TEAM ETHANOL LOG

[recollecters]

TEAM ETHANOL

After that strange Retrospec post, you may be wondering how to contact this "technician". Luckily, your phone or whatever device you have handy to check the network chooses that exact second to go haywire... Team Ethanol roster: Almedha, Augustine Sycamore, Chuuya Nakahara, Heine Rammsteiner, Izumi Sena, Kazuma Kiryu, Nui Harime, Peko Pekoyama, Rosalind Lutece, Weiss Schnee, Yukiko Amagi, Zaveid. On whatever device you use to view the retrospec application, you may note the following scrolling on the screen instead of the usual options: ALERT: CRITICAL TIME-SPACE ANOMALY ACTIVE. SEARCHING FOR ADMIN... SEARCHING FOR ADMIN... DESIGNATED ADMIN CANDIDATE: EMPLOYEE #91962 M. MAHONEY PLEASE INPUT AUTHORIZATION CODE. The prompt does not seem to be for you, however, as the text prompts continue to scroll, this time with some input. > ********************** ACCEPT ADMIN STATUS Y/N? > y DESIGNATE PROGRAM TO RUN. PLEASE BE ADVISED WE ARE SYSTEM CRITICAL. > run subroutine designation echolocation-alpha CONFIRMED. EMPLOYEES ACTIVE IN AREA: 2 > list employees EMPLOYEES ACTIVE: M. FITZWILLIAM LEVEL 0 ACCESS, INTERN M. MAHONEY FULL SYSTEM ACCESS, ADMIN > search for alternative assets CONFIRMED. SENDING ALTERNATIVE ASSET LIST. Names scroll by on the screen. and look, there goes yours! It seems like someone is manually picking and choosing from a list of every Retrospec user who didn't disappear into the void, and several names queue up. > initialize support team CONFIRMED. TEAM DESIGNATION? > ethanol CONFIRMED. TEAM ETHANOL MISSION PARAMETERS? PLEASE BE ADVISED SYSTEM ENERGY LEVELS ARE CRITICALLY LOW. > make contact with sysadmin > contact point entrance 6 > temporary access level 1 granted CONFIRMED. MISSION PARAMETERS SET. TEMPORARY ACCESS LEVEL 1 GRANTED. The screen clears itself, and instead of the familiar retrospec logo, there is simply TEAM ETHANOL as a designation. the application will refuse to show anything other than a map, with one point highlighted in red. it is, of course, up to team members to decide whether or not they approach the access point. Team Ethanol's access point is in the Recollé Graveyard. Team members will find the grave of "G. Mahoney" will move aside to reveal catacombs so long as they approach it in groups of two or more team members. Only Team Ethanol team members can see or enter the catacombs at this time. Please see the Objective 1 toplevel for more information on what they can see when they travel further down the tunnels. This is the Team Ethanol Event Log. You are free to toplevel and thread as you choose on this log, but only team members may utilize this log. Important links to mod toplevels are: Mod Questions & Participation Reporting. Please be aware you are responsible for reporting your own participation & objective completion efforts with links; the moderators will try to keep up with threads, but as we are currently running several teams with participation, we require you to keep us up to date! Please read each of the toplevels and instructions! The schedule for Team Ethanol is as follows: WEEK 1: Objective 1; CLEAR: M. Mahoney WEEK 2: Objective 2; IC mission briefing; CLEAR: W. Guo WEEK 3: Objective 3; IC mission briefing 24th: Objective 3 closes (8PM EST), Final city-wide log posted (9PM EST) 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. NPC interactions will be rnged from your team roster once per week, and toplevels for those will also be posted, although all team members can hear/see these interactions!

Comments

[recollecters]

What do you want?!

[smothershadow]

[Good, good, pay no mind to the assistant hiding near the wall. Hopefully she was taking notes, in case everything went up in flames. Amelia couldn't spare her so much as a glance.]

A little bird told me you're having some problems with your employees.

[heiroglyphs]

[Vera continues to hide behind the door, holding tight to her rapier should she need to step in.]

[recollecters]

So you've come about that, have you? Well, then! [ the witch points at amelia, and...

changes her into a bird. negotiations do not appear to be going well. ]

oh wait oops

[smothershadow]

[Well, this was...unfortunate. Amelia was about to object that only rude people point, excuse you, when she abruptly went from six feet to six inches tall. Maybe eight, if she stood straight up on her toes, because now she's a life-sized cuckoo.

