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[batsuits]

[ So, Bruce's color is #F6DB2C but this is actually coming from #00CCFF. Wonder who that could be!! (It's Damian's handle.) ]

After recent events, I think it'd be in our best interest to take a headcount.

Please reply to this post with your name and hex code.

If you could list anyone who won't see this post either, I would appreciate that as well.

The defense force will keep a list of everyone within the town and have it updated when people arrive and disappear. It'll be good for tracking patterns on how people are brought to the town and what colors are being emphasized in particular. If we're separated again we'll know just how many people should be present and no one is lost in the shuffle.

Another thing, I'll be working on a map of the town to keep in a public space (such as, near the well) for easy accessibility. I think it would be in our benefit to add a list of residencies along with it -- name and hex code included. It would be for those who need to meet each other but have only interacted on the forums, for instance. Being able to reference a map and find someone's home from there will be helpful.

This would be an opt-in practice, you would only need to publicly list yourself if you wanted to.

Any other thoughts and comments on these two ideas would be appreciated. Thank you.

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[whereabout]

It wouldn't be the first time, at least.

[ Going from fucked up child assassin to adopted by a happy stable family in the sticks took some real getting used to. ]

So far, thankfully, nobody's seemed inclined to cause real trouble. But I think it's better that we keep the possibility in mind.

[batsuits]

Not an unusual experience for you?

It's definitely a trend. I can't help but wonder if it's intentional or not but it does mean we'll have to be prepared if we get new arrivals.

[whereabout]

I was adopted under unusual circumstances when I was younger. Getting used to small town life was a bit of an adjustment.

[ Look at those vicious understatements! ]

If we proceed on the assumption that whoever's orchestrating this is intentionally choosing us to fulfill their quests, then it'd make sense for it to be intentional. But the fact that we've had no real communication makes me reluctant to assume...much of anything, honestly.

[batsuits]

Understandable. My son, before I adopted him, traveled with his family a lot. [ HE WAS IN THE CIRCUS. ] But when he came to live with me, being static was something to adjust to.

You think this is under control by other people?

[whereabout]

[ Oh, Bruce. You and your acrobats. And your delinquents, and your child assassins, and your...Tim. ]

I'm not sure. I've heard some people argue that the setup here seems like it has to have someone with a direct hand in arranging things. But where I come from, there have been artifacts powerful enough to create something like this simply by being reactive to the thoughts and desires of the people around them. And given how some of the things we've seen have been almost eerily on the nose in terms of how to get strong reactions from us, I can't help but think of that.

But whether we're dealing with someone deliberately arranging things or an automated system that was already in place to do...something, it knows or can discern a lot more about us than I'm comfortable with. [ To be fair, it would take very little information being in someone else's before he'd be uncomfortable with it. ]

[batsuits]

[ This is why Cass is the favorite. ]

I can't help but agree.

Maybe I'm dismissing other possibilities too easily but from the evidence presented so far, I think there's a form of sentience here but I don't think it's a singular individual or group. There's a certain lack of personhood in what's happened already that isn't common if someone was trying to mastermind something like this.

[whereabout]

I don't have much of a sample size of manipulative masterminds to compare to, but what I've seen backs that up.

[ How many evil masterminds does this guy know, anyway? Here Joshua thought his life was full of them... ]