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magisteriaexe2024-06-02 05:08 pm
magisteriamods) wrote in magisteriaexe2024-06-02 05:08 pm
Magisteria Gift Log
OOC Notes: This post can be used by PCs to keep track of their inventory for Magisteria. This includes both the gifts that each character received on arrival, as well as other rewards, prizes, or bling collected throughout one's time in the game. For the arrival gifts, those will develop as characters continue their journeys in Magisteria. Please reply below with the following information:Your character's current gift:
What was your character's activity in Magisteria [since the last gift upgrade*]?
[Quests, event participation, completing Synthesis challenges, player plot stuff, etc. -- the more the better as far as gift upgrades.]
What kind of modifications would you like to see and/or what complementary gift would you like?* **
[ * because a gift growing can sometimes take the form of complementary offerings or something(s) to go with the OG gift.
** you can also say "Surprise me!" -- and, for that matter, it should be noted that PCs may get something that is mod's particular flair or spin on whatever upgrades they ask for. mod reserves the right to potentially put spins on requests, but will try to ensure that the results are satisfactory for everyone]
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What was your character's activity in Magisteria in May?
π£ Lucy and Musashi infiltrated an adult lounge and are going to angling to get security jobs there so they can listen in on conversations between VIPs. Lucy also made use of her invitation and invited V up to see the lounge
π£ She did two of the open quests, one to investigate what was going on with muffins, and the other to pick flowers and ward off shadow creatures
π£ Lucy also met another Night City resident on the TDM
What kind of modifications would you like to see and/or what complementary gift would you like? Surprise me ( Ν‘Β° ΝΚ Ν‘Β°)
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Lucy has a solid bit of varied activity! Quests, a dedicated player plot, and a solid presence throughout the game. OOCly, as a player, you seem to find your way around easily, Cosmo, but let me know if you have any questions so far as to the game goings-on, lore, or anything else. In taking a big initiative, you guys are helping me build the game world, and if you're reading this, I'm not just saying that to Cosmo, but to everyone.
Lucy's direct gift upgrade will be that she will get a full body nanosuit. Not just a jacket, but something like this. [Tried to find non-AI art here, but honestly, I'm not always sure anymore; cyberpunk Pinterest is rife with it, but this visual gives you the idea.]
The nanosuit will have threads of Bios which weave through it with colors, like electricity. Lucy's nanosuit allows her to use Bios cyberware threads from her fingers via visible/invisible gloves and she has stylish cybernetic footwear with extensible Bios-blades which she can use in a hot minute should someone or something attack her -- just twist and kick, that is to say! She can make all this apparate or disappear with a thought, basically like hammerspace. Lucy can certainly continue to grow her abilities here.
Oh wait...
Lucy also receives a few inventory surprises! For π TDM participation, Lucy receives a Verve cigarette (vape) and neon Bios-coated Verve lipstick.
"Loosen up and go mingle more in Eden 6..." the note says.
Finally, while these aren't exactly gifts, Lucy receives both a π scroll and a βοΈ letter.
π scroll:
from the Librarian --
"It has come to my attention that you have been researching a certain phrase or phrases. Something about where the angels go... well, you've awakened my curiosity, you know.
You see, in one sense, I, the Librarian, am omniscient, but in another sense, I know nothing, because I can produce material only in relation to specific Otherworlder questions. I do not possess natural curiosity as humans do, but when Otherworlders research topics within Magisteria, sometimes my attention is alerted and I begin researching them as well.
In researching angels, they do have various appearances. Some of the teenage girls in this city have an esper-like appearance... looks somewhat angelic, don't you think? At least based on the images I am seeing. Well, I will keep researching. I feel certain that the answer here is varied but...
oh yes... what was that other topic you were researching? a woman who could change the city? This phrase is too vague to yield much. Perhaps if you could remember another name or phrase you might pass along, I might assist in your research."
βοΈ letter:
the envelope is unmarked, yet gilded, and it opens with a flourish is probably magic but has that feel of a tech sliding door too -- it feels just like a holograph, actually.
"Greetings, Lucy. Should I call you 'Lady of Ladies'?
Were you wondering how you received access to the sky lounge so easily? Well... you could say I don't mind potential employees in myriad fields. You see, Evergreen Terrace belongs to me, and while I've frequently been out of late, I do overhear a lot, and you all have met some of my workers and the people at my complex. You seem to be showing an interest in some topics I am well-versed in.
I would like to exchange names, but I would like to greet all Otherworlders at the same time and place. That is my sense of decorum. I will however permit you to write back and ask a question about goings-on in Magisteria, particularly with regards to myself, High Rise Village, the apartments, etc."
--Proprietor of Evergreen Terrace
[Note: if first question is something that can't be answered, we can re-do, but methinks it'll be fine!]
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In the end, it's a question that Emerick posed to her that she winds up asking. She hadn't known the answer, and it would be useful to know. She writes (digging deep for formality she never uses):
To the Proprietor of Evergreen Terrace,
Thank you for your letter. It's a surprise to me that I'm on your radar, but I'm grateful for the invitation to the sky lounge.
There's a lot that I'm curious about with this city, but I think the most immediate question I have is this: are there any areas of the city that are renowned for being dangerous, or having gang activity? In exploring the city I've mostly stuck to High Rise Village and the Entertainment District so far.
-- Lucy
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To begin with... one might say that I regard High Rise Village as though it were my backyard, as it were. There are some who deem me a benefactor for this, others who criticize me for the same. But, having seen my handiwork in Evergreen Terrace, you will have some idea of the quality I maintain in this sector which I regard as the realm of my influence.
Unblemished perfection. That is my aspiration, my ideal. Think of it as you will, but I take care that all in my employment and periphery are trained to understand, aspire, and maintain this ideal. Certainly crime of the sort you speak of has no place in a society in which all citizens are guaranteed a basic income, in which all citizens have a chance to meet their aspirations. Look at those whom you have met: Atlas, Ava, Malik, Rosalind, the women of the Entertainment District. Are they not successful? Contented? Their needs are met and shall always be met. They know not poverty nor want.
Yet I shall not mislead you. Even in our society of abundance and plenty, there are those who find something that they seek to oppose. In the darker corners of the Entertainment District, and sometimes edging even into this, my own, in the back alleys -- though not, I should say, as soon as anyone with whom I am affiliated becomes aware of it -- there are certainly such stirrings. You may of course ask how, if my reach is such as I claim, any gangs could evade my gaze and sully my realm.
That brings me to what is ultimately my answer to your question (or rather, what I think is the most interesting and salient answer: there are pockets of "disturbance" all throughout Magisteria, ranging from the back alley in the Agrarian Enclave populated by the feral fowl, to the shadier black markets within the Market, to the seedier and more underground portions of the Harbor District) -- there is, in particular, one other place, one which poses something of a difficulty and intersects with all the others. I was not supposed to speak of it to you so soon, but since you asked directly, I would be remiss not to mention the eleventh district of Magisteria, the Undercity. It is there where the supernatural beings of Magisteria reside, there where our city's laws hold no sway, and where these criminal organizations' members can escape and form new connections.
But neither I nor any other authority shall tell you how to enter such a place. Nor could we help you access it even if we desired to do so. Its dimensions, its rules, are inherently different from the above world, and its manifestation will be of its own accord. Explore as you like, but take caution, Lucy. There are things in this world of ours that are not easily digestible to the mind of a mortal.
Regards,
A.V. (my initials)