Groovy Tunes basement, Saturday mid-morning.

[spectre_alenko]

Kaidan had sent a text that morning, reading: "Groovy Tunes conference rooms in the basement. The big one. Discussion point: Is it a good idea to start a group of people to train together for the purpose of active defense during an incursion? There used to be student reserves, this would be similar. I don't know all that many people. If you know someone who might want to be there, pass it on. Peter: pls leave your roommate at home."

He scrolled through his phone and clicked Iris, Jono, Kanan, Liam, Miguel, Mitsutada, Peter, Zack. He frowned at the list, sure he was forgetting at least one person.

He paced for a few minutes, then grabbed a chair, swung it around backwards, and plopped down on it where he could see the door.

[OOC: Open, OCD is up. If you'd be invited by one of the listed, or if you can think of a reason why you'd be nosy and follow them, go for it. Worst that would happen is Zack would nice you to death and ask you to leave.]

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Arrive

[spectre_alenko]

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[uncertain_dume]

Oh, hell. Kanan was more than a little skirty about all of this when the word 'reserves' had wound up on his phone's display, but the other side of the whole message had been the logical bits. The bits about training together and preparing for future trouble, and those, he could see a use for.

A need for.

So he was here to throw in his two credits worth. And he was doing an admirable job of not looking twitchy about it, too.

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[spectre_alenko]

"You've been leading sword practice longer than I've been here," Kaidan explained, "and you said that swords had been useful tools in the past. Figured if anyone'd have an idea how to work the sword-swinging bunch in, it'd be you."

And they'd been sparring, and he knew Kanan was looking for more opportunities to get himself back into fighting trim. That, however, he wasn't saying.

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[uncertain_dume]

"That does make sense," Kanan said, though he had an awkward sort of dubiousness about him. "There are probably better people for the job, though. I'm not exactly what anybody would call leader material."

This was patently untrue.

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[furnaceface]

This wasn't just Jono's building, it was at least partly Jono's fault, so of course he was here to help Kaidan brainstorm. Even if what it came down to was something more like a phone tree and a Friday afternoon training club or something, he figured getting to know the sorts of people who would show up to this thing would be in everyone's best interests.

He'd wrapped up today, anyway. He did that when there were going to potentially be unfamiliar people around and he didn't want to be a distraction. He didn't love doing it, but he did plenty of things he didn't love doing, so...

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[spectre_alenko]

Kaidan frowned mildly when Jono walked in wrapped in heavy leather, but all he did about it was go bump the AC up another notch.

"Jono, you said you were actually in the reserves before?" He glanced around, "Not sure how many others of you also were - Zack? Iris? How did they train before? Was there a set training, or did, like, someone just blow a whistle and Action Avengers Assemble when needed?"

That seemed like a bad way to do it.

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[furnaceface]

//There were weekly meetings, generally,// Jono explained. //People would go over drills, scenarios, game plans. Because it was broken into martial, powers, and support, people would have an opportunity to discuss, say, how best to use certain powers in particular situations. To figure out who ought to pair off with who in case of emergency. Somebody with primarily offensive capabilities to be paired off with, say, a healer, for search and rescue situations...//

He scratched awkwardly at the wrappings at the back of his neck.

//It's been some time. Admittedly, at this point, I'd probably err more on pulling from actual battle strategies than whatever we managed to figure out in high school.//

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[puppy_fair]

Zack was totally here! And totally ready to play bouncer if need be! Mostly he was just doing that other bouncing thing, the one that involved a slight spring up and down on the balls of his feet, smiling as he looked around the room.

He'd been starved for this. Not that he'd push too hard if there wasn't an interest or something. The island had pulled people together in tough times before even without the reserves. They'd make it happen again if there was a need.

But he'd been stuck on the island without a direction for a year and a half, now, and this was the closest he'd come to having one without having to take odd jobs from a smaller other-reality version of the President's son. He was excited.

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[spectre_alenko]

Kaidan watched Zack's enthusiasm and tried not to smile. Such a good puppy. Even if nobody else was interested, he figured he could convince Zack that doing patrols was a thing that should happen.

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[what_the_shock]

Miguel had been mostly a loner, Exiles aside, so he wasn't really sure how this whole thing would work, but it certainly seemed like a good idea. So, he was taking off a bit of time from Luke's and dropping by.

