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GAME OPEN - INTRO MINGLE
| INTRO MINGLE: BOUNTIFUL BUFFET | ||
 | NEW KIDS ON THE BLOCK | |
New arrivals will continue trickling in as time goes on, always arriving close enough to the Obsidian Fieldlands base camp to be spotted and shepherded back to the safety of Jubilife, or in the vicinity of a material-gathering party who can gather them up as well. Characters are given a spare set of clothes once they arrive at the village. It's usually something resembling a casualwear kimono and trousers, fitted to them specifically. | ||
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| PLANNING PHASE |  | |
| As the new arrivals begin to show up in force, the Galaxy Team's leader, Kamado, makes more and more visits to the Wallflower. Soon after, the Wallflower's chef and owner puts out a call for help: Ingredients, of all varieties, and extra hands that can prepare and cook food. It seems a big buffet is in the works - and the whole village is invited! OOC NOTES: ❧ The in game length of the gathering, prep, and meal phases totals 4 days, but feel free to thread well beyond that. ❧ Wildcards and additional prompts are absolutely encouraged here! ❧ Characters who arrived during the TDM may consider those threads canonical to the game if they wish. ❧ Have fun! | ||
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 | GATHERING PHASE (DAYS 1-3) | |
The request goes out in the early morning on Friday: Ingredients! Food items! As much as you can carry! The reward, the green haired maestro of cooking assures you, will come in time. Though if you can’t be convinced to work for free, he’ll turn over some coin with minimal grumpy mumbling. The ingredients he’s looking for are all easy to locate in the Obsidian Fieldlands - a variety of berries, the ever sweet combs of Dazzling Honey, and the savory Springy Mushrooms that grow at the bases of trees. There are other herbs and plants on the list as well, so feel free to make some up as you go. | ||
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| MEAL PREP PHASE (DAYS 3-4) |  | |
| As loath as he is to admit that he needs help, Beni is allowing folks into his kitchen to slice, dice, and sauteé in preparation for the big day! Ingredients need to be washed, sorted, prepared, and stored safely. Wood needs to be chopped for the cooking fires. New additions to the pantry are still being accepted. Whatever you can contribute helps, Beni assures everyone. If you’re feeling like there’s too many cooks in the kitchen, tables and benches need to be set up outside. The tables inside need to be washed and set up as well. Decorations are discussed - maybe some colorful lanterns or banners…? | ||
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 | FEAST (DAY 4) | |
When the day comes, tables and benches are set up in front of Galaxy Hall and filled to the brim with food. Rice, great big hotpots of ramen, plate after plate of mochi - potato or otherwise - and a truly incredible selection of clay pots containing quality teas, brewed fresh for the occasion. And that’s just scratching the surface! Between the Agriculture Corps tireless work on harvesting food and all the new arrivals’ hard fought spoils, the feast is truly grand. | ||
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| GOOD OMENS (NIGHT) |  | |
| After the feast, as night begins to fall over the village, characters may look up to see that in the clear starry sky, a meteor shower has begun. The shooting stars come in all colors, too, filling the night with a cheerful rainbow incandescence. Locals stop and point, the superstitious among them exclaiming that this is a good omen. A sign that things are looking up. They say there’s an old legend about this sort of meteor shower - that if you make a wish on the colorful streaks in the sky, it just might come true... | ||
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Huff Runda | Original
1: New Kids on the block
Huff had not had a peaceful night.The grating pretension of the elven elite and the ongoing difficulties of a hunt for a man who could very well be anywhere had rendered her restless. For this reason, it did not immediately surprise her that she would have strange dreams. In this case it appeared that some form of, very powerful deer, was telling her some important information about the cycle of nature and life. At another time this monologue might have been academically interesting to Huff, but the events immediately following it rendered the point entirely moot.
Huff was looking at the sky. That was, odd, to say the least. Had the roof dissapeared, or was she still dreaming. A number of possibilities swam through her still somewhat bleary mind, culminating in her groggily calling out to Adrian to ask if they had been kidnapped somehow. The lack of response from the kitsune who should have been beside her rendered her quite instantly wide awake. She sat up with a start and realized immediately that there was another detail her recently groggy mind, had not picked up on. There were no giant trees forming a canopy above her.
