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[monstermasher]

SO I THINK I MIGHT HAVE FOUND SOMETHING!

Nice. If your character is doing a little more than your average snooping, drop a link into this post! You also have the choice of PMing the details/links to me if you'd like, but this is a good way to keep everything in one place.

It doesn't matter what log, what day—if your character is exploring, let me know! I'll drop something into the thread for you, or respond to your comment with it if it seems like it'd be easier that way. These findings can range from tiny little items to large plot clues and cool weapons.

NOTE: I should clarify that very little needs my permission! All plot triggers can be avoided without losing them forever, so if you don't turn in something that would have given you one, it's fine! It's not gone forever, and they can be moved around to fit the plot without making everything too easy.

Mostly what I'm here for with exploring and settings-based stuff is feeding you all the information! It breaks down like this: if your actions affect other players, such as letting zombies into the compound or blowing up a place that might have other characters in it, permission/a heads up is good. If it's closed off to just you or a few others who have okayed it, you likely won't need permission. If it's like GOING TO RUSSIA WITH MY BFF AND BREAKING INTO A VIPER VAULT then all you need from me is the information in the vault, et cetra.

The only restrictions are on certain places and things, which will all be detailed in relevant posts—such as the radios! Anything else is free game.

Good luck hunting!

Comments

QUESTIONS!

[monstermasher]

If you're wondering about something in particular related to the exploration mechanic/plot!

[shuckit]

cazemoria!!! so, if someone were to pick up a US atlas somewhere, and meticulously skim through it for lmao probably several days, would they be able to find a cazemoria somewhere?

[monstermasher]

Nope :-) in the off chance that there's some real world place named that, it won't be the one mentioned in the game.

[controlledvariable]

steph and scott are heading to LA, mostly to raid hospitals and other places for supplies but it's exploration, so!

it will be in this post eventually but i can shove the new link at you once things start rolling if you need it!

[monstermasher]

Apart from what supplies they pick up, there are two things of interest that they may find! It'll be a tough search, though. LA is pretty big and... well at least there's no traffic.

In one hospital is a very recent document admitting 'Penny Alexander' with a birthdate of... ##/##/####???? Hm. Anyway! There's nothing telling on the document apart from that she was admitted into the hospital on July 2nd, 2015.

The second thing they can find is a jacket covered in very blood. It might be possible to tell that the blood has only been there a day at the most... whoops!

The exact locations for these are all up to you!

[controlledvariable]

awwwww yiss

steph will be super excited ("excited") about the jacket!

[monstermasher]

HOPE IT DOESN'T SMELL TOO BAD.

[controlledvariable]

looks at the werewolf


welp

[cleave]

looks back like :c

[cleave]

IT SMELLS RANK FYI

[controlledvariable]

i just realized i should've asked: if Steph, being Steph, takes a sample of the blood back for Thomas/Bollocks-Peter to analyse, will they find anything of note?

[monstermasher]

Just that it's fairly normal! Not like the last sample, with the extras—it just seems like average human blood.

[controlledvariable]

scooby doo voice:

ruh roh

[oracleofgotham]

Got a USB stick plugged into a working computer! What secrets does it hold, o modly one?

[monstermasher]

Here you are!

[forcemageure]

Much like the comment just above this one, Hawke has found someone who can tell him what to do with his exciting usb stick labeled FORREST. Besides stare at it bemusedly.

[monstermasher]

here you go!

[ascendency]

Tiny thing but Thomas has directed Jupiter to a box of chargers - will she find one in there that's compatible with the tablet she woke up with? If so, will she find anything on it?

(I can do a more prose-y tag on the thread if that'd be better, too!)

[monstermasher]

This is fine! There definitely can be, and turning the tablet on reveals a black screen with a small keyboard. Right now, you can only type on it....


...And it will type back. And prompt you to give it a name, and then to name yourself. Think very basic Siri—it won't give you any information on the general game plot right now, but you can "train" it by typing to it, giving it other functions after awhile (an example is personal logs, timers, eventual hacking abilities). You can also decide the personality!

This tablet—as well as a few others I gave out—can eventually link up to plot related places, which will likely be available in a few OOC months time. The tablet may eventually mention that it needs to be plugged into "Maine" but aside from that, have fun!

(Ask it the plot of Inception, it might respond like Siri does...)

I hope this all makes sense! I apparently lost my notes on the AI tablets so I'm just rewriting from memory.

[debts]

i'm about to post up a log for the month of august that will see natasha take pretty frequent trips to the radio tower! is it possible for her to transmit anything from there, like, say, a numbers station for an hour per every third day, or is that something that's not really within the available mechanics right now? no big if it isn't. also: anything available to scavenge in there with how it has full power and everything?

thank you in advance!

[monstermasher]

It won't be yet, but I did work out something with Tiny Tina's player where something like broadcasting out will be available sometime by the end of August! I can let you know when that's available, or you can work something out with them if you feel like it!

