EVENT #12: INVOCATION - COORDINATION POST (PART 2)

[abraxasmods]

Event #12 - COORDINATION ( 2 )

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This post is for coordination while the event is ongoing, to prevent the IC Event Log from being overrun by OOC mod and player communications. The comments section will contain applicable comments and forms for you to reply to as needed.

Use this post to:

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

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

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Mod Communications / Randomization

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

You can also use this section to request a randomized mod roll.

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Interactions

Several interactions are available. For Part 2, there are fewer mysteries to uncover, but plenty to interact with to see what happens. You can interact with something as many times as you want, as long as there's a reasonable explanation for your character making their second attempt. Note that interactions might carry IC consequences, though we'll try to telegraph when characters are at high risk of triggering something. To interact, fill out the form, then comment under the corresponding item.

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IC Exchanges

Use this option if you have an interaction you'd like to play out, but setting up a standard IC thread would be impracticable. For example, 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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Notable Actions

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Comments

MOD COMMUNICATIONS / RANDOMIZATION

[abraxasmods]

[ushiri]

Player Name: Jay
Character Name: Kyle

Request: No need for anything to be done any time soon, but after everyone is back in Nocwich and safe Kyle would try to speak with some of the Thornean officers/soldiers about providing Thornean Summoned basic weaponry when they leave the castle walls in the future, or at least allowing them to store their own near the guardhouse (assuming this isn't something that's already allowed!) Basically just looking to make his opinion known.

[wiedzminka]

Player Name: Lena
Character Name: Ciri

Request: Ciri and Castiel acquired some explosive powder while exploring the walls. Ciri, Aloy and Gideon also noticed the glowing webbing behind the wall was connected to the boulder. Once the pulsing bulb is revealed and characters realize tearing the vines affects the webbing, Ciri would suggest blowing up the bulb entirely.

This isn't decided icly yet! Since this part of the event is more linear, I want to check with you guys first that this would be okay.

If the bulb should be left alone for narrative reasons, she can simply blow up the wall itself. Thank you!

[techmaturgy]

Player Name: Whit
Character Name: Viktor

Request: this will be my last question about the trackers I promise.

Ciri is escaping with one, and as soon as Viktor realizes it's on the move, he'll be sending Hilda and Petra (Search team) out with a receiver! Would they be able to track the escaped group in this way? Just want to check on what Viktor might be able to tell the group IC.

Additionally, Blake planted his tracker on an acolyte--just wanted to check on the potential whereabouts of that if it's relevant.

[widows_kiss]

Player Name: Rynn
Character Name: Natasha / Retrieval Team

Request: This is more for background flavor or surrounding knowledge for writing the tags, but when the retrieval team is making their way across the island (amidst the visions and quakes, etc) what kind of terrain will they be moving through or surrounded by? Or will that be changing too with the illusions/visions?

[funbreaker]

Player Name: Court
Character Name: Thancred, Stephen, Yennefer

Request: Basically just want to get on the books that these three would have approached Thorne officials about providing help with transport to get to the island so that the retrieval team can rescue the holdout team. They would ask if they had boats they could supply. I know the log already specifies that Thorne will be helping by sending mages to help quiet the sound of the boats, so we know this would likely be the outcome of their request!

Thancred is discussing this with Himeka here, but he would loop in Stephen and Yennefer to help make the request since they have stronger ties to highly ranked people in Thorne. For the record, all three of them are in Nocwich in week 3 so they would probably approach any officials from Thorne who are also there (or portal back to the castle to ask if needed).

[funbreaker]

Player Name: Court
Character Name: Thancred, Dante, Reno

Request: Hey mods! I just wanted to check in on the status of that larva that this trio found in part 1. Has it left its cocoon?? Eyes emoji.

[vixening]

Player Name: dai
Character Name: yennefer

Request: this is double request/question but both involve ikorr!

first, and this one is another 'basically want to get on the books' comment, but would like to say that yennefer most likely would have contacted ikorr not only for the sap in the first part of the event as mentioned here, but she would have reached out to celeste when nocwich was opened for additional supplies/aid. In the log is already specifies that representatives from Ikorr arrive, so I don't know if that would be the response to her reaching out or something else, but wanted to have it stated all the same! she is looking to help increase the potency/etc of the healing potions that are being prepared and would state as much if asked.

second, she would most likely be very direct in asking the ikorr healers to teach her everything/all they know about the use of the sap in regards to healing so that she can better make use of it. would there be anything additional she would learn? her intention would be to figure out The Cure (which also is already discussed in the log), but also anything else she might pick up!

