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ɪʀᴏɴᴡᴏᴏᴅ ᴇᴍᴘᴇʀᴏʀ ᴇsʜᴀɪ ([personal profile] ironwood) wrote in [community profile] tushanshu_ooc2014-02-28 10:20 pm
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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.

Mod Mission SignupsPlayer Mission Signups
funkindofwicked: ([smirk] 042)

Re: MISSION SUGGESTIONS

[personal profile] funkindofwicked 2014-03-01 03:58 pm (UTC)(link)
Okay I apologize for how jumbled and rambling this will probably all sound because I love the missions and how we're progressing and kind of got a bunch of ideas for potential ones.

1) Since we are already getting undercover work from the Dust mission, maybe an infiltration/undercover mission where a foreigner or two to get on the good side of one of the gangs. Maybe staging them committing a crime or saving gang members from the police and moving from there. It could be something that lasts on and off for weeks or maybe even more than a month until the Foreigners get on the gangs good side.

2) A mission ala Indian Jones! Special item needs to the found/studied, group could be sent as bodyguards and travel partners for the kedan doing the research. A bunch of different things could happen depending on what route they take, how the Foreigners get along with the kedan on the mission, what booby traps are sprung or NOT sprung, etc.

3) Spying on and or infiltrating one of the Malicant cults! Whether in keeliai or in another country. Maybe trying to get some very important information out of them or going in to capture and extract a high-ranking member to bring back for interrogation.

4) I would love to see missions that would put characters in more positions of doing things they wouldn't necessarily like or agree with. Or missions that are darker and some wouldn't mind but others would not be as happy to find out about. Like maybe being pushed to hurt or kill someone to keep up a facade, say if they were impersonating people from another land to get something out of a ruler or leader in another country. Characters would be faced with going along or having to find a way around it to keep up their disguise.

5) In connection with #4, possible assassination missions! But only if they wouldn't mess up the relationship with Evandau and the Foreigners too much. I just think it would be interesting to see which Foreigners he might put those kind of missions toward and how hush-hush they would have to keep them. Bumping off people in other countries to make them more favorable to Keeliai and an alliance against Malicant.

6) Scavenger hunt type missions! People having to look for clues or riddles to find items that could really help them in the fight against Malicant. They could start with one large group and branch into smaller ones to find the items.

Overall, I'd just love to see a big variety of missions with some of them possibly being more long term than a week or two. They don't have to be constant, but something characters may have to keep up with and go back to time and again.
jirk: (Default)

[personal profile] jirk 2014-03-01 04:44 pm (UTC)(link)
Either would work! This system is designed with the former in mind, but we can also help when and where it's necessary as well. It does help us if you have an idea of what you'd like to build, but as long as your worldbuilding falls within currently established parameters to a reasonable point, nearly anything goes.
softlycall: (I always get a ten)

submits this as an actual player plot because c'mon yes

[personal profile] softlycall 2014-03-01 07:17 pm (UTC)(link)
Player: Elle ft. mission parameters by Roy.
Character(s) & Journals: James Kidd ([personal profile] aread), Anne Bonny ([personal profile] softlycall), Raine Sage ([personal profile] ruinsprofessor), space for two other characters to be recruited.

Mission Duration: Four days, including one to travel to the site and back.
Mission Difficulty: ★★☆☆☆ (traps, some aggressive fauna, underwater sections)
Mission Type: Exploration! The nature of Assassin's Creed is such that characters are often rewarded by travelling to new places and learning new things, and I'd like this mission to hold to the heart of that, especially with the new addition of Raine. The team can discover some ruins and spend a few days studying ancient architecture, looking for old books or relics and examining dead bodies, etc.
Projected Plot Impact: If they could figure out what happened to the city to cause it to become a ruin, that'd be fab! I think it would really help to have a solid grounding of what happened in the past battles with Malicant to prepare for the future. So maybe there's evidence of a certain type of weapon, or something that might have revealed one of Malicant's strategies? IE: Maybe there's a bunch of skeletons around a well, suggesting they all died from poison, and so the water supplies in Keeliai can be fortified as a result?
Proposed Worldbuilding Changes: Two things! One, the ruin itself. Preferably in the islands of Zeshora, maybe half-submerged so there's some swimming involved in the exploration? And I'd also like to create a species of predator, let's call them 'savrun'. They're about the size of a jungle cat, with feathers and two sets of eyes. They hunt in pairs and have a taste for humans, whoops.
mythically: [ heh@dw ] (pic#7300408)

[personal profile] mythically 2014-03-01 10:57 pm (UTC)(link)
Player: hallie
Character Name & Journal: diana of themyscira | [personal profile] mythically

Mission Choice #1: vian thax
Mission Choice #2: gha'nal
Mission Choice #3: teyran
burnseternal: (affable)

Re: SIGNUPS FOR MOD MISSIONS

[personal profile] burnseternal 2014-03-01 11:05 pm (UTC)(link)
Player: Fey
Character Name & Journal: Saint Walker ([personal profile] burnseternal)

Mission Choice #1: Teyran
Mission Choice #2: Vian Thax
Mission Choice #3: Siaxhi
originalflameon: ([Jim] surprise)

