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Character Shenanigans!

Sometimes things happen that may have consequences further down the line. Sometimes characters decide to do things that might have immidiate reprecussion. As mods we want to have our fingers on the pulse of the game as it were, but we are also aware that we won't be able to read every single thing!

So that's where this post comes in. If your character has done something 'noticable' that you think we might need to know about, throw us a link here. Some might require a response, some will just be noted.

Example: "Over *here* my character is trying to smash the windows of the engine!"

Sometimes you might have an idea in mind that you believe will have consequences and be in the midst of writing the thread, however you want to know what those consequences will be for threads going forward. Or you might still be in the planning stages and would like to know how things might pan out. That's also what this post is for!

Example: "At the end of this event my character is planning to not rejoin the train and instead ride off into the sunset! What happens?"

Ask away!

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Assuming they are taking the radio onto Tshering. If they turn it they will hear the usual static but underneath and through that they will hear music. Singing, much like the eerie choral singing they can hear between carriages.

They... probably don't want to listen to it for long, it's very creepy.

To quote myself from the discord:

"Like even if the train didn't tell her not to [use mind abilities on the chaos river], her first instinct, as a navigator, would be to do a scan [of the area] with her Persona as soon as leaving the train
now that the train's told her not to she's almost certainly going to do that"

So how bad of a time are we potentially talking about here. Will it get worse the more she tries to focus on studying the river? And if so, is there anything (i.e. a headache or something like that) that might warn her off proceeding? |D

Also in general it seems a lot of our characters have more passive sensing abilities, would those be affected at all and if so, how.

Edited 2021-04-10 08:50 (UTC)

The whole world feels quite intense to her scans when she scans the world, the river almost blinding in that first whole area scan, like it is going to hurt to look closely at it.

If she focuses on the river it will be Headache Bad times. She detects everything in a rush of information and emotion that is impossible to separate or understand. Extremely overwhelming like she is drowning in information.

She will have a bad head for the whole day and will find it very difficult to use her scanning ability. Essentially everything she tries to sense all day just brings back pretty colours and more headaches.

The passive scans wont instantly make Bad Things Happen, they will more, blur over the river and give the rest of the lay of the land.

Edited 2021-04-10 14:00 (UTC)

FINAL MURDERPLOT DAMAGE COUNT: in addition to the above, there were fireballs launched. Nothing caught fire, but if the walls CAN be singed, then they probably are.

Oh, and Bakura's bedsheets are gone. Just. Gone. She used them to truss up Seto.

Casper, being a good and dutiful son of Death, showed up 15 minutes late with Voidbucks and then was nice enough to help clean the place up as much as possible.

Okay that actually might be pretty effective in dissuading her from going further - everybody knows staring into the sun is a bad idea that's just common sense.

Are the Headache Bad times going to be just as intense no matter how closely she tries to look at it? i.e. is it going to be as bad as if she just mentally dipped her toe in the water vs. just trying to wade in. And if anybody tried to help her with just the pain part of the side effects at least, would they be able to do so (I don't have plans here just pre-emptively asking to keep my options open)

Also just to clarify, does this mean for those characters who have more passive sensing abilities that are "always on" so to speak, today's just going to be a bad time in general due to headache-y-ness and things? Futaba's aren't 100% on all the time but I know there were other characters in the discord for whom this might be a problem. LMAO You edited the original post with the answer to this while I was working on this! Nvm and thank you there!

Edited 2021-04-10 14:08 (UTC)

If she just dips her toe in it so to speak it won't be as bad and people will be able to help with the pain as they would with an ordinary headache.

And yeah... I forgot about that bit of the question and then remembered

Noted, thanks for keeping us updated.

Okay, so...several things, of varying levels of 'Vexen why':

1) He passively senses light/darkness of the metaphysical, emotional variety. This isn't quite empathy, but different sorts of light or darkness can be actively identified in the same way one could identify a familiar flower by scent. He also has some other 'on by default' stuff, of the typical Square-flavored condition monitoring magic. Anything in particular he'd notice just on approaching the river?

