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WILL YOU HELP SAVE THE WORLD?

Mask or Menace is a panfandom urban 'superhero' genre DWRP game, where heroes, villains, and everyone in between seek to survive and thrive in a world loosely parallel to our own.

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Nov. 8th, 2019 03:51 pm
arithmethodical: (Mayj)
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[ She debates for a bit whether or not to do this with voice or audio, but she feels too shaky for either, and eventually loses patience with herself and the debate. ]

I've been asked by some friends of his to share information that Vision found about the ritual and how it might go. Might have to go.

I'm pretty sure we're all familiar with the prophecy by now, but if not, you can look at it here.

Vision found three things. First is that this thing, the ritual, the 12th of November kept coming up as the most significant time to do it.

Second is that the more imPorts who are there, the better chance it has of working. So show up if you can.

The third is the bell. There are two in Jeopardy it could apply to. The first one is the most obvious choice, the bell in the cathedral of the spider cult church. The other one is the Justice Building, which is apparently pretty much decorative. He wasn't sure if we're supposed to ring the bell at 3am on the night of the full moon, or if we ring the bell to get things started.

I did some of my own research, too.


[ There's a pause here, while she puts together her thoughts. ]

The rock known as the Altar out in the National Park near Jeopardy has no apparent connection to anything. No important myths, no significant legends. There's whispers about it being a place where people used to be sacrificed to guarantee crop growth, but I couldn't find anything else tying it to the prophecy.

The other thing. The twins. I tried to find out what I could about them. Their names are Layla and Sally Clapp. They aren't mystical. They're just two ordinary little girls. They dress differently so people will tell them apart, even though their parents want them to dress the same. They like spiders. They read books about them. They play kid games and have kid imaginations.

So who knows if they actually saw something or not. Who knows if they have some mystical connection to what's happening. They're a convenient fit to the prophecy. That's all.

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Nov. 7th, 2019 06:33 pm
timestones: (۞ 032)
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[Watching a few million possible outcomes is pretty tiring, so when Stephen's face comes into view on the feed he can probably be forgiven for looking like he could do with a nap, but regardless of this he seems quite awake and alert. Wired, maybe.

The backdrop is a park not too far from the government housing in Maurtia Falls and Stephen has evidently plopped himself down on the lower base of a war monument with his back against the die. The customary grumpy rain has apparently rolled on through at some point and while his cloak kindly thought to shield Stephen from most of it, he's still... a little damp. Not that it seems to bother him too much.]


All right, let's get the preamble out the way, shall we?

Hello. I'm Doctor Stephen Strange and we've obviously got a big problem here.

So, I spent some time going over the possible outcomes of the end of this week and... Let's say depending on your outlook on things, the glass is either half full or the glass is entirely broken into lots of tiny unrecongisable pieces.

What we have is effectively a spectrum of possible outcomes, which include not only risks to this dimension, but also many more via a kind of cross-dimensional ricocheting effect.

[His face momentarily looks a little graver as he shakes his head.]

Some of the worse scenarios even have the potential for wide scale damage to the future of the multiverse as a whole. It's not great, kids.

The not-so-awful news is that there are ways to mitigate and even entirely avoid the damage done to the multiverse and to other parallel dimensions.

The bad news is that even in the comparatively better scenarios, this universe will not remain entirely unchanged or come out entirely unscathered, but in the context of those scenarios, we do save countless external lives in other dimensions.

The worst news is, yes, the ritual some of you have been looking into leads toward some of the least bad scenarios.

[His jaw tightens along with a small, resigned shrug.]

I wish I had brighter insight to share, but sometimes happy endings are hard to come by. This is the best I can give you.

[Leaning in to turn off the feed, something occurs to him very suddenly.]

Oh, and one more thing. Kylo Ren--[He gives the camera a slightly squint-eyed look]--we need to have a little word.

[Just before Stephen turns off the feed, the camera catches the sight of what looks like someone dropping a handful of change into Stephen's lap. The feed catches a glimpse of the sorcerer's momentarily unimpressed lineface, then cuts off.]



[ooc: There's a lot of network stuff out there, so please do me a solid and if there's something specific that's happened on the network in the past in relation to upcoming event (directly or tangentially) that you want Stephen to directly pick up, please drop me a link to the thread/s here.

