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

I'm afraid that we are trapped in a faulty system that may be well-meaning. Jerry is merely a construct of that system, just as susceptible to any bugs as the rest of it. There's been speculation that our original captors abandoned this project long before we arrived. Jerry may not be equipped to deal with these changes.

[Programming has limits, after all.]

You mean why those who fought the fire are expected to babysit those who were sentenced?

[Using Hiei's words here. Kurama doesn't actually consider it babysitting.]

This world has operated on stress endurance and torture since my arrival. This is actually far more in line with their stated premise of attempted rehabilitation, it seems a welcome break from their usual attempts to rile us into action. If those were merely glitches in the system, we may be seeing more of this behavior going forward.

[You can practically see steam emit from her ears as she's trying to think... But...]

This isn't rehabilitation, this is public shaming. Because the people here aren't the ones who did the fire.

That's not quite how things work. The task one is given may have nothing to do with the crimes committed, but improving things overall, for everyone. For example, I was tasked with assisting Yusuke despite his assignment having nothing to do with my own actions.

As for why we're here, it is also a common practice for good deeds to be rewarded with... more responsibility and certain freedoms or perks.

Yeah. That's why only cops get guns.

[The disdain in her voice is so real.]

I'm not interested in kissing up to get perks.

[well, that sure is a strong reaction.]

Then I suppose it's a good thing they are trained to only use them as a last resort.

As for the perks, I simply meant the added responsibility of being here to supervise does make sense, if the system is working as I believe it should.

[Should it work the way he thinks? Maybe not, it's as good a theory as any though.]

[FUCK THE POLICE, KURAMA]

... I still don't trust it. And I don't like having some of these people here.

[His tastes tend to lean toward criminals, actually. So, he'll pass, thanks.]

Which people..?

That skinny girl didn't do anything to be here. And on the other side of things...

[SHE'S GLARING AT SILCO.]

... That guy needs way more community service than this.

We are all here for some perceived crime.

[Maybe the skinny girl did something horrendous, he doesn't know. The mention of Silco has him following her gaze in that direction.]

What, exactly, has he done that makes him any worse than the rest of us?

[you know, besides smoking in the arson damaged woods.]

He's some kind of yakuza. I don't know what his deal is, exactly, but he and Vi had some sort of argument about the bar. Some kind of land shark, I think.

[... okay, so she's wrong on almost every level, but like, the gist is there.]

[okay, well, being yakuza or a land shark doesn't make him the most evil Chosen in existence. Demon morals and all that, but if Silco doesn't get along with Vi that does get his attention, because he likes Vi.]

Argument about the bar? I'm assuming you mean to say you don't know the specifics of the argument.

I don't. But I know he really wanted dirt from me about the place when it looked like I didn't like it.

What might have given him that impression?

I guess I look mad when I'm thinking?

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