On the 13th of October, the network flickers online and several messages pop up. Outsiders will probably recognize the usernames attached to them.
@ KIJYO
castle in the fog skulls watching us sacrifice help us
@ GOLDILOCKS
wolf kaiju Promises protection Found broken radio
@ BANKERBOY
🦸=❌ 🐺💀🔨=less fog 👹=🦇🐺 🧑🌾=💩! 🏰=☠️! go toget
@ ONESTEPFORWARD
We're okay for now. Careful of purple flowers. -🦆
Some Outsiders might notice these usernames to be Lucy/Kaede, Taryon, Nanami and Malkuth respectively. The messages end there and there will be no way to contact the senders or anyone who has gone missing. While Outsiders in the town will be able to use the network to speak to each other, the reception will be spotty and the messages might be delayed. It might be more efficient to simply meet up in person.
▶ AFTERWORD.
The messages from the kidnapped characters are out! Thank you everyone for participating! Non-kidnapped characters may use this log to have discussions (or do whatever else might be relevant). As previously mentioned, after the 7th, they will not be able to contact any kidnapped characters, and their messages to each other will be spotty or delayed (which can make for funny shenanigans if you prefer). It is probably much easier to organise an in-person meeting, but we will leave it to you to do what you like. The townsfolk convene at the church for their daily prayers and worship at about 12 noon every day. Outsiders may use this time away from the townsfolk to have more private discussions.
We have put this up early to allow people more time to thread in it, but ICly it is going up on the 13th and will lead up to the Kaiju log on the 15th. These messages are also delayed. Whether or not the captives actually are 'okay' is up in the air ...
All tags on this log are worth 2 points and will count towards October AC.
It seems that there is a direct correlation between the number of canine skulls and the density of the fog. If destroying the skulls will reduce the latter, the castle should become visible.
[ Anyone who knows Godzilla knows he texts with emojis excessively. When he doesn't it means he's in a bad mood.
Right now he's cross eyed pissed. ]
This is the final proof. This was a trap, a lure, the civil denizens are complacent in some regard.
Friend Kaede, Taryon, and the one known as Bankerboy have given us information on our enemy. A canid, it makes use of skulls in some manner? It is likely the being the civil denizens worship as their deity.
We should destroy its symbols. It is egotistical enough to decorate its territory with them, the destruction shall draw its eyes I believe.
Okay for now, but no idea how long that will last given the 1st message. Okay! Let's get skull hunting and bashing. We got to look for any hidden stashes of them too. This place got a vault of them somewhere so they can replace any broken ones at any time. These skulls are a precious resource to them after all~
[ goddess. deciphering things gives him a headache. ]
'For now' and 'sacrifice' ... 🦸=❌ ? I don't understand the image used in this line. [ he's from the 12th c fellas. ]
And 'a broken radio' ... in this town? They haven't even moved on from horses and carriages. It'd be the most advanced technology they've had, and none of the villagers are even able to take advantage of it because it's broken and hidden from them. [ he tries to remember how this town was discovered to begin with ... a distress signal nobody knew about ... was it a trap for them, then? ] Perhaps this has happened before.
I saw some of us discussing it in a sub thread, but I think it's worth it to mention it elsewhere for visibility.
If we gather as many of the skulls as possible and trigger a delayed eruption, it would give us a larger window of opportunity and help prevent any one of us from bearing the brunt of the poisoning effects.
The fog lifting is bound to arouse suspicion anyway, and if it takes them time to replace the skulls it might be our best bet.
Would anyone be able to contribute to this effect?
Do we have anyone among us who can track technology in any way. If the radio is broken maybe that means there are ones that aren't in disrepair.
🦸=❌ No heroes?
🐺💀🔨=less fog Fighting wolf skulls?
👹=🦇🐺 This one I'm uncertain of, a demon or a monster working with a bat... wolf?
🧑🌾=💩! I thought at first this was just something rude, but it could be a crop needing to be grown? No, probably not. But it has a "!" just as much as the one below telling us to go together if we're going to go. And I plan on going anywhere someone is asking to be saved.
