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[recollecters]

Hello and happy new year! A lot of poll results came in from R&D and we've almost fixed taste all the way. Horses are almost fixed, too. We've been working pretty much non-stop around the holidays to stabilize everything, so I hope this works! Just so you guys know, while we were working on fixing the original problems we received some alerts of residual effects outside of our usual domain. Don't worry though! Remember what I said a while ago? We're still moving more resources around into better defenses to protect the city from huge storms like last summer. We'll be taking care of that really soon and isolating the unknown problem. I wish I could tell you more, but we're all working overtime here to finish the final stages of a big project. No matter what happens you guys should be safe while we finish up, so just stay calm, okay? Don't get too reckless! Joanne Wiseman Technician 2nd class Retrspec Incorporated As of this post taste tier 4 has been icly regained; tier 5 will go into effect on Saturday, January 6th at 9pm EST and taste will be fully restored! Per the mod plotting post, you may use this post to obtain this month's freebie! This month's freebie can be earned by turning in a thread on this post that has 10 or more consecutive comments from you. Please feel free to use this post as a network mingle. Every toplevel can be considered a new post, and threadjacking is permitted. No NPC response will be given. Usernames are the character's full real AU names, not aliases or chosen nicknames or usernames, and seemed to have filled themselves in; nothing characters do can change or obscure their names currently.

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[windeity]

>talk girl

[lalliho]

you talk to the girl who tells you her name is JOLYNE and that she's here to make sure you get a weapon for your trial quest. she whispers that she's not supposed to decide for people but she personally likes swords.

you can keep talking to her by entering your own prompts

> look girl
> take sword
> take staff
> take bow
> leave
> enter own prompt

[windeity]

swords are pretty good, i can't fault her.

but...

>ask if there are other options outside of a sword, staff or bow.

[lalliho]

she says that no these are the trial weapon choices but if you leave you can probably find or buy a different weapon to use

> look girl
> look cave
> take sword
> take staff
> take bow
> leave
> enter own prompt

[windeity]

ok then.
>take staff and give it a test swing

[lalliho]

when you pick up the staff the other two weapons disappear. it's warm under its wood surface and you can tell that it has magic in it but it doesn't go off when you swing it. Jolyne says you can smack stuff with it like that if stuff gets too close to you.

> look girl
> leave
> enter own prompt

[windeity]

hmm...
>contemplate options
>invite girl to come along and ask if she can fight too?

[lalliho]

I don't really know what you mean by contemplate options

you invite Jolyne to join your party and ask if she can fight. she says she has a sword but she's on duty as a guide right now so she doesn't have it with her. if you find her somewhere else on your quest when she's not working then she will be allowed to join you with her sword.

> look girl
> leave
> enter own prompt

[windeity]

it means contemplating what i wanted to do, obviously. but ok fair.
>attempt to cast a spell with the staff?

[lalliho]

okay as long as it wasn't you telling me you wanted information about your own thoughts and stuff because I have no idea

what kind of spell are you hoping to cast?

im still laughing im sorry

[windeity]

no no that is just a thing i would do if i were on a quest like this.

could i cast a navigation spell to see what direction to go outside of the cave?

[lalliho]

[Hmn... How should he handle this one...]

you try to cast a navigation spell and you see the head of the staff dimly glow. by turning it to face the tunnel behind you the glow gets brighter. you think that it should last a while unless you cast a different spell or you get horribly injured or something

> look girl
> leave
> enter own prompt

[windeity]

>head toward the tunnel behind and exit to see where this goes.

[lalliho]

you follow the tunnel out and after a curve you come out into a field of grass. ahead of you is a brick wall that has smoke coming up from behind it and behind you is a big mountain range with the cave you came out of and another cave further to your right. the sun will probably set soonish. you wave your staff around.

are you wanting more to find a different weapon more or are you thinking about completing your quest most

[windeity]

probably completing my quest especially if there is a smoking wall in front of me. a staff is magic and a bludgeoning tool, so.
what is going on with that wall there?

[lalliho]

well the guiding light brightens in the direction of the other cave then not the wall but if you look closer at the wall across the field you think that the smoke is from one place like a small fire or a chimney and it smells sort of like food under the smoky smell and the wall has some wooden doors

> look
> inventory
> enter own prompt

[windeity]

>look
since there is apparently a lot to look at, uh.
>look at wooden doors?

[lalliho]

you look closer at the other things since you looked at the smoke and wall already. the two caves are both dark so they're hard to see in which is not a surprise but the one to the right looks like it goes into a bigger room first instead of a tunnel like the one you came out of. to the left there's some grass that is rustling more and you think it probably means something is there. you look closer at the wooden doors and you see that there is a slot in one at eye level but there is no way to open it from outside that you see.

> inventory
> enter own prompt

[windeity]

>head toward the right cave and walk inside.

[lalliho]

you make your way to the cave on the right. like you thought the first are of it is bigger and has some floor and ceiling rock spikes whatever they're called. it's dark but your staff light helps you see so you can make out one big tunnel and one medium tunnel going to other areas. the light is a little bit brighter going to the medium tunnel

> inventory
> enter own prompt

[windeity]

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