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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

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.

[somebadnews]

Five needs to move the remainder of the bank heist stash at some point. Feel free if you want to want to catch him... teleporting it away when he's going back for it... there's still. A lot.

[descendency]

Does gramps need help? Wouldn't want you to throw out your back.

[somebadnews]

Yes. Yes he would like help, and also he hates you thanks.

Remember you already got your share.

[descendency]

Have you considered being less of an ass to the only other person making real money in this group? Anyway, hate him all you like it's sort of refreshing. Drinks after? He'll buy, you cheap old bastard.

[somebadnews]

I mean! He loves his family and you see how he talks to them, but sure. He could. In this dream world be less of an ass if you buy his drinks.

Mingyu probably already knows about the stash anyway. Someone needs to do the accounting around here.

[descendency]

They reek of divorced parents trying to do their best for the kids but icily enunciate the other's name from across the room. But yes I imagined they're still keeping up the group dossier together and also the books.

[somebadnews]

Giving the kids their allowance... deciding what's best for them... Mingyu can have full custody though, they obviously like him more and he doesn't even care.

[descendency]

MAYBE IF YOU CARED WE WOULDN'T BE DIVORCED

[somebadnews]

He never wanted kids in the first place. This whole thing was your idea.

[foxable]

god i'm fucking dying i love you guys

[somebadnews]

that awkward moment when you're caught bickering in public

[groundrules]

How much is a lot?

[somebadnews]

Good question! They ended up with 115,500 in coin, and he gave everyone involved in the heist a pretty small share of that total even if he let them keep a lot of the gems/items. At this point he's probably got at least 100k left in savings for expenses since every time money comes up someone else jumps in.

Considering giving half towards Haltham's last ask, but you know! He hasn't yet.

[foxable]

Fox will still be doing his Enchanting thing though he is going to start getting Bored of simple enchantments

He may - ahem - suggest that they engage in a little bit of ingenious advertising for magical services, now that he's getting a little less cautious and a little more cocky... But also he's just super pissed about everything the group is doing re: torturing and killing sick people so he may let off some steam in the way of Magic Graffiti in the city. I will link here if I do!

[bearshermark]

good bean commiseration squad

[weifinder]

lmf so it's not exactly Large Hauls but Wei Wuxian will now be offering his talismans (tailored for the, er, things they've butted up against here) for sale in the citadel and be doing work as book rebinding/copying, less because he's learned the language at this point and more to practise with it all around

Also he's sure sitting in the Lan Library Pavilion copying forever has to pay off somehow

[topoiran]

The porn series is still ongoing, as well as work at the House of Dew. Xunxian is not slacking up on the money making side though he might be donating some to the families of the miners who are getting turned.

He might be using some of his animals-acquired knowledge to strategically help selected merchants, especially when the port is not closed. He knows he will not be around long enough for proper partnerships, let alone setting up a business himself, but if he helps a few people be a little better off, he'll accept a little monetary return.