recolle | TEAM FOUR EVENT LOG

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TEAM FOUR EVENT LOG

MAGATUS

READY: START.

Roster: Noah Isaacs + Gunther Schwarz, Gintaro Suzukaze + Elda Marker, Dave Strider + Byakuya Kirigiri, Shouto Todoroki + Akira Kurusu, Eren Jaeger + Yusuke Kitagawa, Soleil Beaufort + Vera Weisz, Alessandro Vinsmoke + Yu Narukami, Cleo Ritter + Minako Arisato, Penelope Raban + Olive Freya Yun, Orihime Inoue + Matthew Murdock, Ryouta Ono + Baren Kaiyou, Prompto Argentum + Keigo Higashino, Zaveid Taleb + Ragna Edgson, Amelia Wagner + Kasen Kaneda

On the morning of the fourth at 9am, you'll find yourself gathering at the Recollé Zoo and Aquarium. Many of you will find yourself partnered up and with a name in mind, and awaiting in front of you is a large bus with the Retrospec logo on the hood. A text comes through not long after, Zee's name attached.

I'm no Ms. Frazzle, but I think this bus will do the trick. Hope you packed a book or something.

Upon boarding the bus you'll find that's it's equipped for a longer road trip. There are snacks, books, video game consoles, and even a few beds and bathrooms. Just as well, seeing how you're going to be traveling north of the city, traveling through the woods for about seven hours. As you travel, the sky begins to change colors and the temperature drops toward the end of your journey. Outside the window you'll see a mountain range and snow on the ground, and stars streak across the sky as you enter the beautiful region of Magatus.

Permanently semi-dark with beautiful colors streaking across the sky, Magatus is filled with rivers, grass, coniferous trees and snow-capped mountains. The temperature is quite frigid, so travelers will need to bundle up!

The region known as Magatus is fairly open and while there may not a huge population like Recollé, there are small clusters of buildings and homes that characters can find by exploring this region. There is roughly 1,500 square miles to cover in the area claiming to be Magatus and some parts of this region may experiences changes in weather including heavy snow, ice, and blackouts.

Most of the towns are quaint and friendly though most people appear to mind their own business. If spoken to, they will explain that they’ve been enjoying their time alone and away from the hustle and bustle of city life, though it may be a little hard to know if this is actually true. Some of the younger ones will say they’ve lived here their whole life, but most will shy away from the topic of where they came from. Shops that can be found seem to range in the realm of basic general stores, hardware stores, mini foodmarts, and weaponry. The Magatus people truly live a simple life.

The true nature of this region doesn’t seem to come out until nightfall, however. As the light fades and the sky darkens, the colors brighten above and the sound of wolves begin howling nonstop. Depending, you may even hear the sound of snarling and growling, quick footsteps crunching through fresh snow and irritated barking. The townspeople know better than to stay out at night when the wolves run and the shadows dance, and they would advise that anyone from out of town take cover.

Too bad they won’t invite you in. You’re on your own out in the wilderness.

This is the Team Four 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 Four is as follows:

Feb 3rd: Objective 1 posted (9PM EST) | Threading for Travel to Location | Threading for Objective One
Objective 2: Info about Objective Two | Threading for Objective Two
Objective 3: Info about Objective Three | Threading for Objective Three | Objective Three point Five
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.

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[ these look so lame on her face as compared to her designer sunglasses. BAH.

... But she does get them on, sighing. ]

Yeah, seems we ought ---to.

[ Is that a rumbling feeling in the ground. Like it's shaking? ]

[...

Yes. Yes, it is.]

...I wasn't asking for an answer with regards to the better-or-worse question just yet.

[That's more to himself than anything, but jesus.]

[As if on cue, there's their wolf friend's howl from far away...]

Well, this looks fun.

[He's trying for cheery but he doesn't quite manage it. This is going to suck, isn't it? Well, there's only one way to find out, so he'll go ahead and start walking.]

I guess this is another test... no, it's probably more that there's something in the "room."

[ . . . This isn't a room.

Sigh.

Let's get walking, then, roughly in the direction of the howl - that sounded far off. ]

[Yes, let's go...

Thankfully he's not dressed like the damn riot police today, he's wearing the stupid leather thing that's running less of a chance of getting snagged on anything and everything, because he hasn't trusted anything about this last stretch of mission; either way, it's lighter and far more conducive to...wherever this place is.]

Seeing as we're obviously not in Kansas anymore, where would you say this is? More Unreality, or...?

That seems most likely, ja? It doesn't seem possible for the lodge to be connected to a place like this.

[Man, hopefully these rocks don't come tumbling down on us with all the shaking going on here. Jaeger's eyeing the rocks warily, but everything seems sturdy enough for now.]

[ Honestly, the rocks really are worrying and honestly she's frustrated that her coat is a mess after all that. Still, she did have on sturdy pants and shoes. Ah well, at least it's... a little less cold here? Actually, a fair bit less? Oh wait, ]

It's still not clear on if Unreality is a thing or a place but... [ Yeah, that does seem to be the case, right. There's no way that a lodge room could be this expansive. She trails off and then glances at them both ] Was were you two ended up in August this random?

