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[groundrules]

And the votes are in...!

Characters by and large voted to save the miners and not get involved, with some minor differences on whether the captives should be released into the wilderness or taken home.

The results of this beautiful endeavour:

The tides of fortune and a highly questionable array smile upon us! Characters succeed to reach the miners and set them free. The miners’ immediate instinct is to slowly, groggily scatter, attracting attention.

Unhalad’s forces will focus on recapturing the miners. Anurr’s faction will take advantage to slaughter them. Some of Anurr’s people will spot the party and half the contingent will initially set out to pursue them, before withdrawing when they encounter Lee Chang, Xiao Xingchen or Xie Lian. At this point, folks, run home fast. Anyone staying behind will likely be heavily injured or killed.

Of the eight miners, three are slain by Anurr’s men, three run into the forest and two... join characters home.

Sadly, Archeval’s suspicions prove right: the two minors who arrive at the farmhouse progress in their transition to undeath. The transformation can be slowed down by keeping them warm at all times and giving them high volumes of food and water.

The two miners will be terrorised by the nightly voices and repeatedly attempt to escape into the mountains. They will struggle to speak coherently, and will scream violently if they are left in the dark.

In the end, the transition will finalise and the two miners will become fully undead.

The miners held at the farmhouse will be particularly distressed if they are subjected to strong light, or if they see or sense Xie Lian and Xiao Xingchen nearby. Xie Lian and Xiao Xingchen will meanwhile feel an itch to kill them — the intensity of this compulsion is up to the players.

Five can have one of the forest people to teleport home. Please respond here if you’d like it to be a human forest dweller, or a semi-undead one. Also choose whether this captive is male, female, young or middle/old-aged. This will play into the type of information the captive will have available.

The forest captive will try to track down and kill the transitioning miners.


This outcome fell completely a tiny bit out of the mod forecast, so the May calendar has been revised accordingly. As Karsa’s post signals, there are now a bunch of in-character assignments that will need some muscling through, and sign-ups are listed below.

SIGN-UP BASICS: quests are up for grabs, but can only have one character officially signed up as lead/anchor for the assignment. Other characters can still help with the task — ideally, there should be at least two characters helping out with each assignment. Quest leads can ICly make organisation posts or logs to carry out their tasks, and should pretty-please share their findings with the class ICly.

In the spirit of fairness, let’s ask players to only have one of their characters lead a quest. Please propose how your character would try to go about completing the assignment, and you’ll get mod feedback on the price/result!

Available quests:

Interrogate the miners

Interrogate the lone forest person

Find out the farmhouse origins

Investigate the body in the lake

Snoop among Anurr’s followers to figure out anything further about his plans

Get more of that c-c-c-coin

Comments

QUEST SIGN-UPS

[groundrules]

INTERROGATE THE MINERS

[groundrules]

Those poor bastards.

NOT A SIGN UP PER SE................

[downswing]

...sob, happy to let someone else interrogate, but Wangji will probably volunteer to execute them after. He was among those who insisted on bringing them back, so it feels. Right. To take responsibility.

[descendency]

Mingyu is uniquely equipped to interrogate people in general due to the nature of his lotus tattoo, and if he feels no one else is up to it/the person volunteering to do the interrogation is not as competent as he, will take up the grim task and have no qualms about Wangji putting them down after.

I am brain dead after family and family drama and would love everyone to pool together to help me figure out what answers to pry out of them, however.

[bearshermark]

'''Interrogate'''

u mean spend a lot of time with them and try to help them keep hold of their humanity by asking about their families, friends, favorite foods, hobbies- in essence, Get To Know Someone 101?

[paperbutterflies]

Sizhui will try to actually question them without screaming as a result. He will also be trying to slow down the turning (sorry, dad, he might work himself into exhaustion about that)

Would the prospect for things being slowed down and promise to try to reverse it if they have enough information be able to shake some answers out of them?

[scrapgege]

I'll throw Xie Lian just long enough for people to realize they are scared shitless of him and him to realize his compulsion before he excuses himself to go deal with that.

CHAT UP THE FOREST PERSON

[groundrules]

This may take some liaising with Five!

[sankta]

Well since we've already started down this route... Alina wouldn't mind continuing working with Five to find a way to chat up the forest person.

[somebadnews]

Here are some questions of interest for forest friend:
- What does he know about them, specifically?
- Were you taken, or did you mean to join them like the rest of his followers?
- To start after taking a cue from Karsa (don't tell her), why are you with them? He's heard they came back after being gone, so why now?
- Does Anurr control the wolves and the voices calling to them, and if so, are they trying to separate out the strongest? Or are they just trying to get more bodies to counteract Unhalad?

