Chapter 30.1
Chapter 30 - Problem Of The Outside
12.07.1642
The Council of the Underground City
23:15
It's been a while since we found ourselves in the room of the meetings made by the Council. But it's obvious we might need to assist some of the meetings because of all the changes that were made ever since the Great Leader disappeared and didn't come to the Council at all. And because of His absence, of course, everything is resulted in chaos.
[M4EK0]-I will ask you again, Mr. EM3RY, why do you wish to even argue with me on this subject?
[EM3RY]-Maybe because you are an irresponsible Leader, that's why. I'm sick of forever hearing your complains about everyone, ALLINA.
[M4EK0]-Oh, yeah!? Then maybe I'm sick of forever having to deal with your people's bullshit just because you cannot lead everyone right and let them do whatever they want! If you have the audacity to tell me right into my face that you are better than me, then I suggest you look in a mirror!
[R4YMOND]-OSKAR, we all know about how your people are just lazing around because of the little interest you give in the military. Of course ALLINA and I are doubtful about your words.
[EM3RY]-Oh, but of course you decide to stay by her side, MAXWELL! 'Cause you are so afraid that she might cancel the collaboration between your base and hers and you might get our whole city discovered just because you cannot work on your own without the information that she provides you!
[M1SH4M]-And what if he stands by her side? If anything, I'm starting to get mad about all these meetings myself just because none of you cannot stop complaining about any kind of thing you guys find! Can't you just end this nonsense once and for all!?
[XANTH3]-I do not think that you have any right to speak, EWAN. You like complaining about things that I do as well, so do not make it look like you are any better than them.
[N3MES1O]-Yet you complain as well, Mr. XANTH3. If anything, M1SH4M has his rights to get mad about these meetings too. And I believe it is the first time I see him this angry, so maybe you should start thinking about what's happening and stop the argument. If you really managed to make the most calm person in this room mad, then you should reevaluate your behaviour.
[XANTH3]-Oh, look who has decided to speak against me. Now, now, MARVIN, I do not believe that you have the authority to tell me what to do. From all of us, you are the newest to these meetings, so I suggest that you keep your mouth shut and let the true Leaders speak.
[N3MES1O]-You do realise that titles are earned somehow and that people of the city, including you, voted for me to be a Leader, right? So what if I'm the youngest one from this room besides the Great Leader's son? I fought for this title of mine just like all the other people here. If anything, you only make yourself seem like an idiot if you really start complaining about this subject. So do your clan a favour and start thinking straight. I begin to feel pity for the previous Clan Leader since she had to endure such a shameful successor like you.
[XANTH3]-Oh, you little...
[RY4N]-Okay, enough already! Arguing all day won't get us anywhere!
[EM3RY]-Oh, look. The son finally decided to speak.
[M1SH4M]-OSKAR!
[EM3RY]-Don't you dare shout at me, EWAN. I do not care that you are the oldest from this room at all. You are not our parent, which means that you cannot boss around with us.
[M1SH4M]-Just because I am not one, doesn't mean you have to be disrespectful to any of us! Especially to the Great Leader's descendant!
And it sure is chaos... As we saw before, when the Great Leader is present to the meetings, everyone seems more respectful to each other and do not say such cruel things to anybody. But when He isn't... it is just like a battle ground. But instead of blood and weapons, the whole fight is with words and arguments. And this time, it seems like KYR4, one of the Officers from the room and one that does not technically have any right to speak, loses her cool and joins the fight.
[KYR4]-...Can't you just stop arguing for one goddamn second!?? For the sake of this city, you all should stop acting like kids at each meeting and start co-operating! You are adults in all nature, yet every time I come to this meeting to assist my Leader, you cannot help but give me a headache!! So what if the Great Leader isn't present!? Do we really need to make more problems than solve the existing ones!?
[XANTH3]-Oh? The Officer dares to speak? ADIN4, if anything, you shouldn't really join our fights. Take it as an advice from someone that used to know you.
[KYR4]-Oh, don't you dare, Mr. XANTH3! I know very well that I have no authority to speak in this room, but the more I stay here, the more you guys drive me insane! I do not care about your empty words, nor that you used to know me! I dare to say that even your son behaves more properly than you, and he annoys me every second of his life!
[XANTH3]-...
But, she calms herself down in the end, letting her "Leader" speak so he can calm everyone else down too.
