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lostcompass2021-09-01 06:41 pm
groundrules) wrote in lostcompass2021-09-01 06:41 pm
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activity + state of the game
Hi everyone! Welcome, officially, to………… autumn. Monthly wrap of admin trinkets below!
Hi guys! The activity check (AC) is handled in-house, and you do not need to do anything unless your character is listed below. Please remember to use character tags for posts and logs you tag into — there’s been a bit of a decline in that, and it makes it difficult to hunt down your activity. If you’re uncomfortable tagging all the time, just doing so for posts/threads where you’ve met activity requirements is a-okay!
Regular activity requirements are one of the following during the AC month:
■ a network post
■ OR 10 text/network-style comments across at most two threads
■ OR five log comments across at most two threads
Activity can be carried out on either the game communities or character inboxes.
In August, I couldn’t find sufficient activity for...
- Lee Chang | jeoha | RECLAIMED
Winnifred Prismall |soulsrob | RECLAIMED
Catra |plentystrong
Vanya Hargreeves |remugient | RECLAIMED
Jiang Cheng |consignation | RECLAIMED
Comment here or PM @
groundrules until 5 September if you’d like to reclaim your character, or if they have August activity that was missed!■ Our resident Sith Lord Archeval (
darkeststars ) will be out of Taravast in September on a plot-linked assignment that will span a mod-agreed hiatus. But! He remains reachable for light threading at his inbox.■ The Story So Far page has been updated with a summary of the Taravast plot covered so far, if you need to catch up!
■ As characters are still working in the background to chase a poisoning cure, the next event write-up will go up on 4 September. The calendar page will be updated at that time. You can do last-minute prop/plotting for the very real poison antidote hunt here.
■ An informal discord server has been set up for Eastbound — you should have been PMed a link by now, but please drop a line if that hasn’t been the case, and you’re interested in participating.
■ For a refresher on who's on #TeamVannozza or #TeamMacaluso, the list lies here.
■ GAME VIBES |
eastbound has been alive and somehow still kicking since late March, and now’s a good time to check in on how people are still feeling about the game momentum. If we’re all at the end of our rope, we can plan for a wind-down after Arc II. This is not an endgame announcement — just asking how everyone is enjoying the game! If you don’t mind just dropping some thoughts here, that would be helpful!■ BLOOOOOOD | The game was set up as invite-only while I befriended the modding ropes, and I’m humbled it’s more than tripled in size since. There are player-felt advantages to a larger playerbase (variety in characters/speed/ideas), but speaking from the mod point of view — a larger number of players makes it substantially easier to drive the plot forward, mod-side.
With that in mind, I wanted to ask how everyone would feel about making the game public / removing the invite-only status, provided we kept
eastbound capped, with app sessions absorbing new players in small increments. If you can all leave some feedback here, that would be great! This is likely to be a more sensitive topic for some players than others, so please only respond to the main comment.Minor organic follow-ups or wrenches thrown in, based on recent plot developments or character actions. If you want a character roll, comment here. But please act on designer plot rolls! No handwaving.
■ Over the course of September, the grumpy ghost residents of the haunted house "inherited" by Lily and Wei Wuxian will mention that several necromancers and other magic users keep barging in and ruining their peace and quiet. They never stay long.
■ Wrath obtains two more disciples, also paying their learning fees. In mid-September, they will mention that donna Vannozza has sent out word in the necromantic districts asking for practitioners to carry out a special summon/exorcism rites. They will ask if their master is participating.
■ Diego Hargreeves' suit with Macaluso continues, now with Vannozza's approval and with less competition*. He will receive multiple invitations to various higher-level functions. He and his wolves are accommodated in a separate part of Macaluso's wing of the Spina palace.
