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Time to reassess.

Does anyone continue to need help? Essential repairs, I mean.

Have people managed to get back into their own living structures? If not, what non-essential tasks need assistance?

Have all of the first-responders slept off the sleep debt and had their wounds healed? I believe we're through the worst of it, and now that that's true, we may begin to creep back to normal.

I can't promise that any of the minor concerns raised here will be addressed in any amount of time, but we must begin to consider the worst of it. Access to city streets, for example, natural water supply and ash run-off. The health of the barriers between us and the Wastes and what other protective fortifications might need reworking.

Are we going to treat this event like something that might occur again? What effect will that have on the materials we use for rebuilding? Should we focus on having a few central locations made completely of stone?

Winter is coming to an end, so scavenging will be easier soon, but is there anyone whose supplies were completely destroyed and who lacks the food and blankets to make it through? Or other supplies; furniture, soap, even books. Speaking of books, did the library survive? That place was a tinderbox.

What am I not thinking of?

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Rachel Berry is conducting a food drive in order to ration out what canned products we have and root plants that were salvagable.

Lt. Hart is in charge of hunting parties for fresh meat and skins that can be used to help fortify shelters and furs for clothing.

Ukitake is in the midst of salvaging and helping out with others to determine the safety of buildings and usable products. I think?....Axel is with him?

Ginny Weasley is in the process of converting bits and pieces of things into usable items. Blankets and the like, mostly.

As for health and medical, I don't know yet. Unohana has taken the lead to that in the past.

I would like to think people are clustering around the Temple and Cathedral for the time being in order to conserve resources, but no one is being forced to stay.

Water's going to be an issue. There's a functioning slow flow filter on my property, but I don't know how the pipes are here. I can transmute something that will help filter things, but we'll still need to boil.

Does that help any?

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Everyone is still at odds with one another.

[He yawns.]

Sure they work together on the surface, but didn't you notice the death threats posted to the network yesterday?

It helps a lot- and it's a good directory for people watching this to use if they do need aid in any way.

Hopefully, we'll be able to begin focusing on getting people back into their own homes soon, but if the temple and cathedral aren't overcrowded in the extreme, perhaps that will happen organically. I wouldn't like to force anyone still needing support to leave a communal space.

It sounds like the water crisis is the next thing we have to solve. There are places with working plumbing, but I'm not sure where they are supplied from, and whether that source has been contaminated.

Does anyone know a resident familiar with that sort of plumbing and technology?

I saw the 'touch them and I'll kill you all' post, but that seemed fair. Was that in response to something specific, or did it escalate?

I'm your eyes and ears on the community now.

[He laughs, softly.]

There are things stirring. Nobody is happy with what happened, and enough blame those two to do something about it. But those two have friends too, as you've seen. If something erupts, it's not going to be pretty.

I don't. Maybe some of the newer people do.

In the mean time, are you looking for a position to head up collecting potable water?

Yes. Ideally, with safeguards in place to assess the water quality.

At least the downed buildings will provide good kindling.

Alright, I'll help you get started with that. Maybe work on some sort of distillery too. It's possible that the lake isn't as tainted...if that's false, then moving water will work better.

Is there any movement from the police force to convene? I think there needs to be some kind of public statement made, by someone with authority.

I'm not sure whether to make my stance on the question public.

Commandeer everyone you possibly can. The last thing we need is an epidemic of illness from tainted water. More casualties will only further strain resources that are spread too thin. You're perfect for the job. You have enough background in the area of... substances to be more than qualified, and enough personal volume to produce results more quickly than anyone I know.

[He shrugs.]

Some of the dissonance is coming from the police force. Unless Alphonse and Raven pull it together, it's going to crumble. Keeping the girl in their ranks will look bad on them- kicking her out will undoubtedly make several other members drop out as well. It's not as simple as dropping out, anymore- children want to play at politics and they wind up killing off half their population and ruining their government. I've seen it happen before. [Idly, glancing off.] Young princes, eager to impress their betrothed, going into unfounded wars, ruining their economy... the world is wasted on the young.

I'll see what I can do. I can start it, but someone else needs to monitor it. I have other duties to attend to as well.

That's part of the problem. I'm very comfortable letting Adstringendum lapse into our previous comfortable anarchy, but if it does it's imperative that the transition be as non-violent as possible. The dissolution of the police force might be for the best... as long as it isn't seen as permission to start an all-out war.

What happened was just as you said, the mistakes of children, but despite the consequences, it isn't anything we haven't seen before. Half of the people clamouring so violently have made attempts to breach the inner city, for example. They were lucky enough not to tread on the same mines, but it was done with the exact same recklessness. Every time the animus announce an event, there's a twerp or two that needs to chatter with them, to insult them or demand explanations or justification. Even Undertaker went and had tea with one of them, while fire rained from the sky.

If we as a community murder children for recklessness, it must be done for intent, not for consequence, and if that's what we decide to do then half the city will end up slaughtered.

The problem here is that they're all children.

[He shrugs.]

The majority of the population is under twenty-five, with most of those being under twenty. They don't think- they're impulsive and rash and they ruin things. [Yuca 'hm's for a moment in thought.]

If they die, they'll just come back with revenge on their minds. But what am I saying, anyway? [He laughs.] I want them to be reckless. The sooner the Animus consume this world, the better.

If you can find someone to rope into it on a more permanent basis, do try to do so.

Oh, pretty priest, I will ever value your counsel.

[Laughing at him.]

How is our dear doctor? What does he think of all of the young, silly things?

It's obviously not worth his time.

[A little laugh.]

He's already onto something new.

It's not a matter of trying, it's a matter of doing.

What are you two doing for water?

There you are, then.

-=...right.=-

Sure. I'll let you know when things are in place.

Thank you. Let me know if I can help in any way.

I wonder.

Yeah. While I'm working on water, someone needs to work on sewage.

Charming.

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