[RY4N]-*sigh* Look, everyone... I know that the Great Leader isn't present and each time He doesn't come, everything ends up in arguments. But please! We are here to help the city, not destroy it! With or without the Great Leader, we should do our work properly, not make new problems.
[R4YMOND]-If I may, Master RY4N, may I ask when does your father return? It's been three months already ever since you've announced us that He isn't coming to the next meetings.
[EM3RY]-Yeah, and what's with all the secrets about His breaks? We do have the permission to know what's happening around the LENKOV family after all. We are His Leaders, so we must know what's this all about.
[RY4N]-I told you all already, I'm afraid that I cannot tell you anything about what's happening. This is the Great Leader's command, and I have to follow it. If anything, He will tell you all when He comes back.
[N3MES1O]-Are the breaks any related to the incident from ten years ago? I mean, maybe that shouldn't really be a secret. We all know about what happened in the ruler's family, even I, who wasn't a part of the Council back then.
[RY4N]-I... guess they are a bit. But again, I do not have the permission to speak about them.
[M4EK0]-Look, I get the whole sadness for that child's death and all, but I told you before, RY4N. And this should count for the Great Leader as well. Little CHE5TER's death shouldn't affect our meetings, nor our behaviour. I understand that he was His son and that he was your brother, and I understand that maybe it is still an unpleasant memory since he was a part of the LENKOV family, but we have to focus on the city's protection from now on. The Great Leader should not take breaks whenever He pleases just because He wants to get over that whole incident. We all have responsibilities to take care of, and that shouldn't exclude Him either.
[M1SH4M]-*sigh* And again, you reminded me how cold-hearted you can be sometimes, ALLINA. Little CHE5TER was very close to the family if you do not remember it, and we too got close to him when Master M4TTH3W started to bring His sons to the meetings. What would you do if he was your son? You know very well that the loss affected us all for a while too, knowing damn well how close we were to this family.
[M4EK0]-I do understand that, but it's been ten years, Mr. M1SH4M. We have to get over the incident and move on. We cannot bring him back no matter what we do anyway.
Of course RY4N knows the truth, yet he cannot help but feel a bit bad every time he has to lie about this whole incident. But it doesn't take long before someone from the room raises his hand to show that he wants to speak, someone that never spoke ever since we were present to these meetings at all: the EZR4H Clan Leader. So, when everyone notices him, they all look at him in silence, before RY4N finally gives him the permission to speak.
[RY4N]-Oh, yes, Mr. EZR4H?
But to our surprise, he does not speak, instead, he starts making weird moves with his hands. He starts speaking in Sign Language. So of course, none of the Leaders understand what he is saying, but his assistant, the only Non-Leader being in this room that is allowed to speak, starts explaining.
[S4DA5HI]-Mr. EZR4H wants to point out that we have a small problem that we wanted to discuss today at the meeting, but since the whole argument between the Leaders started, we didn't have the chance to talk about it. Can we talk about it now?
So when the assistant finishes her words, he nods affirmatively, so that everyone knows that what she said is true. Mr. EZR4H was born mute, and because of this disorder, he wasn't able to speak at any meeting in the past and only assisted everything. His assistant is the one that helps him speak after all, since she is a Healer as well. Even with this disorder though, he proved himself being worth leading his clan in the past, a reason why he is the Leader for some years now. If it was for him to have a different disorder like blindness or deafness, he would have not been able to rule over the clan since it was hard for him to be understood by everyone, as well as all the needed help he should've had and constant problems.
[RY4N]-What is it then?
He makes some movements again until the assistant understand them all and starts speaking again. But it's not much from what he shows, yet she makes it even longer than it should be.
[S4DA5HI]-Well, as you all already know, the EZR4H Clan has stopped the missions outside both of the cities' area after Master RY4N informed us about the problem with the demons from the outside. But because of such a problem, the city will begin to have some difficulties with all the supplies of ores we have left. Since most of the supplies arrive in the military's arms, some of the industries that need ores from the outside have started to report all kinds of problems since we do not have enough things to give them anymore. We are trying our best to do rations for the whole city so that we will have enough supplies to guarantee our survival for the next months or few years until the problem with the demons is solved, but we cannot stay without them for a very long time. After all, the Healers like myself need the ores in order to treat people from the shelters or the wounded soldiers. What do you advice we should do in order to get our hands on some more ores from the outside? It's been a month since this information was given to us after all, and we did as you and the Great Leader suggested.
