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Save the Earth Mods ([personal profile] theearth) wrote in [community profile] savetheearth2015-01-14 10:40 pm

[open] If Santa Claus isn't coming to town, we have to go and find him.

Attention! By popular vote the Big Finale has been postponed!

Who: Everyone!
What: As announced, the NSCG+friends have been called to Lapland! There, they travel North, hunt down some kidnappers and finally discover...
When: 13th-19th 24th of January after Toushiro and Dani's post.
Where: Lapland
Warnings: Abduction of children, scary Santa Clauses, violence, one instance of (not graphically described) brutally murdered reindeer



On the David Graibiger and Monika Hallbach will greet the numbered in Rovaniemi and together they will all get on a bus northwards. Up there, they will all room in a few cabins, each with two four-person-bedrooms; food will be provided and the beds are made, but they'll have to cook for themselves. TV is available in the living room/kitchen of each cabin, but the internet connection sucks. Up there, they will be taught how to drive a car in the snow, how to drive a snowmobile, how to shoot a rifle if they have no combat power (for self defense). They will then be tasked with one of the following things:

1. People with combat powers: Go out there and hunt down the kidnappers! If those people seek for long enough, they will find:
- Haggard, wild looking old men with unkempt beards who are either dressed in red santa's clothes or have been jammed into green fur suits, their faces painted green with what appears to be markers. These men are feral: They will run away but, if attacked, use hands and teeth to fight, and not be afraid of injuring a person in any way. They are superhumanly strong, but seem to be incapable of human speech - they can seemingly neither speak nor understand what is said.
If a child of up to 14 years is with the group, they are much more likely to find one of these as the beings are seeking out children. They will try to get their hands on and run away with the child in question.

2. People without combat powers: They will be sent on various trips to look at sightings, talk to people, etc. These include, but are not limited to:
- Talk to the parents of abandoned children. There isn't much information to be had from the conversations themselves, but keen numbered will realized that there are vermini in the bedrooms of the vanished children...
- Checking out a flock of reindeer that was bitten to death - yet whatever killed them doesn't seem to have eaten anything. Disturbingly enough, the brave researcher will realize that these were human teeth that killed them...
- Checking out an abandoned excavation site. The only description is that the mad guy who just recently started it (no, nobody knows who he was or why he did it or how he got the permission) hasn't be seen in almost a month now and the workers left for Christmas and didn't return after it. The place is full of vermini, but vermedi can also be found. What they will find too is a letter in Russian, written by the two last guards of the place, in which they resign from their spot, quoting that none of their tasks, which they describe as "watching lunatics and guarding the rise of a monster", was in the job description and that they just aren't paid enough. If someone wants to try, these guards can be tracked down, just comment to the Lapland plot post and ask for more information.

3. Everyone:
- Captured not!santas and not!grinches, after having been tied up or locked up or something similar, need to be watched. And questioned, but really, they will only be violent and still not say a thing or show intelligence above a scared badger. The only way to get any information out of them will be to set one free and hope that they lead the numbered to the place that they live in, but through trial and error one who attempts that will realize that they'll only return there once their mission of kidnapping a child is accomplished.

4 And last but not least
- Much more MUNDANE and nothing that they will strictly be tasked with but: Cooking! Fighting over the shower, throwing things at the snoring person in the next bed. Learning how to shoot, learning driving, petting reindeer, fun in the snow, do you want to build a snowman... go wild!


Please start your own threads and head over to the Lapland plot post if you have questions, need more information on something, want an NPC, want more tasks, etc.
vaimo: (ditz)

Open!

[personal profile] vaimo 2015-01-14 11:55 pm (UTC)(link)
A: arriving/around the cabins.

[Åsa has come prepared with her own rifle, and santa outfit. Just in case. She also speaks Finnish, though only within the echo boundry, and a little cautiously as she tries to find the right words to use, having echoed back 1000 years worth of slang and regional variations, but she is willing to translate (she also, obviously, speaks Swedish, within and without the barrier and is happy to translate that when needed). It takes her a little while to get used to driving in the snow again, but her shooting is perfect, and she's happy to lend a hand to anyone needing a little extra training.

