recolle | AUGUST EVENT LOG

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The city of Recollé.

...yeah. Yeah, it's still sort of a mess...

But the fruits of your labors are ripe, Recollé. Be prepared for the final fight.

I.
You've all worked so hard in these past three weeks to bring back what was lost and patch reality, or to get home. As their final missions close out, the following occurs.

Members of Team Absinthe will find themselves in the Recollé Woods, no longer capable of finding their way to the Bunker but cheerfully updated by Nigel Cavendish on their devices that "Go time is now, it appears! The more you destroy, the more we can bring back. The weapons will last for about twenty-four hours, so use them wisely. Good luck!"

Members of Team Brandywine will find themselves in the RU campus, locked out of their basement. Mr. Baroque updates them that "You've got about a day to help fix this. Try not to die."

Members of Team Cognac will find themselves in the Tribunal Terrace, unable to go as deep into the subways as they could the past few weeks. The NPC updating them as to what's up is Ronnie, who is about as helpful as Mr. Baroque with: "The clock is ticking down. Do try to stay on your toes...you may wish to rendezvous with the others."

Members of Team Daiquiri will find themselves in Tisse, locked out of the Retrospec building. Their update comes from Joanne Wiseman, who says "Aunt Marge just pulled the plug! Those weapons will last twenty-four hours, and we were able to snag the others - but, you're going to have to give us enough leeway here to fix things! It's just like the twists you've done before - destroy the focal points and we can snap things back. Thank you so much for everything, good luck!"

Members of Team Ethanol will find themselves in the Tribunal Terrace, unable to enter the crypts. For them comes a message from Wendy Guo. "Time to hit it. Your weapons are going to last about a day; can't force the protocol longer than that. I'm going to meet up with the others now, try to get shit stable as you do your side. We're probably not gonna see one another again for a while, so...it's been real. Don't die or whatever. Thanks."

Members of Group 3 are intermixed at all locations as they choose, perfectly capable of joining in the battle if they wish. A harried Maurice Fitzwilliam will see fit to update them with "I know this is a little confusing, but if you'd like to help your friends, you may wish to join up with them now - otherwise, I suggest you find a safe house. I'll try to update your phone's gps with a map to the least-impacted areas...Good luck."

Members of Peter Pan crash onto the sandy beach in a large, ornate pirate ship surrounded by a flock of colorful tropical birds and armed with cutlasses and cannonballs. Mechanical sharks cut across the sand menacingly guarding the ship as well. Members of this team may call on the aid of the sharks and birds to help fight while also using the cannonballs to load up and fire.

Members of Snow White appear scattered around the Recollé Woods with a large frog creature in tow and the army of a hundred ghosts behind them, wispy in appearance but strong in determination. There are also two large, stone lions flanking the party. The ghosts can be captured and released from the thermoses the Snow White members brought them in and will come to their aid to help people around them.

Members of Tarzan announce their arrival with the loud, thunderous roar of a dragon that swoops down from the sky, landing directly in the middle of Tisse. Portals rip open around them as several knights in shining armor and equipped with lances flank the creature and the team, ready to spring into battle. Any weaponry the team has picked up along their journey will be available to them and they can direct the knights in battle. In addition, they may use the two raven feathers to call upon the well witch to bail them and others out of trouble with a bit of elemental magic!

And finally, members of Yzma descend upon the rooftop of the highest point at the RU campus in a large, colorful mecha shaped like a panther. By now, the team will know how to pilot the mecha and the weapons attached to it. They will be able to split up and regroup as they please. As it lands, the creature pauses with all eleven members inside and tilts its head back, a feminine, almost regal voice making an announcement for all to hear.

"Champions! Band together and stabilize your reality. Find the last twists and slay the rest of the monsters while there's time. We have twenty-four hours to weather the storm and unravel everything. You can bring back what was lost...but only if you hurry! Now go!"

Together, every member of the city must work together to patch the leaks in their reality; no team is locked to any one location, regardless of where they start out. While certain teams have domain over certain summons and items, they may be used to help anyone they come across. The monsters that appears last month reappear with a vengeance but this time they've brought some friends. Multiple slime creatures can be found in all districts and as citizens of the city defeat them and other monsters, they will notice little by little that the city starts to restore itself in a whirlwind of fixes. Buildings begin to uncrumble, shattered glass reforms into window panes, and with every defeat of the slimes, a new stand will pop up. Some of these stands will also pop up simply by exploring the lesser traffic'd areas of the city such as the underground subway, the woods, and the empty buildings scattered around the city. Smashing these buttons will turn the portalizers on, suck up the debris of the monsters and close another twist. As soon as all the twists in an area are closed, the district will snap back to "normal" and all characters will find themselves warped to the beach.

Down at the beach the mouth of the ocean rises up out of the sand, spitting acid and trying to absorb whatever it can. Much like the other monsters, the more it's destroyed the less effective it becomes, whittling itself further and further down as it begins to pull inward on itself. Do what you can to take it out and prevent it from taking the ocean ever again.

Everyone is now back in Recollé, and several groups have new weapons and companions to help them fight. Stick together, reunite with your loved ones and hold down the fort. Your Technical Team is on the job to fix everything.

