Tu Shanshu | Logs

Characters: ALL
Date: December 21st (or leading up to)
Location: Keeliai
Situation: It's time for the Foreigners to make their choices - return to their home worlds, or enter the Dreaming while Tu Vishan makes an attempt to mend the Planes.
Warnings/Rating: PROBABLY LOTS OF EMOTIONAL OW

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For most, December passed in a sort of unreal state, seeming to conversely both last forever and be over too quickly. While the weather reflected the chaos in the planar landscape, it also in many ways reflected the conflict in many people's hearts. Especially in the case of the Foreigners, as they were asked to make a choice that many of them felt unready to make.

And yet a choice had to be made, one way or another.

With the Planes in a brutal state of flux, the only way to keep both the Foreigners and the rest of Konryu safe is to detach them from the Life realm and either send them back to their worlds - and untested and daunting possibility - or mire them into the Dreaming for the expected year it will take to ascertain the full scope of the damages.

Time to choose...

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OOC: Here is the final log for Tu Shanshu! Remember that as outlined on the December Itinerary, there will not be any Foreigners in Keeliai after the 21st (ICly). However, this log is available for playing out your character's choices and final farewells through the rest of this and next month.

Characters: Come one, come all!
Date: March 5th
Location: The Sabonile Temple, in Hatal
Situation: The Foreigners, as well as many prominent kedan, have been invited to the great Temple of Hapoyela in Hatal, where the Sabonile priest class wishes them to participate in a celebration!
Warnings/Rating: Character nudity in the after-feast comment. Indicate content warnings in subject headers as applicable.

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According to the Sabonile priests, Hapoyela wishes to properly welcome the Foreigners and the kedan to the full scope of Tavimbi's hospitality, and has instructed the clergy to organize a suitably impressive celebration for the citizens of the oldest living Great Turtle. All Foreigners, as well as many notable kedan including the Family heads, are invited to attend a grand feast and celebration at the Sabonile Temple, one of the largest buildings in all of Hatal.

The clergy has promised an evening of good food, lively entertainment, and the magnificent blessings of Hapoyela. At the same time, the Sabonile will be hosting a soup kitchen in the Temple's courtyard, feeding the hungry and the poor, as dictated by their religious tenets and beliefs.

While those who receive an invitation to the event, which the Sabonile consider a sacred charge from Hapoyela, are not required to attend... it could be seen as a disrespect to their deity.

MOD NOTE: For the naked after party section, soul gems are still allowed to be worn. If your character isn't up for stripping down, they can excuse themselves from that segment of the evening, which will have no negative repercussions with the Sabonile. In this case, they will simply do a wave-over blessing from Hapoyela around the person, and bid them a pleasant evening before they go.

Characters: ALL!
Date: January 27th to ???
Location: City of Hatal, Tavimbi
Situation: After anchoring Tu Vishan to the coastline of Tavimbi, the city of Hatal welcomes kedan and Foreigners alike.
Warnings/Rating: Add warnings as needed.


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The southern port city of Hatal is used to getting its fair share of visitors, so after the initial surprise of having a continent-sized turtle washing ashore and parking there like it's going to be a while, the Tavimbians recover with admirable poise and begin processing the new arrivals through their customs procedure. After providing a basic summary of their informátion (age, species, duration of tenure on Tu Vishan, and list of "potentially disruptive abilities") they'll be issued a pass stamp, which they must keep on their person while in Hatal. It's made of a brassy metal, a little larger than a credit card, and inscribed with their information, their date of arrival, and whether they've had any run-ins with the laws in Tavimbi (it will be stamped accordingly by the authorities if such happens.)

Once that's all taken care of, visitors will be welcomed to Hatal!

OOC: There are starters in the comments for various areas of Hatal, or you can use the rest of the post for anything on Tavimbi which doesn't fit under those headings.

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LINKS
Hatal Exterior - The Metal Heights | The Causeway Level | The Reservoir Level
The Artery Level | The Lorn Level | The Jagaiz Rings | OOC Post

Characters: Arno Dorian, Aya, China Sorrows, Gene Khan, Hiro Hamada, Jack Frost, Klaus Reinherz, Midii Une, Pepper Potts, Raine Sage, Valdis, Zelgadis, and ALL THE FOREIGNERS.
Date: 31 August 2015 (2016 in-game)
Location: Courtyard of Public Opinion, with outreaches into Central Sector (‘after-parties’, if you will.)
Situation: The Mystery Games have ended, the points have been tallied, and the awards have been declared! Now it’s time to celebrate the victories, the near-misses, the sportsmanship, the camaraderie, the teamwork, and the results!
Warnings/Rating: None yet, but please label threads as needed.

