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   * Separately, Budding Leaf also tries further communication with and investigation of the stone.
   * Iron Cold takes some time off in Fableland to process the horrors he's had to witness and maybe come to terms with the existence of Huskees
-  * Endless Flame sells off the lab equipment and (copy of text from Discord for now) send a threatening letter to the scientists in charge of the facility. He'll promise vengeance if they start keeping creatures in cages or conducting invasive experiments, and leave a black spot at the bottom of the message. Also he'll try and get a contact on the inside of the facility (any sort of staff) by persuasion or bribery. (He has the rank 2 diplomacy ability if that is relevant.)
+  * Endless Flame tries to get a contact on the inside of the facility, before sending a threatening letter (signed with a black spot) to the scientists in charge. He also sells off the lab equipment he stole.
-===== Consequences =====
-  * Breakdown of consequences for characters - rewards, effects, contacts.
+===== Consequences =====
-  * Also mention any wider consequences for the world
-==== All Characters ====
+  * Experimentation on Hive IV creatures is paused for now, with the lab turning its attention instead more towards the portal and the Pentagonal ruins
+  * Expeditions are still running to Hive IV to explore it, and those going are briefed on the 'telepathic' nature of its creatures as understood so far through the lab experiments - plus a general understanding of their other abilities - but dissuaded from attempting to cut creatures up to figure this out
-  * Consequences
+==== Budding Leaf ====
-==== Character 1 ====
+  * +3 Clout with both Borderland Botanists and Zeitgeist
+  * Budding Leaf's ability to communicate reliably with the stone is... a little intermittent. One might even say unreliable... fickle? It is, in many ways, like communicating with a person - if they don't want to talk back, they don't. (A person who doesn't always like you and doesn't always want to talk to you.)
+    * When attempting to use Laboratory Analysis, Budding Leaf is subject once again to lethargic effects, prevented from using the equipment they were hoping to turn to this end. The only conclusion they can draw is that the stone is somewhat opposed to being scientifically researched in any way following its previous experiences.
+    * Attempting to let the stone know that Budding Leaf wants to understand its desires, however, goes better. You get images of belonging, of the small part of the many parts, and you start to see a small part which is a little leaf-shaped, which the other small part sometimes belongs with and sometimes doesn't want to. Upon reflection, you can only come to the conclusion that it will let you know if it wants to come with you? And that if it //wants// to come with you, it won't stop you from taking it places with you? Probably.
+  * Mechanically, Budding Leaf can be understood to gain a very specific version of the Starsighted: Hearing Things skill which simply lets them know if the stone would like to come along on an upcoming mission or not. [OC: this can be established at the start of any mission Budding Leaf is going on: this will only ever trigger on missions where refs are present (don't have to be ref-written missions though).]
-  * Consequences
+==== Endless Flame ====
-==== Character 2 ====
+  * His overall Clout for the Mission is +1 Clout with both the Borderlands Botanists and Zeitgeist - reduced by Enviable Sweetness's poor opinion of him and the fact he attempted to beat up the portal, but still overall positive thanks to his efforts fighting creatures/Aspexx/etc.
+  * His attempt to gain a contact on the inside of the facility through persuasion or bribery is a struggle, as he has no clout with either the Borderland Botanists or Zeitgeist before this mission, and he has very much not made friends with either Enviable Sweetness or Ninth Truth in the encounters above. An attempt to bribe a researcher with random treasure or the lab equipment he previously stole also goes poorly. Ultimately he does not manage to gain more insight than he would get from reading the open published science which Zeitgeist produces from the experiments carried out there.
+  * He sends his threatening letter, signed only with a black spot, promising vengeance if they ever keep creatures in cages again or conduct invasive experiments on them. This letter doesn't seem to have been connected to him (yet) - if it ever is, he will lose -6 clout with both the Borderland Botanists and Zeitgeist.
+  * Selling the lab equipment is fairly lucrative so long as he sells it to someone who doesn't know where it came from - he gains 3 clout with any faction //apart from// the Borderland Botanists or Zeitgeist.
-  * Consequences
+==== Iron Cold ====
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+  * +3 Clout with both the Borderland Botanists and Zeitgeist
+  * Back in Fableland, Iron Cold spends time talking through their experiences with anyone who's willing to listen. While people look politely baffled at his descriptions of holodecks, science labs, portals and similar, he gets a reasonable amount of sympathy on the 'terrifying skeletal monsters' parts of the stories, especially among the members of the Fableland Adventurers Academy. Their enthusiasm to go out and be similarly amazing executing terrifying monsters contributes a little to Iron Cold's recovery from their various traumatic Huskee experiences.
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