MOD LOG #2

[bequiet]

MOD LOG #2
Now we're back to the beginning
Content Warnings: Death, apocalypse, a shit storm generally, pigeon death
Themes: Survival, plot

As noted on the ooc plotting post, this prompt is in the form of a Network Post via the native who runs the Bulletin Board. The post can be found here. Out of the five separate teams, all groups decided to share the footage they found. On the morning of the first, the footage will go live as a compilation in order of oldest to newest. Character's devices will update at the same time. The weather is overcast and sullen, befitting the news, and characters can talk to each other on the network post or play out their reactions on the log here.

Will you stay or will you go
Content Warnings: NONE
Themes: Survival, plot

On the morning of the second, the locals will call a meeting at town hall. All soundproofing and partnering rules apply - find a person and help soundproof the area. This is so that everyone can speak during the meeting. The found footage has unsettled the natives and after the community takes a seat, Constance will share some interesting backstory. As one of the oldest members of the community, Constance wasn't alive when the Sound Eaters first came but she heard stories from her great grandmother. The 'tales' have taken twists and turns over time, leaving the survivors with a watered down version of events that amounts to - they came and everyone had to be quiet.

An elderly native will come forward and admit that they arrived through the Reset Room when they were a teenager and have been living there ever since. They tried to get home and they could never find away. Most interestingly, to those that listen closely to his story, is that he came with a sibling who was killed by a Sound Eater and wasn't Reset. Yet, he's known people to come through the Reset Room, die, and come back. Piping up from the background, another local mentions that those born in the world they're in now (natives) aren't reset when they die. It's not something they have any real understanding of. Arrivals tend to disappear at random times, stay in the community, or leave; those that choose to depart and explore the world never make it very far. Whether this is from Sound Eaters alone or someone or something else, the natives don't know. It's obvious they are frightened and don't go beyond what they know is safe.

The natives will now ask the characters if they will stay as permanent members of the community. If they choose to, they will be given the option to take on an apartment that is completely soundproofed, furnished, and will be accepted completely by the natives. This can open up doors for characters to become important parts of the community. No character has to agree to become permanent members. If a character chooses not to, the arrangement they're in will stay the same until a few months from now when the natives ask again. Arrivals are given the chance to talk to one another so that they can decide and digest the new information. There is also a comment below to ask the natives questions 'in front of' the entire community.

ooc: Players have until apps close this upcoming round to comment to the housing page saying that their character chose to be permanent members and are taking an apartment. The apartment is located closer to the Reset Room and are either one or two bedrooms; please note which one your character is taking.

Therefore I lie with her
Content Warnings: NONE
Themes: Survival, plot

The native Constance, who hands out the devices, has decided to step back from a leadership role and has submitted the names of those that she believes could lead the group better than she has. Please vote responsibly. During dinner, a group meal prepared and served in the town hall, slips of paper will be passed around with a pencil for everyone to vote. They will be anonymous unless the person chooses to share out loud who they voted for. There won't be much time for campaigning, but candidates are allowed to do so if they'd like - either handwaved or through their own posts/top-levels.

THE CANDIDATES:

- Frank Castle
- Erik Lehnsherr
- Teddy Upsilon
- Richie Tozier
- Akira Kurusu
- Merlan O'Keefe

OOC
From your mods:

Please be mindful of content - if something triggery comes up or if it goes up a rating to say, something sexy, mark your threads in the subject line. We're very flexible and allow any material; we just want our players to be respectful of each other. If you have questions, pp the mod account, use the faq or comment to the appropriate post below. Have fun! The OOC Plotting Post.

NAVIGATION

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[dryeyes]

[It was almost equally unsettling to find the USB's so- normal. They were the kind of small, portable drives that he kept paperwork on back home. As if their presence was to reinforce that even if this wasn't happening in his world, it could happen just as easily. Technology wouldn't help. That dirt could show up anywhere and possibly lead to the same situation in any world.]

[... and he nods, after flicking his eyes over the message from Lorem's device. It was an important part of the puzzle they were trying to piece together. They weren't going to be any better off for not knowing.]

I remember- [he signs, briefly, eyes back on the screen where they'd gotten the video to play. He pauses, bites his lip, then goes for his own device. He wanted to use the specific words, not just get by with local sign.]

That red dust was in Paris, too. Had it taken over the ground, like that? Is that why they nested there? [He can't remember enough, too caught up in the image of that freshly born sound eater, of getting everyone out to safety, of the people who didn't get out to remember the details that had seemed mundane at the time.]

[clarius]

I don’t remember.

[ lorem can feel her cheeks burn in shame when she admits this. she should have taken notice of something like that. she should have. it’s what she used to do back on the lornful light, back when she had to take down notes and observations when on a planetary mission.

now all she can do is explain why she didn’t do something so important- ] After seeing the Sound Eaters, I froze up. If Lu Li hadn’t gotten me away from there in time, I think I would have been a goner then.

I wonder if that's another reason why sand is used to create pathways for travel. [ was it to block the occupation of the red dust on the ground? to keep it from making total contact…? ] Do you think anyone took samples of the dust before? Tried to analyse it?

[dryeyes]

[He can see the shame and almost reaches his hand out, like to offer some sort of solidarity. He was asking because he was in the same situation. Seeing the sound eaters en-masse, seeing that horrific birthing- And his expression softens a bit, at the mention of Lu Li. They had all, in that moment, regardless of their training, been a disorganized and scared mess.]

[He pulls his hand back, close to his body, as he types out messages.]

It's fine.

We're just brainstorming.

[As for everything else...]

Someone might have. I can check the network back-archives to see if anyone posted about it, then. I don't think it's stopped by the sand but there has to be some reason it's contained to the reset room here.

[clarius]

[ she smiles a bit when she sees the attempt of reassurance, surprised but grateful for the try all the same.

she gives a brief nod at his direction, a way to acknowledge it, before she types out her message. ]

Hopefully we get something. I'm curious to learn what we can about the dust now.

If it has some connection to the Sound Eaters, an important connection at that, maybe we can use it against them.