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EVENT WRITE-UP: DO YOU HEAR THE PEOPLE SING?

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SUMMARY
They either heard it in passing or from a public conversation on the network. It's wonderful that the sun of Chantes has risen again, but what's next? Peace between the disgruntled humans and goblins, of course. Dislike peace talks all you want—some attempt has to be made if ALASTAIR is going to pluck you off of this planet.

Five main options in organizing a cease-fire are available to player characters (among your own ideas; if you have thought of something else, please ask about it or suggest it!):

1) Find half-goblin/half-human citizens of Chantes who are not affiliated with the Order of the Chimera. For a quick recap, there are people in Chantes who are neither all goblin or all human, but a mix between both of them. Understandably, they're having a bad time with the tensions between the two races being so high. But there are those who haven't resorted to joining the more aggressive Order that's taken to solving problems by, for example, blocking out the sun.

Rin's Servant Archer (anti_altruisms) has been investigating the city in the background for quite some time, searching for the presence of these individuals. Any characters would be good for this option!

2) Search for humans or goblins who want peace between the two races and seek their help. There have to be people on both sides of the conflict more willing to put the fighting behind them, now. Maybe the sun has lifted their spirits and their hearts a little. It might still be difficult to find these pacifists, but they're probably out there.

Any characters would be good for this option! Non-human characters to speak to the goblins and human characters to speak to other humans may be especially helpful.

3) Send an envoy/a group of ambassadors to meet with the King and attempt to make some headway. There's some shady news concerning the King, to say the least, and ALASTAIR's last major encounter with the face of Chantes' royalty was beating down their guards and breaking recruits out of their jail. But the King is still the King, and so he must be dealt with for any peace efforts to go far. (Don't be surprised if they may not actually get, uh, very far.)

Characters that are good at holding their ground and able to defend themselves in the case of violence are probably best for this option! Rin—as well as other characters—will likely share the sentiment that they have their work cut out for them here, and they won't be in pleasant company. Additionally, any characters who know the King or are familiar with the castle.

4) Same as option 3, just with Graldia. The leader of the goblin army is another figure ALASTAIR might consider reaching out to.

Like with the King, assertive characters and characters who can defend themselves may be best for this option. Additionally, as with any interaction with goblins, non-humans might add some persuasiveness!

5) Attempt to work for peace with members of the Order of the Chimera. Yet another dangerous group. They're the ones whose leader Michel blotted out the sun in the first place. But as other ALASTAIR members have pointed out, the Order can't really be ignored. In the worst case scenario, another "Michel" will pop up... And it would really, really suck to try and get that sun back again, wouldn't it?

Any characters are good for this option, though they should possibly be able to defend themselves. Characters who know information about the Order (their past meeting, Michel) can contribute here.

WHAT DO I DO?
Characters are free to talk to others in groups or individually. If your character would be interested in joining a group, feel free to discuss it in this entry before submitting your questions.

This would be an awful lot of threading, we realize, so we've come up with a solution. You (or your team) will write up a summary of where your character would go and what they would do. An example from a parallel universe:

Alice and Bob decide to go question the werewolves, particularly any werewolves who happen to be out and about in the market place. They don't bother being polite or asking if they have a moment to chat. Instead, they yank one into an alley.

"Why do you hate the vampires so much?" Alice asks, unfriendly towards the werewolf. Bob plays good cop, being a little kinder.

"Would you be willing to work towards peace if someone would mediate?" he asks.

Regardless of what answers they get, they'll pop out of the alley and ask a few of the shopkeepers if they've noticed any werewolves who might be vampire sympathizers. They slide over a few coins to make sure they get an answer, and send letters to anyone who would be named asking for their assistance.

For types that might be more difficult to find - Order members or half-goblins - feel free to handwave that your character did some investigating to find them. After you submit the summary in the appropriate subthread below, you'll get a similar reply explaining the results they'd get.

Stay tuned for a very important follow-up network post coming up on the 30th! Please note submissions should be completed by or on the 30th (GMT) by the latest.

Also, a big thanks to defenceless for working with us on this event and their help in writing this up!

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Submit any interactions with half-goblin/half-human citizens of Chantes who are not affiliated with the Order of the Chimera here.

Submit interactions with humans or goblins who want peace between the two races here.

The envoy/a group of ambassadors sent to speak with the king should submit their interaction here -- they will likely meet with guards first.

Submit any interactions with the goblin militia leader Graldia here.

Submit any interactions with members of the Order of the Chimera here.

Any questions you have about this event can go here.

Rin will be primarily meeting up with half-goblin/half-humans who aren't a part of the Order, or preparing to speak with the King! Maybe she'll do some more with the Order after that... I'm open to anything else, too.

