OPEN MINGLE: Time to Talk, Summoned!

[magicalarchaeologist]

Who: Istredd, Wanda, and all the Summoned
What: Istredd and Wanda called people to the meeting to give an info dump, let people ask questions or share their own information, and then a hang out after with refreshments so people can chat after and make new CR or check in with old CR.
Where: Istredd's Horizon
When: Saturday, September 9th, at midnight so less attention given to them.
Warnings: Discussion of the game plots including all content warnings up to now like psychological thriller, horror, the cult kidnapping, gods being trouble. Abraxas is a wild place, friends.

HORIZON AND SET UP

The Lighthouse was described by Istredd in detail so people would know where to go. During this mingle, it will continue to shine and circle around like a normal lighthouse so people know where to go. His domain is unique for being essentially a tower of books. Shelves upon shelves of books and multiple floors. The only other detail before the talk starts is that there are five ravens who will be curiously watching everyone from a perch nearby. Your character may end up with a lapful of one of the two leosylphs who live here, one baby blue colored and the other one black with red eyes.

The main floor has been turned into a large meeting hall of a sort, although mostly in terms of having a large space full of chairs and a few tables if people wish to sit there. Your character can perch anywhere they want including up a floor. A key note about Istredd's domain is that people can easily morph chairs or create them in whatever form they'd want, so if you want them to have their childhood chair, go ahead. If they want a gaming chair, it'll show up automatically for them. His space is very intuitive. People can choose to speak either from the back of the room, as Istredd will do, or from where they sit/stand.

If your character wants to attend but not be noticed, they can intuitively use his Horizon to mask themselves/go invisible. Istredd will not call you out, Henry Creel.

After the initial formal talk and information gathering, Istredd will ease up the more formal atmosphere of the large hall and create a food and drink section against the walls. Wanda assists him in making this look nicer and homier. There will be extensive offerings but people can add any type of food or drink to this, it's up to them to modify it.

If your character would like to explore the library or get a beat to themselves/talk privately with someone, they can do that by wandering the floors. People will find that if they open a book it will appear to be empty at first, but if they think about their favorite book, the pages will fill in. It is entirely based on their recollection of the book so may not be entirely complete, but if their subconscious mind has memorized much of it, they will see what they need to in there.

They may also find that as they move through the floors, a 'reading nook' may appear in the corner that will instinctively know what they would feel comfortable sitting to read with. They can also 'lock' this room if they want to discuss something with another person and need privacy.

ISTREDD'S SPEECH

[Istredd will wait until it appears everyone has arrived or most people have and he will clear his throat to get their attention if they are already chatting with other people. He appears as he often does in Thorne, with very plain clothes in a dark shade of blue, serious and calm. He stands straight-backed, hands clasped behind his back. Istredd speaks in a very clear and calm way.]

Please sit or stand as you feel comfortable. If you want, you can create any chair you wish to sit in. After the initial conversation, food and drinks will be provided and you are free to add your own favorite dishes. This is intended as an information-gathering conversation. Last year, Sam Wilson hosted something similar to keep the Summoned informed, and a great many things have happened since. Wanda and I thought to do the same this year.

We posted on the network a breakdown of what happened with the kidnapping earlier this year. If you missed it, the general idea was that a cult from Solvunn took half of the Summoned and held us in a pit, where they were experimented on. The cult's intention was to try and take the connection the Summoned have to the Singularity, and what they believed to also be a connection to their gods.

It should be noted that Thorne tried something similar early on in the Summonings. Their experimentation also did not work, as far as we know. We thought it prudent to keep every Summoned informed of what happened in case something like this happens again. We have put forward from the Solvunn and Thorne conclave a request to our factions to allow us to have access to the island. We'll let people know what we hear.

I also put together a history timeline of the Summoned.

[He pulls out a blackboard with this list written down over it in clear readable words. He points to the February 20,078 section where the details about the kidnapping are written out in particular.]

If anyone would like to add notes or months I missed, please either write it yourself or let me know and I will add it. I am hoping to keep this an active timeline for us. This will always be available in my library here to anyone who wants it. We have also been given a pantheon of the gods from our friends in Solvunn that is also available in here.

I have been taking notes since I got here about general information that may be of interest to people when they arrive, including details about magic, the Singularity, and the factions. They're very broad but you can read it on this.

[He creates another blackboard to the side, also able for other people to make notes upon.]

I don't want to be talking this entire time, so instead I would like to invite people to share any findings or information they have that they think the whole group should be aware of, and also ask questions that could be answered or talked about. Please be polite with one another and understand there are some things we simply do not have the answers for as of now.

There are less than a hundred of us, and I believe it is important that we stay on the same team. Thank you. Feel free to eat and talk, or wander in the library.

