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?

[theearth]

1) It depends how far Jack is willing to go. He probably could sneak into the gated community or Albero's mansion grounds and snoop around, but it's risky either way.

2) The house is being monitored for just that sort of thing, by quite talented police. They won't take direct action, but they're taking photos of anyone who hangs around.

[twopercent]

1) This is a sneaking mission, Snake Jack. Gated community seems more iffy in my mind's eye, but I could see Jack heading onto the mansion grounds to see if he can hear/spot anything of note from outside, as long as there isn't too much security. He won't go actually inside though, and is prepared to get the hell out if there's an alert phase :P

2) FIGURES ;A;

[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?

[theearth]

1) Imagine you put some doglike scent and some human scent together in a blender and made a scent smoothie from it. Like that.

2) Not immediately. Aside from the numbers club members who keep showing up to pet it, it seems to be left alone... at least until something that must be one of the so-called "werewolves" shows up in the dead of night just long enough to find and dismantle the equipment...

[professorwolf]

Thanks kindly! Can you specify a particular night that this might occur, or should we just pick whenever? X3

Also, thought: what happens if one of these things bites you? Anything beyond "ow bleeding"?

[theearth]

It doesn't really matter, no.

We'll get to potential bitings once these things are actually interacting with the characters, but... to get at what you're actually asking: nope. Aside from echoes, there shouldn't be any other supernatural effects on anyone as a result of them.

[professorwolf]

Excellent, thank you! And ONE final question before I leave you alone. Lyall is going to be doing some tracking, most likely, once he finds out about these... anywhere in particular their scent might lead or be strongest, or is it pretty well dispursed?

[theearth]

The scent will be strongest where people used to be before being made to leave one way or another. Other than that it's pretty much all over, and regardless, people wandering around instead of making a point of leaving the area, especially after dark, will be enough to draw their attention. Therefore, finding wherever they're actually based will be pretty much impossible.

[professorwolf]

All I needed to know, thank you very much! :)

[shiromadoushi]

Assuming there'll be some sort of heads up when that happens? Since Bakura's checking on his "base" in abandoned land at least once a day. [Or just toss me a date for it?]

[theearth]

As I said above, you can just assume it happens not too long after it's set up - a couple of days or so. It's unlikely they'll be able to make out much of the perpetrator visually, but if you want something more detailed then, feel free to ask.

Also note that in doing this you're providing potential evidence... including the scent of anyone who touched said cameras and whatever else is left there.

[shiromadoushi]

Bakura had his crappy cam set up about 3 days ago, on the 3rd floor of one of the abandoned buildings that he could sneak into [via a broken window] so I assume it's already forfeit? If it's the dead of night, since it's a cheap cam, it wouldn't show anything unless there was a light source. Nothing else really there but the camera, but Bakura's scent would be all over that place since it's his "secret base" that he decided on.

[theearth]

Yeah, consider it totally ransacked and the camera taken, then.

[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

[theearth]

Ayup!

But there's very little actually in the station that'd arouse suspicion. The most suspicious thing to notice would be that frequently groups of police are leaving together in a van at the end of the day. If pressed about it, they'll say they're undergoing special training for dealing with terrorism, but they'll be a bit sketchy about details and try to deflect talking about it.

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? ^^

[theearth]

As said when asked before, several farms have new security and so I randomly rolled a number up to pick one. The result is;

Lyall will discover absolutely nothing, except a new fence.

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)

Re: QUESTIONS

[theearth]

They are being specifically NPC'd by the mods and are therefore being described in the threads as they go along! Their appearance, abilities, and so forth will be revealed as things progress and shouldn't be assumed beforehand.