Announcements

[Hilja Kukkanen/Sasha Pisarev]

This is where you will find announcements about what is transpiring in the story.

[Hilja Kukkanen/Sasha Pisarev]

5-13
I will probably miss some things but here is a post on some of the things that transpired in the main story:

Li Violette gave a speech in Moscow on the voluntary closings of hospitals

Anthony West from Genetech did various experiments, one involving the creation of a dangerous creature that had to be killed

Grzegor met Alexei at a cafe in Moscow. Patrick was also there. They discussed the Manalists a little and went to a club. Alexei later left to complete a drug deal. The next day Grzegor and Patrick met again for more discussion

Alexei and Sakari worked together distributing a shipment of opium from Afghanistan, they then met with Kaschei who told Sakara that because he used some cocaine he would have to work for the mafia for another year. Alexei had actually been the one who used the cocaine. Both are told to travel to a Finnish hospital to deliver morphine

The Economic Council decides to postpone talks on making caffeine, alcohol, and nicotine completely illegal

Peter and Dinari discuss Dinar's agenda. Dinari talks about wanting to take over Cuba and turn it into a resort. Cuba is currently home for some rebels. Peter goes there and kills the rebel leader so it is easier to take over the country

Tuvi and Dinari returned to Dinari's mansion for burgers. Anthony West will be coming over to show them some products from Allmart. Peter returned and will also look at the products.

Keitoleinen met with Eun Kiriyama to discuss work she is doing for SOTA as well as her past work for Intelligent Design.

Hilja went out picking strawberries. Something strange happened and she woke up later with a hole in her dress, but no wound. She went home and fell asleep.

[slowpoke]

5-17

-Anthony met with Dinari, they discussed new products for all mart, Anthony then took Dinari and his associates to his lab in Dublin where he showed them other products

-Keitoleinen spoke with Linnea, the conversation ended with Keitoleinen reaffirming his power over Linnea and threatening to blackmail her, Linnea ignores him and Keitolenin leaves

-Hilja on the way to a job interview meets Attis, who is running from the manalist police for stealing then trapping people in vines, Hilja talks briefly with Attis before being interrupted by Charon who reveals to Hilja that Attis is the son of Forest demon, Charon then takes Hilja back to his house and hires her as his gardener

-Alexei meets a fairy named Asphodel who tells him about Attis and tells him to go to Charon for more info, Alexei then finds Attis tracks and follows them,during his tracking he met with Linnea Korpela they briefly discussed art. Alexei found Beth Bathory and they asked Charon for help on finding/capturing Attis, Charon however was unable to help

-Peter and Tuvi are acting to acquire the Island of Cuba to build a resort on. the Russian Mob has noticed the island's troubles and is attempting to make a move of their own by ordering the dragon Machiavelli to go to the island.


-Patrick returned to his factory in London

(If i miss anything of importance please PM me, I'm fairly new to the announcement business)

[slowpoke]

5-22

-Anthony makes a shrub for Genetech, the plant is recieved by Master Scrag himself

-The unrest in Cuba continues, Dinari makes a speech about how he intends to spread Manalism in Cuba, meanwhile both the dragons Cephrien and Machiavelli are both in Cuba, Cephrien then appears at Dinari's house and questions him about the Cuban riots

-Li Violette gives a speech about the abuse of red leaf


-Calithin Crest and Ronja have a small get together with Hilja and Charon at Charon's house

-Tuesday DeCastro interviews Calithin


((I've no doubt missed some things, i'm trying my best and i'm not quite understanding a few events, please PM with anything you have to add))

[Hilja Kukkanen/Sasha Pisarev]

May 28


Hilja and Kasper tried to deliver papers for their party, but they were attacked by a Creditor android. Hilja and Kasper had to flee the scene and were saved by Bambi, who distracted the Creditor

Peter has been hanging out with Bambi, getting to know her. He is disgruntled with the situation in Cuba

Li Violette sent Lena to investigate an underground newspaper for rebels.

Tuesday DeCastro spent time with Calithin talking about her job and other things with him. They seem to be getting along.

Linnea was captured by the Manalists when she was tricked by Tristan Tuzanic. She was finally released when Keitoleinen paid to have her released and Eun picked her up from the Manalist prison. Linnea then had to make cookies and play pictionary with Keitoleinen and Calithin.

Alrick Vayne gave a loan to Bonifaz Artz who visited him on behalf of Artz Lehrer Pharmaceuticals

The Russian Mafia forced Dinari Dollar to sign a contract concerning Cuba. They would like him to turn a blind eye to their activities there. He fearfully agreed to this.

