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MISSIONS | March 2014

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.

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Character(s): 5-6
Mission Duration: 4 days
Mission Difficulty: ★★★★☆
Mission Type: Rescue Mission!
Projected Plot Impact: The characters would be able to return some of Evandau's top agents, and would likely earn his favour in doing so.
Proposed Worldbuilding Changes: None major.

DOSSIER

Evandau will be pacing as your character enters the room, and he'll bark at them to sit without preamble. He points to a corkboard he has set up nearby, with several pictures upon it. These pictures are of agents that Eshai had placed deep undercover in the underwater city of Vian Thax nearly a decade prior. Contact with all three has been lost. They have been listed as MIA since before Eshai's death, but now Evandau is going after them. Leave no man – or woman – behind.

Vian Thax is comprised of a race that has long divorced itself from the surface affairs. Though they are human-looking in appearance, they have adapted to survive underwater. They are very technologically advanced, which includes the great barrier around their city that gives them an air-breathing environment, and they have largely avoided any of the troubles that accompanied the first Malicant War. The population of the city is a hundred and seventy thousand, and their technology is almost exclusively based on hydro-power.

But due do their technological advancements, Eshai had them marked down as a serious threat owing to her suspicions of Malicant being a technopath, and installed three spies in various positions throughout the city.

Characters will be supplied with the necessary means to go underwater, so this mission is not closed off only to people capable of breathing or existing underwater.

THE SPIES:

The proposed mission is to bring all three home, dead or alive, and Evandau has no more information than that. Characters can choose to break into the city by brute force – and they'll be met with the same in turn – or try a subtler approach.

IF THEY BREAK INTO THE CITY: They will be up against some tough resistance, these guys are on par with Atlanteans for physical abilities – they're bulletproof, and they can throw around trucks with ease. A sufficiently well-armed or prepared team could shove their way through the crowd, but the Thaxians may retaliate by killing their prisoner, which is entirely up to the players involved. If your characters are insufficiently prepared, they may also be taken prisoner – though we ask that no more than half would end up that way, otherwise who would rescue them?

IF THEY TRY A SUBTLER MEANS: The good old 'posing as cargo' routine is always a possibility! A smooth talking character could get into the city, a magic user could create a fake clone of Usta to sneak her out of the prison, a normal human might have the skills to pick the locks and sneak into the facility, a heavy hitter could run point and dispatch any police officers they come across. Characters could contact Pallas first, and he could smuggle everyone inside the prison. The sky's the limit, here.

OUTCOME: The outcome is largely up to player discretion! If you guys would rather have Usta die and rescue only Pallas, that's a possibility. If you'd prefer to rescue both, any of the above options are valid.

WHAT CAN WE DO?
Again, whatever you'd like! Go crazy with worldbuilding, go crazy with NPCs, create what you want to do whatever seems the most fun for you or your characters. We highly recommend that people do pair-offs in groups of 2-3 to facilitate less coordinated threading, but other than that you're free to ask us for anything that concerns you, and carry on as you see fit.

Naugus has been tapped for this mission! LET US PLOT, FELLOW RESCUERS.

As we trickle in, shall we determine what methods our characters would propose or prefer in various legs of the journey, or what talents they could present?

Naugus would prefer to sneak into the city, proposing he use his shadowmelding to get in and maybe let in or sneak in the rest.

He also can make elemental illusions of people, shaping air, dust or fire into a reasonable facsimile of a person. They're not tangible, however, so the ruse would only buy so much time when it comes to extracting the targets from prison/the city. He also has to channel the facade to keep it up for any extended amount of time.

If things get hairy, he's very combat-ready with all manner of elemental magicks and brute force.

He's NOT a very good team player and might need someone to babysit him and make sure he doesn't go charging off and saving the day on his own, and royally screwing over everyone in the process. Himself included. Planning ahead of time is for CHUMPS, says he.

