Potato Event planning post 2, FORM UR TEAMS

[bastione.livejournal.com]

So you've volunteered to retrieve one of the ten maybe more than ten many data discs that has been hidden away in some dangerous location. Maybe you volunteered because you're bored. Maybe your buddy is going and you can't let that idiot get himself/herself killed. Maybe you want some of those lovely reward credits. Whatever the reason, here's what you need to know:

Each Team is going to be named with the NATO letters, (Alpha, Bravo, Charlie, etc) and should ideally have no more than 4 members plus a vegetable. 4 to a Team is not a hard rule, just to keep the logs from lagging. Each Team will need to determine a Team Leader who is going to carry Veggie Hypatia, although she can certainly be passed off to someone else. Feel free to pick your Teams and Team Leaders OOCly, have IC fights over who should be in charge, etc, Team Leader won't have to do anything ICly unless they really want to. For the purposes of writing the logs, though, the Team Leader should probably also be the person willing to act as a Dungeon Master and say "and then they turned a corner and suddenly there were turrets/magamaworms/a drone patrol!" OOC COMMUNICATION WILL BE VERY IMPORTANT. Talk to your team players, find out what they'd like to do, find out what their characters abilities are, work something out that everyone on the team would like to play. Build sum CR. Veggie Hypatia is there ICly to give helpful hints and read the map, but obviously I won't be able to direct 10+ logs at the same time, so each Team is on their own to determine what they want to have happen. Do they get overwhelmed by enemies? Do they have to put aside differences to survive? Do they get stupidly lost and stand around bickering? Treed by hungry dinosaurs? Outrun magmaworms on motorcycles? Pick any outcome you like, so long as your Team is okay with it.

Choose your Teams in the comments below, or IM or PM people and let me know the final Team rosters. If players want to be randomized, I'll make a list of them and then create those teams at the end. I'm happy to create extra scenarios if players want to form teams of 2 or w/e. IF ANYONE HAS ANY ISSUE WITH TEAM PLACEMENT, PLEASE TALK TO ME AND WE'LL WORK SOMETHING OUT. Extra people can be added to any team if necessary, I'm simply wary of group logs with too many players as those tend to lag.

If you want your character to do a quest/join a team because it's IC for them but you don't feel you have time to play, COMMENT THAT YOU WANT TO AUTOPILOT THIS. Autopilot characters can either attach themselves to another character that it would be IC for them to stick together, or there can be an autopilot team. Feel free to handwave things as well, these are your logs and if you'd rather write your Team bickering around a campfire instead of being shot at, please do so.

All quests will end in success unless someone notifies me. And by success I mean, each data disc will have been retrieved physically or copied onto someone's wearable or Veggie Hypatia otherwise has the information so it can be relayed to the engineers. If you want your entire Team to die and/or fail the quest, you can certainly do that, but just let me know.

Also if you lose your vegetable, Hypatia will not give you credits for having completed the Quest upon return to the station. She told you very specifically not to drop her or throw her at enemies or let her get abducted by birds, damn you.

The data discs themselves will be small enough to insert into someone's wearable, like a flash drive, and each disc will have not only a piece of the containment chamber schematic but also some other fragmented information about Sacrosanct and Asphodel's history. Hypatia will collect all of this and piece it together ICly for the network to read when the containment chamber is built. Before that, feel free to discuss the fragments with other Teams or within Teams.





TEAM ROSTERS

These are the volunteers so far and what location, Sacrosanct or Asphodel, they're interested in.


