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shared:mission:another_yondering [2023/12/30 18:59]
susannah |
shared:mission:another_yondering [2023/12/30 19:12] (current)
susannah [Desiring Peace] |
| ===== Summary ===== | ===== Summary ===== |
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| * Desiring Peace and Blind Devotion show up in Luckworth as instructed, and are briefed that the ACE organisation believes one of their employees has been granted visions that lead them to valuable creatures, and they have narrowed it down to two people in the same town, but are not sure which is the right person. The party are to go to the town, find these people, suss out which is the right one, then help them execute on the visions so the organisation can get these creatures. [OC: This is the result of the Intervention performed by Red Nine during [[Forging Ahead|shared:mission:forging_ahead]].] | * Desiring Peace and Blind Devotion show up in Luckworth as instructed, and are briefed that the ACE organisation believes one of their employees has been granted visions that lead them to valuable creatures, and they have narrowed it down to two people in the same town, but are not sure which is the right person. The party are to go to the town, find these people, suss out which is the right one, then help them execute on the visions so the organisation can get these creatures. [OC: This is the result of the Intervention performed by Red Nine during [[shared:mission:forging_ahead|Forging Ahead]].] |
| * After dealing with a predictable encounter on the way there, the party arrive at a run-down town on the outskirts of the Ace's World shipheart range to find a large quantity of angry goosehawks mobbing the house at the address they've been given. They dispatch the goosehawks and enter the house to find two young ACE employees, Knave Blue and Fives Fancy, with a young goosehawk they have captured and are discussing what to do with. | * After dealing with a predictable encounter on the way there, the party arrive at a run-down town on the outskirts of the Ace's World shipheart range to find a large quantity of angry goosehawks mobbing the house at the address they've been given. They dispatch the goosehawks and enter the house to find two young ACE employees, Knave Blue and Fives Fancy, with a young goosehawk they have captured and are discussing what to do with. |
| * Knave Blue and Fives Fancy both work at the ACE casino in town, and both claim to have had a dream where they saw a baby goosehawk under a tree on the edge of town, so they've captured this baby goosehaw and plan to take it there to see if anything happens. They say they've both been having strange dreams about animals for a couple of months now. | * Knave Blue and Fives Fancy both work at the ACE casino in town, and both claim to have had a dream where they saw a baby goosehawk under a tree on the edge of town, so they've captured this baby goosehaw and plan to take it there to see if anything happens. They say they've both been having strange dreams about animals for a couple of months now. |
| * Knave Blue mentions another dream, which they were hesitant to follow up on because it was clearly in the Decay. But if the party, who are clearly much better fighters than two casino employees, are happy to come with them and fight any Decay that might occur....? The party agree to do so. | * Knave Blue mentions another dream, which they were hesitant to follow up on because it was clearly in the Decay. But if the party, who are clearly much better fighters than two casino employees, are happy to come with them and fight any Decay that might occur....? The party agree to do so. |
| * Decay occurs. The party and their friends manage to evade a path full of Trackers (despite Yondering Mountain's slow amble), before finding the scene that Knave Blue says (and Fives Fancy hastily echoes) they saw in a vision: A military transport vehicle, apparently abandoned at some point during the war between ACE and HGC, which contains several large Goosehogs that appear to have climbed into it to eat leftover sandwiches. As the party arrive, however, the vehicle dissolves into large and angry Decay, fighting the hogs and the party somewhat indiscriminately. The hogs also fight the Decay and the party somewhat indiscriminately. The party attempt to discriminate at least far enough not to accidentally kill any 'special' goosehogs. | * Decay occurs. The party and their friends manage to evade a path full of Trackers (despite Yondering Mountain's slow amble), before finding the scene that Knave Blue says (and Fives Fancy hastily echoes) they saw in a vision: A military transport vehicle, apparently abandoned at some point during the war between ACE and HGC, which contains several large Goosehogs that appear to have climbed into it to eat leftover sandwiches. As the party arrive, however, the vehicle dissolves into large and angry Decay, fighting the hogs and the party somewhat indiscriminately. The hogs also fight the Decay and the party somewhat indiscriminately. The party attempt to discriminate at least far enough not to accidentally kill any 'special' goosehogs. |
| * With the fighting out of the way, Yondering Mountain attempts to teach both Knave Blue and Fives Fancy how to detect which of the goosehogs is special. Both of them seem quite confused by his lessons - there's nothing concrete about how to be sure the creature is the right one, or how to 'extract' the special liquid from it - but eventually Knave Blue manages to open a gland which oozes something incredibly sticky onto the kitchen knife she brought with her. Everyone immediately tells her not to touch it to anything else. Fives Fancy attempts the same but seems to struggle more with extracting the liquid - but does get some after Knave Blue helps him. | * With the fighting out of the way, Yondering Mountain attempts to teach both Knave Blue and Fives Fancy how to detect which of the goosehogs is special. Both of them seem quite confused by his lessons - there's nothing concrete about how to be sure the creature is the right one, or how to 'extract' the special liquid from it, mostly gnomic questions like 'what does your instinct tell you?' - but eventually Knave Blue manages to open a gland which oozes something incredibly sticky onto the kitchen knife she brought with her. Everyone immediately tells her not to touch it to anything else. Fives Fancy attempts the same but seems to struggle more with extracting the liquid - but does get some after Knave Blue helps him. |