Huff stood slowly, ready to bodily tackle her likely abductor, before slowly coming to terms with the fact that she was alone in the middle of a fairly empty plain. "Oh what the hells!" She exclaimed loudly. The words carried away from her, echoing across the large, and, if she was being honest, quite beautiful expanse of grass and shrubs. As she took a step forward, another thing that had briefly escaped her notice caught her attention, a wooden sphere of what seemed to be moderately polished wood.
She stared at the sphere. The sphere obligingly continued to lie on the ground. Huff blinked. The sphere did not. The sphere jumped.
After recovering from her impromptu backwards roll, Huff looked warily at the now gently rolling wooden orb before her, and, with a decisive movement, scooped it up, holding it away from her body as she prepared to brace herself against an explosion. Instead, as her fingers squeezed the protruding edge of the ball in her hand, a welling glow spilled from the edges and floating in the air a few feet away from her head was...
"A....fetus in mint jelly?"
The small form, encased in green looked at Huff curiously. Huff glanced down at the orb in her hand, now slightly open, and muttered to herself. "Someone is storing creatures in demiplanes." followed by "But why do I have one?"
Her new floating companion did not provide an answer, but did drift over to inspect Huff's goggles.
Huff looked up at the sky, it was a subtly different color than she was used to. "Is this... even on Galn anymore?" She murmured. She was beginning to get a sinking feeling. "Oh not this again" She sighed to herself.
"Can you talk?" She asked the floating form now playfully flitting around her head. The creature made a noise. If it was words, Huff could not parse them. "Right, okay, well it seems like you can, possibly understand me?"
Another noise.
"Sure good enough. Come along then, uh.... Mint. Let's figure out what the hell is going on here." Huff said, cracking her neck and beginning to walk towards the nearest stream. Running water meant a river somewhere nearby, and a river usually meant people one way or another.
Fiddling idly with the other odd object she had found on her person, Huff wondered if perhaps she might be the only person around this place. Still, that orb seemed crafted, and that meant, hopefully, others somewhere close.
Who might she meet first?
2: Gathering Phase
Learning she was in a new world had not come as quite as much a shock to Huff as it might to most, though it did provoke a storm of curses that had left a couple of the people she had met wide eyed.
Learning that technology was, at best, limited in the area had frankly been far more of a blow. World hopping and potential death teleportation Huff had some experience with. The lack of an articulated wrench however...
Still, what had started as a point of great consternation had quickly become, well, kind of a lot of fun if the halfling was being honest with herself. Her ability to hand shape metal, rarely needed, if always convenient in her workshop, had instantly proved its utility once she had started to integrate into the settlement she had come to call, at least temporarily, home. There was barely a question as to which corps she would join, and at the end of the day, construction was as close to her skill-set as anything could be said to be.
A far more challenging puzzle came in the form of a request for new ingredients. Learning that Pokemon were essentially the core of life in this new world had given some context to the differences in both workflow and, as she was quickly learning, cuisine. The request from the affable, if annoyingly tall Benji had placed a new conundrum before her. How to harvest Combee honey. Working from the little she knew about beekeeping, Huff had to assume that the combee would not precisely appreciate a halfling just sprinting in and grabbing buckets of honey, and she was not inclined to let Mint carry the brunt of the aggression either. The little goo creature had proven quite sturdy, but she was not about to risk it’s well-being for some spare currency. More to the point, each combee was around the size of Huff’s head. Huff was confident in her durability, but getting stung or, she shook her head irritably; hit by a blast of elemental wind, would not be a good time. It was for this reason that she was now headed to the professor’s office to get more information. On the way however, something caught her attention…
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"Greetings!" She waved, trying to catch her attention as she jogs down the hill to meet her. "Are you injured?"
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Diplomacy and indignation warred in Huff's head before her mind decided to split the difference. "Hello!" She called out politely, hands on her hips. "A pleasure to meet you! Are you the bastards who fucking teleported me here? Because if so we are going to have words." She said, her tone suggesting that those words would start with F, end with U, and lead to some manner of imminent violence.
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Although she can't confirm that, and regrets saying it, because it casts a certain amount of suspicion on the locals. And they have thus far been nothing but pleasant, asking only for their support while they try to assess the situation.
"I am not, to be clear, a local. Merely lending my aid as a doctor to those who might arrive with injuries or be accosted by wild pokemon on their way in." She pauses. "Are you familiar with pokemon?"
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She considered briefly the possibility that the deer could be one of these Pokemon as well, but decided to shelve the idea for the moment. Gods could probably not be stored in wooden spheres. That, she decided, was just astronomically unlikely.
as discussed - switching to brackets on my end!
