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.

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

[ who knows!!!

but looks like it's icebug time.

dave is like, floating above the floor still (fuck ice) and mostly seems to be looking around curiously, and he might not immediately flag them as dangerous.

or at least he'll watch moreso at first ]

[guess they're gonna meet at the bottom flower of a room with a banister, baren definitely just gliding around like an asshole even as he looks for clues.

icebug may or may not be a clue. he tilts his head in confusion for a second before reaching up into his hair, plucking out a random chocobo feather that he uses for decoration and tossing it in the direction of an icebug.]

Are they gonna kill us—

[the icebug touches a feather. it slowly begins to form into a block of ice.]

.... Hm.

I'll take that as a maybe.

[zoro's somewhere near wherever boose is, arms crossed and watching the bug freeze over the feather.]

Doesn't look like it's hostile or anything. Could we just avoid them?

I dunno why not. Maybe we should like, book it further in before they catch us, I guess? Or well, try to go wherever they want us to go least.

[ #cats ]

Sounds fair to me—

[except there's.

a lot more bugs than anticipated??? the room is starting to change in its shape and warp, which is already putting him on edge as his gaze flicks around.]

Okay. Exit. Now.

[yeah, just like that all the levity is gone.]

That was quick.

[his hand is on his sword and ready to go if the need should arise. to dave:]

Get Baren out of here. I'll take care of the moose.

[ what is boose doing about all of this?? something not that helpful, probably]

Hm? Yeah, sure. [ he swoops over to baren and snags him around the waist to lift off. ] This is like, horror movie levels. Chances are there's a huge ice spider waitin' around for us.

Me?

[zoro you ass. Baren startles - and suppresses the urge to bristle and struggle when Dave comes over to him.]

Boose, don't touch the spiders!

[and since they're enemy spiders trying to fuck up what's important to Baren - ]

Slice 'em up, Z!

As if I need you to tell me!

[both swords are out and he's doing the best he can while shoving boose towards the door. problem is the bugs are tiny and endless which is probably the worst combination for swords. the castle shakes a bit as he lets out a few stupid shonen flying slashes and probably takes out a few columns or two before boose just.

stops.

baren and dave can hear cursing behind them as zoro's forced to glance away from the bugs to see boose's legs starting to freeze to the ground.]

Didn't he tell you not to touch them?! [luckily, ice is easy enough to chop free. or it should be. but when zoro twists to break the ice, three of the bugs make their way onto him and the frost starts coming.

fuck.]

I'll meet up with you later!

[one final shout to dave and baren. and one final thought for baren to hear:

get the job done.]

Holy shit. [ THAT DOESN'T SOUND GOOD nor does it look good. dave doesn't go back in time to stop it, though, clearly, as he doesn't see himself anywhere. still, he's like, getting them out one of the windows and heading for a different one... ]

Uh...okay. [ WHAT NEXT, CAPTAIN... ]

Fuck.

[ - is all he manages because he's being swept out of their like a goddamn damsel apparently. There's the natural frustration because he definitely should've known better than to bring in an animal on a mission like that but it's what happens when you're too used to being gifted with a youkai. Their getaway sure was interrupted by MAGIC.

Anyway that youkai is ambling up to them now from the outside, nudging against Baren as soon as he's put back down and Baren automatically reaches for the GoPro.]

You're back, huh? Then... [ - and he'll open up the video footage to review it. Fog, steam, shiny blue gem, wolf's pawprint on it and then - yup a roar. Okay. Good.

How fun.

He turns to Dave - ]

.... So what's the extent of your time powers? You can shield us from other people seeing us, right? [ - or at least that's what he remembers from their memory share bullshit.]

When I froze time the once? It kind of created a...bubble. I can freeze time for an hour now, though. If I push to the limit, I'll get a little tired, but...nothing else will move unless I want it to. Generally.

[ so that's.

overpowered ]

[it sure is.

baren likes that!]

Cool - and your flashstep works at same time? How about that thing where you said there could be two or three of you?

Yeah, it can. [ although baren you MIGHT PUSH HIM ] For the multiples of me, I'd just loop back to the point I was needed. So it's really just me, but at different chronological points. I'll have to live out every loop, so the second me will have done this already, and also that, and so on.

[ so too many loops and he'll get.

really fucking tired ]

So don't use it unless absolutely necessary, got it.

[THANKS BAREN. But look he's just trying to figure out his options.....]

That should be... fine - I don't hear Z screaming or ice breaking, so he's probably okay. [He puts the GoPro back on Tanuki and nudges him - ] Hey, find Z. Don't do anything unless it looks like he's gonna die.

[Splitting up his resources continues....]

Then let's look around and see if there's any clues as to who she is or what we can do to fix the Z problem. Don't stop time yet but maybe later.

That's fair. If we get ambushed by bugs or whatever, then I'll flip the switch.

[ SO...around the castle. right.

HE PICKS A DIFFERENT WINDOW TO FLY THROUGH back in they go!!! on a floor zoro is not on. ]

[BACK IN THEY GO - and probably don't find a lot even though Baren is definitely poking around. He naturally wears gloves so he's not too worried about leaving fingerprints. After not... finding... much....

He'll just turn to Dave - ]

Wanna cut to the chase and find the highest room in the tallest tower? Maybe there's a princess waiting inside.

May as well. Although if there's a princess, she probably has frostbite. Did we bring shit for that?

[ UP THEY GO!!!!!!!! ]

If she's like the queen I would hope she's immune?

[BUT YEAH, UP THEY GO. To the top tower and if there's a lock to be picked then Baren will do it - who knows what security is really like around here? Then time to investigate, find some of those chiseling tools... which he takes... and then the black box.]

Oohhh!

[GRAPPLING HOOK GET.]

Fancy!

Huh. Want to try to use that instead of flyin', or?

[ like nxt time it's relevant...

dave is just kind of poking around. he isn't into gloves, so when he sees them he kind of

prods them and ignores them ]

[

thank you dave.

meanwhile Baren is going to hum as he picks them up, turning them over and sincerely wondering what they're doing up in the tallest tower with a grappling hook.

so since he and dave seem to be so good at secret keeping - ] Forget what you're about to see.

[ - and he'll remove his personal gloves, revealing the burn scars on his hands before slipping on the new gloves. these are his now????]

Might as well use this! I've never gotten to be a spy before.

Didn't see a thing. [ he did.

but under his clothes are countless scars from a daily beatdown from a guy way older than him, in another lifetime.

so.

he's not even going to question the origin of those burns? we're all fine here. ]

Maybe this is the lair of like, a super ice spy. Who likes sculptures. Hm. Maybe we should go check out whatever was glowin' in the other castle? It might be a way to like...deice Zoro, unless we have to throw him into a fire.

[what a great terrible understanding we have here.]

He'll get mad that we didn't wait for him to see what was making the big roaring noise.

[ . . . oh well!

instead baren will go over the window and move to aim the grappling hook to see if it'll launch to the other castle....]

You know this isn't the first time I've had to defrost his ass? Last time it only took a hair dryer though.

[ i'm p sure the grappling hook can reach so baren can have his spy moment while dave just like

flies

as you do ]

What the fuck did he get frozen by last time? [ is this a Thing ]

[as you do

baren will still casually make conversation as he's absolutely delighted with this grappling hook, answering as he nyoOMS

which means he's kind of JUST SCREAMING]

THE NATURAL ELEMENTS?!

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