2) Provided nothing he senses just on approach is enough to convince him he Should Not, he's going to be attempting to use more focused scanning magic on the water. He will be exercising some amount of caution, but given his magic specifically is able to read hearts in intense detail, is there anything that would happen beyond the standard 'head hurtie, scan stop workie'?

3) Independently of both of those things, he's going to be trying to use his own world hopping magic to open a portal to the world from the previous mission. Will anything happen specifically trying to reach a world nearby in the Void, while in a Void nexus?

1) The concepts he understands a 'light' and 'darkness' are muddled in this very bright very chaotic river. On passive scans his scans almost want to skip over it as too confusing, too much to deal with.

2) The sensory overload will be emotion based- every possible emotion you can think of slamming into him all at once, threatening to drown him.

3) Assuming these are similar to dark corridors- in that they work at all because he can use the to transport himself around in a world as well as inter-world, opening one will result in feedback strong enough to knock him back about five feet. The portal will then snap shut, he wont be able to use them.

2) I assume these emotions will be full force, despite his normally dulled emotions?

3) Just to clarify, he can't even use dark corridors to get around the nexus?

Rich is potentially about to fall in the water over here. He will likely be pulled out, but what could happen if he's in there for a couple minutes?

2) Yes they will be!

3) It will be a bit random, sometimes they work, sometimes they go a bit wrong (ending up in a different place than intended) sometimes they don't work at all.

Rich...

Since he got pulled out pretty quickly he will survive but he will feel very weird all day. He will feel almost over-sensitive to touch and will feel a tingling sensation like pins and needles that won't go away until the next day. He will have a pounding headache that can be lessened with normal pain relief/magic but remain at a low level. He will find himself a bit more emotional than usual almost like his emotions are closer to the surface.

Sometime after lunch the radio begins to static and blare to life, though there is nothing concrete at first. But then through the static they will hear a... perhaps familiar beeping. It will take a bit of tuning but they will pick up a message through the static, this message repeats itself on a loop for about an hour.

boop beep boop beep / boop boop boop/ boop boop/ beep//
beep beep / boop beep//
beep beep beep boop/ boop boop boop/ beep beep/ boop beep beep / boop / beep boop beep/ beep/ boop beep boop beep/ boop beep boop/ beep/ beep boop beep/ beep beep beep//

beep beep beep/ boop boop boop boop beep/ beep beep beep boop boop/ beep beep beep beep boop/ beep beep boop boop boop/ boop beep beep beep beep/ beep boop boop boop boop/ boop boop boop boop beep/ beep beep beep beep boop/ boop boop boop boop beep/ boop boop boop boop beep/ beep beep boop boop boop//

beep beep beep/ beep boop/ boop boop/ beep//
beep beep beep/ boop/ beep boop beep/ beep boop/ boop beep/ boop boop beep/ beep//
beep boop beep/ beep/ beep boop/ boop beep beep/ beep beep/ boop beep/ boop boop beep/ beep beep beep//

boop beep boop beep/ beep boop/ beep boop beep beep/ beep boop beep beep/ beep / boop beep beep//
beep beep boop beep/ boop boop boop/ beep boop beep//
beep beep beep boop/ boop boop boop/ beep beep/ boop beep beep//
beep boop/ beep beep/ boop beep beep//

beep beep beep/ boop boop boop/ beep boop boop beep/ beep//
boop/ boop boop boop//
boop boop/ beep/ beep/ boop//
boop beep boop boop/ boop boop boop/ beep beep boop//
boop/ beep beep beep beep/ beep / beep boop beep/ beep//

beep boop/ boop beep/ beep boop/ boop beep

Dev's been working on a couple of tech things that I'd like him to test out on this mission if possible!

First, the 'remote body' drones that Entrapta, Dev, and Kaiba have been developing are ready for a field trial if that's okay. Using Helpmates tech pilfered from the hollow world mission, they've been trying to develop a system where they can use a drone and a VR headset to pilot a hardlight hologram body remotely. (Dev will also have built in the capability for them to sync up to other wireless controlled systems so that he can run one with his Implant and Interface.)

