game calendar: january 7th - february 3rd

[onemind]

OOC UPDATES

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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Comments

[sizeofyourbaggage]

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...)

[perroquet]

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

[onemind]

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

[perroquet]

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

[onemind]

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

[onemind]

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.

[sizeofyourbaggage]

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?

[onemind]

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.

[sizeofyourbaggage]

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.

[onemind]

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 :')