You say you're wrong, you're wrong

[viced]

WHO: EVERYONE
WHERE: City Hall
WHEN: 7:00 PM, EST
WARNINGS: RAMPANT CHAOS
SUMMARY: This is the townhall meeting, where everyone can come and show up, and wave accusations and shout to their little heart's content. They can also discuss skrull accusations in a calm manner if they really want.
FORMAT: Tagger's choice!



[ And the large room where the City Council met was open for business. The walls were lined with seats, there were rows and rows of seats, nice lighting, and even a couple tankards of coffee open for business. Look, he wasn't a complete monster! There was security, but they remained silent and observed, instructed only to interfere if things were escalating to violence, and only then. Most of the Mayor's staff were already there before people started to arrive, and they were sitting in most of the seats reserved for the City council. There wasn't music, but it would be a good half hour to forty five minutes before the actual proceedings got started.

When they did, it was all about an open forum. ]

[ooc; we're going to get the log up early! The plan is for everyone to go ahead and have fun tagging, and the ooc post will be up later tonight! ♥ ]

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[out_of_time]

"Geddoe." Jack gave him a tired half-smile. "It'll heal. I'll just have to use my other arm until I can find someone to speed up the process." Being restricted like this while so much was going on was maddening. But Jack knew the City's Import healers had a lot on their hands already, with that damn torture squad operating.

[trueltning_fury]

"Mm. Unfortunately, I don't carry any healing runes. Sorry." Geddoe huffed a short sigh. "Was it really an unrelated crime? At a time like this."

[out_of_time]

"I'd bet my life on it," Jack said without hesitation. "I wasn't even looking for Skrulls when I encountered her. She was just coming out of a bookstore, and I tried to follow her."

There was something else though: Jack's radio had almost certainly been tampered with, which was how he had ended up taking on a homunculus alone without backup. Ordinarily Jack might have shared that information with his ally, but right now... right now was need-to-know.

[trueltning_fury]

"Unfortunate." Geddoe gave him a knowing look. "Though my advice to keep one's guard up still rings true. You're still in one piece." He nodded toward the arm. "You wouldn't be the first who had to re-learn a weapon on the fly."

[out_of_time]

"Yeah, I'm not dead yet." And he's had worse. He returned Geddoe's nod, while carefully not mentioning that he didn't really have to re-learn firing with his other hand. If Geddoe turned out to be a Skrull, surprising him by shooting well with his left hand could mean the difference between life and death. That was just how things worked for Jack in the City these days.

"Too bad more people haven't been listening to you," he said.

[trueltning_fury]

Geddoe closed his eye and sighed. "This is madness," he groused under his breath. "No one has even bothered to use their brains. It's one thing to ask who people suspect, it's quite another to take their panicked opinions as fact over basic reasoning."

He looked around briefly, and then added, in the quietest tone he could, "...this could be a plot to remove our most powerful fighters, strategists, and commanders from view so that chaos will erupt. Or, it will end up with that result regardless."

[out_of_time]

Jack's voice became quiet as well. "If you're right, they've been playing us all like an instrument all along. The torture, this meeting, Zoidberg- it's all been feeding into their hands."

He looked around the room, filled with fresh fears. At this point, giving Jack new things to worry about was a lot like dumping water in the Pacific. "I don't like it."

[trueltning_fury]

"Me neither." Geddoe gave him a brisk nod. "Guard up, at all times. We may be left with only handfuls of scrappy children and untrained fighters to defend in the worst case scenario." There was a dryness to his tone; he didn't expect it would be quite that bad, but he was definitely starting to believe it could approach that level.

[out_of_time]

This was why Jack liked Geddoe. The optimism.

"Right now, I'm not sure I could drop my guard if I wanted to. But I hear what you're saying." The worse-case scenario was too often where Jack lived.

[trueltning_fury]

"Good. Good luck, then." Geddoe very wisely clapped Jack on his good shoulder - a rare and very brief moment of contact - before sliding past him to take up a good position from which to watch the proceedings.