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rekindle_ooc2014-08-19 11:25 pm
heismymission) wrote in rekindle_ooc2014-08-19 11:25 pm
Mystery and Intrigue
Hello everyone, new players and oldies alike. I heard that some of you like plot. So we're gonna put some plot in our plot.
As the newbies have learned in Rhea's letter, and players present last month may have noticed, stuff has gone down. Specifically, stuff insinuating that parts of the people in charge of the city--the science division specifically--aren't exactly trustworthy. Given they kind of zapped everyone from their worlds without their permission, that's not terribly hard to believe. The group called the Rangar, some of whom live outside the walls, hacked into the network and left a post where they pointed out things were kind of suspicious, and where anyone could ask them questions about what they knew and what they wanted.
Several characters took them up on their offer and got info, some of which was included in the newbie letters this month! Yay. But it was also pointed out that there's a lot still being hidden, and that the Rangar can only do so much to infiltrate due to the way the scientists are kind of hidden away.
That's where I come in. Thanks to some breaking and entering, terrifying of poor ladies, stalking, and stupid decisions that somehow haven't bitten him in the ass (yet), Mr. Barnes has discovered one of the secret entrances the scientists use to get in and out of their ~underground lab~, oooh. Now, he doesn't know a whole lot of people who are interested in this, but he does know a few. And those few people also know more people. And those people know more people... and you get me.
Therefore, the information is very likely to get out, and this post is for helping you figure out how your character can discover it! Newbie and want to get involved? No problem. Maybe you can come across a group of people suspiciously muttering amongst themselves, or maybe you met someone at the welcome center who can fill you in! Contact involving sensitive information on the network is probably not the greatest idea (and Bucky discouraged it in his note to Fortuna), given that the scientists have access to the network as much as anyone, probably even more so, given the fact that the entry the Rangar posted was deleted shortly after being discovered by the city leaders.
So characters get to know stuff. Then what? Well, that's up for discussion! A pretty obvious option is to infiltrate and see what characters can find out, hopefully before they're caught. If enough characters want to get directly involved, maybe we could even have multiple sneaky-sneak attempts? Causing a ruckus with a lot of people trying to get in at the same time is probably going to get people caught, after all. But if one attempt does fail, maybe the characters could organize more searching attempts to find other entrances? (These are all just suggestions of course!)
Tl;dr: The scientists are withholding stuff. The Rangar want what secrets they're hiding, and maybe your character does too! A secret entrance to their base was discovered. There are a lot of characters with different skill sets who can work together to get inside and get those secrets. Here is where we can talk and figure out how.
And of course... we're in no rush. This is just a post for brainstorming and communicating so we can set up for whatever we'd like to do, whenever we're ready to do it. So let's do this thing.
As the newbies have learned in Rhea's letter, and players present last month may have noticed, stuff has gone down. Specifically, stuff insinuating that parts of the people in charge of the city--the science division specifically--aren't exactly trustworthy. Given they kind of zapped everyone from their worlds without their permission, that's not terribly hard to believe. The group called the Rangar, some of whom live outside the walls, hacked into the network and left a post where they pointed out things were kind of suspicious, and where anyone could ask them questions about what they knew and what they wanted.
Several characters took them up on their offer and got info, some of which was included in the newbie letters this month! Yay. But it was also pointed out that there's a lot still being hidden, and that the Rangar can only do so much to infiltrate due to the way the scientists are kind of hidden away.
That's where I come in. Thanks to some breaking and entering, terrifying of poor ladies, stalking, and stupid decisions that somehow haven't bitten him in the ass (yet), Mr. Barnes has discovered one of the secret entrances the scientists use to get in and out of their ~underground lab~, oooh. Now, he doesn't know a whole lot of people who are interested in this, but he does know a few. And those few people also know more people. And those people know more people... and you get me.
Therefore, the information is very likely to get out, and this post is for helping you figure out how your character can discover it! Newbie and want to get involved? No problem. Maybe you can come across a group of people suspiciously muttering amongst themselves, or maybe you met someone at the welcome center who can fill you in! Contact involving sensitive information on the network is probably not the greatest idea (and Bucky discouraged it in his note to Fortuna), given that the scientists have access to the network as much as anyone, probably even more so, given the fact that the entry the Rangar posted was deleted shortly after being discovered by the city leaders.
So characters get to know stuff. Then what? Well, that's up for discussion! A pretty obvious option is to infiltrate and see what characters can find out, hopefully before they're caught. If enough characters want to get directly involved, maybe we could even have multiple sneaky-sneak attempts? Causing a ruckus with a lot of people trying to get in at the same time is probably going to get people caught, after all. But if one attempt does fail, maybe the characters could organize more searching attempts to find other entrances? (These are all just suggestions of course!)
Tl;dr: The scientists are withholding stuff. The Rangar want what secrets they're hiding, and maybe your character does too! A secret entrance to their base was discovered. There are a lot of characters with different skill sets who can work together to get inside and get those secrets. Here is where we can talk and figure out how.
And of course... we're in no rush. This is just a post for brainstorming and communicating so we can set up for whatever we'd like to do, whenever we're ready to do it. So let's do this thing.
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--Despite being separated for a long time, it is obvious the siblings care about each other a lot considering Rhea is the only one inside that Zeloph trusts and Rhea herself almost collapsed when she got news her brother was still alive.
--Zeloph has many different titles including the 'Thunderer Dragon'/'Dragon of Thunder' and was a monk at the shrine before the Unleashing occurred. For whatever reason, he refers to his past self as 'the man I was before.'
--'Rangar' pertains to a holy word for the Goddess Ahilani. Zeloph would not give out the full meaning, though.
--The symbol that the 'vandals' were leaving in the city is an omen of destruction tied to what happened in the past.
--Though those living have stopped aging, Zeloph said that they are still dying slowly despite what those outside are doing to hold back the 'plague' so it doesn't spread farther.
--The reason people cannot remember things when they leave the city is because Cynthia doesn't believe in allowing them to remember things from a world that shouldn't exist. Should she be swayed, though, it would be possible for people to remember things when they leave.
--Rhea is key to bringing people to the city.
--Rhea and Cynthia were once friends, but something happened that Rhea cannot forgive her for even after all the time that has passed.
--There is a small chance of the miasma leaking through to other universes, and Rhea once had a vision that showed that happening.
The only person that Diarmuid has talked to about this (besides any discussion that might have happened between him and Yu) is Kit as they met a little while afterward and discussed a few things. Diarmuid will probably tell his brother as well (should Lotus want to get Cu Chulainn in on things). However, he has replaced his old pouch for carrying things with the violet bag he got his regain from the Cultists in, so anyone who lit a candle has an easy way of knowing he did the same.
He trusts most people in the city he has met, so if one of them asks him about what he learned he will be glad to share the information with them.