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

BOBA

[scension]

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

[thetyger]

Atsushi went to get honey from Minato and some things were discussed. The Combees are losing their homes due to the rain and they don't make as much honey as they used to. He also has been eavesdropping at work and gathered some information from the boba shop employees:

- No one working there has gotten sick from drinking the free end-of-shift boba, nor the orders that were wrong and not taken by customers
- They worry the honey supply will not match boba demand, and they've been using powdered berries to fill in the gaps with the dwindling berry supply as well
- Some employees do experiments with mixing berry juices for new boba ideas and use Combee honey as sweetner sometimes, one employee's usual taste testers have been getting a little sick lately
- Sometimes they go to the farm to get the honey, and sometimes Minato brings them jars of it himself

Theories:
It might be possible that the boba shop is getting honey from a second, and maybe illegal or sketchy, source since they're low on Combee honey.

[compendiem]

https://pokespe.dreamwidth.org/493.html?thread=176877#cmt176877
- Boba shop employees get free boba at the end of their shift and any orders that were messed up. Nobody's gotten sick... yet.
- Considering that they're actively hiring new employees, perhaps the turnover is pretty high.
https://pokespe.dreamwidth.org/493.html?thread=262637#cmt262637
- The secret menu incorporates various berries from the garden around the lake.
https://pokespe.dreamwidth.org/536.html?thread=913944#cmt913944
- Minato denies contaminated honey, as both he and other Pokemon have been eating it without ill effect
- All the honey comes from the Combee hives in the berry garden surrounding the lake.
https://pokespe.dreamwidth.org/493.html?thread=5869#cmt5869
- Maybe humans shouldn't eat the berries

[authoriser]

re: boba zombies

tldr doctors think it's so normal that they apparently don't care much about the people on the streets just being dead-like from sugar crash because boba drinks are full of bounsweet sweat (100000x sweetness), berries, and combee honey.