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

[angermanaging]

Name: Chel
Contact: vivider

Character: Bruce Banner
Username: angermanaging

Actions: Investigating the technology impact or the turtle impact? he'd probably look into both and pursue the one that seemed more promising. idk, you know Bruce, I can pretty easily swing him doing just about anything science related.

He'd be fairly aggressive about looking into it, and as the depowering is actually advantageous to him instead of disadvantageous (by his way of thinking), he'd be totally on top of it. Experiments testing the (technological) power loss and finding whether it's consistent, or seeing if depowering has affected his specific cell make up in a telling way, or looking more into the metaphysical energy transfer at a nuclear level and seeing if it's observable there... because comic science BS idk?

Actually the last one probably suits him best, but I WILL TAKE WHATEVER YOU GIVE ME.

[ironwood]

Bruce will find that "metaphysical energy transfer" with the turtle carries the risk of STDs, but hey. Even billion year old turtles need to get laid.

With advanced Foreigner technology on the fritz, Bruce may find that conducting an analysis of the energy of the turtle is difficult. However, should he have access to any of the salvaged technology of the satellite cluster, he mind find it more responsive to adaptation and use, even barely influenced by the current state of Tu Vishan.

Should he then adapt that technology into rudimentary scanning equipment, he will find that it is primed for the analysis of metaphysical energy as it is only a stone's throw away from the more pure energy of the spectres. Analysis of the energy around Keeliai will show that the movement/transfer of it has reduced to sluggish rates (also proving that there is a metaphysical energy transfer at the nuclear level; better publish a study on it). The "cords" that connect Tu Vishan to all living things upon its shell show as brittle and frayed, with minimal energy pulsing weakly through them.

Should he want to explore this further, the option is available to open this indie investigation to other characters. With an addition two characters not officially involved in the plot, he could feasibly look into repairing some of those ethereal cords or adding energy to the network that is currently sluggishly functional. This would involve some magical know-how, which could be obtained from player characters or speaking to some Water Sector kedan that have a reputation for possessing far more energy than their ages suggest (spoiler: they are manipulating their own metaphysical energies with the use of gems and rituals).

Should this be pursued as noted, a brief surge of energy may be noticed. However, without a source of energy to feed into Tu Vishan, it will not sustain. The challenge would then be coming up with a source of energy.


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.