MISSIONS | March 2014

[ironwood]

Greetings, Tushanites!

March 1st happens to mark a new phase of gameplay here in the wonderful world of turtles and we need you to make it work! Below, there are five missions. Please read them over carefully and then fill out the textarea form at the bottom. There is an element of randomization here but players can also submit missions for pre-formed groups of their own choosing! Part of expanding the known realm of Konryu, we've updated and expanded our Setting page to include 8 new continents which are going to be gradually opened for exploration and development, which you'll start to see coming in to play in the missions below.

As detailed in our State of the Shell: Missions section, each mission your character undergoes (threaded out with at least ten comments from your character) is worth a credit, and each handwaved mission is worth half a credit. Please note: only missions that you yourself come up with can be handwaved. The 'mod missions' are ones where participation is considered mandatory, as you are filling a limited slot. If we notice a trend amongst any one player of signing up for missions and leaving their mission-mates hanging, we will be speaking with them to determine a suitable outcome.

March is a bit different than what will follow, as this is a new concept and we're trying to put a system in place that works for everyone, so for this month we have five prefabricated missions, so that players can get some understanding of what can be done in the world. If you'll note we also have a comment header where you can suggest the sorts of missions you'd like to see in the months that follow! Feel free to be as succinct or not as you please, as we'll be basing next month's missions on this feedback.

We also have a comment header for questions. Please don't hesitate to for more information or clarifications... we're new to this too!

This month's planned missions are as follows:

→ SIAXHI (INVESTIGATION)
→ VIAN THAX (RESCUE)
→ TEYRAN (EXPLORATION)
→ GHA'NAL (QUEST)
→ DUST (UNDERCOVER)

Each month, a player can volunteer a character for up to three mod missions. Like other limited space elements in the game, we ask that each player only submit one character from their roster for the mod missions, though their other characters can be submitted for player missions, so long as it's one mission per character per month. To sign up, fill out the information below and choose your top three missions in order of preference. If there are more signups than available spaces for a mission, we will RNG characters into the slots. If your character isn't RNG'd into the first mission, they'll be added to the pool for the second mission, and so on for the third.

Mod missions will be tallied and their participants notified on the 5th of the month @ ~9:00PM EST. Unfortunately we cannot guarantee that everyone who signs up a character for a mission will be chosen for one of the mod missions, as it is based solely on the number of signups for each one. In the event that your character isn't chosen for any of your three choices, you can still sign them up for a player mission before 9:00PM PST on the 7th.

Player missions can involve either just your character or a pre-planned group, or even have open signup! Once your mission is approved by the mods, including any clarifications or extra information needed, you're set for playing it out. Remember that the mission can take place at any point throughout the month. For convenience purposes, we've also created the %missions tag in the log comm and we'd be very appreciative if it could be added to mission logs when they get posted.

Mod Mission Signups

Player Mission Signups

<b>Player:</b> <b>Character Name & Journal:</b> <b>Mission Choice #1:</b> <b>Mission Choice #2:</b> <b>Mission Choice #3:</b>

<b>Player:</b> <b>Character(s) & Journals:</b> Name (<user name="USER">) <b>Mission Duration:</b> How long will it take ICly? Is it happening on specific IC dates? <b>Mission Difficulty:</b> ★☆☆☆☆ <b>Mission Type:</b> <b>Projected Plot Impact:</b> What changes are the end goal of the mission? <b>Proposed Worldbuilding Changes:</b> What aspect of the setting are you interested in developing with this?

Comments

SIAXHI (INVESTIGATION)

[ironwood]

Character(s): 3-5 needed.
Mission Duration: 10 days.
Mission Difficulty: ★★★☆☆
Mission Type: Infiltration/information gathering and instigating a riot.
Projected Plot Impact: Malicant's hold on Siaxhi will be weakened.
Proposed Worldbuilding Changes: The Duchess of Castis may be persuaded to send a retinue of her finest soldiers back to Keeliai for training. As this is the first time in centuries Castis as had any contact with Keeliai, she may also try and slip a spy of her own into the city.

DOSSIER

Evandau will push a dossier across the desk towards your character, who he'll then leave to read its contents. The dossier will describe what is known about the duchy of Castis. It has a population of roughly three hundred thousand people. They used to be pirates, of a fashion, until they settled in the inlet they now call home, and the Duchess rules from a beautiful palatial mansion the design of which is based on a ship, to remind her and her family whence they came.

