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

[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?

[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

[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

[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

[scension]

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

[thaumewturge]

blue or purple defs has me thinking Ghost or Dark type...Litwicks use their lights to lure people off like will o'wisps and drain their life energy, but I think Rhel's got the only Litwick on the island? Sandyghast/Palosand would fit with the beach problem maybe...