godbent | 36th: The of Experience Haruhi Suzumiya

[Voice // Filtered to the SOS-Brigade]

[Inhale... exhale. She's not saying this in person at a meeting solely because she's... well, she feels somewhat awkward to be saying this. So-]

Attention, SOS-Brigade! I... have something to tell you all.

You probably noticed, but with the Kin'coran incident, not all of us were united with our efforts. Azusa and I organized that baseball game, and a lot of you helped, but a lot of you also went out to do your own things. But the thing is, a lot of you who did that also helped people. You contributed, which is within the realms of the expectations of Brigade members. Primarily, of course, the SOS-Brigade is a unified force and that's not about to change! But...

[She bites her lip. Okay. How does she-] But, basically, that's not always practical here. So for all of you who did things which held up the spirit of the Brigade, even not under your Chief's orders, I'm giving you my commendations. Well done.

You see, a lot of the Brigade has gone home. And the... our [Her. Kyon. Itsuki. Mikuru. Yuki.] SOS-Brigade from home, from North High - most of it isn't here. Of course, at North High it wasn't 100% the same objective... probably because I've not seen most of the fantastic things I've seen here. [And she bites her lip again] Anyway. The point is that lots and lots of SOS-Brigade members have been displaced along the way. And some of you [Xion] do have other responsibilities, of course. But basically, what I'm trying to say is...

The SOS-Brigade has reached a point that I expect you all to adhere to our goals and principles even when it's not my orders! Ensure people live worthwhile lives! Ensure that people aren't just slumming through life listless and pointlessly here! And if you're doing that, you're doing your Chief proud! She can't hold it against you! [...Cough]

T-to that end, I'm working on making some SOS-Brigade badges. Not that you need to wear them al--ways. That would just be tacky, even if it would be nice. ...But! I want you to talk to people, particularly people from other enclosures you meet on missions about the principles of the SOS-Brigade, and what we've done! Maybe give them badges and make them honorary members. I'm of course the final say for this enclosure, but I'm trusting the judgement of people I've picked here for other ones.

...And that's all.

[That was mortifying. Sob. Cough] ...Aside from the spelunking trip. [She will have mentioned this in meetings before] Of course, the submarine won't be finished for a while, so we're going to be doing this first. I'm thinking we leave on the seventh or so of October. Objections?! If there are any, you have ten minutes to announce them!

[Voice // Open]

Oh right, if anyone needs flying transportation that the teleporters that Leon of the SOS-Brigade provided with some help from Sokka can't get you to, the SOS-Brigade now has a flying dragon in our coffers. Her name's Isabelle and she'd love the exercise!

[BONUS ACTION: If anyone wants to run into Haruhi jogging around town in the morning or shopping in the afternoon after the meeting you can do either]

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

A Brigade movement? [What was a next? An army?]

Mmmhm. A movement to rock the foundations of this world.

I guess that would definitely be living up to the goals of the Brigade... Anyway, I'll look forward to hearing about progress with those badges.

A-and if you come up with any good symbols you can put on the backs of them or something, be sure to tell me!

[There's silence on his end for a moment. He's thinking about something.]

I wouldn't want to put a symbol on them -- there's only so many that can be activated without actually knowing Symbology. Why don't you get me a sketch of what you want the badges to look like and I'll see if I can make something with decent properties?

[Little does he know he's going to be asked by a guy about making another pair of teleporters later in the day.]

Oh, I was going to do something simple. Just like a little pin badge with the Brigade's symbol [The tapeworm thing on it.

Oh, the symbol. [He makes a face at the idea of drawing it.] Well, I'll see if I can make a pin badge with something I've got plenty of. [So probably iron or silver.]

I've got a plan for making them as-is, but I bet there's some machine I could buy with mission points to speed it up even further. Unless you have a procedure to make it even better. Either way, with the symbol, I've already drawn it and we can photocopy it.

Yeah, no -- I couldn't mass produce those things faster than a machine, even if it's something simple.

Figured! We'll scour the item shop for such a machine for the next few days and if it doesn't show up then I'll mission it.

[...Of course because she believes it'll be in the item shop it'll be there tomorrow]

Hurrah. I'll, uh, keep an eye out. [He's already wondering if Haruhi's going to manage to 'believe' something up, but he won't comment on it.]

Thank you.

[...He kinda side-eyes the gratitude.]

You don't have to thank me. C'mon. I'm part of the Brigade. This is what we do.

Yeah. [She thinks, briefly, about her earlier confrontation with Sokka. But really, Leon's easy dedication washes over her to push the argument out of her mind entirely-]

Naturally. So I'll be expecting the best, as usual!

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