PLOT POST FOR APRIL 16TH

[theearth]

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 I 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.

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Events occurring currently;

• The Thunder Corporation's Snake Statue remains up in the Dead District. The statue exudes a pseudo-Echo effect, which is undetectable to ordinary humans, trying to convince people to leave the area.

• In the same area, starting now, a large number of the huge homeless community within the Dead District will instead be found seeking new shelter. Should anyone question them, they will reveal they are being driven away by 'werewolves.' It is possible to encounter a 'werewolf' by coincidence by visiting the Dead District after dark.

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Events occurring in the immediate future:

• Suspiciously quiet for now. The invasion forces are currently evaluating their opposition and making preparations. It won't last. Enjoy the quiet before the storm.

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Events potentially occurring in the immediate future:

• Destroying the statue is a possibility. Doing so will shoot a pink light into the sky that will last a few seconds and set in motion a chain of events.

• Players may wish to put together a plan to investigate and potentially deal with the 'werewolves.'

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Potential Echo Opportunities

The snake statue in the Dead District, and in police HQ, still offer one Echo at a touch. An encounter with a 'werewolf' will result in an Echo and successfully killing one will net one for everyone involved. Destroying the statue won't grant an Echo, but the events it will set in motion will. Canon parallels remain the constant option.

Please direct questions regarding these plot points to the thread below and not the post in general.

Comments

QUESTIONS

[theearth]

Re: QUESTIONS

[twopercent]

HURRR I'VE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS

1) Jack acquired the addresses/rap sheet info that Davin got for Lyall and was interested in pursuing any potential leads from that and finding out who goes where when. Given that Albero's uncle/cousins are dead (and the Chief lives in a gated community) AND that Jack still has to stay out of sight on the run, I've been assuming that this is probably fruitless... but figure I should ask if there are new leads at all anyway. =)
2) Jack also asked Kenji to run by his mother-in-law's house (where his family has been staying for the weeks now) once in a while and check for suspicious activity nearby. Anything?

[professorwolf]

What do the werewolves smell like? :D Lyall, uh. May be doing some scent-tracking as soon as he hears about them >.>

ETA Durr hit post on accident >.<

They may have video surveillance on the second statue soon. Lyall's working on it with Elizabeth and Bakura. Will anything come up on that?

[earnedmystripes]

So I think Kotetsu would want to snoop around the police station to try to see if he can find out anything. What kind of things do you think he'd find without rousing too much suspicion that he knows something is fishy? I figure as a veteran police officer he'd have more access to areas than some regular person walking in off the streets. :|a

Re: QUESTIONS

[scramasax]

To lock everything in, Sylver and I had agreed we'd like to get our boys an after-dark run-in with the pseudo-werewolf! Do we have clearance? And if so, will you be playing the werewolf?

Re: QUESTIONS

[reckless_fire]

Question about the werewolves: are they the half-human/half-wolf hybrid type, or the kind that looks like regular wolves, only bigger?

JUST A HEADS UP

[reapsthewind]

that Chris is getting together a group to break apart the statue.

[professorwolf]

SUPER-BELATED QUESTION I'm sorry... but on Saturday Lyall is renting a car and toddling out to that farm he, Chris, Bakura, and Julien flew over last weekend. He'll be leaving it about half a mile away and going out a little closer on foot. Carefully, of course.

He won't go up to it close enough to see a LOT, but he's testing for smells, familiar faces, license plate numbers he can jot down, anything he might catch a glimpse of from whatever cover he can get. Anything he might see/smell/overhear? Or any trouble he might run into? ^^

Re: QUESTIONS

[testsonseashells]

What do the werewolves look like? Are they visually distinct from regular wolves?

Also, how easily can they be killed, and what happens to them, if anything, upon death?

(now in the correct place)

WEREWOLF HUNTERS COME TO ME

[secondcomingof]

So now that Casval is no longer in full on paranoia mode... he's got some huntin' to do. Because fuck no not letting this invasion happening in any shape or form.

Who's up for some werewolf slaying? He's got the guns if you've got the 'nads, kids.

[professorwolf]

As soon as Lyall hears the word "werewolf" he's going to want to investigate :| Not necessarily hunt... but investigate. Because, y'know. Canon.

He's absolutely useless in an actual hunt, though >.< Biology teacher and all.

Re: WEREWOLF HUNTERS COME TO ME

[twopercent]

You've seen Jack's nads, Cap. Literally if briefly. I think you know what this means.

[shiromadoushi]

BAKURA WANTS TO HELP!

Buuuut lol what skills. Someone teach him some so he can be more helpful~

Re: WEREWOLF HUNTERS COME TO ME

[angelskills]

Thanks to Legretta's recent echo that's made her pretty angry/resentful for no understandable reason, she'd probably be game to shoot werewolves in the face if a group pulled together for that!

[chalicejoker]

Hajime now has memories of FIGHTING ACTUAL MONSTERS even if he was kind of an even worse monster himself at the time and few skills other than schoolyard brawling to back them up, so he'd be very, very interested in this...and would just kind of quietly hope that it doesn't go quite like the other monster-fighting he remembers.

