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Save the Earth Mods ([personal profile] theearth) wrote in [community profile] saveyourselves2013-10-23 06:48 am
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Plot Post for October 23rd!

This format of plot post is designed for players to ask questions and find ways to influence the plot. Be bold and ask what you can or can't do; the worst that can happen is that we will say no. As plots in Save the Earth are not self resolving nor on a time limit, they can evolve in many ways. Although some potential outcomes are given, they are little more than suggestion and can be changed by character action. What role you take is up to you.

The post is also open for players to plot and coordinate between one another.







Events occurring currently:

• As of this morning (October 23rd, between the hours of 3:00-4:00 A.M., a large portion of the Thunder Corp.-owned Dead District has been bombed. Any living or working late in the run-down part of town or, alternatively, possessed of supernatural hearing may have been disturbed by the noise - though they’d not have been harmed by default; inhabited areas and locations such as the LSR Clinic are not within the area affected and, by now, no casualties have been reported. Entire blocks of buildings have, however, been effectively brought to the ground - and no evidence of parties involved or responsible has, as it appears, been found.


• Any snake statues left standing until today are now no longer anywhere to be found in the Dead District.






Events occurring in the immediate future:

• Thunder Corp. deny any knowledge as to the motivation or perpetrators of the bombing as they’d done in response to the rumors against them in September - officials are, however, beginning to voice suspicions to the media "putting two and two together" culminating in announcement in a formal press conference at soonest possible convenience. In line with and supporting their statements, the police department will be investing time and effort in the investigation, identification, and any necessary subsequent incarceration of “eco-terrorists” at work in Locke City.

And you can imagine what this means for you, our reincarnated heroes!

Police presence will now be increasing in all public places - in the form of increased patrols and watch over not only business and industrial areas but such populous everyday locations as Locke City High School and LCU, claimed to be in concurrent increase in drug investigations begun in August, although mercifully enough those with dogs will be few and far between.


• ...Or they will be on all days forecastable except for October 31st - Halloween. It’s a night that invites mischief and with what mischief appears to be afoot in the city nowadays, the police department will apparently see fit to keep watch over most areas in which citizen traffic is expected - shadowing residential and recreational areas as the sun goes down, with not bulbous-snouted beagles but some very ornery-looking red-eyed German Shepherds. Hopefully you’ve arranged such plans as to avoid a Halloween with hellhounds!






Events potentially occurring in the immediate future:

• Under pretense and/or motivation of current eco-terrorism and drug scares, from here on out until any further notice, depending on past actions, reincarnates will be at risk of active approach by unfriendly or dubiously-desirable parties - police and potentially otherwise.

Players of characters at the HIGHEST RISK of confrontation, investigation, or similar trouble are marked down to be contacted via surprise PM or Private Plurk within the near future to begin plotting accordingly.

If you are unsure if your character would be at high risk - or if they’ve simply done commendably at laying low and you’re open to seeing who or what they may run afoul of by happenstance - please, sign them up in the appropriate thread below this post to know to let us know you’re open to them receiving trouble, preferably with a run-down of what they’ve been involved in, where they’re visible, and/or where they might have invited or run the risk of inviting attention so we can tell you exactly what’s in store for them if chosen!


If you receive a PM or Plurk, you may opt out!







Potential Echo Opportunities

Visits to Tuning Towers will, again, continue to grant Echoes indefinitely - for anyone willing to get that close to the police! Echo opportunities are also likely to present themselves in instances of trouble that characters may wind up in in the weeks to come.


Please direct questions regarding these plot points to the thread below and not the post in general.
flamberge: (sagacity -- always a teacher)

[personal profile] flamberge 2013-10-23 05:23 pm (UTC)(link)
Richard/Karl would not be in school the next two days following the attack and anyone he teaches on the side would get a text that he'll be unavailable the whole week. When he does show up at school, he'll probably be pretty exhausted looking. Anyone who might want to go by the Dead District either early in the morning or in the afternoon may see Mr. Locke chatting, rather casually, with some officers there.
espigeonage: (☀of the valley below)

Re: INCIDENT SIGN-UPS

[personal profile] espigeonage 2013-10-23 05:30 pm (UTC)(link)
Julien's done pretty well with not calling attention to himself. Being "sick" more often and wearing weird "contact lenses" is not terribly noteworthy. No one's noticed him policewatching and he's been very careful with his other activities. Can't really be traced back to him. Of course there have been a ton of those, even so - first snake statue, statue pulldown, art gallery visit where he pretended to be a waiter, haunted, mines, he covered for Aaron at the clinic once, led-ish the reservoir expedition, got sick at the Tower, saw a snake monster.

