Soggy Brown Envelope

## Description

*Soggy brown envelopes found in Block 000. Contained some money and a smeared, handwritten note.*

## Quest Chain

While exploring the sodden caverns of the labyrinth, Youngjin Lee and Niles Bazarov come across a soggy brown envelope. Contained inside are £20 and a small note, with much of the ink blotted out by water.

The next time Niles and Youngjin check their wallet, they will notice £5 inexplicably missing. Not a insignificant sum for a student in this time at all! What happened to it? And why have the words "***BAD BLOKE YOU COCONUT**"* suddenly appeared on this shitty envelope they picked up in the dungeon the other day?

Even more worrisome is the way they've noticed things in their dormitory shifting, now and then, in the corner of their eyes. Little things have disappeared - like teacups, and shoelaces, and their room keys. They can hear things scuttling in the shadows at night. Something is surely amiss.

Where have all their missing items gone? They've had to procure a second key for their rooms! That shit ain't cheap! And stuff *keeps going missing*! Whatever's going on needs to stop!

(... Also, how dare this asshole call you a coconut?!)

 **Counter Librarian Cost:** £2

### Niles and Youngjin; January 3, 2017

£10 and a Purple Harebell seem to have disappeared from Niles Bazarov's pockets. How did that happen? Was he distracted, or something? What's going on...? The words **BAD BLOKE YOU COCONUT** have been written on every pair of underwear Niles owns in permanent marker.

£10 and a Scuttlespore Trumpet seem to have disappeared from Youngjin Lee's bag. What's going on? Who is this sneaky asshole??? The words **BAD BLOKE YOU COCONUT** have been written fourteen times on Youngjin's ceiling in permanent marker.

Niles Bazarov feels something brush against his sleeve - and then laughter, in his ear, ("Thief! Coconut!")- but nobody seems to see or hear anything, other than him. When he checks his pockets, £2 has gone missing.

## Quest Chain: Niles Bazarov

### Niles, Cade, Damiel, and Taesong; January 4, 2017

Frustrated with this thief - possibly an entity - heckling him, Niles consults three colleagues: Cade Moriarty, Damiel Lye, and Taesong Jun. Cade lays a trap of poison in the office during one of its heists, hoping to deter it. But while they discuss the pressing matter, the words **BAD BLOKE YOU COCUHNUT** appear around Niles' wrist, glowing red, before assuming the appearance of a tattoo.

Happenings become stranger as he attempts to appease it: he offers the entity twenty pounds that Taesong has lent him by placing it inside the original soggy envelope. Instead, twenty pounds disappear from his *pockets*, instead. Two tiny handprints covered in ash appear on Niles' wrist, before he feels a breeze by his ear. He hears laughter, as footsteps begin to race down the corridor - but though he can hear it, he can't see a thing.

Though Niles tries to offer it apologies, it seems unmoved. He offers it twenty pounds of his own - in fact, all the twenty-pound notes he has in his wallet, hoping one is the original!

... and they all disappear, leaving him with only eight pounds. When Niles searches the room, he notices a small scattering of one-pence coins, in the arrangement of the words "COCONUT". The coins scatter, floating - before they explode, like tiny firecrackers, into small bursts of brightly-colored leaves and glittering pebbles. He picks up a Gold-painted Pebble from the floor.

 **Counter Librarian Cost:** £1

Enough is enough! Attempting to apologize again, he writes an apology letter for taking the envelope, and leaves a dish of homemade food for the entity. When he checks on the dish again, he notices that the food has been eaten! But the letter he's written has been... soaked in.... *He doesn't want to know what it's been soaked in. All that's important is that it smells far too unsanitary to touch.*

Perhaps this is past the point of reasoning. Perhaps this - *this is the precipice of war.*

*After you've submitted a log for the completion of the above prompt,* *Niles can choose to investigate this item through the library or plan some kind of trap to capture the entity - or both. Doing either will take a roleplay.*

* *If he attempts to find more information about the entity through the library, you can use the command (!investigate soggy\_brown\_envelope) to receive the information he learns at the library. Please don't read this prompt until you've reached an acceptable point in your roleplay.*
* *Developing a trap will require a roleplay of planning his trap: the features of the trap will be determined during this roleplay by the conclusions your characters have gathered so far about what they deem necessary in order to capture the entity. A successful capture will require your trap to meet three criteria currently unknown to you.*

*When you've completed one - or both - or neither - of these prompts, please place your log on the Update Spreadsheet.*

### Niles, Cade, Damiel, and Taesong; January 4, 2017

Niles, Cade, Damiel, and Taesong enter the library in search of information about the entity harassing Niles. They find a book in the library detailing the Scrouging Pixie.

*It is for this reason that they frequently select a target to hex. The craftiest of Scrouging Pixies form these hexes by tricking humans into falling into a curse of balance - should a target mistakenly steal from them, they seem able to steal from their target with reckless abandon. Curiously enough, this thievery seems to include a target's magic, too: they have earned their second name (the Thieving Pixie) for their ability to mirror the powers of their hex's target to a certain degree, allowing them to....*

Perhaps this is it? The bugger that bugged Niles? The coconut? The coconut bugger??

