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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

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...

[sankta]

ALINA STILL STANDS BY giving them honorable deaths!!

[downswing]

THEY WILL BLOODY THEMSELVES HONOURABLY

[somebadnews]

/insert surprised face

[downswing]

y r u leik dis

[somebadnews]

he thinks he's helping..... you poor idealistic kids

[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.

[bearshermark]

lmao Wangji is free to shoot him down ofc

[downswing]

Sob I'm mostly worried about Eleven's Pikachu face when he sees the state of these bodies, no one has ever accused Wangji of being






discreet with murder.

[bearshermark]

OH MY GOD THERE ARE LESS AWFUL WAYS TO KILL PEOPLE

/obligatory surprised pikachu icon

[downswing]

What's worse is he'll probably use Eleven's wire for it

[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.

[bearshermark]

wheezing

[weifinder]

LAN WANGJI THE DEAD ARE categorically more Wei Wuxian's chosen problem WHY LET UNOFFICAL SON DOWN

BY REVEALING HOW YOU THIRST FOR BLOOD

AND MESSY KILLS

[downswing]

This is literally the only thing he is good for

Name me one other thing he is good for

I guess exorcising but like

Has Eleven not earned this betrayal?????

JUST IMAGINE, YOU MAKE ONE RIGHTEOUS FRIEND AND HE COMES OUT OF A SHACK BATHED IN GUTS

good time for all

[weifinder]

Wangji is good for looking pretty and frankly Wei Wuxian appreciates that a lot so just SIT PRETTY, OKAY

Either way if Wangji and Alina are set on this without asking or deferring, Wei Wuxian is not going to be happy, especially since he was specifically talking about making sure that the fallout of the captives going full undead was something he (and Archeval) were going to handle by swift easy death

So congrats you let down two people, Wangji, ur doing good

[downswing]

.............if Wei Wuxian wants to help, he can handwash his whites, though :(