The UN-common Cold [devious RP]

[Coneitic]

wonder why i havent been tracked down yet... i do have a clue to the plague.

[Gharan]

I have found it hard finding anyone with a clue and i'm so far behind that i will never finish this quest.

[Einnol]

@Gharan:  There is a summary of the clues a few posts up.  And the Laanx temple has become a sort of quarantine/hospital/base of operations, so there is a chance that someone there is either infected or relaying and gathering information.

[Under the moon]

Gharan, there is no single player 'end' to this quest. You can join in at any point.

Siteri: That varies based on your immunity. Some show up right away, while others have gone for days. You -can- be a carrier, and not show any symptoms at all. No one, I repeat no one is immune besides Kran. Your character may think he/she is immune because of uber skills in crystal healing, but that is wrong. You are not sick, nor a carrier because the virus either missed you, or did not target you.

The quest will only be solved one way, and that is for everyone to come together and share what they have seen, heard, and know. This is a puzzle, folks, and many of of you each have a piece. I dumped some pretty heavy clues in the temple last night.

As I said, this is not a single person quest, so post your clues here for everyone. Yes, that means you as well, Maulus (who was there at at least three or four clue drops...in fact, he was at the very first, and we had a conversation....)

back to the RP:

Healers have been studying the 'cold' for at least a week now, but they only find the actual common cold virus. It should have passed by now, but it acts oddly in the body. Any magic used on it is absorbed by some unknown force. After today, the infected will start to have nosebleeds randomly.

[Gharan]

I'm actually starting to gather some useful information now rather than last week when all i done was spread it 

[Donari Tyndale]

[Sorry that you get this information now, not earlier, I was on holiday.]

As I mentioned some time ago, I acquired the Circles Untar [aka the objects Untar held in his hands when he died  ] was killed for and brought them in front of Kada El's. That night I had a dream. I will share that dream with you. Close your eyes and see what I saw.

You are not yourself, and strange thoughts spin through your head. For some reason you can not explain, you are sitting on top of the wall over the gates to the Bronze Doors Road. You are happy and smiling, despite the dark night. The stars are overhead. Yes, the stars that no one but you can see. You never knew why they could not see the stars, or why they could not hear the rocks speaking quietly to the trees. Everything has a voice, if you but listen. maybe they just do not know how. The two dark figures in the shadows directly below you do not hear the wall, nor the rocks talking. They do seem angry, though. A Klyros, you think, though his form is twisted by the posions of his mistake. The poisons don't seen to mind, nor do the mushrooms he carries. Oh look at that. The other man is one of those pointy eared fellows that live underwater. He does not seem happy. His sack of coins do not seem happy either, all one hundred and twenty circles of it. They do not like being spent on what the Klyros is selling. Two cloaks...but how are they still one? You see two, but only feel one. That is very odd. Now the elf is mad because the Klyros wants more money. They give angry whispers to each other, and the klyros hits the elf on his foot hard. The elf growls, but tosses ten more cirlces on the ground, two roll under a flat stone. The klyros picks them up, and hands the elf the two cloaks that are one. The Klyros limps down the road now, away from the city. You wonder for a moment where he might live, but the thought passes quickly. The elf watches him leave, and stands there for a long time, then limps back along the wall to where he had climbed it before to get out. You wonder why he did not pass the guards. The thought passes at not important, as the coins under the rock do not like being lost. You have to do something about that, so climb down to get them. You think you should give them to one of the guards inside, but the singing of a nearby blade of grass makes you forget. You go into the city, not even wondering why the elf had been watching you the entire time from his spot on the wall. People don't matter so much anyways, as the trees have so much more to say.

Your vision flashes.... it is days later, and you remeber the coins in your pocket. Oh look, there is that Jefecra guard. You should give him the coins to return to the elf. A Menki blocks your path.....

You suddenly wake up in a sweat. You are yourself again, no longer the poet. It was just a dream....wasn't it?

[edit:]

I can see clearly now, the pieces fit together....
Janeous Creene...
acquired the cloak of shadows...
sneaked into the meeting of the Vespers and their allies...
and infected them?

[Mudis Largus]

Sorry to post this here but the pm does not appear to be working at the moment.  So did you get both coins from coneitic?  Coneitic is said to have 2 items were they both coins?  The ones thrown on the ground by the elf?  The dream you posted is the dreams from both coins correct?  Thanks

[Donari Tyndale]

[the pm doesn't work for newbs  ]
Yes, they are the objects from coneitic.

[Croconil]

[the pm doesn't work for newbs ]
Yes, they are the objects from coneitic.

[Offtopic] You must have at least 10 posts to make a PM. Spam prevention]

* Croconil watches idly by, trying to work it all out...