How incredibly bothersome. The feathers on Amelia's head started to fluff up indignantly, even. This was. Nope. Not happening. Keep going, this was way too strange to be happening.]

Must we?

[heiroglyphs]

[Shit shit shit now her partner is a bird. How are they even going to get out of this? This was reversible, right? What happens if she gets turned into a bird.

She edges closer to the edge of the door, trying to stay just out of sight. If the witch takes even a step closer, she'll come in swinging.]

[recollecters]

Those who intrude on my business are dealt with accordingly...really, how I deal with the help isn't anyone's business.

[smothershadow]

And what business would that be?

[Amelia was pleasantly surprised that her voice didn't turn to undignified squawking, despite having a beak. She was still indignant everywhere else, though. This was mortifying.]

[heiroglyphs]

[While Vera waits, she tries to scan what little of the room she can see. Maybe something can be of use.]

[recollecters]

My own. Now, leave! Before I take your heart as well.

[smothershadow]

I'm afraid I cannot. You've made me personally involved.

[Could she fly like this? Amelia didn't know how to fly a bird. Amelia put up a decent effort, flapping her wings and...hopping, mostly, like a chicken. If she ever got there she'd peck the witch's eyes out.

Please help, hidden person with thumbs.]

[heiroglyphs]

[Ugh, this is getting us nowhere. At this rate, Amelia's going to get her heart stolen and they'll be even deeper into this shit than before. At the same time, Vera knows the second she steps out from cover she'll probably be a bird too.

Instead, she presses herself tight behind the door in order to remain hidden and begins tapping on the wall with the tip of her rapier. Tap tap-tap-tap tap tap...]

[recollecters]

You barged into my room.

[ >[

but she hears the tapping... ]

And brought with you others! Your heart will be mine!

[smothershadow]

[Hearing the tapping and the witch's outburst was encouraging; her companion hadn't fled, so there was still a small hope of salvaging this situation.]

Now, now. Where are your manners?

[The witch didn't even need to touch her to do...whatever party trick she just did, her only chance was flying to make herself a more difficult target. Another flutter-hop, and Amelia managed to propel herself haphazardly into the air.]

[heiroglyphs]

[Come on, you dumb witch, chase the birdie. Just turn your stupid back already!]

[recollecters]

[ i mean she will start throwing fireballs at the bird? ]

[smothershadow]

[Great. A flaming death obstacle course is just what she needed on top of figuring out how to fly. And while being covered in highly-flammable feathers, no less.

Amelia banked erratically, circling closer to the witch and over her head, drawing her attention (and fire) up and away from the door. She didn't want to think about how much her arms would ache later; there was crackling fire skimming too close to her wingtips.]

[heiroglyphs]

[Okay, can't hide anymore, Amelia is going to die. Vera rushes out from the door, charging the witch from the side and delivering a hard thrust from her rapier.]

[recollecters]

[ it's at least enough of a surprise to work. in a shower of flames, the witch disappears.

amelia is still a bird, though.

they may wish to look around for the heart. ]

[smothershadow]

[A single wingbeat, and fire no longer crackled at Amelia's scaly heels. She didn't trust herself to turn her head separately, so instead clumsily wheeled herself around in the air. The witch was gone, and only Vera remained. That was...well, it'd just have to do.]

That is that, I suppose.

[She's. She's still a bird. She's not changing back. Great. Wonderful.

There must be something in this room that could reverse this. In the corners? Near where the witch was standing?]

[heiroglyphs]

Oh shit, I just killed a witch.

[Take that, horrifying German fairy tales. Witches ain't tough shit after all. But her friend is still a bird, so there's that.]

Uh, right. Maybe there's a spell or a potion or something that can fix you. We need to find that other bird's heart too.

[She'll start searching for any books or documents that might outline the spells the witch was using.]

[recollecters]

[ there don't seem to be any of those, but enough searching will reveal a metallic heart-shaped object? ]

[smothershadow]

[Like a child, wherever Amelia looked she started moving as well. There was a box, or container, or something not like the rest of the room. Amelia blustered down to it, landing clumsily and beak first. Nevermind that-]

Here!

[Her little claws rasp uselessly on the metallic case, or whatever it was. Thumbs probably required.]

[heiroglyphs]

Huh?

[Vera wanders over from the other side of the room, crouching down to pick up the heart-shaped object and Amelia along with it.]

I mean, it's heart-shaped, right? Maybe this is it?

[recollecters]

[ well, it is a Heart! they may want to take it somewhere, or something. it doesn't seem to be a thing that can be opened. ]