[cointosser]

Player Name: Hannah
Character Name: Jaskier

Request: Based on the end of the NPC thread with Jaskier/Sten/Quilleth, around the time the tents and medical supplies have gone up and Olenui Square has been secured, Jaskier will attempt to meet Sten again about a side acquisition of braerium. His intention is to have it made into bracelets or some other type of jewelry to pass out to the search team to protect them from the Acolytes' magic. He will be upfront with Sten about his intentions with it, especially as he realized his gaffe of asking for it in front of Quilleth the previous time.

NOTABLE ACTIONS

[abraxasmods]

[itookashot]

Player Name: Dee
Character Name: Jesper Fahey

When: This happens after the escape party is rescued and returned to Nocwich safely, early week 5 or whenever that officially happens.

Where: Publically in Oleuni Square when he hears people talking about going back to their factions.

What: Jesper snaps once he realizes that Mat is probaby going to be taken back to Thorne after everything. He very loudly shouts any Thorne official he sees that he will not be letting them take Mat back from him. Jesper is clearly emotional and unstable when he says that the factions failed them and it was the Summoned who found them, and they can't force Summoned to go back to Thorne when they don't want to be there. He says they'll take Mat back over his dead body and that he'll kill anyone who tries to get in his way. Any attempts to calm him down will not work right away and he will be removed by Lunae guardians to have a time out.

Link: Mentioned here.

[thedevilwhorose]

Player Name: Heather
Character Name: Lucifer

When: Week 4, loosely after many of the Escape group have been recovered and continuing through the week after the Holdouts have been brought back
Where: Outside the makeshift-hospital inn
What: Weirdly not a fight or disturbance, but Lucifer is--on a frequent enough basis to note--seen propped against a wall of the building, acting like a pseudo-sentry and keeping an active eye on the area
Link: Thread, and mentioned in various other posts

[cryptsleeper]

Player Name: Dia
Character Name: Alucard

When: During the rescue mission
Where: Altar room
What: Taking on the Bone Serpent
Link: Thread

apologies if this is the wrong space

[carmesi]

Player Name: kira
Character Name: wanda maximoff

When: week 4, during the escape while talking to the dissenting acolytes
Where: the main warded area
What: wanda breaks the wards using her patron god, drawing on the power of a human corpse. the corpse turns into human paste (gross) making the ward tremble and dissolve along with the body. this will confirm for others present that wanda's made a pact with an old god (npcs and playable characters alike). not that she was keeping it secret but no one had asked.

Link: Thread

IC EXCHANGES

[abraxasmods]

the pit; open to all

[stations]

Where & When: week 3, shortly after the first domino
Purpose: saving the acolyte and her brother, and giving folks a chance to debate with one another about it or stand up for them if they so desire!

THREAD START

( Jack has spent the last couple of days having quiet, side-discussions with the few people he knows here — specifically, the ones he thinks might be sympathetic or at least willing to help back him up. He's been bracing for the opportunity, and when shit starts to hit the fan, he seizes it.

It's not really an official public announcement, it's not a speech, he's no Captain America, but anybody that happens to be within a stone's throw from the cracked wall will hear him speak up — with perhaps surprising confidence considering his reputation of being unobtrusive at best and an idiot at worst. )

Okay, this is it. We're going... and we're taking them with us.

( A native, one wild-eyed young man covered in lesions, bites out an immediate, "The fuck?"

Jack presses on firmly. )

They're coming. If you don't like it, you can- well, let's be real, you could probably kick my ass and there's not much I could do about it, but we don't really have time for that, so I'd really appreciate it if you didn't.

( "They're bloody cultists! They're the reason we're in here! They're the reason my brother died, he was torn apart because of them!" )

I don't think they are, and I don't give a shit. I mean- sorry about your brother, I do sort of give a shit about that. I don't know you, or him, so it's in a very... generalized human empathy for a stranger kind of way- but- it doesn't matter. I made a promise. They're coming. You can take it up with them when we're on the other side.

