Breakfast, as usual will be served between 8am and 9am.
Lunch, as usual will be served between 12:30 and 1:30.

There is nothing scheduled for today.. How you use the time is up to you.

Dinner will be served at 7:30 as is usual, with pre-dinner drinks in the lounge from 7:15.
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Cathal invites all cousin to a discussion group about the trip with Charlie.

The meeting start at 9:30 am after breakfast.

He has a whiteboard set up to list what was seen and what it could mean.

You can assume all of your (NPC) cousins will attend..

[OOC the it is a virtual meeting, some thing are better written down.]

"Yes start with the boarding of the Mini-buss. We drove off and we all felt the  power of the pattern. 2 hours later we were in Las Vegas. The distance between the Center and Las Vegas is far longer than this time span."
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Rhiannon skipped breakfast but got word of the meeting and attended. She was silent, only giving some warm greetings while waiting for the discussion to start.

The men started the conversation and covered the ground pretty well. Rhiannon knew that her and Cathal's opinion about Charlie was not shared by the others, so she didn't bring it up and didn't comment as Edward and Cormac spoke. What they said didn't really invite that kind of comment anyway and there was no good reason to be petty and expressing how she felt wouldn't be constructive. She couldn't hold her tongue completely, however.

"I didn't like that." Rhiannon finally spoke. "I know it's not important to this conversation, but I didn't like it when she used my likeness. After ignoring me and treating me as she did, to take my shape was infuriating. It was like she was mocking me."

She looked down.

"That was unhelpful I know, but I had to say it. But while we're talking, why are we in here? We're trying to pick out what was so significant about everything she did, when she could just tell us herself. There is so much to learn, wouldn't it make more sense to just tell what mattered and what didn't? I really don't understand this method of tutelage."

"I suppose if we're going to do this, we should just write down these questions and ask the when we see her. Perhaps Cormac or Edward should ask, considering her track record for ignoring me."

"What do you think. Did we stayed in the same shadow on our way to Vegas or did we shifted out and then shifted back in." Cathal asks.

"Either Chralies is a shapeshifter or it was some magic trick with taking Rhias likeness and I agreee with Rhia it was not fair. She could have taken the likeness of someone not part of our group."

"I would love to get some answers from Charlie. But I will get no good answers from her like you Rhia. I'm noting down the questions here on the virtual board anybody of you can add to them and make comments."

"This with the probability and inadvertently shifting shadow, I do not get completely. How can we shift shadow if we just manipulate probability." Cathals adds it as question to the board.

"Maybe we ask Cordelia what all this means and is about."

"I know from my mother that a strong mind can dominate a weaker willed mind. I think that was what Charlie did with the Vallet  and later with clerk and the 2 drivers."

"The effect of probability manipulation not being immediate can be relevant, it might take some time for that it takes effect or she did not wanted to cause immediate attention." He not this down too.

"It is not so much about asking but the suspicion that neither me nor Rhia will get answers from Charlie, or when we get ones that it will be useful answers. But right I will do. And suggestions inviting her to a meeting or at dinner."

"The question is did she located the Caiman or shifted to 'a' Caiman. Where we in the same shadow or did we shifted."

"So after the Caiman she used the pattern to get us to the drug dealers. Again the question is, was that the same shadow or somewhere else in shadow. Please if I says something wrong correct me."


"And then at the base, she used patter for some more stuff but here I'm a bit unsure so I would like to hear what your perceived."

"So much happened. I feel like we can analyze this for weeks and still miss things. But perhaps as we learn, we'll be able to see more and ask better questions."

"We got a load and no explanations." Cathal says to Rhia. The virtual thingy is good enough that Rhia can hear the miffed undertone in Cathal's reply. So it is not directed at Rhia, she can guess at whom it is.

To Kenneth and Cormac. "Yes and that are the parts I got at least, so no clue on this."

He adds that to the white board.

"Maybe that was the one thing she said couldn't be demonstrated any other way?"

"Maybe, maybe there is no other way she could have demonstrated it, maybe she could have found a less dangerous way to demonstrate it." Cathal replies. "She is a trill seeker and wanted to be such a situation."

"Agreed on both counts." Rhiannon sighed, then continued in a softer tone. "I certainly won't judge her for enjoying the thrills. I like a bit of adventure myself. But if the goal was to show that the Pattern could be used to shield us from harm, it could have done on a shooting range and not where the shooter was actively trying to kill us all. Although, I will give her props for efficiency."

Cathal thinks a moment. "Like a shield."

"If it is a shield would it be possible to place it behind you?  Maybe once you decided where it goes you have to drop it to set ti to a new direction."