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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

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.

[beitangmoran]

How responsible, Master Lan!

[downswing]

No one likes an 'I told you so'-sayer.

ANOTHER NOT SIGN UP

[sankta]

but alina would also volunteer to kill the miners.

she'd be most likely to ask them when they want to die, though, and may do so before full transformation if they ask for it.

[downswing]

Team #Justice was doing so well...

[somebadnews]

/insert surprised face

[downswing]

y r u leik dis

[foxable]

Lee Chang will help execute or offer to do it instead, Wangji, if you don't wanna.

[downswing]

All good, I think Alina and he have it, uhm, covered. They kill gud.

[bearshermark]

El will offer to cremate them in some sort of tiny ceremony send-off.

[downswing]

....................................um.

I.








I wouldn't.










Recommend that.

[weifinder]

why is he volunteering bae already said he's killing them if they fully convert GOSH, WANGJI

let wei wuxian do the one thing he's good for dangit

[downswing]

No, it's fine, gotta disappoint Eleven for life.

[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.

[foxable]

Fox will be VERY UPSET why are you uSING DARK MAGIC TO TORTURE PEOPLE ALREADY GOING THROUGH SOMETHING HORRIBLE MINGYU

lee chang on the other hand will help compile questions

[descendency]

He can have the tattoo show them a nice memory as whoever the executioner is puts them down...?

[groundrules]

Seems like Sizhui and Eleven are taking the good and wholesome vanilla pie approach — it might fall on Mingyu to bad-cop the second half of the interrogation. Would you like to put together a few Qs, orrrr would it be better to wait and see what #TeamHappy ask first and work around their questions?

[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?

[descendency]

Eleven, we love you so much and we need you to stay out of the barn for what happens next. Here, Xiao-ge ge will get you a cup of hot cocoa, please go with the nice blind man.

[groundrules]

Yes, that's definitely what the screaming coming from inside the nice barn will be about.

[groundrules]

Seems like Eleven and Sizhui both want to take the SFW wholesome Hallmark interrogation approach before Mingyu comes in and bad-ends them — do you guys want to talk through a few Qs?

[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?

[groundrules]

It might! It seems like Sizhui and Eleven might take the good cop route, before Mingyu gives them a bad cop turn — do you want to figure out some Qs with Eleven's player for the vanilla take, and I'll let you guys have some answers?

[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.