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thisavrou_log2017-05-06 05:15 am
may mod plot log
When: May 7 to May 31th
Where: Thisavrou + New Worlds
Warnings: none in the description; please label your headers where appropriate!
thisavrou monthly info ( the tmi )
⋆ Storm Update: On day 29 (May 9), the typical structure of the storm surrounding Thisavrou seems to shift visually with the clouds and intermittent flashes of lightning forming new patterns. At the same time, Ingress technicians detect a strange energy signature emanating from the facility at low levels, almost like a leak. There is no obvious effect at first, but by the end of the day, that energy begins to flow across Kauto and Chioni with curious results.
Residents of the planet will soon discover that they have acquired strange superhuman (or superbeing, for those who aren't human) powers. Those who are particularly social or who have been around for a long time may realize that these powers resemble abilities wielded by those who have come through the Ingress in the past, or even those who have never set foot on Thisavrou but are from the same world as someone who has.
Effects of the odd energy vary – people may discover they can read minds, cast magical spells, or have become invulnerable. These powers may also replace ones they already have. The level of control is just as unpredictable—someone may be a natural with their new abilities, or be in great need of a tutor!
By day 33 (May 13 OOC), the effect has faded, and the technicians soon decide to restrict the days that the Ingress is active going forward.
[[For more information, check out this OOC post!]]
⋆ While Kauto has always been known for its temperate climate, the slow changes have accelerated as the onslaught of the storm around Thisavrou shifts. A noticeable drop in temperature from the norm finds the planet settling at an alarming 54° F / 12° C during the day. And at night, temperatures fluctuate between this and 40° F / 4° C. All residents who tend crops will discover that some plants and other vegetation have withered without the warmer temperatures. An evacuation of all scientists and researchers on Chioni will be announced within the month due to its incredibly unstable surface temperature of -60° F / -51 C during the day and -150° F / -101° C at night. Access to some of the furthest burgs have been restricted until further notice because of this.
⋆ Savrii Notices:
As recently made public in Deputy TOD’s broadcast, a foreign presence has infiltrated Thisavrou using the bodies of its recent travelers. Presumed both intelligent and hostile, the contaminant has prompted a rapid response from the Savrii. Testing and Decontamination Centers have been established on Kauto and Chioni, and all persons who have traveled off-world in the last two cycles are called to present themselves for examination.
The basic procedure will last about six hours: medical tests, technical analysis, and a high-powered chemical wash designed to “make any stowaways run screaming”. All of this in addition to prolonged questioning as to their recent points of contact both on Thisavrou and outside. Parties who demonstrate cause for concern (including, of course, acknowledged contact with the contaminant) will be flagged in the Savrii’s database and required to return for twice-weekly visits to continue the procedures. Other than the phantom emptiness described previously, characters will feel no side effects of their exposure at this time. They may, however, find casual passerby avoiding them after a visit. Medical secrecy only goes so far against fear of plague, and that chemical wash also stains most creatures a cheery yellow-green.
Whatever its effect on your life personally, the social effects of the incursion are difficult to miss. Whispers and fear turn to paranoia and full-blown fights, and Thisavrou's population centers are packed with heated debates about safety versus exploration-- or sometimes, versus the explorers themselves. A small black-market trade in preventative medicine (real or otherwise) has sprung up, and rumors claim that the full list of infected persons can be bought too: by those who have the right connections and a lot of cash to pay.
Combating this upswing of violence and disorder? Thisavrou's intermediaries. Combination police force and negotiators, the intermediaries have always been crucial to the rule of law on Thisavrou. Recent events, however, have seen them advertising their presence more: some wearing a strip of silver cloth to mark their status and availability to help. If approached by one, characters will experience a supernatural sense of calm. They will find their concerns met with sympathy and understanding... but somehow also the exact right words to talk all parties down. Whether that means persuading your neighbor to leave you out of his conspiracy theories or explaining why you need to report in for testing... well, that depends on you.
