EVENT #07: ASPHODEL CONSTRUCTION PROJECT

[vivalamods]

EVENT #07: ASPHODEL CONSTRUCTION PROJECT PLANNING

The Corsairs have been mobilized and preparations are underway. As negotiators are dispatched to Vindess to prepare for the evacuation under Imperial noses, the crafters and suppliers set to work, preparing the new settlement and whatever airships can be spared for the evacuation. Some Corsairs have even taken it upon themselves to build or “liberate” more airships for the effort.

As always, when the goal is certain the Corsairs move as one. Together, they will see Asphodel completed. All hands are needed, the question is, where do you lend yours?

MISSIONS

Prepare Asphodel: Get the new settlement of Asphodel up and running to receive the refugees from Vindess.
Priority: Critical
Challenges: Corsairs will need to keep the settlement hidden while also making suitable housing and preparing farms and other amenities to sustain life. It will require a large amount of excavation to get in order, as well as construction of homes, furniture, and other facilities. The work will be backbreaking and the timetable is extremely aggressive.

Prepare Citizens for Evacuation: As the citizens of Vindess toil under Imperial lockdown, the Corsairs must prepare the entire population for evacuation.
Priority: Critical
Recommended Roles: Negotiators and Infiltrators
Challenges: Corsairs will need to convince the entire population to evacuate. There are a number of methods that can be employed, while many are going to be reluctant the Imperial crackdown has shaken the settlement and unease is high. There is evidence within the Imperial offices that Infiltrators can recover that show mass executions with lists of “dissidents” have been scheduled for April which the Corsairs might make use of if they choose to investigate. Other options include capturing potential dissidents and taking the entire willing population while executing or taking prisoner loyalists, or other methods the Corsairs determine for themselves to make this happen.


Acquire Airships: The Corsairs always need more airships, and moving an entire population will require heavy effort and can use as many ships as can be mustered.
Priority: Optional
Recommended Roles: All
Challenges: The Corsairs don’t have the major Ether Stones that serve as the airship engines and will need to either capture or salvage resources to increase the size of their fleet. While the Corsairs have been investigating airships that don’t require Ether stones, that research is still a distant dream, but some Corsairs may want to spend some time pushing that investigation along to see if they can make it a reality sooner rather than later.

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Prepare Asphodel

[newmemorywhodis]

1. Excavating with explosions
Excavating out the site might be backbreaking work, but Link doesn't shirk or complain. He just goes where he's needed, pulls out a sledgehammer, and gets to work.

Every now and then though, there's a large section of rock and dirt that needs to be dislodged. Something where hammers would take too long...and where there isn't anything delicate that they need to be too careful about.

At which point Link will pause. A curious, intense energy will come over him. And he will pull from his pack a flower that looks oddly like a bomb...

2. When the one ability that would be real useful is the one you don't have
Link can be found practically everywhere over the new settlement. He gathers all sorts of material and carries it where needed; bundles of wood, tools, nails. But when it comes to actually constructing anything, he's not as useful as he'd like to be.

If only he had Ultrahand. It would be real useful right now. There'd be no need for hammers, no need for nails. He could just stick together what needed to be stuck together.

He's gotten back Fuse, and Ascend, so...why not Ultrahand too?

So every now and then, Link can be seen holding out his right arm towards various random objects, as if he's hoping something will happen. But it never does, so Link just sighs.

1. Excavating with explosions

[spacetogrow]

Ilphyl is interested in the flowers, but Ilphyl can read Link's body language well enough to stay back, and maybe behind some form of cover while Link works.

[newmemorywhodis]

Ilphyl was have a brief moment to take a good look at the flower, before Link pulls out his bow, fuses the flower to his arrow, and shoots it right at an in-the-way pile of rubble.

Boom! The flower explodes, showering pieces of rock and debris across the area.

Getting behind some cover was definitely a good idea.

[spacetogrow]

"Wow. Have you been growing those flowers?" Ilphyl asked. They knew torchstalk fungi could sometimes produce volatile mushrooms, but no flowers.

[newmemorywhodis]

"Donnie has," Link says. Since Ilphyl is curious, he pulls out another - holding it out where they cane come and take a look.

That is, if they're willing to come close to an apparently very explosive plant. Link doesn't seem to be at all worried, though.

[spacetogrow]

Ilphyl glances at Link, then approaches. While Link is occasionally reckless because he doesn't explain things much, Ilphyl does trust that Link knows limits for other people. Mostly.

"Do they leave seeds behind after they blow up?" Because clearly the ecology of this is the important bit.

[newmemorywhodis]

Link pauses. Thinks about this question for a moment.

...And then realises that he has absolutely no idea. He'd never actually looked for any seeds after setting a bomb flower off. He'd always been too focused on the explosions.

