WEEK THREE

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WEEK THREE

19 Villagers

They say nothing is healthier for the mind and body than physical labor - especially if you can hold the fruits of it in your hands and store it in your kitchen. Whatever cruelties you have witnessed or endured in the past week, your fields need tending to and they reward you with as quick as harvest as always.

If drowning your grief in work is not enough for you, there are new spots to explore in Puffin Town. Allow the novelty to distract you from your dwindling numbers!

Always remember, the value of a community is not measured by it's size.

(( OOC: Murder proposals are due by Tuesday at 4 PM EST / 1 PM PST for this final week! Get your bloodthirst in or forever hold your peace! Gift submission is still open as well!

If your character has been planting Astera, here's a reminder to report it at the Astera tracker - this does not need to have been threaded, we're just taking stock on an OOC level.))

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sleep deprived cat attempts a catherd

[liberazoth]

Um... Everyone, I think we might have gotten a little distracted ... Though I think some important things did get brought up.

[ he's looped around from sleep deprived college student pulling an all nighter to simply 'awake, but at what cost,' apparently. ]

Anyway, to recap ... last night, Enkidu, Nine, and I saw something in the forest and went to check it out. It turned out to be some sort of apple spirit? And it looked like it was trying to lead us to the three pages we found specifically, which are ... it looks to be a journal entry from someone relatively young, it seems like, and then Chronicles 550 and 559 in what looks to be a much longer log. The chronicles are written by a different person than the first one, if that means anything.

Mostly they talk about how life here was helped out by the Junimo lending their magic whenever the people living here harvested crops, but then things went... bad, after a while, when more people from outside the village learned about the Junimo, which is why they tried to close away the village from the rest of the world. Obviously it... didn't entirely work, since we're here... but it does seem from the sounds of things that all of us just showing up at the same time... isn't right?

[ considering that the chronicle says 'every once in a while one or two outsiders,' not a good two dozen, ]

The Junimo are supposedly nature spirits here that just... really like people who farm? And parties? And the Astera, like the Alderman said at the beginning. The Astera boosts their powers or something, and people started being tempted to try to get their wishes granted by growing Astera for the Junimo. They also apparently like the happy feelings associated with weddings...? [ they've talked Enough about marriage vayne doesn't have to keep going there. ] And the sounds that birds make. That part, um, comes from the scrolls. Apparently they're skittish and get bored easily, so the author was trying to figure out a way to get around that.

[ he's going to gesture to wherever baldr and wwx are, and explain: ]

It looks like Baldr and Wei Wuxian found some more chronicles? Theirs look like 599, 607, and 607.8k(III), but I haven't actually really got a good look at them yet to see if they match ... I mean, they probably do, if we assume the person writing them is the Wizard the first entry mentions? Anyway, they know more about it, but it looks like the gist of things is that this wizard was trying to figure out how to travel between dimensions with the Junimos' power, though from the notes it doesn't look like he'd really figured out the details yet on how to make it happen ... At least, not in the longest entry. One of the shorter ones makes it look like he figured it out, but not how. And it doesn't look like it says where he was even aiming to go...?

also duck communiques

[liberazoth]

And, um... one last thing. I think a decent number of us have realized that the ducks are probably actually the people who've died? [ walter whites and associated skepticism do not interact, just ask erika for the normie worldview friendly explanation for this she's the one who pushed them to talk about it. ] Just, you know. Stuck as ducks.

So... um. On that note. Have any of you ever had any weird interactions or conversations with the ducks where it seems like they're trying to tell you something? And maybe you just couldn't figure out what they were trying to say...? I don't know, maybe they've been trying to tell us something important and we never realized.

[ and maybe they can figure it out now! ]

[enkiboo]

I still think weddings are a good idea, by the way. If anyone has any better ideas that don't require sacrifice, I would hear it. Otherwise, I don't think any others would be productive and will probably just end up getting us foolishly killed, or something like that.

[ They are just saying this casually, it's fine. ]

I think the duck I was chatting with was telling me to dance. [ . . . ] Naturally, I can't confirm that for sure. It's just what I assumed they were telling me.

[ Smile! ]

In addition, since this is all basically against what those two are trying to aim for, I think we should be ready for any attempted interference. We're obviously going to disrupt their Astera plan by going ahead with a better substitute.

[liberazoth]

I mean, I don't think trying the wedding thing will hurt? The worst thing that could happen is that we all feel kind of silly.

[ ... ]

But ... Yeah, we probably should be ready for the two of them to do... Whatever it is they want to do.

[enkiboo]

They'll probably try to fight us.

Verbally or literally, so let's prepare ourselves however best we can for that.

[driftingknight]

[Although Baldr won't say anything to that, his mouth thins itself out into a line...]

[enkiboo]

[ That's for the best. ]

[hyperbloom]

It's worth a shot, at least. Better that than killing again and again until almost none of us are left.

[ She shrugs, appearing nonchalant. ]

And we've got two volunteers for it already, at that.

[theotherww]

...ah. So that's where they're hiding the way out. Behind the guise of dimensional travel.

Let's humor it for a moment. That'd mean that circle in the basement is supposed to be our way out?

[driftingknight]

[From the side:]

Yes. It appears to be a transfer gate of sorts-- a teleportation spell that, once activated, will remain so unless the caster chooses to close it.

[liberazoth]

[ piping up: ] I can read runes, so I might be able to try to help with figuring out what they say or if it needs fixing ...

But, then again, the stuff here is probably different from what I'm used to, so I don't know how much help it'll actually be.

[ alchemy here is a terrible watered down version of itself that 3 times out of 4 is only good for breaking things, 0/10 would not recommend. ]

[driftingknight]

It certainly couldn't hurt for you to take a look. Even if you aren't able to read the entire thing, you might be able to recognize at least some of the runes used.

[Baldr, on the other hand, has pretty much zero knowledge about these sorts of things beyond what he's learned from Woden, the actual mirrist. He can recognize a transfer gate, but actually open or use one? Heck no.]

[moonblades]

[There's much to think about and less to do. So many things seem like they're sitting on a precipice... much like the giant sword embedded in the earth miles away, the shape of the answers they're seeking is visible but still a shadow.

Regardless of how the rest of the conversation will go tonight, Mio hops up after Vayne presents his whiteboard summary. He looks dead on his feet.]

You've worked hard enough to burst, haven't you? You've done well. [She passes Vayne the dog plushie she's been holding onto, using to hide her matrimony-induced embarrassment, and treating as the occasional impromptu desk when she needed to consult some of the notes for discussion. It's not a very good desk, but it is incredibly soft and huggable.]

Why don't you rest a bit? We'll be right here if any of us develop a better plan.

[liberazoth]

[ oh. is for him? his eyes may go a little wide at being passed the plushie before he ducks himself slightly behind it to hide his reaction. this plush is being a friend to everyone today... ]

I think I'll take you up on that, honestly... I mean, I've had worse, but since there's nothing super pressing right now...

[ a nap is probably in order. ]

Thank you?

[moonblades]

[Shy? It's kinda adorable, actually. Ears wiggling happy, Mio smiles and waves him off. He doesn't need her permission to go take his nap!]

Don't mention it. You can hang onto that... so take however long you need. I'm gonna reread these copies you gave us.