Event | Malicant | Teams!

[ironwood]

Evening, turtle-ites! Alex here to announce the team structure and scheduling for the upcoming Malicant plot. There are a couple items of business to address before we launch into the core of the post, so let's fire it up and get this show on the road!

Power Reduction
The meta/power/tech reduction is set to hit its peak on June 24th and then plateau until the Malicant event concludes in mid-July. This means that, per this post, all characters are having to deal with a significant reduction in strength, powers, and technology that they have long held as just there. (Which is why Tony Stark can be seen crashing his Mark VI armour more frequently than dignity strictly allows for, whoops.) The consoles have and will continue to work and characters may note that the auto-translate of speech in and around Keeliai still functions perfectly. Strange, but true!

Independent Actions
While not every character may end up on a team, we are happy to announce that this hardly discounts them from involvement in the plot! Characters not announced as part of one of the fifteen teams below will be welcome to investigate in and around Keeliai/the turtleside to see what they can find. They are welcome to take action, even partner up with one another! The only difference is that they will not be part of the official "clueventure" event logs.

That said! There is a comment header in this post specifically for those characters that would like to get involved regardless of team status. These characters (erm, their players) can reply to this header with details of what actions they will be taking, where they might look, and what they might do. We will look over each of these submissions and provide a result of what they may find/impact/what have you.

Interested? Fantastic! Then feel free to hop to this comment thread and fill out the form there to get the ball rolling.

Note: We do ask that participation in this angle of the plot be kept to characters not involved on teams so as not conflict with any of the clueventure log results. Also: Because the characters involved with teams will likely be busy with said teams.

That clears up the event housekeeping, so onto the core of the post: Team rosters!

Team Rosters
Structuring
We ended up receiving more preformed team sign-ups than initially expected. Based on this, we modified the method of selecting the final team rosters to allow for seven pre-formed teams and eight RNG ones (compared to the planned 10:5 ratio). To select which of the pre-formed teams to allow, we turned to RNG. Any characters on teams that did not make that lottery and were open to being added to the RNG pool were indeed added into the RNG team lottery.

There were more than seventy-five characters signed up for the plot and as such, unfortunately, we were unable to include every signed-up character. Those that did not make the lottery teams are more than welcome to participate via the independent investigations option outlined above.

Scheduling
The first event log will go up on June 25th, with an additional log posted every day after until the total of five logs are posted. Each log will, as planned, be structured to allow for three teams to independently operate (using comment headers). All clues and team decisions, as discussed in the sign-up post, will be covered off in these log posts. At this time, an example of the structure is not available, but we recommend everyone take a look at the first log's structure when it goes up as it will be mirrored on the other logs.

Note: Links to the team-specific threads within each log will be added to the log header information for ease of access and reference. That is one specific structure detail currently planned. IC and OOC sections will also be clearly identified within each team's area.

And now, without further ado... the teams! Remember to check both lists in case your character made it on an RNG team! <3

Pre-Formed Teams

TEAM 01
>Asbel Lhant | heartofgraces
>Richard of Windor | oathwalk
>Wanda Lehnsherr | doesthemath
>Tony Stark 616 | definingfuture
>Qilby | traitre


TEAM 02
>Annabeth Chase | sophos
>Percy Jackson | kelpful
>Soranik Natu | onefouroneseven
>Rogue | donttouch


TEAM 03
>Vanessa Cleveland | fatedchaos
>Catty Turner | traitorously
>Iorveth TooElfishlySnobbyForALastName | aenseidhe
>Traci Thirteen | urbanmagic
>Una Persson | una_persson


TEAM 04
>Rose Tyler | refusing
>Spock | selfsacrificing
>Jim Kirk | jirk
>Clara Oswald | parallels
>Kyle Rayner | imaginate


TEAM 05
>Bart Allen | backinakidflash
>Tim Drake | mrsarcastic003
>Kon-El | tactile_telekinesis
>Gavroche | chiot
>Molly | animalhats


TEAM 06
>Lois Lane | wherethestoryis
>Clark Lane Kent | andaway
>Hayley Stark | everylittlegirl
>Luke Castellan | backbiter
>Mark Grayson | shorttempered


TEAM 07
>Temeraire | dracobin
>William Laurence | dunnage
>Combeferre | philosophe
>Enjolras | solo_patria
>Javert | inseine


RNG Teams

TEAM 08
>Bucky Barnes MCU | trainwrecked
>Frank Zhang | iguanasolution
>Tarrlok | disfavored
>Jack Frost | wintershepherd
>Zelgadis Graywords | gathersnomoss


TEAM 09
>Steve Rogers MCU | usavatar
>Sabriel | bindsthedead
>Terrance Ward | traumatizing
>Sharon Carter | agentx13
>Commander Shepard | cmdreffingshepard


TEAM 10
>Jason Grace | ozones
>Amaterasu | dungfu
>Carol Danvers | hugmagnet
>Marius Pontmercy | saisamour
>Johnny Storm | faceofthe4


TEAM 11
>Natasha Romanoff | tendnottoweep
>Dinah Lance | raptorcanaria
>Liz Allan | firestars
>Namorita | littlecousin
>Toro Raymond | flamingshortshorts


TEAM 12
>Peggy Carter | shootingshields
>Jaime Reyes | escarabajo
>Westly | franchisepirate
>Johan Gustav Dååhd | kvarterskommissarie
>Cinna | afirewithfashion