Thinking to trap it, the team begins to develop a plan to trap the pixie in Niles' office. They turn off the lights in the room, with the food that the pixie likes on Niles's desk. Niles is in the room, with a damp cloth over his nose to negate the effects of the gas. Cade sets harmless gas in the whole room to detect the presence of the pixie. Taesong sets a grass field all over the ground that will sprout to grasp onto the pixie when the pixie comes around. Upon announced whether the pixie's presence is there, Damiel will also use gravity to drag the pixie down to the ground.

 **Counter Librarian Cost:** £There are no counter librarian hints for this objective.

*Schedule a roleplay with Thumper to discover the outcome of the trap that the party has set.*

### Niles, Cade, Damiel, and Taesong; January 5, 2017

The trap worked, to an extent.

While Damiel, Taesong and Cade were waiting outside of the closed office to look out for the presence of the pixie, boxes sprung to attack them. The grass rustled while Song was distracted by the box, but Cade could feel a presence of an entity in the room. Upon hearing the ruckus, Damiel's gravity pulled the pixie onto the ground, and Cade turned the gas in the room into sleeping gas.

Niles fought gravity to get it off of his head before squeezing it with his hand, breaking its arm and wings. In return, somehow the arm that was marked was also broken, and he fell unconscious from the sleeping gas that Cade implemented. Damiel, Taesong and Cade brought Niles to the infirmary, along with the pixie that they captured into a vial.

Niles, Cade, Damiel and Taesong plan to investigate and ask the pixie about where the things it stole from Niles were.

Everything about this situation seems strange, really. Damiel's magic was most *certainly* not strong enough to break Niles' arm. How could it have? His uniform pin was limiting his magic usage far below anything that could harm a normal human being. So what happened, then? What's the tattoo? And what will the pixie say, when it wakes?

 **Counter Librarian Cost:** £1

*Schedule a roleplay with Thumper to discover the outcome of their investigation.*

### Niles, Cade, Damiel, and Taesong: January 6, 2017

The pixie wakes. At first, it is full of animosity: it insists that someone has stolen its precious thing.

Through investigation with Damiel's social skills, they found out that Niles had stolen the pixie's precious thing - and it turned out, from deduction, that the "brick" was the letter turning gross from being in the labyrinth water, and "the silver thing" that the pixie was looking for was a paperclip.

Cade took a paperclip from Niles's office room, and Song forged a fake letter to the letter that they picked up from the labyrinth.

The pixie gives them a warning that someone has *stuck a hole in the roots of the Mother Tree*, and that the ensuing events will not bode well. It also suggests to them that should they find the *blue wood* to burn it. It tells Damiel - and only Damiel - its name (Pridd, of the Dirt). The group gives both of the items to the pixie, and the pixie reveals that all of the missing items were beneath Niles's window.

He immediately teleported there to check it out.

 **Counter Librarian Cost:** £N/A

Should the party check beneath his window, buried in the snow and dirt are all his missing belongings: except for the *Purple Harebell*, which the pixie believes Niles doesn't deserve. Due to their interactions during the prompt, the pixie insists that Niles no longer earns the right to the friendship of the faeries.

However, true to its word, it removes the hex. The strange markings around Niles' wrist disappear as soon as the pixie leaves through the infirmary window. Buried underneath the shrub are four Tiny Silver Bells, and a single Tiny Golden Bell, as well as all of Niles' missing money.

For now, the crisis seems to be solved.

## Quest Chain: Youngjin Lee

Who on earth would steal money straight out of the dormitories? Who *does* that? If Youngjin asks Lucille Beauchamp for ideas, she can at least tell him that if a girl were to rob him in broad daylight, the girl wouldn't be so disgusting as to leave *red hairs and smears of dirt* on Youngjin's bed, as they made off with another £2.

... Wait, what?

 **Counter Librarian Cost:** £1

When Youngjin returns to his dormitory with another character in tow, Youngjin's bed has been smeared with tiny footsteps of mud, foul-smelling and stuck to the sheets in terrible ways. His belongings have been rifled through - his desk is in complete disarray! On close inspection, on the floor are wiry red hairs. And if he checks, another £2 is missing from his wallet. Who would do such a thing?

*Youngjin can either choose to investigate the hair or the stains of dirt on his bed. Investigating the hair will require a bit of knowledge of the biology lab, or someone that knows how to use a microscope (use !investigate soggy\_brown\_envelope\_1 when looking at the hair under a microscope with a friend).*

*Inspecting the stains of dirt can be done just by staring at Youngjin's bed in horror. Sorry, Youngjin. Use (!investigate soggy\_brown\_envelope\_2*).

*Complete one or both of these prompts and turn your log in to the Update Spreadsheet with your next path of action for another prompt.*

### Youngjin and Charlie; January 18, 2017

Horrified at the state of his room, Youngjin asks Charlie Truman for a second pair of eyes to try and discern the culprit. Charlie suggests that perhaps he's caught the wily eyes of *gnomes* or similar *fairyfolk*, and mentions that perhaps Youngjin's taken something he shouldn't have. But then again, what use does a cave have for money? Regardless, Youngjin is spurred to action. He can't just sit around and wait to be robbed!

Youngjin considers ripping the envelope up. Perhaps that'll attract whatever's stealing his money right to him!

*If you take this path of action, you'll need to schedule a roleplay with Thumper through Skype or the Update Spreadsheet. Youngjin needs at least one other friend present when he tears the envelope up!*