Edited 2014-03-06 07:59 (UTC)

Kurt can help with the sneaking. He's a teleporter with shadow-camouflage, after all. And on that note, we have a teleporter for the extraction mission, so that's awesome. He can take a few passengers, so getting fellow rescuers moved around as well as jailbreaks are simplified a lot (though he has a puff of smoke and a sound effect, and he's not invisible, just hard to see, so this still calls for finesse).

One disadvantage is that if you see him properly he's kind of... memorable, so probably shouldn't go on any parts of the mission that depend on rolling charisma rather than a physical stat. And he's not a heavy-hitter should it come to combat, though he can be quite effective if there's room to port around and antagonize bad guys.

Just thought of something else: Since this mission has the slate to span 4 days, they might need a temp place to squat down and make plans before going through with the rescue endeavor. Maybe Kurt could scout out a place that seems safe for them to do so? A derelict apartment or an oblivious elderly person's attic or an abandoned warehouse or something of that nature.

Jim is also all for sneaking, but sadly he doesn't have any kind of power that could help with that but once in the prison he could easy melt any chains, bars or anything that got in their way. He would also suggest having someone looking out in case guards come, and offer himself for the job since he can't really help much when it comes to subtlety, and having an illusionist and a teleporter on board it'd make sense for them to do the big sneaking job :|a

THAT SAID he will also probably offer himself as some sort of distraction, maybe using the cargo idea to get inside the city then use his flames to boil water, change the temperatures around and scare/distract everyone while others run inside the prison? On that vein I'd be all of Jim getting caught, too.

Naugus also has powers to cause panic and unease or generally escalate bad feelings either in an individual or a whole crowd, and he can just kind of keep that on like an aura, so there's more for causing distractions! Or riots.

He's got the same problem as Kurt, though, in that he's pretty distinct in his appearances and would be visible as an outsider or intruder easy-peasy. So maybe the more human-looking teammates will have to case things out first, ask questions, get ideas?

I was sure I had replied to this sorry! But yes that sounds like the best course of action probably, humanoids looking around and gathering information first and then the ones with actually sneaking-abilities like magic and teleportation doing the sneaky job?

I guess it depends on what the humanoids would find though, meaning if the guards could be easily distracted, if it's better to divert the attention elsewhere, if powers are blocked in the prison like they are in the turtle, etc

And I guess that would be up to you guys, which I would be happy to leave to your threading or ideas while you RP out casin' and inquirin'. Like, the ones actually RPing out the info-gathering can be left to decide what would sound best or be best. Less cooks in the kitchen for the nitty-gritty, ya feel?

Diana is mostly in favor of more straight-forward methods, but could be persuaded to go the sneaky route. She has a typical host of superpowers--flight, strength, etc-- but can also force people to tell the truth, which may help in locating the rescuees.

She is very good at talking people around and making them work together; if they have a plan she'll try to make sure everyone follows it to the end.

She'll also be adamant about not leaving anyone behind.

If they need more human-looking people to do recon, she'd be a good fit for that-- then perhaps Kurt and Naugus could do the actual work of the rescuing.

I like this idea! Also, good call on needing a ringleader. Might be up to Diana to ICly patch together the plan once everyone's put in their two cents, ideas and potential contributions.

i'm willing to have her boss people around icly, as long as everyone else is cool with it ;)

i believe our last two teammates are booker and nilin, who both are also human-ish. we could perhaps do one thread of jim, diana, and those two (depending on what they would prefer) gathering intel, and maybe a thread before that for all 6 to plan. then naugus and kurt could get them in, and we could go from there?

I for one am totally cool with being IC bossed around and also scolded, because Naugus is kind of a headstrong dick who thinks he's the most powerful guy on the block. Gotta remind him to play nice with others. :B

And this sounds like a pretty good set-up! EDIT: I just came back to this and realized I repeated a lot of what you already said, haha, I'm an idiot. CLEARLY, ONE WAY OR ANOTHER, YOU HAVE A GOOD IDEA. And would the intel peeps want to split up into smaller groups/threads so threads can keep momentum?

Also, who wants to make the OP and set-up threads? I totally can, if no one else wants to or has ideas.

Edited 2014-03-11 03:42 (UTC)

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