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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.
oncedevil: (Well look at you)

[personal profile] oncedevil 2015-01-28 01:40 am (UTC)(link)
"That might help, yeah." Sounded like a good enough plan to Tony, especially since he didn't have to trek all the way back, then all the way back to where Hajime was buried in snow and freezing to death.

If he even felt the cold? Either way, this was faster.

"Damn, that's a hell of a trick. Alright this way," He scrambles through the snow, trying to line up a good aim for Hajime before pointing in the direction of the nearest tree. If he could catch it then maybe he could pull himself out of the snow bank. "There's a tree not too far from here, if you can at least get close I'll tie you to the tree."
chalicejoker: (Plant Undead)

[personal profile] chalicejoker 2015-01-30 03:38 am (UTC)(link)
"Alright, hold on..." Hajime shimmies his plant-monster self closer to Tony. It's at least easier now that he's not quite so big and bulky...not that he wants to say so.

He holds out a hand towards a tree, and thorned vines shoot out towards it. "Did I make it?"
oncedevil: (Excuse you)

[personal profile] oncedevil 2015-02-15 03:36 am (UTC)(link)
Hah, see? Tony knew better. Joker is just too big and heavy for snow.

Tony scrambles after the vine. "Not quite!" But close enough, he'll take it the rest of the way and wind it around the tree. Once that's done he shouts back. "Try pulling!"
chalicejoker: (Plant Undead)

[personal profile] chalicejoker 2015-02-15 05:28 pm (UTC)(link)
"Alright!" Hajime calls back to him. He starts retracting the vines, which should pull him out, right? Right. He hopes. He's starting to move out of the drift, anyway. "I think it's working!"
oncedevil: (The long road)

[personal profile] oncedevil 2015-03-09 02:20 am (UTC)(link)
Well, hopefully? That's the idea anyway, or at least get him out of the deepest part of the snow. Tony stands back to observe, making certain the vines aren't losing grip while Hajime extracts himself. "Phew, who knew this was going to be such an ordeal?"
chalicejoker: (Chalice3)

[personal profile] chalicejoker 2015-03-10 02:07 am (UTC)(link)
At long last, Hajime pulls himself free of the snowdrift. He sighs, and then he runs another card through his belt to turn back into the smaller, armored form he likes. If he can't be the Lord of the Bugmen, he'll settle for Chalice. "Too bad they don't make bugman-sized snow shoes."
oncedevil: (smile)

[personal profile] oncedevil 2015-03-21 03:45 pm (UTC)(link)
At least Hajime wasn't being incredibly stubborn and ignoring his advice just to be contrary. See? You're too heavy for this snow stuff. "Hah, we'd have to attach snow treads to keep you from sinking. Maybe next time we should just take a snowmobile?"

Phew, at least he was out of the drift.
chalicejoker: (Chalice - Suit)

[personal profile] chalicejoker 2015-03-21 09:30 pm (UTC)(link)
"Snowmobile might not be a bad idea..." Hajime sounded thoughtful at that. It might be fun to try motorcycle stunts on a snowmobile...
oncedevil: (Are you trying to tell me that's not but)

[personal profile] oncedevil 2015-03-22 11:26 pm (UTC)(link)
"We should've thought about that before we headed out." Hajime no, they are not built for that. Don't do the insanity Hajime.
chalicejoker: (Chalice - Armor)

[personal profile] chalicejoker 2015-03-23 01:30 am (UTC)(link)
"Maybe we should head back and try again." It'll be fine. What's the worst that could happen?
oncedevil: (The long road)

[personal profile] oncedevil 2015-05-02 11:37 pm (UTC)(link)
"That might be a good idea, we're not making it very far like this." You're gonna break his neck that's what. He needs that, for living.
chalicejoker: (Joker Closeup)

[personal profile] chalicejoker 2015-05-03 09:41 pm (UTC)(link)
Spoilsport. "Alright, I guess we're back to square one...or waiting until he does something." Not that Hajime sounds happy about this.
oncedevil: (Whatever)

[personal profile] oncedevil 2015-05-15 03:47 am (UTC)(link)
"I'm sure this isn't the end of 'em. I don't like waiting either, but that's what we get for coming out here unprepared." And getting stuck in snowbanks. Frankly Tony's kind of freezing anyway so he'd really appreciate going back and thawing out some.
chalicejoker: (Chalice - Shouldered Weapon)

[personal profile] chalicejoker 2015-05-16 01:35 am (UTC)(link)
"Yeah. Let's get back over there." And, after a bit of a pause, "I'll make us some lunch. Something warm."