He's also been working on tweaking his Interface's scanners to be able to read SCA signals the same way it reads emIDs per a convo that Katy and I had on the Discord. Since he ordered a beefier Interface to use on missions, I was thinking he could actually have the breakthrough with that, since it probably has more powerful scanners and software to match.

Thoughts?

~ A field test for remote drones sound like something that can happen this world. The tech will fit in well enough in the world to not cause a commotion.

~ It sounds fair to have the scanners have a break through- as per the convo we had on discord!

So yes to both!

Yahoo! Thank you!

More static, though the message comes through clearer quicker this time.

boop beep boop beep / boop boop boop/ boop boop/ beep//
beep beep / boop beep//
beep beep beep boop/ boop boop boop/ beep beep/ boop beep beep / boop / beep boop beep/ beep/ boop beep boop beep/ boop beep boop/ beep/ beep boop beep/ beep beep beep//

boop boop / beep / beep / boop//
boop boop/ beep//
beep boop/ boop//
beep boop beep beep/ beep beep/ beep beep boop beep/ boop//
beep beep beep beep boop/ beep beep beep beep beep/ beep beep beep/ beep/ beep beep boop boop boop/ beep boop boop boop boop/ beep beep beep beep beep/ beep boop//
beep boop/ beep beep boop beep/ boop/ beep/ beep boop beep//
boop beep beep/ beep boop/ beep boop beep/ boop beep boop//

beep boop/ boop beep/ beep boop/ boop beep

About an hour later a response will be broadcast back:

boop boop / beep / beep beep beep / beep beep beep/ beep boop/ boop boop beep/ beep //
beep boop beep/ beep / boop beep boop beep/ beep / beep beep/ beep beep beep boop/ beep/ boop beep beep//

boop/beep beep beep beep/ beep boop/ boop beep/ boop beep boop/ beep beep beep//
beep beep beep boop/ boop//

I'm assuming this is the character shenanigans this goes to but if not lemme know so I can move it :3c

So as noted here V would put together a quasi-AI virus to seek out and find information on prisons in this world in the early morning hours of Llama 6.

It would work without any connection to V until such a point it finds what it's searching for, at which it would start sending files over an encrypted connection to V's Agent for V to review at his leisure.

Sounds good!

He will find that most prisoners are moved out of the city to prison facilities elsewhere. There are a couple of holding facilities in the city itself though these are very short term until people get transferred out.

There doesn't seem to be a lot in the way of courts or fair trials in this world and bribery is rife.

Spectura stuff

Specturacorp are a well established company on the world, their headquarters are in the city and they own three factories, one of which is in the city and two elsewhere. There were plans for a fourth.

They are as borderline corrupt as any corporation here but it doesn't seem like they have any actual bad intentions other than 'sell people escapism and make a load of credits doing so'. Their internal messages and files from the last week show a state of panic. No one knows what is happening, all the programmers have been dragged in, everyone is under non disclosure gag clauses but truthfully it doesn't seem like they'd have answers even if they weren't. Because they don't know what went wrong.

There doesn't seem to be anything wrong with the code, but the virus is everywhere and the leaders are losing patience. It's a mess.

Nothing suspicious seems to have happened before the virus appeared. No security breaches, no mysterious new members of staff.

I have a small laundry list of questions! Apologies in advance. Not all of these things will be immediately investigated but he will be doing so.

In Elidibus's canon, aether is the energy that flows through all things. It is not just 'magic energy' though it is what is used to USE magic. It is also life force, the energy of natural phenomena, etc. Sometimes it is just in a 'base state', sometimes (though not always) it is elementally charged (fire, ice, water, lightning, wind, earth, light, dark). For instance, a volcano's eruption is marked as 'aether heavily aspecting toward the fire element'. Electricity running through a device would be lightning aspected aether and so forth. It cycles to the Aetherial Realm and back again as new life. It exists between worlds as well. And of course it is woven into spells, constructs and creation magic (Elidibus's people could literally create very near anything given enough aether and focus; it was a gift the whole race used naturally.) Elidibus possesses the ability to see the flow of aether.

