OOC Plot Discussion [Sep 2020]

[scension]

Hi friends! Since this game is shaping up to be about the players slowly solving the plot mysteries as well as the characters, and because things have been kind of rapidfire up till now, a couple of us figured that a post to collect our OOC thoughts on the various current mysteries might be useful. This is a post! Please use it for whatever you like - suggesting your own theories, suggesting stuff that your own character might not pursue for whatever reason but other characters might, a place to plot next steps if you prefer it to plurk or discord, it really doesn't matter /o/

Potentially relevant links:
- September mod investigations/questions where we've been getting/pursuing most of the clues
- most recent IC meeting log
- current IC common knowledge cheat sheet courtesy of Haki
- bonus activity submission page including the plot clues given as rewards
(tell me to link something else here and i'll do it)

I have put in some toplevels just for organisational purposes but feel free to make your own or go without!

Comments

MISSING KIDS

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GYARADOS

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NORTHWESTERN BEACH

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BOBA

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it's still minato's fault somehow im telling you

WORLD LORE

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[thaumewturge]

So I've got a log up with Akechi and Fai for this, but Rhel found out about some weird black sand on the beach. I'm wondering if it's magnetic, but Rhel won't think to check that sort of thing.

Also concerned it's bone but

[partymagician]

I think Fai would check it! Even if it's just to rule it out.

He could also tell if it's bone, if that's needed!

[scension]

OKAY my current thoughts are:
- the hospital is sus af and holding the kids hostage for boba flavour testing Reasons Unclear, suggesting a human culprit unrelated to the storm and that arena of goings-on
- the beach buryings are a method of getting kids into poor enough condition to reasonably go to the hospital without obvious connection to a human
- possibly they are kept under false names if the parents aren't informed, since nameplates on the doors came up? possibly not?
- the spookings at the hospital then keep them in poor enough condition to stay there if they seem to be recovering
- since the drifloons seem to be wild (akira caught one) they may be manipulating them somehow? is that where the honey comes in??

i think that all of the evidence for this except the names thing and akira catching one has come up icly at one or the other meeting so far so if any of this seems useful for characters who are not fucking banned from the hospital, go ahead and take it /o/

[thaumewturge]

wait beach burials?

[compendiem]

For clarification since there was some confusion in the most recent meeting: there is only one Gyarados, it lives in the lake at the center of the island, and there are no whirlpools in the lake. There are whirlpools in the ocean, along with severe thunderstorms, that are currently preventing people from leaving.

[compendiem]

The locations page isn't typically used for investigations but ANYWAYS, this might be a good thread to take a look at for the Drifloon and missing kids.

[scension]

atsushi and efi found a buried girl who turned out to be one of the reported missing kids, i admit that's a burial in the singular because they haven't found any of the others.....

[thaumewturge]

oh

oh no

Rhel found some very odd black sand on the beach, only went down like an inch but I have an even worse feeling about that sand now

Re: GYARADOS

[infiltrationtools]

Akira's ongoing 'conversation' with the Gyarados may shed some light on things. I'm not gonna summarize it just now because a. it's not done and b. I don't feel well today, but here you go \o/

[authoriser]

if it helps, some people dug up the northwestern beach to see if there were more bodies in the sand, and there were none

[thaumewturge]

thankfully, but I'm wondering if that black sand isn't some kind of sedative or toxin or something

[infiltrationtools]

Actually my only plan with that going into it was to find out if the Drifloons belonged to a Trainer or not, but it all worked out. B)

[authoriser]

if it's from natural causes, the only thing i can think of is hardened lava, which is cooled by ocean waters, and then bits of it scattered throughout the beach. that's how some "black beaches" are formed, iirc.

but if it's related to pokemon, i thought of darkrai, or possibly other pokemon who can lure people to sleep. but i can't think of how it would be connected to black sand otherwise...

i'm wondering if this portion is the part to focus on

She remembers... a blue or purple light, and the wind picking up a little... a voice in her head? But she can't remember what that voice said, and whatever happened after that, she can't remember, and then she woke up here in the hospital

[compendiem]

I'm glad he verified that one Drifloon and I hope he chucks Pokeballs at every single one he comes across, just to make sure ('':

[infiltrationtools]

Well I only need one Drifblim for my Ominous Wind-Baton Pass-Power Trip combo he wants to catch other Pokémon too!! Your suggestion will be taken into consideration

edit: today i learned drifblim does not learn ominous wind in generation 8 :/

[compendiem]

word of god, aka bc I said so: Akira catches a gen 7 Drifloon so it does now

[infiltrationtools]

YES!!!!

[scension]

i feel like at minimum a zapdos is involved with the storm around the island in addition to or instead of the lugia+kyogre suggestions at the 2nd meeting, because minato+sagi got attacked by lightning specifically and zapdos is associated with ocean currents here :|a lugia isn't out of the running due to the "causes storms" thing either but there doesn't seem to be external evidence for kyogre atm

the info on the legendary birds is all in kids' books at the library and daycare, so it may be reasonable for other characters to stumble upon? meanwhile the parts about the strange typhoon weather and attack itself could use a character to get the info out of sagi if relevant to anything, he's not... eloquent... but has nothing to hide ;;

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my first thought re sand was black volcanic sand, yeah! since there are a few legendaries associated with volcanoes: volcanion, heatran... moltres? but out of those only moltres has been brought up elsewhere and that's the loosest association out of those

the voice part seems relevant ia :|a

[thetyger]

An overview of my missing kids investigations, because there were three...

- Atsushi and Efi found a hand sticking out of the sand at the beach. It was a four-year-old girl, still alive, who was then taken to the hospital. She woke up a week later, and they went to talk to her about the Drifloons; info here

- Townspeople and parents have said the kids go missing from the beach, and there were mentions of the Game Corner and the hospital. Atsushi and Sagi got no information at the Game Corner, but Drifloons sneak into the hospital in gift baskets to kids who are getting discharged, and scare them and make them sick again. The nurses note that the gift baskets show up during the day and the Drifloons wait until night to come out of them; info here

- Atsushi and Theo went to talk to the father of a missing boy (six-year-old Skyler). Skyler spent a lot of his time at the Game Corner with friends. He can't swim, so he supposedly stays away from the beach. They then talked to Skyler's friend Casey who lived down the street, who says Skyler did go to the beach at least once. More info from Casey here

Theories:
Someone is deliberately trying to get the children to the hospital, and if they can figure out where the gift baskets came from, there might be a lead as to who. Probably no connection to any other mysteries?