[MRP] Team A : Laz + Henry + Nell + Fisher [CLOSED]

[Anachrophobia]

Rallying those with proper transportation, Kyou called forth any and all of the party goers - whether they had seen the catastrophe inside firsthand or not - to join him on the mad hunt for Fel Essences.

Since there is only one detection device for fel essences, and the fel essences had been scattered all over the city of Gaia, Kyou had to whip up some quick magic in order to help with the search.

Each team will get a petri dish filled with water, with a silver sewing needle in it. The silver needle will help guide the team to the nearest fel essence that they will need to recapture. However, unlike the device that Kyou has that has a huge tracking distance, the silver needle in the petri dish can only track fel essence in a half mile radius, and it will cease to function by midnight.

Each team will also get a bag filled with a handful of empty glass vials and jars that is meant to keep fel essences within. Because Kyou has a feeling that the scattered fel essences might not be in their original vessels anymore. Inside each vial and jar is a small piece of paper with inscriptions on it. It is meant to draw in fel essences that has no physical form, such as fel essences related to sound or wind. However they will need to be fairly close to the fel essence in order for this to happen. This was also a last minute magic that Kyou came up with, because he will be unable to come with the teams for the hunt due to his... disability. He would only slow everybody down. Should the teams run out of glass vials or jars, they could return to the Lab where Kyou is for more.

Fel essences are radioactive, although they have a fairly low level of it.That is why they should be handled with care. The radioactivity of fel essences are harmless to Raevans though, so if permissible, it is best to have a Raevan handle the fel essence. If that option is not viable, it is best to protect yourself when retrieving the fel essence. Whether with gloves or other form of protection. It is best not to have skin contact with the fel essence, as it might have long term effects.

With that said, when the teams are ready, they should head out and search for the missing fel essences.  

[Anachrophobia]

[1] This meta event works similarly to the Meaning of Fear meta a few years back. With a few adjustments.
[2] Each group will get their own threads to RP in. Your RP opponent or what I prefer to call 'Game Master' will be the shop mule Anachrophobia who will be replying in the form of RP prompts to give you challenges and reply to your reactions.
[3] The shop mule will start the thread, but the participants will be the one to start the RP.
[4] Please roll a 6-sided dice when you start the RP. This will decide where you start your RP at. It is best advised to assign one person to do this, preferably the person starting the RP. Please refer to list below for the numbered locations. You may decide/describe how said location look like.
[5] The groups this time had been predetermined, you don't get to choose who to go with. IC-ly, it is Kyou trying to equalize the amount of people in each group and the balance of strengths. The method of deciding who is in which group, is half randomized and half personally assigned by me.
[6] Dice rolling might be prompted from the GM, to determine what may or may not happen, or decide where you go next.
[7] You and your team can decide the posting order. The Game Masters don't really care.
[8] THIS RULE IS IMPORTANT!!!!!! When it is your turn to reply in the RP, you only have 3 DAYS (aka 72 hours) to reply. If you don't, the Game Master will butt in and remove your character from the meta permanently. The next person in the posting order will have 3 days from the Game Master's reply to reply as well.
[9] The rule above only applies to characters. If you signed up two characters for the meta, congratulations!! You got a second chance. If you didn't, goodbye. However, the Game Master chooses who to KO.
[10] As this is a time sensitive RP event, please do not be pressured to write long elaborate RP posts. You need to progress through the city and not linger. That also means, please do not expect long replies from the mule either.
[11] Only characters that had been signed up for in the Meta sign up thread and had 'checked in' in the ORP event before the bird shenanigans can participate in this Meta event.
[12] When the Game Master enters your RP rotation, they are part of the RP rotation! You are not allowed to skip over a GM post or conveniently forgot about them because you're too excited. Game Masters will delete your extra posts if this happens.
[13] Your quest to find the fel essences will end when you have found 5 fel essences, or when the one month period had passed. Certainly, even if you've found 5 fel essences and wish to continue, please inquire to do so!

 

[Anachrophobia]

[1] Roadside diner
[2] Forest trail
[3] Abandoned cottage
[4] Lakeside
[5] Small farm
[6] Fishing shop

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WHO: Lazarus + Henry Knight + Nell Wilson + Fisher
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[DystopicRhythm]

Dr. Kyou had been quick to assign groups to the party-goers, resulting in Lazarus, Nell, Fisher and Henry, himself, together – what luck that they had been getting acquainted during the party itself. However, now that things had turned all wrong, there was little room for merriment anymore. The nurse had offered his car to cover more ground.

”I guess here is as good a place to start as any,” said Henry as he pulled into the diner's parking lot. He'd never come here before but it seemed like a nice place – he'd have to remember for the future – but like there was no time for merriment, there was no time for food. Climbing out of the driver's seat, he closed the door and rested his arm against the roof of his car, waiting for the others to pile out.  

[Subobo]

"Do you think we should split up?" Nell asked as she climbed out of the car. She looked at the diner critically, wondering if there would be much to notice (aside from the impromptu essence finder) if an essence was even around.

"There's only the one...find-y thing, but they'd be pretty small, right?" Even though she had suggested it, her tone seemed to indicate that she wasn't wholly pleased with the idea of going off by herself.  

[Smerdle]

Fisher climbed out of the car with an affable smirk, stretching and straightening his clothing as he looked over the area.

"I'm not against splitting up, but one of us should probably ask around to find out if anyone saw anything suspicious before we start poking under tables. Unless that compass is really accurate? I guess we could just go inside if it's going to show us exactly where the thing is." He glanced at each of his companions, looking for who had ended up with the tracker. "What's it doing right now?"  