It was decidedly more random than this, actually.

[I mean, this is pretty damn random, but - ]

We were underwater at one point. Our bodies had...modifications done to them to accommodate for it, so we could breathe and communicate, and I suppose so we wouldn't simply be crushed by the pressure.

...Just so you're both aware, the ocean in Unreality is ruled by an octopus king, who also seems to be head of the undersea mafia. Because naturally, there's an undersea mafia, along with a sea-witch coven who hates them.

[...Things he didn't tell either of you until now: any of that.]

[That gets Jaeger to laugh; the sound is sort of startled, like he wasn't expecting it. Probably because he wasn't expecting a literal undersea mafia.]

My, you really did have all the fun, didn't you? I'm a bit jealous~!

[He'll settle a bit after that's out there, though.]

The place I was whisked away too was a jungle, and from there we went to some sort of ruined temple, and then a fantasy castle. Because that's a logical progression, I suppose.

[ What the fuck is all that ]

And a dragon in there somewhere, I saw that dragon.

[ She laughed too, to hear Albert of all people say something so patently ridiculous. Because if he's saying it, then that is actually true which somehow just makes it even funnier. It makes her own adventures in that library feel more conventional by comparison.

Oh well. ]

I can tell you Retrospec has what I can only call a magic library under the University.

[It's good to know that he is patently believable just because he wouldn't make up something that fucking ridiculous...]

...Of course it does. Dare I ask what makes you convinced it's magic...?

Right, we did befriend a dragon, that happened too.

[It was so surreal, Elda.

But anyway, speaking of the library...]

Yes, I'm curious about that too! What all did you find there?

You can literally leap into the world of the books. What's more, they can also take items from the "real world" into them? I went into a fantasy story and needed to help equip some would-be-hero in exchange for a key we needed.

[ She might have referenced some of this before, but maybe not spelled out quite... like this. ]

I mean, it's just as easily scientific, but after those Ragnarok myths and that other myth that one boy forwarded us [ Namely the myth Rin sent to Prompto ] all of this feels a lot more magical to me.

[ . . . She tries to shrug but. Then she trips a little from the shaking ground. Bah! Catches herself, but. ]

...If you had told me a year ago that magic existed and I would be this thoroughly entrenched in it - [ah shit are you okay there elda] - there's absolutely no chance I would have believed any of that. And yet here we are.

[Speaking of here we are, we seem to actually be getting somewhere. Namely, it seems like we've got actual paths up ahead, excellent.]

It really is a lot to take in...

[But he doesn't think Elda's lying about her experiences. So we've got a literal magic library. Wonderful.

But we've reached a fork in the road, with one path leading down a flat, rocky path and the other leading to a grassy hill. Jaeger glances up at the rocks again, then back to the other two.]

So, any preferences on which path we take?

[He's certainly got a preference in mind, but he'll wait to hear what they have to say.]

... Obviously the grass, right?

[ LIKE??? EVERYTHING IS SHAKING??? WE SHOULD BE SOMEWHERE MORE STABLE AND WITH LESS ROCKS??? ]

...That seems acceptable, yes...

[LESS...ROCKS...]

Oh good, I'm glad to hear we're all in agreement!

[Let's head that way, then!!]

Good! I'd shudder to think who'd want to be around loose rocks when it feels like we're in some quaking country.

[ Well then, let's get on walking into these grassy hills! She'll even take up the lead here, because she's pretty sure she has the best vision? Well, it'd be better at night, but. ]

[...he should probably inform her at some point that his actually did not go to shit and that was the result of like 10+ years being undead and also two shots of poison directly to the vitals

but you know what he is also not wanting to go first, given that he's pretty sure that if he did and something sniped him from out of nowhere jaeger would kill him

that said if something snipes elda from out of nowhere he's gonna be pissed]

Rest assured, I don't think either of us are quite that reckless.

[he's not gonna kill you, jeez!! but otherwise, yeah. yeah.]

Well, I know I'm not!

[It's teasing though, because of course it is.]

I think it's been demonstrably shown I'm the least reckless of us three.

[ . . . Said the woman out in front.

Okay, we should have a good view at the top of this first hill ]

I'm not that bad.

[Yes, he is.

That said, thankfully nobody's getting sniped in the head, and as a matter of fact this looks pretty nice? There's a pretty valley down there, and it's all very grassy and serene, and over on those hills way off in the distance there seem to be sheep.

...It'll take him a goddamn moment to realize that he should not be able to discern sheep at this distance.]

...Either something is tremendously off, or those are far larger than they have any right to be.

[Oh, look, sheep. That's ni...ce...]

You're right. That's bizarre. I suppose we'll have to be careful when we get closer.

[It doesn't seem like there's anywhere else to go but back down to the fork in the road.]

How far actually are--

[ She squints and then she makes to pull up her goggles, narrowing her eyes to get a better look. It hurts her eyes a lot but when she does she recognizes no - they're...

... They're coming closer now and- ]

We don't have a tree or anything to compare but those must be over ten feet tall, right?

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