Also if for shits and giggles you want to suggest one of a few million possible outcomes for Stephen to have seen, again, drop me a comment on via the link above. This is mostly just for fun flavour and... suffering? :>

Thanking u!
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pillz: (loiter (club evil))
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[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.]

Decrypted prophesy repost! )
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.]




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.

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Nov. 5th, 2019 01:26 pm
fursleuth: been there for me (⚡ i can see that you've always)
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[For those of you who haven't seen the cute electric mouse-thing in the deerstalker hat, this message is gonna be a shock to you, and Pikachu knows it.]

Yeah, hi. Let's get this out of the way before I get to the serious stuff. Yes, I am adorable. No, you may not pet me or smother me in affection until after the apocalypse is over. I got massive amounts of crap to do, gang. I can't have these distractions. Bad enough there's super crazy, super-powerful Pokemon running around. And zombies... But like seriously? The Ultra Beasts thing? Is that still a problem? Never mind. Not important right now. Bigger things.

[He seems to be broadcasting from on top of a table and as he moves, you can see a whiteboard behind him with a lot of hastily scrawled notes like SPIDER CHURCH??? and TWINS= NOT LITERAL??? as well as a copy of the completed code that everyone received right in the middle in the worst handwriting you've ever seen. LOOK HAVE YOU SEEN HIS TINY HANDS???

Pikachu, meanwhile, is picking up a coffee cup and once he has it, he returns to the frame.]
So we all know the whistleblower is probably not blowing smoke up our asses. That's a thing we know we can believe. As far as anything else... We're on our own. I got the same notes nearly everyone else has and a lovely dane has already offered to spill those deets, so I'm not gonna steal her thunder. [He snorts like that's some big pun.

Because it is.]
But seriously... I think the answer to our problems is in this. [He gestures to the whiteboard, indicating the full code.] This is the big deal right here, and those of us who ain't big on giving the big one-two punch to the bad guys are gonna need to focus up on it. I need my people on this- yeah, I'm talking to you, detective crew. Y'all were great. We had some good times solving this, but now we're in the big leagues.

[He drains the coffee cup, tosses it aside and picks up another from offscreen.] And we need some people to look into this spider church thing. Do some reconnaissance. Maybe do the whole wig-and-disguise thing and pretend to be cultists. I dunno. I'm not a spy, but I'm sure some of you are. I'm just tossing ideas out here... Wait. Is this line secure? Forget I said any of that.

[He coughs.] The point is, we gotta take our big brains and throw down, 'cause I'm pretty sure our only hope is getting all these gods together. [He slurps his coffee, weirdly nonchalant.] Trust me... This is like normal in my world. Bringing gods together to save the world? Always works... Except when it's actually what causes the end of the world, but I'm at least 89% sure that's not the case here.

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Nov. 5th, 2019 06:22 pm
cantgetanyworse: (110)
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Hmm... [Says Jane. She's been trying to hold back on this, hoping someone else would do it, and yet...

She can't not do it, and maybe it can be beneficial.
]

I'm sure that... there are a lot of people like myself - who haven't been here for terribly long - who perhaps don't understand the significance of what may be happening now. What we've been warned about. [Since the strange message, that is.]

Thanks to a very helpful young man, a while ago I came into the possession of some very detailed note-taking on the past of this place, and the porter, and... well. I'm sure I'll miss something here or there, but...

[She manages what looks like a nervous, slightly forced smile.]

I'd like to help. Atropos, the OTO, all of it... I might have barely known a thing without these notes, and I very much doubt I'm the only one. So. [Jane clasps her hands under her chin, the phone propped up against something.]

Does anyone have any questions... that perhaps I could help them find an answer to?

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Sep. 9th, 2019 10:32 pm
arithmethodical: (pic#13219292)
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Do these people look at what we can actually do before they give us jobs? Is it just me?

[ There's a certain false bravado in the words, like someone clinging on to the one thing that might be at least somewhat within her control. ]

I'm a bus driver. I should at least be in engineering, if they're not going to give me something with wings. The company I'm supposed to work for won't even let me get a look at the guts of the bus. They want me to drive that thing every day but they won't even let me see what it's made of.