They're creatures with incredibly unlikely abilities. I know that isn't really a comforting or informational response. It is unfortunately all I have to offer. The people in the village can tell you more than I can, however.
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"Oh and, since we seem to have settled on diplomacy, I'm huff." She added with a somewhat distracted wave.
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Pin! Pinny!
This is Rosa. [ Angela stoops down to pick up her Happiny. ] I'm afraid I don't know much about her, yet. She's a what's called a "Happiny", but she will eventually undergo a transformation into a different type of being. The locals call it evolution but that is a woefully misrepresentative term.
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Huff surveyed the happiny, intrigued. "So you're saying that instead of a gradual ecological process they just... transform?" Huff was mildly baffled but she supposed it was not entirely out of the realm of reasonability, after all a number of species on Galn had different 'forms' related to their maturity and growth patterns.
"Well, in light of recent events, sorry about the yelling, don't suppose you might be able to point me in the direction of the settlement you mentioned? I'm getting the impression I have a lot of things to catch up on."
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[ A few figures appear on the hill behind Angela. Just the security corp members catching up to her, looking rather surprised to see Huff, but otherwise just waiting to be told to escort her back to the village. ]
Yelling is understandable when you are agitated and potentially kidnapped. And yes, it would be poor form for me to leave new arrivals standing in an open field, wouldn't it?
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“Appreciated.” She said simply. “I’ve been kidnapped twice before so you can imagine my irritation.” Having said this, Huff gave the doctor a slightly tired smile, before falling into step in the small crowd.
“And I presume you are all some form of security force? A pleasure.”
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[ She does wonder how this person will react to being told about the Galaxy Expedition Team and their expectations. Cross that bridge when they come to it. ]
Wild pokemon, unlike the one you have there, are frequently aggressive.
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"Guess I've got a lot of things to get up to speed on. World spanning kidnappings definitely open up a lot of new sets of problems." She said, cracking a seemingly rather half-hearted joke.
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Boo! Or at least, that's what the little ghost would say if it scared people like children would. The shriek of a tiny, orange ghost is hard to ignore, especially when it seems far too excited for its own good. The Rotom giggles almost manically as it zips back and forth in place, playfully trying to spook Huff.
At the craftsman's shop, there is a child with a hammer in his hands, one that's almost comically too big for him. At the shriek, he turns from the furnace, leaving his clump of iron ore crackling away in the fire.
"Ack! Twozo! Get back here!"
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The point was rendered moot for her a moment later as a child, gallingly about her height, turned to address the ghost. Huff chuckled slightly at the electrical creature's antics before turning to face him.
"It's fine, no harm done." She exclaimed, waving off the incident. "I'm used to pokemon orbiting my head at this point."
As though to reinforce the point, Mint started orbiting faster, as though to create some sort of theoretical border of protection around his trainer.
"Leaving that aside though, it looks like that crucible isn't quite up to temperature for proper slag off-lay." She said, seeming to switch modes in an instant and thoughtfully coming to stand in front of the furnace. "You want to add some form of packing for that sort of ore striation too." She added, pulling a pouch of white powder from a bag at her waist. "Of course at this stage it might be better to just use some thermomancy if you have any. Don't get me wrong natural fire is great but in these situations..." Huff seemed to realize something.
"Right, Hello, I'm Huff." She said matter of factly, abruptly holding out a hand to shake. "I've seen you around but I don't think we've ever actually spoken. Also your pokemon is very cute."
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"Oh? Is that right? I've never had to make my own metal before or blacksmith." He's had to use power tools and a blowtorch but that's about it. Yuga looks at his poor furnace and then at the bag.
"What's thermomancy?" Is all he gets to say. And then there's a hand. Yuga takes it all in stride and he shakes Huff's hand. "Yuga. Ohdo Yuga. Pleased to meet you, Huff. And that's Twozo. They're a troublemaker." The Rotom shrieks a greeting.
"You seem to know a lot about this stuff, Huff."
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"Nice to meet you Yuga; Twozo." She inclined her head to each. "I'm a smith of sorts by trade actually. Golemancer technically but one goes with the other often as not. As far as the metal is concerned, that's understandable, most smiths tend to buy stock metal. I used to when I was young as well, but knowing how to make your own ingots is a good skill to have." Huff intoned. "Luckily, this area is mindbogglingly mineral rich, so we have a good stock of raw material right out of the gate."
