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let's set d o w n some ([personal profile] groundrules) wrote in [community profile] lostcompass2021-05-20 05:06 pm

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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
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    [personal profile] jeoha 2021-05-21 10:15 pm (UTC)(link)
    Lee Chang is definitely also into those questions, and I think he would probably let these guys do most of the talking. (Like having Mu-yeong ask all the questions while he puzzles it together. )

    He would also suggest the questions such as:
    Why is he gaining power / support now? Did something new happen? even though he's pretty sure he knows the answer to it, and Why the arm thing because he thinks it's symbolism but hey might have some other actual reason.

    Depending on how the previous questions go and if he's recognized he may straight up ask So how would one be able to meet him...
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    [personal profile] corvis 2021-05-24 12:33 pm (UTC)(link)
    Can Lee Chang possibly carry a question for Gil to Annur's buddies and ask if there have been any mysterious disappearances where someone has gone missing with no explanation from their group and has yet to be found?

    Nevermind, something happening before this came up and nixes the question.

    Gil would like to know more about Anurr's symbol and where it comes from, if possible. Was it meaningful in any way before it became Anurr's?
    Edited (Will spells the names right one day) 2021-05-25 01:29 (UTC)
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    [personal profile] corvis 2021-05-25 01:41 am (UTC)(link)
    Ohh, I did read this but hoping there was more about it.

    I'm assuming now that that's about the sum of it (what you just linked me)? Like it became a symbol during the point at which the legend says and had no meaning prior? (Aka it wasn't a symbol of another tribe or belongs to any gods/goddesses/cults before becoming what it is ... )
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    [personal profile] corvis 2021-05-25 01:47 am (UTC)(link)
    Okay, great! Thank you so much.


    I'm just waiting on Moran to ask this question(s) to the woodsmen telling their story.

    Then I think I can starting writing a thing up