Sacrosanct Quests: Alex Wilson, Kiki, Darwin, Charles, human!Chell, robo!Chell, Jade, pink!Dave, Ladon, Sollux, Kurt, Dug, Jaedri Marian Hawke, Joe, Jaime

Asphodel Quests: Emile, Shaun, George, Bro, Thom, Raimi, Davesprite, Vriska, Thane, Ratchet, Skyfire, Foxface, Jin, Jack Noir, TARDIS, Anon, Quorra, Hexadecimal, Rookie, O'Brien, Six, Sarah Connor Alex Mercer, Yuri, Sonic, Pounce, Nepeta




PLEASE LET ME KNOW IF I'M MISSING PEOPLE or if I've done something dumb like get your preferred location mixed up sjkdfsdf


Sacrosanct Teams:
Team Alpha
Charles
Kurt
Kiki
Jade
Dug

Team Bravo
Joe
Jaime
Logan
Gamzee

Team Charlie

Team Delta

Team Echo
Sollux
Alex Wilson
pink!Dave
Ladon

Team Golf

Team Hotel
human!Chell
Darwin
robo!Chell
Jaedri
Marian Hawke

Asphodel Teams:
Team India
Thom
Thane
Bro

Team Juliet
Emile
Raimi
Anon
Quorra
Six

Team Kilo
Ratchet
Rookie
O'Brien
Nepeta
Pounce

Team Lima
Davesprite
Vriska
Jack Noir
Foxface
TARDIS


Team Mike
Hexadecimal
Alex Mercer
Sonic
Yuri

Team November
Skyfire
Jin
Sarah Connor

Team Oscar
Shaun
George
Nemesis




Yes there are some extra teams, that's just in case.





Scenarios:

The Quest Scenarios will be numbered 1-10 or whatever it ends up being and follow the same basic premise. Your Team will be teleported in to a location near a Base, and have to make their way to the Base, brave some random creatures, break into the Base, deal with automated defenses, steal the data disc, and then book it back to the teleporter before the Boss Fight Enemy finds you. Each Quest will have descriptions of the locale, the kind of dangerous creatures/enemies you can encounter there, their weaknesses, etc. Hypatia will have also loaded this information ICly into the wearables of the Team members, if your character is the type to bother reading that sort of thing in advance. If your Team doesn't want to encounter any enemies at all aside from automated defenses, which can be shut down or overloaded or avoided rather than fought through, they can certainly choose that.

Sacrosanct Quests are going to be based in different Zones but the basic layout will be the same: a wilderness location and then a generic military-esque base. Enemies will include random wildlife, automated defenses in/around the base like electric fences/motion sensing guns, turrets that are NOT networked together and have to be avoided or shut down individually or just knocked over, and then some kind of optional boss fight enemy if your characters want to really brawl. For Sacrosanct, this will be a Type 47 Ultra Heavy Assault Platform, aka a Scarab. It will be unmanned and remotely controlled by the crazy Hypatia fragment guarding the piece of the schematic you came to get, and it will be in whatever state of disrepair your Team wants to deal with, from fully operational to just needs a few more good hits to knock down. Your Team is also welcome to steal/salvage equipment while on the Quest. Need a jeep with a turret? Maybe a jetpack or a flamethrower? Go ahead and say you found one. Unfortunately, any extra equipment like this will break down or get destroyed during the fight, so consider it temporary event equipment.

Asphodel Quests will be roughly the same, with a few differences concerning the teleporters and network communications that I'll detail in an Asphodel Guide. Basically, your Team will have to physically fly down to Asphodel in an automated shuttle or in a vehicle character. From the starting point of a landing strip, essentially, the characters will make their way into the subterranean tunnels and follow directions for what is likely to be a few miles. The smooth, straight, and illuminated constructed tunnel will give way to a winding worm tunnel, and your characters will find an abandoned drone outpost with a few remaining functioning automatic defenses. Your "wildlife" encounters in the tunnels will be smaller magmaworms and rogue drones, easily driven off or defeated or escaped if your Team keeps their heads. The optional Boss Fight Enemy on Asphodel will be, of course, a fully grown magmaworm, attracted by all your loud shenanigans.

