Mission: So Familiar a Gleam Ongoing

[voidtreckermods]

The next part of the missions is here. Since characters are beginning to break out of their AUs and beginning to try and solve the problem they have found themselves in here is another plotting post! The other one was pretty crowded!

Please continue to ask any questions here and if there are any shenanigans you want to run past mods in terms of investigating let us know here

Happy plotting!

Details of the environment going forward:

For those who can read energy/see through illusions, they will find borders between the different sections of the city. They will be able to gauge it looks more like this.

They will see people 'trapped' in these border parts - specifically, those walking by foot to another section of the city, or those taking air taxis. They can be taken out, but would need to be done so by people who won't be pulled into the strength of the illusion/hypnotism.

While most areas are starting to fall apart, the political/educational sector (the centre of the city) is doing better. People may be taken around there in spare buildings.

Food: It will still be around, but some people will realise - who can see through illusions - that everything has a viscous quality. Shaped to be what it's mimicking, watery if it's a drink. This will become more obvious to everyone by Day 8. It's safe to consume.

Comments

[blitzcheer]

Tidus will be good with faces, and he does know a good chunk of actual passengers, so he can help with that, and possibly even knowing what they can do talents-wise!

Tidus won't immediately go after the entity and at least there doesn't have any plans, but knows they need to find a way to stop them, whoever they are. But that's better to plan when they have more people on their side.

We can do a thread either with info sharing of the sort, and/or even with other people! I would say 'Dispel' would be better for helping with the mind illusions more than Esuna btw, just from an event mod standpoint. But the stronger one's magic ability is, the better it works. (So Elidibus would have an easier time than Tidus!)

Player-side though, he would wonder if there's a way they could start getting chunks of minds unaltered again with such spells. If you'd like an actual thread for discussing ideas! I'm being a bit slow but anything important like that I will prioritise. And am happy to have others in such a thread. :)

[wewillwewill]

I agree when it comes to Esuna vs Dispel. That Elidibus might be able to unravel the illusion's effects from someone (after some study of it etc) because of his standing as a mage++ is something I have not questioned after because he's already doing a lot of things. He would have a lot of reason to leave a lot of people IN the illusion's grip more than free them. (You know how it goes. Too much mass panic from a lot of people suddenly realizing they're in an illusion etc etc). So other than efforts of studying the illusion's construction and composition, he's not actually doing a lot toward direct effort at freeing people, relatively speaking. But he would explain this too if asked why he's not.

I think I like your idea and I will start a thread in case there's others who are looking to consolidate their ideas! Elidibus might not be keen to free everyone right now but EVENTUALLY they'll need to be restored. Is it normal to make it in the OOC comm?

[blitzcheer]

Hmm, you can! Are you in the discord? You can always make a plotting comment about it and it can be linked out. If you can manage an IC way of holding a discussion too, that's an option. Both can be made due to time restraints.

ICly - and even OOCly to a degree - the question of arranging a meeting of people, or a form of discussion, is the issue. Since I know that the phones aren't trusted by everyone.

[wewillwewill]

I am there! Also for the record, you're welcome to nab my discord name from the player contact list and reach out to me if you have quick questions or such to make. Generally speaking I have this journal and discord for contact but sometimes if I'm out and about it's easier for me to respond through discord.

Since we thread a lot I figured I'd mention that! :D

[blitzcheer]

Done so! I'm set to offline but if you ever need to drop a question too, I'll get back to it when I can.