May II Event Results

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may ii event results
EPISODE 2: Bathhouse Blitz! Save the Black Cat and the Golden Butterfly!
May 25 - May 31
TIMELINE
5/25-5/29 Dowsing Machines
5/27 Art Contest
5/28 Investigate: Bathhouse
5/30 Mystery Plot
5/31 Showdown: Vaporpilia & Rescue: Niangniang

Dowsing Machines Natalia Kalim Jamil Hope Mutsumi	Art Contest Natalia Kalim Maya	Investigate: Bathhouse Mutsumi Kalim
Showdown: Vaporpilia Natalia Jamil	Rescue: Niangniang Natalia Kalim	Mystery Plot Hope Maya

dowsing machines
Natalia - 15
Kalim - 2
Jamil - 6
Hope - 3
Mutsumi - 17
+1 SP to Natalia, Kalim, Jamil, Hope, and Mutsumi
Nautis has everyone track Niangniang with her custom-made dowsing machines so that she can put together a map showing Niangniang's most likely location at different times of day. Unfortunately, most of the group saw little success: the only clear data they have is "Everwave Academy during the daytime on school days" and "Golden Butterfly Bathhouse some evenings". Certain attendees of Everwave Academy may have failed to pick up entirely on the fact that the dowsing machines' beeping increased around a certain certified freak.

art contest
Natalia - 3
Kalim - 17
Maya - 21
+1 SP to Natalia, Kalim, and Maya

Maya

Her submission is an ink-and-watercolor portrait of a woman dancing in ribbon-like stripes of watercolor. it's not immediately clear who the subject is, but those particularly well acquainted with a certain sister of Maomao's might think it looks familiar...

Ultimately, though, the face of the figure is concealed by one of those ribbony lengths of fabric. there are no pearls or seashells on the piece at all, but there is mica powder in the water colors! She's just hoping for a score lower than Pearl's.

Mission accomplished, Maya! Despite her expectations, Shelley is absolutely captivated by Maya's painting — and even moreso by Pearl's submission. They both get full marks, Pearl wins the art contest, and now Shelley wants to meet the artist behind the watercolor painting.

Kalim

Unwieldy clay sculpture of an elephant :) It's really glittery. Kalim is having a glitter moment. You did this Shelley

Shelley is encouraging Kalim's glitter moment in the hopes that it will become a glitter movement. Kalim gets third place!

Natalia

Natalia (grudgingly) submits what turns out to be the work of several blocks of clay-- a small cliffside, carefully painted, with purple-black writhing arms pulling down... someone. You can only see the hand emerging, clutching a single giant pearl in its grip, until you look down and see that under the 'water' and surrounded and being dragged down is the suggestion of a single lapis eye.

Some sculpted sea-shells and other abyssal creatures (not... Abyssal, but like... bottom-feeders) complete the piece.

Natalia's submission is disqualified on the grounds of offensive subject matter. Shelley declines to offer any further explanation.

investigate: bathhouse
TEAM: Mutsumi & Kalim
Roll 1: Gather information about the mysterious salts and the baths - FAIL
Roll 2: Be subtle about it - FAIL
Nautis wants more info about the Golden Butterfly Bathhouse, and that means she needs samples. She sends Mutsumi and Kalim to the bathhouse bring back samples of the new bath salts and some of the bathwater itself, and to see what clues they can find around the bathhouse. Not only do they fail to learn anything new about the energy harvesting that might be happening here, they also fail spectacularly at doing so without attracting attention. Turns out two absurdly rich kids asking for a bucket of bathwater from a quaint historic bathhouse is pretty suspicious.

They do buy some of the new bath salts for Nautis, though — maybe that'll still tell them something?
+2 SP to Mutsumi and Kalim

showdown: vaporpilia
TEAM: Natalia & Jamil
Roll 1: Defeat Vaporpilia - SUCCEED
Roll 2: Minimize injuries to themselves and bystanders - SUCCEED
Though neither the dowsing machines nor the investigation yielded too much information, it's just enough for Nautis to go on — and on the afternoon of the 31st, she sends an urgent message to all Nova Knights because she's finally able to pinpoint Niangniang's current location: the Golden Butterfly Bathhouse! Everyone needs to head over there right now, because Nautis's scanners tell her that the enemy is also on their way.

