Weeks 3 and 4

[artificial_intelligence]

As your mods, we want  to make sure everyone is equally able to keep up to speed with the game, upcoming plots, plotting and everything that is going on! So, ALC will have bi-weekly plotting posts that give everyone a bit of an idea of what to expect, a place to plan out CR interactions or plot with one another, a way to find some NPC CR if you want it and an idea of what is going on around the island.

This is our very first one of those posts so it is going to have a bit more information in it than they generally will. I will try to make sure these go up every other weekend. If people have input on when the best day for it is, let me know. Fridays so you get the whole weekend to plan is my idea for the moment. So, here we go!

Atlantis Week 3&4

The wave of new Transplants is settling down, with the NPCs still keeping an eye on them. Hull will be spending most of his time around the Town Centre and can be approached by anyone.

As the sun sets on Sunday, the second sun will be noticeably missing, the sky will darken with the sun set and a full moon will rise. During Week 3 the Southern Shore will be flooded. New arrivals will find themselves washed up in the streets of Gaia, near the Town  Centre. Atlanteans will be restless and snappy, small domestic disputes will be common around the city, along with small acts of vandalism. Most Atlantean city dwellers will be apologetic after the week ends.

The following week will be perfect weather, beautiful and sunny through the entire week. Hull will post a network notice that the Atlantean Fisher Fleet is recruiting. Your characters are welcome to try for the job. They'll take any willing hand and find a job for them.

Full Moon Fever
Week 3 (Feb 3-10)
There have long been legends of the full moon driving people mad.  Crime rates spike, domestic violence breaks out, some even claim it causes men to howl and shed their skins to join the wild beasts. While the legends can range into the absurd, there is always some truth to the myths, and never is it more obvious than now. A noticeably large, bright full moon will rise on Sunday. Even with the cloudy skies the moon's luminous reflection is visible. With the moon's unnaturally bright light, a sickness will spread, notable at first only as a mild fever. However, as the fever rises, people's inner beasts will shine through. Repressed urges get pushed forward, primal instincts and desires come to the forefront. All around the island tempers run short, unexpectedly powerful emotions are acted upon. Or maybe you just have the urge to stuff your face with food and drink too much. However the moon's rays affect you, the fever will be gone by the time the second full moon sets on Saturday.

People aren't the only thing the moon is affecting this week. Sunday, waters will rise. The southern shore will flood, boats untied to the docks may float out to sea, and the lower portion of Gaia will be flooded. The waters will be slow to recede from the city, lingering until the end of Week 3. By Sunday afternoon (the start of Week 4) the water will have returned to its normal depths.

I put a spell on you
Player plot!
Week 3 | Feb 12-15
During Week 4, the Marauding Magic Shop will be attempting to spread some Valentine spirit through the island. Enchanted love letters, magical roses and a variety of other 'mostly harmless' spells will begin to find their way across the island. Another post will go up for this from the players behind the plot next weekend. Safe to say, though, that love will be quite literally, in the air.

Week 3: 
Slightly cloudy and cool
The temperature will be in the 60-65F ~15-18C range
The night sky will feature: Unfamiliar star patterns.
When the 'normal' Sunday sun sets, a full moon will rise instead of the second sun

The moon will wane at a rapid rate from Sunday to Wednesday.
No moon on Thursday and Friday, and another full moon on Saturday

Week 4: 
Sunny and pleasant
The temperature will be in the 65-75F ~ 18-24C range
The night sky will feature: Earth skies
Southern Hemisphere Star patterns and normal lunar waning cycle (Waning down from Saturday's full moon.)

Each time this thread goes up it will have a series of sub threads for plotting purposes!
See below~

Comments

[iamagod]

Prepare to be invaded intruded upon then.

Loki has no problem sharing terrain with intelligent creatures. He is actually quite amiable to it.

Surely, raptors cannot inhabit all those caves?

[dexignated]

Dex's raptors avoid the caves, and he himself will make vague comments about death lingering in them. The raptors themselves live in the ruins on the Southern Mountain.

Answering your other question here, Dex does speak the language, though he has an odd way of speaking, he is understandable. Some of his fellow raptors also speak his odd language, but the majority of them communicate in a wide variety of clicks, calls and whistles very similar to those displayed in a particular movie.

So he won't have to learn to speak with Dex, but he will if he wants to speak with most of the others.

[iamagod]

He might, when he's bored enough or find himself more interested in learning raptor tongue than being found by a certain large oaf... Which might last for about a few more weeks. Then he will feel lonely and wish to seek out brother.

And... death lingering in them? :|a

[dexignated]

He will notice the air is very stale and old the deeper in he goes exploring. The further you go, the more unpleasant it becomes, foul, sulfuric smells and damp heat. Unexpected drop offs, sharp, uneven ground and narrowing passages increase the further he tries to go.

But he won't wake to any monsters breathing on him. Unless Dex comes to visit, unannounced. Not these two weeks, at least.

[iamagod]

Dex. Dex Dex Dex. I don't think raptors can navigate around magic defenses very well.

It's safer if you don't try to sneak up on a god who respects his privacy very much.