And after some prompting by his good buddy Wuxian:
- Are you afraid of the farm? What happened here? (Several of them are probably asking this at this point, but let's hear it from a human bro and see what the rumors are.)
- What do you know about the body in the lake?


Alina u can jump in with anything or ask if he has a family or whatever, get him some water... he won't be annoyed at all... these are my thoughts for this perfectly nice talk.

FIND OUT THE FARMHOUSE ORIGINS

[groundrules]

Let's face it, there's always a reason for That Good Rent.

[beitangmoran]

Well, if it's research you need, Moran is your man.

He might start by going to town and chatting with his fabric store girlfriend contact, and maybe the bookshop people when he goes to look for a book to learn how to read this alphabet? At this stage, he can't read enough anyway, to talking to people (and maybe slipping them some money for info) is going to be the best bet.

Re: FIND OUT THE FARMHOUSE ORIGINS

[corvis]

I guess similarly, Gilbert could be useful at some point here if there's a hurdle that Raven can help with, but otherwise the cat's still loose and being away from farmhouse as much as possible is preferred.

Also Gilbert doesn't really want to be that helpful unless he has to...

[weifinder]

Throws Wei Wuxian in here too to work with the ones above, since between this and Ghost Lake Guy is about where he's better served... ish, and then this way Jiang Cheng doesn't have to deal with him!

GLORIOUS DAYS

Since he's also heading in and out of town he can talk with older denizens and the like, check out the scene, but especially:

Talk to the ghost of the cloak??? See if he knows anything!

INVESTIGATE THE BODY IN THE LAKE

[groundrules]

Oh, ewwwwwwwwwww.

[consignation]

Jiang Cheng isn't good for much but he sure can poorly investigate some weird shit. He's also bad at taking other authority, but definitely shouldn't be allowed to be in charge of anything, especially not the well-being of his family. (What's that, isn't he a sect leader? Ask Lan Wangji how good of one.)

He's not particularly equipped to solve dead people mysteries so much as try to solve the issue with indiscriminate violence, so I volunteer him to stalk around whoever is actually trying to effectively get answers while actively getting in the way with his anger management issues. He will bring the dog.

Re: INVESTIGATE THE BODY IN THE LAKE

[corvis]

If it's spoopy or otherwise supernatural, Gil might be able to work on this due his experience as part of Pandora as well as depending on what Raven can asses/feels like divulging to Gil, but I honestly don't know much about this body in the lake except I remember reading it's like... stuck there.

Either way, he knows how to investigate, at least, even though he's normally not exactly chasing dead bodies. I think he's capable of calling shots and giving people other things to do , and won't be a loser about keeping anyone in the loop during the situation unless Raven warns him otherwise about the others probably being in danger versus an asset in a fight... But that would have to be probably something really w o w and Im not expecting such power would casually drop one single body to hang out by itself.

Either way, I think Gilbert will assist with this out of all other options even if not leading. o7

But if it's a big cat monster idk what use he'll ultimately be tbh.

TALK TO ANURR'S FOLLOWERS

[groundrules]

Keeping up with the Anurrashians.

[scrapgege]

Having talked to these people before, albeit unwillingly, Xie Lian will probably volunteer to go again if no one else can or is willing, or even if they are just for protection (their protection, not his). Although keep in mind that he forgot to pay his fine for public indecency last time he did that, which means there's a chance the city guards will start running after him if they spot him.

(He has shit luck so they absolutely will spot him.)

[foxable]

Yeah lemme through Lee Chang at em

He doesn't have to head the thing, but him being there will probably Raise Some Interesting Questions

[quia]

Sure why not. Ery is new to these parts so she'd like to get a better idea about this rival Anurr and what his draw is. Ery would play the part of a very tired woman looking for something to believe in. So what if it's not that far from the truth?

First of all, she'd want to know what exactly Anurr's followers think they can expect of Anurr and why they believe he might be able to challenge Unhalad.

[binghua]

I am absolutely not late to this, time isn't real -

But Xingchen, after mentally agonizing over this choice, is interested in going back to try his luck again. Preferably without drinking the kool-aid, but beggars can't be choosers.

He'd also want to take up the offer previously given him to speak to Gorm the Miner, whatever that may bring. It could be horrible! He won't know unless he tries!

Also if no one else has offered to be the fearless leader for such an expedition, Xingchen can take on that mantle or he can just tag along and hope for the best.

GET MORE MONEY

[groundrules]

Capitalism called, it wants its fantasy world back.

[descendency]

Mingyu is still working at the brothel and will continue to rake in that sweet, sweet cash. He is open to other money-making ventures and is highly financially motivated/financially-minded.

Question

[bearshermark]

Seeing as they don't have a lot of food, about how long will the miners on the farm last until they're fully undead and thus executed? Water and warmth shouldn't be an issue.