I'm especially interested in knowing if someone is going somewhere for investigation, and where someone has poked at what and come to which conclusions.

Hawkeye's trying to take notes of all the symptoms, and will probably be attempting to dose at least one patient with penicillin in the next few days

ashfae m_logan_2k2 spartabitch leloipa draconic Joysweeper you commented on the plot info so I'll summon you here but I totally want everyone's input here

Jormandugr: If you wish to thread this and once you have one or more volunteers, you can contact me and I'll give you fun effects

*and/or'

Awesome, thanks.

Conan has been talking to everyone whos been affected and putting together a timeline of symptoms

he plans to join Aarons expediion to find the source

KID will be reporting symptoms as they show up and Hawkeye is welcome to dose him

yup, Aaron is headed for Gondor, stopping off in Rohan to meet up with Eowyn and Faramir

they should arrive at Minas Tirith first week of May

if Eowyn and Faramir are not at kissing stage by now I will be very dissapointed

prepare for disappointment

/shakes Faramir WORK FASTER

he is a very awkward nerd okay

be kind to the poor man, he's afflicted with an overabundance of nobility

someone needs to lock them into a room until they kiss

I'

m in favour

Tentatively Aaron's group is going to meet up with Eowyn's group and all (or at least most, I haven't checked each individual) will go on to Gondor since it seems like that's the source.

ANd it's not Faramir's fault there's no kissing, Eowyn needs to get her head out of her butt first.

Hoping to use this event to accomplish some of that.

lol Elladan volunteers to lock them in a room

HAwke and Aaron need it first!

he can do dis

only the best for not!bro

D:

AARON'S LOVE LIFE IS FINE, OK, IT'S DOA AND HE'S ACCEPTED THAT

AND YET HE GAVE A WOMAN A BEAR

YOU CAN'T JUST GIVE A WOMAN A BEAR AND ACT LIKE IT DOESN'T MEAN SOMETHING

WOMEN LOVE BEARS

this obviously courting behaviour, elladan approves

EXACTLY

See Jormandugr , obviously Faramir just needs to give Eowyn a bear.

Problem solved.

how about a poem about bears?

hawke is a good woman, they are a good match, Elladan will see if he can get the Valar to start a wedding party

Aeslyn will most definitely be continuing on with Aaron's group. Her most valuable talent for this is probably going to be the Echo; it should be able to give her a glimpse or something of what caused this

when they get there.

Also, if she deems it safe enough, she may attempt to attune to the palantir when they find it (treating it like a teleport waypoint; she doesn't know yet that her teleport spell won't work here.)

(If it turns out to be the source of the beams she probably won't even try that, but wanted to make sure I mentioned it here just in case.)

Julien's gone to Minas Tirith and seen that the beams are converging on the palantir. He's floated the option of looking for their source but he'd rather follow Aaron's group.

being the guide.

Aaeren is tagging along with Aaron, but she's likely to go hunting for the source of the lights with Julien so she can smack it with her axe. -

Amroth is taking his group to Lothlorien, but as at least two members will be dying by the time they reach the mountains, will be VERY INTERESTED in anything people find to help.

it's hurting her bb bro so she's gone from scared to pissed.

I just woke up, so I may not be super coherent, but the Doctor is definitely going to end up involved somehow

Nerdanel has no intention of leaving Deepwood anytime soon, but she would like to lend whatever help she can.

Dorian is going to be helping Hawkeye out in... whatever way he can manage.

I'm still a useless lump but we can assume Az is chilling with Nerdy still I think

draconic If the Doctor did go off with Eowyn, he's in the thick of it, don't worry. I just suck and haven't posted anything and I'm sorry.

ashfae: he most likely would have, yes!

Exacerangutan: lol which is probably why mags is hardly ever home

m_logan_2k2: 1) It receives the beams. Would that still deter her? 2) I assume she'd use the history-viewing part of the Echo ability?

fiery_chicken: Joysweeper

and whoever else joins in the hunt for the source, please give me a heads up when people start going that way!

Ardruna: Who are the members of that group? Also who will be the ones who'll be dying?

oh okay! Julien went and had a look at the Minas Tirith palantir but he didn't announce it for everyone.

...and I forget, is that the source or the destination?

Looks like it's the destination. But Aaeren intends to break whatever is doing this. (Doesn't mean she'll be successful but that's the intention.)

I have no idea how much use Conan is going to be on this expedition. being a genius Sherlock Holmes style detective doesn't mean as much when actual fighting skills are liekly to be more useful

but hes there, if any detective work needs to be done

Amroth, obviously. Beleth, Elladan, Edgar, Mahanon, and I think Zelgadis, Dorian 1 and Sorrel.

Of those, Beleth and Mahanon will be dying.

...you know, 1 is an excellent question. And since Aaron's party has some excellent adventurer types already, she may opt for tracking the source.

as for 2, yes, the history thing would be what happens. She doesn't really use it, so much as it brainjacks her when it wants her to know something, though.

(might be interesting to see if there's anyone who could try and train her to use it when she wants to...)

