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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.
twicelost: (classic katrina)

un: katrina; voice

[personal profile] twicelost 2022-06-07 08:20 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Yes, she knows how to type; no, she isn't going to. This is more efficient, in her opinion, even if she's still a little shaky here and there on verb tenses and articles. ]

I went to the place where they say there was massacre. I did not find clues of massacre, but a woman name Ruth show me poisoned water.

Plants and animals dead and dying. FYRE is killing them. The people Wolf Pen abandon need clean food and water. Cannot hunt if no animals come. Animals avoid area because of poison.

This is what happen to my people in my world. Humans poison water. We begin to die. I do now know Entity that cause this, but we must hunt and kill them!

[ Please don't let her go on an environmental crusade i am begging you. ]
graveyounglady: (srs | sideways)

un: mercyme

[personal profile] graveyounglady 2022-06-07 10:14 pm (UTC)(link)
Reckon it's the folks doing the dumping we need to hunt down. Seems like that's this Deepthi person with whatever gods cursed minions she pulled outta them mines. But if we destroy the mines, I'm worried we're gonna cause an even bigger problem like what you were seeing in the creek. Maybe part of our work here's getting the townsfolk's eyes on that? If they know where the problem is, they can fix it while we go after them as causing it in the first place, right?
twicelost: (alpha days)

[personal profile] twicelost 2022-06-08 01:32 am (UTC)(link)
No more destruction. Only find and kill Deepthi. We come here to stop ritual, and I will work together with others for this. But we must also stop the poison.
graveyounglady: (srs | study)

[personal profile] graveyounglady 2022-06-10 01:54 am (UTC)(link)
Ms. Deepthi and Ms. Katie if she's here. We never did finish her off, seems like. After what she done in Gloucester? We can't let her do that to the folk here. Not them out in the woods or the people in town. I know we need light for her, but I don't know what might help against Deepthi. Water is good at wearing rock away. Maybe spraying her down? Stops a fire in the mine and wears her away, too.
twicelost: (classic katrina)

cw violent suggestion

[personal profile] twicelost 2022-06-10 07:24 pm (UTC)(link)
I claw at her skin. Even with human nails, this will work.

[ CALM DOWN WOW. ]
graveyounglady: (srs | study)

cw: continued violent suggestions...

[personal profile] graveyounglady 2022-06-12 07:37 pm (UTC)(link)
[Okay, Crystal.]

Thinking my dirk might do a faster job of it if we're just going straight to violence. Mind you, doubt she'd be expecting something like clawing. Maybe go for the eyes?
twicelost: (sus)

[personal profile] twicelost 2022-06-13 10:38 pm (UTC)(link)
Yes. This is better. [ You'd be a great fit with the tribe, Mercy! ]

We must stop her. I will do what I can. And you, sister, I will protect you. Fight by your side.
graveyounglady: (smile | tightlipped)

[personal profile] graveyounglady 2022-06-22 01:39 am (UTC)(link)
Aye. Come frost or fire, we'll see it through together.

[However Mercy can help, she knows she needs to. Caduceus is gone along with many of her other favorite people. She needs to do this for them and pray they've made it back to their own worlds somehow.]
cuttypie: (Sad - I'll observe his looks)

un: 13371uk@ - voice

[personal profile] cuttypie 2022-06-08 02:52 am (UTC)(link)
Do you know if any of the people are using the poisoned water for cooking, bathing, or drinking? Do you know if they stay away from it, or have any gardens that use the water?
twicelost: (classic katrina)

[personal profile] twicelost 2022-06-08 05:56 pm (UTC)(link)
They avoid the water, use another source. But if poison spread more, they have no choice. The town abandon them, because they do not live there legally.

The people of the town must help them. Then, they all can stop company from poisoning more.
themuseabandonsyou: (looking down)

un: lyreplayer; voice

[personal profile] themuseabandonsyou 2022-06-08 04:19 am (UTC)(link)
I'm kind of worried about FYRE too? I know we're, um, here to stop the rituals, and probably don't have time to worry about this kind of thing, but... the way big mines and factories and things like that poison the land around them, um.

