[Voiced]
[To be honest... Haruki still isn't 100% better. He's still not cool with Rena yet, not to mention anyone he happened to piss off when he was sulking. But there's stuff to be done; it's Christmas after all. And thus, he coughs before starting this awkwardly with-]

You know, plenty of you folks lack dates for Christmas, don't you? Huh... Well, whatever.

[A pause, and then he continues without abandon to the next part-] Christmas is a vasly inferior holiday to the likes of Tanabata or even Obon, but so long as there is something to celebrate, we might as well roll with it, right?! I mean, I never knew the Christian story behind it in detail, but that makes it so much more interesting. A mystery, even! How could those guys all see starts to lead them to a baby? A virgin that got knocked up? Makes me wish that someone from that time had showed up here at some point... [...A pause, annd then a sigh-] Well, whatever.

More importantly... getting ready for New Years after that. And anything the Organization or John does by way of a "celebration" for Christmas. You guys ever noticed they like American holidays?

[Voiced // Filtered to SOS-Brigade]

Alright SOS-Brigade! This Christmas we're going with something special and more awesome than anything ever seen for any Christmas since the birth of that Jesus guy! We're going to be forming a superior crack-team of super sentai Santas! We're going to be the SOS-S3! And with out might, we're going to spread holiday cheer and more importantly needed positive sentiment around the village.

Our mission will be to provide gifts to people, assist people who look like losers, and set people up on blind-dates. Your first objective will be met by the 20th of December. You will recruit as many people as you can to sign up for a mass blind date. A free gift! What's more, you will do this dressed as a SOS-S3-Santa suit which will be supplied for you in the next three days.

Whoever amasses the most names will be the victor of round one of this competition! Whoever wins the best two out of three rounds will be the Brigade Chief for the week following the first of January! Your roles will be as follows:

( assigned roles )
Are your orders understood, my SOS-S3?!

Now, Elf Support! You will be given the labor of amassing as many potential gifts as you can. You will be hording them in the back room of the SOS-Brigade HQ. Vice-Chief Rena will be given a temporary promotion to Elf Commander Rena, and she will be in charge of this gift hording! You will raid the bazaars, you will make new gifts, and you will even steal if you have to, but I expect that back room filled to brim by the time you get further orders!

Are we clear?!

[Voiced // Filtered to Shiki]

Shiki, I got an important job for you.

[Also, relationship post which I don't think I forgot anyone on but it's possible I did. Yerp. Comment if I did. ASIDE FROM THIS someone did offer to join the SOS-Brigade but the thread is still ongoing. If they end up getting recruited I'll be editing them into this post, and feel free to assume they had always been in this post. So... yeah...]

[Action]

[A little less than half of his Brigade opted to try to go home last week. About the same amount are missing due to kidnappings or whatever. Neku is missing from his house. Mikuru has arrived, reminding him was Kyon suggested a while ago, that they aren't his. And what's more... what's more, it's been a long time since he's really thought about her. And now just her, about all the others too. Zell... Rue... Ritsu-kitty... Osaka, Killua, and Misa. Mai and Excellen... Kotori...

Ahiru...

Would Ahiru have betrayed him the same way that Rena did> Probably. In those days, all anyone wanted was to go back. It felt like he was the only one in this whole damned world which appreciated this place for what it was.

Haruki Suzumiya is depressed, to put it in layman's terms.

And as such, he's currently moping around somewhere. Well, sulking more like it. But where to do it? All Passions is out, he doesn't want to deal with Shiki or Rosalie or anyone else that lurks around there like like Minato. The roof is out because it's too damned cold. His room is out because Rena is probably still lurking around the house. Good Spirits is out because damned if he wants to listen to Guy right now. Thus, where does he go?

A place where he's sure people have better things to do than to talk to him and where the only employ he knows is slightly less than a real person. Haruki is sitting in the far corner of Seventh Heaven. He's not even at a table, really, just up against one of the walls. As he's thinking about his old Brigaders, he's looking at "pictures" he had taken of them using the journal back when they were here. And then he flips to...

Itsuki Koizumi.

He's reminded of the situation with Kyon and Mikuru somehow, so he sets the pile down, scoffing to himself. It's then that he flips open his journal and pens the written part up below. After that, he flips to the back of the journal and takes out an entirely different set of "photos" - a small handful of Kyonko. It's been too long-]

Dammit.

[Naturally, if you happen to be in Seventh Heaven and spot him, you can feel free to try to bug him]

[Written]

Any of you guys that are around, I need you to report in now. [...He knows that some of these might not answer, but even so, he is still going to say it. Not asking for them makes it seem like they really are gone. Gone the same way Shion is...] And you better be snappy about it. I've been lax about Brigade meetings, but I expect full attendance tomorrow. Just... reply here.