He's the most visible and energetic member of the LSR staff, and he's pretty open about going into the DD multiple times a day. He's set up in a long-abandoned house near the DD's edge, not far from the LSR, to take care of sick pigeons, and he wants to be doing that even now.

Which... okay, obvious eco interest. Plus other people have gone in with him before, or go to that same place on their own. He might be worth questioning. But it's quickly clear that the birdhouse stuff is pretty simple and benign.

If the clinic was ever investigated even in a very cursory way he's visible, and seems young. Though I'd like to avoid anything too unpleasant happening to him, for now.

Nat is even better about lying low, but she also might end up poking her nose into things.
Edited 2013-10-24 03:03 (UTC)
not_good_not_wicked: (Default)

[personal profile] not_good_not_wicked 2013-10-23 05:49 pm (UTC)(link)
Do you mind if we backdate some stuff about the snakes? I was literally plotting stuff about them last night and saw this post this morning.
amberhearted: (Default)

Re: INCIDENT SIGN-UPS

[personal profile] amberhearted 2013-10-23 06:01 pm (UTC)(link)
Mischief Alex has been involved in:
1) tearing down the initial snake statue in the dd (led by Chris, wearing a hoodie and a beanie, I believe)
2) deliberately touching the snake statues at the art exhibit
3) interrupting the dumping of pink goo into the city's water reservoir (with Julien, Hajime, Aria and a few others, disguised)
4) burglary of two? Thunder corp residences (led by Vanessa, wearing a cut stocking over his head ha ha ha)
5) visiting Tuning Towers (before the increased police presence)
6) tangoing with a bipedal snake statue on the 21st 19th (with banagher and Vanessa, still in progress)
7) wow how did I forget the initial mines visit wherein the sage of the earth called them all in, he went to that
8) batgate 2013 when he bumbled around the city as a bat for a day
9) tainted water induced mirth and bumbling at a bar (with Arthur, John, and Ravindra)

And more everyday stuff:
1) fangs that were recently noticed by his rig partner and brushed off as Halloween festivity
2) sudden paling of his skin
3) if he isn't careful about drinking blood regularly, his coloration (skin, hair, eyes) starts to fade
Edited (my memory sucks x2 I'M SORRY) 2013-10-23 21:11 (UTC)
dododo: (Default)

[personal profile] dododo 2013-10-23 06:34 pm (UTC)(link)
While John's been keeping very low for the most part, he's also spent a good amount of time and will continue spending a good amount of time watching people to see if they zone out. There could be enough skulking to seem suspicious? If they're enough on edge to stretch it that far, I'd be willing to go along with it.

OH ALSO he... might try to investigate the whole explosion thing himself? Once work at the hospital calms down. I don't know. But that would probably be... really suspicious. So I could maybe get back to you on that?
Edited 2013-10-23 18:39 (UTC)
dododo: (→06)

[personal profile] dododo 2013-10-23 06:37 pm (UTC)(link)
Welp John really hopes none of the number club members or whatever did this thing. He'd be utterly furious because, holy shit, people, why would you ever think that was a good idea?

Looks like another post might be in order haha I just did one asjhdgfsdh.

He'll... actually seriously consider finding out who did it? Because it's not okay. But then he also wouldn't want to cast suspicion on himself by being all nosy and. Stuff. But it. Could be a thing?? /squints
ursoreckless: (big deep thoughts here)

[personal profile] ursoreckless 2013-10-23 06:40 pm (UTC)(link)
Shou is a bit of a troublemaker as in he gets into fights and tends to speed a bit more than necessary. He is also here on a visa and has been helping out with break-ins that the other numbered have been committing - usually by being the driver.

He's probably not a huge threat but he does cause a bit of a scene.
amberhearted: (Default)

Re: GENERAL QUESTIONS

[personal profile] amberhearted 2013-10-23 06:43 pm (UTC)(link)
Were ambulance units sent to the scene?

If that's a yes and Alex was one of the paramedics there, what would that entail for him?

Tacking on an additional question: will news of the bombing spread nation-wide? (I'm wondering if Alex's family would hear about it.)
Edited (added a q!) 2013-10-24 23:33 (UTC)
mood2wiingiing: (Default)

Re: GENERAL QUESTIONS

[personal profile] mood2wiingiing 2013-10-23 07:45 pm (UTC)(link)
just making sure, the other post says something about schools and businesses being closed for a few days but this one doesn't? so are they closed and it just wasn't mentioned on this post?

also i know it says no casualties have been reported but this kid has his voices of the imminently deceased so IF there were any deaths he would have gotten voices from it so i'm just checking that there weren't any. so yes that is all!
mood2wiingiing: (Default)

