— @lark | text, late october.

[appeale]

Hello! This is Lady Rudbeckia de Borgia. 😊 I wanted to speak to... the new Restless? Um. Those of us who have arrived recently. Actually, that was the first thing I wanted to discuss!

1) Should we have a name for ourselves??? Maybe that seems silly but everyone else here in the Netherworld is also part of the Restless, aren't they? So if I want to address "us" as a group then I can't just say the Restless... And I think we are a group! It would be nice if we all worked together.

2) What districts is everyone staying in? I was curious to know how spread out we are. I've been staying in Serene so the Oakwoods thing was really really scary for me. 😰 Does everyone have proper housing? Should we be making an effort to fix some of the empty houses??

3) Do we... have a plan????

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[appeale]

[ huuuu she wants to throttle all these people... she wanted to wrangle some kind of group cohesion as a safety net but she's already starting to think it wasn't worth even trying. ]

Well I don't know about a separate purpose, but we are kind of separated from the other Restless here, aren't we? I mean, a lot of them don't seem to have any patience for newcomers... so I thought it would be nice if we could help each other.

That's why I was asking about a plan, too. Some of our group seem like they have different ideas about our situation than the other Restless? I've heard people talk about returning home, or that we aren't really dead, or that there's something wrong with the afterlife...

[heavenstorn]

Ah. Now I understand.

[ Since, in his case...he's very sure that he's dead. And the fact that he's here rather than where he was supposed to go he's chalked up to the manner in which he died.

Those that are saying otherwise are simply in denial--but that sounds a lot like his Shadow talking. ]

Not only surviving, then, but to hope for something better, whatever form that may take? I would stand behind that.

...however, when it comes to actual planning...that was never my strong suit.

[appeale]

That's okay! I'm not very good at it either.
Maybe it's rude of me to be asking everyone for a plan when there's nothing helpful I can contribute to it...

[heavenstorn]

Not at all! You've raised the question and it would be much harder to get anywhere without that first step.

Perhaps until we can come upon a plan, or find someone better at planning than we are, we can consider a name.

The Hopeful? If that isn't too 'on the nose'...

[appeale]

Oh that's so [ corny ] sweet!!
I like that name a lot. It would remind us to stay optimistic too!
Or ummm
The Displaced? The..... Pathfinders!
Torchbearers?
There's a dictionary on this phone 🤭

[heavenstorn]

[ He wouldn't be a JRPG protagonist if he wasn't sincere to the point of being a little corny. ]

Those are all good choices! The Displaced or Pathfinders in particular.

Though that's reminded me. I do not know how much it could be considered a plan, but I opened an adventurer's guild recently. All it is right now is a means for folk to organize around the noticeboard requests, but if nothing else I can offer the tavern for meetings.