TEAM ONE EVENT LOG

[recollecters]

PESGARE

READY: START. Roster: Theodore Leonhardt + Atsushi Nakajima, Augustine Sauveterre, Shinji Matou + Makoto Yuuki, Nazuna Nito + Apollo Justice, Sakutarou Oda + Howard Phillips, Carter + Mao Yata + Izumi Miyamura, Hitori Togusa + Sora Pu'uwai, Pitou Blythe + Astin Beaufort, Elizabeth Brisby + Ritsu Sakuma, Junpei Tenmyouji, Light Averly, Kiyotaka Ishida, Soujirou Katsuki + Peter Hoboken On the morning of the fourth at 9am, you'll find yourself gathering at the beach with several other volunteers. Many of you will find yourself partnered up and with a name in mind, and awaiting in front of you is a small fishing boat equipped to carry your group. A text comes through not long after, Zee's name attached. All aboard! Welcome, good morning, thanks for coming out. We've got a little journey ahead of us. Hope you like the ocean. Stepping aboard, you'll notice that the boat is equip with everything you could need for a short trip three hours south of the city: fishing poles, breakfast, life jackets, etc. In addition, you'll find a handful of flares with the Retrospec symbol stamped on them that you may want to take with you. At the end of this trip, you'll find yourself pulling into a harbor of a region known as Pesgare. Constantly overcast with the threat of rain, Pesgare is a bustling little harborside town with a wide ocean and streams leading fishermen and traders in from all parts of the world. There’s greenery and the scent of salt in the area and it’s a balmy sort of feeling the longer you linger outside. The region known as Pesgare is filled with cramped quarters and cobblestone-esque roads and it’s hard to tell who is and isn’t from the area. There are multiple languages that can be heard (including some that are absolutely not from this earth) and it’s hard to track all of the activity in the main village. Along the roads are brick buildings and wooden shacks and the general area of the town itself is only about 500 square miles. Most of the area to explore ahead is the ocean itself to other ports and islands around. Everyone in the town is friendly. Literally everyone. It’s hard to find anyone who isn’t in a jovial mood and who isn’t willing to help a neighbor or a stranger and they will be happy to chat about the places they’ve traveled or the people they’ve met along the way. Several of the stories revolve around travels around the globe from once upon a time, and there are others that speak of worlds far off and strange planets that you may never have heard of. It’s hard to tell if they’re serious stories or not though as the townspeople regale the tales and laugh all the while. It’s hard to go anywhere in the town without someone stopping to offer you a free loaf of bread or rush up to talk about how you remind them of someone. It’s busy, busy, busy. A lot of the places in the area appear to be trade posts for certain specialties. This includes weaponry, types of fish, cured meats and veggies, bakeries, books, equipment, curio wares and more. It’s all about supply and demand and barter and trade here. It’s not recommended to travel at night, so most out-of-towners are directed to the inn at the top of the hill, The Ontispan. Several stories high and easily the most recognizable building in the port, you will find that it’s near the lighthouse and the owners, an elderly couple, are more than happy to take you in. There’s plenty of room! The lodging is nice and comfortable and the rolling sea outside your window is calming. However, payment must be made in the morning. No problem, right? You must have your wallet on you, mustn’t you? But the amount due is in a currency you do not have. You’ve never even heard of it! How are you supposed to pay for something like this? It’s all about supply and demand and barter and trade. The boat you came on is nowhere in sight and none of the other fishermen will consider taking you back to the mainland while you're trying to leave without payment. Looks like you'll just have to work off your debt, now won’t you? This is the Team One Event Log! You are free to toplevel and thread as you choose on this log, but only team members may utilize this log. Remember, your activity to qualify for your two free memories and one item is supplying at least 30 comments spread over the three objectives per group (minimum of 5 comments per objective!) with at least three members of your groups. You will not be eligible if you do not participate in all three objectives somehow, and you will not be eligible if you only stick with your preferred partner! People who are paired with partners will experience some of the following: -Telepathic connections, but only the thoughts you don’t want your partner to actually hear. You can also use this to influence your partner’s thoughts. -Color fades when you’re not cooperating, it brightens when you are. -Cause and effect. If something happens to your partner, you feel it (i.e. if your partner trips somewhere, you’ll feel the effects.) -Timers. You and your partner will have a countdown embedded somewhere (hand, foot, chest, whatever) and if you don’t complete your missions and see each other before the timer runs out, consequences occur. These are not required and you may play with these as little or as much as you want! Important links to mod toplevels are: Mod Questions, Participation Reporting, NPC questions. Please be aware you are responsible for reporting your own participation & objective completion efforts with links. You must ICly tap into the log within the first 48 hours, or you will be removed from your team. If your activity is low per objective, the moderators may reach out to you about reassignment as well. The schedule for Team One is as follows: 3RD: Objective 1 posted (9PM EST) | Threading for Location Travel | Threading for Object One Objective 2: Info for Objective Two | Threading for Objective Two Objective 3: Info for Objective 3 | Threading for Objective Three Mar 3rd: Outro Objectives will be given in mod toplevels to this post with instructions; please check the log currently for Objective 1 to see how this will work.