TEAM 13
>Raimei Shimizu | anomia
>Amelia | willofjustice
>Korra | alphatar
>Ariadne | build
>Iskierka | kazilik


TEAM 14
>Leo Valdez | fotia
>Bucky Barnes 616 | beganwithamask
>Randolph Lyall | cravats
>Steve Rogers 616 | subject223
>Charles Xavier | excessivehubris


TEAM 15
>Max Lord | takeittothemax
>Amon | amonfire
>Nico di Angelo | necromania
>Inara Serra | suoxi
>Jason Todd | redjay


Log Groupings & Posting Schedule
The logs will be posted starting June 25th, with one per day until all five logs are posted. Clues will be provided to each team every five days, with three days given for the team to reply with their "next step" choice from the list of potential options that will be provided with each set of glue. Once again, OOC structuring will be finalised for the posting of the first log on June 25th.

In terms of organisation, the teams will be separated into logs on a straightforward basis, as follows:

Log 01 | June 25, 2013
>Team 01
>Team 02
>Team 03

Log 02 | June 26, 2013
>Team 04
>Team 05
>Team 06

Log 03 | June 27, 2013
>Team 07
>Team 08
>Team 09

Log 04 | June 28, 2013
>Team 10
>Team 11
>Team 12

Log 05 | June 29, 2013
>Team 13
>Team 14
>Team 15

And on June 30th, the teams in Log 01 will receive their next set of clues, with each log getting their clue-uppance according to the five day interval.

The M-Word
As of this time, the team that will encounter Malicant is UNKNOWN. The "lucky" few will be contacted OOCly by Roy to discuss the encounter and its outcome once the almighty hand of fate (read: what happens when RNG and character actions combine via DIGIVOLVING) has identified which team it shall be.

That is all for this event update! Questions are always welcome and a thread header has been provide for such. We have also provided a thread header for the investigations, plus a team shout-out thread for players to have fun and do whatever preliminary plotting they so desire.

And a reminder that the event will officially kick of with an IC console post from Evandau with a call to arms. /insertStitchlaughingevillyemote

Comments

Re: INDEPENDENT INVESTIGATIONS

[bonvivant]

Name: Cass
Contact: velvetevoker

Character: Hannibal Lecter
Username: bonvivant

Actions: He'll be looking around for information and isn't afraid to explore some possibly dangerous routes. He isn't going to be actively trying to help anyone (although he may if it's convenient), he just thinks this Malicant person seems interesting. If he learned anything important, he might also take the chance to spread some misinformation anonymously and see what happens.

[ironwood]

There is a brothel in the Fire Sector that would love to speak with Hannibal as the newcomer he is, trying to entice him in for business at first. Should he engage in conversation with them and ask after the state of the turtle, some of the prettier employees will pass their hands over their faces, the gesture very reverent -- almost like crossing one's self. They will say they had dark dreams about the turtle's future that featured a shadow they could not identify. They knew it only as something great and terrible.

The matriarch of the establishment will say that these kedan have had such dreams in the past that foretold of terrible events, such as the jiangshi invasion. She will ask him to keep this secret, as there are rumours that kedan having similar dreams have been going missing.

Should Hannibal pursue this further by seeking out the truth behind those rumours, he will find himself drawing the attention of two small, fast kedan intent to warn him off with whatever means necessary. The fate of these two kedan is up to you, but please note that any deaths accrue toward's the character's rule-of-ten.

Whether this escalates further depends on whether you would like it to. If you would like to gather a small, unofficial party of at least three characters not currently involved in the event, this could escalate into a small kidnapping ring that has been interrogating the few kedan having these dreams. In addition to potentially freeing those kedan, the party could obtain copies of information gleaned from the dreams that provide a whole picture where each dream provided a simple glimpse. Please advise with a reply to this comment if this will be pursued and which characters would be involved; a mod would then reply with additional details of this information.

Note: Feel free to create and name some NPCs for the sake of this event; these ones will not contribute to your NPC allies count. Any NPC deaths, however, still contribute to the rule-of-tens.

[bonvivant]

Team Triple H Hannibal, Mark Hoffman, and Henry Wotton will be pursuing this further.

[ironwood]

Team Triple H could discover that the piledriver is far superior to the clothesline in a cage fight a collection of notes that pieces together the dreams of the various kidnapped kedan and identifies one central theme. While they would also obtain notes of the separate dream sequences, the summary version would be written in kedan and translate as follows:

Bright light shines over the glistening shell of a small sea turtle swimming in slow circles around the algea-thick water of a rusted bucket. The turtle falters and sinks, light fading as a great shadow sweeps over the water's surface. A hand enrobed in leather descends and plucks the turtle from the water, carrying it to a table and upending it upon its back. Pins appear to hold it against the roughly hewn wood and the turtle screams in silence, earning a throaty chuckle from a throat that cannot be seen. A charcoal stick draws lines from the turtle's limbs to an onyx frame and these lines emerge as strands of tendons which draw blood from beneath the shell to keep function. The turtle is unpinned by the leather hand and righted, yet the tendons remain and each motion it makes towards the rusted algae sea only succeeds when the tendons pulse and that black onyx frame trembles from the effort put against it. These words are heard by all: "This is the will of Mali-- [indecipherable]. Submit or be bled dry from your struggle."

Details of the kidnapped kedan and the future of the kidnapping ring is up to the actions of the characters and the use of RNG. Please feel free to generate the results and keep in mind that each dead kedan counts towards a character's ten kills.