Creature Feature - Aim For The Head

This is exactly the kind of situation Aegis was founded to help with so heck yes assume your character got deployed to this assignment if you want them there

Jacob himself won't be tagging around much since /gestures silently to pile of other threads, but LMK if you want to do anything with him

Also consider yourselves free to have your characters vote how they would ICly on the poll, Jacob won't mandate any particular resolution to the situation

Jacob will want Aegis agents to investigate the source of this nonsense if possible- why did Lake Tahoe just now start experiencing this kind of phenomena? His main worry will be that Jeopardy's 'weirdness zone' (for lack of a better word) is spreading

I'm keenly aware that the mods' last OOC post indicated this Swear-In would kick off the next and possibly final arc of OTO metaplot

Darin did get some communication from someone in OTO about this

!!!!

He and Allura got the same message hold on

For this Swear-In, an OTO representative has decided to test the waters with Darin. He will find an untraceable anonymous message in his personal inbox when he arrives at the Swear-In.

We need Tessie to discover what they have done. Sell her to the highest bidder. Only then will more info follow.

the great lakes have been known to be full of monsters, but those might've been from the hornets

👀

Needless to say, Darin would look Jacob in on this one

Loop**

I’m asking a few follow-up questions to the mods now, specifically if Darin can find out any info in regards to this eccentric anon. Rumors, anything involving more cryptids or anything else of that ilk before he makes a decision

Though I did have an idea.

The note only says to sell to the highest bidder. What if imports outbid the eccentric anon then donate Tessie to the museum

rich benefactors u say

That’s what Darin would consider putting forth as an option

He’d be willing to put in his own money too. He’s not exactly poor

Plus, if the imports put up a bid and win Tessie, they’d be able to work out what’s wrong with her too considering the varying talents available. If she’s ‘needed to discover what they have done’ well we’d be able to partner and share research

It’s the best compromise in his opinion

hahahaha very clever Darin

yeah everyone can assume Jacob circulated word of the Daringram so the whole team is in the loop, and they can circulate it to their own CR at their discretion

he's very obviously going to be against selling her to the clearly-OTO anon

I also had another thought - if anyone is able to calm down a revenant and talk to the, it could be an opportunity to solve some old murders and pass some leads to local authorities on the area mobsters

Deadass archie will just start crying if he finds out that plan DARIN IS SO SMART AND EMPATHETIC HES SO PROUD

Listen, Darin reunited a raging Tiamat with its stolen baby to save a town he’s not about to sell Tessie to some anonymous bidder unless he’s sure they can be trusted

And honestly, he’d rather trust imports than anyone else

now i kind of regret i picked earlier this month to retire the psychopomp, this could have been really embarrassing for kanaya and i missed out

LMAO good point

'psychopomp, what clues can you sense from these restless dead?'

'....thine query may takest some, uh, timeth' /suddenly portals out

Does anyone want to ask the mods to see if the eccentric anon can be outbid? I’m waiting on some answers myself

but her Space sense could maybe sense out whether this area feels Jeopardy-esque?

I also like the idea of raising the import bid past the eccentric

oh definitely

On the other hand, that OTO informant will probably see this as a red flag for Darin, assuming they're monitoring close enough to figure out what he's organized

but saving tessie is worth it

the space in jeopardy is absolutely different, so if this is any kind of extension of that she could feel it out

excellent

no need for a red flag, the note only said to sell 'to the highest bidder.' It didn't say aaaaaanything about who that bidder had to be

Darin will proxy bid for all imPorts if he has to just to show that he's putting himself out there

George doesn't go here but she got the same message

I went ahead and asked on the poll page to see if the eccentric anon is able to be outbid or if he has limitless funds

Al will pour money into this, too

HASHTAG SAVE TESSIE 2019

WOO WOO

if we're able to get a non-capture, non-destroy option approved, we won't have to bid in the first place

though we might have to, like, guard Tessie from OTO poachers afterward

The modpost mentioned 'flat-out, unquestioning murder of an NPC target' :a I wonder if some people in contact with the OTO have another mission than obtaining Tessie

Based on the phrasing of the Daringram, I'd guess that we're currently dealing with the more reasonable 'Otis' faction of OTO or someone who wants to pose as them

I love ‘Daringram’

so it looks like the only bidder is the eccentric anon but...

"If the imPorts want to try to keep her...well. Let us know what that plan would be and we'll see about adding it to the poll."

thoughts?

also, in regards to Darin's research on the eccentric anon, he got this back:

"In his research, Tessie is the first legitimate rare creature to appear, so it is hard to say! The eccentric has previously bought things like bigfoot footprints or skeletons of other cryptids, but no live samples."

ask bruce to buy a fuckin lake he'll do it

Some information I got -- the post for IC contact isn't just for reporting in

We can ask the contact questions if we want to

Might help??

