saveournumbers | July plot digest and August setting interactions

PLOT DIGEST AND SETTING INTERACTIONS POST

Plotting posts are here to

serve as monthly digests, to get everyone back up to speed with what is going on in the game by providing up-to-date information on plot and setting
provide a space to ask questions about interactions with the setting and plot
offer a venue where players can plot with the mods so that together we can make Save Our Earth as interactive as possible. Plot that has not yet happened is malleable; if player characters interact with it, it may just steer in a different direction from what the mods expected.

Please direct all questions, suggestions and anything else addressed to the mods to toplevel titled "Talk to a Mod" and not to the post in general.

The post is also open for players to plot and coordinate between one another.

General/OOC notes:

Please remember to add your character tag to posts that you are tagging into!
For the sake of simplicity, this game uses UTC for everything where an exact cut-off (or start) time is relevant. Right now, this is mostly relevant for AC.
A note on NPCs and plot: Currently we're in a phase of settling into the setting. That means that NPCs don't offer plot hooks yet, but relationship hooks - it's meant to allow characters to establish relationships with them or players to get a feeling for them before they need access to them. For example Stewart will in the future more easily talk to people who helped him find his son, things like that. Likewise there will be no plot directly barrelling at anyone yet, though it is there in the background, so when it shows up more clearly, it will hopefully not feel like a foreign object in the setting and characters will already have some way of relating to it.

Events that occurred recently or are occurring currently:

On June 30th, the network went live(x), and was accidentally first put to use by Jacob Petty (brofistsforall) (x), while Sam Stone (scarsolderthanyou) was the first to access it on purpose (x).
The night of the Northern Lights, Walter Weekes (iamnotgod) and James Pike (tobodlygo) helped Stewart Fairhurts track down his wayward son (x).
Not long after, Sam Stone (scarsolderthanyou) and Walter Weekes (iamnotgod) tried to figure out the echo boundaries (x).
On July 25th, Chad (channingchanningchanning) alerted everyone on the network (x) to an outbreak at the Moss Manor Menagerie's petting zoo, which caused almost every Numbered person to be in the same location for the first time as they tried to help out, each according to their own capabilities (x). In the process, James Pike (tobodlygo) failed to steal a rabbit and was later sentenced to community service at the zoo (x).

Events (potentially) occurring in the immediate future:

Pride pride PRIDE!

Due to it being the southern LGBTQ+ community's "retirement village" and there thus being a strong LGBTQ+ infrastructure in the town, this is a huge event that almost all stores, institutions and other parts of the community take part in one way or the other. Players are encouraged to make up a way in which their characters' school/workplace/social organisation offers events or otherwise gets involved in Pride Week, and respond here with whatever it is so you can get some plotting going, with the mods and with each other!

Also, yes, Pride is a bit late this year, taking place at the end of August - due to the extreme heat, it has been delayed in hopes of weather that will make less event attendees collapse.
The weekend before Pride Week, so in the first half of August, there also will be a Summer Fête, organised by the local religious communities, including a Victoria Sponge Cake baking competition, a raffle, activities like tug-o-war, and stalls with vendors selling local crafts and goods.
There will be a guided tour through the tunnels under the cliffs between the Fête and Pride Week.

Potential Plot Echo Opportunities

Eating from The Cake. You'll know what cake, promise. ...Eating the cake is at your own peril, though. Don't eat the cake. You were warned.

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

Sadie's Echo from the caves is hopefully going to be an object but they can certainly all be baffled as to how a giant notebook suddenly materialises in her rucksack.

Also, Russell should 100% make that joke.

I'm not sure if that'll be vindication or just baffledment, but there will definitely be some kind of feeling.

Oh no, enabled - he probably will.

Ben will hopefully get a memory Echo from the tunnels since his preincarnation used tunnels to travel around under the city.

Benjiro will never live this down. ~~Do it.~~

I was considering giving Sadie a memory echo for the tunnels but why should I make it easy for her? Instead, she gets to decode a massive field notebook,

~~He will absolutely never live it down~~

See, memories of traveling through underground tunnels like that's just an everyday thing, that's the kind of memory Russell's talking about. Exactly as expected. They're all going to be much more confused by the sudden notebook. (Would it likely have suspicious strings of numbers in it, for them to get caught on as a red herring?)

It's going to be the notebook that Q'uila used to put down all of her field notes for the Miners Guild in, so not only will there be 'random' strings of numbers from various measurements but it'll be written in Eorzean script with maybe a bit of Doman (Fantasy Chinese/Japanese) in it too for added confusion.

I approve wholeheartedly, the characters could conclude that the notebook's full of hints of what's going on with the network and come to all sorts of wrong conclusions in the process.

Exactly, need to apply for the Echo but it has serious potential for shenanigans. Especially once they realise that Eorzean script is heavily, heavily stylised English :P

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