Islander meeting!

[savedbyasong]

Who: Everyone!
What: An information gathering meeting, mingle log style!
When: 13th as advertised Here!
Where: Big tent, islet 4 (sorry Ardyn!)
Warnings: Keep an eye on subject lines for warnings!

[The tent is a good place to have this. It's sheltered at least. Shion has collected strawberries and also water. He hopes that people will turn up, there's a lot to discuss. About this place, how they are here and how to leave. But also surviving here. Helping each other make the most of being here.

They had done such things in the Tower and it was a good way to get things organised. He knows he has questions and he thinks other people probably do as well. If it's anything like the Tower then people all have different bits of information that will fit together eventually.

He greats people as they enter and will encourage anyone who looks less than certain to enter and offer them strawberries.]

((OOC: So I'll put up a subthread for mingling before the meeting, then discussion points can be posted as a reply to this main thread. I'll do a few for things Shion will bring up but feel free to post your own points as well! Tag around, do breakout threads, discuss all the things. Don't worry if things go off topic. Have fun!)

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[savedbyasong]

"Aster told me about it." That may be why the story teller disliked the sea. The monsters that dwelled within it sounded... Aster had not been okay. He saw Hinata's hands and knew it had been a bad time for him as well.

"It was not what they said exactly. Their words were 'I do not understand how a rock thinks. Just as I do not understand how the trees think, nor the sand, nor the sea. They answer to forces beyond my grasp.'" Shion frowned, "It was... the hair on their shoulders bristled, they looked... concerned."

[thisisourfuture]

That...sounds different than what he thought. He thinks it over and voices the one thing that sticks out to him. “Maybe we’re looking at this wrong. It sounds like they were saying they can’t understand them. That sounds more like the unknown worries them. All those things listed don’t have stories they tell or a society as we understand it. Right?”

He crosses his arms over his chest and the more he thinks about it. The more sure he is. “Yeah. Did they say anything else about it?”

[savedbyasong]

"Perhaps," Shion nodded. The unknown was a worrying thing and he imagined it would be more so for a god who was used to knowing things.

"It's a good theory though, if they only understand things that tell stories..."

He shook his head. "No they didn't. It was just the fur..."

[thisisourfuture]

"It sounds so much like how they've told me things before. ...it might not be right, but it's a way to pose your questions." That alone could be something. The better they can communicate the more they'll come closer to one day understanding each other. Hinata holds up a hand.

"...I think the more we work with them. The more they might come to understand through us. I'm not certain. I'll even ask them about it. Just in case I'm misunderstanding their limitations."

[savedbyasong]

"Perhaps, their power comes from stories so maybe their understanding does as well."

It's a convincing theory, he wrote it down. Story Teller finds understanding through us, they cannot comprehend what cannot or will not tell stories.

"Perhaps we should ask, though I am not sure they will answer." It was worth a try anyways and the Story Teller might have inadvertently hurt islanders in the past but they did not strike Shion as an angry god.

[thisisourfuture]

"They might not know how to answer. We'll see." He is determined to see this through. Where ever it leads. ...if they have this. Hinata blows out a breath. "They warned me about other gods before...before I came back from being home for a while."

He pauses. "I don't remember how it happened. Just a little while before the siege. I woke up with more memories in my head than they'd had there before. And," He gestures to himself. "I'm 22. Not 17. That's a pretty significant age change."

[savedbyasong]

"You went home?" Shion blinked at him. He had gone home and returned here. He supposed that was what the Story Teller had appatantly said happened to those who disappeared. In the Tower people had gone home all the time. Zo lost his grasp on their soul and they ended up in their dead world. Sometimes they returned. Shion had spent time in his dead world.

But Hinata had returned to a living world before the siege of the sun... At Hinata's final words he frowned. He had been 17 before the siege and now he was 22... Physically aged.

He remembered in the Tower when everyone had gotten older overnight. Older with years of false memories in their head. It had been an experiment. Was this? Were there others who had been affected?

"You gained five years? How long did you disappear for?"