I say we go for the Bruce option

YESSS BRUCE

Darin could draft up a proposal for a lake/research center so that he can buy the lake and maybe we can get a lab set up to run some tests on Tessie to see what's affecting her?

bruce also engineered synthetic mako for a shelke that was in the game a while ago

he used it to power his nanobatsuit and to keep persephone from melting a little while back

in case you end up wanting to utilize that, too

any idea how we would be able to transport Tessie to Wayne Lake?

I want to figure out all of the nuances of the plan before I go to the mods and be like 'so Bruce Wayne is buying a lake for Tessie so imPorts can research her and put her under Aegis protection'

and see if we can get that option on the poll

wayne lake lmkadg

bruce has a shipping company, so like if any other character doesn't have a power option or something you could always default to that

but i think redconfession mentioned something about being able to move tessie

you could also add that as proprietor of the lake and also funder of the justice league the league would also offer their joint protection afterwar

Listen if you want to buy a lake, you can call it whatever you want. Darin's vote is for either Wayne Lake or Tessiepeak Bay

m could open a door in the two lakes as an option

would Tessie have to be herded through the door?

dead parents lake

That should draw a lot of tourists

So pacify Tessie through no lethal means, shove her through an underwater Door set up by M, and hope she's happy, healthy, and no menace to anyone in Dead Parents Lake which is hopefully full of fish - call it the Relocation Option and try to get it added to the poll?

just call it aex lake or something, after the chimera creature in greek myth that athena turned into the aegis

hey so lucina's icly getting an anonymous message saying she needs to get a piece of tessie

...a piece?

yes

"They have gone too far. Gather a piece of the creature. They will come for it."

D:

all the more reason to relocate her because we can take a sample of her so she can be studied

stroopwafelling she'll for sure show jacob and defer to his choices

but yeah, I think that's the best plan that has a shot of making it onto the poll

i like that option too tbh

and if that's the case, sign Darin up for team goad Tessie to the door

this'll be great, it's like fishing

that slayers episode w dragon fishing

just tie Darin to a pole attached to a boat and he can be the live bait

i don't plan on getting batman really involved in a post but if anyone wants to use this as further reason for cr with bruce or the league please feel free, of course

LITERALLY WHAT I WAS THINKING OF whyellewhy

i know it was.

I'm so glad

oh kanaya can already handle transport, that's what she do

whaaaaat the shit

uh sure Jacob will authorize nonfatal piece-harvesting, it goes without saying that wherever it goes is going to be tracked

could be good bait

let her take a tooth or someth

Yeah sharks lose those all the time

thanks boss this won't come back to bite us later

OKAY SO who wants to take charge of writing Operation Relocate into a proposal for the mods I CALL NOT IT

IT'S NTO ATTACHED TO A JAW!!

NOT IT

TAGS BitterBearFace

I can bang one out and post it here for review

i mean isn't it decaying anyway just wait for something to fall off

Bless you Ant

Proposal to have "Save Tessie" added to the poll:

Because the desire to save Tessie, but also safeguard her, is so strong Aegis would like to put for this proposal to be added to the poll:

Since several members have received anonymous contacts in regards to Tessie,

the plan is to approach Bruce Wayne and have himpurchase a
body of water suitable enough to contain Tessie. Once the lake is secured, M and/or Kanaya will use their abilities to transport Tessie
from Lake Tahoe to her new Aegis/imPort secured home.

She will be removed completely from lake Tahoe, which satisfies the local authorities
and also makes sure that Tessie can be safely watched and studied to find out what is causing her illness. This also means that any imPorts
can join in on the research if they are of a like mind

and those who have been contacted anonymously can barter with whatever is discovered
through Tessie's examinations.

That's what I have

i like it

I like it

Too

Alright, gonna post it in my question thread

also going to add that members of Aegis will be responsible for securing Tessie so that it doesn't turn into a massive free-for-all

this is lovely

even if "Members of Aegis" is just Allura on a speedboat with Darin tied to a pole hanging off the back of it as live bait

The thread in question in case anyone is interested ...

Allura suddenly went from "what the quiznak are you doing with him" to "100% in" just because she gets to drive a boat

Darin won't tell her ahead of time for maximum hilarity

he's just going to invite her out onto the lake for a date

he'll say "we're going to do some fishing" and it won't be a lie

Allura: Why are you tying that rope around your waist?
Darin: Don't worry about it /falls backwards overboard

I like it / late

WOO WOO

PROPOSAL ACCEPTED

This has been added as an alternative plan voting option, with this reflected in the main OOC text above! A plurk about the update is forthcoming.

I love how much flexibility and freedom this game has

God me too

it's so much fun