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daybreakacademy2019-10-14 08:54 pm
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OCTOBER IN-SERVICE
OCTOBER IN-SERVICE
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This month's Faculty In-Service is in Robespierre 404. In what is perhaps prescient naming on behalf of the staff, the computer in this room refuses to work, constantly freezing on the loading page, blue-screening, or just failing to turn on at all. As such it falls to a poor Mage TA to use magic to project the PowerPoint slides for the entirety of the meeting.
With fall in the air, Pumpkin is back in season which means all the refreshments are pumpkin. Pumpkin chocolate chip cookies. Pumpkin Spice lattes. Pumpkin Pie. Pumpkin juice. Pumpkin seeds. Don't like Pumpkin? You picked the wrong meeting, friend. While there is much to discuss such as the student council's Dance Plans there are also far more serious things on the docket. With the impending Herald, Daybreak will once again be mobilized to combat it.
( The following missions are on the docket, they will all require at least one Faculty volunteer to lead a group of 2-3 students. Running these logs will fulfill the Faculty member’s log requirement for the month of November. Full details will be provided to the Faculty member via Private Message upon acceptance.
Student players may tag top levels to try to infiltrate the meeting if they wish. While students ICly will not be aware of the missions until around the 1st of November, they may still discuss OOCly in the post here. )
Picking Up The Pieces
Client: Various
Multiple reports of strange creatures moving, supernatural fire, and destroyed monitoring equipment have been sent back from the Daybreak forces stationed permanently at the emergence site of the first Herald. The team on this mission will gather information and attempt to capture some of these strange monsters that have appeared on-site - it’s believed that a smaller, nimbler team dedicated to containment will have a better chance of catching the creatures by surprise.
Faculty: 0/1
Students: 0/3
Grim Confrontation
Client: Daybreak
The strange, shadowy creatures that assaulted the Academy a few months back have been spotted converging on a certain spot in the Outlands. Based on this and other information, the Academy believes that the necromancer who targeted several students and attacked the school is beginning to regather her strength in this location.
The team on this mission has a simple task: find the necromancer while her defenses are still down, and neutralise or eliminate her.
Faculty: 0/1
Students: 0/3
Appreciating High Art
Client: The Museum of Egyptian Antiquities
The Chief Curator of the Museum of Egyptian Antiquities have given a humble request to the academy concerning the “Risen Phoenix”, an auction house that meets every five years to auction off incredible artifacts and antiques often thought lost to history. In particular, the Curator wish for representatives to get their hands on two items: the fossilized remains of the fabled “Set Beast” and a supposed intact copy of the Book of Thoth - a collection of spells. The academy will send a small group with the ability to blend in and act quick - it is an auction after all - to retrieve the requested artifacts through means fair or foul. Any additional items that could be gained will be considered a bonus.
Faculty: 0/1
Students: 0/3
What You Take With You
Client: Daybreak
A team of people investigating a mysterious item in the Outlands has gone MIA, presumed dead with two-way tracking runes on the outside disappearing all at once. This is not an unusual occurrence. People disappear and die in the Outlands with regularity and the team would have been well aware of the risks. What is unusual is that one of the runes has regained power, months later. It's inconsistent, going on and off. Whatever is holding the rune now is on the move. Daybreak has been enlisted to trace it to the source and, with any luck, they'll be able to secure the items the investigation team was originally seeking out; an obsidian mirror.
This mission is a player plot. The player who created this mission chooses the amount of slots available.
To Craft the Night
The accumulation of visions has provided Daybreak with a golden opportunity, one that cannot be delayed. The Herald’s ability to overpower visions appears to be ill-developed, which has given us a vision not just of the Herald but of the facility in which it is being created. We will strike at the facility and destroy it and the Herald before it can awaken.
All available forces will be allocated to this mission. It cannot fail.
In addition to discussing upcoming missions and requests submitted to Daybreak, the faculty will be going over the most recent vision deciphered during the Cassandra download:
code bases by tricklet
With fall in the air, Pumpkin is back in season which means all the refreshments are pumpkin. Pumpkin chocolate chip cookies. Pumpkin Spice lattes. Pumpkin Pie. Pumpkin juice. Pumpkin seeds. Don't like Pumpkin? You picked the wrong meeting, friend. While there is much to discuss such as the student council's Dance Plans there are also far more serious things on the docket. With the impending Herald, Daybreak will once again be mobilized to combat it.
