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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.

[personal profile] knights_king 2015-01-28 03:30 am (UTC)(link)
[Arthur stood up properly and began dusting off his coat. He didn't summon his armor up yet, but it would probably accelerate to a need for that later. Still, if he could get by without becoming THE BLACK KNIGHT again, then he would have called it a success.]

The last time I went after them, they scattered. This is one of the ones that got away.

[He breathed in, exhaling a plume of smoke like steam. It was cold--doubly so when one was a dragon. Suffice to say, Arthur's body temperature was no joke.]
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[personal profile] purestambition 2015-01-30 05:11 am (UTC)(link)
[Saretha watches the steam with some curiosity. It's been awhile since she's seen Arthur act in person, and that is either different or something she didn't pick up on before. Still, she doesn't press for the moment.

She holds her sword tight and ready to strike in case this Santa decides to get back up, but as that doesn't seem to be the case, she motions with her head.]


Good, then we should probably get this one to the authorities, as he doesn't exactly seem... fit to be giving us any information right now.

[She snorts.] It's like we're just gathering up loose cattle.

[personal profile] knights_king 2015-02-01 11:26 pm (UTC)(link)
I guess that's a way to put it. [Arthur reached over to lift the guy he knocked out, holding him up by his tattered clothing with the same ease one would pick up a cat. Fortunately, it wasn't an awake and irritable cat at that moment.]

I shoulda brought the snowmobile. This guy was so close, I totally forgot.
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[personal profile] purestambition 2015-02-02 06:01 pm (UTC)(link)
Somehow, I doubt we'll have much issue hauling him back, at any rate.

[Between the two of them, they could probably level this forest. That wouldn't help find what they were looking for, though.]

Look at it like this, if we run into any more on the way back, you can just use him as a bludgeoning tool.

[personal profile] knights_king 2015-02-04 03:48 am (UTC)(link)
Goddamn, I don't wanna even try. Back when I was fightin' without the big sword, everythin' I tried to use as a weapon fuckin' exploded, y'know?

[Using Santa as an exploding cudgel didn't seem like all that great idea to Arthur.]
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[personal profile] purestambition 2015-02-10 12:51 am (UTC)(link)
[Saretha blinks, flashing back to when they battled that possessed car... and she knows very well just what he means. She actually gives a wince, nodding.]

A valid point. Either way, I don't suppose we will have much issue between the two of us.

[personal profile] knights_king 2015-02-11 12:00 am (UTC)(link)
Least not now. [There was a sigh on his part. He liked being an expert swordsman with no real memories of having to endure immense hardship to accomplish those feats of arms he performed, but it was still a bit nerve-wracking since it came out of nowhere.]

The problem is not hitting them too hard.