June Kaiju Event Plotting Post!

[curingidiocy]

Hey everyone! As should be obvious already, June's kaiju event is going to be a little different from the regular event on account of Melodie's player plot! You can find a more detailed note about what you'll need to do in the new event log note section, but just to recap:

The June Event is a player plot that is going to differ from regular events in a few ways: Outsiders have to find the location for the next Kaiju fight on their own using hints given in the From Sumer With Love prompt, and correlating them with the past and ongoing disappearance of various Outsiders. They can use LILITH’s equipment to look for anomalies across the globe, however there is not enough time to scan or contact every region in the world. Outsiders need to guess where the anomaly likely is before they can get confirmation.

Furthermore, they will have to reach this destination through their own means as there is no LILITH staff left to fly them there. Vehicles can be requisitioned, but will have to be flown by Outsiders on their own. This also means Outsiders are free to stay behind at the base if they prefer, as nobody will force them to go. Pain-relieving medicines can also be developed if the true nature of the disease is found and the appropriate characters work on it, though nothing short of defeating the anomaly will solve this crisis and save everyone.

Last but not least: this event will have two Kaiju battles, one on each log as well as many different challenges the Outsiders will have to solve on their own if they want to save LILITH and bring home their missing friends! Please use this thread to ask questions and offer your proposals as to what the Outsiders should do (location guessing, transport, etc). Proposals made in this thread will affect the first and second prompts of the first log.

This post is meant to facilitate discussion about all parts of this plot, and it will be the host for all event related questions! Feel free to start your own top levels about certain aspects and plot from there!



Edit: Since this player plot is progressing very quickly and not everyone has been able to keep up, I've created a summary of all the related incidences and posts made so far to get you up to date! All dates mentioned below are IC dates.

The Disappearances

These occurrences were meant to be subtle precursors to the real player plot starting on May 15, so if you missed them, that was partially intentional.

April 15: Ereshkigal disappears during the kaiju battle in Egypt after saving Taryon
May 5: Dr. Ratio disappears, unseen by anyone
May 11: Godzilla disappears in front of Lucy
May 13: Tsurumaru disappears in front of Vash
May 13: Silco disappears in front of Jinx

Future Disappearances (This hasn't happened yet but the info is known oocly)
May 19: As stated by StarSeed on the CR Meme post, Bakugo will be disappearing on this day

The Alerts

All network posts created in response to the disappearances.

Some time after April's fight: Taryon informs the network that Ereshkigal was consumed by a Rift
May 5: Aventurine informs the network that Dr. Ratio has gone missing
May 11: Nyuu informs the network that Godzilla was taken by a Rift
May 13: Aki informs the network that Tsurumaru was taken by a Rift

May 14: Raidou posits a theory about the disappearances being related to Ereshkigal's memory

Current Events

Downtime Mingle #8

May 15-30: LILITH employees are hit by what seems like a regular flu, until it becomes apparent that only they are being targeted, and eventually, all employees across all the branches around the world have been incapacitated, including Commander Yamakawa, Captain Shiro and Seok Dang

May 16-23: Outsiders are on lockdown until it becomes apparent that they aren't affected by the sickness

The Clues

As a reminder to everyone, these clues have been given out OOCly and it's up to players to disperse them ICly. Please wait until the information is given out in the mingle log, unless the player has given explicit permission for all characters to know.

Donatello: Discovers the sickness started from the Neo Tokyo Base and that you can ask SYNTHIA directly about this
Aventurine, Jinx, Rin and Muramasa: Discovers that Ereshkigal is deep under Iraq, but they will need to refine their search to pinpoint her exact location
- Hunter: Digging may or may not be viable, but it's better to pinpoint her location first
Raidou: Drones sent through the Rift lose connection, but not before sending one last image
Astarion: Astarion loses contact with the ghouls he sends into the Rift and becomes unable to summon new ones, suggesting that the ghouls are still alive
- Taryon: The tracking amulets placed on the ghouls will also be cut off, but perhaps if they get closer to where the ghouls are now, the connection might be re-established?
Dante: Connects to Tsurumaru's memories and finds that he is currently not distressed, but there is something very wrong about his state of being before he's forcibly cut off
Tezcatlipoca: Sacrifices his kidney and learns that Ereshkigal has become demonic and a calamity against humanity before he's forcibly blocked out
Yuji: Is apparently going to throw himself into a Rift and disappear at some point. Kid, are you okay???

The clue section may be updated slowly, but it's better if you look directly at the INVESTIGATIONS/PROPOSAL section of this post so you can contribute as well!

Comments

[stonehearts]

As per this thread, Aventurine, Jinx, Rin, and Muramasa are attempting to track down Eresh using two means: the first is by using a dress that Eresh owned and gave to Jinx and using it to help Rin see if they can get a read on her location with magecraft. The second option is using Muramasa's servant radar to see if he can pick up traces of her at any of the locations where people disappeared and/or a general location of her if possible.

[powderkegs]

Jinx will probably deploy a bunch of lowkey firefly drones. Can't do pictures or anything, but they'll send out a radio signal if they spot unusual vibrations/strange activity.

[queenofkur]

Where is she sending those drones?

[powderkegs]

Following the characters listed in Raidou's post so they can potentially slip through the portal! She'll also have them following other characters in general.

[stonehearts]

Oh, as a note: Aventurine is, as Sky is aware, preternaturally lucky. If these leads don't pan out I would love for them to stumble across something that might be useful in pointing them in a more accurate direction!

[queenofkur]

Aventurine's luck will not get them to find a more specific location, but it is likely it helped the spell work as it would normally be impossible to conduct a search on the entire globe and get a result so quickly.

[misclassed]

if necessary, muramasa has a skill called "godslayer (ex)", which gives him "advantages" against divinities (currently nerfed to 30% efficacy). even if ereshkigal isn't his enemy, he's been modified at a conceptual level to deal with gods specifically

[queenofkur]

(Un)fortunately, slaying her is out of the question until she's been found.

[misclassed]

LMAO

but would it help improve his chances of getting a ping on the servant radar due to affinity?

EDIT: NEVERMIND i saw the other responses so WE'RE GASSING UP RIN'S SUCCESS AND we'll worry about godslayer skills


l a t e r

[queenofkur]

The first option will work and locate Ereshkigal's presence somewhere under Iraq.

It is however impossible to pinpoint an exact location as it appears she is deep into the Earth, far beyond what machines can dig or what magecraft can reach. Iraq is a pretty big country, and other methods will have to be used to further refine the location.

[stonehearts]

Aventurine will be sharing this information with everyone in-game! I will make a top level/comment about it on the mingle in a few days b/c life is busy, but this is me saying everyone can make plans off of this information!

[newphew]

Is using earth magic to tunnel deep underground on the table?

[queenofkur]

While it's not off the table, it is impossible to know if it's doable of if it's the optimal way to go about it until the precise location is found.

[penaltypoints]

Based on the information shared ICly so far, if characters are allowed to research Sumerian mythology, could they come to the conclusion that they could try searching the section of the Zagros mountain range in Iraq to see if that helps to refine the location?

[queenofkur]

They could, yes! If they do, they'll find that an earthquake has been recorded on the mountain range on April 30th. The epicenter however doesn't originate from the mountains, it comes from an archaeological site west of the mountains.

[penaltypoints]

Thank you! I'll have Yesod suggest this in the discussion as a possible starting point.