With an entire carafe of coffee, since the diner was pretty much drowning in it.

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[spectre_alenko]

"You said you used to do bio-engineering?" Kaidan asked, trying to remember the conversation. He had a thought. It wasn't a terribly nice one, but traps were a thing.

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[what_the_shock]

"Yeeess?" Miguel asked a bit warily.

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[2_old_for_this]

Peter had indeed left his roommate at home. Not that he would have brought her anyway; this really didn't seem like her kind of thing.

It was definitely his, though. If there were defending to do, he was going to do it.

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[spectre_alenko]

"Peter, how are you with tactics?"

He figured, probably pretty good. Demon army, and all that.

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[2_old_for_this]

Peter shrugged. "That depends. What did you have in mind?"

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[sharp_man]

Jono had not left his roommate husband at home. Even if Hannibal had no plans for actually fighting if he didn't have to, he imagined it would be a good idea to know what the people who wanted to were planning on.

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[spectre_alenko]

Kaidan doesn't know Jono/Hannibal are married to each other.

Kaidan knew Dr. Lecter, and could understand why he'd be here even without the parts he didn't know. He was, after all, a doctor.

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[sharp_man]

Hannibal nodded. "Kaidan. How have you been?"

Discuss

[spectre_alenko]

"So, hey. This whole thing started when I asked Jono why there wasn't some sort of standing defense, considering the number of heavy hitters there are on the island. He said there used to be, a student reserves group, and that it was pretty effective. Iris agreed there was a need for one, so I'm looking for input from people I know, because I'm the new guy - you've all been here longer than me. Is this something that would be useful?

The reason I'm thinking about it is because people have been telling me since I got here that we're overdue for 'an invasion'. It's making me itchy, because I feel like if there's been this much time since the last one, the next one's not likely to be a small one. We've got lots of capable people, but almost none of us work or train together regularly. Should we start?

There's also the matter of who'd be in charge. Like I said, I'm the new guy. I'd be far more comfortable if it were someone who'd been here longer than a couple months. I think people might be more receptive.

If we do this, how do we work the kids in? I think it'd be a bad idea to treat them like they're made of glass, but I admit I'm twitchy about putting children in a line of fire.

Thoughts?"

Re: Discuss

[furnaceface]

//I know it makes me uneasy too,// Jono said, latching on to one very particular part of all of that. //But it'd be a damn bloody shame to leave the island's students out of this. Not because I want to militarize them. I fight like hell back home so that my students there can have some semblance of normal lives instead of being trained up as soldiers, and I'll do the same thing here, too. But...//

His brow furrowed.

//But they're going to fight anyway,// he settled on. //Nothing we can say or do is going to stop that. If something is threatening them, they'll throw themselves in front of it. They always do. Too many of our students... they've never had the opportunity to be children. They don't know how not to get involved. We can hate it. We can place ourselves between them and the fight like bloody brick walls, but all we'll manage by doing that is that we'll have a fight against the threat and against the students on our hands, and we can't afford that, either. I'd rather be someone they can trust to have their backs instead of the person who tells them they can't protect their home and their friends when something is trying to take it all away from them.//

Re: Discuss

[spectre_alenko]

Kaidan held his hands out, palms up, "That's why I was putting the question to you all. You're, most of you, their teachers. Some of you were students here before. You know the kids, and the types of kids, up there. So, how do we work them in? The one thing you don't do, in a combat situation, is turn away volunteers. Even if the person volunteering can't fight - or shouldn't fight - there's always something to do. Reloading, carrying water, med tent, chow tent.. Never turn away a willing set of hands."

Talk to Kaidan

[spectre_alenko]

Something to say privately? Something on a different topic?

Snacks.

[spectre_alenko]

There are snacks and sodas, because it's Kaidan and he's highly food motivated. It's also a good place to go if you need to have a private chat with someone out of his earshot.

Miscellaneous.

[spectre_alenko]

idek bro it's a placeholder. Mod at will.

OOC

[spectre_alenko]

It's going up early because timezones are a thing. I will likely be asleep until at least 7am CST - roughly 7 hours from the timestamp on this post.

also, the forgetting someone thing is real - I can't remember who-alls phone numbers he'd actually have. If you're on the list, I swear he's not leaving you out on purpose, my brain is just goo. Feel free to get the text anyway.