expiationlogs | June Sentencing

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.

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

[Not him and Fauna trying to rub their two brain cells together.

But Scott folds his arms across his chest, clearly conflicted. Making sense of Jerry's motives feels important, but it all feels like pure conjecture at this point. Just theorizing. Maybe they'll be able to pull something out from him if they complete this 'task.' Ugh.]

...As much as it sucks, I think it would be best if we just completed this. [...] He'll owe us. Could get something out from him in the future.

Yeah, but... I dunno.

[She shakes her head.]

I don't like this. I feel like we're cops here. Just... punishing people for whatever. This isn't right.

Being sentenced for bullshit crimes is pretty common, Fauna. The only difference between the past and now is that Jerry is forcing us to be here for whatever reason. It's new and I don't get what he's trying to do, but it's something that I want to look deeper in.

[Somehow. It feels significant now with how many of them have disappeared lately. Maybe a small part of him is on edge for that. Is it a good or bad thing there's less of them?

Maybe Jerry would answer some of that.]

We'll make it up to the others later, alright?

... Mnng. I guess... I'm still not gonna force them to do any work. Not if they're not the ones who did the arson.

The work needs to be done though and it wouldn't be fair if only half the people participated in fixing this. We need to try and not just give up.

[He really wants the training grounds to be repaired at any rate... it just would be a lot better if everyone could pitch in, but that's not the case this time. Whatever rules Jerry set up, he wants to see it to the end and just find out why.]

[She's glaring at Silco as this happens...]

It's not fair if only half of them work, but it's not fair for some of them to be here in the first place.

[Scott can't lie, he honestly doesn't blame anyone for making that face at Silco. He's a giant asshole even on the best of days; he had a great reminder of that not too long ago over the tablets.

Still, he sighs, arms folding across his chest as he tries to find some sort of balance in all this. Why? Well, mostly to help him deal with it too.]

No, but that part isn't anything new, Fauna. Most of us probably shouldn't be in Aldrip in the first place. We can't change who's been sentenced, we can only work with what we have now.

I guess...

[She grumbles. A slightly too-rigid form of 'justice'... That's always been her problem, hasn't it?]

... But what do we do about that guy?

[That guy? Oh, Silco? That's what he's assuming anyway since she's still making a face towards his direction. And well, that's honestly a good question. Simple offering of snacks won't work. Maybe mention that he'd most likely face something worse if he doesn't do this? Or.]

Whoever draws the short stick deals with him. [Is he serious--] He talked to me before about banding together against our 'overlords.' He's not really contributing to that if he's just going to stand off to the side and scowl.

[.......] Jinx is important to him.

[Just putting that out there.]

... Who's Jinx?

[sorry scott

they still haven't met]

[Oh, huh. Guess he's sort of forgotten that not all of his friends actually know each other. Also, Jinx is someone that's pretty hard to miss... but he shrugs, before pointing over to the girl with the long braids. Sometimes you just never cross paths with someone until much later on.]

That's Jinx. [...] Kind of nuts, usually trying to do better, but still obsessed with explosions. But mostly, she's the daughter of the wannabe Blofeld that you've been glaring at.

[Silco, yeah.]

[Fauna is immediately remembering her own life, and her own father...]

Does she need help getting away from him? I'll kick his ass if we have to to keep her safe.

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