Following the opening of travel to the planet Deslora, an unscrupulous individual smuggled back clownbee larvae. In the weeks since, the clownbees have become a mildly invasive species in certain areas of Region 3. Victims of clownbee stings report an irresistible urge to smear garish makeup across their faces and the need to consume as much sugar as possible. Citizens are cautioned to listen for telltale sounds of buzzing and honking, and be wary.
An organization that purchased samples from the planet Aueia several months ago is opening an exhibit at a museum in Region 1. Those who participated in gathering objects from the planet, as well as any who care to attend, are invited to attend a small opening reception for the exhibit, where they will be presented with a small gift from an ardent lover of that world's wildlife: a small whale carving made of stone with mild psychic properties. When touched with bare hands, the holder will receive a mental picture of someone who means a great deal to them, with perfect clarity, as if they saw them just a moment ago.
⋆ Mission notices have been posted to TABs for anyone interested in earning a little extra cash. Available missions are listed below:
Day 28 (May 8th) - While recent events have been difficult, the Department of Ingress Contingency Coordination is impressed by the rapid response of all Savrii in coming together to ensure public safety. A few holdouts, however, are rumored to be hiding their conditions-- and thereby putting not only themselves, but the entire population at risk. The department will therefore offer a reward of 100 sencs to citizens willing to report these cases, with an additional 200 senc bonus if the persons involved have been directly exposed to the contaminants. As Deputy TOD puts it, "you're only SAVING EVERYONE'S LIVES". Day 36 (May 16th) - EN-Line systems throughout Thisavrou have begun to suffer a strange outbreak of mechanical failures that are leaving commuters by the wayside. Rumor claims some of Chioni's insectoid residents might be to blame. The Savrii will pay 50 sencs to anyone capable of confirming the problem, and 300 to anyone who solves it.
ingress travel info
⋆ Missions are jobs or specific tasks listed on the TAB once new worlds are open for exploration. Be sure to check if Clearance Levels are required to accept some of these missions.
⋆ Clearance Levels are given to visitors for the length of time they have been on Thisavrou (or traveling on the Moira). Each CL offers access to certain things or incentives that others will not have. As of this month, security will be in place outside the Ingress to ensure no clearance violations occur.
⋆ The Ingress powers Thisavrou in every way: economically, socially, and as a literal source of light and heat. However, between the biohazard incident and the recent escalation of the storms, the hazards of free travel can no longer be ignored. As a result, on May 10, the Ingress will be sealed against intrusion.
While sealed, Ingress travel must be directly controlled by the technicians. Instead of directing the open channel of the Ingress, technicians will be opening access to specific worlds, and closing it immediately after. As a result, traveling parties will have certain timeframes to leave and to return. Missing your schedule can result in being stranded offworld until the next travel period comes. Additionally, no new arrivals will be able to appear while Thisavrou's Ingress remains sealed. ((For OOC ramifications, check out the new app schedule!))
* Due to the closure and a recent push for regulation, no new worlds will be opened for exploration at this time. However, travel to established worlds will still be permitted, especially by individuals who have made contact there before. This opens up the opportunity for...
Revisiting Old Haunts
⋆ As many concerns have been brought up about the risks of their own Ingress travel, the Savrii are united in one certainty: that manipulation of the Ingress by other parties poses a far greater risk. A colony buried in the ruins of Thiri has been discovered engaging in their own in-depth studies on the use of Ingress energy. The Savrii consider this behavior to be a threat to the stability of all universes, and as with the Midway Hub, intervention is required at any cost.
A team is being sent to destroy all research data and technology onsite, along with anyone who interferes. As the colony's population is expected to interfere in its entirety, full combat gear will be provided to all volunteers. The mission will be supervised by high-clearance Savrii, and pay 250 sencs to each volunteer. All volunteers must be of at least Clearance Level 3, or personally vouched for by someone who is.
⋆ A year ago (by their local calendar), one of Thisavrou's established trade partners was approached by a pirate ship, one that had stolen from their world before. When the ruse was discovered, they attempted to force out the invaders, and in doing so, suffered a tragedy beyond proportion: the loss of an entire world.
