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INTRO LOG: AUGUST
INTRO LOG: AUGUST
DARK, DARK, DARK
characters: everyone.
location: all over beacon!
date/time: the first part of august.
content: a few new faces, the teleporter is up to old tricks, and overall just loving not being trapped in an underwater science station right about now.
warnings: n/a.
welcome to beacon.
The first thing you're aware of as you come to is the glow of a lantern, just within reach. Hazily, you start to recall the events leading up to your arrival. You died, somehow, but how does that equate to you being wherever you are?
The second thing you're aware of is that you're being handed a slice of cherry pie by a six-limbed masked creature with a hairnet. Looking around, you find yourself inside a school cafeteria. The school looks to be in decent condition, despite being dark and clearly abandoned - except by whatever this creature is. Stick around long enough and they will also serve some chicken nuggets and a box of milk. Wander a bit, and you may find a memorial wall for dozens of unfamiliar names and faces. Where is this?
A few answers can be found if you pick up and look through the tablet that's settled right beside the lantern. Some of the information is a little out of date at this point, but the most important details are still there: yes, you're really dead, keep your lantern close, and watch out for the spirits. You might notice mention of a ferry, but that's odd, especially if you're nowhere near the lake...
Leaving where you are and using the provided map on the tablet will help you find your way to town, and along the way you might find some out of place items, like crates of food or toiletries or clothing. Feel free to grab what you find as you make your way there, your new neighbors are sure to appreciate it.
Luckily for all the newcomers, the tablet and the town have some resources available for getting acquainted with their new situation! In fact, as soon as they're prompted to enter a network username, an app containing all sorts of useful welcome information will launch. It's still a little messed up (maybe someone might want to record a new message?), it has plenty of important information to share. Newcomers can always check out the weekly bulletins and the records that were thankfully saved from the bad storm a few months ago. If that's not enough, there's many long-time residents of Beacon that will be happy to share how things go around here. If not in person, network works too.
hide and seek.
The teleporter repair team has been hard at work, and their hard work has paid off. Items have arrived in Beacon aplenty! Only, the aiming protocol is still a little off and it's still all over. Whoops. While anyone with a specific request will find a spirit guide to help them find their wares, everything and anything else is fair game for a little fun.
The spirits are in a playful mood, and have taken the liberty of locating all these lost sundries and supplies. And of course, after that, they chose to hide them around town. Spirits vary from great at hiding things (lining a hollowed out trunk with swim trunks) to downright terrible (is it really "hiding" that sheet of plywood when you put it behind a streetlight that is smaller than it is?), though they seem to enjoy the experience either way.
Need something in particular and don't know where to start? Don't worry, spirits will be happy to give hints. If you can understand their esoteric forms of communication, that is. Others give away the game in the fact they hide with the items themselves, and find the prank so hilarious that little snuffles and giggles are an easy clue to the stowed stash. If characters play along long enough, the spirits will give up the game and will show the poor things with no seeking skills what they've hidden. Still, why not have a little fun with it? The spirits sure are!
ooc.
Hey there, wonderful players, and welcome to The Next Night! We're so glad to have you with us, both new and old. For a run-down on what's upcoming in August, please see the August gameplan, or check the calendar for a quick overview!
As a reminder, things like newcomer arrivals, item deliveries, and lantern repair all depend on the help of the characters in the game! If your character would be interested in assisting with the equipment at Dr. Solis' Lab in any way, please let us know!
DELIVERIES
The newly ported in items have arrived, but as in July, they're still kind of everywhere. Learning to use this portal technology is hard, and more hands helping out are always appreciated! As mentioned above, the spirits will readily help find people's personal requests, but the general resupplies? Guess you'd better be willing to play the spirits' latest little game. The following can be found, one way or another:
- The monthly store restock, which provides enough food, general sundry items, and basic supplies to comfortably last the group a month. You can check what kind of items to expect in a monthly restock here.
- For Elektra Natchios: several slightly oversized t-shirts and sweatpants made of comfortable materials, a bottle of black nail polish (chip resistant), a bottle of whiskey with a slight odor of sewer when the bottle is opened (though it tastes fine), and a teddy bear.
- For Rosinante Donquixote: 4 boxes each (25 rounds per box) of shotgun and flintlock pistol ammo, except in every box two of the rounds have been replaced with nerf darts that some poor kids probably lost long ago.
- For Fitz Kreiner: A limited set of lockpicking tools and a set of locks to practice on, and some paper umbrellas which may require some disassembly before they can be used.
- For Matt Murdock: an assortment of 14 lovely rings (not all pictured here) as well as 6 rings to share with his friends!
If you submitted an item request last month and we've missed it here, let us know!
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[And here they are, left with swords and axes for weapons. The bomb Weaver built worked on that one world eater but how are they going to make more?]
Mind answering something for me, though? What's radiation? Because people keep using that word when talking about the bombs here.
[Something in the air, something they're afraid of, but he's never gotten a real description.]
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[But he's always going to be biased against nuclear weapons. He had to live in their aftermath.]
Radiation? Put simply... [Oh, that's a promise he shouldn't have made...] It's a form of energy given off by certain naturally-occurring elements, such as radium or uranium. Radiation waves are powerful and able to pass through other types of matter, so it can be used as an energy source or in other legitimate applications.
Unfortunately, radiation is extremely harmful to all living things. Unshielded exposure damages the cells, causing burns or sickness. Extreme exposure can cause mutations, but is more often fatal. Worse yet, the energy takes a long time to dissipate, so even hundreds of years after the bombs fell on Earth, high levels of radiation are present in the ground, the water, and even the air in some places.
[That's as simply as he can put it.]
