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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
  • downswing: (generate)

    NOT A SIGN UP PER SE................

    [personal profile] downswing 2021-05-20 04:38 pm (UTC)(link)
    ...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: (Default)

    [personal profile] beitangmoran 2021-05-20 04:41 pm (UTC)(link)
    How responsible, Master Lan!
    downswing: (hour of the night)

    [personal profile] downswing 2021-05-20 04:43 pm (UTC)(link)
    No one likes an 'I told you so'-sayer.
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    [personal profile] descendency 2021-05-20 04:43 pm (UTC)(link)
    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.
    beitangmoran: (Default)

    [personal profile] beitangmoran 2021-05-20 04:43 pm (UTC)(link)
    Well, if it's research you need, Moran is your man.

    He might start by going to town and chatting with his fabric store girlfriend contact, and maybe the bookshop people when he goes to look for a book to learn how to read this alphabet? At this stage, he can't read enough anyway, to talking to people (and maybe slipping them some money for info) is going to be the best bet.
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    [personal profile] descendency 2021-05-20 04:45 pm (UTC)(link)
    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.
    consignation: (thats a lie)

    [personal profile] consignation 2021-05-20 04:48 pm (UTC)(link)
    Jiang Cheng isn't good for much but he sure can poorly investigate some weird shit. He's also bad at taking other authority, but definitely shouldn't be allowed to be in charge of anything, especially not the well-being of his family. (What's that, isn't he a sect leader? Ask Lan Wangji how good of one.)

    He's not particularly equipped to solve dead people mysteries so much as try to solve the issue with indiscriminate violence, so I volunteer him to stalk around whoever is actually trying to effectively get answers while actively getting in the way with his anger management issues. He will bring the dog.
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    [personal profile] sankta 2021-05-20 05:20 pm (UTC)(link)
    Well since we've already started down this route... Alina wouldn't mind continuing working with Five to find a way to chat up the forest person.
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    ANOTHER NOT SIGN UP

    [personal profile] sankta 2021-05-20 05:21 pm (UTC)(link)
    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: (riot)

    [personal profile] downswing 2021-05-20 05:25 pm (UTC)(link)
    Team #Justice was doing so well...
    sankta: DNT. (021. ❚)

    [personal profile] sankta 2021-05-20 05:26 pm (UTC)(link)
    ALINA STILL STANDS BY giving them honorable deaths!!
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    [personal profile] scrapgege 2021-05-20 05:27 pm (UTC)(link)
    Having talked to these people before, albeit unwillingly, Xie Lian will probably volunteer to go again if no one else can or is willing, or even if they are just for protection (their protection, not his). Although keep in mind that he forgot to pay his fine for public indecency last time he did that, which means there's a chance the city guards will start running after him if they spot him.

    (He has shit luck so they absolutely will spot him.)
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    [personal profile] somebadnews 2021-05-20 05:31 pm (UTC)(link)
    /insert surprised face
    downswing: (hands off the chicken)

    [personal profile] downswing 2021-05-20 05:32 pm (UTC)(link)
    y r u leik dis
    downswing: (desdemona)

    [personal profile] downswing 2021-05-20 05:33 pm (UTC)(link)
    THEY WILL BLOODY THEMSELVES HONOURABLY
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    [personal profile] somebadnews 2021-05-20 05:40 pm (UTC)(link)
    he thinks he's helping..... you poor idealistic kids
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    [personal profile] somebadnews 2021-05-20 05:45 pm (UTC)(link)
    Excellent! This was the much better plan and she's a smart person.

    Five would have targeted one of the forest dwellers who looked human and easy to pick off from the crowd. But well, he was in a rush and sometimes it's hard to tell. Preference of human over semi-undead? My vote is that he took an old man either way. His kindred spirit. It's... probably going to be up to Alina if he survives.

    He'd teleport him somewhere he could lock away, so he'd probably be trussed up in the one of the bathing rooms while everyone else is doing whatever, having a real nice chat about wolves and lakes and the nice weather they're having.
    Edited (the 'semi' part is important ahem) 2021-05-20 17:45 (UTC)
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    Re: INVESTIGATE THE BODY IN THE LAKE

    [personal profile] corvis 2021-05-20 05:52 pm (UTC)(link)
    If it's spoopy or otherwise supernatural, Gil might be able to work on this due his experience as part of Pandora as well as depending on what Raven can asses/feels like divulging to Gil, but I honestly don't know much about this body in the lake except I remember reading it's like... stuck there.

    Either way, he knows how to investigate, at least, even though he's normally not exactly chasing dead bodies. I think he's capable of calling shots and giving people other things to do , and won't be a loser about keeping anyone in the loop during the situation unless Raven warns him otherwise about the others probably being in danger versus an asset in a fight... But that would have to be probably something really w o w and Im not expecting such power would casually drop one single body to hang out by itself.

    Either way, I think Gilbert will assist with this out of all other options even if not leading. o7

    But if it's a big cat monster idk what use he'll ultimately be tbh.

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