( "But-" )

No more NPC backstory exposition! Who cares! Let's fucking go! Jesus Christ, this was supposed to be a quick exchange.

the pit; Castiel, Steve Rogers, Gideon Nav

[frontlinetitties]

Where & when: week three; after the first domino
Purpose: holding the webbing open for escape/Team Self-Sacrifice

THREAD START
[Gideon would be the first to admit that she does all her best thinking with her biceps, so she takes herself just a little by surprise when the sparks between webbing and gross, bulbus growth catch at her attention. She stares at the pulsating mass for a moment, lips twisted in a grimace.]

Ugh. Yuck. Totally gross and bad--

[But she's plunging her hand in anyway, yanking hard at what she finds. Her eyes go wide as the webbing sags, space opening up around it, and instinctively she finds herself letting go. Immediately the webbing ripples closed again. But this is something, right? This is definitely something.]

Hey! Hey, come and look at this!

[Words meant for whoever's closest to her at the time.]

NETWORK MESSAGE TO THE SPARED

[princessvegas]

[ Sent during this encounter. ]

I found one of them in the Horizon. Some of them have escaped through a portal hidden behind a wall, he says. They're somewhere high in the mountains. Maybe Hayle?

This one is in really bad shape. Still talking to him.

escape; water tunnel cave search.

[gynvael]

Where & when: early in week 3,
Purpose: geralt and aloy are coming to find the people who went through the underwater portal and bring them back. feel free to bump into geralt and aloy together, along the way, separated, whatever you're vibing.

THREAD START

[ His intent is to find the girl—Alicent—but it becomes clear she isn't the only one lost elsewhere on the slopes. He's tracking her down as it is. No reason to leave the rest stumbling in the snow. Once the sun sinks low, who in the hell knows what crawls out at night.

Normally, he'd go at it alone. But he's not exactly whole, and the best he has for a weapon is a sharp pick. Ciri aside, there's only one person he's certain can keep up with him. So. Here he is, trekking across the frozen ground with Aloy.

At least his senses have filtered back: bit by bit, he can see in the night again, catch a scent in the air or a heartbeat in the wind. Between tracks, perhaps the smell of blood—whatever it is, he does catch up to someone. A group, even.

Geralt peers around the corner, white hair matted a muddy grey beneath the hood of his cloak. His face might be familiar after all that time in the fucking hole together. ]

Closed; Wolf time with Sten

[cryptsleeper]

Player Name: Dia
Character Name: Alucard

When: Early week 4, prior to departure
Where: Nocwich
What: Following up on a few parts of Sten's remarks
Link: Thread

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[The whole of it is a lot to sort through. Every since it became clear that there was a primary instigator to all of this, Alucard has struggled with the questions of what is the motivation? and what are we missing?. Each informs the other, but the vital thing to bring it into a coherent whole is still out of reach. Sten is thoughtful and direct, without a particular horse in the race beyond getting all involved to safety.

Climate isn't pertinent here, so that much gets set aside. The decomposition element is noted, that might be of some use. Transformation, that feels closer to the truth here. Transformation but to what end? In the case of the were-folk, it is a deeper connection with nature. But here--

--He leans back, the focus seemingly always returning to the matter of god(s).]

If one was to try and use what I'll call the general outline of these rituals and map them onto specific gods, do you have an idea of which deities they might be after? Or perhaps if I'm to think of other angles, why did Solvunn's and Luna's perception of gods split as it has? Was there something unified that then broke, or did things changes simply due to distance and climate?

meeting with Sten

[princessvegas]

Where & when: After the call for information on the ritual is put out
Purpose: Julie has some piping hot goss about it all, but she's still cagey af about authority figures.

THREAD START

[ It's several days before Julie convinces herself that there's time for her to leave the Horizon long enough to do this. But maybe that was just an excuse she was making, she realizes as she exits through the portal into the square. Ugh, still makes her a little queasy every time.

She waited until nightfall in Cadens before she came, even though it's always dark here. It should be near the time that anyone in the square is thinking about packing it in for a rest, she assumes -- she doesn't know exactly how business hours work when it's always the middle of the night. Her goal is simply to be seen by as few people as possible, and to that end, she's forgone color, covered her hair. The soft light of the pendant that gives her access to Nocwich illuminates the tooth she wears on a shorter chain.

