EVENT #07: ASPHODEL CONSTRUCTION PROJECT

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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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[purplexing]

"Essentially. But then I don't know what you mean to try manifesting..."

Donnie looks at her expectantly as he wonders if she's attempting to do just that. He can't really tell.

"Uuh..." The turtlekin frowns at the question, letting his magical construct dissipate. "That's so automatic a process that I wouldn't know where to start. I guess it's not so much directing my legs to move so much as knowing where I want to move to, right?"

[singlemilletgrain]

She nods with a faint smile.

"That is exactly how I make the plants grow. They just do. So you see why purposefully using Ether may feel like an alien concept. However... I believe I am having a brainwave by speaking to you."

Shu places her hands with interlaced fingers and palms pointing up by her abdomen.

"There is a Yanese meditation form called 'qigong.' It is the art of channeling your qi - or breath. If you remember what I told you before about qi... it is the energy latent within your body." With eyes closed, she begins to move her hands slowly through a series of odd and rhythmic motions. Her voice, when she speaks, is slowed. "By opening the qi flow... one might open the mind... to enhance health... and move energy through one's breath..."

With a deep exhalation, a cloud of vapor seems to manifest from her breath.

"...How was that?"

...Since her eyes were closed and all.

[purplexing]

Donnie tilts his head as he watches her. He nods a little, he remembers what qi is.

Through breath though? He looks a little confused at the concept, but as Shu exhales something like steam, the turtlekin blinks.

"It was like...you know, when it's cold and your breath freezes in the air? I saw it right then."

[singlemilletgrain]

"Hmm..."

A lighter exhalation and Shu resumes her normal stance.

"That is something." She smiles lightly. "I do not understand what you do, because it is unique to the way your mind functions. So I must find what is unique to my own. If I envision Ether as qi, I think I can find a way."

[purplexing]

"That's just it, I think," Donnie says, smiling a little. "Figuring out how to make it work for you. You already do amazing things, so I don't doubt you'll be able to work out how to make use of Ether in a way that makes sense to you."

[singlemilletgrain]

"Thank you for your tutelage, Donnie."

Shu nods and bows very slightly in acknowledgment of his help, even if he does not feel like he was directly teaching her.

"I will strive to move forward from here. ...In the meantime, perhaps we ought to adjourn from rock-breaking for lunch."

((I think this is a good place to leave off if that's ok with you!))

[purplexing]

((*thumbs-up!*))