Caducus Primary is no more. The mission announcement also notes that their sister planet, Caducus Secondary, also suffered massive losses in their efforts to force reparations from the murderers. On Day 35 of the current cycle (May 25th), a gathering is being held in the field of shattered glass where Caducus Primary was, to piece together a monument to the fallen. Thisavrou has pledged to send a delegation to assist. The pay will be minimal (30 sencs, to cover a missed workday), but this mission is open to all clearance levels.
[[ooc: For questions, comments, or additional information, check out the OOC post here.]]
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At this time, it's the former. Here, no one knows him -- no one is privy to the influence of the Graves family name, nor his position as the second most powerful man in wizarding United States. At times frustrating and relieving, this newfound world brings with it a profound set of challenges that Graves strives to meet squarely.
He nods briefly, polite nonetheless. ] I see. Are you on your own?
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She didn't imagine she'd need it, from this stranger at least, but it was never bad to be cautious.
On her own, he asks, and she pauses, considering. Technically she is alone, but is she? He's from her world, and Katsa is from the Drabwurld... She's not entirely alone, even if she might feel it sometimes. ]
No, I have a friend here. You're the first person from our world that I've met, though, so I don't know if there's anyone else.
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He nods at that, figures that she means she's made a friend here. But speaking of here: ]
How did you end up here?
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[ Hermione watches him, touching the line of cautious, now. He seems incredibly curious which, admittedly, she can relate to, but she's not entirely sure about it at all. It's not that she minds asking questions, but they just keep coming and she wonders if she ought to be a little more careful about what she says for some reason.
At least she has her magic to protect herself, should the worst come. ]
I was in a world different from ours before I came here, so whatever science or magic finds us dragged me from there.
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He files what she gives him away for future reference, a brief nod. ]
Science and magic seem to flourish together here. [ He observes. And it's happened to an extent he had never believed possible up until now. ] They seem to have found a way to integrate both.
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[ So much of this world seems to be based on science, but then people from other worlds and other planets had been dragged forward and... Now they had to adapt to it. Hermione was a witch but, at the same time, she was muggleborn - she had seen how science would work marvels, how wonderful it could be, and how people in the magical community had come up with magical means to fix the same problems. The two worlds were so very alike but ran in completely different ways.
Thoughtful, she has to pull herself away from her musings to turn her attention back to the man in front of her, a little sheepish at how her mind had wandered. She just couldn't help herself when it came to things that she wanted to study, and she wondered just how many books there might be on the subjects.
Knowing the magical world and the opinion of muggles... Not many. ]
I think it's wonderful.
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There are so many things that are entirely alien to him here, but he's learned to adapt, to cope, but her words surprises him. Witches and wizards across the pond are usually more accepting of the no-majs -- well, muggles -- much to Graves' chagrin, and it doesn't seem any more different with her. ]
If the No-Majs could see past their own biases and fear.
[ He says at last, at length. ] Things could have been different.
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It hadn't even occurred to her the type of person that she might be talking to - just a witch talking to a wizard. At the same time... At least it wasn't a slur. She wanted to believe, at least, that people wouldn't be the same as some of the purebloods she had known. She wanted to imagine a better future for herself and her friends, her family. ]
Maybe we could start by calling them something a little nicer than No-Maj. They're not defined by their lack of magic, you know. They're far more than that.
[ But she feels that she might start an argument if she's not careful and she shakes her head. ]
It's not necessarily bad, though. It works.
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You must not be acquainted with things on the other side of the pond. [ How they came to be here, how Rapaport's law was birthed on a back of a foolish wizard girl and the descendant of a Scourer who hated magic and all that were born to it; how they managed to survive despite being hunted down, hidden away and separate -- not because No-Majs were inferior (although many might think so, except Graves, who thinks that underestimating them would be the key to wizarding extinction) but because they are a real, hostile, and ever-present threat to their very existence.
The wizarding community is too busy trying to survive to concern itself with the lofty, nebulous dreams of wide-eyed idealists, and Graves is very much a man of his time, the direct descendant of a long, proud line of Aurors who had given their lives to protect their own from being hunted and killed, hunting even their own kind when they turned against wizards, sparking off an age-old, abiding hate down the line that will constantly, consistently breed an enmity for magic that keeps his community on the edge of war.
