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Entry tags:
- !event,
- !finale,
- !npc,
- aelwyn abernant (d20 fantasy high),
- bucky barnes (mcu),
- cornelius hickey (the terror),
- cortana (halo),
- edalyn clawthorne (owl house),
- hunter (owl house),
- kate cordello (original),
- katrina (siren),
- manji (blade of the immortal),
- mercy graves (original),
- yelena belova (mcu),
- zz_andrew jaeger (original),
- zz_anthony j. crowley (good omens),
- zz_bruno madrigal (encanto),
- zz_donna noble (doctor who),
- zz_garner cinderbrooke (original),
- zz_george milton (of mice and men),
- zz_jeff calhoun (original),
- zz_john carter (er),
- zz_jonathan sims (tma),
- zz_luka kovač (er),
- zz_malcolm bright (prodigal son),
- zz_misty quigley (yellowjackets),
- zz_neal caffrey (white collar),
- zz_nick valentine (fallout),
- zz_orpheus (hadestown)
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:
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.
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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My main concern if we take out Watts and leave the other Avatars alone is that they might just kill all the workers on their way out, assuming nobody just tries to take over immediately. They'll also almost certainly come back at us but we're already being attacked once a month, so. It's definitely worth researching for the details before we make a move.
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We definitely need to stop Deepthi and Katie, too.
And Pyre, if we can find him.
But it sounds like he might be in disguise.
This Jimmy guy?
Is there anyone else suspicious, though?
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...I do actually think we might be able to reason with Pyre? Potentially? Not me, he's terrified of me because I reversed his tactics onto him and he took it very personally. And also all the business with Down. But he's got so much daddy issues he makes Lucius Skywalker look normal.
[She's been watching movies, can you tell.]
Plus he genuinely didn't want to actually hurt anyone when I confronted him and took it really personally when I implied that he was doing it anyway. That was nearly a year ago, though. It's more a matter of whether or not his naivety has lasted this long.
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It's like those Multi-Level Marketing scams.
They're basically money cults.
I've seen some of the girls I went to school with go absolutely bonkers with them.
Or, like... Scientologists.
Which is basically 'pay us money and we'll magic the evil out of you.'
Finding all these people seems like the first step.
Maybe we round up Jimmy and the band, see if we can get any intel from them on where in the mines Deepthi and Katie are hiding?
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(It is sad.)]
Yes, it is like that. Except, you know, worse. Because it's magic. It's more like a cult indoctrination.
Admittedly I have no idea what the fuck Scientology is, but I'll take your word for it.
That sounds like a good idea. Not sure how cooperative they'll be, but so long as we don't send Jeff we might get some results.
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Maybe talk to ADI about the best ways they know of to keep Buried avatars in check, though, just in case dreams like Jeff's aren't the only thing they cause.
It doesn't seem like they had much of anything to use against Deepthi when she was in town, though.
That was all just... wait for it to stop.
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And even then, people still lost limbs before they did anything.
ADI's not like... competent. Or good at preventing anything charging up their doorstep. It's kind of a miracle we haven't just been directly attacked by some of the more straightforwardly violent monsters.
Thank you for your patience!
200-odd-years, though?
I'm wondering if all of this is new, then.
The level of danger and everything going on.
I remember at orientation they told us supernatural things are attracted to people like us.
Reckon that could have something to do with it.
Bloody hell, I need to work on that guide with Yelena.
Knowing the avatars that have attacked, looking for patterns.
There might be something there, but we're always getting bogged down in the latest crisis.
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I'm honestly surprised they haven't been. But none of the attacks have been lethal, really, just demoralizing and horrific. It's like they're trying to pressure us into something.
One pattern I've noticed is that for some reason none of them align entirely with one specific entity. At least I can think of a few of them that have that in common. Fyre doesn't seem to align with one entity in particular as an organization, though they've clearly got a bias.
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Seemed pretty Flesh-y, based on what we've heard about that one.
Or that circus that sort of started all this.
Or that's connected to it?
I thought they were Desolation.