A surprise meeting...?

[foundationmods]

[On March 1st, no matter where you are, no matter what you're doing, your character will receive a notification:]

Something important has come up. Please meet me at Site 4 at 3pm local time. If you are unable to meet in person, you can conference call in.

- Mission Control

[The notification also provides the details necessary to get in on the call.

For those who can arrive in person, there is a conference room with chairs situated in rows, not unlike a mission briefing room would be arranged. There is even a projector set up and hooked up to a computer, and a pair of cameras set up to record both the projector screen and the seating area. Frisk is also there, but they are busy setting up the video feeds and making sure everyone can patch in on the call. They are oddly focused, with a frown spread across their face and barely a glance spared at anyone who walks it.

If Frisk is taking things this seriously, then it must be important. So pull up a seat and get ready.]


[OOC NOTE: this post is for all characters who were present in rounds 1-4 and did not return to their canon world yet. Anyone who fits those criteria is welcome to join.]

Comments

[foundationmods]

[CONTINUING THE DISCUSSION HERE]

Right, it's not me this time.

There's always been at least five of us, hence the name O5. Sometimes there's more- I made our number six when I joined, for example- but usually it's just the five. To break ties and whatnot, since we usually vote on big things.

The big thing is, us O5s tend to be really long-lived. I'm the youngest, and I'm over 500 years old. So it's not very often that one of us dies or goes missing. We were picked for this job based on the idea that we wouldn't die.

So, basically what happened is we're down to four O5s right now. The good news is that Tages might not be dead! He's a pretty resilient guy, and we never found his body. The bad news is that he's been missing for nearly 20 years now, and 20 years is the maximum amount of time they let an O5 'go missing' before they declare them dead and replace them.

[prayerwheel]

...so a new O5 is being sought out?

[goldenmaniac]

Oh, so are you recruiting a new O5? Is this a jump in!!?

[TAKUMI WHY ARE YOU EXCITED AT THAT IDEA]

[keydomhearts]

Seriously? [ Thinking thinking ] Think I could make a pretty good O5?

[goldenmaniac]

You just want me to jump you into a gang.

... I don't think you'd like it. It sounds too sad to live that long.

[hatesdeerstalkers]

....Sora, While I don't want to crush your hopes...

[The foundation would collapse within a week.]

[rikuchi]

[ .....no offense Sora but he could NOT imagine you being an O5. ]

Probably not.

[perfeccion]

Absolutely not.

[Szayel you don't have to just say it like that...]

[escardos]

Oh! I told Inacchi that it would be a promotion! We should get miss Saki! [ flat shUT UP ]

[allmyfriendsaredead]

Eh-!?

[THIS IS SUDDEN.]

[finalguard]

And what does that have to do with all of us? We just listen to the orders you people give either way.

[killtheanimals]

[Between this and Red he has no patience already.] Who is your candidate to replace Tages?

[improbablenotimpossible]

[Being long-lived would attribute to how hidebound the organization can be..]

And being down one O5 is bad - you're concerned about who will replace this 'Tages'.

Why wait until now?

[dereban]

Okay.

So this brings up a few questions.

One: if he's not dead, where was the location he was last seen?
Two: if he's not dead and it's nearly 'twenty years', how much time do we have to find him?
And three: if we don't find him in time, is there someone already lined up to replace him?

[foundationmods]

[Answering all these questions here:]

Twenty years exactly will actually pass in about a week, on March 6th, so we're going to hit that deadline no matter what. The problem is what comes after. There's already a candidate in mind, and once Tages is declared officially dead it's going to take about three months for the last of the paperwork to get through.

And no, it's not a chance for you guys to get in. Only one person present right now qualifies for the position, and he already told me no. The problem here is that I'm only one vote out of four, and while the other three O5s aren't super-attached to their candidate choice, there's not really anyone else to fill the spot.

On June 6th, Mayuri is going to be promoted to O5, and the only way to stop it is to either find Tages or supply someone who is a better candidate.

[rikuchi]

And how would we go about supplying a better candidate?

[ They need to prepare for the eventuality of not being able to find this guy. ]

[finalguard]

[................................. ]

Fuck.

[ THAT CURSE WORD HE LEARNED AND USES RARELY. ]

[homeecspacecop]

[Drew thinks that isn't the only option.]

Right. We could... get rid of him.

[perfeccion]

He...

You.....

You what...?!

[the air around Szayel seems to... shimmer oddly. And for the first time ever, his clone bodyguards seem to be frightened]

[improbablenotimpossible]

Who do you have in mind for an alternative candidate - no, if you brought it to us, you want us to help you find one that would sway them to vote for them instead of Mayuri.

[He spoke tersely, while he didn't have a personal reason to dislike the clown, he know how bad it would be if he was given such power]

[justonezero]

[Oh.

Oh........................

Trashrabbit.exe has crashed, please wait for reboot.]

[odasaku]

[ in the back of oda's head, he wonders if 20 years isn't too little of a timespan for beings that are supposed to be "immortal". but oh well, none of his business. ]

So you clearly don't want someone to take that free space if you're actually asking us to try and retrieve him. Are the candidates that bad?

[duskhound]

[...Please wait for Ellie to process this... She thinks there's something important that needs to be addressed first.]

So one of the most important people in the Foundation has been missing for nearly 20 years, and nothing's come of it until now? Even with the Foundation's reach?

[oceanicbutterfly]

...and there's something wrong with the leading candidate for his replacement, isn't there?

[perfeccion]

What? There's an opening for an O5 and I was not informed...? What nonsense.