Hi guys, welcome to the August plot wrap-up! This log is a free-for-all to let everyone get involved, reunite with their CR, and help stabilize the city for now! This will only run from 9pm EST 8/24 to 9pm EST 8/25. At which time, we will then post a Retrospec post ICly tying up the loose ends, and characters may do as they wish with the aftermath.

Also at this time, everyone has regained network access and your characters will receive their stockpile of texts sent to each other and they can connect with each other.

Tomorrow, we will also do our feedback post for this event and an open discussion with the playerbase.

Thank you guys so much for your participation! Characters who clocked 30 comments over the course of this event are eligible for a freebie memory! For members of team 3, we will allow these thirty comments to come from this log as well. We look forward to seeing you on the flipside, and congratulations on a job well done.

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The only way Togusa could even try to cope with what was happening was to report in, and go where the Department told him to. So that put him back on his regular patrol by the University. Of course this all had to happen right as classes were starting up again, so while this was the area that Togusa could ignore at the start of this month because it was deserted? Now it's the most critical area to protect.

Togusa doesn't remember a light show being part of the new student orientation, though. So he heads in the direction of the disturbance, only to spot what Arlene is up to. "Ah!" He waves up at her.

He really really doesn't want to have to use the powers that Retrospec gave him again, but he has to. Arlene can hear Togusa's voice, as clearly as if he's right next to her, speaking to her thoughts. "It's Officer Togusa. Are you all right?"

Oh. You have to tell her how to reply. "Ah, focus, like you're thinking of what to say before you say it, and I can hear you."

"Let me guess, I'm not supposed to be up here?" If her mental voice sounds a little cranky... well, who can blame her. She barely got out of the sorority house before getting jumped by monsters.

Arlene walks closer to the edge of the roof until she can see him and waves back. She calls down in her normal voice, "I'm fine!"

"I'm more impressed than anything else," Togusa comments. "How did you do that? Can you get down on your own? I don't know where the roof access is for that building." Togusa is keeping to the mental communication over shouting, he's more concerned about drawing in more monsters.

A slight hesitation. "Otherwise, I can get you down." It would be a more gentle application of his powers than he's been using lately.

"Don't know. Guess I can fly now," Arlene admits. "It just kind of happened. I'll go look the roof access."

As far as she knows, the roof access is off-limits to students, but what's campus security gonna do about it? She hesitates despite herself, looking down at Togusa, then up at the sky. How did she make that happen? She just... wanted, hard, to be off the ground before that thing popped back up from its tunnel. Maybe it works the other way around...

"Actually, hang on."

The first few times she used her lightning power, she had to really picture it in her mind's eye. Now she closes her eyes and tries to visualize herself taking flight, gliding to safety on the lawn. Her feet remain firmly planted on the roof.

And a rainbow arcs out of the clear sky to meet her at the edge.

"- the fuck?"

"The fuck??" Togusa's thoughts echo Arlene's precisely, and he has to just stare at the rainbow as it appears. Okay. This is a new one. Togusa is somewhat glad he doesn't have to try to get her down telekinetically. But what on Earth is happening here?

"This is..." Okay, switching to speaking out loud, because now he doesn't want to disturb her concentration. "Retrospec gave this to you? When did it start?"

Sorry Togusa, she's a little busy figuring this new thing out to listen. When the rainbow doesn't vanish in a puff of impossibility, she takes a cautious step towards it. Carefully prods at it with her toe, muscle memory from her years on the gymnastics team keeping her balanced and on the roof. It's not... solid, exactly, but she doesn't go through, and then she gives a brief startled shriek as it kind of yanks her forward.

Her voice quickly turns to laughter as she realizes she's hovering on the rainbow. It only lasts a moment. Then she's headed down, like the thing suddenly turned into a giant slide, and welp guess it's time to scream again. People are staring. This is ridiculous.

What in the world...no wait, Arlene's on her way down. "Ah!" Togusa automatically puts his hands out, as if he's going to need to catch her at the bottom. There'll be a telekinetic buffer waiting to cushion her fall if she needs it.

Yeah, yeah, stare away, guys. Slime monsters don't get your attention but this does? Typical...

The slide peters out a foot or two before the ground, but the buffer does spare Arlene's knees. Something in her manner as she picks herself up recalls a cat that just knocked itself off a windowsill or something equally embarrassing, all ruffled "I meant to do that" dignity.

"So... that's new," she admits.

"New," Togusa huffs a laugh. "That's a word for it. What even- is it? I barely understood what Retrospec did to me," he dispells the cushion, "took me weeks of trial and error to get this much control."

He glances around them, in case another attack is on its way.

"I control rainbows now?" she suggests, with a helpless shrug. "Maybe I'm going to get all kinds of weather powers, not just lightning. Could come in handy."

Seeing him look around reminds her to do the same. She looks up, scanning the skies for flying monsters since she just put on such a visible show on their turf. Nothing so far but a couple birds moving back into the area. The audience her stunt with the rainbow attracted is moving on too now that everybody's on the ground.

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