( The following missions are on the docket, they will all require at least one Faculty volunteer to lead a group of 2-3 students. Running these logs will fulfill the Faculty member’s log requirement for the month of November. Full details will be provided to the Faculty member via Private Message upon acceptance.
Student players may tag top levels to try to infiltrate the meeting if they wish. While students ICly will not be aware of the missions until around the 1st of November, they may still discuss OOCly in the post here. )
Picking Up The Pieces
Client: Various
Multiple reports of strange creatures moving, supernatural fire, and destroyed monitoring equipment have been sent back from the Daybreak forces stationed permanently at the emergence site of the first Herald. The team on this mission will gather information and attempt to capture some of these strange monsters that have appeared on-site - it’s believed that a smaller, nimbler team dedicated to containment will have a better chance of catching the creatures by surprise.
Faculty: 0/1
Students: 0/3
Grim Confrontation
Client: Daybreak
The strange, shadowy creatures that assaulted the Academy a few months back have been spotted converging on a certain spot in the Outlands. Based on this and other information, the Academy believes that the necromancer who targeted several students and attacked the school is beginning to regather her strength in this location.
The team on this mission has a simple task: find the necromancer while her defenses are still down, and neutralise or eliminate her.
Faculty: 0/1
Students: 0/3
Appreciating High Art
Client: The Museum of Egyptian Antiquities
The Chief Curator of the Museum of Egyptian Antiquities have given a humble request to the academy concerning the “Risen Phoenix”, an auction house that meets every five years to auction off incredible artifacts and antiques often thought lost to history. In particular, the Curator wish for representatives to get their hands on two items: the fossilized remains of the fabled “Set Beast” and a supposed intact copy of the Book of Thoth - a collection of spells. The academy will send a small group with the ability to blend in and act quick - it is an auction after all - to retrieve the requested artifacts through means fair or foul. Any additional items that could be gained will be considered a bonus.
Faculty: 0/1
Students: 0/3
What You Take With You
Client: Daybreak
A team of people investigating a mysterious item in the Outlands has gone MIA, presumed dead with two-way tracking runes on the outside disappearing all at once. This is not an unusual occurrence. People disappear and die in the Outlands with regularity and the team would have been well aware of the risks. What is unusual is that one of the runes has regained power, months later. It's inconsistent, going on and off. Whatever is holding the rune now is on the move. Daybreak has been enlisted to trace it to the source and, with any luck, they'll be able to secure the items the investigation team was originally seeking out; an obsidian mirror.
This mission is a player plot. The player who created this mission chooses the amount of slots available.
To Craft the Night
The accumulation of visions has provided Daybreak with a golden opportunity, one that cannot be delayed. The Herald’s ability to overpower visions appears to be ill-developed, which has given us a vision not just of the Herald but of the facility in which it is being created. We will strike at the facility and destroy it and the Herald before it can awaken.
All available forces will be allocated to this mission. It cannot fail.
In addition to discussing upcoming missions and requests submitted to Daybreak, the faculty will be going over the most recent vision deciphered during the Cassandra download:
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THAT'S RIGHT...THIS GUY...
He doesn't look particularly pleased about it, but given that it's Ekkehardt his expression hasn't really changed that much...or at all. ]
So.
Let's attend to business, shall we?
[ He's not going to hold this projection here all day. Well, he can, but he has work to do. ]
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[Val slams one of the table with a flattened out hand.]
Some of us prefer our coffee to be untarnished by squash as part of some cynical, trendy marketing campaign designed for people who do not appreciate coffee for what it is! Honestly...
[With that, Valvatorez draws a rune in front of him, which summons what looks like the carafe of coffee he keeps in his office, which he takes, and pours a cup of joe from.]
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I think you'll probably have to demand answers from [ he checks his notes ] the catering staff.
They thought it was 'festive and seasonally appropriate', it says here.
[ Personally he thinks they could have gone with something more macabre, considering the kind of people they have on staff, but his sense of taste isn't very good at the best of times, so he never really said anything. ]
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[Coffee her, vampire buddy.]
You know there's no actual pumpkin in those, right? The other stuff, yeah, but pumpkin spice lattes are called that 'cause they got nutmeg and cinnamon and shit in 'em. It's the same spices they use in pumpkin pie- that's why it's pumpkin spice and the other stuff is just pumpkin flavor.
[Jail has a vast well of totally useless information.]
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[And despite his ranting, he reaches over and fills her mug with fresh, hot coffee. Kona coffee, to the discerning.]