🏰=☠️!
As above, stress on the pirate emoticon. Castle pirates.
[It is not castle pirates, but he will fight a castle pirate too.]
[ yuji is quiet, for a long, long, long time, before - ]
don't be a hero. or powers. i don't know. break things for the fog. the castle is bad, it's death. he wants us to stay together, he wants us to be together.
[ Anyone seeing Yuji live and in person might see him actively sobbing. ]
farmers are shit. we can't trust them, the people here.
[Though doubtless that, in this situation, the two are very far from each other, Raidou comes to Yuji moments after those messages arrive. No words yet, just arms to envelope him immediately.]
How do we get to this castle if we can't even get out of the village?
[ Why do all of his trips to Europe suck so much? When is someone going to pull a functional giant robot out of their basement for him? Is the third one a scrapped plot for the Emoji Movie? ]
They're not in the village. The kaiju's a lupine creature the villagers can understand. Break every fucking skull you can find. No one go anywhere alone. Put your plug suits on around purple flowers.
[That's the summary he gets from all the messages.]
Dammit!
[If these villagers offered up their companions as a sacrifice for the kaiju, they're straight up villains now.]
Fuck these people! If they did this on purpose, I'm not saving their asses when the kaiju shows up! Let's get our teammates back and get the fuck out of here!
[For once Yato's in almost complete agreement with Bakugo's attitude towards the situation.]
Agreed. It seems almost incomprehensible that these people could not know what's going on here. We should focus on rescuing the others and annihilating the kaiju, damn the village and its inhabitants.
Bakugo, can you blast the skulls from a distance? Maybe we can void being poisoned that way. If not, I say we all take a skull to smash and spread the effects between us.
1. Measures have been proposed to coordinate our efforts, increasing their effectiveness and efficiency, as well as mitigating the risk of Rift poisoning as a consequence of destroying the canine skulls. To assist, please bring any remaining skulls that you discover to this clearing in the forest: [ The map location follows. ]
2. We may have some chance of minimizing immediate chaos by acting while the villagers are assembled for their daily worship at the church.
it seems like we've all noticed one or two people we know personally are missing, but i think we should also make a full headcount reference of everyone we know who came here but isn't in our group currently.
on my end, i've noticed the following from brimstone who were part of the trip but who i haven't been able to find:
-makima -kaga -maki
(geez are ishmael and i the only girls from the team who got spared?)
also noticed loop and ereshkigal are gone. of course if anyone we list is actually not captured and fine, they should say so.
I did not travel here with Kabru, but he happened upon me while I was at one of the blacksmith shops. I've not gotten a response out of him since people have gone missing, though.
Zagreus was on the flight, but I haven't seen him at all since then, but maybe somebody else has?
(( This is also a general toplevel for anyone who wants to show up in person for a meet-up while the villagers are distracted to chat! Please his brain is so tired from trying to read things. ))
[ Touching base with the honorary titan Gigan is important enough to warrant Godzilla just going to where he's said he's at. When Godzilla joins the other big guy behind the tavern one thing becomes readily apparent, Goji looks like shit. There's bags under the bags under his eyes, his hair is fully disheveled, and he's got a hell of a purple bruise on the side of his head from where Shinn double-fisted him. Didn't even buy Goji dinner first, who does that?! ]
Gigan. It is good that you are still amongst us.
[ Godzilla raises a hand in greeting and proceeds to take up the post of all brooding heroic types. Leaning up against the wall of the building they're meeting behind and looking Tired and Angry in equal measure. ]
Your true form's senses, are they as similarly baffled as the others' magics and technologies?
yo. noticed something when I was out for a walk today, so figured I should share.