[rhyanon]

Conversation in the Laanx temple at ~0400 GMT, 10/19:

Alcarin says: ... Xillix...
Xillix says: Alcarin please continue
Alcarin says: We think Janeous might be back and looking for you...
Xillix says: Janeous eh?
Alcarin says: Oh, Roo, when Aeshion spoke, was it a female's voice?
Rooyannan says: I believe so Alcarin...
Alcarin says: Well that takes care of that version of the cloak of shadows story...
Rooyannan says: It was hard to hear... and I was rather frightened
Xillix says: what version?
Xillix says: alcarin
Rooyannan looks at Alcarin with a puzzled expression
Rooyannan says: You know of the cloak?
Alcarin says: Grunn said that the cloak had been enchanted so that even though it was two if one was under one half then they were under both...
Rooyannan's mind reels at the implications
Xillix says: This means any of you or even i could be janeous creene
Alcarin says: Yet if the voice Roo heard was a female's then it couldn't have been Janeous speaking...
Xillix says: Even worse does it mean aeshion and tria have both been captured by creene?tria
Xillix says: you say Aeshion spoke?
Rooyannan looks to Xillix..'yes majesty, and harshly'
Alcarin says: She said fool, where are you little fool, did she not?
Xillix says: Aeshion Cannot speak her vocal chords were burned away as a child due to a holy water incident!!!
Rooyannan nods... 'she did'
Mudis says: so who was it?
Alcarin says: Then the cloak must allow one to appear as another...
Xillix says: It certainly must have Been Janeous Creene! or one of his minions
Rooyannan says: she spoke as plain as I am standing here in front of you
Rooyannan says: she tried to get me to touch some black stone and then she threatened me
Mudis looks very concerned
Xillix says: Yes Roo it is not that Aeshion does not speak it is that she CANNOT, will never
Xillix says: so it must have been HIM
Alcarin says: Grunn said that His compulsion glyph was imbeded in a black stone...
Rooyannan nods slowly... that makes sense
Rooyannan says: When she showed me the stone she said "you WILL forget'
Rooyannan says: but I ran
Mudis says: has the missing girl tria been found?
Xillix says: Roo I am amazed you got away with your memory in tact
Alcarin says: No. She is still missing as far as Grunn and I know.
Rooyannan says: Thinking back on it... I am not sure why I did get away with my memory
Xillix says: and i am not sure you did
Rooyannan says: I started to reach out instinctively for the stone but drew back at the last moment and ran
Rooyannan says: you think my memory is altered?
Xillix says: there is a chance you are subject to the compulsion glyph right now
Xillix says: have your close friends watch your behavior
Xillix says: no we need to find her as well as aeshion
Xillix says: I need someone to make a list of all the involved parties
Xillix says: we may be able to figure out who is missing
Xillix says: tria was at my meeting where everyone initially got sick
Xillix says: if Janeous has her that explains the source
Xillix says: well no Janeous has kidnapped both aeshion and Tria and who knows how many others and is impersonating them to get close to us
Xillix says: the disease may have initially spread from the temple by Janeous hidden as tria the apple sales girl
Rooyannan says: who is Duraza?
Xillix says: Duraza the name is familiar
Rooyannan says: he has been reported to have enslaved some minds
Rooyannan says: at least that's what i was told
Alcarin nearly snaps his neck turning back to Rooyannan
Alcarin says: WHAT?
Mudis looks puzzled what?
Rooyannan jumps back at the response from Alcarin
Rooyannan says: did I say something wrong?
Rooyannan looks concerned
Rooyannan says: I... I have a friend... she told me this
Alcarin looks at Xillix, "Didn't He do the same?"
Mudis is confused, who?
Xillix says: Janeous
Mudis says: ahhh
Xillix says: Compulsion Glyph
Xillix says: but i dont know if they are directly related

  ~~Roo

[Donari Tyndale]

Truth....Lies....How are we supposed to differentiate?
There is a tool made for this purpose, and word has it it is owned by a mage who has witnessed someone spitting in the temple of Laanx. It is also known as the Eye of Truth, and rumors have it that it is for sale. Its powers could be used to see behind the Lies of the cloak, or maybe to prevent someone from discovering these Lies?

[Coneitic]

im not sure why this person would lie to you all.... that sound suspicious, there is no way he has the objects... for they are kept in two seprate locations... and as of right now they are still there.... sooo you all might want to investigate this liar... it seems silly to have something of mine when we have never met.

[Donari Tyndale]

Well, that is a great idea coneitic, keeping two circles you gave me before in two different locations. 

[Gyerfry Stoemsaber]

*Began to write down some notes.

"It seems that it gets more and more clear, then we strike a dead end. One of the sick folkes at the hospital reported seeing a blue blurr. Then I began to think. If Janeous had the cloak of shadows.. I then wondered if those with well trained eyes could possibly see someone with the cloak of shadows, even if this cold effects them. I then though that maybe Janeous was spreding the virus around while hiding using the cloak. He then used this virus to turn the ciry onto the vespers. That Janeous is a madman, and will stop at nothing to get what he wants. Kran imunity.... perhaps janeous has allyed with Talad, an Talad wouldn't want his precious creations to fall ill, either that or it's because kran are rock-based. But it targets humanoids.... only those capable of worshipping a god. and the fact that apples have something to do with it... Maybe those apple trees are enchanted to put the virus IN the apples? And a scientist came in the hospital, testing a potion for his master. When we asked his master's name he said that the master perfered to stay anyomonus. Th answer's right infront of me, I just know it...."

[Coneitic]

[this guy donari is really ruining this role play... by just out of the blue saying he has the objects of mine.... that totally ruins the ingame fun... what a meanie.]

Language warning. --Karyuu