OOC PLANNING FOR HARROGATE 2.0 SHOWDOWN

[powersthatbe]

ALL RIGHT, GHOSTS AND LIVING. IT'S TIME TO PLAN FOR A CONFRONTATION.

So. We now know that Bernkastel--or rather, the thing that is now possessing Bernkastel--has set herself up inside the poltergeist shield in the dry lakebed and is huffing ghosts. Both Malik and Armin have had confrontations with her, one after the other. Malik had the element of surprise and got away, in the process losing both his legs to the knee. Armin did not have the element of surprise and Bad Stuff happened. He's now Double Dead and existing as a disembodied mind on the text Network until the end of Jaunt. On the other hand, he was able to identify who Bern's possessor is in the process and he'll be making a psychic log to talk about it pretty soon now.

Part of the planning will no doubt be done ICly and I believe people will be getting together at Dr. Durante's cottage for that, but in the interest of streamlining things, we also have this post for people to volunteer OOCly. Without spoiling too much, we are going to need:

1) A ghost with Teleportation who will either (a) let Armin take over their body to do some ritual stuff or (b) get taught by Armin which ritual stuff to do, according to preference.
2) Living and dead people to distract "Bernkastel" long enough so said ghost can do their thing. Teleportation is definitely a plus although not all of them need it as long as some of them do.

If you think your characters can help with that, please comment here!

Comments

[whydoyoushine]

Zed/The Emperor would be willing to help with a distraction provided it's framed as helping him "deal with the usurper" or somesuch. Work with his weird logic and terrible ego, and he's good to go.

[comebewe]

The only trouble with Zed is that it might be hard to get other characters on board with him helping (Matthew, for instance, would definitely think that Zed being involved was not a good idea and would argue vehemently against it, I'm afraid)

[awitchdidit]

Beatrice would argue in favor of having an ectoplasmic meatshield, but possibly not very hard. Still, she thinks he deserves a shot at getting horribly owned by an elder god while trying to fix a problem he abetted.

Also she could technically just yank him into the fray with Summon Traveler without asking anyone. I checked the verbiage and that's not limited to Investigators.

[itsananimalthing]

... omg you should totally do that XD

[thornsofmalkav]

Holy fuck that's terribeautiful.

[whydoyoushine]

I JUST SAW THIS IT'S AMAZING

[comebewe]

Pffft well that would definitely be one way to get around objections XD Just expect Matthew to be pissed off about it later, Beato

[awitchdidit]

She should probably only do it if a vital opportunity arises, although now I'd hate to disappoint the audience.

[comebewe]

Possibly depends how much Airdra wants in? I'm sure such an opportunity could be made to happen if need be.

[whydoyoushine]

Given his track record of attempted vehicular homicide, I can 100% understand that!

(He would insist it was fine, he's royalty, he can do what he wants, I am sorry.)

[comebewe]

Matthew is very biased against people who run him over, okay XD

(sure, you can do what you want. And Matthew can also do regicide if he wants, so screw you)

[wowfurudeinfiltrator]

I am in favor of this just from a sheer hilarity standpoint.