EVENT #12: INVOCATION - COORDINATION POST (PART 1)

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Event #12 - COORDINATION (1)

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This post is for coordination to prevent the IC Event Log from being overrun by OOC mod and player communications. Forms and instructions are available in this post.

Use this post to:

◎ Coordinate event plots with the mods
◎ Request a mod dice roll
◎ Submit noticeable actions
◎ Write rapid IC exchanges
◎ Investigate a plot point or track ongoing investigations

If you have any questions, see the Questions thread on the OOC Plotting Post.

Available Forms

For details on each form, see the sections below.
Be sure to reply under your assigned category if applicable.

Mod Communications

If you have an idea related to the event plot, communicate and coordinate with us here. This includes NPC meetings, requesting resources, destroying the environment, or anything else that may require mod permission. If we can't accommodate a request for any reason, we'll do our best to offer an alternative!

Contact Us

<b>Player Name:</b> <b>Character Name:</b> <b>Request:</b> (Describe what you'd like to do)

Randomization Request

Request a mod dice roll at any time for outcomes and consequences. Some actions require a dice roll to proceed, such as attacking an acolyte NPC or attempting to break anything major in the environment (chains, doors, walls). If you aren't sure, you can check with us.

Request here

<b>Player Name:</b> <b>Character Name:</b> <b>Action:</b> (Describe what your character is attempting to do and how) <b>Thread:</b> <a href="urlhere">Thread</a> (Link to the thread where this is taking place) <b>Notes:</b> (Anything else)

Notable Actions

Submit notable actions that are likely to gain attention from other players, such as fights or disturbances.

Submit a notable action

<b>Player Name:</b> <b>Character Name:</b> <b>When:</b> (Approximately when is this incident taking place?) <b>Where:</b> (Where is this incident taking place?) <b>What:</b> (Describe the incident) <b>Link:</b> <a href="urlhere">Thread</a> (If applicable. Actions can be submitted without a thread if they're minor, such as if your character snores loudly every night.)

IC Exchanges

Use this option for interactions you'd like to play out, but setting up a standard IC thread would be impracticable. For instance, if your character wants to speak to several people about an event they witnessed together, you might want to do an IC exchange.

Treat this like an informal IC network thread done in person, where character reactions, snippets of dialogue, and other details can be quickly played out and concluded in-game without committing to a full log thread. Exchanges are game canon and can count towards Activity Check under the category of a Network thread.

Start an IC exchange

Using the provided form is optional. Begin a thread freeform if you prefer.

<b>Where & when:</b> (Where and when is this exchange taking place?) <b>Purpose:</b> (What's the reason for this exchange?) <b>THREAD START</b> (Write the scenario, your character's actions, and any dialogue as usual)

Investigations

Several investigation paths are available for characters to interact with. Each assignment group will have their own set of investigation paths. You can investigate something as many times as you want, as long as there's a reasonable explanation for your character making their second attempt. Interacting with investigations might carry IC consequences. We'll try to telegraph when characters are at high risk of triggering something major. To investigate, fill out the form, then comment under the item you're investigating.

Interact with an Investigation

<b>Player Name:</b> <b>Character Name:</b> <b>Other characters involved:</b> <b>Action:</b> (Describe what your character is attempting to do and how. If multiple characters are taking action, include their actions.) <b>Thread:</b> <a href="urlhere">Thread</a> (Link to a top level or any other relevant threads. This is so we can review what the characters involved have been doing to best flavor the investigation outcome for you!) <b>Notes:</b> (Anything else)

Comments

THE SPARED

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DEVELOPMENTS

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As investigations develop, we'll record any changes triggered by players and characters below. Developments only apply to things that all characters can see or learn for themselves, such as a locked door that's now broken. We will not be tracking information revealed to individual characters. Characters will have to communicate with each other on their own to learn those details.

Please check the comment for updates, as these developments might factor into your approach or decisions!

Update: We've added a new section to list NPC threads and other important threads occurring under the IC Exchange that might be relevant for players and characters.

NPC Meetings / Relevant Threads

◎ Relevant Threads

◎ Announcing Solvunn's Open Borders | LINK - LINK

◎ Cross-faction Information Coordination | LINK

◎ Location Info & Propositions | LINK

◎ NPC Meetings

◎ Thorne: Yennefer of Vengerberg, Queen Ellya | LINK

◎ Nocwich: Himeka Sui, Osanna | LINK

◎ Nocwich/Free Cities: Jaskier, Nadine Cross, Quilleth Kaur, Sten | LINK

◎ Thorne: Stephen Strange, Ambrose Rhett | LINK

Thorne

◎ Locating Spells

No developments.