Keep in mind that any events in these logs should be determined by your Team. You can get someone injured or keep everyone safe, storm in guns blazing or sneak in without alerting any security at all, get the Quest done in half a day or several days. If you want to get someone killed, that is also okay, but be aware that anyone who dies on Asphodel is going to respawn back on the station, and probably too late to get back to join their Team as there is a time lag.




QUESTIONS/COMMENTS HIT ME WITH THEM, also I'll be putting up Hypatia's IC Hey Why Don't You Guys Go Get Me Stuff post tonight on Saturday. Nobody will need a Team roster decided until the Quest logs actually go up, which won't be until this weekend anyway, so don't worry if you're coming to this late. No one is late!

And, previous planning post is here.

EDIT: ASPHODEL GUIDE, YO

Comments

[selfgovernance.livejournal.com]

... claiming india for thom.

BECAUSE THAT WAS THE NAME OF HIS ORIGINAL BETA TEAM.


Awwh yiss.

[selfgovernance.livejournal.com]

Charles I actually don't care where he ends up, except to say that he'll stick with people he thinks require his protection. SO I'LL WAIT AND SEE WHERE THEY ALL END UP. o/

[mightyappendix.livejournal.com]

Who wants a psychic nine year old!

[alaspooryork]

Raimi do you still want to tag team with Emile? And does anyone else actually want to be on Emile's team...

[fuckinghubble]

I'll be on Emille's team! Fuck yeah!

[recompiling]

Anon will be tagging along with an Asphodel team just to get to the surface because he has a different quest to complete, so he can fit in with any team that doesn't have 4 members and doesn't mind that they will be down a person once they get there.

THAT OUT OF THE WAY if anyone wants a Space Marine along with their team, I am volunteering Rookie. He has guns and experience with weird crap going on. So who wants him?

[sniperbitch.livejournal.com]

c-can I auto pilot O'Brien to be attached to Rookie... I DON'T KNOW IF I'LL BE ABLE TO PLAY HIM but he would want to go.

[dug-the-dog.livejournal.com]

Dug would like to be on team Alpha, because he is an Alpha, because he is a good dog and not a car.

[halfquake.livejournal.com]

hey who wants to team up with the quiet girl who can fire magic space holes

[adaptstosurvive.livejournal.com]

Come to me quiet girl we will have all the hideous misadventures

[slyfive.livejournal.com]

Wherever you think Foxface will cause the most mischief, preferably with Jack Noir or Davesprite 8>
BUT OTHER THAN THAT I DON'T CARE???

[gottakilldaves]

stabdaughter come into my arms plz

...though he should. probs not be anywhere near a dave of any kind to avoid unnecessary murder.

ON THE OTHER HAND THE TENSION WOULD BE HILARIOUS everything must be blamed on daves

:|a

[heterochromiia.livejournal.com]

i thiiiiiink team echo for sollux. he's in an upswing so WHO WANTS A LITTLE BITCH WHO IS APESHIT BANANAS AT ALL THE THINGS BUT ALSO CURRENTLY HAPPY TO TELL YOU HE IS TO TAG ALONG WITH.

unless he has a team of forever alone.

noooo the twos. :(

[parasomnist.livejournal.com]

OKAY HERE

ALEX CAN BE ON SOLLUX'S TEAM





she may need some instruction in how to do anything because she has zero weapons training :| and her reality-warping doesn't really DO much yet (nor does she know she even has it)

[manipul8trix.livejournal.com]

Pretty sure Vriska is sticking with Davesprite otherwise she'll act out and get her entire team killed HURRDURR

OTHER THAN THAT IDK? Aave is not online okay I can't make these decisions by myself

[featheryasshole]

Yes this would be a good idea B|a

so should they be on a team with Foxface ahd Jack for maximum shenanigans?

I suggest team Lima because it means slime in Finnish and I am easily amused

[rustigedraak.livejournal.com]

Ladon's kind of tiny, but he's sneaky, is a decent shot, and can do magic-y things like lightning and charms and stuff. If no one wants to claim a dragon mobster, randomizing him will work for me.

