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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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Would Raven come along to town with Moran or go investigate on his own?

And are you ok with Moran taking the lead here and communicating findings?

He is 100% ok with him taking the lead and Gil will go with him so long as Moran is ok with him coming along. I am also 100% happy with Moran taking lead :Db

He'll mind his business and let Moran do the talking!

Edited 2021-05-24 12:41 (UTC)

Xunxian will probably tag along because bodyguard/escort. And well, I think i'm kind of done with my questions, so feel free to see if you want to add more?

Totally fine! All right, let me take a look. Would it be better for Gil to relay the extra questions to Moran?

sure if he doesn't want to talk to the townspeople directly!

Alright, Gil is first going to ask Moran if he knows who this Arne is the woodsmen mention.

Also, Gil is investigating the body in the lake so he would be very interested to hear about this evil precessor bring drowned in the lake thing.

Edited 2021-05-24 13:00 (UTC)

Aaah, then Moran can tell him the story, since he wasn't around the first time it was told.

And yes, I wager people looking at our lake buddy will love to hear this.

Edited 2021-05-24 13:04 (UTC)

So, Wuxian relayed to them that a local said he doesn't remember a body in the lake and it just be a recent addition.

Which... Could make sense. But, is Annur that old now? Because he was also not here for anything regarding Annur (pls help my poor ass catch up to date ah heh). Like he's still alive right. Or just his crazy groupies...??

Edited (IM SORRY IM ON MOBILE) 2021-05-24 13:13 (UTC)

We... don't know. At the moment, we don't know if Anurr is dead, alive, a zombie, an immortal, or something else entirely. All we have at the moment is what people believe him to be.

Gil would like Moran to ask: The way the old chieftain was killed, is that some kind of ritual or punishment to those people that did it? Why was he killed in that manner?

They wouldn't really know, I'm afraid — the forest people keep to themselves. But it seems possible it was simply a very painful and prolonged way to die.

Damn. Ok thank you that's all I got .