Huff seemed to become lost in thought for a moment before seeming to come to a decision. "Right, I get the impression your world is non-magical like a few others I've heard about. I guess in that context, thermomancy is essentially the manipulation of heat through the primary forces. On my world that means magic, but I've come to gather that things like pressure vessels can serve a similar purpose." She said.
"Now my magic is limited in scope, but very good for these sorts of situations...: She added, quite alarmingly sticking her hand directly in the forge and picking up the red hot lump of ore. "Since I can skip a few steps."
She carefully sprinkled a few pinches of the white powder from the bag onto the still screaming hot lump in her hand. "Since my natural magic is technically a type of ferromancy, or metal manipulation, instead of melting out the slag, I can just get the metal itself to become liquid instead."
She added emphasis to the point by gently wringing the ore like a sponge, causing a slow flow of liquid iron to begin pooling into a quickly solidifying mass on the lip of the forge. "Of course we'll need a good source of pure ash to get this made into something like steel, but annoyingly, you usually need metal or fire brick to make a forge suitable to make higher quality metal at scale."
She seemed to realize that she had been rambling on almost without breathing for a bit, and cleared her throat, seeming slightly embarrassed. She put down the scrap ore along the leading edge of the fire and turned back to Yuga. "Right, come to think of it, I kind of just jumped right in huh. What are you actually making currently?"
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"Iron especially. The amount of iron appearing at the surface compared to the rest of the mineral density is really interesting." Any further thoughts Yuga has is quickly wiped by the halfling sticking her hand right into the open flames. His eyes are sparkling with scientific curiosity as the iron is liquified and poured onto the forge.
"For now, I'm just happy for any parts I can tinker with." He laughs. "Don't worry about jumping in! Your magic is super interesting. I've never seen real magic before!" He claps his hands. "I'm trying to build some capacitors. Power is the first step for building machines and then for building Roads!"
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As Huff hears Yuga's primary focus her interest seems piqued.
"Capacitors hm? Those don't get much use where I'm from due to the lower efficiency to magic-based energy storage, but I agree that would be a good first step. The only real step in that direction actually, as far as I can tell, as I'm not an Evocation specialist." She says, seeming to stifle a slight sigh. "Where's the giant troublemaker when you need her..." She grumbles under her breath.
"Anyway, Roads are a good time investment for certain. If you are having trouble with the iron extraction part of things, I can step in there. I'm not familiar with capacitor construction in a non-magitech schema, so if you can handle that part of things, I think we can start accelerating the process."
So saying, Huff turns to pick up another piece of unprocessed ore, seemingly ready to get directly to it.
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"Troublemaker? Is that someone here or someone where you're from?" The boy asks curiously. He smiles as Huff agrees with him though and nods.
"Okay. First, we need some sheets of iron. If we get those set up, they'll be easier to manipulate and fold into capacitors. I'm thinking something like 12x12 and I'll cut them down if need be. Oh! Can you manipulate the iron into shapes? Manipulating the iron into conductive wires will be really useful!"
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“Indeed, and, someone from back home.” She said, faltering for a moment. “Someone who would be much better suited to… all of this.” She said with a sigh.
“That aside though, sheets should be easy enough, shapes are a little harder but doable? I can manipulate metals a bit like sculptable material. I’ve only recently started making wires after some discoveries back home, but I can definitely do it. It’s a bit like making thread actually. Reminds me of my stupid seamstress tutor, she would be so smug if she knew this was actually useful in my life.”
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"Heh... Is it now? Clothes making is one invention I've never tried. It's way more artsy than what I'm used to. But I guess we are weaving a circuit so it make sense. How many are you able to make? Honestly, I'll take whatever I can get."
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She seemed to consider something. “I guess if we can get some sort of die for me to shape it with that might make it faster overall?” She shrugged, “overall though I should be able to get you a few dozen feet of good wire before I head out to start my next project in the pass.”
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Yuga takes the iron ore he's collected out of his bag. As he lays it all out on the wooden table, he looks over at Huff curiously. "Project? What's your next project?"
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“I think it is time I got a less flammable workspace so I’m going to see about getting some stoneworks going, assuming there aren’t any yet.”
She shrugged, seeming a bit resigned. “I’ve gotten a Wierd amount of pushback on the idea but I mean, we can’t have every building we are working with fire in be one dropped ember away from burning down.”
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