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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.
hustru: (round and round)

[personal profile] hustru 2015-01-21 09:14 pm (UTC)(link)
[She can only lead him as far as the blind can lead the blind, but...

Well. If this is the first time, she'll keep the temperature down. At least for now.]


Sit on the lowest bench. Put your towel under yourself. [Because the lower down, the less hot it will be.
waltharius: (pic#7461619)

[personal profile] waltharius 2015-01-23 04:10 am (UTC)(link)
Oh... okay.

[ He carefully strips one of his towels away and sets it under himself before sitting. He's still feeling a little cold, but the heat from the sauna is making his skin prickle a little.

All the while, he's smiling at Siiri, silently looking for... approval? A smile back?? ]
hustru: (round and round)

[personal profile] hustru 2015-01-23 09:37 am (UTC)(link)
[She nods, but ... stays over here, standing, for a moment. The towels baffle her a bit.

Until she remembers that she's dealing with a numbered here. Shit, she should have checked in with him about that before, this could potentially have been dangerous.]


Is your feeling for temperature normal?
waltharius: (that's my opinion on honcho)

[personal profile] waltharius 2015-01-25 03:55 am (UTC)(link)
I- I'm pretty sure. I'm. Normal.

[ His reply is all over the place, and he's keeping the extra towel wrapped himself. Until he starts feeling the heat. He grudgingly strips the second towel, revealing the black markings streaking his skin. ]
hustru: (round and round)

[personal profile] hustru 2015-01-25 08:32 am (UTC)(link)
Y' can feel heat, and are affected by it normally?

[Basic questions. If he answers no to especially the first, she will absolutely send him out. Seeing someone hurt by this on her watch really isn't a thing that she'd like to see.

Her eyes linger on the marks a bit, but it isn't the center of her attention right now.]
waltharius: (and I'll softly call)

[personal profile] waltharius 2015-01-28 04:29 am (UTC)(link)
Uh -- yes. Yes and yes.

...as far as I know, anyway.

[ A slightly quizzical look. There are many things wrong with him, but he's pretty sure temperature isn't one of them. On a serious level, anyone. ]
hustru: (Ah?)

[personal profile] hustru 2015-01-28 04:49 pm (UTC)(link)
Why the towels, then?

[Because really... why. Sure, Americans can be awkward about weird things and absolutely casual about other things that she finds it weird to be casual about, but... ??? this doesn't match up with anything.]
waltharius: (wander vs the world)

[personal profile] waltharius 2015-01-28 07:20 pm (UTC)(link)
I --

[ He shrugs a little, trying to keep things on the casual end of things and not the awkward/weird end. This is always a challenge. ]

Guess I'm just not used to being so exposed.
hustru: (Ah?)

[personal profile] hustru 2015-01-28 07:42 pm (UTC)(link)
You don't go swimming?

:[..That she wouldn't have expected]
waltharius: (none of you are free of sin)

[personal profile] waltharius 2015-01-31 04:02 am (UTC)(link)
Not.... often.

I mean, I can swim, but my family didn't... uh. You get it, right?
hustru: (Ah?)

[personal profile] hustru 2015-02-02 07:45 pm (UTC)(link)
[Staring

at him. No, she doesn't get it at all.]
waltharius: (pic#7528159)

[personal profile] waltharius 2015-02-04 04:38 am (UTC)(link)
...can I just say 'I didn't get out much'?
waltharius: (pic#6981069)

[personal profile] waltharius 2015-02-08 04:56 am (UTC)(link)
My parents are...

[ How can he phrase this delicately? ]

A little overprotective.
hustru: (Ah?)

[personal profile] hustru 2015-02-08 09:07 am (UTC)(link)
[But. Sauna. How can your parents not take you to a sauna even if they don't let you out of their sights??? this is a concept that is baffling for Siiri.]

Why?
waltharius: (pic#7453514)

[personal profile] waltharius 2015-02-09 05:15 am (UTC)(link)
Is this 20 questions??

[ A little snippy. And he regrets that. He tries to change his tone in the end, but fails, and instead offers a sheepish apology. ]

Sorry...
hustru: (Ah?)

[personal profile] hustru 2015-02-09 01:35 pm (UTC)(link)
[Siiri freezes at the question and after a long moment of simply standing there just moves to turn the heat up and sits down quietly.

All conversation that she'll initiate after that is to send Walter out to take a cold shower at the appropriate timing.]