Her footsteps are brisk on the cobblestones, but her voice is tentative when she lifts the tent flap a bit and asks, ] Is this where I can tell y'all about the ritual?

The Holdout Crew; OTA

[magicalarchaeologist]

[ Istredd has managed to wrap up his injury from the escape enough to get through it and while he's leaning heavily on one side, blood mixed in with the mud and everything else on his clothing, he is able to somewhat stand. He speaks very quietly, and they're in a small room so it's as private as it can be.]

We should talk about the acolyte who says she's willing to help us get out.

[ He glances over at Castiel since it was something he said first, but he eventually gives up and sits down, wincing as he does, because he doesn't need to stand for this anyway. Istredd looks around at the others.]

I can't use my telepathy that much but I don't think she's the only one who may be having second thoughts. I think we can use it.

Network to Spared - Retrieval Team Formation

[aquaveiled]

Hi everyone,

I'm sure you've seen that our lost friends are escaping on their own! Thanks to Julie for breaking the news and tending to those that she can. We'll get more information as more are able to come forward and find a safe space to reach out to us, but what we do know is that not all were able to make it out.

It looks like several people are already making plans to track those that did escape down, so I am planning on going to find the others.

We're still working our coordinates, but we do know that our suspicions are correct. They're up north on an island near the border of the Free Cities and Thorne. We know that Josselyn Creed is using her connections all over Abraxas to pull this off, but her time is short. We can find them.

We've had the support of our respective nations up until now and can still use that to our advantage. I think a road trip is nigh and I doubt I'm the only one itching to go and retrieve our friends.

Who's in?

Network to Spared -- Search Team

[cointosser]

My friends, first of all, thank you for your help. We truly cannot do this alone to find our lost.

I have been in contact from a Summoned who has managed to escape with a small group of others, and he has provided a general location of where they have ended up. It seems that their escape was interrupted by a portal, and they have been dropped in another location.

[Jaskier then attempts to recreate Geralt's map, though perhaps the strokes have more of a flourish.]

Before you ask, no, he will not provide a more detailed map. He's skilled at survival, not mapmaking.

They are in the mountains north of the Singularity in the general location, as indicated. I will continue to contact him as he is able to provide, but this will, at least, lower the land we must traverse.

INTERACTIONS

[abraxasmods]

Unlike investigations in Part 1, interactions in Part 2 depend on your character's location and the timing rather than their assigned group. Both the Spared and the Lost can interact with the same elements as long as they'll feasibly be there to do so.

DEVELOPMENTS

[abraxasmods]

As plot interactions 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!

NPC Meetings / Relevant Threads

◎ Relevant Threads

◎ Holding the Webbing | LINK

◎ Saving the Mysterious Acolyte | LINK

◎ Escape Announcement to the Spared | LINK

◎ Retrieval Team Formation | LINK

◎ Mountain Location Map to the Spared | LINK

◎ NPC Meetings

◎ Nocwich: Alucard, Sten | LINK

◎ Nocwich: Julie Lawry, Sten | LINK

The Island

◎ Josselyn Creed

No developments.

◎ The Altar

◎ In Week 3, a disfigured body has been removed from the altar's mouth. It is currently still "breathing."

◎ A Promise / Dissenting Acolytes

◎ In Week 4, a few of the dissenting Acolytes agreed to help some of the Lost to the surface. Nero, Steve, and one of the Abraxan natives have reached the surface through a secret tunnel and made contact with the Retrieval Team.

◎ A winged figure may be seen taking to the skies to observe their surroundings. He did not remain in the sky for long.

◎ Dispelling Protections

◎ The ward covering the tunnel has been dissolved with the use of a patron god and a reanimated corpse.

The Mountains

◎ Pursuing Acolytes / The Acolytes (Escape)

No developments.

◎ Hydnellia & Esmond

◎ Hydnellia & Esmond are currently remaining close with to the other Lost, having escaped through the webbing.

◎ Revenant

No developments.

Nocwich

◎ Ritual Details (Sten)

No developments.

◎ Ritual Cure

No developments.