The answers to the crimes were publicly announced on the 29th, much to the chagrin of quite a few teams who didn’t manage to solve theirs in time. The post-Mystery-Games party begins on the 31st, with the bulk of the feast and the awards taking place in the Courtyard of Public Opinion. Since the party continues late into the night, however, a lot of the celebration spills out into Central Sector – it’s not uncommon to find small groups of drunk kedan right on the borders of the Sector, happily demanding that uninvolved passersby help them celebrate and immediately forgetting those same passersby the moment they’re out of sight.

Thanks to the water-producing efforts of the Foreigners, there is a little more water available at the feast than expected -- enough that the rations have been lifted slightly for the event. Only slightly, mind; the Woodsmen are keeping a close eye on the limits, which might explain why there’s an excess in alcoholic drinks over the course of the night. Likewise, there is a minor limitation on foodstuffs, with the feast not quite as opulent as in the past -- but none of it goes to waste, and no one is begrudged seconds if seconds are available.

The Courtyard and surrounding areas have all been lit with the traditional red paper lanterns, and the atmosphere in general is one of collective victory, regardless of which teams actually won their respective events. Everyone is invited to this party, whether they were involved in the Mystery Games or not! Games participants, however, might find themselves in possession of the last leg of meat during the feast, or the target of a tirade of questions during an after-party. For a single night, they’re practically celebrities.

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LINKS
Investigation log | OOC post | Crime #1 Awards | Crime #2 Awards | Crime #3 Awards | The Feast | After-Parties

OOC
This log will be usable for both August AC and September AC, but cannot be used for both. Just make sure you don’t link the same threads for both and you’ll be fine! (There will be a reminder in both AC posts as well.)

Some starters have been provided for each awards ceremony, the general feast, and the after-parties, but feel free to label specific in-game locations for each new thread as needed! Players are free to decide what ICly occurred during their characters’ investigations and where their teams placed, so long as it doesn’t conflict with the information given in their crime’s awards starter.

Likewise, the mods will not be NPCing anyone for the purposes of this log, so please feel free to handwave NPC interactions and/or NPC necessary kedan as needed for your threads!

Characters: Come one, come all!
Date: The 24th of May
Location: The Courtyard of Public Opinion, in Central Sector
Situation: This is the second public forum to be called since the Foreigners' return. It's led by the three family heads, but specifically designed to allow anyone the chance to speak. This particular one was called because of the Foreigner muggings, the Chihulean threat, and the rumours of remaining cultists; however, a variety of other things might get brought up as well.
Warnings/Rating: Added as they become applicable.

The Courtyard of Public Opinion isn't any bigger than some of the open fountain areas in the Water Sector, and it isn't set up the way some of the Foreigners might imagine a political debate area to be set up. There's no podium, no chairs apart from the stone benches too heavy to be moved, and no grand banners or archways. This is done deliberately; everyone is meant to have an equal voice in the Courtyard, so everyone is on level ground. Apart from the greenery, the stone paths, and the low stone walls surrounding the Courtyard, one could almost imagine it's just another Market Day in an open square.

Since the Foreigners are also residents of Keeliai, the Courtyard Forum will be a public opportunity for Foreigners to ask questions and air concerns of their own. This can range from something specific to individuals or making requests of all the major NPCs.

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LINKS
Soul Gem Muggings | Cultists | Chihuelans | Turtle Sinking | Sky Sector | Individual NPC Interactions | OOC Questions

OOC
There are starters for various parts of the discussion, covering all the major topics regarding the happenings of Keeliai lately. NPCs will be available for all of the conversations below. The first five topics are general city occurrences which everyone in the Courtyard will be able to hear; use these threads as discussion between PCs as well as NPCs. NPCs will contribute to discussions as necessary, but won't be engaging in every line of conversation occurring in the general topic starters.

The NPC comments are for directly speaking with that NPC or those in that group; if your character has a specific issue to bring up with an NPC, this is where it should be done. The rest of the post is for Foreigners talking and organizing amongst themselves.

Characters: Bresilykian Emissaries + Foreigners
Date: Month of February, after Tu Vishan leaves Evidet's shores.
Location: Anywhere in Keeliai, or outside the city
Situation: Catch-all post for talking with the emissaries. Please specify location and the NPC when tagging in.
Warnings/Rating: None yet.
NOTE: Descriptions and habits of the five emissaries can be found in the Feb Itinerary post.

Having received the requisite permissions from the various factions in Keeliai, and after communicating with the capital citydome of Lichoyras, the five ambassadors seem perfectly willing to dedicate themselves to being on Tu Vishan for the foreseeable future. When it's explained in no uncertain terms to them that the Great Turtle is not presently in control of his own movements -- that only chance brought it to Evidet and who only knew when they might be back? -- the emissaries will assure that they've been made aware, and that they're here of their own accord.

In the meantime, they'll have split into their own routines of exploring the city, gathering information, and investigating the Foreigners who capture their attention.