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PLOT THREADS

Occasionally mods will be allowing a set number of characters to schedule an involved conversation with a mod regarding the discovery of something in game, as announced on the OOC community or on a mod log. Characters who have signed up for the option will be selected via RNG (with preference given to characters who have not yet had a thread like this), and the thread will be conducted on this page.

You can see a sample thread in the comments below, but in essence, this thread is meant to mimic the conversation a tabletop player might have with their DM. The mod will establish the setting, and you may describe your character's actions and decisions. The mod will respond with reactions and any particular consequences, and the mod and player will move throughout the scenario together, until all questions are satisfied and all actions are taken.

After this informational thread is complete, it's assumed that anything learned within is now common knowledge for the rest of the game. You're still welcome to thread out discussion or discovery of this ICly, but if you'd like to skip ahead to any fallout or follow-up action, that's also fine.

As a note, these threads do not have to be limited to one character in the scene. For the ease of moving threads along quickly, we ask that one player take the reins in terms of writing out the actions of all characters involved in the scene. We have a channel reserved in the Discord channel limited to current thread participants to facilitate OOC discussion of who's doing what for this purpose.

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Welp, time to just go for it. 9S will have Pod float ahead of him and shine its flashlight around the corner at whatever is there, with the intention of baiting anything out that may potentially be hostile.

Its flashlight glints off of metal — this creature crouches at the base of a locked door, digging at the crack under the plastic-coated door, where light from the beacon can be seen faintly shining through. It's about 6 inches long. After a few seconds of light being shone at it, it will pause, and seem to slowly refocus its attention on the flashlight.

Whoa okay, since it doesn't immediately attack 9S will draw more closer himself, but still keep a reasonable distance away. Does the creature appear ready to attack or is it too distracted by the flashlight?

It seems very distracted. It leaps into the air, but it takes a rather slow and leisurely approach as it flies up and over to investigate the flashlight. It doesn't seem to notice 9S at all.

Good, then he'll take the chance to look over this weird creature real quick. Is it entirely covered in metal, or does it have any obvious squishy bits like the bladed creatures' eyes?

It's almost entirely metal, but the reddish interior glimpsed through protective caging seems like it may be soft and organic.

Unfortunately, it doesn't give him very long to study it, because just then it notices Pod behind the light, and suddenly it isn't moving so slowly anymore. It's going for an attack, and will wrap all of its limbs around Pod if given the chance.

Oh my god NOT POD.

Fortunately, Pod does not know how to panic, so it'll just bob uneasily in the air. But 9S does, so he won't waste any time taking his sword and going in to stab the thing through the caging and into the red maybe-flesh.

One stab is all it takes. It goes down, leaking that same black substance the knife creatures did. The hallway is then completely silent.

Good!! After looking over the now dead creature, 9S will just... kick its corpse to the side, outta the way buddy, and decide that the door ahead is probably the way to go. What type of lock is on the door?

A surface mount latch. It doesn't seem it was built with very much security in mind; it's fairly standard, and a bit rusted.

9S will kick the door in then!

It will take him a few kicks, but the door does eventually give way.

Inside the room is dusty and untouched but, for once, bright. A large industrial strength spotlight is set in the middle of the room and pointed up, a system of mirrors and lenses keeping the beam unwavering, shining directly into the sky. There are banks of computer systems lining the walls, all of them unpowered. It seems the light is the only thing working in the room.

A bank of crystals has grown over the light's base at the floor, over the grid that would usually power it, and they glow softly, seemingly with a light of their own.

He'll kneel down to look at the crystals briefly :|a And then get an idea. Is there any kind of switch for the spotlight?

On the right side is presumably an ON/OFF switch, although he wouldn't be familiar with the symbols.

Nope, but a switch is a switch. Experimentally, he flips it.

Nothing happens.

... He'll try it again a few more times for good measure. Assuming nothing still happens?

Still nothing; it seems just as dead as the rest of the room.

Alright then. After thinking on it for a moment, 9S will kick at a small patch of the crystals in an attempt to break them off.

They're not very tightly secured, and are kicked off easily enough. The light flickers, and grows slightly dimmer.

Time to see if that's a coincidence or not. He'll break off another small patch.

The same things happens, and the light loses slightly more of its intensity.

He'll leave that alone, then, and instead pick up a handful of the broken crystals, inspecting them over more closely. Do they still glow?

They don't; once severed from the base of the light they seem to be pretty ordinary crystals.

If the grid is visible by any through the hostile crystal takeover, 9S will try looking it over to see if there's anything unusual about it.

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