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game calendar: january 7th - february 3rd

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Hey all! Welcome back from the holidays. Let's get to it, shall we?

Just a few quick notes: over the next few weeks, we're going to be making some adjustments to the application guidelines (mostly: re-evaluating length rules) as well as making some minor adjustments to what we want to see on a permissions post or linked apps. These will be very minor changes and mostly revolve around having content warnings on your applications and/or sensitive parts of your character's background/personality marked. Because of the nature of the game, we realize that players may be reading one another's applications or digging into character backstory more than they might in a typical jamjar and feel like it might be a good idea to have things labelled for courtesy. We'll get you the nitty gritty details during the next AC period, but wanted to give everyone a heads up in advance.

As for the calendar: please note that we'll be posting more details about later dates as they're triggered. For now, enjoy some mystique. :^) Otherwise, as per usual if you have any questions please don't hesitate to reach out to us either here or via the mod contact page/a PM. Thanks everyone!

CALENDAR OVERVIEW

January 7th - 13th
DAY :035 - :036
       DAY :035
• [DROPS] Early in the day, Clint Barton and Aloy fall comatose.
• Preparation for the Garstall hunt continues, as the boats are finally completed and put out to sea. With the vessels prepared, training for the hunt can begin. [additional reading]
• As with the Barithian hunt training, members of the other Envoys take part - including the Descendant Keya, who continues to encourage the possibility of broaching a peace to anyone who will listen.
• Rumors of strange animal attacks in the night increase; most servants running errands now carry lamps and small daggers to protect themselves. Clearly trying to both avoid raising anxieties while also not wanting to be seen ignoring the problem, House Tyrisson has posted guards in the courtyards and at intervals through town. Festive lanterns have been hung at numerous street corners that might be in celebration of the upcoming gastrall hunt, or might be an attempt to minimize shadowy corners at dusk. (This effect continues for the duration of the time spent at the Red Coast unless noted otherwise).

       DAY :036
• [DROPS] Shinji Ikari falls comatose in the night.
• [HATCHES] Elsewhere in the multiverse, new hosts awaken on the Station. Siva’co and Lyr head to the Station to collect them. Collector and Rhan go... somewhere else. Be good while the chaperones are away. (Note: the hatch log will be a combined hatch/drop log on January 14th)
• The preparations and training continues as the hunt draws near.

January 14th - 20th
DAY :037
       DAY :037
• The Garstall Hunt
• A Change of Plans
• A Dreadful Turn of Events
• The Visitor in the Night
• Finally: New Hatches arrive on Hyrypia late on DAY :037 [a log will be posted for the entirety of DAY :037]

January 21st - 27th
DAY :038
       DAY :038
• [DAY] The bulk of the Descendants have moved into Tyrisson house for mourning/funerary preparation. Hijinks ensue. (Please see this post for additional details re: the events of the daylight hours of Day :038)
• [NIGHT] A Special Assignment

January 28th - February 3rd
DAY :039
       DAY :039
• The Red Coast is left behind.

NOTE: If you have something character-driven that you want added, please let us know on the CALENDAR ADDITIONS thread below.

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Garstall Hunting - The boats have been fully assembled by Day :035. Now that they are ready, garlanded and water-tight again, they are ready to hunt. All they require is sailors and hunters. The denizens of the Red Coast encourage the members of the Envoys to join them on the boats, which are kept close to the shore for the next two days as training exercises are run. The guests and locals alike are drilled on the way the long ships are sailed and how to shift ballast weights during the hunt, and in handling the long tethered harpoons that are used to hunt the beasts. The goal is for two or more ships to surround one of the creatures and spear between the segments of the great beasts when it gets close to the surface as the sailor shift the weight to the other end of the boat to compensate for the drag. From there they must anchor it more fully before eventually a single hunter dives in to deliver the finishing blow. The ships then must tow the creature back to the docks for processing. It is hoped that the hunt will successfully harvest one or two Garstall. It is suggested that Carbauschians with their heavy robes should avoid falling in.

That said, no need to worry: beyond the very mild threat of drowning, no one seems concerned about the tragedy of the Barithian hunt repeating itself. It seems the Garstall hunt may be considerably more sedate an affair.