Re: INCIDENT SIGN-UPS

[personal profile] mood2wiingiing 2013-10-23 07:46 pm (UTC)(link)
soren hasn't done a lot but him and Davin ([personal profile] dorkytracksuit) kind of had a run-in with a snake statue that they ended up using powers to try and stop so that could have been noticed!
detectivetroll: (Default)

Re: GENERAL QUESTIONS

[personal profile] detectivetroll 2013-10-23 08:33 pm (UTC)(link)
A couple of semi-related questions! Are the officers in charge of investigating the bomb site and finding the culprits all involved in the conspiracy, or is there the possibility of ordinary police investigators that Nick could talk to? He'll try it anyway, but he's been friendly with most of the officers over the years and is a giant workaholic, so I don't think it'd be unusual for him to chat with the people looking into it, find out what they know and try to offer whatever he can in return, especially for something as high profile as this.

Is it at all known that the water contamination that was blamed on Thunder Corp is related to the drug the police have been on high alert for? I know the water contamination was being looked into by the police prior to the media coverage of it, but were they looking for something different or is it generally known that the two were connected?

What's the general buzz around the police station with this? There's usually talk and theories being thrown about, so I wanted to check if it'd be reasonable to assume that a lot of the officers have connected the Thunder Corp water contamination rumor (and possibly the drug connection, if that's well known) with the bombings and figure that someone is targeting Thunder Corp? Or, alternatively, that Thunder Corp is covering up something, but I thought the other option would be more likely encouraged by supervisors?

Springing off all of that, although this is more a question for the future, would it be possible for a numbers police officer to start "going undercover"? Siding 100% with superiors, looking the other way at the Sherman interrogations, dedicating a lot of time to trying to bring "eco-terrorists" to justice, bringing in network people, that kind of thing. With Nick's track record, it's not unusual that he'd completely dedicate himself to something like that, and he's thinking about trying to make it seem like he'd be a good candidate to let in on whatever's going on.

And finally! Is there anything not-human about the police officers who are handling the strange dogs?

...wow that got really long, I hope it's coherent.
synonymouswithdookie: (frysquint)

[personal profile] synonymouswithdookie 2013-10-23 09:04 pm (UTC)(link)
Ray kind of knocked a giggle dude out in a mall bathroom and then most likely proceeded to drag his unconscious body THROUGH the mall and out to his car. Which is probably not that common a sight but knowing THIS PLACE hey man whatever.

Besides that he helped fight a cheesy looking monster thing.

And he is also doing a snake fight so HEY I DUNNO I'm new at this.
shiromadoushi: (As grr as it gets)

[personal profile] shiromadoushi 2013-10-23 09:45 pm (UTC)(link)
...I kinda want Bakura to spot him. give him a legit reason to hate his chem teach
doomedtheworld: (Default)

[personal profile] doomedtheworld 2013-10-23 09:47 pm (UTC)(link)
I'd be surprised if Vanessa wasn't already on that list but just in case here's the sign up.

What's she been involved in? Hahahaha!

Burglary, theft, pickpocketing, card fraud, implied drug trafficking, confirmed firearms trafficking, attempted robbery and involvement in the death or at least injury of a police officer the previous year. Girl's a one-woman crime wave.
peacefulwinter: (I d-don't want to have to...!)

[personal profile] peacefulwinter 2013-10-23 09:51 pm (UTC)(link)
Well. Winter's going to be having a field day; between minor outrage that the police are in HER school and the fact that she is what they're looking for, she's going to be in a bad mood for a little while. Winter is going to be the would-be whistleblower watching for anything untoward to happen originating from the cops and bringing concerns to the school's administration. (I expect she won't find anything.) This, in turn, will cause her to sulk even more when engaged on almost any topic.

Well, except for the fact that she's a magical girl again, which to her is awesome. Anyone openly discussing concepts related to magical girls, including popular canons and tropes, is likely to find Winter spooking around and trying to catch information... and just maybe attempting to participate.

Aside from that, not much new with Winter, except that when she's around people she trusts (and after she's done venting), she'll be visibly happier, stuttering less, and more open and adventurous. Her helplessness was affecting more than she let on.
shiromadoushi: (As grr as it gets)

[personal profile] shiromadoushi 2013-10-23 09:52 pm (UTC)(link)
Bakura's gonna be piiiised. Because damnit, his urb-ex hangout!

He's also wondering if Thunder corp did this either by accident or on purpose to gain more leverage. Any one know any conspiracy nuts he can get a bug in the ear of to send them at Thunder? :D
shiromadoushi: (Side smile happy happy)

[personal profile] shiromadoushi 2013-10-23 09:54 pm (UTC)(link)
Hey. Hey Winter. How's your Japanese?

