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Apocalypse How Mods ([personal profile] apocalypsehowmods) wrote in [community profile] apocalypsehowcomm2022-06-05 09:55 pm

Event - Appalachia: Confabulation (NETWORK)

Who: Rae Hargrave
What: An IC discussion for sharing information and making plans
Username: ambulatory
Warnings: Please add appropriate warnings in subject headings!

On June 5, everyone with an ADI-issued device will be added to a group channel by Pam Ruan, who immediately transfers control of the channel to an account with the username ambulatory and an ID picture of a world-weary caucasian woman. Within minutes of the notification that they’ve been added, characters will receive the following message:

un: ambulatory
This is Rae Hargrave with a mission status update for all ADI personnel currently stationed in Wolf Pen.

First, I apparently need to remind you that it is of the utmost importance that you do not inform the locals of the true purpose behind our visit. Not only does exposing ordinary bystanders to the supernatural place their lives in danger, but you also run the risk of handing information about yourself and about our operation to an avatar, either directly or via an unwitting informant. If you are questioned directly about your reasons for being in town or asking the questions you’re asking, deflect, deflect, deflect. It’s better to look like an idiot than to feed our enemies. If I catch wind of any more of these incidents, I will literally sit on you. If you think a local has already been exposed to one of the Entities and that it would do more good than harm to bring them into the fold, bring that to the higher levels before you act.


Second, and to the main purpose, this channel has been established for the purpose of sharing intel gathered since our arrival. Learned something? Tell the group. We’ve got a deadline looming in less than two weeks, and that’s assuming our assessments are correct and the Rumble Down Under is the intended ritual. You don’t need to have things all figured out to be of help here. We’re all putting this puzzle together, together and the piece you bring to the table could click with another person’s intel that you never would have thought was connected.

I'd like to see reports on the following, along with anything else you've picked up in your time here:
  • Layout and any suspicious activity in and around the Bluestone Mine: what's the situation with the concert space and where are our entrances and exits? What have you been able to get out of the museum staff?
  • Ditto for the Keppler Mine: who have you talked to and what have you seen? We may be running short on opportunities for additional recon here as reports indicate that the OSHA cover story is wearing thin. If you return to the Keppler, have a contingency plan for getting back out.
  • Locations and movements of Avatars in the area, confirmed or suspected. Katie Dunn and Deepthi Anand are almost certainly in the area, and we have reason to believe the Desolation Avatar known as Pyre may also be involved. There may be additional Avatars we have not yet identified. While previous experience has taught us that Avatars of different Entities don't usually play well together, there's a first time for everything.
  • Supernatural sightings in and around Wolf Pen: we have not yet ruled out the possibility that reported phenomena in the woods and the dump could be related to the ritual attempt.
  • Public attitudes and interactions with town leaders: who seems to be allied with whom, and what are their connections to FYRE and the mines? Additionally, have you met anyone you believe may pose a security risk to the mission?


Third, action plans. Our aim is disruption, prevention, and ultimately complete nullification of the ritual attempt and its principal actors. We can expect that regardless of the specifics of the ritual, they will plan to inflict mass casualties, and I hope I don't need to clarify that we don't want that. While disrupting the ritual once it is already in progress is a tried and true method of forcing the dissipation of gathered Entity power and thereby preventing a rebound attempt, incapacitating the Avatars before they can enact the ritual also works as long as they stay incapacitated.

Brainstorm, spitball, whatever you want to call it. Try to be constructive, but be smart and speak up if you spot a potentially fatal flaw in someone else's plan. No idea is too weird or stupid to bring to the table, but some may be too weird or stupid to stay there. Whether we concentrate our forces in one place or plan a multi-pronged attack, we will identify the best plans brought forward and implement them to make sure the ritual doesn't get off the ground.


Fourth and last, Sheriff Ron Porter is currently under evaluation for recruitment to ADI and can be considered a resource with no need to withhold darker truths about the supernatural. However, as we are still performing a background check, we ask that you not share specific information about ADI's home base and regular operations with him as of yet. Again, no other locals are to be informed of supernatural threats without going through the proper channels within ADI.

To those of you who have spoken to Cindy Parsons, the newscaster, we'll be talking later. They are not an appropriate resource and should be treated as an innocent civilian. We do not want to pull them into any further danger than they already have been. Do not speak to them or to Wolf News.
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[personal profile] bossyboiler 2022-06-07 08:10 pm (UTC)(link)
Can we set them up for tax fraud? Ruin the name of Fyre?
thedoctorsmate: (srs | distant)

[personal profile] thedoctorsmate 2022-06-07 08:19 pm (UTC)(link)
In a little less than two weeks?
Dunno that's feasible.
I know how the UK government runs on that sort of thing for a company this big, and it's like cold treacle.
I like it as a long-term strategy, but that's likely to take years to get real traction.
musicdied: (yeah well)

[personal profile] musicdied 2022-06-07 08:23 pm (UTC)(link)
It's also hard to fake. The people who deal with money are less lazy and stupid than local law enforcement. If we had the right contacts, we could maybe freeze their cash flow for a week or two, but it wouldn't be a permanent solution.

And it won't stop them doing supernatural shit.
thedoctorsmate: (srs | neutral)

[personal profile] thedoctorsmate 2022-06-09 05:14 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, it's the supernatural stuff I'm worried about.
Used to weird alien nonsense.
Half of that looks like magic, honestly, even if the Doctor's always got some science-y explanation knocking about his head.
Like, we stop this explosion, what else can they do?
Deepthi attacked ADI and got Katie out.
Katie's all about illusions.
But at least we've got an idea how to attack her.
And what about these other ones?
The Undertones guy?
Pyre? Or Jimmy? Or bloody Carl Watts?
I want to know where he is in all this.
Have we even heard anything from him since he made that announcement about the party?
musicdied: (how do you think that's going to work)

[personal profile] musicdied 2022-06-12 06:19 am (UTC)(link)
I don't think we have. Which is strange. Unless this Earth is very different from the one I'm from, people hate mining companies. They should be milking this party and the supposed benefits to the town for everything they can get.

Even if it is a cover for sacrificing a few hundred people to an evil god.
thedoctorsmate: (srs | snowy gaze)

[personal profile] thedoctorsmate 2022-06-12 08:17 pm (UTC)(link)
Maybe we should be trying to track down where Carl's got off to, then.
Don't like the idea of him just being out in the wind.
thedoctorsmate: (srs | distant)

[personal profile] thedoctorsmate 2022-06-09 05:14 am (UTC)(link)
I just don't think there's a simple solution here, unfortunately.
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[personal profile] bossyboiler 2022-06-09 02:37 pm (UTC)(link)
Double damn.