[bastione.livejournal.com]

LADON-CHAN would you like Team Hotel or Team Echo

[adaptstosurvive.livejournal.com]

Cram Darwin in like Hotel or something
the name amuses me

[notyourchauffer.livejournal.com]

Sticking Skyfur in team November.

[isoalgorithm.livejournal.com]

Would anyone like a Quorra? 8D

[isoalgorithm.livejournal.com]

OKAY so through Plurk we have determined that both Quorra and Anon are going to be on Team Juliet with Raimi and Emile. :D

[nullqueen.livejournal.com]

Ooh ooh stick Hex on team Mike in honour of her pet TV.

[needs_answers]

Shaun and George on a team. If anyone else wants in with them... ping oocly because that will be interesting to set up. ;)

[notjelly]

Jin can join team November and join with Skyfire if the mun is okay (I will talk to her :3) or Team Kilo, and I am more than happy to have him fight magmaworms and other beasties.

Sort of a random aside, but Camille will be providing extravagant but quickly prepared meals for all the Sacrosanct team members. I doubt that's worth RPing out, but I figured I'd put that out there.

Also George will be with Shaun regardless of what else is going on.

[notjelly]

Additionally, Jin can fly through space without need for a shuttle.

[hisoldgirl]

Offering up a time ship capable of transporting people to Asphodel! Who wants her?

[memorymodus.livejournal.com]

would she like to be with the stabhappy duo? Foxface and Jack Noir They need some more people like whoa and we're not quite sure who would...put up with them.

[searchnrescueh2]

Team Kilo: Ratchet + Rookie & O'Brian. (per discussion with the muns~)

[gottakilldaves]

JSYK you have Jack and Foxface listed under a Sacrosanct team, but they're going down to Asphodel :|a and i don't think we have any preference for names so w/e is fine

ALSO I GUESS... DOES ANYONE WANT TO BE ON THIS TEAM???

[memorymodus.livejournal.com]

Yeah, they're placed under the wrong section, same with Davesprite and Vriska! And if no one wants to be on their team they will BOLDLY GO TOGETHER and kick ass.

[tempus-mutantur.livejournal.com]

HMMM. Charles' team is looking awfully full. If there's no room there you can probably stick mutie Dave wherever, as long as he's not on Jack's team/near Jack because horrible carnage would ensue.

WHO WANTS A BULLETSHIELD?

[selfgovernance.livejournal.com]

SO MANY BABBIES TO LOOK AFTER AND SO LITTLE TIME ;-;

it's okay pinkdave he will make it up to you later, there will be ice cream.

[mrdickery.livejournal.com]

Wow I really need to start tracking the OOC comm.

Uh, ICly Yuri would be all for this venture but hasn't exactly built up enough CR yet to desire a certain team. So if you could randomize him and drop him onto one of the Asphodel teams I'd be grateful. (Breaking into secure facilities is not his strong point orz)

Thank ye kindly and purdy please.

[curbstomping]

Randomize for Alex, for Asphodel team? /LATE OH GOD >_>

Unless any team in particular wants him idek, OOCly or something. He'd do well as a bodyguard kind of person, THOUGH if they encounter boss monster, the team might end up being food (if he can consume them even)...

[wilywilyways.livejournal.com]

Who wants a wizard?

Quickie link to her app, everything's in the Abilities! Not too long a read. :D (http://wilywilyways.livejournal.com/812.html#cutid1)

[wilywilyways.livejournal.com]

(Also, not picky!)

[hyperlethality.livejournal.com]

Hm, I'm a bit late to all of this, but can Six go with Emile?

[bastione.livejournal.com]

sure thing! let me add you in quick

[speedyasshole.livejournal.com]

Hey! If there's any room left to make a team to go down to Asphodel, I'd like to put up Sonic here along with moeclaws and pouncedeleon.