[aka, Bakura has some magical girl anime. Which he will claim is his grandmother's. Think off brand Rayearth stuff :D]
peacefulwinter: (This is awkward.)

Re: INCIDENT SIGN-UPS

[personal profile] peacefulwinter 2013-10-23 10:00 pm (UTC)(link)
Winter has, for the most part, been laying low by virtue of lack of anything offensive to really do. But there are a few specific things that might call attention to her:

1) Winter has had her suspicious animated plushie hanging around pretty much 24/7 since she got him; he's pretty good at playing dead, but not perfect. He also flies.
2) Present at the mines and the Tuning Towers; drank contaminated water in a public park.
3) If anyone was watching the Dead District Sunday afternoon, there was a bright blue glow over there, from which a blue-haired girl could be seen fleeing; Winter was, at various points before and after, there to be seen.

...Also, Winter will not react well to the increased police presence in the school she sees herself as the nominal protector of, and can be expected to be cool and possibly standoffish toward officers investigating students with anything less than a benign manner. This is likely to get her into more mundane trouble, though even if she's investigated she's not necessarily going to actually stop unless someone on the network strongly advises her against it.

And a quick edit after 11/16's plot post: as the police continue to snoop around more and more and get further into business she believes she and the rest of the student council can manage, she'll get increasingly irritable and short, and will come dangerously close to obstructing their investigation. I would imagine the only way to make her move, again excepting someone from the network convincing her, is actual punishment - detention, suspension, arrest, or some combination therein. A threat to have her removed from her position would also work, though not forever.
Edited 2013-11-17 05:31 (UTC)
von_uberwolf: (Default)

Re: INCIDENT SIGN-UPS

[personal profile] von_uberwolf 2013-10-23 10:02 pm (UTC)(link)
Angela is brand spanking new, but I imagine that they'd look extra hard for any "eco-terrorists" in the police force. For internal security reasons.
peacefulwinter: (I know this one.)

[personal profile] peacefulwinter 2013-10-23 10:02 pm (UTC)(link)
Not great but getting better; she started trying to learn after she Echoed off a book of poems, and with how busy she's been, she's about at "attentive American anime nerd" level, able to understand the vague gist of every sixth phrase and pick out individual words for probable meaning.
peacefulwinter: (I'm certain of it.)

[personal profile] peacefulwinter 2013-10-23 10:03 pm (UTC)(link)
Winter is likely to notice Karl's fatigue when he returns to the school; she's not exactly likely to return to the scene of the crime, so she probably won't run into him otherwise.
argents: such sweet nothing. (when you're giving me)

[personal profile] argents 2013-10-23 10:10 pm (UTC)(link)
banagher has a way of laying low while simultaneously getting involved, but he's had a presence in a lot of stuff because he's a meddler X(

1. visited the first snake statues in the DD
2. hung around the following snake statues at the art gallery long enough to get an echo from them
3. investigated the farms with lyall and stella
4. got haunted the first time around
5. went on sagequest!
6. drank the gigglewater in public, at a movie theater
7. went to tuning towers three (SOB) times -- the first with kanti and richard, where kanti barfed on richard's shoes, the second with alex, julien, and ax-alex, where ax-alex grew stalk eyes and jules got birdie flu, and the third where he encountered winter and hoped nothing would go wrong, finally (the third was the only time he actually got to enter the lobby)
8. was look-out for vanessa's break-in to the thunder corp. employees houses
9. running like a wuss from the bipedal snakes with alex and vanessa (on the 19th, ongoing)
10. involved in trying to find out where the echo loss barrier is centered

numbers club social butterfly etc., etc.
umbrael: (Lizard King • Eye)

[personal profile] umbrael 2013-10-23 10:19 pm (UTC)(link)
While Doyle here is finally believing you guys about the whole network-and-conspiracy thing - he's been a little cautious about sticking his nose into potentially dangerous situations. Also screw getting arrested, if the police are apparently looking for them.

HOWEVER, with the bomb thing having happened, I think he might drop by the Dead District to check it out, under the assumption he won't be the only civilian rubbernecking the clean-up attempts. Hey, when things go wrong, people gather to watch! It's human nature or something.

... Well, in any case, he'll be wandering down the Dead District and i might attempt to make an open log about that at some point in time if you want to run into him at all gosh this is a busy week
Edited 2013-10-23 22:19 (UTC)
shiromadoushi: (Side smile happy happy)

[personal profile] shiromadoushi 2013-10-23 10:24 pm (UTC)(link)
Learning opportunity? :D He can translate as needed. Thought he might have some slips of having to be reminded to speak English :D

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