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For Sport - OOC

Summaries and content warnings for each prompt in the event are provided below. Please pose questions to the designated mod comment, and plot away!

The IC Event Post is located HERE.

Timeline

➥ Breaking It In: 21 July
➥ Move the Goalposts: 23-24 July
➥ Curveball: 23-24 July
➥ Below the Belt: 24 July (night)
➥ Sticky Wicket: 21 July - 5 August

➥ Breaking It In
cw: mentions of apparent mutilation of/violence against animals and animal death

Characters are given a briefing by Reyes Amador that the kelpie encountered in the TDM prompt has likely come from Essex Bay. They know this due to triangulating disappearances and apparent marine mammal deaths. Reyes invites people to ask them questions about this mission and about ADI. Bonnie is also present to give her opinions.

➥ Move the Goalposts
cw: kidnapping, violence, sadism

Kelpies appear and attempt to kidnap characters from Gloucester. The only safe haven from the creatures if you can't fight them is ADI HQ and ADI Housing.

➥ Curveball
cw: kidnapping, violence/violence and mutilation against apparent animals, sadism, body horror, transformation, potential for claustrophobia

Kidnapped characters awaken to find the kelpies tormenting what seems to be a seal. It is not a seal, though. The kelpies cut the animal open to reveal it's a woman who's been trapped inside the sealskin. Kidnapped characters find themselves subject to the same fate. They are wrapped in sealskin and become psychically-linked selkies, hunted by the kelpies through the dark waters of Essex Bay.

➥ Below the Belt
cw: violence/violence and mutilation against apparent animals, body horror, gore

Characters on the Essex Bay mission arrive to find clever seals in the water being chased by horrible crocodile horse monsters. The kelpies attempt to hunt, capture, and kill the selkies and their would-be rescuers.

➥ Sticky Wicket
cw: potential for severe burns/injury, pain

Characters are tasked with fetching artifacts from a rundown portion of the Docks. The artifacts, if touched, induce 3rd-degree burns and a burning sensation across one's entire body. Additionally, characters may find themselves having to deal with some of the young punks around town who have claimed this part of the Docks for themselves and want what's in that box.

A Handy Plotting Form

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

1. Would characters be allowed to research any selkie or kelpie remains? Cassie would be interested in finding out how the bonding process works or, you know, just stare at things through a microscope for an unhealthy amount of time as a coping mechanism. If so, is there anything of interest for her to find?

2. Likewise about the artifacts, is there any official way to take a closer look or help out in any labs or peek over some shoulders?

Characters are welcome in general to take on roles outside of field investigations. The Life in Gloucester section of the FAQ includes a list of departments within ADI, and each character may choose up to two departments in which to work. If Cassie would like to join the Research Department, examining remains and artifacts could become part of her regular job duties (provided she has enough background knowledge/skills to prove herself useful there).

1. In regards to the selkie and kelpie remains, the kelpies appear to have human, equine, and piscean anatomy features. Depending on what stage of their shapeshifting they were killed in, they'll have more of one type of anatomy than the others. Their DNA is all over the place and different organs/features might have different types of DNA, again, depending on whether it appears to be more human/horse/fish at the time the kelpie was killed.

ADI will be destroying the sealskins if they collect them. Characters might be able to secretly keep one to examine, but they'll run the risk of the skin grappling them and selkie-fying them while they're working. ADI will not be amused if they discover this has happened and docked pay or a decrease in research privileges is likely to follow. Characters determined to examine the selkie skins will be able to determine that they're just... sealskins. Or seem to be. There's nothing biologically different about them.

2. In regards to the artifacts, researchers will quickly find that the burning sports gear only burns that which can feel pain--meaning people, mostly. Even artificial limbs will be burned (and will hurt in the process, even if that shouldn't be possible), but prodding the artifacts with a tool that isn't part of one's own body has no effect. Based on her research and what she's learned from just the primer on the Entities, it's likely going to be clear that these items are associated in some way with the Desolation.

Event OOC - For Sport

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