Edited 2018-01-11 06:06 (UTC)

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I would like my sneaky sneak to use her sneaking abilities to go eavesdrop around Shee Naraxa, since that is the last known destination of our dead friend, Keya.

Is there time to do this between finding the body and Casiria's arrival? (I ask that because in Ilde's mind it would effect the quality of information she could get, so she'd try as soon as possible, but either scenario before/after is fine.)

Edited (to clarify) 2018-01-15 00:47 (UTC)

That's definitely a thing that Ilde can do, however the time between the hosts discovering the body and other people discovering the body is relatively short- and the time between the body being discovered and people being forced to return to their temporary homes even shorter. It is not long after the hosts are back at the Whalsome Home that Casiria arrives, so it probably won't work out for her to do it before the elder hosts return with the new hatches.

Let us know if you have any other questions!

Thank you for the clarification, I was a little wonky on the timeline there.

She will definitely go once they've gotten their newbies settled (aka long enough to be mean to Sam Anders womp womp), she'll want to be doing her eavesdropping while this is still a topic of conversation on loose tongues.

Definitely focused on eavesdropping over trying to root around in anyone's rooms or anything like that, but I suppose it might depend on what she heard.

I can see some other plans taking shape here and there, so I can definitely wait until all that dust has settled for results!

Ok! Since the current log only covers up to day 37, we can circle back to you once we get to day 38! Let us know if you have any other questions!

On Day :038, Ilde will be able to attempt to sneaky sneak her way into shadowing Shee Naraxa. Unfortunately, Shee is in Tyrisson House and the security is tight. While she may be able to make her way into the House itself with some difficulty, it will be nearly impossible for Ilde alone to get to where Shee is. However, if she lingers near windows and around the back entrances of the House she will overhear that Shee has sequestered herself for a period of mourning, as have Casiria and a few of Keya’s closer acquaintances (which appears to be a Descendant tradition). However some of the less important Descendants (who are evidently there to help prepare Keya’s body), note that this is unusual. Shee and Keya had very little to do with each other prior to the last few days, they were by no means related, and nor were they close friends; the mourning sequester is typically reserved for immediate family or those with unique connections. One Descendant hypothesizes that Shee must feel guilty about the fact that she was the last one to see the young Descendant alive - and that perhaps if she had been with her, Keya would still be alive.

Shee will not come out of isolation until the sun rises on Day :039 - when Keya’s body will be put to rest.

Okay this is a gross question I'm sorry in advance mods -

But is it possible for Sam and Bucky to attempt to work together to revive Keya, through a combination of Sam trying to use his ability to heal her wounds and Bucky using his ability as basically a defibrillator to resuscitate her? And assuming they're able to try, is there any chance they might be able to revive her at least long enough to talk to her a bit, or is she too far dead?

And second part, would they have more success if Sam's ability was temporarily boosted via Mat - or, and this is a question that might be better suited to how do symbiote abilities work, but if he was able to push himself to briefly slide a little bit up on his ability, possibly with some extremely negative consequences? (On top of... taking on her injuries which will be so much fun...)

Edited (edited to include mat) 2018-01-15 01:54 (UTC)

Gently leaves this and this here as well - both healing spells Gildor can cast, though in this case he'd stick to Critical.

Unfortunately, Keya's already a corpse by the time she's discovered; cure wounds isn't the same as raise dead.

No it is not, and even if that spell was in his wheelhouse, he'd loath to ever use it. Thanks for the clarification!

Sure thing! Sorry we weren't more clear about the state of Keya's definitely-not-alive-ness earlier!

He could certainly give it his best shot! Unfortunately, Sam's symbiote ability can't raise the dead and Keya is definitely dead by the time they reach her body. That said, if Sam was determined it's possible for him to make some headway on closing the wound (with the appropriate damage transfer). However because Keya's body has no 'energy' to help the healing process along, Sam will find it takes considerably more effort than usual to heal the wound. Even with help, he'll be unable to fully knit the wound closed unless he's willing to, uh, murder himself.