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Plutonium's one of those elements, right? There was a sample of it in the museum once, and Pluto sometimes asked us to bring her some if we found any, which I figure she was using as a power source for their station, but maybe also for the bombs she was planning to build. We never did find more, though. Just looked like a rock to me.
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[It seems so naive now. But a lot of the prewar world strikes him as naive.]
Where I come from, it's a constant concern. People have developed preventative medications and treatments to help the effects of radiation, and there are devices to filter it out of our water supply. But without such things here, it's better we simply avoid having any exposure, regardless of the source.
[This place is fairly nice. He'd rather it not turn into a second wasteland, with pre-dead residents this time.]
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[Got to be, right? It was more than a hundred years, even.]
The people who had that rock, I don't remember any of them saying it burned them, but maybe they just never mentioned it on the network. Seems important to keep track of something that dangerous.
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If the plutonium sample has become misplaced, it's probably not going to cause any trouble. A sample that small is unlikely to cause any widely-harmful effects to anything not directly in contact with it. So as long as it isn't inside the local well or underneath someone's pillow... [Was that a joke? It sounded a bit like a joke.]
I apologize for the rambling explanation. It's something I have more experience with than most.
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But at the apology, he shakes his head. It's been nice, actually - good to meet someone knowledgeable, and a welcome distraction from the ripples of intense hunger the world eater instilled into his mind.]
I'm glad you do. It's experience we might need since this keeps coming up. You should talk to Dr. Ingram if you can track him down, or Weaver. Or, actually, go see if you can't make sense of what's in Dr. Solis' research notes at her lab. Maybe you can help us find a way to use these ideas for when the world eaters eventually find us for real. Because they will, they're looking. Dunno how long we have left.
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Truthfully, I came out hoping I'd be able to locate something more akin to my usual loadout. More ammunition for my laser, and a suit of Power Armor, if I was lucky. I can be of more use around here if I'm able to feel in my element in a fight. [A sigh.] I don't suppose you've seen or heard of Power Armor here, have you?
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[But he raises an eyebrow and smiles a little as he takes another draw from the cigarette. Man, coming from a world with lasers and power armor must be really cool. Or really dangerous, but at least not boring.]
That's another reason to go to the lab, though. We've been trying to figure out how to work the computers there, but if we can point the portal at it, or however that works, we can try to bring it here.
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Danse's eyebrows rise at the mention of the portal.]
You're serious? There may be a way to bring it here?
[If that's true, and he could somehow grab a suit-- if not his T-60, something else, along with enough fusion cores to last him a while, he could really do some good around here. Stand on the front lines the next time spirits or something else attacked, strong and proud, protecting the human beings whose "lives" were in danger... it would be some purpose, at least.]
Where is this laboratory? When should I visit?
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[Mostly reading very boring and tedious old lists from past lighthouse keepers to try and find coordinates for useful things. He's no scientist either, but he can do the boring stuff while the smart ones put their heads together and make it actually happen.]
We've had a hard time getting really specific things, since we don't know how to find exact worlds yet. Night Market folks used to do that though, so there's a way.
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[It's not a guarantee, but it's still a chance.]
Not to say that I'm an ineffective soldier out of Power Armor, but if you want to talk about a weapon that may turn the tide of this war, a fully equipped Brotherhood of Steel Paladin is a good start.
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[Yes, the image in his head is something rather medieval. Still, that sounds damn useful to him and they really should focus on getting some sort of body armor for patrols. A lot of them aren't used to walking around long distances in anything heavy like full plate, but maybe at least some padding would come in handy.]
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Power Armor is as it sounds, full-body combat armor that fully encases the user within a mechanical frame. Rather than strapping pieces of armor to the body, think of it as a mechanical "shell" that has armor plates affixed to the outside. The frame is powered with a fusion core, and utilizes hydraulics to help the user move and more easily carry the weight of the suit.
[Hey, that could have been much worse.]
I've been training and fighting in it for over a decade. It's the Brotherhood of Steel's iconic weapon of choice.
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But okay, fusion core, that's come up a few times. Like the submarine, or the little robot at the bonfire. So one of those as a cool battle suit for a person? Yeah, as it dawns on him he looks impressed - in fact, eager might be a better descriptor, with how his eyes and smile both widen.]
And your whole army gets those? Is that what the Brotherhood of Steel is? Or is that a special unit?
[Seriously, how do so many of these worlds get to actually be the cool shit that's in comic books and novels in his? So unfair but so cool!]
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The Brotherhood of Steel is an army, yes, a military order dedicated to the salvation of humanity by the preservation and control of technology. Power armor isn't exclusive to us, but we have the reach and resources to easily acquire as much of it as we need. All soldiers ranked Knight and above are trained to utilize it in battle and granted their own suit.
Given the proper time and materials, I may be able to improvise a power armor frame from scratch, though it would take a large quantity of advanced machinery and parts that are likely rare or non-existent here. If we could somehow bring suits over from my world, though, I would be more than happy not only to don it in the community's defense, but to train others, as well.
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Right, though, he did tell Law he wouldn't be gone too long.]
Depending on the parts you need, and how easy it is to improvise, it might be better to do that until we figure out how to target exact worlds. There are others here who are good at technical things too, so you might ask around for help once you have the supplies.
[He finally settles on one of the swords - lightweight and a bit short for his personal liking, not so much a cleaver as something that will take speed and precision. Ought to suffice for its purpose, so he picks up a sheath to slide it into and then stands to attach it to his belt.]
I'll message you later and bring you to the lab, all right?
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He snaps out of it quickly though, nodding.]
Right. Yes. I'll be- collecting scrap as I find it, for general use. But thank you for volunteering all this information to me. I look forward to hearing from you, Commander.