EVENT #17: EPULUM - COORDINATION POST

[abraxasmods]

Event #17 - Coordination

OOC Plotting Post ⦁ IC Event Log ⦁ Nocwich

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:

◎ Contact the mods
◎ Submit your suspected culprit
◎ Investigate the crime or track ongoing investigations
◎ Submit noticeable actions
◎ Write rapid IC exchanges

Available Forms

For details on each form, see the sections below.
Be sure to reply under the applicable category as required.

Mod Communications

If you have any questions about the limits or scope of what you can do before you formalize it in an investigation, you can go over the details with us here. You can also submit the suspect to Celeste under the appropriate heading. Submitting the name of the suspect is not required to complete the mystery, but doing so may contribute to whether the suspect is caught or escapes.

If you have questions about non-investigative aspects of the event, see the Questions thread on the OOC Plotting Post.

Contact Us

<b>Player Name:</b> <b>Character Name:</b> <b>Submission:</b> (Describe your question OR write the name of the Witness your character will accuse as the suspect)

Investigations

To leave opportunities for others, please limit the scope of your actions per submission. For example, if you'd like to test a key, you must specify a narrow set of locks in a particular section. Additionally, while there are no strict limits on how many investigations you can be involved in, we do ask that you try to stagger them a little to help us keep pace.

You can investigate something multiple times as long as it makes sense for your character to try again. This includes following up with witnesses if characters learn new information. To investigate, fill out the form, then comment under the item you're investigating.

Investigate a witness, scene, or evidence

<b>Player Name:</b> <b>Character Name:</b> <b>Other characters involved:</b> <b>Witness/Scene/Evidence:</b> (What is the witness, scene, or evidence your character is exploring?) <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> (If applicable. Linking a thread is NOT required, but can help us tailor our responses) <b>Notes:</b> (Anything else)

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 a piece of evidence, you might want to do an IC exchange. IC exchanges can take place in the real world or the Horizon.

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)

Notable Actions

Submit any 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.)

Comments

[unwings]

Player Name: jay
Character Name: castiel
Other characters involved: koby

Witness/Scene/Evidence: Marcellus Ver's vault
Action: When Cas and Koby go to inform the Sentinels about Marcellus being shifty and they're told the Summoned are now allowed into his vault, they'll take the opportunity to check it out. Koby will be taking a systematic approach, not touch anything and look where everything was when they first get in. Castiel will ruin that by picking things up to examine them, trying to sus out anything with a touch of magic or otherworldly essence to it, using his senses to smell, listen, examine atomic make up, whatever. if it's particularly interested, he might have a lick, you know how he be. He'll also be on the look out for any organic material - dead skin or stray hairs that aren't from a wig - that might contain Marcellus's DNA.

ALSO if there are any indoor plants that might've had a view of the crime scene, are inside this vault or other vaults they have access to, or just anywhere around the area that might've scene/felt/known something, Cas would like to talk to them with his talk to plants ability he got last power gain. ON THAT NOTE; I talked with Geralt's player and we wanted to see if Cas would be able to try talking to the seed? Is it plant-conscious enough to communicate?

Thread: We'll probably branch off the thread we're using for trying to get a sample from Marcellus and lead that into talking to the sentinels

[abraxasmods]

His lockboxes would be magically warded. Some are more difficult to open than others, but Castiel would be able to open one box and find inside a gold wrist band. Decorated with expensive gems, the engraving on the inside is dedicated to Soraya.

Along with the band, he can find an empty leather sachet. It matches the others found, though this one appears unused.

There are no indoor plants within the vault room itself.

Regarding the seed, it would need to be sprouting for Castiel to receive any communications from it as a plant. Because it was only ever a seed, it's unlikely to have seen anything, but Castiel may either put it into some soil and water, or solicit someone capable of temporarily sprouting it to obtain "answers." The latter will produce stronger results.

Should they do so, they might find something more than the seed replies.

Let us know whether he will have someone try to sprout it and what he will attempt to ask.

[unwings]

Yes! So Jaskier, Geralt, Dean and Cas will get together to have Jaskier try to sprout the seed again, and before it goes back to a seed again, Cas will try to get some questions in:

Who harvested the seed?
What does the seed/plant it becomes do?
Who or what is the something more entity they get replied from?
What is its purpose, what does it want?

[abraxasmods]

This time, when the seed sprouts, it takes on an unearthly glow. The plant is small, as though something has prevented it from growing further but unlike before, it remains sprouted. It responds with only:

They reap what you sow.

The flower collapses back into a seed. It will not answer further.