The Castis family is four members:

DUCHESS HABIN CASTIS: The head of the household and indeed the entire duchy. She acts a fool, but most citizens agree it's just a cover.
BOREAU CASTIS: Her younger brother. He holds a rank in the local standing army, but doesn't seem to care for the position.
KERISTAN CASTIS: The Duchess' elder daughter. Approximately nineteen. Has an alarming tendency to challenge other people to duels, which she tends to win.
KANTE CASTIS: The Duchess' youngest daughter. Barely five, she's charming and precocious and has no apparent fear of strangers.

The document will detail Evandau's suspicions that a member of the house of Castis has been replaced by one of Malicant's agents, or that Malicant himself is possessing one of them, and there is considerable information detailing these suspicions over the last eighteen months, courtesy Eshai's agents in Castis.

The proposed mission suggests infiltrating the house by whatever means necessary (considered a two-person job) while the other half of the mission suggests starting riots in the streets. The populace has been under an increasingly heavy tax in the past year, and people are at their breaking point. A riot would be a good cover for whoever is infiltrating the House, as it would provide an outside distraction. The Duchess is throwing a gala for her youngest daughter's sixth birthday, and they need all the help they can get.

IF INFILTRATING: Your character has their choice of ways to infiltrate! They could pretend to be visiting nobles from another far-off land (seriously, they can go nuts with this) or they could pretend to be kitchen staff, or anything you can come up with. Evandau is giving them carte blanche to use the palace treasury to come up with outfits, ideas, or anything in between. Go nuts! Whether or not your character gets caught is up to you in this regard.

IF ROUSING THE POPULACE TO A RIOT: Again, your character can use any means at their disposal. Evandau would make sure they were properly outfitted, with weapons and anything else they might need. The population needs very little to riot, they're basically a truck full of diesel and fertilizer. A lit match would do it at this point. You can come up with as many NPCs as you'd like, and do whatever you'd like to further this cause. Your characters may be captured or escape as you'd like, and you may also damage or destroy as much of the city as you choose.

OUTCOME: Your characters are meant to determine the identity of Malicant's agent, and they can ICly choose whether to kill that individual, or bring them back to Keeliai for questioning. IT IS UP TO YOU which of the family members it is! Go nuts! Leave intentional breadcrumbs for your characters to follow so they can look like badass detectives! Either way, the Duchess will be grateful for their help. Providing she herself isn't the Agent...

WHAT CAN WE DO?
Literally anything you want, as long as it falls into the above guidelines. If you're uncertain as to whether or not you're okay to go ahead with something, just ask! These plots are meant to be malleable to a point, and you and your mission-mates can bend it to whatever ends you want so that you have the maximum amounts of fun. For all intents and purposes, Castis is your playground for the duration of this plot. Don't worry about contradicting local mythology or anything like that, it's being created as you play in it.

SIAXHI DISCUSSIONS

[solo_patria]

So. Ideas? Input?

[controlledvariable]

ICly Steph would volunteer to infiltrate the palace and suggest pretending to be visiting nobles rather than staff. OOCly I'm up for anything though I'd like for them to succeed.

[langsyne]

Ditto what I said to Nekky - if they end up pretending to be nobles/staff Scott will probably leave the visible infiltration to her and Bucky (and maybe Clara if she opts for infiltrating too?). He'd likely still do some partial infiltration as Ant-Man since that way he can come and go as he pleases since no one will (hopefully) know he's there.

Although I guess if we want to go all out, we can have him be noticed and captured by weird turtle magic or something, idek.

[controlledvariable]

That all sounds good by me. I don't have a preference either way re: people being captured so if that's something people wanna do I can roll with it.

[beganwithamask]

Bucky would probably vote for a couple of them infiltrating as staff, or a noble and one of their staff since employees usually garner less attention, he doesn't like high profile personas in a lot of cases. He's fairly experienced with infiltration from the military and the wetwork he's done so he'd probably insist on being one of the ones to go inside, along with Scott (because who better for this than Ant-Man). :|a

[langsyne]

Bucky, you sound like you know what you're doing, you're in charge now. :|b I think if they do go with infiltrating as staff Bucky and Steph are probably the best options since Scott knows he's kind of shit at pretending to be someone he's not and doesn't want to fuck things up for the rest of them. He will totally zoom around as Ant-Man though if that's a thing they want.

[beganwithamask]

Yeah I'm thinking Bucky and Steph infiltrating is probably the best, and Bucky would definitely want Scott to shrink down and go in unnoticed with them since that way he could get around easier than anyone else to listen to conversations / get into places they can't. Bucky would definitely think that'd be a huge advantage for them and that Scott's talents would be wasted anywhere else :|a

[controlledvariable]

They could go one as staff and one as a noble? Steph would suggest the noble option just because that way they can get closer to the royal family/talk to them more easily, since she'd assume they wouldn't chat with ~the help~ all that much.

