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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[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.