Joysweeper: fiery_chicken: Minas Tirith is the destination. So whenever someone starts to head the other direction of the flashes, please tell me.

leloipa: ...You know I just realized that Conan might be an useful deus ex machina for figuring out how a cure might work. If and only if he can accept that magic is a factor. Assuming that nobody else

figures it out in a reasonable amount of time, would you be interested in me giving you the clues for a sherlock-esque deduction?

Ardruna: /nodnod so two Thedas elves. I will look into them a bit before giving you an answer - it's not really soon, after all.

m_logan_2k2: oh boy how unfortunate. The history viewing power will be activated by the palantir. What happen will be a lot like when Pippin takes a peek at the palantir in LotR (I would give you a youtube but

my laptop doesn't support that rn, I think it should give you a video if you just search pippin palantir though?) just that instead of the flaming eye appearing, the whirling in the palantir

intensify. This will jumpstart her into week two or three (your choice) of the illness. BUT. she'll also see both elves and humans looking into the palantir (the last she sees is Denethor - she'll catch

the name, too) and receive a strong feeling of searching. Really, really strong. It's kind of infectuous and will stay with her for days, make her want to search for beings like herself.

...which is unfortunate, since she's the only lalafell on the planet.

(let alone her other unique traits)

(yep ;3 )

It should be noted that she's resistant to things like mental compulsion - the Echo protects her against god-level mind control.

resistant does not mean immune though.

(and Hydaelyn isn't here to back her up)

It's not so much mind control as an... aftereffect. Like seeing a delicious cake and not being able to shake the wish to eat delicious cake for a few hours.

/nodnod

So, that'll be one seisure for the lalafell, a small monomania, and two weeks worth of death sentence.

sure! hes been here long enough to reluctantly accept that magic is a thing

m_logan_2k2: pretty much!

leloipa: awesome, I'll get in touch with you if the situation arises then.

great!

I am far too amused at Conan possibly being the deus ex machina for curing a magical illness

leloipa: KID is laughing

Rude Kid /bats at

dont laugh. hes trying to help you for once

he's grateful!

he's just really amused at the fact that he is going to have to admit to magic to do so XD

he'll admit that theres something he can't explain yet that people here call magic.

he hasn't given up yet on explaining it with science

/see his plans to test athelas for antibacterial and antiseptic properties

XD

>.> /sics Aes on him with her books that explain science as magic

please do

/he needs more headaches

all anyone needs to know on this topic is that Conan defines magic as something without an explanation

that everyone has been to gullible or lazy to put the effort into finding out the real reason behind it

good luck with that attitude

She uses geometry to summon balls of floof known as Carbuncles. :|bb

conan and hawkeye need to get together and form the sceptics society

dorian is confused that people don't realize that this magic stuff is quantifiable and explainable, it's not like you just wave your hand and whatever you want happens!

or, it sort of is, but it's also more complicated than that

it breaks the laws of physics and biology

maybe you're using the wrong laws

he should explain that to Conan. up to now his experience with magic os basically

look the world is too complicated already don't you come along and make it crazier

someone is murdered in a way that looks like a ghost or demon or local monster did it

Dorian is totally up for being a giant nerd with all the science people! Science intrigues him, and he wants to know what's so not-magical about flying around in space like that's magical as hell

all the witnesses go it was magic!

all the police officers and detectives go it was magic!

(in fairness, Hawkeye hasn't seen space travel be A Thing yet)

Conan goes, are you all kidding me? it was a trick. a human is just trying to get away with the crime

(the first manned flight won't be for 9 years after his pull-point)

let me show you how the trick worked

Dorian thinks he still remembers some of the schematics for that engine Abel showed him

Conan can hive you al kinds of strange facts about space travel, Hawkeye

but how comforting is it that the other skeptic in town is 7

not very. how's he meant to bitch about things over a beer with a seven-year-old?

...>.> <.<

ooh, also. Conan was putting together a timeline of when each system appeared. since Hawkeye is the only doctor he knows, he could have passed it on to him before he left.

...make it a root beer?

in Eorzea, magic is basically just natural science.

if thats the kind of thing could be useful

give him horrible police station coffee and hell be there

ugh I need to get out of thesisbrain and do things with Az again

hawkeye would totally appreciate that timeline, conan

I'll backdate a tag to his post when I get home

though once again that brings up the question. what kind of kid thinks about doing that

hawkeye's just accepting the fact that you're fucking weird, conan

if there's anywhere you could tell the truth it's in a jamjar.

XD

I need to hiatus. See latest plurk and I'll go announce it. Many many many apologies for the chaos this will cause. =(

...now to figure out logistics on the trip(s) being taken by this group.

according to the eyeballed calculations I did last week, the group leaving Deepwood should reach Minas Tirith by May 1st

yay for horses

and ponies and a chocobo.

do we want a log for that anywhere?

i would be down, I meant to put one up but the second half of last week picked me up and carried me away

I wouldn't mind a log, but I'd be out of town the first week of May.

I'll be out of town the 4 to the 8

Log sounds good to me

(I still need to figure out whether Aes will go on with the group, or try for the source...)

.../goes to hunt down a RNG

1 for MT, 2 for source, best two of three...

2, 1, 1