For what it's worth - there's no way to temporarily boost a symbiote ability.

That's about what I expected, thank you! I'm more interested in playing out the attempt and the aftermath so yess works for me.

Though I also want to clarify that Mat's symbiote ability is to temporarily boost another Host's symbiote ability a half of a rank and Sam's next rank includes being able to heal fatal wounds if he pulls from two people, so that's what I was going with - would he be able to make more headway with that only to basically find her brain dead since uh dude she's dead what were you thinking why are you stupid or should I plan to have him pass out/be dragged away before he's able to fully close it?

Sounds good! Just to let you know, additional people will show up after the hosts do, so Sam being covered in Keya's blood could go slightly badly if he's still around when they get there. Let us know if you think that will come up!

As for the boost- even with Mat's ability this won't be possible, as we don't believe that even his full rank three would allow for him to resurrect her, either. Just to explain what we mean, here's the section from Sam's stage 3 ability:

"If he uses the energy from two people, he's now able to heal chronic as well as potentially fatal conditions."

As it states he can heal potentially fatal conditions, this only would apply to prevent someone from dying, not to bring someone who has already died back from the dead. If we believed that his ability would allow him to resurrect the dead we would actually have requested a revision. As he's already using the ability somewhat against the way in which it is intended to work, it's not going to be powerful enough to finish closing the wound up even with the bonus, and Sam is probably going to have a bad time.

Gotcha! Sorry about that, I definitely wasn't planning on raising her. Just resucicating/healing if she was still hanging in there and wanting to see if he could completely close the wound if not - but that makes total sense! I was counting on him having a bad time so excellent.

I think right now the plan is for Elena to pull Sam away to help him with her blood and Bucky to freak out after using his ability to try to restart Keya's heart and run off, so he'll be away from the body pretty quickly after his dumb attempt fails. But I'll come back in here if that changes!

Thank you so much guys, sorry for not being clear at first.

No worries! Our bad - we weren't as clear as we could've been in the log write up about the state of Keya's complete corpse factor. :okhandemoji:

Have fun having a bad time, kids :')

Would Rust's tracking abilities yield anything in the orchard/around the murder scene? Would examination of Keya's body turn up anything of note?

Also if uh ~someone~ were to search Rhan and co's quarters while they were away, would that turn up anything?

ETA: I DEFINITELY 100% WAS AWARE THE MURDER TOOK PLACE AT NIGHT

with that in mind, would he be able to find anything...by the light of a cigarette lighter(/the moon)...

Edited 2018-01-16 03:43 (UTC)

~~What do your eagle scout eyes see, Rust~~

CRIME SCENE

Because it's dark out, the orchard is fairly well-trafficked in general, and some of the scene will have been disturbed ~~by other player characters trampling all over it~~, the most telling information Rust's tracking ability will be able to discern is that Keya likely walked into the orchard of her own volition and seems to have dropped more or less where she stood, though her body is twisted to suggest she may have turned toward her killer after having her throat cut from behind. The disturbance of the crime scene makes it impossible to tell for sure, but there seem to be no fresh tracks leading away from the scene.

Keya's body itself won't turn up anything suspicious (beyond, uh, being murdered). The tool used was clearly very sharp and likely a straight edge (the slash is extremely clean and deep enough to be disturbing) and her throat was likely cut from behind.; however, during his inspection Rust can find two wooden beads under the tangle of Keya's cloak. These beads are similar in design but not identical to the wooden beads surrounding the pendant on Keya's familial necklace; Keya's own jewelry is intact. (Feel free to assume that during the meeting with Casiria that Rust noticed her familial token has garnishing beads identical to Keya's).

RHAN & CO'S JUNK

First of all: rude. Secondly--

RHAN - Her bunk space is an absolute garbage can of miscellaneous junk. There's a small library of books under her bunk that she's clearly stolen from Naestone House, the manor on the Graze, and god knows where else. She also has a small collection of pens, an entire sheaf of blank paper watermarked with the House Cabrielle seal, a considerable amount of small denomination currency both Hyrypian and otherwise, multiple sets of Carbasuchian robes, a Meradan style pair of pants, a respectable lineup of (ahem) personal items, a few pieces of jewelry that don't seem to have any local in-universe style equivalent, etc, etc. In general, it's all the detritus of a person who has both spent a considerable amount of time wandering around and who has exceptionally sticky fingers. Feel free to assume she's stolen some stuff from the other Hosts as well (oops :^) - if you want to do something with this, feel free to plot with others about what random junk she could have knicked).