[scramasax]

Kazuma-Kenji-mun and I had planned for Kenji and Anthony to have a first run-in with the werewolf some night, which I hope wouldn't be getting in the way of anything. But even after that, I think Anthony will want to get in on helping with more proper, prepared investigation!

[icy_heavens]

I WANT MY KID INVOLVED WITH THIS but I have no idea how to have him get away with it.

Re: WEREWOLF HUNTERS COME TO ME

[elfstoned]

Aaron will come along if asked, intending to help with injuries. It'll trigger a canon-recurrance Echo, though. Giant wolves suck.

Re: WEREWOLF HUNTERS COME TO ME

[reapsthewind]

Chris has no idea how to shoot a gun but BOY HOWDY DOES SHE WANNA LEARN

[searchforpeace]

Alas, Audrey knows little about using weapons. However I'd love it if she could go after the snake statue eventually.

Ah I should add while she doesn't recall much of her previous incarnation yet, she is still a competent leader naturally.

[secondcomingof]

It'd make a good jumping point for their CR, if nothing else. They can be... leaderish at each other. And stuff. Yeah.

[argents]

where is effy northless, to me! WE HAVE A HOBO TO INTERROGATE. (i assume, anyway. is this going to be NPC played or do we have free reign?)

[northless]

/ROLLS OVER

YO

[elfstoned]

Aaron is going to have someone come to his clinic complaining of a werewolf attack, right? Does the wound look like an animal bite, and is there anything unusual about it?

[elfstoned]

Oh, and would he be able to get a description out of his patients?

DAT SNAKE STATUE

[reapsthewind]

Chris went to MIT. MIT is known for Hackers.

Hackers in this sense aren't computer hackers (though chris can do that too since she specializes in computer flight systems! though not as well as someone devoted to the craft) but rather reality hackers. They do bananas shit like putting police cars on rooftops and stealing a fucking canon from fucking CalTech without them knowing

Seriously look through that link, it's good stuff.

SO...

Chris is interested in getting a hack group together to BREAK DAT STATUE. She's gonna need people who know how to solve engineering problems. Moving a big statue, while difficult, isn't in fact impossible depending on how the damn thing is secured.

WHAT I WILL NEED: Who has resources and access to the materials needed for this kind of thing? Big cars, hell, even earthmoving/construction equipment, ropes, etc

I would prefer we NOT blow it up unless there's a character who is a demolitions expert. Better idea: is there a river/body of water nearby? Throw it in there. Or, y'know, off a roof/cliff :V

Breaking it apart with sledgehammers is also an option

[unfearing]

I personally as a player do not know the first thing about engineering problems.

Euphie here however is working on a bachelors in mechanical engineering. She's also rich. Her father gives her a pretty generous allowance and at least one emergency credit card. If she can help in any way, financially or otherwise, just give me a holler?

I HEARD YOU LIKE RP SO I PUT SOME RP IN YOUR RP

[reapsthewind]

Okay THIS on the other hand is a totally goofy pointless plot. For socializing! and CR!

IRL, I am a dungeons and dragons DM. In-game, Bakura Ryou loooooves him some tabletop RPGs, and Chris 1. played DnD in high school and college (in MIT you can't really avoid RPGs, even if it's via their LARP club) and 2. used DnD to help teach Bakura math.

As a sort of cool down / goofy silly plot, Chris will run a game for y'all.

THIS WILL NOT BE A REAL D&D GAME While I'm going to be using B2: Keep on the Borderlands (ye classic dungeon) as a guide, I won't require ANY dicerolling or keeping track of stats (... unless y'all want to, for some reason?). I'll be coming up with a quick handwavey way of doing stuff. I just ask for some "realism": traditional DnD, especially the way Chris runs it, tends to be hilariously lethal.

THIS MIGHT ACTUALLY BE A GREAT WAY TO GET ECHOES. Is your character from a goofy fantasy canon? WELL THERE YOU GO.

I think Aragorn, Bakura, and Yuuya already expressed interest; I'm willing to take up to 7 players ( so that's four slots left).

[shiromadoushi]

Obviously totally down for it [and just replying to use this icon~] and I just need to figure WHICH TRPG RELATED ECHO Bakura'll get from it. Because seriously. YGO loved it some super serious TRPGs.

[espigeonage]

Yuuya's birthday is the 25th! which I realize is next week, not this one. Thinking about what I could get him. It sounds like things might get exciting by then...

I want to decide. On one hand, pigeon color vision, which is obscene and would be useful. (Was there blood here? A palm? Various cleansers? A week ago? They all left their own fading colors.) Also he'd sound like he's tripping when he talks about the colors, man.

On the other hand, pigeon lungs (small and no diaphragm) so he's unable to take a deep breath and has to get someone to come to the apartment and have his niece let them in and if you hurt or scare her, and then the next echo (...very soon. For his birthday? Before it?) is of pigeon air sacs and then hey, basically never out of breath and always more oxygenated than you. Force some CR and foreshadow a later thing, though he'll forget about it.

ETA: I wonder if he could get little lungs from a "werewolf" encounter, they don't shrink completely until he gets home, and the air sacs from DnD or something.