| * Fives Fancy eventually breaks down and confesses that he doesn't really get the same visions, he just lied in their first conversation about having had a similar weird dream because he wanted to have something in common with Knave Blue, he just really likes her and wanted to talk to her, and then it kind of snowballed from there and he didn't know how to get out of the lie. Knave Blue is somewhat taken aback by this, but seems to not be too horrified by it - indeed, seems to think he's been helpful with the animals so far, and possibly she likes him too? | * Fives Fancy eventually breaks down and confesses that he doesn't really get the same visions, he just lied in their first conversation about having had a similar weird dream because he wanted to have something in common with Knave Blue, he just really likes her and wanted to talk to her, and then it kind of snowballed from there and he didn't know how to get out of the lie. Knave Blue is somewhat taken aback by this, but seems to not be too horrified by it - indeed, seems to think he's been helpful with the animals so far, and possibly she likes him too? |
| * As relationship drama continues while they attempt to lead the Designated Special Goosehog home (to keep it in their house?), more Decay attacks. While dealing with this, however, the party are surprised by a bandit attack - a very //focused// bandit attack. The leader of the bandits introduces themself as Wildcard Gilded, a long-time rival of Ace's High (they say they're the reason she lost her eye), and makes it clear that a leak in the ACE organisation has given them the info about these valuable young people and their lucrative ability - which Wildcard Gilded wants for themself. It's unclear whether they want the revenue stream, or just to take something valuable away from Ace's High. Could be both. The party do not sell out Knave Blue and Fives Fancy, but instead do their best to capture Wildcard Gilded - which might have been successful, if Wildcard Gilded were not //extremely// good at hiding. Sneaking. Disappearing in the middle of a fight. That sort of thing. | * As relationship drama continues while they attempt to lead the Designated Special Goosehog home (to keep it in their house?), more Decay attacks. While dealing with this, however, the party are surprised by a bandit attack - a very //focused// bandit attack. The leader of the bandits introduces themself as Wildcard Gilded, a long-time rival of Ace's High (they say they're the reason she lost her eye), and makes it clear that a leak in the ACE organisation has given them the info about these valuable young people and their lucrative ability - which Wildcard Gilded wants for themself. It's unclear whether they want the revenue stream, or just to take something valuable away from Ace's High. Could be both. The party do not sell out Knave Blue and Fives Fancy, but instead do their best to capture Wildcard Gilded - which might have been successful, if Wildcard Gilded were not //extremely// good at hiding. Sneaking. Disappearing in the middle of a fight. That sort of thing. |
| ===== Consequences ===== | ===== Consequences ===== |
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| * There is now a second Yonderer in system. This theoretically means that there might eventually be double the amount of Extract available for Various Forging. However, this operation is not yet fully up to speed, and when it is, the prices of Extract from ACE will undoubtedly be higher than what Yondering Mountain charges, since he only tries to make enough from it to live in the wilderness with two Raktors, while ACE will be attempting to run a profitable organisation with multiple employees. Still, it should mean that there is now some redundancy in the supply of the Extract as well as the Forge infrastructure itself, and there is no longer a possibility of single-point failure which would prevent all Various in system being able to access augments. | * There is now a second Yonderer in system. This theoretically means that there might eventually be double the amount of Extract available for Various Forging. However, this operation is not yet fully up to speed, although it should be within the next month or two. When it is, the prices of Extract from ACE will undoubtedly be higher than what Yondering Mountain charges, since he only tries to make enough from it to live in the wilderness with two Raktors, while ACE will be attempting to run a profitable organisation with multiple employees. Still, it should mean that there is now some redundancy in the supply of the Extract as well as the Forge infrastructure itself, and there is no longer a possibility of single-point failure which would prevent all Various in system being able to access augments. |
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| ==== All Characters ==== | ==== All Characters ==== |
| ==== Desiring Peace ==== | ==== Desiring Peace ==== |
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| * You feel that you are not the only one unhappy with how long the war has been dragging on. The ACE organisation seems to be pretty keen on the idea of some form of peace agreement, and really all they want is to have their planet back. It is a little unclearer what HGC want out of the war at this stage, but in the rank and file at least you feel your quiet agitation heard and shared. | * You feel that you are not the only one unhappy with how long the war has been dragging on. The ACE organisation seems to be pretty keen on the idea of some form of peace agreement, and really all they want is to have their planet back. It is a little less clear what HGC want out of the war at this stage, but in the rank and file at least you feel your quiet agitation is heard and shared. |
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| ==== Blind Devotion ==== | ==== Blind Devotion ==== |