SIVA'CO - Siva'co's space is very orderly. He has a few changes of clothes and a small wooden box with multicolored wooden tokens inside; the box unfolds into a portable strategy game. He has a few changes of clothes, but otherwise seems to be the definition of spartan living.

LYR - Lyr seems to keep very little. His space is orderly and neat with little more than a few changes of clothes and a mysterious cylindrical length of aluminum colored metal roughly wrist thick and a foot in length. Wrapped in one of his changes of clothes is a brick thick packet of journals s tied with a piece of twine. They're similar to the small booklet Lyr seems to keep on his person at all times. At first glance, the alien scrawl in them is completely unreadable; however, there are quite a few diagrams and painstakingly detailed illustrations in them which run the gamut from astrological charting to studies of flora/fauna and strangers faces. Lyr's apparently an accomplished artist. Should Rust spend any time examining the books, he'll realize that between first glance and the third slim booklet that the words have become legible and the books appear to be extensive journals with a personalized timekeeping system and an evolving shorthand, likely developed out of necessity on account of page scarcity at the time of writing, etc.

Disturbingly, if Rust returns to earlier volumes that he previously couldn't understand, he'll find he's able to read those too. The journals entries themselves are less a day to day recollection of events, but seem to extensive ruminations on matters of philosphy and ethics informed by whatever is happening at the time of writing. There are brief notes on individuals as well, most of them multiverse locals. However, there are extremely rare entires describing other Hosts; these are detailed to the point of minutae. From the looks of things, Lyr and co have met only a very small handful of Hosts in the entire time he's been journaling. There are long entires on both Prince and Cathaway (which we can provide via PM if you're thirsty cause this is already a monster of a post).

There are no entries on Hyrypia, suggesting they must be in the booklet Lyr has in his possession.

THE COLLECTOR - The Collector keeps a series of written stories in a strange language; similar to Lyr's journals, Rust will find that after some study he can slowly begin to discern the text despite what should be a language barrier. The stories are clearly spark notes versions of a longer account - likely short notes taken in the moment that The Collector will later expound upon in some more meticulously detailed record which isn't present. It's unclear from the notes how much is fictional versus non-fiction, which are stories related to The Collector's own experience and what has been absorbed second hand via traveling the multiverse. She keeps a series of books and poems, and there's a case with a collection of wax cylinder recordings stored inside. She also has a number of drawings and etchings by a series of different hands.

this is so good /clutches chest

but I can't believe you've been keeping all these books from rust

Oh, and just in the interests of freaking Rust out a little more:

Would there be any discernible differences in Lyr's writing style/handwriting from the earliest booklet to the most recent? (Other than the changes in shorthand.)

Upon initial inspection, any changes seem to be a matter of having kept the journals over a long period of time and being subject to occasionally drastic space saving measures. However, if cross-referenced with The Collector's notes, some similarities in the latter half of his journals will start to become apparent - less to do with how his handwriting is shaped, but a certain familiarity of the syntactical rhythm.

nice

and some of the scene will have been disturbed by other player characters trampling all over it

I HOPE YOU'RE HAPPY

but seriously, bakugo can get most (if not all) of this (depending on if he has to go puke/react like a normal human while rust's examining the corpse) and run off with a bead if you like (or try to convince rust to give him one, but that'll be trickier)

I'M NOT HAPPY AT ALL GOSH!!!

dw he's gonna CONTAIN HIMSELF QUITE WELL at the scene, pls praise him for it

i will take you up on "running off" with a bead aka he'll likely unconsciously channel his broodmate with super sticky fingers and pocket one OOPS???

Since Ilde's sneaking about, Joshua intends to make sure nobody's trying to do the same thing to the hosts, being that he...also does this kind of thing and thus knows what to look for and where to check.