1) When first appearing on the platform, what would the flow of aether be like in the surroundings? Would it seem a static presence (meant to be permanent), temporary (will disappear once its use time runs out), an old creation or something newly created?

2) About the SCA: In the same vein that aether is not 'just' magic, what sort of aether might flow in it? Does it interact with their wearer's aether? Does it connect to the train in some fashion?

3) Would the fog be part of the natural surroundings (naturally part of the aether flow?) or would it be interrupting/diverting it (Like a spell or a barrier)? Would the train be shrouded by this if so or could its aether still be seen beyond it?

4) When the train is visible what sort of aether would flow around it? Does it have any spells about it? What of its composition? If the fog can be 'seen' through with these senses, would it still be there? Would it have any notable changes or would it just be hanging out, if you will?

5) What about the train from the inside? Any interesting aether connections going on here? He would peek at hotspots for certain (the engine room wall for example!)

6) About Voidspace, canon FFXIV has 'Void' being an existence being completely Aspected to the 'Dark' element. Dark represents growth/activity/chaos. Something which Elidibus can move around and in with relative ease normally because of his nature. I get the impression that Voidspace in VT is a different concept so I want to confirm that and also want to ask, aether-speaking, how that might differ. (He is certainly wise enough not to look at it overlong but would be interested in studying it to determine the nature of it. Seeing if a small, harmless spell can take form in it that sort of thing.)

And that is it for now. There are some other things I'll have questions for later but this would probably apply to his first few days and I already feel it's a lot of stuff to answer. Thank you for your time!

7) I lied. One more thing: I remember it mentioned in setting that sometimes a sound like choral singing can be heard but may be dismissed as the wind. I do think if heard Elidibus would seek out its source. He is possessed of what is canonically called the 'Echo' but on a MUCH greater scale and scope (and control) than the game's player characters and mortal NPCs portray. The closest comparison is a bundle of psychic-like clairvoyance and plot MacGuffin. I think he would tentatively seek to try and determine whether this 'singing' is just the wind or something else. Cautiously. Very cautiously. Shit like this lead to bad things happening to his world. But it's also why he can't leave it alone.

Edited 2021-06-01 22:19 (UTC)

1) The aether on the platform is very fluid. A place in a state of change. The platforms have been explained IC to be liminal spaces- to ease transition into the void and the energy reflects that.

2) There is a connection between the sca the train and the passengers. Life maybe? Energy? Magic? It will feel strange and not quite like anything he knows but he will be able to sense that there is the connection there.

3) The fog is part of the natural aether of the platform. It doesn't seem to have any spells but it won't feel or seem like fog he knows of. The train is partly shrouded by it but can be 'seen through'.

4) Is metal an aether? Because he will get enough to know that it is a train. There's no other energy apart from that of the other passengers. No magic, no life energy, not even a power aether.

5) The inner walls and furnishings act like he would expect normal walls and furnishings to act. With the same aether as you would imagine. He can sense nothing from the outer walls or the engine room wall (indeed it seems like his sense skips the engine room wall completely).

6) He won't be able to see the aether of the void through the train windows- its as if his senses stop at the outer walls. Likewise no magic will leave the train into the void.

7) Cautious is good! As he tries to tune into the singing it will sound louder, calling him and seem very much more singing rather than the wind. It will also come with a rapidly growing headache.

Thank you very much!

(Also it would be crazy weird to see no aether flowing in a train obviously powered SOMEHOW so that's interesting!)

Well rather than the flow from train to people to SCA connection. Which I will follow up on later because this laundry list is already probably a few days worth of examinations.

Also needs to recover from that danger headache! cOc

Not sure if this is the correct place, but here goes. Najaran is attempting to have a few of her creatures carry a bunch of dirt from the Greenhouse car into the Garden car to make a "bed" for Woodfolk. Not sure if the Train would have an issue with this, so wanted to post it up so if there is a response I can put it into her threads. (And if no response, should this be posted elsewhere so people know there is now a small dirt bed in the Garden Car?)

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Forward dated to Llama day 4

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What Their Eyes See: Network Scraping Shenanigans

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