NPC QUESTS

[thecrossingmods]

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QUESTS

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Characters are currently exploring The Marsh. NPCs available for quests are The Ferryman, The Wraith, and The Witch.

QUESTS are tasks offered by NPCs that characters can work together to complete in order to earn special rewards. The NPCs offering quests will change from setting to setting, and each NPC will typically offer different rewards for completing their quests.

OOCly, quests are lower-impact ways players can interact with the setting and the metaplot between major game events.

To claim a quest, simply comment to the corresponding thread to let us know which characters will be participating. You should have a minimum of two players participating to claim a quest. Depending on the quest, we may have additional info for you to help you get set up, but then you're free to thread! Once the quest is complete, return here with a link to your thread, and we'll give you a rundown of the rewards.

There are no penalties for backing out of a quest after it's been claimed. If you find you aren't able to complete a quest, or simply don't want to anymore, just let us know so that we can open it back up to be claimed by someone else!

Quests refresh after each Crossing (roughly every 3 months)*, so don't be afraid to give them a try! Each character may only be an active participant in one quest at a time.

* Even if not all quests for a given setting are completed, lore details and special items will never be "lost", so don't worry too much about missing out either. Lore always finds a way. 👻

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THE CAVERN

[thecrossingmods]

THE FERRYMAN

[theferryman]

[theferryman]

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BRING THE LIGHT

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THE DETAILS

The Ferryman's Lantern has created a bubble of safety around the Subterranean City, giving our traveling souls a place to rest, reflect, and prepare for the journey ahead. But The Lantern's reach isn't complete, and there is more to find within The Cavern.

With that in mind, The Ferryman has offered an additional piece of The Lantern's light, contained within a palm-sized shard of glass, for the souls to use as they like — or not at all. It's an opportunity to learn more about The Lantern, its light, and its effects on the population of drifting wraiths.

Characters may choose to:

• — Set the light at the entrance of the Catacombs, making the tunnels easier to navigate, but increasing the concentration of wraiths at the Whispering Pools.
• — Set the light at the Whispering Pools, opening them up for further investigation, but increasing the concentration of wraiths in the Catacombs.
• — Lose, break, or otherwise refrain from setting the light anywhere, leaving all areas within The Cavern as they are.

THE REWARDS

• — World information
• — Up to two additional quests will be unlocked, depending on the outcome.

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[witnessvelama]

Kel and Celehar are taking this one! With potential additions if anyone wants to join them later. Current plan is to bring it down to the Pools.

[thecrossingmods]

Great choice! We hope! 👻

While being carried, the shard has an immediate light radius of ~20 meters. It will repel all wraiths on the way to the Whispering Pools, but sort of passively. At most, some wraiths might linger at the edge of the border the way they do with The Lantern's light, but eventually they'll move on, apparently uninterested.

The wraiths at the Pools, however, will become extremely agitated when Kel and Celehar bring the shard nearby. Interestingly, though, the agitation isn't aggressive towards Kel and Celehar; it's more like children being called in early from recess. They'll leave, but they'll make sure you know that they very much do not want to.

The wraiths still don't make any sounds, but while agitated their misty forms will shift into something less placid and more overtly monstrous: pointed teeth, wide eyes and mouths, hooked claws - feel free to take some creative liberties.

Let us know when you've gotten further in, and we'll give you a few more details to help wrap things up. Or if your plans change, that's no problem, just let us know that too!

Let us know if you have any questions!

[urtitan]

With the wraiths gone from the whispering pools for the time being, driven away by the light, the group want to explore what drew them to the water.

Frieda (who joined the others on the way there) is going to submerge her head - will the result be the same as described here, or will something change with the wraiths no longer in the area?

[thecrossingmods]

If Frieda does this immediately after the wraiths were driven from the pools, yes, the result would be the same as previously described.

However, if she or anyone else does this after some time has passed (even if they've already tried it before), they'll find that the voices are getting quieter and quieter -- a bit like the metaphorical party is thinning out, so to speak.

[witnessvelama]

responding to myself to note that Frieda and G'raha are being added to this quest.

[theferryman]

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THOSE WHO CAME BEFORE

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THE DETAILS

Whoever populated the winding tunnels of the Subterranean City before left behind a number of signs to guide you through them, marked only with simple iconography. Most of them are straightforward: this tunnel to this square, another to this statue, a third to that landmark. But there are some that don't lead you so directly, and are marked with less straightforward symbols. In particular, some of the signs are clearly marked with a lantern. The Lantern? It's hard to say.

For anyone curious enough to look, there might be insight to be had about The Ferryman, and about their relationship with the ones who came before you.

THE REWARDS

• — World information
• — NPC information

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[blindluck]

Nagito Komaeda (blindluck), Ozamu Dazai (proposed), Sunny (solitarynote), and Mithrun (uncrave) will be doing this!

[thecrossingmods]

It sure is a lot of ground to cover! It may take some time, but with a good number of people exploring, you’re sure to find something interesting. In particular:

• — There are three types of signs with out-of-place iconography: the previously-mentioned lantern, a flower, and an eye.


• — The vast majority of these signs appear to lead to dead-ends. In particular, all of the signs marked with either the flower or the eye either lead in circles, or to empty chambers.