But seems like RY4N isn't really sure of what to do. Since technically the Great Leader is the one that should give orders, he isn't so used to give advices to the Leaders. While the Great Leader was absent, he was only trying to make peace with everyone so that they can solve every problem of theirs themselves. Yet this is a problem that needs help for sure. But the Leaders sure do like to speak.
[R4YMOND]-*sigh* To be honest, I am curious of why these creatures have returned anyway. Didn't the M soldiers manage to get rid of them in the past and they didn't come back ever since that day?
[N3MES1O]-What's up with them anyway? Why are their instincts telling them to kill us all?
[S4DA5HI]-If we knew, believe us, we would've told you all. But we only ran away from them during the missions since they can cut in flesh without the need of the Ynash'saveghtah Gas. We did not have any opportunities to study them in more details to find out what's happening with these creatures. We don't even know where they came from in the first place...
[XANTH3]-It is not the problem of where did they come from, S4DA5HI. Documents from the XANTH3 Clan say about their existence even before the birth of the clan. Do remember that the Great Walls were in development even before the war from 250 years ago started. Maybe they are just creatures of the lands, just like us. Maybe it's simply a different machine that creates them somewhere.
[N3MES1O]-But that still doesn't excuse their behaviour. If anything, it makes it even more strange to us.
[M1SH4M]-*sigh* They sure are a pain for all of us. I do know that the C borns can make almost everything with the help of their powers, but making ores as well is a bit difficult for them. And as an R born myself, I can say for sure that the lack of ores will be a huge issue for the entire city, no matter the powers of the C borns.
[M4EK0]-Maybe we can start to create some smaller caves near the crevaators' area? If anything, maybe we can find some ores this way, even if they won't be enough.
[N3MES1O]-I don't think that the crevaators will let us do such a thing in the west area of the city at all. I mean, they believe it is their area, so we technically don't have access to it. Not even by laws can I make them help us unfortunately. I'm afraid that if we disturb that clan, we might cause even more problems to the city.
[XANTH3]-Maybe some new equipment from the Central Base might help. I mean, if we find a solution to the demons and their harmful behaviour to the normal beings, then we won't need to fear them anymore.
[EM3RY]-Easy to say, XANTH3. We've tried many times in the past to find an armour that might protect us from them, but without knowing the cause behind their powers, we didn't succeed in doing so. YANIS begged us a lot to find such equipment as well, but we simply don't have enough knowledge to do so. It's even pitiful to think how many times he asked us about this idea of his actually.
[S4DA5HI]-Of course we would ask you to make us a better equipment, Mr. EM3RY! Isn't it obvious that we depend on your people when we go out in our missions!? How can you even say something like that??
Seems like the assistant got a bit mad from the way the Central Base Leader said his words, so EZR4H simply pushes her a bit with his elbow for her to stop, yet she seems a bit confused from what he did.
[S4DA5HI]-What!? Am I not right though!?
With her response, it seems like the Clan Leader rolls his eyes and sighs, starting to make some signs again. This time though, his sign is simple, rotating his right arm on his chest clockwise, indicating that he is sorry for her behaviour. But looks like this sign is known by the Leaders, since it does seem as it is not the first time he uses it.
[M1SH4M]-It's alright, YANIS. OSKAR has his fault as well here. We all depend on his equipment after all. One wrongly made armour or weapon can cost us a lot during a mission, so I do understand why your assistant is a bit angry at him.
[EM3RY]-Hmph.
[M4EK0]-*sigh* Then what do you guys suggest to do? Do we have any better options? I remember that it took a long time for the M soldiers to get rid of these creatures. We cannot lack these ores for such a long time.
[R4YMOND]-Maybe if we take the ores from the insignificant industries and keep it only for the shelters? I mean, do we really need to still provide the bars with our supplies?
[N3MES1O]-I'm afraid that we cannot do that, MAXWELL. A lot of people work on this industry alone, not to mention that this city does focus mostly on the trades around the bars. I mean, it's the city's theme, isn't it? Simply taking it will only mean people starting to beg the shelters to have some space for them too, and the shelters already have too many people. Do we really need to have homeless people from now on? We are trying to help the citizens, not make their lives worse.
And so, seems like peace somehow made its way into this room, even if people are still not respectful as they should be and maybe complain or get angry at some point too. But they are the Council, they are here to help the city. If a problem is being brought into this room, they should find a solution to it no matter what it takes.
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