Vanilla? Macadamia nut? Hell, even chocolate? I can understand. But keep your damn Thanksgiving out of my mug!
[He has opinions. But he lets out a dramatic sigh, and cools down his tone just a bit.]
And I suppose I will have to have a word with the catering staff later to at least provide plain coffee in the future.
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...this is pretty good too, though.
[This is probably her terrible gremlin way of saying "thank you". Mmmm, fresh coffee.]
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Speaking of festivities.
[ He clicks over another slide. ]
The student council has submitted their event planning for review. I don't have any objections to it myself and it's nice to see Mr Arany using his skills for something more benign for once, but it's best for everyone to take a look.
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I must say, I like the moxie of the students this year. That sort of tree setup is extremely creative, and I appreciate going the extra mile with the shifting faces on the trunks of the trees.
The double costume competition is a spectacular idea too. I appreciate that there's desire to compete in a mundane costuming division. We might have access to all kinds of spectacular magic, but there should still be appreciation for practical effects. It's still an art form.
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Those do not sound terrible... though I wonder if any of the food will get eaten with those proposed illusions. I do wonder, what's the general protocol for costumes for this festival?
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[At a more normal volume:] What, like for school parties specifically, or just Halloween in general? [Look, Ky's old as balls, she has no idea if they even had Halloween back then.]
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Over time, of course, it's become much freer in its themes. Some just use it as a costume party. Others get more creative.
I'd suggest some guidelines for costumes, so nobody ends up being a danger to themselves, or anyone else. Gives the infirmary staff less work.
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[He sounds almost disappointed at the idea of guidelines for safety, but he at least understands why, if only from a professional perspective.]
Though I suppose it would be harder for you to enjoy if someone did something incredibly stupid.
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[SOMEONE HAD TO SAY IT.]
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And it does ruin people's nights if they have to spend it in the infirmary. There's only so much time people have for merrymaking. Better to have the precautions so nobody ends up setting themselves on fire, or something.
HAUNTED HOUSE PLANNING
I can't imagine why that might be. [ His voice is dry. ]
But please, come forth with your suggestions. I know some of you have been waiting for this.
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[Valvatorez sighs dramatically.]
Oh, very well. I suppose no more illusion men with chainsaws chasing people through a Spanish village this year.
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This is discrimination, and were I not so busy trying to find a replacement for what's being cut, I would sue.
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Hey, at least you got to have fun last time. My first year, and they're already pulling this shit? Super rude.
[At least give her the chance to do something highly irresponsible before you ban future attempts, gosh.]
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...I think I've made my point.
[Yes, he's frustrated. But a frustrated Val usually means an actionable Val.]
...But I suppose we should just look at this as another artistic challenge. What is growth without adversity, after all.
Jail, Avery... let's get creative.
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Liking where you're going with this...
So, mostly it's sounding like they wanna make sure we avoid physical injuries, right? I bet we can do a lot to people without, like. Causing actual damage.
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That's, uh...]
... Suddenly I am inexplicably, intensely concerned.
["Inexplicably." Right.]
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It's pretty intense. ]
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... Goodness. I suppose it's really no wonder things need to be toned down.
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[ His expression doesn't change at all. ] Thankfully, we still have the same amount of space to use as we did last year. I'm sure between all of us we'll find slightly less nervewracking things to fill it with.
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I GUESS. If you like watching a priceless piece of art get torn to pieces.
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[Jail repeats the words experimentally, as though sounding them out for pronunciation.]
[A moment later, she shakes her head.]
Nope, sorry- I don't get it. Like, I definitely understand all those words individually? But the order you put 'em in just doesn't make any sense at all.
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How about an escape room? Teach them that bashing everything isn't always the right solution.
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I rather like the sound of that myself, I must say.
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[He rubs his chin thoughtfully]
It does present the problem of it becoming a bit of a bottleneck in the flow if not placed in the right spot, unless the escape rooms are it's own thing.
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[Jail has the pleased look of someone who's beginning to put together a very mean idea.]
Wouldn't be that hard to rig up shifting rooms, so we could move 'em around on 'em. Good way to ramp up the fear all quiet and subtle-like, 'specially if we include a few trap doors and trick corners to whisk people away real quick.
Turning around and realizing someone's gone, walking into a room and suddenly there's no way out... all that good shit.
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It would certainly add to the atmosphere, I agree, and make the puzzle-solving aspect of the escape room more imperative... though we'll have to watch for the students whose solution is "Bust down the wall", which is laudable in a real-life scenario but would be a royal pain in this set up.