As for scavenging, you can find some toiletries and blankets, and maybe a few unnecessary panels of steel from the inside of the tower.

[debts]

fuck yes toothbrush shanks. ohh, thank you, please let me know if/when that works out! o7

[monstermasher]

Here you go! She can approach him and dump her woes on him, he'll be able to assist... for the most part, anyway. His teeth are clean enough, though :-(

[byheart]

Greetings! Nux and Cole have sped off into the flatness around the compound. So far we've said they've gone flying off a ridge, I guess like a little stair in the terrain, but the rest is yet a mystery. Before we really get going, if there's anything in particular that could/should/would be discovered, please say so! We'd be cool with a brief info dump here, I think, to build upon. Thanks kindly.

Also you are doing a great job with this place, it's way fun so far.

[monstermasher]

You two hooligans...

For the most part, the terrain's design is up to you. Want to come across a town? Go for it. The setting is California, so whatever can sort of fit into that sort of area can be found! (Like, you're probably not going to find an elephant... unless someone released it from a nearby zoo before it died, etc)

However, if they get a fair distance from the compound (~20 miles or so) they can find a clearly recent campsite. There's nothing left except for a still smoking fire and a few scuff marks where someone slept. Unfortunately, whoever was there seems to be missing, even if you wait or go looking for them...

[byheart]

Swell, thank you kindly! Will report back later with the hooligans' findings. :>

[forgive]

hello! so, this is extremely late, but better late than never! but over here, kate and scott are going to do some last-minute exploring and checking up on the radio tower/crash (kate's stubborn that something might've been missed), and probably just genuinely get in trouble with some zombies. is it possible they might find anything? mess anything up? just checking! thanks!

[monstermasher]

Hi, sorry for the delay! It's never too late, no worries.

They won't mess anything up, but do you remember the speakers in the train that went off wen everyone first arrived? Well, they will repeat the same message they played once more. Since there's a few NPCs floating around, the two of them are welcome to recognise the voice as this guy, since the recording will likely be easier to hear... until zombies rain on their parade, or something.

Apart from that, they can find a small, charred (from the crash) paper with a bunch of gibberish written on it. It's actually a language, but not one found on Earth!

[wipedclean]

THIS FRIDAY Bucky's egg will hatch! PLEASE TELL ME IT'S A DRAGON I WANT BUCKY TO BE THE DRAGON MOTHER

[monstermasher]

It's a pony, didn't you ask me that for Christmas?

[monstermasher]

Alright, it's a dragon. You can design the look of the dragon, but it won't get much bigger than a car, and will definitely grow slowly. Full size, think a few months. Training it will be up to you. As are personality/habits. It will be able to fly eventually, and can carry up to three passengers when it's fully grown! And can breathe a bit of fire. Nothing that makes it too easy, but still powerful.

[wipedclean]

OH MY GOD I AM SO HAPPY

SO FUCKING HAPPY

YOU'RE THE BEST I LOVE YOU LET ME KISS YOU

[monstermasher]

DON'T BE SO CUTE!!! But you're welcome! Enjoy the dragon.

[wipedclean]

rude i will be as cute as i want so there

/rides off into the sunset on a dragon

[caelus]

yo, jim is the hacker and i am not. i just pretend to know things and do stuff. BUT he is busy familiarizing himself with the ancient tech and trying to get past the passwords/encryptions/whatnot on a computer in a lab someplace in this thread.

so i guess the big Q is does it work? and once he does get past all that and plug in his green thumb drive----what does he find? /dramatic music

[monstermasher]

Unfortunately, that does not work! The computers in the compound are all completely encrypted and it's up to players to find out the password. Since a few characters may have dropped since the start of the game (where ways to find the password were scattered about) I'll give you a short update and clear up something so you know what to look for.

THIS IS OOC INFORMATION ONLY: There are six pieces of the password written down and strewn across the world. The hint about "six" was given to Thomas and you can find his information here. This is still available to found out because he wrote this! Granted, it's not 100% ICly known for sure that the six is a password, but if you go talk to one of the resident NPCs (Roy and the young girl! They're bumming around) both of them will tell you "it's possible it's a password thing, they liked their cryptic and annoying stuff."

The passwords are given out randomly in acceptances through coordinates—there may be a few that do not lead to passwords, but all six have been given out and in the case of drops before they're turned in, will be given out again later on!

...Which is something I've been considering for AC rewards, and was thinking about making a post about it before I handed out rewards this month.

IC INFORMATION: Two of the passwords have been found! 11112011 was found by multiple characters in Portland. It may not have related characters still in the game, so if the information isn't public we can say one of the NPCs found an extra copy, just so they're not lost forever! The second piece was found by Stephanie Brown and Ellie near Disneyland, so any IC information about it is something under their control. Putting them into the computer doesn't do much because they're not full passwords.

WHAT JIM CAN DEFINITELY FIND... is after an hour of messing with the computers, a mechanical voice will tell him to let him sleep, then become unresponsive.