singillppl | Tales From The Northern Territories #9

TALES FROM THE NORTHERN TERRITORIES #9 

Greetings, Interlopers! Welcome to another of your bi-monthly updates, known as Tales From The Northern Territories! The purpose of these little ‘newsletters’, is to touch base with players on how things are going within the game and the fallout of the event of the previous month. In addition, these updates will also provide some extra information on NPCs, along with any additional happenings that might be going on within the game — which may be hints towards the upcoming Test Drive Meme!

Before we jump into things, here are some dates for your diary for this month:

Activity Check — 1st - 5th
Test Drive Meme — 5th - 7th
CR Meme — 15th
Reserves — 15th - 19th
Applications — 20th - 28th

First up: some announcements / housekeeping:

CONTENT: February is a non-event month but there will be a Test Drive Meme this month, meaning that there will be an application round! We will have up to 70 slots now available, an increase of ten slots.

We hope you enjoyed your Word Association Meme last month! This month, players will have their bi-monthly CR Meme.

HOUSEKEEPING: A reminder for players that we have both a Character Location Tracker for players to use to show where their characters are each month. I will link it here, but it can be found on the Areas Page. In addition, we have a Character Impressions Sheet for players to put down first impressions/basic general knowledge of characters that was created by one of our former players! While linked here, this can be otherwise found on the Navigation pages.

JANUARY’S EVENT

THE HUNTED, PART ONE: The bear will continue to haunt and stalk Interlopers into February. As the month goes on, Interlopers who have been targeted by the bear may find claw marks on their homes, or cracks on their window, as if a great weight has been pressed against it. It seems like things are changing, and the stakes are rising.

TIES THAT BIND: The strings that Interlopers have will continue into the month of February but will begin to fade by the end of the month. By March, they will have completely disappeared, but sometimes Interlopers might swear they feel the impression of them at their fingers from time to time. Maybe they’ve never truly gone away.

WINTERSTILLE: The storm has passed. While the usual winter weather remains in place, there is nothing further like January’s storm. Interlopers will need to assess the damage and make repairs, along with uncovering the more macabre damage: find the frozen remains of humans and animals who weren’t able to escape the insta-freeze of the storm’s eye.

AND NOW... THE WEATHER

DAYLIGHT: Daylight returns to the Northern Territories, starting at five and half hours of daylight at the start of February and stretching to thirteen and a half hours by the end of March. By the end of March there will be no periods of true night, with the skies only getting as dark as Astronomical Twilight.

WEATHER: The weather is restless and unsettled, and it still feels very bitter even with the return of daylight. Snowfall and blizzards are still incredibly common, and it is often windy when the snow doesn’t fall. Temperatures will still drop into the double digits in the negatives at night, and it feels like a repeat of last year: maybe Spring will never actually come.

AURORAS: The frequencies of Auroras will begin to grow into February and March after the low period of December and January. By March, Aurora frequency will cover almost half the month.

NEW HAPPENINGS IN FEBRUARY

NEW AFFLICTION: Some Interlopers will find it hard to get warm in the month of February, no matter how hard they try. It’s as if a cold has settled deep into their bones, and even those with the Cold Fusion and Lightbringer Feats won’t be able to avoid this. As the month progresses, Interlopers will feel a kind of stiffness of the joints and find it difficult to move.

DISTURBANCES: Interlopers will occasionally hear the strange sound of chittering when out and about in Milton and Lakeside. It almost sounds like bones or glass clattering together. They may note disturbances in the snow out of the corner of their eye, as if it shifts of its own accord. Maybe it’s just the wind.

NPCs

METHUSELAH: After his short stay in late-January with the storm, Methuselah will stay around in Milton for a couple more days following, before heading out once more — wanting to explore the damage done deeper into the wilds. A little before mid-month, he will return again with game and fish. While he has discovered many frozen animals, he reports that animals have survived the freeze.

He also brings news: more Interlopers are coming this time. He is quite perturbed by this, considering there have been no new Interlopers in so long — and that perhaps no more would be brought to the Northern Territories. Feast preparations will begin, and sure enough… more Interlopers will find themselves arriving into Milton.

YOUNG BILL: Continues his intense focus on the large bear tracks found around the Northern Territories in the Lakeside area. He grows increasingly concerned and troubled with them to the point he seems on-edge — as if he can’t believe what he’s seeing.

If Interlopers explain their experiences with the bear spirit to him, he will grow horrified at what he’s hearing. He will admit that he has also experienced these ‘hauntings’, and even recount the tale of The Old Bear that can be found in the Resort’s Camp Office. If tales of the Darkwalker and Nor’pogo and now real, maybe this might be another case — another story from this place being real after all.

ENOLA: On Aurora nights, Enola can be heard. Much like she did in December and January, she still sounds exhausted. She is distracted, muttering in unintelligent whispers at times. She will not speak to Interlopers, for the most part.

However on some occasions, in late-February, she will reach out — and will be particularly loud to Interlopers with Aurora Call. She will utter names of Interlopers, and she has a message: hold on, help is coming. I’m trying my best, I swear.

Tales From The Northern Territories #9

QUESTIONS