◎ Tracking Leads

No developments.

◎ Witnesses

No developments.

◎ Interrogations

No developments.

Free Cities

◎ Inventions & Tactics

No developments.

◎ Tracking Leads

◎ The ground behind a home near Josselyn's house has been dug up and an item buried beneath the tree removed. There are two names carved on the tree's trunk: Esmond and Lorelei.

◎ Witnesses

◎ Bandits are now on higher alert after a few separate camps and/or patrols have been approached, attacked, or gone missing. Smaller camps have made themselves scarce and relocated.

◎ Interrogations

No developments.

Solvunn

◎ Josselyn's House

◎ A set of unmarked bottles and a few books have been removed from the shelves.

◎ Tracking Leads

◎ Solvunn has opened its borders to the Free Cities and Thorne for assistance investigating leads. Permission from a Summoned's respective governments must be obtained.

◎ Witnesses

No developments.

◎ Ritual Sacrifices

◎ A few commune residents show signs of having recently given up a flesh sacrifice. Fingers, eyes, or other appendages may be freshly bandaged.

THORNE

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LOCATING SPELLS

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Player Name: dai (and jen)
Character Name: yennefer of vengerberg
Other characters involved: stephen strange

Action: yennefer and stephen are going to focus a lot of time and attention to finding the location of the kidnapped summoned. this will most likely take a couple days of prep, as they will be tapping into stephen's spell from his world (and therefore his eldritch magic??) to locate the summoned. they will have collected items from istredd, anakin, mat, jack, and wilhelm. yennefer will also be using her knowledge of the sap from ikorr and her extended studies to do her best to increase the potency of the location magic being used. they will also have done research on abraxan location spells to see if there's anything they could add.
Thread: Thread
Notes: we want to note here that while stephen is putting his foot down with regards to draining prisoners (something yen wouldn't have had as much of an issue with), they are absolutely prepared to take part in dangerous magic for this.

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Player Name: Elizabeth
Character Name: Jon Snow
Other characters involved: n/a

Action: Jon approaches castle mages with a neck scarf belonging to Mat and a hair ribbon belonging to Alicent and asks if they will be helpful in finding anyone, if there are spells that can be done, etc.
Thread: There isn't one, sorry. Dropping you a line about this shortly! 😭
Notes: This is an independent action Jon is taking based on alarming inbox messages from Mat and Alicent and the assumption that he's heard some rumblings about location spells. He is not capable of doing them on his own. He's probably been pretty careful about directly handling the items -- there are almost no forensics in Fake 1400, but I think the concept of magical contamination would still occur to him.

TRACKING LEADS

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[ushiri]

Player Name: Jay
Character Name: Kyle
Other characters involved: N/A

Action: Kyle is going to request a portal to a mountainous region, if they can choose he'd try to search the mountains to the south on the border with Solvunn since there's been rumors of people going missing from the faction for some time now. He's going by himself to cover more ground with the intention of using the Gray Space to scout and get to difficult to reach places. He will initially stick with his guard, but if he finds a trail of something strange and out of reach on foot, he will absolutely ditch them to chase the lead.
Thread: Thread talking to Wilhelm about a cave. Since it's solo I'll thread out the aftermath with someone else, if that's okay!
Notes: Wards will stand out and stop him in the Gray Space, but wherever they aren't around he's going to be moving through solid objects to ignore physics and get to places that would otherwise be unreachable. Totally cool with him ending up injured by something and needing to limp back.

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Player Name: Heather
Character Name: Lucifer
Other characters involved: Robin, Kol

Action: Week 2 Lucifer would like to go alone, but can't go investigate Lake Circinus itself. His reasoning behind this is from Viktor's network info of the trackers pointing somewhere to the north of Cadens, though without an idea of east/west yet. Kyle's already been through the mountains further south of Thorne, so the next big "chunk" up is the lake.

While the full lake in general might be interesting, never know what skeletons a like hides, he'd like to try and get the direct route east from Nott to across the way fully towards the shore closest to the Singularity side. Not only because Nott has the docks there but because of Nott's previous rumors of missing people, and the knowledge that there are natives currently with the kidnapped Summoned.

-I'm not sure if they can take a boat, or if it's frozen this time of year
-I do not actually know how big that lake is nor how much time it would take to cross it, and I assume they'd still have a guard accompanying them for the awkward trip.
-I'm guessing that shoreline closest to the Singularity might be just barely in Thorne's territory.