[ “out for a walk” meaning Izou took him for a walk. he'll ignore that part ]
if you hadn’t heard, I’ll just be blunt and say set and I were trying to catch the attention of the lord of the forest this past week. best way to catch a god’s attention is by making offerings and sacrifices. made several and definitely caught its attention but it wasn’t thrilled about it. especially when I offered up one of the locals.
ended up with a mark first. looks kind of like a bruise. but after that, could tell it was starting to fuck with my mind. saw the damn thing and can’t remember it, feeling like it’s watching me all the time, and after offering the local? this feeling of needing to hunt and hurt our own—just the outsiders, not the locals. comes and goes at least. but that’s why set and I ended up in the barn for time out.
but I’m sharing because I noticed that it wasn’t just the us or the people helping out that got the marks. saw one of the locals with the same one on their arm. it’s real distinct.
so take that info as you will. was said by @ bankerboy already (I think it's what the emoji meant anyways) but watch out around the locals is what I’ve got to say about that
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@HTKRIZO
and ONE sayin' they're okay
the hell;s that mean, huh?
huh??
( a burst of emotion, albeit a spotty one... before the much delayed: )
not one word on how to tread the fog
guess... they don't know how
@Gojira
The Bankerboy's meaning is clear.
[... Is it, Goji?! ]
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It may enable us to reach the others as well.
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great value cooked ham...
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@kensuke, text.
A wolf kaiju.
[ people are kidnapped and having horrible things done to them and this the thing that gets Laios’ attention? ]
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Right now he's cross eyed pissed. ]
This is the final proof. This was a trap, a lure, the civil denizens are complacent in some regard.
Friend Kaede, Taryon, and the one known as Bankerboy have given us information on our enemy. A canid, it makes use of skulls in some manner? It is likely the being the civil denizens worship as their deity.
We should destroy its symbols. It is egotistical enough to decorate its territory with them, the destruction shall draw its eyes I believe.
@BAD DADDY
See>? They seem fine. I don't know why everyone was so panicked.
@bustermove
[definitely the most pressing issue rn.]
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@kuzunoha14
"🐺💀🔨=less fog"
Should we be organizing a group to start destroying all those skull effigies?
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@hearse
Purple flowers - does she mean heathers? Why didn't she just tell us ANYTHING ELSE. Useless.
Anyway, we can't waste our time here. We need to get out there NOW.
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@hottie, private.
private;
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@rodya
Okay! Let's get skull hunting and bashing. We got to look for any hidden stashes of them too. This place got a vault of them somewhere so they can replace any broken ones at any time. These skulls are a precious resource to them after all~
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@nadel
You'll get dizzy.
And sick.
@Gojira
Be cautious. Stay with your mate if possible till you recover. None should be alone, we are in the den of the enemy.
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'For now' and 'sacrifice' ... 🦸=❌ ? I don't understand the image used in this line. [ he's from the 12th c fellas. ]
And 'a broken radio' ... in this town? They haven't even moved on from horses and carriages. It'd be the most advanced technology they've had, and none of the villagers are even able to take advantage of it because it's broken and hidden from them. [ he tries to remember how this town was discovered to begin with ... a distress signal nobody knew about ... was it a trap for them, then? ] Perhaps this has happened before.
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NOT HERE
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@draconic
if they are shit, then should we just kill them all?
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@hottie
If we gather as many of the skulls as possible and trigger a delayed eruption, it would give us a larger window of opportunity and help prevent any one of us from bearing the brunt of the poisoning effects.
The fog lifting is bound to arouse suspicion anyway, and if it takes them time to replace the skulls it might be our best bet.
Would anyone be able to contribute to this effect?
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Your suggestion is sensible. I'll assist as needed.
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emerges.... sorry, work was a thing last week
@IcyHot
🦸=❌
No heroes?
🐺💀🔨=less fog
Fighting wolf skulls?
👹=🦇🐺
This one I'm uncertain of, a demon or a monster working with a bat... wolf?
🧑🌾=💩!
I thought at first this was just something rude, but it could be a crop needing to be grown? No, probably not. But it has a "!" just as much as the one below telling us to go together if we're going to go. And I plan on going anywhere someone is asking to be saved.
🏰=☠️!
As above, stress on the pirate emoticon. Castle pirates.
[It is not castle pirates, but he will fight a castle pirate too.]
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[ yuji is quiet, for a long, long, long time, before - ]
don't be a hero. or powers. i don't know. break things for the fog. the castle is bad, it's death. he wants us to stay together, he wants us to be together.
