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Character: rem, xenk, dongfang, Kimmuriel, turo, and potentially others!
Type: not sure if quest or investigation? more like a mini plot that can contribute to an event or excursion
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HELLO SO. I just wanted to organize a list & summary for y'all wonderful mods just so you know who's contributing, who's doing what, and what the goals are regarding the characters' tombstone/ghost ship research. Mostly because this seems like a pretty big task they're undertaking, and also because this is a cross-canon, cross-crew, and cross-armada joint force that wishes to explore!
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1. The ghost ship! The volunteers have an idea of narrowing down a list by looking through old harbor logs. Now, Rem is assuming that given the vessel's apparent grand size and style, it would have some sort of public record of it being anchored in a port, built, chartered for an excursion, or documented somewhere. Here is a list of clues they can use:
(1) vessel style, which is historical and can be narrowed down to a time frame
To do this, Rem, Donfang, & Xenk agreed to tackle the three main ports in investigating harbormaster logs together (Eltrut, Nogard, and Elah)-- and that's if they would be granted access to look through various logs. Kimmuriel is also helping. They would start with contacting asking permission of relevant authorities and owners, then move on to attempting to persuade any harbormaster or marina supervisors that knowing the origin of the ghostship is pertinent to their business' safety, if not the peace of the port itself. They would also ask around for clues from the locals. As for the other islands/ports (Atnam, Naughtilust) they have considered them as possibilities too, but there're only four volunteers at this point, and this month is as much as they can handle. This is kinda a monumental task, and with other things going on, their research is slowwww. Still, they at least hope to narrow down potential suspect vessels.(2) size, because similar to more modern marinas, ye olde marinas' capacity, water depth, and infrastructure also determined which size vessels can be appropriately accommodated
(3) whatever vessel fits the above criteria, the characters would eliminate any that were later marked to return to port (because clearly, the ghost ship never returned). Of the list of "ships-that-never-returned to port" that fit the size and historical type, they would also eliminate ships that have confirmed wreckages, were destroyed in battle, or were scuttled. This would leave them with a list of ships that left port but were never later accounted for their disappearance.
As for unique identifiers on the ghost ship (sigils and stuff), Prof. Turo happened to take some photos of the ship and the tombstone and shared them with the group! Even if they don't have the name of the vessel, they're hoping to use those identifiers to match to similar markings that might be listed in the harbor logs. If and when they are reopened to the public, the characters would like to also cross-match these same markings to things in the archives.
Goals.
(1)If and when they find their missing ship, they want to determine to where it sailed, and possibly, for what purpose. It's unknown if the tombstone was on the ship when it left port, or if the ship sailed away and then, somehow, encountered the tombstone.
(2) Eventually, they'd all like to travel to where went.
2. Tombstone itself. And this is specifically for when the archives open again: the characters wish to cross-match the script on the tombstone to other texts (i.e. if the author wrote any other works since there are other relics, made maps, etc.), and if the script is in a leger, to decipher it. Dongfang has a lot of experience looking over older texts, the others are willing to help, and Prof. Turo is also contributing a lot to this, whose background gives him the ability to pour over and process large swaths of data. Given that part of the latter's background is in analyzing ancient ledgers, he's kinda primed for this part of the research project, too. No doubt this will take more time, though, if they can even manage it.
Goals. They have a few ambitious ones which are dependent on how successful you want them to be, but here goes:
(1) to potentially link the work of this tombstone's maker to other relics, scrolls, maps, mentions of blood sacrifices, and stuff
Some additional notes that are relevant to characters' motivations:(2) to find out where the tombstone's origins were;
(3) to find out whose "soul"?? might be within the tombstone, or if they can at least identify an author or cult or w/e that might link it to other relicts (or possibly eliminate this theory if this is a one-time thing for the author). If the relics are linked by the same author, Kimmuriel believes one of the shards of the tombstone can be used to find others.
(4) to decode the script on it. like does it say something spooky??
(4) eventually, if they haven't found out where the ship went to yet in part 1, they wish to use the data gathered as a lead to where the tombstone is from.
(1) Xenk pretty much wants to find a way to destroy the tombstone and similar relics for good, especially if the soul inside the tombstone is lich-like
Rem, Donfang, Xenk, Kimmuriel, and Turo are the characters contributing so far! volunteers to help out are still being accepted tho', and I can update as needed to show who's helping out with what.(2) Rem has a vested interest in finding other old relics that she can potentially strip of spooky power and use for herself
Date: Whenever there's an open slot within a month for their research to come to fruition and that allows the ability to explore (1) to where the ghost ship went & (2) any leads on the tombstone relic. Like, a lot of the above is assuming the information even exists in the archives when they're publically open again, and it's all determined on how successful you want this group to be!
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