Venice Ashgrove went after Nadi Shynan, who had left the Invisible Hand. Tristan showed up and offered to have Nadi join the Manalists instead.

Azure was doing deliveries when he met Khalessa and a strange man named Lucio.


Attis met Bambi briefly but was confronted by Thoren Danielsen about drug related crimes. He fled the scene.

[Hilja Kukkanen/Sasha Pisarev]

May 31


Hilja read a book in the part about the history of Manala mining. Calithin saw this and they talked for a while, later finding a hedgehog and giving it a bath.

Calithin met with Momo, the head of Intelligent Design. She wanted to buy some land in Northern Ireland from him. He agreed to this. She told him that she send him cookies which never arrived.

The cookies meant for Calithin were to be delivered by Azure, who gave the cookies to Lucio, a strange fellow. Lucio was chased away by a Creditor and Azure is now with Kaleasa trying to get new cookies.

Lucio ran away, got a job, then met with Linnea at her gallery. Linnea is worn out from having been captured. She made cookies for Calithin and Keitoleinen. She is untrusting of him due to her earlier problem from trusting Tristan

Annabelle of Belle Sodas met with the Moderator to discuss events in France which upset her. He was mildly interested. Later Li violette met with him and discussed various business things. Li Violette warned him of Annabelle

Dinari talked to Peter briefly after Peter hung out with Bambi. Peter is worried about Dinari, but has plans to deal with the Mafia

Anthony West has been listening to Virgil's ramblings at a lab in Dublin

Alexei met with Tuvi to built a better relationship between Allmart and the Mafia

Horacio sent a letter to anarchists calling upon them to visit him in Allwhere, Florida.

Malak and Tuesday are going to America to do a story. They talked to Lena a bit, who Malak was suspicious of. Tuesday was not as worried.

[Hilja Kukkanen/Sasha Pisarev]

May 5

-Li Violette sent Tyler Bargrin to Allwhere Florida to deal with an anarchist leader named Horacio Hatfield

-Horacio invited anarchists to visit him in Allwhere. The Qassim twins set out to find him, as did Tuesday and Malak from Socialist Revolution

-Horacio was attacked by Tyler and sent to the hospital. His coworkers at the Allwhere textile factory were also hurt or killed

-Dinari, Alexei, Peter, and Tuvi are discussing matters related to the mafia in Cuba

-A creditor android attacked Gabriel over a late payment. Gabriel works for Sota and programs Creditors

-Hilja met with her brother Dr. Lonnrot, the greatest psychologist in the world

-Momo toured Genetech's lab after striking a deal with Calithin concerning land in Northern Ireland. She was skeptical that Virgil was really a prophet

-Annabelle Bourbon met with the Moderator to voice her concerns with Vivien LaFramboise

-Ariel Tal Shachar hired Lena as his body guard due to his own safety concerns

-Kaschei is still meeting with Machiavelli.

-Hector wanted a job with Allmart but instead was distracted by a woman named Tayler jones. Hector has ties to the mafia and is a member of Red Infinity

[Hilja Kukkanen/Sasha Pisarev]

June 10

-Tuesday and Malak escape Allwhere with Horacio and head to England, where they go to a club to find medicines for Horacio from a dealer. Both feel that they are in danger, so they travel to Cuba

-Hilja and her brother Dr. Lonnrot travel to Allwhere florida by accident because of a teleportation booth malfunction. They meet up with maeve a tattoo artist and Alexei. They travel to Cuba to get tattoos at Maeve's shop.

-Everyone gets tattoos at Maeve's shop, meanwhile, Alexei is involved in a drive by shooting with kills a wealthy rebel supporter and several others. He returns to the tattoo shop. Tuesday and Malak arrive at the tattoo shop and learn of the shootings. Everyone decides to travel to Ireland where things are safer

-Lonrott teleports everyone to Ireland so that he can do some work while they tour Genetech's lab.

-Virgil has escaped Genetech's lab. Kaleb and Anthony are searching for him in Ireland.

-Peter and Tuvi try to figure out who attacked Allmart's textile factory in Allwhere

-Keitoleinen tells Linnea they should go out to a club together so she can meet new people

-Eun hangs out with Lucio, both talk for a while

-Benjamin Dionysus informs Li Violette that there are some financial mismanagement issues that the governing council is concerned with. Li Violette vows to look into it. Li gives a speech on addiction and informs Tyler that she can no longer fund him.

-Tyler sets off to find Horacio and scare him again.

[Hilja Kukkanen/Sasha Pisarev]

July 20

These are from members on what is up with characters in the rpg:

Kizu and Hex met Taylor, Akira, Hilja and Aubrey. Kizu has been trying to get everyone to go out to eat to get to know one another since she doesnt have friends and wants to have some desperately.

