PLOT POST FOR APRIL 5th

[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.

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Events occurring currently;

• As detailed here the Vermini continue to roam the city, infesting small animals and have begun to swarm in large enough number to be confident in attacking the player characters.

If anyone would like to have their home investigated by the suspicious humans due to repeat appearances by Vermini infested animals, speak up and we can either play it out or work out the result. Additionally, if anyone wants to bring together the four or more required reincarnated characters to exterminate the Vermini, let me know.

• Paul Ben, thewalkingdork, has died. And in doing so, he has revealed;

a) The invasion exists.
b) Under the influence of the invaders is the city's Chief of Police, a general of the American Military and the head of the most powerful and insane Mafioso Locke has ever seen. Who knows who else is involved?
c) That knowing too much will get you, and your family, killed.
d) The invaders cannot further their plans without finding a 'snake.'
e) Their base is somewhere outside the city limits, possibly a farm.

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Events occurring in the immediate future:

• Now what're you going to do about it?

At this stage, you can start putting forward plans. How proactive the characters are going to be will directly influence what's happening. At present, the invaders do not even know there could be resistance outside of ordinary human society and are not going to be chasing the players yet. Emphasis on yet. Your plans can be subtle or daring, and they might be successful, fail or be completely pointless.

• The Thunder Corporation continues its plans.

Still rather underplayed, the news will contain many references to the currently fruitless campaign by Thunder to renovate the Dead District. Soon, a more otherworldly escalation will make it more apparently sinister.

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Events potentially occurring in the immediate future:

• The Vermini?

If the Vermini aren't dealt with, something is going to happen. By April 8th, infested animals will just...disappear. But that ain't the end of it. Details will be given if players want to go this route. If this event is allowed to occur, at least three characters will be investigated due to constant infested animal appearances; either volunteers or chosen at random. If you feel the characters need an IC kick in the pants to tell them they have to deal with this stuff, I suggest letting this run.

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Potential Echo Opportunities

Until resolved, characters who have not yet received an Echo from the strange creatures or Vermini will still have the chance to. Just witnessing Paul Ben's death is enough to receive an Echo. If the Vermini are dealt with, the mutated human is worth an Echo for all invovled. If the Vermini are not dealt with, it will kick off a plot that will offer a few. Potential Echoes await in proactive plots too.

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

Comments

[theearth]

Hmm. I'll have to talk to them about it and see what and where they'll be trying.

Excellent.

Anyway, there are only enough Vermini for one mutated human. It might be an idea to discuss who gets what. As Lyall is already discovering the statue, might be an idea to spread the action out, but it's up to those involved.

[professorwolf]

Possibly so... I HAVE kind of been throwing Lyall at EVERYTHING OMG. Let's see which group gets the required amount of people first, I suppose?

I can have him talk about the police station trip and statue with people instead, if we don't get a mutant... give the kids something "safe" to do by doing research on those symbols and snakes in mythology and whether anything else like that is cropping up in the city :: chinscratches ::

[dorkytracksuit]

I'd really like to try and get to fight the mutant if its okay? Since Davin is trying to track the vermini and stop them I think it makes more narrative sense, but we can sort something out if you like?

edit: like maybe lyall can be part of their meetup and be involved that way? anyone else who wants can come too? seems easier to involve everyone who wants to go if we do it that way than thinking of someway for the other chars to go to a student safety meeting, but if you have any other ideas let me know?

[professorwolf]

Nah, it's cool, you guys can have it. Since I did get the police station thing, and I came up with something else to do with that meeting anyhow.

And Lyall is dead set against the animal hunt, so getting him involved is a no go X3 It's fine. You guys go kill a mutant.

[horrorterribubble]

Yeah - I was kind of hoping to get to be a part of the mutant thing? It doesn't even have to be with the hunting party specifically, but I think that making these things into a WHOEVER THROWS UP THE POST FIRST WITHOUT DISCUSSING battle is pretty massively lame. I had been intending on making an OOC post trying to make sure anyone interested could get involved in the event, but then I saw that it was being debated here.

So like...if you want Lyall there anyway i'm for it? But I would appreciate if you could share the love in regards to plot stuff especially since it's not as if other people were being secretive about doing the hunting thing.

(Not to mention since this is a collaborative narrative, it really just comes down to a backdating battle in terms of what comes first which is pretty much the opposite of fun.)

[professorwolf]

I'm ceding it to you guys. Lyall is dead set against going animal hunting (and would be useless anyhow).

But yes, if there are one-group-only set-ups in the future, there needs to be some kind of means of determining who gets it besides "first come first served". Sign-ups and randomization perhaps?

[horrorterribubble]

To be honest, I hate artificial feeling "sign up" scenarios and randomization as much as first come first serve stuff. Unless by "sign ups" you just mean like...making a list of who's interested and making it work. Honestly, since the game isn't very large, I don't think it's a lot to ask just to have some amount of OOC discussion about these things. Like, even just making an OOC post that is like "Okay, here's a plot opportunity, who wants in and how can we make it work?" would go a long way.

We don't have nearly a huge enough player base to demand much more than that yet.

[professorwolf]

I kinda thought that this WAS a post for discussing the plot opportunity, which is why when a second request went up I asked whether we could both try it out. And when I was told no, I came up with another reason for Lyall's meeting. I left it open just in case. I'm sorry if that looked like I was trying to steal the event, I didn't mean to.

However we wanna do it, I'm happy to go with it.