But employees garnering less attention also makes sense so. yes :|a

[beganwithamask]

That'd probably be their best bet! Bucky is shit at talking to ~fancy~ people, so he'd be better off posing as a staff member to hit up the working class (because staff members probably see and hear a lot just from working there and largely being ignored), while Steph could get closer to the royal family and go from that angle. That and Scott zooming around as Ant Man seems like a pretty solid infiltration.

And if they need the distraction, I'm guessing Enjolras probably knows a thing or two about starting political riots? I'm not entirely familiar with Les Mis :|a

[solo_patria]

I had definitely hoped for Enj to go in for the riot aspect and distraction yes. He'd probably be good enough to draw a crowd even not into a riot really, since he's fairly attention catching at the best of times. I was rather hoping for that for him since that would suit quite well!

[controlledvariable]

Steph could manage her way through talking to fancy people/knows the best option is to just shut up and look pretty most of the time. And considering the age and little description of the eldest daughter, I think it's fair to say that Steph would get along with her pretty easily.

[langsyne]

okay but

if scott doesn't get to play shrinkydink and spy on people while he's tiny and shit, i'm gonna be really sad :'(

THAT BEING SAID, while he would definitely argue for himself being one of the infiltrators (because being almost literally invisible is pretty much a foolproof cover) he'd be cool with inciting riots too if ICly they ended up opting to pretend to be visiting nobles, staff, etc because he's just not good at putting on masks. Alternatively, he could also pull double duty and riot as normal Scott while infiltrating as Ant-Man. It's all good.

UHHHH re: what they end up doing with the agent once he/she's found, Scott would definitely vote for questioning. Haven't figured out who would be a great candidate for that yet though.

[beganwithamask]

Bucky would probably vote to take the agent back for questioning too. :|a

[solo_patria]

Enj as well. He'd definitely want to get what information they could get, but might be more inclined to bring them to the palace where people could better work on that.

[controlledvariable]

Steph's vote would be for taking them back!

[langsyne]

dropping in hideously late, but would you be alright with me adding you on plurk so we can get the majority of our planning done there? it seems that might be easier than constantly remembering to come back to this page and check for updates.

Re: SIAXHI DISCUSSIONS

[parallels]

hi 'i've been really sick and slow sorry.

anyway, Clara would definitely want to be one of the infiltrators. She has a bit of experience with it in the past but really she is just really into being involved and doing shit. She has a pretty sweet personality and is easy to overlook. She's very good with children and might try to speak to and protect the young daughter. Buut if people wanna talk her out of it, I am up for that /o/

[controlledvariable]

It seems like rn we've got 3.5 inflitrators and 1.5 rioters (since Scott will be doing a bit of both). If you're cool with Clara being more involved with the riots that might work more easily, but we can probably wrangle it with her as inflitrator as well.

Steph could do a bit of both, for example. Maybe if her and Clara wanted to play nobles and cover for each other, they could spend half their time with the royal family and the other half running around in the city trying to get people to riot :|a

[parallels]

I am cool with Clara doing some riot stuff! Though honestly it doesn't fit her personality very much so if people are cool with me doing a little bit of light hearted stuff with her failing at getting people to riot and just generally being bad at it until the last second, that would work!

A thought re: who's the agent

[controlledvariable]

I'm pretty down with whatever people decide, but if we wanted to go the route of Boreau being the agent, he could have recently started paying more attention to the miltiary going ons which could be a clue that he's the agent.

[langsyne]

I'm cool with that!

In terms of getting started, how do you want to proceed? Have one big IC planning thread and then split up into two smaller groups, skip the planning stage ICly and go directly into two smaller groups and intermingle as needed, something else?

Also would it be easier for someone to collect everyone on plurk and we can touch base there (looks like everyone has one) or just keep using this post/PMs/other methods of contact?

[controlledvariable]

I think a log with intermingling + preplanning would probably work best.

And I'm happy to add everyone on plurk and do the plotting there, I think it'd likely be easier .

[langsyne]

Sounds good to me on both counts! My plurk's set up a little weird so I'll shoot you a friend request and we can go from there.

[beganwithamask]

Plurk sounds good to me! I'm at nekky, I'll accept any friend requests sent my way.

Also I think Boreau being the agent could be great, I think with that one there could be a lot of clues pointing to him in different areas / from talking to different castes of people so everyone can do something. :|a

And I vote log with intermingling + preplanning too, it sounds good to me.