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The Revival Project Mods ([personal profile] trpmods) wrote in [community profile] revivalproject2020-04-03 09:29 am

Whale Comb Home Party! (Open to all players)

WHO: All He Rows!
WHERE: The Amphitheater (Blue 1)
WHAT: The Agrii have thrown our heroes a Whale Comb Home party; you can also choose to use this as a forum for discussing theories and more.
WHEN: April 2
WARNINGS: Please mark any warnings in individual threads







On April 2, as soon as the light starts rising in the morning, you hear music. It’s loud and odd. The notes don’t actually make a lot of sense together; they slide up and down and alternate wildly. It’s the sort of symphony a child at a piano might make except with a cacophony of instruments. It fills the air with cheery, disjointed music as it floats out from the amphitheater, beckoning you there but, this time, not at all compelling.

On your comm you will see a message from Ga Re:

He Rows,

We whale comb you here a gain. Agrii have food at mew sick home. Go with mew sick. Part tea for all. Also learn time. Agrii need learn storm. Us need learn all he rows learn. Us hear all. Talk at mew sick home. We learn. You learn. All learn and stop storms!

Thank all yous.

- Ga Re


If you choose to enter the amphitheater, heroes who arrived in the first wave might recognize the scene:

Hanging against one crumbling wall is a piece of fabric that has ‘WHALE COMB HOME!’ painted on it in drippy, fluorescent pink letters. The Agrii version of a smiley face that you've come to know and love is painted underneath it right on the wall. ‘US THANK THEY!’ is written beside it. Scattered through the wide space are tables upon tables of food.

There are meats, fruits, root vegetables, and even what might be a sweet dessert of some sort as well. Characters with the Agriculture expertise - and those who have attended one of these parties before - will know that everything is edible and nothing will make you sick. But some of it might have … adverse effects:

- People chomping down on the striped meat all seem to get very drowsy a few minutes later.
- The red fruit that looks like a giant cherry is the equivalent of a few shots - the more consumed, the more drunken this party is getting.
- There is a bowl of weeds that have small, daisy-like flowers all along the stalks. This tastes like chicken and gives the eater a sudden burst of energy that will have them running around the room like they’re being chased.
-There are a collection of drinks, some made from the red fruit, some that are clearly water, some that taste like a less-sweet lemonade with no effects, and then there's a blue one that tastes like an especially dark beer. People drinking this will find themselves incapable of lying for a half hour.

Enjoy your party, heroes. But also heed what Ga Re said: This is an ideal time to talk with one another and compare whatever you’ve managed to learn. Think of it like a town hall where whatever you learned on Risa or in the storm can be spread around and analyzed.

deal_me_in: (This is my serious face)

[personal profile] deal_me_in 2020-04-10 12:53 am (UTC)(link)
"Think they'd get offended if I asked them if they were blood suckers? ...okay yeah, maybe not in exactly those terms- Hey, you all right there?"

The Exo looks over at him, tilting his head.

"...uh-huh, yeah. Good points all around. Also, I just got to this planet so I'll be straight with you- I'm not going to be any help at all with discussing any storm things."
hulkintraining: (these keywords are random)

[personal profile] hulkintraining 2020-04-12 07:56 pm (UTC)(link)
"Yeah, I'm fine. Just got a little dizzy for a second. But yeah...maybe nix the blood suckers bit. Put it a bit more...sumt..subm..subtle."

There's a slight slur beginning to creep into his words even before he starts tripping over them. This is fine. Totally fine.

"It's fine. I was in the storm and I don't even know what's going on wit it. But it's baaad news. Takes away powers."
deal_me_in: (I did a lot of shooting that day)

[personal profile] deal_me_in 2020-04-12 08:39 pm (UTC)(link)
Cayde squints at the kid. That doesn't sound like a case of dizziness, but so far as he's seen, Teddy hasn't been drinking anything. Then again, who knows what kind of funky foods these are?

"Wait, rewind, back-up. Takes away powers? The storm?" He blinks. "It can do that?" Now that's not a normal storm. "Also what kind of powers we talking about? Not like...electrical power, I'm assuming."

Or maybe it is, because it's hard to tell which words are coming out the way they're supposed to with this guy.
hulkintraining: (78)

[personal profile] hulkintraining 2020-04-17 06:29 am (UTC)(link)
"Yep. All kinds of powers. Anything beyond human capabilities anyways. My healing and shape-shifting didn't work at all. And my speedster friend wasn't so speedy anymore."

He giggles suddenly, as if he's just made a joke.
deal_me_in: (Don't know don't care)

[personal profile] deal_me_in 2020-04-17 07:12 am (UTC)(link)
Now that's a troubling thought. The Exo can't really pull off a frown, save for the furrow of his brow with the subtle shifting of metal plates. He knows how it feels having his power sapped, and he's not all too keen about experiencing it again.

Hearing Teddy speak of having powers doesn't strike him as strange- not the healing part, anyway. Shape-shifting's a new one to him. And some guy who's speedy? "...." Cayde eyes the young man flatly. Yeah, okay, kid's definitely off.

"Right. Got it. Also, that's terrible. You sure you're good?"
hulkintraining: (close the gap)

[personal profile] hulkintraining 2020-04-17 07:44 am (UTC)(link)
"It waaaas. Like really bad. But that's not even the worst. The storm also made us see dead people."

He waves away the concern once again, turning his attention back to the table and its treats. His hand pauses over the bowl of weeds and he picks one up, inspecting its flowers.

"The heck is this? They want us eating flowers now?"
deal_me_in: (So everything is gone)

[personal profile] deal_me_in 2020-04-17 05:14 pm (UTC)(link)
"Dead people? You mean like ghosts or zombies?" Neither sound great, although at least one could still shoot the latter.

Cayde watches as Teddy explores the Agrii's curious food spread. He shrugs at the weeds. "Alien planet," he helpfully reminds. "Could be meant for food, could be an attempt at a decorative centerpiece."
hulkintraining: (I'll give you the courage)

[personal profile] hulkintraining 2020-04-19 06:26 am (UTC)(link)
"Neither. I...think. You could see them but whenever you tried to reach out for them they would seem like they've gotten farther away. But they would say stuff to try and lure you in. Like the storm is using them to lure people to their doom." He frowns, thinking about his own experience with the storm and its strange effects. It had been hard to ignore the voices of his deceased mother and friends calling out to him.

"They should give us some kind of guidebook for this stuff."
deal_me_in: (We were in a meeting about something)

[personal profile] deal_me_in 2020-04-19 08:23 am (UTC)(link)
"Ughk. Well that sounds fun." In a tone that absolutely implies the opposite. That's certainly not a thing Cayde wants to encounter. If it was just dead people in particular it wouldn't be so bad, but for all that Teddy had been sounding a little off earlier, what he says now is plenty sobering.

These aren't just random dead people. You don't go following random dead people so easily. That's a detail the Exo makes note of, scowling a bit.

"Right? A guidebook'd be great. Better than this here...party, but I guess they're trying."