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High Risk Quest #1: The Ghost Signal

Note: Here we go, gamers! The first High Risk Quest for Magisteria. These quests will serve as tiered mini-events which reveal crucial world lore, goings-on, and also tie into the metaplot and the large events. High Risk Quests will trade off in emphasis, meaning tech --> magic --> tech --> magic.

While this quest has seeds for the Tech Path Conflict, it should be noted that it's OTA and also that quite a bit of magic-specific locations/mini-events will open soon. The Magic Path Conflict is brewing in the background and will become more apparent soon, too, so keep one's eyes peeled.

Context & Recap

This quest takes place after The Coffee Shop Mingle, which features NPCs discoursing on the goings-on of High Rise Village. Players are encouraged to look at that.

In the first event, Training in High Rise Village, we learned about a mysterious intruder who infiltrated the Digital Flora Dome and the Neon Nest, two properties belonging to an android named Rosalind Vireo. PCs who restored the properties deciphered a mysterious phrase, "Symphony of Disruption..." Seems portentious! In the above coffee shop mingle, Rosalind speculates as to the possible culprit(s?).

Bling

See the plotting post: PCs can go all out with the cyber weapons on this one, in addition to whatever tech or magic they've learned, whatever canon abilities have returned, and Selena and Titan-7 can also be used as weapons (so to speak) or defenses/back-up. Feel free to write interactions with them or them stepping in however. Of course, the main route to success will be PCs supporting other PCs!

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

The Wreckage Labyrinth: Interior and Lower Layers

Once inside the facility, Otherworlders and their NPC allies will finally find that which they've been seeking: the source of the Ghost Signal. Machines and codes and nodes are scattered throughout the interior, running like abandoned, cybernetic phantoms.

The goal will be for tech PCs to use their neural interfaces and affinity to take the codes, whether by means of downloading them neurally or (if they're not at that level of tech ability) downloading them into their aXess Link devices.

PCs don't have to worry too much about the hardware side of things, aside from shutting down the hardware responsible for the signal (which they should be able to find easily enough now that they're up close); it's more important to get into the interfaces and take the scripts and bases of code, such that they may be examined and used to create preventive/resistance measures against the "disruption technology." These resistance measures will prove important for upcoming events, so PCs will want to get those scripts so they can be taken back to High Rise Village and examined more closely!

Selena Voss: This place has no business existing in Magisteria. That's for sure.

Titan-7: I've scanned the lower levels. There are... lifeforms there. If they can be called that.

Selena Voss: How are there so many of them? Guys, be ready. I have a bad feeling about what we're about to see...

Selena and Titan-7 both indicate how unnerving all this is: what The Wreckage Labyrinth has become is entirely antithetical to the entire glorious image of High Rise Village and the city-state of Magisteria itself, and when this gets out to the higher-ups... well, the reaction is probably not going to be a very good one. The existence of The Fractured was not a mystery, particularly to law enforcement and the AI/cyborg/augmented denizens of the district, but the numbers/kinds that have appeared tonight have made both of the NPCs feel wary and uncertain. Nor do they usually wander out so boldly.

The lower levels of The Wreckage Labyrinth are not for the faint of heart. The feeling on this lower level is ominous, as though decay and melancholy hangs in the air itself. And the shadowy forms which manuever within are perhaps the most grotesque that the group has encountered to date...

Round Three: The Nasties

[ One more round and then we can clear this rodeo! See below for their identities/abilities.]