Week 3 Exploration Sign-Up.

[powersthatbe]

As your characters search the island for clues and the means to survive, please comment under the toplevels below to indicate which square you're exploring. In the body of your comment, please list any relevant skills or abilities that will help you search faster, more accurately, or more thoroughly, such as Control Panel, Questing Sense, Survivalism, etc.



A, B, D, E, I, J, K, & P are fully explored. That leaves F & Q partially explored. G, L, R, O, V, & W are available for immediate exploration as well. C & H are also accessible, but only by anyone using air or water travel.

Comments

Questions!

[powersthatare]

[itsananimalthing]

Riddick has Interface and Control Panel. By also has interface I believe, and he's with that group. Will either tell him anything useful about the airlock door in the hospital or help them get it open?

Also, will QS pull Riddick anywhere new after the hospital has been opened?

... also also, is there some connection between this island and the other island on the Jaunt, or did you have storms and minor tremors on both at the same time just for kicks? :|

[failgoyle]

Regarding the hospital door, Jules has five dots in computers (which, by WoD standards, means he has maxed out that skill and is very good), as well as Stellar Technology from the space Jaunt. He's also got the laptop that was on him when he was pulled into the game, and he will take that door as a personal challenge. He's going to help with that!...will that actually do anything with their powers combined?

[powersthatare]

Yes! That can unlock the door, certainly.

If you want to make a toplevel on the exploration mingle in which the door is hacked, set it up, link it here (directly under a mod comment, we don't get notification for threaded comments), and let us know the preferred tagging order, and we can spool out information as the area is explored!

[powersthatare]

It would register as being part of a different system - different technology, different power grid, completely foreign set-up.

Questing Sense points to the airlock.

I plead the fifth.

[professorwolf]

Well, yes, I figured it pointed to the airlock, I meant once they'd finished with it, so I could tell you where Riddick is going for the next week :)

[itsananimalthing]

Giving this another poke cuz I never got an answer on where AFTER the airlock Riddick's QS would point. If nowhere, I will send him following along with MAtthew's group, but I wanna be sure.

[powersthatare]

W. Back into the forest!

[itsananimalthing]

Great, thank you! :)

[capital_asset]

What condition are any perishable items in the warehouses in? Are they about what you'd expect for things that have been sitting there for as long as they have?

Also, would an Inspect spell highlight anything potentially important in the warehouses? For that matter, are there any small items, important or otherwise, laying around?

And are there any feral or wild animals roaming around for Raidou to try to communicate with?

[powersthatare]

The conditions would be as expected.

The flatbeds and forklift cabs have controls to send them up or down the tunnel, but that's all.

Plenty of former pets.

[capital_asset]

Would the pets be able to tell him anything?

[powersthatare]

Some of them remember people, and that the people all left at once, but they don't have much comprehension of how, why, or when specifically.

[comebewe]

Okay, so Matthew learned Questing Sense last month, so for Week 3 he'll try actually using it. He doesn't have anything specific in mind - he's as much trying it out as anything else - but he does have a strong preference for staying in city / urban areas. Will it pull him anywhere in particular?

[powersthatare]

To the airlock, definitely.

[comebewe]

Oh, sorry, I wasn't clear there - I meant Matthew would be using Questing Sense after they'd finished exploring I and already searched the airlock. Basically, I'm wondering where it would point to after that.

[powersthatare]

Oh!

There's a TV/Radio broadcast tower. The broadcast building, in J, would probably be his next ping. It contains partial backups of the cloud server grid.

[comebewe]

Got it! J's already explored, right? Might mean that he doesn't end up exploring any other squares then, if that's the case

[powersthatare]

Yep.

[flumine]

If someone were to ransack the hospital, how much in the way of painkillers, antibiotics, and anti-inflammatories could be turned up? (And how badly past their shelf date/how improperly stored would they be?) Ditto bandages.

[powersthatare]

Certainly some! The newest drugs were shipped in about two years back, so anything with a longer shelf life could still be viable.

[flumine]

Would it be possible to dig up manifests for the last couple of shipments to see if there was a sudden uptick in delivery of something that might indicate what happened? Or at least what class of disaster - disease vs something that would lead to widescale injury, etc.

[powersthatare]

Manifests can be found! The police and fire departments got massive supply boosts, but the last shipment contained no food and no fuel.

Re: Questions!

[failgoyle]

As requested, here is the toplevel for exploring behind the door. We don't have a tagging order set yet—is the room behind it big enough to split up to search?

Re: Questions!

[powersthatare]

Yes!

F (partially explored)

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Q (partially explored)

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G

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L

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O

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[comebewe]

Since it looks like this is the last unexplored city square...Matthew will be exploring here, after following Questing Sense to the radio tower in J.

[failgoyle]

Jules is also going to be exploring this one, and he will be climbing to the highest point of everything he can possibly get to in order to get a better look at the area. He will also attempt to hack into any computer systems he comes across, should they have the power for that.

[runawaystory]

Heading here to help finish up the city.

Relevant skills: Synthetic form would allow her to search more systematically, accurately, and attentively. Enhanced strength and durability would probably help her too, especially when it comes to getting through difficult terrain (i.e. it's impervious to stinging plants that she might avoid if she stayed human).

Also she's a vet who was in Belljar Island last time, so idk maybe having some pre-existing knowledge of downtown, however rusty, might help her search more efficiently.

[itsananimalthing]

Until QS kicks in, Riddick is hanging with his bros+River in this square finishing up city-explorations.

ETA keep forgetting the skills part. Interface, control panel, general survival skills, jury-rigging, memory reconstruction, helpful but nasty demon rope, being a smart and capable person...

Re: O

[flumine]

River shall be here as well!

Relevant skills: probably just Ashina werewolf form, for covering distance and scent tracking if need be.

Re: O

[bypartisan]

Piling in to pad our numbers. Byerly has wolf form, water manipulation, and interface.

R

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V

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W

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[itsananimalthing]

Hookie, once O is complete, Riddick is getting pulled this way :) He may or may not have River with him. She's invited, anyhow. Yay?

[flumine]

River will indeed tag along with Riddick, if there's time once O's sewn up.

Elsewhere

[powersthatare]

Z

[capital_asset]

Raidou's Questing Sense is directing him all the way to Z, if anyone wants to hitch a ride on the dragon taxi Great Kohryu and join him.

Potentially applicable skills include his wraithwolf abilities (most notably animal communication, although his astral form might be useful at night), a combo of Perfect Recall/Advanced Mnemonics/Sensory Livestreaming if he needs to transmit anything he sees, possibly Sensory/Somatic Conditioning depending on what they find, and a full complement of Siren Magic, including the Song of Breath if anyone wants to go diving. He can also do some jury-rigging should there be anything around that needs emergency repairs, and Byerly taught him Interface last month.

The demons can set things on fire/cool things down as needed (the latter can involve ice bridges), illuminate any dark areas, reveal any items that might be significant, break things, and heal injuries. Jack Frost can also find random items that might be laying around, although the usefulness of what he finds is, uh, variable.

Re: Z

[amadine]

Sabetha would be interested in joining in on his dragon-riding adventures. Might give us a good in to a Questing Sense teaching thread?

In terms of applicable skills, she has darksight and doesn't need to breathe, in case there are any lightless or aquatic spaces to explore. She also has Song of Breath (and Song of Navigation, which might come in handy for finding their way around obstacles), and cantrips to call up light. She's got Extraliminal Gravity and Teleportation II, for use in reaching difficult-to-access areas.

Also if there's an aircraft, she can fly it. I doubt this'll come up, but you never know.