War is for fools, and Graves has seen enough of it to be viscerally aware of the fact that in war, no one wins; least of all the wizards, despite the affinity for magic. His interest lies in preventing it by whatever means necessary, keeping the peace and keeping their community secret. ]
On this side, we define them by how eager they are to hunt us down.
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I think the same could be said for you.
[ Hermione's not an idiot. She knows well enough that muggles can be just as cruel and heartless as their magical counterparts - there are tomes and tomes of histories of muggles burning and executing witches and wizards simply because they might have existed, using it as an excuse to get rid of people that they thought were unsavoury or worthless. She's not blind to it no more than she's blind to the rampant prejudice that exists in the magical community even now, with the Death Eaters gone and Voldemort defeated by Harry. She's not a fool.
Neither side is better than the other, and that's what she wants to work on - or, rather, what she wanted to work on, before the Seelie Court summoned her. She wanted to do good in the world. ]
On our side we defined people by how eager they were to round up and murder muggleborns. I don't think either one of us can say very much about the nature of prejudice in our homes, Mr. Graves.
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He's seen war, he's been in it and he knows just what it squanders -- men and women of considerable talent who could have changed the world if their talents were applied somewhere else. Graves is a good man, sharp and brilliant -- but he is not nice. He demands only the best from people who work with him, constantly challenging them to meet his standards, ever-striving to be better than he's been before.
He's a man wholly accustomed to power, a man who has earned it, but in the same vein sees no value in intimidating her. It's unstrategic, pointless, and achieves nothing. He regards her words with little surprise. Of course he knows it -- did she think the toxic fixation on blood purity in her country had been a recent thing? As Director of MACUSA, Graves is privy to the highest levels of international politics (the prestige of his family name ensuring that his circles involved powerful men and women who could move the world) not least of which their counterparts in the United Kingdom -- politics, and idiocies. The ridiculous proclamation of pureblooded lineages, as if this made them better witches or wizards, and the just as ridiculous notion of inbreeding. He's seen too damn much in his forty years of existence, twenty-three of which were devoted to MACUSA and its machinations. ]
And yet, I'm not the one who just provided unwarranted, ill-informed critique on the other side's norms.
[ The rebuke is obvious, but not meant with spite. The message is similarly clear: context is everything, and he will not tolerate anyone riding in and finding it somehow appropriate to provide a lecture that he does not need. Even so, he pauses and regards her, assessing. ]
You must not be what they deem as pureblood. [ Half-blood? Born to two No-Maj parents? There's no way someone who has no stake in this will have such strong opinions. ]
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She knows how she appears, of course. To most people she's a child with scars who doesn't know what she's talking about or what she's doing, some miscreant that's gotten herself into trouble and made more and more drama for other people - someone that was probably protected and smothered and grew up verbose and dangerous with her mind. It's not the case, though, and she knows it; she's not some juvenile that's rushing off headfirst without knowledge or experience. She's more than that, and she wishes she could make people see it.
The war at home had been bad enough, with torture and death and misery from all sides. The war in the Drabwurld had been just as bad, and she wears the marks from both as keenly as she wears her determination, tilting her head up and refuses to feel as though she has to stand down to this man despite the awkwardness of their start and the sternness to which they look at each other. It's been a long time since she let anyone talk down to her and she doesn't intend to let herself start all over again now. ]
I don't think you can accuse me of being ill-informed when you've got just as little idea about the experiences of our side, Mr Graves, for all that you might know. Yo haven't lived it.
[ She's not particularly spiteful in her own response; it's measured and careful and she crosses her arms, her fingers curling around the scarring on her arm. Mudblood, she thinks, and her own fierce determination refuses to go anywhere but spread through her and make her feel stronger. ]
No, I'm not. I'm a muggleborn. I... [ She breathes in, once, then out again. ] I just fought a war to stop purebloods murdering my kind, so I think I'm granted a little bit of clemency when it comes to the issue.
[ It's not an apology but it's an explainaton. ]