salad, tuna salad, ham and cheese, peanut butter and jelly, and cucumber and cream cheese. All cut into little dainty triangles, all pretty edible-looking.]

MEETING

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If you're here, I would hope you already know what this is and who the DA is, but on the chance you don't, the Defense Association is an organization that focuses on helping the... community, I guess, with helping people find those willing to train them how to defend themselves or, more generally, trying to make this place even a little more tolerable.

But I'm not here to give some big speech, so let's get started.

[If that's even possible...]

[All the topics pertaining to the meeting will be under ths thread! Threadjacking is encouraged! And really to be expected.

There will be a General Announcements section near the end, but feel free to throw in your own stuff as you want. It's all cool.]

DA Business #1 - Welcome Wagon Project

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Some of you might already know that we used to have a letter detailing the circumstances of Mayfield that could be handed out to new arrivals. Last I knew, the man who was producing those to circulation has since decided to stop doing so.

In that absence, I'm thinking we should come up with something to fill that void. Not just a letter, but maybe some of the other stuff people have been compiling to hand out to people, too.

DA Business #2 - Books That Don't Suck Project

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Another idea I'd like to present to the DA is a little less defense or info-oriented, but let's face it, the books here really suck. I've been fiddling around with a typewriter over the past few months in my spare time [he has a lot, okay?] and I copied a few books from my own world over onto paper from Mayfield.

So I thought, if stuff made from things native to the town won't vanish into thin air, why not build a better library for the town that way? If I'm not the only one getting too many books back, that is...

PEOPLE WHO WANT TO/CAN TRAIN OTHER PEOPLE

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[Offering to teach people to, like, defend themselves?

Stand up and introduce yourself and I totally didn't forget this part shh!]

DA Hospital - reposting this up here instead

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Since there aren't usually very many opportunities to act offensively against the town, and in keeping with the DA's mission statement, I was thinking it might be a good idea to try to set up a hospital. It would be separate from Mayfield's official hospital, and staffed entirely by people the town has abducted and forced to live here. Besides the town hospital's history of giving jobs to some of the most dangerous people living here, I think it would be a good idea in general not to have to rely on medical facilities that we don't control ourselves. It could also double as a safehouse for people to try to get to when they're wounded during one of the town's events. With enough volunteers, we could keep it staffed round the clock. I know Karkat has been keeping a list of healers on hand, so we could even try to coordinate this with him if he's interested.

DA Business #3 - Communication (i forgot this part, whoops)

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And before I forget...

We've made some headway in figuring out better ways to keep in contact, thanks to one of our more industrious members. [He won't point out Cain unless the kid wants him to. Seems more polite that way.] We have several functioning short range radios that we tested between a group left in the bakery and another group who ventured into the Dairy. They worked well enough, but how much we can rely on those remains to be seen.

[As is where they should go, but he'll decide that later.]

Even with that success, I'd like to hear about any other solutions that could be used more reliably in this era.

[...since even the dinky 1950s phones are high tech to him.]

GENERAL MAYFIELD ANNOUNCEMENTS

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[The floor is open! For announcements that might not fit into the brainstorming or grievances or other idea part of the meeting. Even silly stuff!]

[strike_you_out]

[Slugger has brought with him his book of Mayfield's Most Dangerous Jerks which, in its fundamental elements, is a sketchbook full of colored doodles. Closer inspection reveals that there is a good deal of information on a number of residents known to cause willful harm upon others, including the Major. The drawings are actually pretty detailed and accurate.

Unfortunately (or perhaps 'fortunately'), many of these residents have been droned and he could use more information.]

Tell me if I'm missing any.

QUESTIONS & ANSWERS

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[Anything need to be clarified? Town-related stuff, DA stuff, etc.]

[spinningorange]

I have a question! I was wondering if anything could be done about family members who've been droned....

POST-MEETING SHENS

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[Meeting's over! What are you doing? Heading home?]

HEADCOUNT

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[Just a headcount to see who was here! Even if you didn't tag in and want to handwave your character's attendance, tag here. Pretty much OOC so I can gauge general interest (or maybe so people can go 'hey, I saw you at...' or something, who knows).]

[thegirltwin]

[Nina was here, obviously. :D]

[waffuport]

[Viki was here!! And contributed nothing of use.]

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[Slugger followed Susan in and probably contributed nothing.]

[dwaggies]

[MIAKIS WUZ HERE CAESAR IS A BUTT]

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[Caesar was here AND IS NOT A BUTT, MIAKIS. >8|]

[sir_hellsing]

[Sir Hellsing was here!]

[sparkling_eyes]

Lyon, checking in.