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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: (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.