Thread:
Lucifer started with Robin

Notes: +2 people because they're expendable, maybe they can swim

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Player Name: Court
Character Name: Thancred Waters
Other characters involved: Stephen Strange

Action: Working off of the map recovered from this investigation, Thancred will also be coordinating with Stephen to see if any of the locations on the map might line up with / be near to one of the thaumametor locations. If so, they would request a portal from Thorne to go investigate that area. (They'd be particularly interested about the location where they found the undead rat during Event #10.)
Thread: No thread started yet (and let me know if there needs to be one started), but please note the link above! I wanted to make sure this would lead anywhere before doing a starter.

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Player Name: Elizabeth
Character Name: Jon Snow
Other characters involved: Rhy Maresh (Lena)

Action: LOOKING FOR MAT; or, TWO NICE FELLOWS ARE WORRIED

Mat disappeared on his favorite hunting trail, and was with Hornet at the time. Upon getting the results of the Mat location spell, Jon approached Rhy and asked if he wanted to come along to check it out. He is aware that Rhy and Mat are close.

Jon and Rhy would go to check out the location indicated by the location spell (the abduction site). They would try to comb over it pretty thoroughly, and also talk to people who might have been in the vicinity, castle staff who might have checked hunting equipment out to Mat and Hornet, grooms in the stable to see if horses are missing, and so on. (If they learn that Hornet was also taken at the same time, this would likely be how.)

Notes: While Jon is a lv 1 influence bean and probably seen around town by those who have noticed him at all as something like "I know his face, and he seems like an ok dude," Rhy is a lv 3: much better-known and more sociable, an intelligent, kind, friendly, and charming person who is currently experiencing considerable concern and distress. If there is social grease to apply here, then Rhy may be able to apply it, or someone may simply wish to help him because they know and like him.

If there is anyone requiring enroughening at this stage in the process, it is likely to be Jon's territory: he has a much hotter temper than his amiable-but-brooding demeanor suggests, and is prone to flares of sudden intense violence. Jon is also capable of hunter/ranger-type tracking and scene analysis, as mentioned in another investigation. He's decent at this, with experience since early childhood and far better than most of his peers, but he's still only 25ish, and only human, and hunting has been a hobby/pastime (this is to say, he might miss things while working with Rhy that he would not have missed with Galadriel, but they would still try their best).

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Player Name: Rynn
Character Name: Natasha
Other characters involved: Lenore

Action: Jayce sent Natasha a tip after investigating the wood shipments that had rotted in the Free Cities, letting her know the shipments from Solvunn might be suspect. He suggested finding someone with enhanced senses to investigate the grain shipments Thorne had received. She nabbed Lenore, since one of his suggestions had been a vampire, and they're going to see if they can track it down and see if its in the same state. So they'd be trying to A. track down where the grain shipments went and B. see if they get permission to inspect it for a similar sort of rot.

As a player, I'm not sure where to send them to find out about the shipments, but that's probably something Natasha would have kept an ear out for, considering Nott not getting the help it needed and the people going missing has been on her radar since she overheard things about it at the negotiations. She would use the report from Free Cities only to someone in charge or higher level because she doesn't want this to cause a panic if it turns out to be a dead end (or cast suspicion on her for having ties to FC), but if she can find one of the ones she overheard expressing frustration with Nott not getting the resources it needed from the castle or a guard she might be friendly with, she might start with that, or go to Ambrose or one of his mages as a later resort, should no one else be able to help her (but she knows she isn't well known here yet and kinda likes it that way right now, so she'd push that off unless there are no other places to prod or bribe for information on this)

Thread: Thread Starting out here. The only other relevant link is Jayce's message linked above.
Notes: Both Natasha and Lenore have considerable experience with manipulation and coercion and are likely to use whatever tools they have at their disposal, adapting their efforts depending on who they're trying to get information from.

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Player Name: Court
Character Name: Thancred Waters
Other characters involved: Galadriel, Jon Snow

Action: So! Thancred is going to request another portal based on information he got from Sylvain. Basically, following the ascension ritual Sylvain is seeing visions of the mountainous area from one of the past events (this one!). Thancred and Sylvain got stuck in this area in the Horizon together (here), but now that Sylvain's getting visions of it, Thancred's wondering if there's more to it. He'd approach Thorne officials to determine if there is anywhere in Thorne that might resemble this mountainous area (he'll do his best to describe it) and would ask if he could get a portal to such a place to investigate. He'd be bringing Jon and Galadriel as backup since it's probably not going to be the easiest to navigate place, or so he would guess.
Thread: Thread of Sylvain passing on this info.

WITNESSES

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INTERROGATIONS

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FREE CITIES

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INVENTIONS & TACTICS

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TRACKING LEADS

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WITNESSES

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INTERROGATIONS

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SOLVUNN

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JOSSELYN'S HOUSE

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TRACKING LEADS

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WITNESSES

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RITUAL SACRIFICES

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