12 👶 ANONYMOUS UPLOADS;

[pillz]

[there's no preamble, no identification— just a couple clips of from recent news in the united states of america, a couple of photographs, press releases. any import who's been half-awake for the recent chaos will recognize plenty of the connections with the latest global threat of o.t.o., and even reposts of old material.]

un: God
[...]

Summon the sisters: two brings the third
fullmoon calling spider’s temple
two babes of same mother born same hour
to serve as host and host
bless the babes at spider’s altar: the spinner’s seat
Gathered chorus, voices raised, power of the world displayed
Thrice toll the bell, thrice light the flame
Thrice call the holy names.

LOCAL INTEREST
VERNON, NEVADA A pair of 7-year-old twins claim to have seen the Great Weaver in a dream. The children's parents to bring them to Jeopardy to be baptized into the Church of the Great Web Mistress next week.

An iconic landmark of the Porter City, the Church structure is a cathedral within the ImPort city. Practitioners dedicate their faith to a giant spider god. Like larger religious groups, parishioners of the faith are known to go door-to-door in local neighborhoods, spreading the good word and inviting residents to board game night. The Church welcomes[...]

NEVADA STATE COVERAGE
JEOPARDY, NEVADA The National Park conservation area has recently expanded to absorb a natural rock formation outside Jeopardy. The main attraction includes a massive, wind-carved rock called the Altar. Park hours, weather data, and other information are available at[...]

[there are a handful of other fragments of information as well, tangentially related to spiders, twins, religious groups-- probably dead-ends.]

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OOC: OOC plotting sub-thread here. Specifically, if you're planning on contacting the mods or something about the above information, please make a note there, so that your fellow players know who's trying to pursue what and can coordinate.

Kavinsky, Ronan, Kylo Ren, Murphy, and BAMAN were involved in acquiring the above information, so any of them may respond if your character replies to this post. They most likely will have skills or swag to help ur character out if you want to get involved on this level.

Comments

[mofi]

so r the twins going
to be hosts
for the sisters or smthn?

[pillz]

That's what it seems like.

[kavinsky is not as incapable of typing coherently as his normal behavior would suggest.]

There are lots of different models for symbiosis, parasitism and religious possession around the world, so anything more than that we dunno yet.

[hi murphy.]

[mofi]

[ Kavinsky. ]

u no anything about lachesis
and y she saved imports
and now shes mia
i guess not for long

[arithmethodical]

Is there anything else about these twins? Their family, what they saw?

What about this Altar--does it have any other names? Legends?

Thinking aloud here, thinking in text, but it could be important to know.

[ A long pause, then: ]

There have to be twins other than seven-year-olds that we can get to help with this.

[pillz]

Not yet. What you see is what we have, for the twins and the Altar. Both altars, the rock formation and the Cathedral.

[— and man, you would've thought someone else would have objected to the possibility of exploited babies before now.

but it is what it is. a monstrous world with monstrous people in it.]

If there are, their spider dream experiences haven't made it into public data. Were you hoping for some suitable ImPorts?

[arithmethodical]

All I've seen so far is a lot of people saying they wouldn't do it even if they could.

Guess I expected better.

Not important. The important thing is figuring out if we even need these twins or if we can find willing imPorts, or adult volunteers in the general population. It's a prophecy, right? There's wriggle room. There's always wriggle room.

text; s. strange

[timestones]

Got to love a good old fashioned ritual which could bite us all in the ass by being intentionally misleading.

So. Where's the small print? Or the page with warnings after the prophecy stuff? That's usually a thing.

anon text;

[pillz]

Pretty sure we barely have the instructions, never mind the fine print.

Options seem to be: do this or do nothing. A couple of other ones in between.

I dig the paranoia, though.

ANONYMOUS

[by_candlelight]

Team 'not literal twins' is probably not feeling too great about this information. It's good to know there's a literal option if no one can figure out how to make things figurative and effective at the same time.

anonymous too!

[pillz]

I didn't know there was > a not literal twins team. Were you on that team? You're taking it pretty well, if you was.

[callmevision]

I wish there was a way to take the place of those twins.

It does not seem right to see such innocents sacrificed for this world.

anon text;

[pillz]

[god. working with superheroes is so fucking weird. all this concern about loss of baby lives! sure, kavinsky knows it's not cool, but > greater good and all.

but it's fine. obviously said heroes have accomplished a lot already.]

There could be. Lot of magic floating around our populace, and some pretty flexible science, too. Would you risk the whole thing getting screwed up, if the sisters can't come in?

[hatestrashcans]

Eh, fuck em.

[ Marco is... not going to be the sensitive one here. ]

[hatestrashcans]

Sounds like we've got hosts. Locals and 7 year olds? That's great. Means there's no superpowers to contend with and that it's possible said hosted powers might have to handle the drawbacks of being in a 7 year old's body.

permanon;

[pillz]

There are a lot of ImPorts who don't like how you think, and most of them have capes.

private;

[redcosmedic]

If the plan is to go ahead with those children being the hosts, you might want to put some kind of guard on them, or some soft-intentioned hero might try to make them conveniently unavailable until after the summoning in order to "spare" them.

[ Because he definitely wouldn't put it past some of the imPorts he knows to balk at using them to preserve everyone else. ]

private anon;

[pillz]

[oh shit. well, kavinsky did post this without batman's explicit permission for reasons, even if he hadn't really thought ahead.]

Is that something you'd do?

[fursleuth]

Though you can't see me, I'm ripping my "not literal twins" notes as we speak.

I ain't liking this one bit.

[pillz]

I'm not trying to be a bitch but if you don't have hands, are you literally ripping it up. And also, how do you type?

But if you're worried about the little kids, I don't think the heroes are gonna let anything bad happen to them if they can help it.

un: rvh

[leatherboots]

Well, isn't that a fine bit of luck. If two of our godly frenemies [ rupert's new word of the week ] are in the bodies of mere seven year olds then the fight will be rather one sided, won't it?

[pillz]

Somewhere in the multiverse, Batman is frowning at you. But you aren't the only one thinking so.

[plentystrong]

well that escalated quickly

[pillz]

Would you buy it if I said the goddesses started it?

[timetravelandguns]

Alright. So how do we save the world, and the kids both?

[ Cable always tries to save both, even if, in the end, he defaults to the first. ]

[pillz]

[so many heroes, so little time. but cable and his principles are in luck!]

I think we figured something out. A way to replace the little kids with a couple of ImPorts. But it's gonna be a lot of energy to channel. Not sure it's gonna work, but there's a lot of people in your boat, don't want to fuck with child endangerment.