Nick goes up to the front and, clearing his throat, tries to make himself heard. "Ah, if I could have your attention, please? Thanks.
I want to thank each and every one of you for making it here today. I'm sorry for the slightly, uh, unpolished setting of our first meeting, but there's a lot of ways in which this place is ideal, for reasons I'll explain later. Still, I'm glad you could make it, and I hope for a lot of good things out of this."
He walks a bit. "As I'm sure a lot of you are aware, the natives, as they say, are restless. More specifically, many of them are beginning to perceive us at a nuisance at best, and a trouble magnet at worst. It's pretty obvious we've been so wrapped up in our own problems that we've been neglecting our relations with the town we're ostensibly supposed to be defending. Between the Anoli and this... Nyarlathotep we're apparently now up against, we need to deal with this ASAP.
To that end, I propose we form a group. We need to research the situation with the natives, figure out the best way to help them within the best of our abilities, and more than anything else prove we're not just a bunch of slackers, leeches, or menaces. That way, we'll be in the best possible position we can be to deal with the problems ahead of us."
He pauses for a moment, thinking. "There is... one other thing I want to accomplish with this. I'm going to be up front with you guys about it. If you agree with me, that's fine. If not, I will not hold it against you to walk away from this and develop your own group. This situation isn't something that requires competition."
A deep breath. "I am hoping... that by opening our lines of communication with the natives, we can start getting some information on this world that the government apparently decides is too dangerous to share with us. A backdoor, if you will." He turns his head. "I am on the side of people, both living and dead. I do not appreciate having the truth kept from me." He turns back to them. "This is only a secondary objective. The most important thing is our relations. But if we can somehow uncover more of the truth this way, so much the better."
He sighs. "I will understand if anybody wants to leave, after hearing that."
THE MEETING
I want to thank each and every one of you for making it here today. I'm sorry for the slightly, uh, unpolished setting of our first meeting, but there's a lot of ways in which this place is ideal, for reasons I'll explain later. Still, I'm glad you could make it, and I hope for a lot of good things out of this."
He walks a bit. "As I'm sure a lot of you are aware, the natives, as they say, are restless. More specifically, many of them are beginning to perceive us at a nuisance at best, and a trouble magnet at worst. It's pretty obvious we've been so wrapped up in our own problems that we've been neglecting our relations with the town we're ostensibly supposed to be defending. Between the Anoli and this... Nyarlathotep we're apparently now up against, we need to deal with this ASAP.
To that end, I propose we form a group. We need to research the situation with the natives, figure out the best way to help them within the best of our abilities, and more than anything else prove we're not just a bunch of slackers, leeches, or menaces. That way, we'll be in the best possible position we can be to deal with the problems ahead of us."
He pauses for a moment, thinking. "There is... one other thing I want to accomplish with this. I'm going to be up front with you guys about it. If you agree with me, that's fine. If not, I will not hold it against you to walk away from this and develop your own group. This situation isn't something that requires competition."
A deep breath. "I am hoping... that by opening our lines of communication with the natives, we can start getting some information on this world that the government apparently decides is too dangerous to share with us. A backdoor, if you will." He turns his head. "I am on the side of people, both living and dead. I do not appreciate having the truth kept from me." He turns back to them. "This is only a secondary objective. The most important thing is our relations. But if we can somehow uncover more of the truth this way, so much the better."
He sighs. "I will understand if anybody wants to leave, after hearing that."