Comments

Re: SPY PITOU

[standalonehuman]

'Original regions.' Something about the four spots we've been sent to. He was trying to ask me and Light about Respatrum. According to our info dump that's one of the locations a few friends of mine got sent to by Retrospec. Ardyn and a few others.

[playdolls]

Fuck Izunia who cares about him?!

[standalonehuman]

I touch a nerve there?

I care about him. Not sorry that I do. He do something to piss you off?

[playdolls]

He married my friend. So I punched him in the face. We're technically even, at the moment.

[standalonehuman]

Wait, married!? I knew engaged. But. Wait.

[We interrupt this broadcast while Togusa goes and looks up Ardyn and Grell on the platform, and...]

Son of a bitch! What, did they just run off and get courthouse married without telling anyone!?

[playdolls]

EXACTLY.

SO. I. PUNCHED. HIM.

[standalonehuman]

Well, shit, now I can't punch him, I guess I'm going to have to settle for stern words when this is all over.

[playdolls]

So he's where? What is he doing?
Why are we talking about him?!

[standalonehuman]

Right. There's this town and three other places that Retrospec sent us to. So, if this businessman (Gave his name as Nathaniel, but I doubt that's his real name) is looking for a set of four places? And he asked me about the spot Ardyn had been sent to.

There's something important about these spots. Retrospec wants to reclaim them for probably the same reason Nathaniel here does.

[playdolls]

Ah. So they're using us as pawns,
as usual. I guess technically they at least asked us first, but they still didn't divvy up the details.

[standalonehuman]

If what I talked to Mr. Carlisle about is right, I'm betting we'll be able to come back to these places, after the job is done. The towns have been here the whole time, but if we can get them stable, Retrospec can protect them, too, expand everybody's available resources.

But likely not if "Nathaniel" here gets his way.

[playdolls]

So these places actually exist, in some capacity.

I assumed most of what we 'remembered' of the outside world was a fabrication, especially when communications to the outside began to fail.

[standalonehuman]

I asked very specifically if we passed into a reality twist, and he said no. So. I think we can trust that this is real.

That being said, I'd never heard of Pesgare before, and I've lived in Recolle for years. I wouldn't rule out that there's still some fabrication going on.

[playdolls]

I still don't buy the timeline is what we think it is.

But that's not the point. We're talking about Pesgare today.

And just what's so valuable about its resources. What is it, a mine of some kind? I don't know how one quantifies a magical resource.

[standalonehuman]

I'll agree with you on that one, but I can't figure out what the timeline would be instead.

Magical resource? I'm afraid you're talking to the wrong guy on that one. Even if you had the guy Retrospec is showing me, I think you'd still be asking the wrong guy.

Best I've got: even if what it's putting out is magical, there still has to be a physical source, if this physical location is what's so important to Hawthrone.

[playdolls]

Do we have anyone of the magical persuasion on our team here? Could we use them as a radar?

There's such a disparity of skills and backgrounds in our Reco ecosystem, it's hard to know who is *useful* or not...

[standalonehuman]

Oh. Well. There’s Sora. He might be a great help.

[Dad is sorry if anything bad happens as a result of this, Sora.]

[playdolls]

Then get him on it.

[ Wowowow u bossy Pitou. ]

[standalonehuman]

[Ex-friggin-scuse you.]

How about I ask him really politely if it's even a possibility?

What should I tell him he's looking for?

[playdolls]

Strong sources of magical energy. He can be our little geiger counter.