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I can solve that mystery right now. You can call a small stream a run, and yarrows are a type of flower. There's a stream in the town around which yarrows grow. It's a Yarrow Run. I came up with the name while looking through cool-sounding Washington town names. Yarrow Point is sadly not at all in the area I wanted, but I liked the sound of it.

I'm glad you're starting to see mysteries everywhere already, though. That's the spirit I'm aiming to achieve.

Are you kidding? BASCLH is obviously an anagram, which can be deciphered to BLACHS. Add in an apostrophe, and you get Blach's. Blach's motto was "Blach's treats you fair and square". So Mars is saying that she's a fair GM. But that's not all. Blach's lasted from 1885-1987, or 102 years. 102 on the periodic table is Nobelium, named after Alfred Nobel. He is the reason for the Nobel Peace Prize. The Nobel Peace Prize is awarded to people who "have done the most or the best work for fraternity between nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses". So obviously Mars is also telling us that our group should work together and that people shouldn't fight.

Oh my.
See, Mars, it has already begun. Cass is worse than me.
(But may I say Bravo, Miss Cassandra, for such a beautiful act of codebreaking. Bravo. I tip my hat to you.)

Now I'm hoping your character is the kid who's super into UFO conspiracy theories.

GWN: Again, I'm no doctor, but...[&@%!] bro. Chlorine /=/ tear gas. Everyone in that room will suffer some combination of permanent lung/throat damage and various related symptoms, potentially up to and including death. If we want to kill or maim them, we can do that with our various explosives and guns, but I thought we wanted them to stand trial, and not...ALL of us facing trial for using chemical weapons?

GRDT:
Ohh my.

GWN: Yeaah, i may have gotten it mixed up with Tear gas as a result of the PM Kerr sent me. Tear gas is what I was meant, well, what Grace meant. I got the wrong gas in the post. However, i think, it is fairly viable to create a flashbang out of salvaged materials. Or making a tranq gun though that would be very risky and i would not be surprised if Kerr did not apply Metal Gear type instant effects.

Hohoho. Good luck with that. I'm very fond of the term dysfuncton junction for good reason.

Now...why did I use Beck's Pinefresh in the "trailer" post in Future RPs but not in the OP? Why did I link to the town of Yarrow Point, Washington just now? Could it be that I've left a little clue in a recent edit of the Wikipedia page? Is there a secret message in Pinefresh if you play it backwards? I did mention pine forests in the trailer. Why did I suddenly decide to flip my avatar upside down today? How does it all tie together? Hmmmmmmmmm...

That's too much mystery for me.

GWN: I'm not sure what kind of supplies they would have in a vault. Hoarding large gas cyclinders seems unlikely, it's more probable that they'd use injection based anesthesia for operations and such, hence why I'm just winging it with the 'using stuff from the medbay' suggestion.

Also, I hope they have vents. I'm sure Chris would know, but I haven't a clue.

Now I have an actual mini-mystery for you that you can solve.

Mystery: why does this song have a botanical illustration of a yarrow as its cover picture? What does its name mean? Why does it sound like that. Put the pieces together and you may learn something before you come across it...

Oooooo, a mystery! Hands off everyone, it's mine! *Shoves other would-be detectives out of the way, and runs off to gather clues*

BL: I haven't forgotten, not in the slightest. Which why I said you're not gonna like my plan

YR: If music is a secret then following you on Tumblr feels like it may give me an unfair advantage in this regard.

P.B sounds really good you guys, I keep wondering what the context for it's gonna be. Nightclub?

YF: I'm going to go out on a limb and suggest that it has something to do with second-sight being a fundamental part of the plot.

(In Scotish folklore, the Yarrow held to the eye is supposed to give second sight - i.e. granting us the Eye of Eden - so I'm not just making stuff up:P)

I'm tempted to make it so. Conspiracies are fun.



Also just gonna say that I got ninja'd 5 times, because of how long it took me to type this out.

That's the only thing I came up with too.

I'm loving this way too much. :lol:

Watching your players try to figure out what's going and/or panic is one of the best parts of being a GM.

I remember one time players of mine started to get really worried that they'd been poisoned because they had a drink which didn't taste nice.

I don't want to tell you how to make your character, but you should totally do this.

Is the mystery that there is no mystery?
Is the picture on the music just a Yarrow because it is part of the soundtrack for Yarrow Run? Are you just leading us all on a merry wild goose chase?

No, there actually are clues and a definite solution.

What Velvet said is way too deep for what you're looking for here. But also not wrong. He's trying to solve a much larger mystery, when the one I'm presenting you with is a very small one.

Hint: "I'm going to go get [&@%!] in the eye" is a very common phrase for Little Hill students.

GWN: Hey, the Lukester's back! And just in time!
*reads luke's speech*
Yep, see. I knew he would do a good job.

Fallout: I was sitting there after reading the post you made telling Luke to do it just like "Oh, I guess I could just have NPCs talk to each other. Not sure why the players want me to do that though." But then Unionhack came back so yay!

He also has a Plasma Defender now. Everyone else got to take stuff from the armory, it's only fair he got something too.

GWN: That's not what i would have said but yeah, i am doubtful surrender will happen just based on Luke's words. However, I hope to be wrong though, I am debating whether to have Grace speak up or try to reach the parts of the Overseer's party that have doubts about the future of the vault.

I did think that it would probably be better for a pc to talk, rather than an npc, but I felt like Chris didn't know what best to say, and from past altercations, Luke has been better with putting things across.
I thought you'd likely have Luke say for Chris to do it, and then he would have stepped up.

Or maybe, I had a sixth sense that Union was coming back. Yes.

GWN: Where as, I kinda didn't want to risk being the one to do so and furthering the risk of Grace coming off as a bit of a mary sue. Bloody hope she isn't coming across as that already. Kinda got information from Kerr regarding bits and pieces and well, feels natural that she would speak a lot on account of her position.

YR: Will we get the solution to your music mystery, Mars, or is it an ongoing investigation?

@Dov
I'm personally not seeing any Mary Sue-ness in the slightest.