[ He pauses, thinking carefully. ]

It killed one of the gods, back where I came from. I mean, I think a lot of things happened to him, but the way the world was changing is what did it. Factories and mines and deforestation. And that's not to mention how those places treat the mortals they employ? If they don't care for the world, why would they care for the people in it?

I know we have bigger things to worry about, but I don't like standing by and watching this, either.
twicelost: (alpha days)

[personal profile] twicelost 2022-06-08 06:06 pm (UTC)(link)
Yes! Yes. Humans poison nature, and many animals die. All is connected. All suffer when water suffer.

I want to stop the rituals. But, I want to clean the water also.

After we stop the rituals, we can stay some days and help the people? This is what I want to do. But if ADI say we go back to Gloucester, I go back.
themuseabandonsyou: (looking down)

[personal profile] themuseabandonsyou 2022-06-09 04:08 am (UTC)(link)
Right. The entities feed on peoples' fear, right? I've lived through summers where it looked like the water might run out, or winters where there wasn't enough food to go around. It's not as, um, dramatic as the rituals sound? But those were the scariest times of my life. I think if there's anything we can do about this, we should.
bindlestifflost: (B and W Skeptical or thinking)

un: milton

[personal profile] bindlestifflost 2022-06-08 09:00 pm (UTC)(link)
You ain't wrong about them people out there needin' help. All that shit got pushed out there in the first place so the tourists wouldn't see the mess.

Problem is people's always like this. Selfish with the ones who ain't got nothing. Them people wouldn't be where they is if they hadn't already given all they had to that mine.
twicelost: (sus)

[personal profile] twicelost 2022-06-10 07:20 pm (UTC)(link)
This is the reason for humans poison the ocean in my home. Greed. Good humans help us, but still many bad ones.

This is the reason I want to help Ruth and her family. The people of the town abandon them. It is wrong.
bindlestifflost: (Angry fight or flight)

[personal profile] bindlestifflost 2022-06-11 12:38 am (UTC)(link)
If we's gonna be going down there to gather them fish, I think we can at least warn them about something. Not what's really happening. We can say crick's polluted.

This sheriff they mentioned who's friendly to our cause. Maybe he'll know a' somewhere they can be put up. A church. Somethin'. Or one a' the docs on our team can find a resource. People listen to them folks.

[It'll be a hard sell to convince Robin he managed to get anybody to listen to him as just some drifter. He feels bad he had to lie, even if it was ultimately for a good reason.]
twicelost: (alpha days)

[personal profile] twicelost 2022-06-13 10:47 pm (UTC)(link)
Yes. This is good plan. I will help you.

[ She will carry those humans to safety if that's what it takes. They're victims of human greed too, and as the stronger species, helping out people who understand seems like a good long-term strategy. She'll bring that one home, once she's able to go back. ]

We should do this soon. Before the FYRE party. Before ADI decide what we do to stop it.
bindlestifflost: (Worried or scared)

[personal profile] bindlestifflost 2022-06-14 09:00 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, yeah, I agree with you there. Before we go charging down there, let me check with somebody at the church, see if they got a place they can house 'em for a few days until the main danger's past.

[If it is. He's so skeptical about all of this, a bad feeling in his gut.]

Folks like them down by the crick don't trust easy and get spooked easy. We gotta be careful how we do it, or they'll try to go somewhere to ground and no tellin' how long it'd take to find 'em. Or if they wouldn't run straight into danger.

[He's always been good thinking on his feet. This falls somewhere between that and long-term planning which is more of a strain.]
twicelost: (classic katrina)

[personal profile] twicelost 2022-06-17 04:35 pm (UTC)(link)
I trust this to you.

[ He sounds competent, and he clearly knows how to adapt the plan to the circumstances. ]

When you need me, contact me on device. I will help the people in the tents. If I must choose this or another duty, I choose this.
bindlestifflost: (Life with Lennie)

[personal profile] bindlestifflost 2022-06-18 03:49 am (UTC)(link)
I'll do that. Thank you. This means a lot to me, and it's gonna mean a whole lot to them people, too.