Tuesday was attacked by Markus (again), and Maeve and Alexei came from Ireland to her hotel room soon after. They formed a plan to attack Markus, which they did. Before they could finish him off, Lena, who Tuesday had talked with about rebel newspapers on another occasion, showed up, and made Tuesday a deal. She said that if they let her leave with Markus' body, she'd help find Malak, Tuesday accepted. Following that, Tuesday noticed that Alexei was in bad shape from the brawl, and took him back to her hotel, where she cleaned him up and talked with him. Now she's at Genetech, with the intention of finding out more about Malak's captor, at the moment, she's helping Bambi sort out papers.

Taylor met Kizu and Hex outside her apartment, who were later joined by Akira 69 and Hilja. They were talking when Aubrey 16 came and insulted Kizu's and Hilja's clothing. Now they're leaving Aubrey and going to lunch.

Niel talked with Linnea and is having her contact Keitoleinen for him so that he can try to take him down.

Damascus talked to Bambi Engel and sold drugs to Anthony West at Genetech.

Bambi:

- When Markus gets wounded, he sneaks into Bambi's apartment to recuperate. She discovers him and they sit in silence while he heals. Instead of killing her, he simply leaves.

Lena:

- After Maeve, Tuesday, and Alexei made up a plan to trick Markus by luring him into a warehouse, he falls from serious injuries. Lena makes a deal with Tuesday for Markus's life, promising to save her friend Malak and keep Markus from going after her again.

Mistress:

- Mistress joins Beatrix and some other people of importance at a lunch in the Russian Manalist temple. Beatrix is to give a speech after they finish lunch.

[Hilja Kukkanen/Sasha Pisarev]

July 23

-Li violette announced that the banquet of the Blessed will be at Keitoleinen's mansion

Keitoleinen put Linnea in charge of planning the event.

Linnea decided she would plan the event, but contact Niel about Keitoleinen

-Li Violette approached John Duddy at an air base after he spoke to Sy for a while. She is interested in finding out if he is a member of Red Infinity


-Bonifaz Artz went to talk to someone from the Enlightened Brotherhood to see if they would be interested in buying his products

-Bambi and Aubrey are going to go shopping together for an outfit for the Banquet, Aubrey is approached by Annette Rosenethal.

-Malak is moved to Dr. Lonrotts lab after he does not give up any information about the rebel movement. The Manalists hope that Dr. Lonrott will be able to get information from him. Instead, Lena finds him and helps with his release.

-Annika 25 is looking for Akira 69 since he is thought to be a rogue Creditor. She wants to destroy him.

-Hilja, Sakari, Kizu, and Akira are still enjoying lunch. Kizu talks a little about her work at Genetech.

-Tristan attends Anya's concert and talks to her after the show.

[Hilja Kukkanen/Sasha Pisarev]

July 26th

-Annette tells Aubrey to wear a suit and gives Bambi a job in London. She wants Bambi to look into some fishy financial matters at London's bank. She wants Bambi to do an audit to see if there is money that is not accounted for or anything strange.

-John Duddy leaflets Helsinki and causes a stir. Li Violette tells the world that it was only a test and that the pro communist leaflets can be recycled. This causes some confusion in the world. Malak and Tuesday call people over to Tuesday's apartment for a meeting.

-Hilja and Kizu see the propaganda. Hilja heads over to Tuesday's house and they talk about arming themselves. Tuesday calls Maeve.

-Kaschei is worried about his money in London, so he sends Alexei, who was at a club with Danny and others, to London to intimidate Bambi. Alexei does this, threating Bambi so she won't tell Annette about mafia funds at the London bank.

-Niel continues to plot against Keitoleinen

-Markus, Sidapa, and Lena try to figure out a way for the Hand to determine the rebel behind the leaflet incident. Lena suggests that they look for a missing plane. Sidapa suggests that they kill any rebel. They are waiting for Sy who will also work with them. The Hand members split up to do both jobs.

-Annette warns the economic council of the threat of communism.

-Mistress visits Li Violette to ask her about the incident in Helsinki.

[Hilja Kukkanen/Sasha Pisarev]

Nov 8

-The Banquet of the Blessed will take place next week

-Alexei was captured and is imprisoned.

-Kaschei became aware of this and visited Alonso Alfy..to ask him to help get Alexei out of his situation. Alonso agreed to this if Kaschei would support Alonso's red leaf bonsai project.

-Li Violette visited Dr. Lonnrot and told him he needed to report his activities to the economic council. There are concerns that his research might help people. Since mental illness is considered a weakness, the Manalists are against his work if it helps others.

