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[momchester]

[Counter to her last post, Mary is calm, composed, put-together, an iron look of determination in her eyes.]

If you've called someone and gotten their voicemail in the past three days, you need to comment here and tell me who it was.

I don't care if you think they got sent home, if they have an alibi, if they're supposed to be on a week-long vision quest, I don't care. If there's someone, anyone who you can't get ahold of and isn't absolutely definitely accounted for-

[Mary stops, folds, unfolds her hands. When her sleeve pulls back slightly, you can see a pair of handcuffs around one wrist.]

There might be another Hunt going on. We have to figure out now how many people are missing. Rationalizing where they might be, telling yourself it's not a big deal- forget that. We don't have time to second-guess.

I'm starting the list with Yosuke, Bigby Wolf, and Jesse Turner.

[Her hands are shaking a little. She grits her teeth slightly.]

Michael, everyone from last time- if you know where the grounds are, please. We need to stop this.

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[momchester]

It gets worse no matter what they do.

Those grounds need to be destroyed.

[motioned]

so it can get worse for everyone, and they can have an excuse to target every newcomer more aggressively?

i know it needs to stop i just don't think this is the way to do it

[momchester]

I know. But the slow, right way won't get anything done. It'll take decades before we're safe here, maybe even centuries.

[motioned]

did you just say you know it's going to get worse for everyone if you do this? so your solution is really to make the violence escalate even more than it already has?

then at least wait to do something until we have a way to protect the people you're going to put in danger if you organize something like this

[momchester]

I know anything will make it worse. Anything we do will make things worse, Ahiru, there isn't another way. If we try to go after him legally, if the police even listen to us this time, he'll come after us and the people we care about, he'll pay off the courts, and go back to hunting us. If we try to kill him, his people will come after us and we'll be vilified by everyone for murdering a citizen. Anything we do will screw things up. They've forced us into a corner, and every other answer means quietly being stepped on.

[motioned]

so instead of quietly getting stepped on we're going to loudly get stepped on

well we're obviously not going to agree so i guess i just hope you're ready for it when even more people start getting murdered because of this

do you have a plan for afterwards or are you just winging it?

[momchester]

The plan isn't even two hours old. It's still coming together.

We know healers, flyers, people who can take care of our wounded.

This will blow open police investigation, and when it does we'll have the chance to speak and be heard. They can't ignore us if every single witness says the same thing about the hunts.

It's messy, but salvageable.

[motioned]

mary

there have been times people blew up sero warehouses, did that stop sero? no, it made people hate us more. this is going to accomplish the exact same thing

i'm sorry if i was rude i'm just upset and i want someone to listen to me. i know i'm younger than you and i might not have as much experience with things like this but this is my home, too, and i don't want my friends to get hurt more than they would have ordinarily because of a bad decision

[momchester]

I can't put the brakes on it now. It's too late for that.

[motioned]

you just said it was only hours old

[momchester]

People are talking. They're planning. Some of the people involved would have done something destructive anyway, but with a lot more mass murder instead of just property damage.

[motioned]

if they were going to do mass murder then you can't trust them to help with anything useful! people like that are just insane!

[momchester]

or angry and used to being able to dole out justice.

[motioned]

mass murder is NOT justice, i can't believe you would say something like that!

[momchester]

I'm not saying I agree with those people, but that's how they see it. Harnessing their rage into smiting trees instead of families is better.

[motioned]

teaching them to use their anger instead of controlling it is not better

even if they go for trees this time that doesn't mean they will again