day 117 :: Core Event

[bastionpc]

Who: Everyone who wants to participate
Open: Open
When: Day 117
Where: Prosper Bluff --> Jawson's Bog
What: The PCs go hunting for a core, and get caught up in a dangerous situation
Format: log, action, etc.
Warnings: Some threads will contain triggering material. Those threads will be labeled as such in the headers.


[Some time has passed, and more people have arrived. It seems as though things have been turning around since the last hunt for a core. So when Nathaniel comes to tell everyone that another core has been located, and that they'll need to go get it, his somber attitude might seem a bit strange.]

Alright everyone, I'm getting an energy spike in the general area of Prosper Bluff, so I'm pretty sure a core is there. Unfortunately, I can't get an exact location on it, just a general area, so you're going to have to go down there and root it out yourself. It should be somewhere on the bluff, which will make for an easy recovery, since most monsters stay away from that area.

However, there is a chance that the core might be a bit further East, in Jawson's Bog. If it is, just leave it there. It is not worth risking your lives to go in there to get it.

[Everyone is free to talk to Nathaniel before leaving, if they want, or they can just be on their way. Either way, the NPCs will be waiting for them to return.]




Threadtracking:

Preparation thread
Prosper Bluff
Jawson's Bog
Jawson't Bog part 2
special group goes here

Comments

[bastionpc]

[So far nothing has gone wrong. The only difficulty is that the core isn't immediately visible, as they have been in the past. It will take some serious searching to find it.]

[windgod]

[The further the group made their way onto the Bluff's proper, the more uneasy Ippo became. This all seemed...it just seemed far too easy; every monster he saw seemed to freak out and vanished at the sight of them and everything seemed so...tranquil for lack of a better word. When it came to cores, nothing had ever been so peaceful that he could remember.]

I really hope I'm wrong on this...just let it be all in my head...

[He mumbled as he started an earnest search for the core, only breaking away from the rest of the group once he'd convinced himself that they'd be just fine without him; or so he hoped at any rate.]

[superdrowningskills]

[Alucard has no weapon drawn at the moment, but that's simply because he knows just how fast his reflexes are. Given how until now only peckers would routinely flee from them though, he feels just as ill at ease as Ippo. That same unease leads him to follow the young man when he breaks off from the rest, soon falling in stride with him.]

...I cannot smell the core, as of yet.

[windgod]

[Ippo licked his thumb as he'd seen on television shows and held it up into the air...maybe if he could find which way the wind was blowing, he could give Alucard a better range to work with; except there was no wind at all. Ippo moved his hand around as if it were a faulty TV Antenna but to no avail...]

There's...no wind at all? That might be why you're not getting anything...is anything ever that simple out here?

[superdrowningskills]

Very few things beyond basic survival were simple when my own world was intact. This is simply a different set of complications.

[He furrows his eyebrows a moment in thought.]

...Perhaps shifting form would be helpful in this case, but...

[...Saving it would likely be a better idea if things took the turn they inevitably were likely to take.]

[windgod]

Yeah...no need for anything like that just yet; besides, we have some good air coverage this time as well.

[Ippo pointed upwards at the dragon that was clearly flying overhead; he was sure that at the very least, they had all their bases covered.]

With all of us here, I'm sure we'll find it sooner than later. I hope so at least...