OOC NOTES

Hey everyone, it's Dee! I am so sorry for the tl;dr. I have the headers below: Speeches (information sharing/tl;dr like mine), Questions (you can specify what exactly they have questions about), adding to the info dumps I have, and whatever else you think of.

If you want your character to speak/offer information but don't want follow-up questions, you can put 'OTA' or 'no follow-up' to indicate what your preference is here. If you put OTA people can reply with a sort of Q&A option, but the no follow-up idea is so that people can share information but not need to commit to that unless they feel like it.

And from there, mingle to your heart's content! Your characters can talk afterward, before, go explore the library, whatever you want, I support it. You can plan closed or open starters, follow your heart.

If nothing else, I want people to take from this mingle that their character can hear any of this information or see it in the library and have it from now on for your RP purposes, and take this opportunity to maybe make new CR/discuss all of this. Do as much or as little as you want! If you have any comments/concerns, please message me on plurk.

Comments

[everybodysterrible]

Abby finishes the bit of cake she had and let's go of the plate, it falls about half a foot before it just vanishes from existence. Crumbs and all. Abby could have just 'made it disappear' out of her hand but that's hardly any fun. Istredd's domain is fairly rigid in it's nature, but offers summoned some room to maneuver.

"Probably also better for going swimming, a shirt is just all drag for a shark man." Abby offers idly, she didn't intend to talk about the tall weird-cute Solvunn summoned. "Anyway, I killed one of the big monster things through a mix of dumb luck and not sleeping through every biology class. Thought it might be a good reminder to some people I'm not helpless."

[invicto]

James winks at her contribution, finger pointed at her. A valid point, which he doesn't chase after because he has about as much interest in talking about the guy as she does. Maybe even less.

"Don't call it dumb luck. It's all about skill." Then again, being underestimated could work to her advantage in the long run. "Why do people think you're helpless?"

[everybodysterrible]

While she does know there was skill on her end, that doesn't feel right to her. Because she's still trying to work through her own baggage on the helpless part. Still, if he wants to insist it was skill that let her do it, she won't argue out loud.

She felt that a bit of her- nature, was obvious. Then again her best friends in this world were both very capable of violence and didn't look it either, so she just listed off the greatest hits of 'Abby do not go and help' she's been trying to overcome, "I'm the youngest summoned in Cadens. From a world without magic. And I was never trained to thieve, murder, fistfight, or otherwise do anything dangerous. Also my feet dangle over the ground when I sit on even the normal sized bar stools."

She doesn't sound bitter about these facts, having her biggest problem in life being an unsatisfactory home life was honestly a blessing when she compared notes here. But it has meant she felt ever-so-slightly wrong for this world. And she's trying to fix that.

[invicto]

He does try to take it all serious, but the only thing that last observation does is make him smile and snort. In his defense, he does tamp it down quickly, covering it up with his glass held near his mouth. He nods once after taking a sip.

"Piss me off too, if people thought that was good enough reason to baby me." Not that James has been babied once in his life, and he'd probably stab anyone who tried. "How old are you?"

[everybodysterrible]

She doesn't begrudge the laughing, honestly. She does do those on purpose. The context of how people see her matters, and they see a small child. She acts the part sometimes, but that's mostly to amuse herself.

"Yes, I'm sure people do that." She's pretty sure he's gotten some level of- special treatment, but babying doesn't feel the right term for it. Pretty white guys get to do a lot of shit they want. "Ask me next week and it's seventeen."

Which is to say she's sixteen today.

[invicto]

"So, sixteen." James doesn't give it nearly as much importance as she does. By sixteen, he'd been through so much already. No one could have called him a child then, and he doesn't really see her as one either.

"You know, there are some perks to being underestimated. You could take advantage of it."

[everybodysterrible]

It's at least refreshing to have her age said with the level of concern the weather gets. Like- weird, but it's good for a change.

"'I can get away with shit and nobody will accuse me' sort of things?" She is used to just- not being registered by people. Not just her gifts here, but just she's nobody special. Her best friends are criminals. Like- legit dangerous ones. And she's got a noble with dubious ethics helping her with magic and marksmanship? Makes her innately less worth it to accuse of anything.

[invicto]

"That too, although I wasn't quite thinking in those terms," he admits. Mostly because he personally would do whatever the fuck he wanted and not care particularly about people finding out. Within reason, naturally; here it might be smart to make more friends than enemies for a start.

"I meant more that you can sneak up to your opponents and use their overconfidence against them. No one expects the small, young girl to slash their throats." A shrug. "It's just an example, of course."

He's not encouraging her to go around slitting throats, naturally.