[open] this ae night, this ae night

[psycholawgy]

Who: People who went to the tower, and then people who want to hear about what happened in the tower!
When: 8/25-8/26.
Where: The CERES Tower, and then the Sanctuary
What: A catch-all log for the CERES Tower Exploration, and then a discussion of it!
Rating/Warning: Will edit when needed.

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THE TOWER
[ As per the mod post:

All groups will find that the tower is deserted, and all technology is shut off. Through some fiddling, some of CERES’ databases can be accessed, but only in the most basic of safe modes. Hacking will just get everything to shut off again, as it takes too much power from whatever emergency power source allows the systems to turn on.

There are no dangers, but even so, the characters won’t have long in the tower before their code starts to warp strangely. If they stay too long, they will be glitched right out of existence -- and then right outside of the tower. They will find that for the next three ic days, all food tastes burnt and sleeping is extremely unsatisfying, to the point that they don’t even feel like they need it, before they go back to normal. Characters will have a maximum of 3 IC hours in the tower before that point.

Feel free to thread out characters meeting up before the exploration, or bumping into each other in the rather big tower, amongst other shenanigans! ]


THE SANCTUARY
[ there isn't much of a preparation for this, but there will be a text blast alerting everybody to go to the sanctuary if they so please to discuss what people have found in the tower.

as usual, a variety of flavours of pizza is being served. there may not be pizza for everybody however, as athena is rather broke. (sweats) remember to leave your cerevices in the basket by the entrance! ]

Comments

[faceplate]

[ making a mental note of it, zer0 nods. they'll look into reaching the flamines as well. CERES seems almost wholly absent, and it isn't like they were very helpful before anyway. ]

Names?

[ if he doesn't have any, zer0 will just look by themselves. ]

[pure_havoc]

Hiro mentioned he wanted to try. As did Togami.

[he's okay giving out their names, they've been pretty active in every Sanctuary meeting]

I believe it was Togami who mentioned that the Flamines will only speak to certain people - those who've taken lives. If that is the quality they look for, I would more than qualify.

[faceplate]

[ oh, nice. that's one qualification zer0 readily fulfills! ]

When I spoke to them, I learned little. But I would seek them out again.

[pure_havoc]

If you would make that attempt yourself, I would at least like to give you a list of extremely specific questions for these troublemakers.

[from what he's heard they're at least as cryptic and noncommittal as the spirits, so no matter which way they turn for info, it's going to be someone's headache. Better to start off with a solid idea of what to ask than to just fish idly around and get nowhere]

[faceplate]

[ acceptable. zer0 nods; they'll take a list of cao pi gives it to them. ]

Will do best to ask questions from your very own curiosity.

[pure_havoc]

[nods back, in genuine grace and respect]

It is a refreshing pleasure working with someone who understands the complexity of the situation.

[faceplate]

[ zer0 simply tilts their head slightly, waiting for cao pi's questions. ]

[pure_havoc]

[hopefully he can memorize because writing down a list would mean Chinese]

I want to know their price for performing a job, and if one were to initiate a contract, how they would go about meeting to confirm it. How they travel to different worlds and how they 'destroy' them - do they walk amongst the people and fight their warriors one on one, or do they sit back from a safe distance and aim some sort of firearm at them? Most importantly, I want to know if they have any intention of taking out CERES' failures on us.

Also, I demand to know whether they have a process for returning us to our worlds as the robot suggested - or if CERES really is the only one who can do so. Because if they can, I would contract with them to send us home - and if not, I would be happy helping them locate the fools who betrayed them.