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.

Available Forms

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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!

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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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<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.

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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

[northerndragon]

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).

[abraxasmods]

While speaking to the stable workers, they'll tell Jon and Rhy that one of the missing horses was just returned by two other Summoned. He'll give them their names in case Rhy or Jon want to ask what was found.

Exploring the more immediate area where Mat and Hornet were last seen, they'll notice no unusual signs except that of a physical disturbance. However, there is a set of tracks that will lead them to the area where the horse was originally found. There, they can observe the same withered vegetation and a desiccated rabbit under a bush nearby. This suggests that the Acolytes needed to bring their victims to a specified location before whisking them away rather than abducting them directly where they were attacked. It's possible their method of transportation was limited to certain areas.

They can bring the rabbit back if they wish to examine it further.

[northerndragon]

First: sorry I'm pokey, got a bit sick the last few days. I think anything major can be wrapped up pretty quickly, though.

Second: they brought the rabbit back.

Jon is doing several things with the black goo found in the other investigation. First, he will use a stick and apply a dab of the black goo to both the desiccated rabbit and a more normal dead one, to see what happens. He will not use much. After that, he would turn the rabbit over to castle mages (iirc this is where people have turned over other, similar animals that they've found).

Also, as Lucifer suggested, Jon will take the black goo to the Winking Cauldron and have Millie take a look at it. The focus of his questions would be on the content (he knows it's herbs and blood, at this point) and whether or not she can reverse engineer it or has ever seen anything like it, what it would be for if she has, etc. He will explain anything about the overall situation that she asks about.

[abraxasmods]

Putting the black goo on the desiccated rabbit will give no results. Putting it on a normal one will cause it to begin to show advanced signs of rot not previously seen moments ago.

Millie will spend some time with the substance. Unfortunately, she will not be able to understand much about it, though she can tell him that the blood involved is likely human blood rather than animal blood if he's found it connected to these strange occurrences. She suggests its ingredients must come from another location outside of Thorne.