• — There is one path, however, that yields results: one sequence of tunnels marked with the lantern iconography eventually leads to a single room, very similar to the ones that can be found in the city itself, but separated out by some distance. It's similar to the rest of the city in that it appears previously lived in, but now abandoned; it's different in the sense that all the text in this room is unreadable. There are notes, books, letters, etc strewn about, but where before you could always understand the text of something even if the language was unfamiliar, here it all appears to be gibberish. This is true for everyone in the group.


• — However, there are some handwritten notes that appear to have the same flower or eye iconography as the other signs somewhere at the top of the page.

It's up to the group whether they'd like to present their findings to The Ferryman or not. If they do, let us know and we'll follow up with what The Ferryman would have to say; otherwise, we'll let you know what characters could glean for themselves! But hopefully this helps y'all get going.

Let us know if there are any questions!

[blindluck]

They will be showing their findings to the Ferryman!

[thecrossingmods]

The Ferryman is generally unflappable, but the group's findings seem to catch them off-guard. They don't want to take any of the documents, but seem sort of wistfully sad about them.

They're surprised, they explain, not that the room exists, but that it was still discoverable in the network of tunnels. It's been some time since they last spent time there, you see. This is the information they volunteer about it:

• They used to live much more closely with the souls they were shepherding, until their duties demanded that they hold their vigil close to The River.


• Previous groups of souls stayed in The Cavern for much, much longer than this group has.


• The documents appear as gibberish to the group because "you aren't connected to them". The Ferryman declines to translate anything.


• The other symbols refer to "others" that also stayed in close proximity to the settlement of souls. The Ferryman suggests that if the group couldn't find their rooms, these "others" have probably moved on.


• The group is free to take whatever they like from the room.

For Reasons, anything taken from The Ferryman's room will not be lost after The Crossing.

[blindluck]

They will be taking all those letters and books! You know, like you do.

[blindluck]

Hey, I have a question about the paperwork! Does it all seem to be in the same language? I realize this is an imprecise science when it all looks like gibberish, so Nagito would generally be looking for different writing systems (alphabetical versus characters, alphabets that are clearly different like Latin versus Cyrillic) and indications of different things being written at different angles (left to right, top down, etc.).

[thecrossingmods]

Nagito can absolutely recognize that there are multiple different writing systems being used! Definitely many different languages.

[theferryman]

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ON THE BANKS OF THE RIVER

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THE DETAILS

The Crossing is coming. The Ferryman told you that you would feel it, but what does that mean, really? You've never been here before; how would you know what signs to look out for?

The Ferryman invites you to learn, and the easiest way is to descend to The River again. There's no need to dive in, to invite back the pain of your arrival, but if you wade out into the water — so says The Ferryman — you might find some understanding there.

Or you could dive. If you were very curious, or at least very masochistic.

If anyone is willing to brave a repeat bout with The River, they may be able to uncover what The Ferryman finds so strange about this Crossing in particular...

THE REWARDS

• — Metaplot information

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[hasapoint]

I want Need in on this, but she's the cautious type who's disinclined to submerge or take a lot of risk unless she thinks she has a good reason. Anyone want to come with?

[callsignhornet]

Allynbee could easily be in on this and because she is used to doing risky shit, would definitely dive.

[hasapoint]

Cool cool. When I brought this up on Plurk Bakugo and Yusuke's players were interested - you good with it being a whole party?

actually I should plurk friend you too hang on

[thecrossingmods]

It looks like you guys have gotten things going, so just a few more details for you:

Standing at the bank of The River doesn’t appear to yield anything on its own... The water is just the same as before: cold, dark, and still. According to The Ferryman, there’s no need to fully submerge — but you do need to step out into the water, and wait.

• — Anyone who wades out to at least waist-deep will start to feel it: it’s a pulling sensation, drawing you to follow the flow of the water. It’s no stronger than a breeze, and fully metaphysical, so it's not powerful enough an influence to actually move anyone. But it’s unmistakable, and it certainly wasn’t there the last time you were here.


• — Diving will yield something different. Let us know which characters fully submerge, if any!

As always, let us know if there are any questions!

[reflashed]

Hello! Both Bakugo and Yusuke have gone diving!

[thecrossingmods]

Hiya! Sorry for the delay on this one!

The boys will find that The River retains all the qualities that made it such a fun time before: it's still bone-chillingly cold, and still ignites overwhelming pain as long as your head is underwater.

There are two new developments:

• While The River is still slow-moving close to the surface, if the boys go deep enough they'll find that there is now a new, stronger, reverse current closer to the bottom. It will behave like a riptide, and drag them upstream.
• There are voices beneath the surface, overlapping like a crowd, similar to the sound of the Whispering Pools. There is, however, one major difference: there will be one voice that jumps out to each of them as familiar. Through the cacophony, Bakugo will hear All Might's voice, and Yusuke will hear Genkai's voice. Crucially, these are not memories that either Bakugo or Yusuke would recognize, and the words might be hard to make out completely, but the voices themselves are unmistakable.

[callsignhornet]

yep, all good!

[perfecttune]

[Hi! Any chance I could have Mari join you guys or is this full? Sorry for being late for sign ups!]