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[1] new players and characters [2] plotline // the wildcard network [3] plotline // aeonis [4] plotline summary [5] private plots Note: #2 and #3 are quite thorough. If you just want the basics, skip ahead to #4. [1] new players and characters Since this is the first OOC recap, everyone and everything is new, but for those curious, players active so far have been:
[2] plotline // the wildcard network A lot has happened with the poor souls trapped online: Initially, Rapture, MekkaByte and Rasim came online fairly simultaneously, dumping into a sim where a previous trapped character, Noko (Frederick Pasquan) has set up camp, going as far as to consider it his home and dismissing the very concept of 'offline'. Noko's been a bit confused and irritated by the newcomers, but has formed a protective bond with Elizabeth on basis that he nearly ate her and seems convinced that if he can make that mistake, so can others. MekkaByte's initial introduction to the network caused some stir, since Rasim unfortunately came across former's fainted shape (he'd fallen quite unpleasantly) and presumed him dead, which made Noko's quasi-demonic appearance a lot more frightening as Rasim thought it was him that killed the other netizen. That has, though, since been cleared up, and MekkaByte recovered. The four found shelter from the soft rain, but MekkaByte and Rasim were left there by Noko, who's taken Rapture with him (on basis of friendship, not on basis of abduction). Since then, the whereabouts of MekkaByte and Rasim is uncertain - no one has run into them again. Noko and Rapture have, however, run into Byelobog, who Elizabeth initially assumed was a fan of Joshua Bergström rather than that very person; his moth avatar was snagged in branches that had snatched him up into safety after a mantis avatar tried to hunt him down. Byelobog - mostly silently - has been convinced that he'll die of dehydration as no one knows the whereabouts of his body. Noko, Rapture and Byelobog parked themselves back at the den where Rasim and MekkaByte had been left (but no longer were at) to wait for them. Byelobog ended up leaving after an out-of-character seeming display of attitude from Frederick, only to be snagged out of the sim and confronted with the reason he'd been hunted after. With that done, he was returned to Darkscape, though - even with knowledge of that simulation's name - and Noko and Rapture stumbled back into him. Since that point, it has also become quite clear that 'death by dehydration' does not seem to be Byelobog's fate, as he's still quite alive, but that's only spawned more confusion in him. Finally, around Sunday/Monday, that group of three has taken one of the myriad of links in Darkscape to another sim, which has knocked them into human avatars, prompting Elizabeth's recognition of Byelobog and much confusion in Frederick. [3] plotline // aeonis The cases of MekkaByte, Rasim and Elizabeth (all in Waterkant, Europe) have grabbed the attention of Aeonis. Teo Escarrá, on a trip to London, accidentally ended up in a meeting that was mislabelled 'open' to him by a fellow Aeonis employee, and thus found out about the cases. Since Aeonis' involvement in the cause of it all seems questionable at best, Teo's advocated leaving it alone and simply speaking to the affected families. (Speaking up about this had him demoted by being 'promoted' to Waterkant PR manager and the investigation project's head.) Since then, the 'Britannia case' (Frederick's) has been unquestioningly considered part of the phenomenom. Teo's on his way to meet up with Tara Pasquan, Frederick's mentor, this weekend to ask her about the onset of her son's quasi-comatose state. Aeonis is currently paying the hospital bills for the Waterkant-Aeonis cases (Elizabeth and Rasim) to appease the families, but no further action is being taken - the project investigating the phenomenom is made up of a handful of people doing it part-time, which has slowed everything down to nary a halt. Wwwire, meanwhile, has taken no action, though Teo is speaking to them in a desperate inter-corporate attempt to get them to not abuse the situation for an anti-Aeonis media campaign, mostly on basis of the massive collateral damage it would cause Wwwire itself, being responsible for one of the cases, but the rivalry of the two companies is hard to tame. [4] plotline summary Trapped: Frederick/Noko, Elizabeth and Joshua/Byelobog have left Darkscape and are in their human avatars in Necropolis. Byelobog knows a good chunk more about the situation they're in due to having been in a conference of sorts with three of the network AIs: So, in that, he knows it's a network, not a single server. He also knows the server they're factually currently on is CR-3X. Byelobog was supposed to die of dehydration by own admission, but hasn't died. MekkaByte and Rasim are still in Darkscape. Exact happenings since #001 are up to their players, unless they'd rather not - just poke me and I'll come up with something for you. Offline and online: Aeonis is currently paying the hospital bills of Elizabeth and Rasim (Waterkant Aeonis-ISP cases), but at large, the company is keeping very quiet about the cases. [5] private plots This stuff isn't likely to have a bearing on anyone else yet, but for completion's sake, there are two other plotlines going: Demona and Marcus Slider met up for coding help with Marcus' companion Puppet, Sofia. Payment for Demona's services have been quite unusual: As an alternative to paying a horrendous sum, Demona's offered to instead vent her sexual sadism on Marcus - but that ended up being quite incomplete and aborted, as it simply went well beyond what Marcus had anticipated. Needless to say the relationship between the two geeks is now quite strained. Also, in Reykjavik, Dread has found himself astrally isolated after Thomas Bennett, head of the project, found out about Dread's more lethal hobbies. |