June Sentencing

[expiationmods]

Who: The Sentenced & Their Enforcers
Where: Aldrip Training Grounds
What: Group sentencing activity that requires cooperation! It's time for some restoration work after a tragic fire to this location that remains a pillar of community togetherness.

Sentencing: Community Service Edition

Community Service Group Therapy

The training grounds had unfortunately sustained fire damage thanks to an arson attack. The fire spread to burn the grass, some brush and trees and there are skeletons of the frames left over from tents where it burned. A few straw practice dummies were also singed in the process, but they have lived to be beaten on another day!

The damage could have been much worse, of course! Thanks to the fast acting and thinking of some of Aldrips finest, the fire was contained and extinguished. They have saved this gathering place of skill and story sharing from complete ruination, but now it needs to be restored to its former glory.

Six Chosen have been found guilty of various crimes around the city this month, and so their task is a restoration project of the grounds. These Chosen will show up at the grounds in a timely manner (or else someone might need to retrieve them for duty) to start their tasks. It will be obvious who they are as they are outfitted in tacky yellow work coveralls with reflective stripes; this will be over whatever normal clothing they may be wearing.

The six community service Chosen are: Jinx, Silco, Beta, Echo, A2, and Fandaniel. Surely they will all get along and work hard on this task and not be difficult about it, right?

Well, to ensure that they complete the restoration project are their team of wranglers enforcers who are responsible for saving the training grounds in the first place! The heroes of Aldrip have been provided little badges from Jerry that designates their authority to oversee the tasks at hand for this restoration project.

Their task is to see that the job is completed and done well by however means necessary except they are not allowed to participate in the activities. They need to oversee their wayward charges and are exempt from recourse for whatever it is they need to do to convince the Chosen, and the native population and other Chosen may drop by to observe the work and maybe cheer everyone on (or heckle).

The eight community service enforcers are: Gadriel, Hiei, Kurama, Fauna, Morph, Rogue, Kuwabara, and Scott Summers

The tasks that need to be completed are:
• Laying new sod over the damaged grass areas. Alternatively, hauling in gravel stones to fill the areas.

• Tree trimming to remove damaged hazardous branches

• Remove damaged tents and then construct the metal skeletons of new ones before adding canvas material over them so they are good as new. How-to instructions will be provided (think IKEA-type)

• Building bird nests to replace those lost in the fire. Think of the children!

• Gardening! This place needs a spruce up and what better way to do that than enhance it by constructing raised garden beds. All the materials are provided including plants.

• Garbage collection. You know what to do. Take up your bag and extendiarm and get out there to collect the rubbish.

NOTES

• The six convicted Chosen cannot wander away from the training grounds during their shift or else they suffer from physical ailments.

• The enforcers may work one-on-one with a sentenced Chosen, game plan between each other or double-team sentenced Chosen into doing their tasks.

• Threads do not need to be completed by July 9th for success or failure on both teams. They do need to be started and in progress by this date.

• If the rest of the community wants to stop by, they can do so. They are not allowed to assist in either the tasks or the enforcement.

Comments

[thecodexabides]

Intelligence is nothing compared to instinct. If you feel he is trouble, then that is enough to be on guard.

[Instinct saved his life more than once. He doesn't underrate it.]

I have not been here long, but not much seems to make sense. [Still, it was frustrating, because something, somewhere, should make sense, right?]

[nightwild]

Huh. You're all right, big guy.

[She likes people who trust their instincts!]

... You're right there, too.

[thecodexabides]

Thank you? [He thinks? ]

I still find this place very confusing, but perhaps that's the point. Keep us on edge.

[nightwild]

Nah... I've talked to Jerry. I think he's just as lost as the rest of us.

It sounds to me like the one in charge is kinda... broken.

[thecodexabides]

Then who is making these judgments of guilt for these people?

[nightwild]

I'm not sure. I think it's just... automatic.

Which is stupid.

[thecodexabides]

[He frowns.]

As I have said. Abominable Intelligence. My kind know the danger.

I presume there is a penalty for failing at these penalties.

[nightwild]

Usually, yeah. But I can take it, whatever it is.

[She just sits down and flops over onto her back.]

I'm not gonna be their cop and punish these guys for the crime they didn't do.

[thecodexabides]

Are you certain? In my world we have some...[Horrific] very drastic penalties. I would hate to think of you incurring them.

[Because she seems nice, but even if she didn't, being lobotomized into being a servitor was not something he would want to happen to anyone here. Unless they were truly evil. Which she was not.]

I do not want them punished. There has to be a way to exhort them so we all get through this as painlessly as possible.

[nightwild]

If Jerry thinks he's tough enough to do them to me, he can try. But he'd better come at me with an army if he thinks that.

[She sounds... remarkably self-assured of her strength, for how small she is.]

Yeah, but not like I know what it is. I'm no good at talking to people.

[thecodexabides]

I. Uh. [Look he's not trying to be sexist or sizeist or whatever here, but she is, uh. Small?] What could you do if Jerry tried?

I do not know either. But we have to try.

They fell to the voices, but the way forward is through other voices. [Uh, it makes sense in his head. They listened to the snakes, and he's willing to let the snakes be the problem, but they have to listen better now. ]

[nightwild]

I'd kick his ass 'til he...

[She trails off, though, processing.]

... What voices? What?

[thecodexabides]

You did not hear the snakes? Trying to cajole you to do bad things? Last month?

[This is alarming. Was he falling prey to Chaos? Was he so weak that he was hearing their attempts to corrupt him?]

[nightwild]

Oh, those things.

They couldn't bite through my armor and I kicked them into space. They left me alone after that.