So Link shrugs. Maybe?

[spacetogrow]

"Just curious. I've seen mushrooms back home that blow up to help spread their spores."

[newmemorywhodis]

"Usually new ones grow where the old one was."

Link might have to wonder off and go kill bokoblins for a while, but eventually, he'd always come back to find more bomb flowers in the place of where the ones Link had picked were.

[spacetogrow]

"What kind of places do they grow?"

[newmemorywhodis]

"Caves. The Depths," Link replies.

Deep in the ground, away from sun and light and the elements.

[spacetogrow]

"Like torchstalks back home. They're a kind of mushroom. Most of them just burn if you light them on fire, but they sometimes make puffballs that explode if you hit them too hard, or light them."

Good to know that the rule of 'under the ground is where the weird stuff grows' is a multiversal constant.

[newmemorywhodis]

Link pauses, taking in this description.

"Like exploding puffshrooms." Which, honestly, sound amazing. Link wanted some.

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[singlemilletgrain]

Giant worm monster, check. Field excavation, check. And now to till the soil for proper turnover and prepare the beds for acceptance of the seeds. It is when Shu is breaking up a particularly ornery clump of earth that she glances up to see Link using his psionic powers to telekinetically will a small wheelbarrow to move.

"..."

Nothing happens.

...Shu helpfully walks over and wheels the tool towards Link.

[newmemorywhodis]

Shu foretold that both Ascend and Ultrahand would return to him. He's already regained Ascend, so surely Ultrahand must follow.

He just...doesn't know when.

Once Shu starts trying to bring it over though, he quickly runs over to take it from her. Really, it's not like he can't still move it the usual way. He was just...testing. Just in case.

He greets her with a hum. It's a noise that sounds a bit like a cross between a hello, a thank you, and a vague expression of disappointment.

[singlemilletgrain]

"Hello, Link."

She will say the hello for him, expecting nothing in return. She will follow up, though, with --

"What... exactly are you doing?"

[newmemorywhodis]

Well, she doesn't get nothing in return. She gets a nod, and a little wave. She just doesn't get much in the way of actual words.

"Testing," he says.

[singlemilletgrain]

Shu only reads palms. She isn't so good about reading minds.

"Testing?"

His psychic ability over wheelbarrows?

[newmemorywhodis]

A shame; reading minds would probably make communicating with Link much, much easier.

"For Ultrahand," he says. "The one that sticks things."

The one she'd described as being like - what was that word she had used again? - right, like 'superglue'.

[singlemilletgrain]

"Ah!"

Yes, she understands.

"...But there is nothing to even stick it to." Just saying. Not that sticking a wheelbarrow to anything in particular would be useful, she doesn't think. "Do not be in a rush, Link. If I have learned anything in my years, it is that nothing will proceed before it is meant to. Urging it only inspires impatience and careless mistakes. And after all, you have only just gained an entertaining tool."

[newmemorywhodis]

"It lifts things." So even if there wasn't anything for Link to stick it to, there'd still be ways to make use of it.

When she urges him not to rush, he falls silent. And he understands; he really does. He'd had to claw back his own strength not just once, but twice - and both times it had been a long and arduous journey.

"...It's useful," he mumbles. And that's the core of it, really: Ultrahand would be so useful. And Link always needs to be useful too.

[singlemilletgrain]

"Do not fret. We are perfectly capable of lifting things as well. Architects and masons have been restoring buildings since time immemorial without the use of supernatural powers."

This may seem like an attempt at mollifying Link, but Shu has a long history of doing things the long and hard way without relying on any powers beyond that of an average human. Perhaps, at least, she speaks from personal experience.

"The important thing is to ensure that our work is of sufficient quality."

[newmemorywhodis]

Link hums. Not quite an agreement, but an acknowledgement. He can see where she's coming from. People have been able to make all sorts of things, without access to Ultrahand.

Still doesn't quite suppress that feeling that he could be more useful.

For now, though, there's still the wheelbarrow. "You need it?" Maybe he can at least bring something that she needs over for her?

[singlemilletgrain]

"Not at the moment. If you would like to help, though, there is a small mountain of topsoil that needs dispersing in this area. And once we are finished, to be transported to less arable regions of the settlement."

She responds, sensing his need to do something productive. Link seemed a bit more in his element blowing up sand worms than swinging a hoe.

[newmemorywhodis]

Sure, there's no explosions involved. And Link might be more used to using a hoe as a makeshift weapon than a farming tool.

But Link is also someone who never shirks a task once given to him. Sure, sometimes he might get...distracted...along the way. But he always completed it...eventually.

So Link nods, and moves over to start dispersing the soil. It's a task he does diligently, albeit with frequent pauses as he stops to collect lizards and bugs that have been disturbed.