For the King especially, I was thinking it would be a cool idea to get together a small group of ALASTAIR recruits ready to show the King what's what: powerful people, persuasive people, everyone dressed up all fancy, you name it. A handful of battle-minded characters might be helpful as—the muscle. If you're interested in being a part of a group for the King, let me know!

olivia is fairly useless at the moment, but she'd definitely make a valiant attempt at speaking to the peace-seeking humans/goblins who are unaffiliated with anybody! (aka option #2) she'd probably try to sweet-talk them... without realizing she's sweet-talking them. so supervision is definitely appreciated (read: needed)!

since it's tough to do group threads, i figure whoever wants to be involved in option #2 can do the speaking/investigating in groups of three or pairs, but then all come back together to share notes in one big group or something! depending on how much interest is gathered, of course!

Riku will be intent on meeting the King, no matter how vain the attempt is. You're supposed to speak with the head of the world to find out what's going on, right? That's what canon's taught him, anyway, talk to the people in charge, they probably have the actual answers.

That said, if declined (because he's a teeny, despite being able to defend himself very well) he'll most likely be hitting up number 5 instead.

Assuming we're allowed to be involved in multiple groups for this, beyond potentially meeting with the King, I can offer Levi up for either number 1 or 2 as well. He's sympathized with the goblins more than either of the other two groups, but obviously has a one up with humans by virtue of being human himself.

So successful or not, I'd be willing to give any of the three searches a go if anyone would like to team up on that. c: Eta: limited to one more route!

Edited 2016-01-28 01:14 (UTC)

Kida, Riza and Hellboy have designs to meet Graldia! Ideally, Theresa and Val and I would like another nonhuman to round us out, but we'll take humans too!

They'll probably be bringing her a bunch of the goblin-associated cereus flowers as an offering! If anyone wants to join them, let us know.

Edited 2016-01-28 01:01 (UTC)

Who likes blood? Er, I mean who likes gathering blood samples from humans, goblins, and hybrids to try and examine it both scientifically and magically to determine the differences? I swear it's not a disgusting eugenics experiment...

Sieglinde figures that, since it's proven the species can interbreed, that it's worth investigating whether those children are sterile. If not, if there are any "pure" humans or "pure" goblins left, really- or if it's situation where a lot more people than they think have ended up 1/8 human or 1/16 goblin and what have you.

After all, what better way to try and get people to get along than reveal that you're all kind of related at this point? Sieglinde would appreciate the help of anyone, really, since not only would fellow science and magic types be great to help analyze, but she needs to be carried around herself, and it's good to have people good in a fight in case sensibilities get offended.

Takers? This would fall into Option 1 firstly!

Okay, so!

I am really, really interested in following the thread about the Queen to its fullest conclusion. Phoenix may thus attempt to try to create a unifying faction between humans and goblins by poking at contradictions about the murder of the queen and raising suspicions, since Phoenix is convinced that peace is impossible without knowing the full truth behind her death. If anybody hasn't burned their bridges with the human side yet, would they be willing to help him out with this? He can hit up goblins, but not so much humans right now.

So! Wells would like to approach the Order of Chimera about this nonsense with the sun going out. The stuff with the goblins and humans is important, but going directly to the group Michel was part of and making sure they don't stir the pot anymore is just as essential. This is an Option 5 solution.

Problems:
-He doesn't really know much about the Order or who is involved with it.
-He is one lone man and he doesn't believe a single person will be enough convincing in this situation.

I'm thinking for this there be a handwaved communication post where he will seek out anyone who has had contact with the Order or with Michel, and arrange for them to find some top tier members so they can go and speak with them about this nonsense. Wells himself won't be very polite about it in the meeting though - basically he wants to make sure when they leave this planet, there isn't going to be another "sun is blocked out" type incident or some shit.

Ideally a group of this nature should be small (probably 5-8 people at most) and should also be willing to be serious about making sure the Order doesn't cause trouble. Wells himself is able to fight if the chance arises.

SO any morally ambiguous types who may have some Order info want to go to their front door and tell them not to fuck shit up again?

Nico's been trying to pretend she has nothing to do with ALASTAIR amongst the human population and that she's just a traveling performer who just so happened to come into town at the same time as all these other people and spends a lot of time with them and...it's probably not very convincing. But she's going to try to use the goodwill(?) she may have built up around the humans with her performances and such to spread a bunch of positive rumours about the goblins. She doesn't really have plans to actually track down who's pro-goblin or such - just trying to generally lift the mood of the place towards a less racist place.

She'll be bringing along Olivia for part of it, but since Nico is 100% concentrating her efforts on the human side of things since she's probably been identified as very, very human, she will have time for other collaborators (or bodyguards since she is useless at self-defence) while Olivia is working on the goblin side of things. Hit me up if you're interested!

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HALF-GOBLINS WHO ARE NOT AFFILIATED WITH THE ORDER

HUMANS OR GOBLINS WHO SEEK PEACE

MEETING WITH THE KING

GRALDIA

THE ORDER OF THE CHIMERA

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