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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.
themuseabandonsyou: (flower)

[personal profile] themuseabandonsyou 2022-06-09 04:05 am (UTC)(link)
That just seems like such a lonely and miserable way to see things, though. What use is power if you lose anything and anyone else you might care about in the pursuit? I guess the idea is if you're powerful enough you can get it all back, but it just doesn't seem worth it.
friendsfordinner: (just kind of a blank stare)

[personal profile] friendsfordinner 2022-06-09 01:07 pm (UTC)(link)
There's a simple answer to that as well: don't care about anyone else in the first place.
themuseabandonsyou: (profile)

[personal profile] themuseabandonsyou 2022-06-12 12:42 am (UTC)(link)
I'm not sure that's even possible. I guess it must be, the way some people act sometimes, but I can't imagine it myself, and I've never met anyone who really didn't have anyone they cared about at all.
friendsfordinner: (to ourselves)

[personal profile] friendsfordinner 2022-06-12 01:42 am (UTC)(link)
Stick around here long enough and I suspect that'll change.
themuseabandonsyou: (profile)

[personal profile] themuseabandonsyou 2022-06-14 02:26 am (UTC)(link)
I guess it might. This place is strange. I don't think there was anyone specifically trying to end the world on purpose, back where I came from.
friendsfordinner: (shithead smile)

[personal profile] friendsfordinner 2022-06-14 01:13 pm (UTC)(link)
Anyone specifically that you know of.
themuseabandonsyou: (looking down)

LOST THIS TAG whoops

[personal profile] themuseabandonsyou 2022-06-20 06:08 am (UTC)(link)
[ The intended implication of that comment proceeds to fly over Orpheus's head entirely. ]

Yes?

[ He thinks for a moment, then adds; ]

There were people who were making things worse, I guess, but I don't think any of them were doing it on purpose. I think a lot of the time hurting people or destroying things has more to do with not understanding that other people might want different things than you, or only being able to see a problem from one perspective instead of considering all the consequences.
friendsfordinner: (to ourselves)

[personal profile] friendsfordinner 2022-06-20 01:21 pm (UTC)(link)
Not understanding and understanding but not giving a shit end up with the same results though there's a different start. I might understand why you want to do something or why something is bad. But if it doesn't effect me, why should I care?
themuseabandonsyou: (looking down)

[personal profile] themuseabandonsyou 2022-06-22 02:41 am (UTC)(link)
I think it matters. If someone is doing something terrible but thinks they're doing the right thing because they just don't get that it's hurting other people, then it's a lot easier to make them stop it by showing them how it's hurting other people. If someone just doesn't care it's a lot harder to make them start caring.

I think most people want to do good, and I think most people who don't must have reasons that make sense to them why they can't or don't want to anymore. I just don't think anyone sets out to make people suffer on purpose even for their own gain unless something's made them feel like they have to.
friendsfordinner: (just kind of a blank stare)

[personal profile] friendsfordinner 2022-06-23 12:19 am (UTC)(link)
You're in the wrong place to be an idealist.
themuseabandonsyou: (aside glance)

[personal profile] themuseabandonsyou 2022-06-26 03:04 am (UTC)(link)
People used to tell me that back home, too.
friendsfordinner: (to ourselves)

[personal profile] friendsfordinner 2022-06-26 10:26 pm (UTC)(link)
Then I hope the next place you go to after this is more kind.
themuseabandonsyou: (profile)

[personal profile] themuseabandonsyou 2022-07-03 11:29 pm (UTC)(link)
Thanks. I hope so too. Though, have you heard of anyone actually leaving this place? I'm still not really sure how any of this works, even though people have tried to explain it to me a few times already. It's all just a lot to take in.
friendsfordinner: (definitely up to something)

[personal profile] friendsfordinner 2022-07-05 12:26 am (UTC)(link)
I haven't. But you can just pack up and leave, can't you. Move to a different city.