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Mini plot post for August 22nd
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theearthHe's gonna make you an offer that you can't refuse
Rumours about Vincent Albero taking on the Numbered himself have been grossly exaggerated. As it turns out, he just wants to have a chat with everyone!
Of course, to make sure he really does reach everyone he'll need to address the network somehow. And how better to do that than simply kidnap one of you hideous freaks to make a post for him?
We are looking for one character to get snatched up by mafia goons and be forced at gunpoint into making a network post. Assuming that nobody makes any rescue attempts or tries anything stupid, the character will be set free a few hours later! Huzzah!
There's a thread for kidnapping volunteers below, so please feel free to sign up there! We'll be making our decision within the next few days - priority will be given to characters who have not yet had major plot involvement, are publically "out" as numbered (or are easily identified as such), and who the mafia are at least likely to think would make an easy kidnapping target.
Why is change so hard?
As announced in the last plot post, the geography will drastically change starting on the 24th all the way through the 28th of August. A mountain is rising up insider the echo boundaries... and slowly, another change will happen as well, starting on the 26th and lasting through the end of August. The area west of the echo boundaries will drop as if there is suddenly a hole under it, first single buildings or parts of streets cracking down and then larger parts, at the same time as the lower areas both there and inside the echo boundaries will start to flood. The water is coming from under the echo boundaries, as if the inaccesibly a deep, large water reservoir there is opened and pressed out by something else shoving down on it...
While the rise of the mountain mysteriously protects the buildings on top of it, the structures adapting to the changed ground, the areas affected by the flooding will be less lucky, and unlike the areas that are rising, there will be forced evacuation for them as the pattern of holes in the ground opening and swallowing streets and houses is a lot more familiar to the officials.
The flooded areas and roughly five feet of land at its shores are also within the echo boundaries, that means that the echo boundaries have yet again expanded. At midnight between the 22nd/23rd, all characters from Middle Earth will notice a weaker version of the sensation that an echo causes them to feel.
( Visual Aid )
Don't worry, they are only happy to see you!
In Locke as well as in Vegas, reporters will start to actively search out the numbered for an interview. They might ambush them in the streets, show up at their school or job, ring at their doors... And mostly ask questions from the following areas, with obvious variations due to location: The theft of project jump; the murders and abductions in Vegas; the big echo locations (the mysterious new church in Locke and the geology changes in Vegas); and intensely personal personal questions like "how do you shower, Mr dragon?" and "don't you worry that that additional wing on you will turn off the boys?". Some of the reporters are aware of there being more at more crimes against the numbered, but it isn't likely that it will be brought up even if the person is obviously injured.
Where two or three are gathered
The cultist conference log will go up tonight. All invitations have by now gone out, and Badri might have encouraged your character to go. More information will be given in the log post, but if any questions regarding the conference have cropped up or crop up in the future, please direct them to the General Questions thread.
Please direct questions regarding these plot points to the thread below and not the post in general.
Rumours about Vincent Albero taking on the Numbered himself have been grossly exaggerated. As it turns out, he just wants to have a chat with everyone!
Of course, to make sure he really does reach everyone he'll need to address the network somehow. And how better to do that than simply kidnap one of you hideous freaks to make a post for him?
We are looking for one character to get snatched up by mafia goons and be forced at gunpoint into making a network post. Assuming that nobody makes any rescue attempts or tries anything stupid, the character will be set free a few hours later! Huzzah!
There's a thread for kidnapping volunteers below, so please feel free to sign up there! We'll be making our decision within the next few days - priority will be given to characters who have not yet had major plot involvement, are publically "out" as numbered (or are easily identified as such), and who the mafia are at least likely to think would make an easy kidnapping target.
Why is change so hard?
As announced in the last plot post, the geography will drastically change starting on the 24th all the way through the 28th of August. A mountain is rising up insider the echo boundaries... and slowly, another change will happen as well, starting on the 26th and lasting through the end of August. The area west of the echo boundaries will drop as if there is suddenly a hole under it, first single buildings or parts of streets cracking down and then larger parts, at the same time as the lower areas both there and inside the echo boundaries will start to flood. The water is coming from under the echo boundaries, as if the inaccesibly a deep, large water reservoir there is opened and pressed out by something else shoving down on it...
While the rise of the mountain mysteriously protects the buildings on top of it, the structures adapting to the changed ground, the areas affected by the flooding will be less lucky, and unlike the areas that are rising, there will be forced evacuation for them as the pattern of holes in the ground opening and swallowing streets and houses is a lot more familiar to the officials.
The flooded areas and roughly five feet of land at its shores are also within the echo boundaries, that means that the echo boundaries have yet again expanded. At midnight between the 22nd/23rd, all characters from Middle Earth will notice a weaker version of the sensation that an echo causes them to feel.
( Visual Aid )
Don't worry, they are only happy to see you!
In Locke as well as in Vegas, reporters will start to actively search out the numbered for an interview. They might ambush them in the streets, show up at their school or job, ring at their doors... And mostly ask questions from the following areas, with obvious variations due to location: The theft of project jump; the murders and abductions in Vegas; the big echo locations (the mysterious new church in Locke and the geology changes in Vegas); and intensely personal personal questions like "how do you shower, Mr dragon?" and "don't you worry that that additional wing on you will turn off the boys?". Some of the reporters are aware of there being more at more crimes against the numbered, but it isn't likely that it will be brought up even if the person is obviously injured.
Where two or three are gathered
The cultist conference log will go up tonight. All invitations have by now gone out, and Badri might have encouraged your character to go. More information will be given in the log post, but if any questions regarding the conference have cropped up or crop up in the future, please direct them to the General Questions thread.
Please direct questions regarding these plot points to the thread below and not the post in general.
