HONIR'S SCOUTS

[asgardsflight]

❧ HONIR'S SCOUTS

Scouting the woods outside of Asgard and eventually what lies beyond is the primary directive of a scout - this world holds both wonders and dangers in equal measures, and Asgard needs to hear of both. As such, a scout needs to be able to move quickly and effectively through unknown and often dangerous terrain, and to do so with enough mental acuity to report all findings (including the general lay of the land) back to Honir so Honir can pass that information along to Mimir's skalds or Heimdall's sentinels as appropriate.

In long-term expeditions outside of Asgard, such as the Wight War, scouts will often be asked to break away from the group to monitor the road both ahead and behind, and will work in conjunction with Heimdall's sentinels to ensure that when camp is made for the night, it's done in a safe environment with no unforeseen dangers.

As Asgard grows and begins to turn eyes toward settling outposts, scouts will be responsible for locating the right place to place one and for monitoring the surrounding area while the outpost is built.


❖ how scouting works:

Each month, head over to the Participation Sound-off in which to let us/Honir know if your character is scouting this month + describe where/how much they're doing so. Big and small discoveries will be distributed throughout the scouts each month, ranging from new plants to pockets of wild magic to dangerous beasts and more. Some discoveries are location-sensitive, so opting to be more specific ("scouting the forest west of Asgard") is often more lucrative than sweeping the month with a broad brush ("scouting the forest in general, trying to look everywhere").

The Scout Needed top-level also exists for Honir to occasionally suggest things that might need scouted or looked into. Any scouts can do so, should they choose! Just reply to the relevant request to make sure it's known that they're doing so.

It's also important to keep in mind that scouting is the gateway for a lot of plot or world elements to enter Asgard. As such, a lot of the discoveries made are actually more suited to be addressed by another god's vocation - the skalds, maybe, or the sentinels if there's some form of danger. Part of a scout's responsibility is to make sure to file a discovery report with those other vocations in order to ensure the info gets to the right place! This is done by locating the Tip Line top-level within the god job entry on that god's journal and dropping a comment there summarizing the discovery. This info can then be picked up by individuals in that vocation, as if you've provided them a quest.

❖ relevant links:

• Scout Needed
  
• Honir's Scouting Support
  
• Participation Sound-off
  
  
• God Jobs infopage (consult for links to Tip Lines)
  

Comments

[hoshikiri]

am i doing this right...

Takame here would to take this up, particularly seeking out other anomalies that might not be known yet and might be potentially dangerous. Just cause he can't see it doesn't mean he can't sense it.

[asgardsflight]

You're definitely doing it right!


After a bit of searching, Takame feels what can only be described as a soft magical crackle prickling at his skin, like if carbonation were soft like fleece. There's no attracting force this time, nothing abjectly leading Takame in the correct direction, but he can play 'hot and cold' to figure out in which direction the soft-static gets stronger.

If he does so, he'll come across a small oblong clearing in the woods outside of Sigyn's district, no more than a few yards in diameter, in which plants seem to be rapidly growing from seed to death in a matter of ten or fifteen seconds - then reversing, coming back from death and shrinking back down to a seed. This stands true for both the flowers littering the clearing and the ferns/undergrowth around the clearing's edges, but doesn't quite reach the trees themselves.

[hoshikiri]

With stuff like this Takame tends to observe from a distance cause. Reasons. But if he were to go and investigate this phenomenon much closer up would he spot anything else of note? He wouldn't go like right up into it, more like at the edge of the clearing/around the trees where it stops.

Also would being close up next to this anomaly have any particular effect on him? Is it in this small area only or would there be something nearby/in the same district where he can catch wind of something similar/connected?

[asgardsflight]

Being up close gives him the odd sensation of ebbing and flowing like a tide, and if he stands still, he may find himself swaying just slightly in toward the anomaly and out away from the anomaly along with the rhythm of the plants' life/death cycle - but he otherwise isn't actively impacted so long as he stays outside the active anomaly area.

It does seem to be this particular area only (at least for now!).

[hoshikiri]

probably a good thing that he's at least not dumb enough to go into the area, but he'll definitely sit by it for. a long af time and record his findings or any change to it and report everything he could discern to honir to see if he could shed some light on what could be causing this

heimdall too, probably since he's also a sentinel but that's probs for the other page....

[asgardsflight]

Based on the description, it doesn't seem to be... actively dangerous? Honir might suggest Mimir and his skalds, as a potential destination for the information. He himself has a hundred guesses and it's entirely possible that not a single one is correct. :')