Would he find anything?

This is a good murder boy.

You're in luck! In the grand scheme of things, no one really gives a fuq about the Carbauschians it seems Casiria must have been very careful to avoid being spotted before and after her meeting with them. No one's spying on the Carbauschians (yet).

SWEET although given. everyone else. He's definitely going to keep watching to make sure that doesn't change, lmao.

haha sob

Can Pidge retrieve some samples from the burned area to test for chemical residues, etc? See if there's any clues as to fuel or craft-type or what might have made the circle?

Edited 2018-01-16 04:58 (UTC)

SHE SURE CAN. Upon testing, her samples will show that the burned material has radioactive residue. The radioactivity seems to have an exceptionally short half life, meaning by the time it's tested there are only very trace amounts remaining. At the rate of degradation, Pidge can determine that the initial event that caused the circular burn must have caused a massive radiation spike ~~which, should such an anomaly happen again, might be traceable given the correct equipment so long as it's done within a two hour time frame~~.

COOL. Given the tech available for cannibalization, could she jury-rig something like that?

Heck yeah she can. As it turns out, the technomance toothbrush Damon, Shepard & Co snag during their toss up in one of the Descendent envoy houses makes a perfect housing for whatever gadget Pidge comes up with.

Suggestions for power sources: steal (or y'know ask, but whatever - tit for tat) some space!batteries from Rhan or ask Sam Anders if Pidge can re-purpose some of his small robot friend's internals.

As a last note - please let know if the construction of the device and its purpose is something Pidge would share with the Host NPCs. We'd like to feature it in metaplot stuff but don't want to metagame if that isn't something she'd share.

She'll totally steal batteries from Rhan and not even apologize for it.

I think it's something she'd give the nest in general a heads up about once it's finished - I'll throw up a mental post set sometime on day 39ish, I think? After she has all her greeblies and has it put together.

We would suggest she have it at least started, if not finished, by late afternoon on the 0:038 :^)

THAT CAN DEFINITELY HAPPEN

(screaming internally)

i'll do a post later today.

Following up with the Descendants.

Since Lakshmi has built up a compassionate background with Keya's Aunt and she really, really does feel for her. She will go to her with full mourning gifts, namely food and offer to help her in any way she can in getting reparations for the murder.

How would this go, will she learn anything, find out any useful info, etc?

Just wanted to give you a heads up that we've seen this and have made a note to circle back after the end of Day :038 (as Keya's Aunt Casiria spends that day sequestered for her mourning rites and won't be available to receive Lakshmi/her gifts). We'll touch base with you again soon!

No problems! TY oh modly ones.

A quick OOC update about the state of affairs on Day :038!

By the time the sun rises on day 0:038 a large contingent of Descendants will be missing - sharp eyes will note that they have headed toward Tyrisson House, and if any of the Red Coast guards are asked they will tell them (with some suspicion) that the Tyrisson twins have given the Descendants special housing in order to complete their mourning and funerary preparation rituals. As a result, the two main buildings in Whalsome Home that the Descendants occupy are far less crowded than they might normally be and the courtyard is more or less deserted with the exception of wandering Red Coast guard as the Meradans and Carpathans appear to be in functional lockdown mode.

During the day there are four secret(...ish) player driven missions are happening. At least one of them will result in some higher security later in the day. One of these missions (involving the abduction of a Second) was discussed via PM so we don't have handy info to link, but everything else can be referenced HERE, HERE, and HERE (jk we're doing that on day :39).

Night of Day :038 is currently off limits. There will be a SECRET SURPRISE coming, but we wanted to give everyone time to kick off their hijinks and pull together some of their backtags before jumping into Even More Stuff. We'll be posting an OOC info post for the night of Day :038 on Wednesday.

Edited 2018-01-22 15:08 (UTC)

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game calendar: january 7th - february 3rd

BOAT SCHOOL

CALENDAR ADDITIONS

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THE FIRST OF ABOUT A THOUSAND QUESTIONS SORRY

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LIONS AND TIGERS AND PLAYER PLOTS, OH MY - DAY 38 - DAYTIME INFO