Event - Appalachia: Confabulation (NETWORK)

[apocalypsehowmods]

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.

Comments

text; un: milton

[bindlestifflost]

How about we walk back all this talk about blowing up shit and murdering people for a minute or two.

You wanna keep people out of Bluestone and ruin any idea of a concert or party get you them stinking fish out of that crick and dump them in the party spaces.

Even if they manage to pick them up again aint nobody getting that stink out of that rock and aint nobody gonna want to go within fifty feet of where they been setting.

That buys more time for all that legal stuff you mentioned to go through.

text | un: johnrobie

[conning]

That is brilliant.

[Neal hopes you can feel the intense relief, appreciation, and respect contained in those three words George.]

[bindlestifflost]

Hardest part'll be getting them in there on the sly.

Dress up like janitors or cleaning crew. Ice chests or something like that'd block the smell.

I don't think them trash bags'd be enough.

[He's just not sold on this whole destroy everything and kill everybody plan.]

I know it aint longterm. Long enough the tourists will probly leave. People won't stick around for weeks while they try to fix the problem.

Biggest danger is they'll find somewhere else for a party. We'd have to stay on top of that.

[conning]

Doesn't need to be long-term, and finding somewhere else for the party--we can help influence how they make that choice, should they try.

Fortunately, in a past life, I was very good at getting things in and out of places on the sly.

un: valentine

[outofthepast]

George, old buddy, I like your style.

[bindlestifflost]

Coming from you Slick? Means a lot.

Text; un: bright

[abrightboy]

Thank you.

[Can typing sag with relief?]

[bindlestifflost]

Aint got to thank me Malcolm.

I'm as worried as you is about inocent people getting hurt.

Including some of our own. I aint seen nobody yet saying they's some dynamite expert. I aint either but I do know its a hell of a lot more to it than laying a stick and lighting a fuze.

UN Soldier

[worthallthis]

i have blown up many things before. i think even a mine once

[Pretend Winter knows about smiley faces or he would put a :( here. ]

i guess this is okay too though

[abrightboy]

Dynamite isn’t even that safe of an explosive. It becomes unstable easily. Then you’re talking shrapnel and concussive force. A badly damaged human body can bleed out in as little as five minutes.

un: chosewell

[failedpromise]

While it lacks the flair of causing a massive explosion, this is probably the better option. At the very least, it allows us time to come up with a plan less likely to result in disaster.

Re: un: chosewell

[bindlestifflost]

Yeah. It aint no permanent fix. Also we play it right it could look like some kind of prank or protest about the crick. Not people in the know onto them and trying to put a stop to them. Long shot on that one I know.

I worry when we play our hand there gonna be ready for it or do something worse. If we can keep it more on the down low we has a better chance.

[failedpromise]

Given that we were being toyed with even while we were still on the train, I suspect the cat's already out of the bag.

Still, putting fish everywhere is a lot less likely to cause alarm among the general public. And if blowing up the mine turns out to be the best solution after all, this gives us more time to figure out how to do it as safely as possible.

I'd be willing to help.

[aelwyn_aberration]

That's a good way of getting the uninvolved civilians to clear out. I doubt FYRE's going to let their own workers go, though. Still, simple yet creative. Commendable.

[bindlestifflost]

We may not be able to come up with anything to save everybody. If this saves a lot it's gonna be worth it.

Not sure how them avatars react to stink. I know what it did to me when I was walking at that crick. It'll make doing anything complicated harder for them unless they's immune.

un: GOLDENGUARD; text

[cardinalrule]

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[bindlestifflost]

[Takes him a few to parse this before he comes back at it.]

It's real bad. Aint the sort of thing that gets out your nose for a long time. I was still smelling that shit for a couple of days after easy.

un: badgirlcoven

[edalyn]

Wouldn't keep me away from a good party, but I like your style

[bindlestifflost]

If you can say that after you smell it down there, I'll buy you a soda pop.

un: quill

[vrituom]

Fish aren't going to stop anyone. Danger will.

[bindlestifflost]

You aint smelled them fish.

And danger puts inocent people in trouble to. We don't need to be doing these peoples work for them.

un: carter

[setthetone]

We'd need a pretty big distraction to move all that stinking stuff down there. We could ask the protesters if they want to help. Not in the "hey the supernatural is real" [Please don't sit on him, Miss Hargrave.] but in the "hey, do you really wanna piss off FYRE" kind of way?

It sounds like the kind of activism they might be into.

[bindlestifflost]

Only worry Id have about that is if they get caught up in it they don't know the danger they's in like we do.

un: kruos

[whisperedone]

Are there enough fish for both mines?

Re: un: kruos

[bindlestifflost]

Hundreds.

That stinks gonna carry.