All seems calm when they first arrive, but before long, customers begin fleeing in a panic from the baths once a giant menacing butterfly woman made of steam emerges. She calls herself Vaporpilia, and she makes it immediately clear that she's here for the same reason they are: Niangniang. After knocking down the walls separating the different baths, she'll attack with bursts with hot water and try to suffocate the Nova Knights with steam while her lesser monsters secure Niangniang. Fortunately, Jamil & Natalia are successful in making quick work of Vaporpilia, allowing Natalia to join Kalim in the rescue effort, as well as avoiding any civilian casualties and serious harm to themselves.
+3 SP to Natalia and Jamil

rescue: niangniang
TEAM: Natalia & Kalim
Roll 1: Rescue Niangniang from the enemy - SUCCEED
Roll 2: Prevent harm to Niangniang - SUCCEED
Once the mayhem starts, Nautis instructs Kalim to follow his dowsing machine to Niangniang's exact location while Natalia and Jamil handle Vaporpilia. Nautis assures Kalim that he will know Niangniang when he sees her and that he needs to fight off the rest of the monsters emerging from the baths until he can get help from his fellow Knights. The monsters all look like massive caterpillars made of water, and similarly to Vaporpilia, they'll shoot bursts of hot water at you, but their primary form of attack is to drown their victims by encasing them in water from their bodies or pulling them underneath the surface.

Fortunately, once Natalia joins the fray, they're able to drive away the monsters until all that's left of them is a few fragrant splashes of water. When the steam clears, they will find a miserably drenched black cat dragging itself out of the bath.
+3 SP to Natalia & Kalim

mystery plot
TEAM: Hope & Maya
Roll 1: Defend themselves in battle - FAIL
Roll 2: Escape capture - FAIL
The night before the showdown and rescue mission, Maya and Hope are out tracking Niangniang with their dowsing machines, they run afoul of Prince Shellustria himself. Shellustria has been all too eager to meet more Nova Knights, and he attacks them on sight. Despite their best efforts, Maya and Hope find themselves overwhelmed by a villain far more powerful than the monsters they've faced so far.

Not only do they both suffer serious injury, they're unable to escape before Shellustria's fan snaps open and circles wildly until a small portal to an endless void appears in the air. Before they know it, they've both been trapped in the Abyss.

If you wish, you can also have your character go into eclipse as a result of this mission failure.
+5 SP to Hope & Maya
Note: This mission was originally listed as 3 SP, but given the IC and OOC impact on the characters involved, the SP gain was increased to 5.

ABOUT BEING TRAPPED IN THE ABYSS: Maya and Hope will be absent from the Chalra City goings on of the first in-game week of June I, and they will not be eligible to sign up for missions for June I. Instead, they will be automatically signed up for an escape mission (which will grant SP).

This doesn't mean you can't thread, of course! It just means that Maya and Hope won't be able to make contact with any of the other Nova Knights until they've either been rescued or escaped. They can brave the horrors together, though!

The details of what Maya and Hope experience in the Abyss will be included in the June I Game Update.

summary/aftermath
Though the dowsing machines and Kalim & Mutsumi's investigation aren't a ton of help, they're still able to defeat Vaporpilia and save Niangniang! Mutsumi arrives at the bathhouse a bit too late to be of much help, and Hope and Maya don't show up at all. Everyone present at the bathhouse finds out in pretty short order that the secret identity of Niangniang the cat is Maomao, who is a lot less excited about this than they are.

Once the dust has settled, Nautis tries to contact the two Nova Knights who never made it to the battle, only to discover that they're nowhere to be found in Chalra City. Nautis realizes too late that Maya and Hope must have been trapped in the Abyss by the enemy. The situation isn't hopeless, however — unlike Nova Zenith's case, she can still track their magical signatures, even if only faintly, which means they can be saved.

After analyzing the bath salts from the Golden Butterfly, Nautis confirms that they're a tool by the enemy meant to harvest energy, something that is definitely becoming a pattern with the Harbingers. They'll need to put a stop to the sale of these bath salts, and, ideally, in a way that doesn't mean the business folds. For some reason Nautis delegates this task to Maomao, who begrudgingly agrees because she likes Granny Chocho and doesn't want to see the bathhouse close down.

+8 SP	Natalia
+7 SP	Kalim
+5 SP	Maya Hope
+4 SP	Jamil
+3 SP	Mutsumi

Please comment below if you have any questions! The event log will have a top level for each limited mission, and if you're curious, here are the rolls for this event. All rolls are d20 unless noted otherwise, and the skill ratings of 1-4 are converted into modifiers of -1 to 2. Other modifiers include the headcount for each mission, combat type, and eclipse, which are added to the total modifier.

Don't forget to take down your new SP! As of this post, event SP is immediately granted and you can go hit up the rewards page if you so choose.