■ *following Alina's anonymous reveal to the Piazza, negative sentiment bolsters against Lady Odile, who ultimately abandons her suit and Taravast. Knowing she was likely betrayed by one of the very people she sought to warn, she repays their 'kindness' by inciting all her local acquaintances against them. Throughout September, Fox, Mingyu, Wen Kexing, Zhou Zishu, Xie Lian and Alina will be subjected to repeat instances of court bullying (rumours, fewer event invitations, their rooms raided), also finding they enjoy a frostier reception from sorcery schools.
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As for the grandpa house, I'd really love to let them poke around, Papa Wangji would always be welcome, I think Thea mentioned Wen Qing speaking with them too.
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2. Do they know of any reports of black eczema on people's skin?
3. Do they know what the best plants are for dealing with skin rashes and lung weaknesses?
4. Do they have any good advice for potions/brews to knock people out using local herbs/plants?
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Was there any mystery/intrigue surrounding Lady Vannozza's birth
No! She was a healthy and beautiful child, greatly welcome.
Any reports of black eczema on people's skin?
Only the plague sicknesses, though they have not struck in years. The eruption of flesh sickness is in fact so rare that one of the ghosts asks candidly whether Wen Qing is quite certain this isn't an illness born of trysts or possession.
Do they know what the best plants are for dealing with skin rashes and lung weaknesses?
They'll have some recommendations
Do they have any good advice for potions/brews to knock people out using local herbs/plants
...yes. In fact, they are disturbingly adept. Consider this carte blanche to create a recipe at their recommendation. Poppy and valerian are called on religiously.
As a note: our resident Satan has accidentally gleaned some information relevant to this investigation. I'll send the player your way!
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Vanozza mentioned Wen Qing so I can see Wrath reaching out to her to see what she has discovered about it herself. He is very curious as to what is truly happening here.
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They're very rude about it.
Never wash the mud off their boots before coming in.
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Okay, if he then asks the grandpas if there's any such tomes even around?
Also he's definitely figuring out a ward against dirty shoes. Just saying. Have fun necromancers coming in with dirty shoes when you get ejected back out the door?
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But if Wei Wuxian goes through the library, he'll find various tomes on the subject, some clearly more concerned with the theory than the practice. The few that are... applied necromancy seem to focus on enslaving the risen-dead, mostly to repurpose them as puppets. Some post that the undead have no free wills, other that even if they did, there is no option past shackling them. In short: a brutal, non-consensual approach reliant entirely on control and suffering from the obvious flaw that, should the necromancer's power or attention lessen at any point, the creatures could escape him or her.
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... so if he reads all these, to be informed on what they contain, and then asks the grandpas if he can burn them, what's their response?
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If you are asking about burning the grandpas: they're not on board.
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I'll have him hold off on the tombs with that knowledge for now, and probably tuck them elsewhere while doing that basically prank level of "enter here with dirty shoes get thrown back out the door" ward set at the door entrances for now.
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yes, so his karma is a whole
a whole something up from the usual negatives!!! This is a joy!!!
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Okay, so from what magic Lily knows this might be handy for protecting whatever books Wei Wuxian wants to read before burning.
This might be useful for protecting the house itself, but I don't know if Wei Wuxian would also be subject to it. He is pretty magic!
If we're going for spying on these mofos outright or trying to get more intel unseen this is a zesty option
Hearing all this tea Lily would also point out that it's awfully unsettling that people are here digging for info on enslaving the undead right after that poison cure business that required people offering up a vial of their blood. The timing isn't great.
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Muggle-Repelling, is it magic dependent, because I presume most the necromancers are magical enough they'd read as not-muggle, in that sense? Though frankly he's not opposed to setting up pranks of annoyance on these feels while they figure out what's going on for why they want this
Which! If they can tag one to track? Because yeah the timing is nooot great but also: there are some flavours of undead in city already, are they having trouble with the knowns in the necro district, does someone want to poach from Deadly Forest, is this against outside forces? Etc etc
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If it's pranks you want there's always some good old fashioned horrible screaming and the slippery jinx which could be fun to cast on stuff.
...Also can Lily get those romance novels when they're done being decoys, asking for a friend
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Also of course she can why not