Rena Ryuuguu ✓
Usagi Tsukino ✓
Alphonse Elric ✓
Uriko Nonomura ✓
Taichi Yagami ✓
Shinpachi Nagakura ✓
Arthur Dent ✓
Hanyuu Furude
Rika Furude ✓
Yuzuriha Nekoi
Yoohoo ✓
Atsuro Kihara ✓
Mystearica Aura Fende
Miu Matsuoka ✓
Kyon ✓
Leon ✓

[FOR A NOTE: All of this post relates to THIS entry here. It's time to get the play off the ground. Fu fu fu- Anyway I'm thinking a mass action post would be good for this on Sunday. Any thoughts, anyone? Objections, questions, etc?]

[Voiced]

Alright! Holiday's over, Halloween's over, and we're done with all all that stuff! SOS-Brigade, Luceti, it's time for something important! We're not letting the gusto we've had this last week die down; far from it! The celebration's just getting started!

Listen up, Luceti! It's time for the SOS-Brigade to pave it's name in infamy to future generations across all myriads of worlds! We're going to shake you all to the core! We're going to wow you, dazzle you, and make your weep tears of sorrow and joy within five minutes of each other!

Coming forward at the speed of light and with the strength of an immortal thunderbolt is the SOS-Brigade's presentation of A Journey To the West!

Without any further delays, it will be happening this Sunday! There will be only two showings too, so plan your dates now!

( Not cut ICly, demands for people )

[...A pause, and then he thinks back. He thinks back and then with a much lighter tone-]

Rena, Shiki. We're having a house meeting in the living room. Neku, you're optional.

[..He grumbles there and then, evenly as he considers the meetings since the end of Halloween-]

And oi, where the hell is Shion? And why isn't the Seventh Heaven open yet?! Jeez...

[Voiced]
I know what some of you may be thinking: 'What is the SOS-Brigade? I mean I've of it being the most amazing thing ever, and I know this to be true, what what exactly is it? Who's a part of it other than that handsome and charismatic lead of theirs that I know about? How can I join?' Well today is your lucky day, because this is what the SOS-Brigade is all about! Read on!

[WRITTEN]
Spreading Excitement all Over the World with Haruki Suzumiya Brigade
Or SOS-Brigade for short.

( Cut for tl;dr )

[VOICE again]

Oi! Hermione! Get one over here and help take care of Sekai! Jeez. I'm sick of keeping track of this kid at home by myself! [Ignoring that Hermione has probably been doing just as much if not more for the egg. Haruki merely wants to keep both 'parents' together for sentimental reasons.]

Also! SOS-Brigade! We're going to be putting on a play - that same one - after Halloween and this time no delays what-so-ever! Expect your scripts at the meeting tomorrow unless you're an usher!

[I'll be putting up an OOC post with info on that... later]

[WRITTEN accidentally]
[This part is actually written off to the side of the current member list in the SOS-Brigade part. However, it's been crossed-out. Due to what Haruki was crossing out with, he thinks it's illegible, but on everyone else's journal it show show up as being just a few lines through them and while a bit hard to read, not overly hard if you try]

Itsuki Koizumi - Mysterious Member's Cousin
Rue - Anti-member
Kotori Monou - Honrary Member/Ultra-Cook
Leon D.S. Gehste - Honorary Member/Sciences Expert
Ritsuka Aoyagi - Member
Ahiru - Honorary Former Vice-Chief
Osaka - Member
Killua Zoldyck - Member/Ultra-Prankster
Misa Amane - Member/Fashionita
Zell Dincht - Member
Mai - Member
Excellen Browning - Honorary Senior Member
Kyonko - Useless Add-On Unit/Odd Jobs

....Dammit.

EDIT: Attention all members of the SOS-Brigade! Leon is back, and I expect all of you to give a customary greeting for your senior member!

[Action]

[This is a special open-action post. Namely, this post takes place DURING today's SOS-Brigade meeting. I figure it's a good way to explore the Brigade's interactions with each other there. There's two important bits of info that Haruki is hitting up today. The first is him going into detail about the favor that the SOS-Brigade has to fulfill with Gokudera about throwing a party for Tsuna. He'll be writing some key notes on the white board (or rather forcing someone else, I'd think Yuzu, to do that) and then taking a few odd suggestions before he gets to the second order of business-

He'll add it as an afterthought, but it's the introduction of sos_chorus, which I'll write out because it's important and lulz:]

Oh, and this idiot here's called Kyon. He's boring and such, but he'll be out new member out of the generosity of my heart; he'd be rotting away like a moron if he wasn't here. As such, you all better be giving him stuff to do! Alright, dismissed!

[This is an open action post FOR THE SOS-BRIGADE right now. Feel free to threadhop all over the place in here. Also, any visitors to the SOS-Brigade at the meeting today? Feel free as well. Aside from this though, he's going to make one voice section on the journal-]

[Voiced]

Oi, is there some guy named Tsuna out there? I need input from you.