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Field Mission 6: A Day in Thay, Part 1
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![]() ![]() Ready or not, rested or not, it's time to get moving, Reclaimers. You've got a very, very long day ahead of you. And another one. And another one. And, you get the joke. Early Friday morning, with the Director there to see them off, the Reclaimers load up into the Bureau's transportation orbs for the sixth time since this whole ordeal began, and make their way to about a mile or two outside of Thay. It's important to try to stick to the story, at least — that you're all visitors from a faraway school, here to spend some time with the students and faculty of Boarbumps. As much as Lucretia would have liked to join you, she can't. None of the other leading members of the Bureau of Balance can. Whoever enters Thay, after all, is entering a bubble, after all. A time trap. Nobody will be able to leave until the Relic, the Lamp of Undoing, is either retrieved or destroyed. Someone needs to be able to continue if you all can't. 1. SEVEN O'CLOCK ALREADYAs we noted in the OOC post, prompts on this log will be a quick few sentences of specific things happening during each hour. It's expected that Reclaimers will be seeing all of these events multiple times! So feel free to play with them as you see fit. If you're not sure if something you want to do would warrant a roll, please ask us in the RNG thread. ![]() ○ The Reclaimers have arrived in Thay, much to the curiosity of the highly intelligent, occasionally highly ... suspicious ... residents. Nevertheless, they recognize you as visiting, esteemed students, and, though perhaps still suspicious, welcome you into their fold. Also, as a note: Every time the relic is used, time is reset to this moment. ![]() ○ Afternoon classes at Boarbumps begin, starting with a lecture on the magical circuits of the common toad. If you happen to sit in on this one, as a visitor from another school, you may be asked to assist in the dissection. You will be heckled by the rest of the class as deemed fit. ![]() ○ The second afternoon class at Boarbumps begins. Are you three or four time loops in and in desperate need of a nap? This class, The History of Boarbumps, is for you. You will be treated to a long and droning lecture about how the students attending during Boarbumps' very first semester banded together to stop a particularly plucky troll. Which you'd think would be an interesting tale. It is not. ![]() ○ The third and final afternoon class at Boarbumps — Fighting with Fire — begins. The professor, known to be slightly more unorthodox in her teaching methods, will recruit any Reclaimer who happens to be there to defend themselves from the students' incoming fireball spells. The potency of the fireballs themselves range from the tickle of a candle, to that one time you ate a ghost pepper, to one particularly fiery spell that might actually hurt you. ![]() ○ There's a slight catastrophe over in the Town Square. That is to say, a giant spider seems to have escaped from Boarbumps and is terrorizing the vendors, to everyone's surprise. Subdue or dispatch it, it's up to you. ![]() ○ Cleanup of whatever damage the spider did is underway. In the meantime, the faculty of Boarbumps and the Hermetic Order of Red Wizards invite the Reclaimers to a small dinner in one of the public meeting rooms at the Red Keep. Every member of the Red Wizards are present, aside from Onerion Wyvernspur and Brian Darling. ![]() ○ No matter where you are in Thay, you'll feel the ground rumble underneath your feet. The residents largely pass it off as an earthquake, but will note that they have become much more frequent lately. ![]() ○ With a sudden loud roar, the ground of the town square suddenly begins to split. People, shops, and everything else begin to drop into the chasm, despite the Red Wizards, and everyone else's, attempts to save them. 2. OOC: A SPECIAL SHOUTOUTYou are welcome to keep track of how your character experiences these time loops as much or as little as you're comfortable with — we'll also be tracking what you all are doing! Our Minato player Kel came up with some extremely snazzy coding if you would like to track how each loop plays out for your character more closely. Thank you, Kel! Of course, this is completely optional. Keep up with as much as you'd like, have fun as you see fit, and we hope you enjoy this mission! |
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[Michael falls quiet for a moment, looking over the shrines.]
Chidi told me once that he didn't think immortals had the same understanding of morality as humans, because our lives are infinite. Any consequences wouldn't last forever. I don't know if it's that, exactly, but...I haven't run into many immortals who treat humans well. Not without having spent a lot of time around them.
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I bet to them... we seem... I don't know. Just like ants or something. Small and unimportant. Okay to be stepped on.
[Sort of like a villain but out of callousness rather than spite.]
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I used to say cockroaches, but yeah.
[They seem to be talking right past each other in terms of Michael actually being an immortal, and no he has not picked up on this.]
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It's not really fair. And I know life isn't fair and not everyone is made equal but-!
It's not like people can help being mortal anymore than gods can help being immortal! But we still have to deal with the stuff that they throw at us even though we're... just ants or cockroaches or tools or whatever to them. The Raven Queen can use her power over us but to fight back, we have so much less and can only just... try to play the game.
[He glances over at the shrine and makes a funny movement as though he almost moved to knock something down from the shrine but thought better of it.]
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At least we always kept everything to the afterlife.
[That wasn't better, really. But at least humans were free until they died?]
I think they probably don't really consider you people. Not the same way they're people. But we're all basically the same, when you get right down to it.
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[He scowls and crosses his arms. Yes, he's very hung up on this Alex thing.]
I guess they got to be free for a bit. But here we're just... [Stuck with them? At their mercy? Both?] We just have to deal with them and accept them.
[And clearly he doesn't like it.]
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[Michael doesn't have much to say to that. He can change people - not their thinking, the way the Raven Queen did, but what else do you call it when you erase important memories?]
I wish I were still... [One of them? He still is; maybe his physical nature has changed, but Michael doesn't consider his identity altered. But.] The only reason my human friends got as far as they did was because I was on their side. You need an immortal to help deal with other ones, I think. But I don't know this system. Maybe I couldn't help at all.
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[Izuku runs a hand down his opposite arm, pausing to examine the massive scar on his right arm. Michael has always been helpful as far as he's known him and, regardless of what Michael has said about his past, been nothing but kind to Izuku and everyone he knows. He's nice and funny and reminds him a little bit of All Might. Even though he knows Michael is a demon with a dark past, he just can't see him as like the Raven Queen. He gently touches Michael's sleeve in a comforting, yet somewhat childish, manner.]
But... that's a lot to take on by yourself. Especially if we don't even know enough about these gods to figure out what we could do to convince them. What if she did something to you too?
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[Most things aren't, from Michael's point of view!]
If she could do things like that to other immortals, I'm sure she would have by now. There's a whole bunch of them, I'm sure they don't all get along.
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Instead he just glances down at his bracer.]
Maybe it's because you're not from here. And they know it. You're an immortal but different from them.
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[The demons seem like a hot mess, anyway.]