[ Anyone seeing Yuji live and in person might see him actively sobbing. ]
farmers are shit. we can't trust them, the people here.
action;
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[ Why do all of his trips to Europe suck so much? When is someone going to pull a functional giant robot out of their basement for him? Is the third one a scrapped plot for the Emoji Movie? ]
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@Great Explosion Murder God Dynamight
They're not in the village. The kaiju's a lupine creature the villagers can understand. Break every fucking skull you can find. No one go anywhere alone. Put your plug suits on around purple flowers.
[That's the summary he gets from all the messages.]
Dammit!
[If these villagers offered up their companions as a sacrifice for the kaiju, they're straight up villains now.]
Fuck these people! If they did this on purpose, I'm not saving their asses when the kaiju shows up! Let's get our teammates back and get the fuck out of here!
@Destiny
Agreed. It seems almost incomprehensible that these people could not know what's going on here. We should focus on rescuing the others and annihilating the kaiju, damn the village and its inhabitants.
Bakugo, can you blast the skulls from a distance? Maybe we can void being poisoned that way. If not, I say we all take a skull to smash and spread the effects between us.
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@mr. viper
1. Measures have been proposed to coordinate our efforts, increasing their effectiveness and efficiency, as well as mitigating the risk of Rift poisoning as a consequence of destroying the canine skulls. To assist, please bring any remaining skulls that you discover to this clearing in the forest: [ The map location follows. ]
2. We may have some chance of minimizing immediate chaos by acting while the villagers are assembled for their daily worship at the church.
3. Further strategic coordination was recommended.
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don't recommend killing them by the way. not on principle but because you'll get what I'll just call a curse for simplicity
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on my end, i've noticed the following from brimstone who were part of the trip but who i haven't been able to find:
-makima
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(geez are ishmael and i the only girls from the team who got spared?)
also noticed loop and ereshkigal are gone. of course if anyone we list is actually not captured and fine, they should say so.
@kensuke
Zagreus was on the flight, but I haven't seen him at all since then, but maybe somebody else has?
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@FutureTerror; 10/14, just before noon
HARD TO READ RIGHT NOW
THIS IS ANNOYING
WHAT IS THE PLAN
DON'T TYPE IT AT ME
COME TELL ME IN PERSON
I WENT TO THE TAVERN
BUT IT'S CLOSED FOR GOD STUFF
SO MEET ME BEHIND IT
(( This is also a general toplevel for anyone who wants to show up in person for a meet-up while the villagers are distracted to chat! Please his brain is so tired from trying to read things. ))
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Didn't even buy Goji dinner first, who does that?!]Gigan. It is good that you are still amongst us.
[ Godzilla raises a hand in greeting and proceeds to take up the post of all brooding heroic types. Leaning up against the wall of the building they're meeting behind and looking Tired and Angry in equal measure. ]
Your true form's senses, are they as similarly baffled as the others' magics and technologies?
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10/13 — well after the messages (@nice toy)
[ “out for a walk” meaning Izou took him for a walk. he'll ignore that part ]
if you hadn’t heard, I’ll just be blunt and say set and I were trying to catch the attention of the lord of the forest this past week. best way to catch a god’s attention is by making offerings and sacrifices. made several and definitely caught its attention but it wasn’t thrilled about it. especially when I offered up one of the locals.
ended up with a mark first. looks kind of like a bruise. but after that, could tell it was starting to fuck with my mind. saw the damn thing and can’t remember it, feeling like it’s watching me all the time, and after offering the local? this feeling of needing to hunt and hurt our own—just the outsiders, not the locals. comes and goes at least. but that’s why set and I ended up in the barn for time out.
but I’m sharing because I noticed that it wasn’t just the us or the people helping out that got the marks. saw one of the locals with the same one on their arm. it’s real distinct.
so take that info as you will. was said by @ bankerboy already (I think it's what the emoji meant anyways) but watch out around the locals is what I’ve got to say about that
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[ yeah ok set ]
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