In other words, she's in her element, and perhaps a little obnoxiously over enthusiastic about how well they'll do. Just don't let her cook.
]

B: out with a combat group

[Åsa calms down a fair amount on the road, although she's still happy to chatter away to fill any silence. The riffle slung over her shoulder would look a little out of place if it wasn't for the ease with which she carries it. She's brought a map with her and is guiding them further north.] Let's take the next left. It looks like there's a couple of houses that way, they might at least be able to tell us something.
Edited 2015-01-14 23:55 (UTC)
feastorfamine: (43)

A - [hope this okay?]

[personal profile] feastorfamine 2015-01-17 08:58 pm (UTC)(link)
[Amy has had the bright idea to sort of extend her hand to the other people who have come along, so she'd prepared something to eat for most of the other cabins before coming through the teleporter. It's nothing much, just several care packages including an entree, a desert, and some fruit. She's smiling as she walks to the first cabin, one of her baskets in hand, a new jeweled necklace hanging around her neck... and she sees Asa standing in front of it, speaking to someone in Finnish.

That's when it hits her. Amy's body is rocked by a pulse. It relates to the memory she'd had beforehand, growing up alone on the streets... and in those moments, she realizes it was here, this country that she'd experienced all of that. And... oh my, she's understanding what Asa is saying to this person?!

She remembers. She's... Aila's from Finland. She herself was Irish American, but now... now she has memories of another heritage entirely? Amy can't help but stand there, basket in hand, face scrunched in concentration as she tries to come to terms with it. At this point, she's close enough for Asa to have noticed]
vaimo: (oh!)

Yes! As a heads up though I'm getting caught out by the hotmail email thing

[personal profile] vaimo 2015-01-19 12:28 pm (UTC)(link)
[Åsa hears someone coming up to them and glances over to give them a quick smile, acknowledging the other girl, before she returns to her conversation. Well, she can't just leave it, although she's more than happy to invite Amy to join them!

But then she seems to freeze, and Åsa's concern takes over, quickly turning to her.
] Are you all right? [It's a little weird to be speaking English, that language that she's had to learn by herself. She reaches out, putting a reassuring hand on Amy's shoulder.]
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[personal profile] feastorfamine 2015-01-20 04:30 am (UTC)(link)
[Amy brings a hand to her forehead as Asa places a hand on her shoulder, and nods to her before sighing]

Y-yeah... I just... I just got a pulse...

[she frowned, and looked up, speaking in Finnish] I could understand what you were saying...
vaimo: (ditz)

[personal profile] vaimo 2015-01-23 12:30 pm (UTC)(link)
You can speak Finnish too! That's great! [Åsa's pretty enthusiastic about this, changing back to Finnish fairly smoothly. Between Amy and Siiri and herself they're doing pretty well!]

Do you need to sit down for a moment while you adjust? Come and sit over here. [Using the supportive hand she still has on her shoulder she gently guides her over to a chair.]
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[personal profile] feastorfamine 2015-01-23 07:36 pm (UTC)(link)
... I-I guess it is... And yes, thank you...

[Amy allowed herself to be guided, and once she was close enough to the chair, she sat down with the basket on her lap]

... This is rather disorienting...
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[personal profile] vaimo 2015-01-23 11:41 pm (UTC)(link)
You'll get used to it. It does take a little while, but think about how useful it'll be! Especially now.

[Åsa hovers for a moment, before she realises that she's looming (as much as she can), so she turns for a moment to pull another chair over so she can sit down too.]

Would you rather speak in English? [She offers, perhaps a little late, in English.]
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[personal profile] feastorfamine 2015-01-29 04:04 am (UTC)(link)
[Amy sighs as Asa pulls the chair away, relaxing a bit now that she has her personal space back. She ponders the other girl's question, before shaking her head]

No, it's alright. I... I feel like I should get used to it.
vaimo: (smile)

[personal profile] vaimo 2015-01-29 02:57 pm (UTC)(link)
You will, I'm sure! [She laughs, lightly.] When I echoed it back, I echoed back what seems to be lots of different dialects all at the same time. That made for some interesting problems!

Ah - what were you here for anyway? Did something happen?
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[personal profile] feastorfamine 2015-02-03 09:20 pm (UTC)(link)
I see... it's coming naturally, but at the same time... unnaturally, you know? It's really weird to describe.

[blink] Oh! Uhm... well, I wanted to bring some food around to everyone who'd come out to help look around!