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

[abraxasmods]

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.

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Mod Communications

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Notable Actions

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

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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.

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Start an IC exchange

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Investigations

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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

[hextechhead]

I don't know if this is the right place to put it! Let me know if I should move it.

Player Name: Dee
Character Name: Jayce Talis
Other characters involved: Alucard

Action: After hearing about Josselyn being missing in week two, Jayce will start getting suspicious about their conversation during negotiations. He does know that she and her family have direct access to the trade routes and while he's not sure if it means she's a part of this or taken as well, he wants to go looking into the shipments that were sent by her from Solvunn to Libertas. He is well known in Libertas so he and Alucard are hoping to see if there are any possible leads having to do with the Cross family shipping between factions.

Jayce is speculating that it is possible people were using this opportunity to spy/get closer to the people they intended to capture acting as supply workers. Just a theory. He roped Alucard in with him since he too has a good reputation in
Libertas and in Cadens, and he has a wolfy nose if they end up sniffing up anything useful.

Thread: Waiting to see where it goes!

[abraxasmods]

The construction workers will allow Jayce and Alucard to examine the lumber. Because they're both involved in the Libertas reconstruction efforts, they won't have any trouble gaining access. Some of the workers may even recognize the two of them. They'll tell the pair that they're glad to see them safe, and express their condolences.

The foreman will show Alucard and Jayce one particular shipment that arrived unusable. Should they look inside, they'll see that a large amount of the wood has rotted. The foreman looks surprised upon seeing it. He explains that some of the lumber arrived demonstrating signs of rot, but not to this degree. The foreman assumed it was weather damage and put it aside. However, there's now something clearly wrong with the materials. Some of it has turned black, and small larvae have formed in the soft wood. Alucard's enhanced senses may be able to pick up the smell of rotting flesh instead of rotting vegetation.

Jayce and Alucard may recall that lumber isn't the only shipment Solvunn has been transporting to Thorne and the Free Cities. They've also provided regular donations of grain to Thorne and healing herbs to the Free Cities since the attack on Libertas.

[cryptsleeper]

Following off of this:

With Al's senses being above average, would he be able to track the smell from any disappearance spots, or otherwise be able to pick it up at random intervals?

Is there a safe way to destroy the rotted and quite frankly, really fucked up wood? Al will be retaining several samples and having them sent to Quilleth for her to deal with as appropriate (with a strong preference for handwaving this), as well as keeping one for himself. Each sample will be encased in glass and enchanted to be on the safe side.

[abraxasmods]

1. Alucard won't be able to follow a scent or trail directly, but he can visit any of the points where others previously found suspicious activity or disappearances. You can coordinate with other players or on the network to decide which area this is and who you'd like him to go with.

His other option is he can return to the bandit he originally met with Altaïr. He can go alone, take Jayce and/or Altaïr with him, or bring a different team altogether. If you'd like him to run into some trouble, he can have difficulty getting a face-to-face with the bandit again until he roughs up some of the lieutenants. The disruption will cause the bandit leader to appear, and he will invite Alucard in to talk. Otherwise, the bandit leader will simply be available at the entrance of the camp. He will have relevant information to offer.

You can tell us which option you'd prefer and we can let you know further.

2. Yes, they can burn the wood thoroughly. Once it becomes ash, it won't infect anything else. If Alucard has access to the metal ore from Nocwich, that will be the safest container to store a sample. Quilleth will receive the samples. They will go to Aleksander for further evaluation.

[cryptsleeper]

Thank you so much! Al will likely just revisit the spots of known disappearances where Gideon was taken from as well as the place in the desert that he explored earlier with Hilda and Petra, rather than deal with the bandits again, as he can easily figure out that information! He's not excited about this smell at all.

He'll absolutely use the ore to contain the samples, and otherwise rely on Quilleth to pass the samples along (save for the one he will be keeping to haul over to Solvunn.)

[abraxasmods]

In both areas, Alucard will find a similar rotting smell. It won't be as strong since the areas are in open, but Alucard would be able to detect it. While he won't learn much more about where it came from or what caused it, he can conclude that it's related to the rotting lumber that came in from Solvunn through Josselyn Creed, which could be important.

Researchers will examine the samples, but they may not have results until Week 3 in Part 2. Alucard can follow up then if he wants to see if they found anything.