-Hilja visited Tuesday because she needs to travel to Ireland for a Genetech project she volunteered for.

-Annette Rosenthal called for the Creditors to keep an eye on the Global Bank branch in London due to the corruption there. However, she is not willing to close the bank or seize assets.

[Hilja Kukkanen/Sasha Pisarev]

Nov 25

I just changed the site's skin

-The Banquet of the Blessed has begun. It is at Keitoleinen's mansion. Many characters are attending

-Hilja showed up, since her brother invited her, but was detained at the door for not having an invitation. She was brought inside, stripped, and had fruit thrown at her. Her brother, Dr. Lonrott, stopped the incident and was very upset

-Calithin spoke with Aubrey and Sidapa in London before heading to the party himself, where he met up with his date, Tuesday. He was confronted by Tristan, who he blew off.

-Tristan tried to speak to Dr. Lonrott after that about his problems

-The first entertainment at the party was a show of animals from Genetech. The animals included a pterodactyl, a mammoth, and a unicorn. After the animals were put on display, Keitoleinen decided that they should be butchered and eaten. Ronja and Hilja were against this. Kizu and Hex were helping to show off the animals

-Dinari took a ride on a wooley mammoth. He was thrown off, but Tuvi came to his aid

-Kaschei, Machiavelli, and Alonso discussed various things at the party...especially concerning Alonso's red leaf project. Alonso helped to get Alexei released from Manalist prison. Mac was put off by the display of the pterodactyl.

-Bambi showed up at the party wearing a nice, but tight dress

[Hilja Kukkanen/Sasha Pisarev]

Nov 29th

(Lonrott is the character of the month for December)

-Annette tells Bambi that her dress is skanky, but that she can plan the Manala mas party anyway.

-Cris Frost gets into a fight with Calithin, who pretends to get knocked out after one hit. The fight was arranged by Keitoleinen and took place in the empty pool in back of the mansion

-Annette fell into the pool and blamed Rutheven, who was nowhere near her. Cris refused to fight Rutheven and Annette became angry

-Li, Rutheven, and Isvara discussed Isvara's anti gravity technology and it was decided that he should attend the economic council meeting, but not share his technology at this time

-Malak is reporting on the party, but was found out by Tuesday.

-Lumbor, a creation of Genetech, showed off her muscles in front of everyone, but she upset Keitoleinen and was almost kicked out of the party. Instead of returning to Genetech, she split into her two weaker halves and said she would help clean up some of the mess she made.

-Bonifaz and others helped butcher the animals that Genetech put on display. The unicorn, pterodactyl, and mammoth are being cooked in the back of the mansion.

-Frieda, Bonifaz's sister, is lurking in a hallway, and was approached by Hilja

-Kaschei, Mac, and Alfonso continued to talk about mafia related things in a side room of the mansion, but were interupted by Anthony, who said he wants to assist them. He has his own plans for the world, which include creating a superior race of humans.

-Dr. Lonrott decided to talk to Molly Marionette, who owns a toy company and who is also attending the banquet of the Blessed.

-As a whole, all events in the rpg right now are concerning the Banquet of the Blessed.

[Hilja Kukkanen/Sasha Pisarev]

Dec 6th

The Blessed Banquet continues. There is a concert featuring Anya. She takes a break and is given a tour of Keitoleinen's mansion, by Keitoleinen who tries to rape her via Roofie Stover candies. She avoids this and returns to the concert.

Jose tried to comfort Anya, but he couldn't, so he just joined his colleague Isvara who was talking to Li Violette

Calithin was told by Annette to attend the Economic Council meeting, then Annette left

Scrag also left the party, telling Rutheven that there is no rest for the Blessed. Rutheven felt insulted by this.

Lonrott tried to strike up a conversation with Mollie but failed. Mollie went on to visit with Jose and Isvara

A strange man named Jack attends the party and talks for a moment to Hilja before heading off to inspect the concert and Keitoleinen's weapons room.

Another strange guest named Kyra arrives with her date.

Soon, there is an explosion in the weapons room and the party descends into chaos. There are a few more explosions and Keitoleinen tells Tyler to deal with the situation. There is some confusion about what is really going on.

Kaschei leaves since he doesn't want to get blamed for the situation

Tristan tells Ronja and Calithin they should do something about the situation. Ronja told Tristan she didn't want to be his friend before this happened.

Bonifaz hides and observes the chaos.

Li Violette is removed by the Invisible Hand so that she could go to a safer location and meet with the Moderator.

Annika is given orders from the Global Bank to assist in the situation. Global Bank believes the explosion to be the result of communist rebels. Annika confronts Emmet, Jack, and Kyra.