[kyoupi]

Of course, being the 'ambassador' of the Lab, he was tasked with handling the petri dish compass. Stepping out of the car along with the rest of the group, he stared at the dish, looking a little confused.

"I swear it moved just now..." It was why he asked Henry to stop at the roadside diner. However, as he moved and turned the dish now, the needle just flowed along with the current, not pointing particularly in any one direction. "Perhaps it just got out of range..." Holding the dish out, he walked back towards the direction where they came from; where he first saw the needle moved. It felt ridiculous, it's almost exactly like he's trying to find a signal for his phone.

The roadside diner was a quaint little place, completed with neon signs on top. Right next to it is a fairly large paved parking lot, along with a fairly large restroom area. The other end of the parking lot is a petrol station. This place is kind of like a pit stop along a long stretch of highway.

As Lazarus walked across the parking lot though, the needle reacted, snapping immediately in one direction. "Oh my god guys it's pointing at something!" For a while there he was worried it was broken.  

[DystopicRhythm]

"I've never dealt with a raw essence before..." Henry said with a shrug, looking to Nell as she spoke. Ethiriel had already been a Frei by the time she came into the nurse's life; he never had to collect a soul or handle the vials. "Since there's only one compass, I don't think it'd be very helpful to split up, to be honest."

As soon as Laz had stepped away, the nurse watched him search for any sign of reaction, and once the Valsaros confirmed movement, Henry took a couple strides toward him to take a look.

"What's it pointing to?"  

[Anachrophobia]

An open field was what the needle pointed to. Behind the diner was a vast stretch of spring green grass newly growing in the warm spring sun, dotted here and there with dandelions and edged with forest where it wasn't with asphalt. It was the type of field where that grass would grow tall over the summer and become the future home for many types of insects and snakes. Luckily for Team A, since it was still so early, there would be no such worries about that here.

Of course, where there was a pro there was also a major, glaring con. The size of the field was hardly 'national park' status but from where the Team stood in the parking lot, the trees at the opposite end were sure to look far back and small. As for width, twenty men standing fingertip to fingertip apart from each other would still need four others to join in for the chain to reach each side.

The compass needle does not waver as it points at the field. The first Essence is in there somewhere.  

[Subobo]

All she could do was offer another shrug back at Henry's questioning look. Her's probably wasn't the best experience to base this off of, as she had the idea that hers might have been a bit of an outlier as far as this was concerned. She considered giving her two cents on the subject, but was cut off when Lazarus said he had a lead.

Though, after following the path it was pointing to, it didn't seem to be too much of a lead. "I don't suppose it'd get more specific?" she asked hopefully.  

[Smerdle]

Well, there would be no need to go inside if the thing was out there. At least it was a nice day to search a field. If it had been all overgrown he might have had to abstain, if only for the sake of his shoes. Surprisingly eager to start looking under this more pleasing set of circumstances, Fisher folded his arms and hung back instead, waiting to hear the consensus. More specific would be good.  

[kyoupi]

Looking back at his team mates, Lazarus was honestly surprised at their lack of initiative. Does he have to do everything?

"Well for a start, we could just go where the needle is pointing." He showed the compass to Henry as the other walked over, promptly putting it into Henry's hands so that he's not the one holding it for once. Then with wide strides Lazarus started to walk into the field.

The field actually looked rather inviting. A beautiful spring green color dotted with white and yellow flowers here and there, with the bright blue sky in the background, it actually looked quite relaxing. If not for their task today, he would have loved to lay down on the bed of grass and just relax in the sun. But alas, their mission awaits. Red eyes darted around the field to try and look for anything suspicious or out of place. He knew some of the fel essences that are still kept in the Lab, but not all of them. So he has no idea at all what they will encounter in the field.

NeonMace

 

[DystopicRhythm]

Henry hadn't expected Laz to hand him the compass, staring back and forth between it and the incubus in question. For a brief moment the nurse was confused, but as soon as reality came back to him, which had paused from the beauty of the field, he held it tight in his right hand and followed Lazarus closely.

"If the needle isn't general and points exactly to it, hopefully it won't be too hard to find," said Henry, a few strides away from the Valsaros. "I just hope it doesn't cause any damage to anything..."  

[Anachrophobia]

As soon as the team members who strode into the field were ten feet from the asphalt and the diner, the needle on the compass started going wild. East, West, South, North...then it was doing a full circle, around and around, as though the compass was rolling down a hill rather than being held stationary in someone's hand.

It was at that time the howling started, from everywhere and seemingly nowhere all at once. As if the world's largest pack of wolves all started singing together right then and there, the sound filled the air and rattled the trees on all sides of the field. It was a cold sound; the sort that sunk into your bones and gave you a fearful chill without so much as touching you, indicative of many scary slumber party horror stories where the wind would howl and the monster or murderer would be lurking just outside your bedroom door.

Before Team A knew it, the source of the sound blew into them from all sides - invisible, powerful, and loud.

It was the wind and it was angry.

Everyone please roll 1d6. If you roll an odd number, the wind blows you off your feet.  

[Subobo]

"Well, might as well get looking, I guess," The field was given a long look before she strode off, going in a slightly different direction than the others in order to cover more ground. However, any attempts to actually look for the essence were thwarted by the sudden wind that picked up, causing her to focus mostly on shielding her eyes from flying debris and making sure her dress didn't fly up suddenly.

Well, this was getting off to a great start.