The Bastion - a DWRP game

Who: Mireille (or possibly other NPCs) and anyone who wants to see her
Open: Open
When: Day 120
Where: the hospital
What: suddenly a baby
Format: action
Warnings: none

[So, remember how Mireille, one of the friendly NPCs, has been really pregnant pretty much since the Calamity happened?

Well, the baby arrived, and thanks to Stein's help everything turned out alright. Anyone who is awake early on day 120 will see her being escorted to the hospital by Georges, and if anyone stops by the hospital later in the day she will be in a room in the A wing with her little baby boy.

Also, for the time being, Rin will be cooking the meals in the Distillery instead of Mireille.]

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

Who: NPC Mireille, OPEN
Open: Open
When: Day 107
Where: The Distillery -> various location
What: QUEST TIME! Mireille needs some things, and there are rewards for people who fetch the items.
Format: action
Warnings: none

[If anyone goes near the Distillery today, they will find Mireille composing a short list, which she eventually nails to the front door. The list is as follows:

- Two Pecker eggs
- One pound of wheat, ground
- A rare fruit (two cups worth)
- Food coloring (red, blue, and yellow)

Mireille is also within the Distillery, and can answer any questions about the list.]

Who: Nathaniel (NPC) and whoever else is interested in getting information
Open: Open
When: Day 83
Where: near the monument
What: Nathaniel translates some important papers, and questions can be asked.
Format: action
Warnings: none

[After the search party had gone looking for Marie and returned with some papers, Nathaniel had taken all of the papers and worked on translating them for everyone to understand. However, it took some time, for reasons which he is about to explain.

To begin with, he sets out the wallet which had been found a while back.]

Okay, this wallet here belonged to a Mancer by the name of Dav. I've never met the guy personally, but apparently he worked right out of the Mancer HQ, or so his papers say. This guy had some pretty high security clearance, so he was probably working on some secret stuff, which would explain why I never saw the guy.

[Next he lays out the papers that were found during the search for Marie.]

Now these here, these are project notes. I haven't been able to translate them all, they're written in some kind of code, but what I've been able to get from them is that there was this long-term project going on that was nearing completion. There's also some mentions of a guy named Venn in these notes. I do know who Venn is, though I haven't met the guy personally. He's a top Mancer, though, so chances are he was working on this project here.

Now, these notes on their own aren't really enough to tell me what was going on. You've got about half of the project notes here, and the other half is probably at the Mancer headquarters. But here's the interesting thing: when you look at these-

[And he lays out the blueprints that were recovered from the farm.]

- there's some similarities between them. These blueprints here, they're for building a fuel convertor that turns corn into biofuel, and going by the dates in the corner, these blueprints were drawn up and mailed about a week before the Calamity happened, and about three days before the most recent of the the notes you found at Dav's place were written.

I'm not sure how a biofuel convertor relates to all of this, though. To be honest, we haven't used fuels in ages. Cores are the main source of power for Caelondia, and what we can't power with Cores we power with steam. Fuels aren't that great for the environment, so we stopped using them some time ago.

So there you have it. If you've got any insight into all of this, we might be able to figure this mess out, but we'll probably need more information before we'll get any real answers out of this.