[personal profile] originalflameon 2014-03-01 11:22 pm (UTC)(link)
Player: Al
Character Name & Journal: Jim Hammond | [personal profile] originalflameon

Mission Choice #1: VIAN THAX
Mission Choice #2: SIAXHI
Mission Choice #3: TEYRAN
strategisch: (researching)

i always put stuff where it doesn't belong

[personal profile] strategisch 2014-03-01 11:24 pm (UTC)(link)
Player: Otter
Character Name & Journal: Armin Arlert / [personal profile] strategisch

Mission Choice #1: Exploration
Mission Choice #2: Quest

The other three don't apply well to him, so just the two :3
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[personal profile] alterer 2014-03-01 11:33 pm (UTC)(link)
Player: Xhan
Character Name & Journal: Nilin [personal profile] alterer

Mission Choice #1: Vian Thax
Mission Choice #2: Teyran
Mission Choice #3: Gha'nal
washitaway: (taking aim)

[personal profile] washitaway 2014-03-01 11:46 pm (UTC)(link)
Player: Froda
Character Name & Journal: Booker DeWitt | [personal profile] washitaway

Mission Choice #1: Dust
Mission Choice #2: Vian Thax
Mission Choice #3: Gha'Nal
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[personal profile] washitaway 2014-03-01 11:59 pm (UTC)(link)
Is it possible, on the player-mission end of things, to submit missions that could run for relatively long periods of time, i.e. extended undercover-type assignments or things like that? Or should we always assume that missions are short-term, 3-10 day things?
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[personal profile] warrioreidlos 2014-03-02 12:09 am (UTC)(link)
Player: Dees
Character Name & Journal: Reiner Braun & [personal profile] warrioreidlos

Mission Choice #1: VIAN THAX
Mission Choice #2: GHA'NAL
Mission Choice #3: DUST
alderwood: (Default)

[personal profile] alderwood 2014-03-02 12:14 am (UTC)(link)
If you're submitting a player mission of your own design, it can run as long or as short as you'd like. The mod missions are structured around a tighter time frame to facilitate easier cooperation over a shorter period.
mightythinice: (Default)

Re: SIGNUPS FOR MOD MISSIONS

[personal profile] mightythinice 2014-03-02 02:03 am (UTC)(link)
Player: Sarah
Character Name & Journal: Mako | [profile] firethepolice

Mission Choice #1: Dust
Mission Choice #2: Vian Thax
Mission Choice #3: Siaxhi
mightythinice: Really, it was just a play on words. (I just did a show on puns.)

Re: MISSION SUGGESTIONS

[personal profile] mightythinice 2014-03-02 02:07 am (UTC)(link)
Is it possible to have a long term undercover mission assigned for several players, to get closer to the underbelly of crime in the city? Some characters seem like they would lend themselves to that, though it would require more longterm coordination.
ixis: (Staff)

[personal profile] ixis 2014-03-02 02:19 am (UTC)(link)
Player: DEL!
Character Name & Journal: Ixis Naugus [personal profile] ixis

Mission Choice #1: Vian Thax
Mission Choice #2: Siaxhi
Mission Choice #3: Teyran
tomemyoutliers: (damn straight i called you 'optimus')

[personal profile] tomemyoutliers 2014-03-02 07:30 am (UTC)(link)
Player: Ammay
Character Name & Journal: Shockwave ([personal profile] tomemyoutliers)

Mission Choice #1: TEYRAN
Mission Choice #2: GHA'NAL
Mission Choice #3: SIAXHI
sophos: (Default)

[personal profile] sophos 2014-03-02 07:40 am (UTC)(link)
Player: Tomato
Character Name & Journal: Annabeth Chase [personal profile] sophos

Mission Choice #1: GHA'NAL
Mission Choice #2: TEYRAN
Mission Choice #3: SIAXHI
lostundercover: (too sexy for my clothes)

Re: PLAYER MISSIONS

[personal profile] lostundercover 2014-03-02 09:18 am (UTC)(link)
Player: Kate
Character(s) & Journals: Billy Costigan ([personal profile] lostundercover)

Mission Duration: 7 days, no specific date.
Mission Difficulty: ★★★☆☆
Mission Type: Infiltration. Costigan is, if nothing else, a gifted undercover. He's spent so long doing it that he's not even sure he knows how not to anymore and he also already has ties to at least one local gang. Seems about time for him to get arrested again, for the sake of trying to garner more information on local gangs.
Projected Plot Impact: Trying to start building a file on which gangs might be related to Malicant or Dust, versus which gangs are just doing the usual gang thing. Also trying to get names of potential key figures or plans/events/rituals. The goal would be for him to be able to pass along this information to create future missions specifically related to gangs/Dust.
Proposed Worldbuilding Changes: This could serve as a catalyst for more PCs to go undercover. Hopefully, in the long run, this and similar missions could also severely reduce the prevalence of Dust with key arrests, etc.
jondrette: (dimple)

Re: SIGNUPS FOR MOD MISSIONS

[personal profile] jondrette 2014-03-02 07:43 pm (UTC)(link)
Player: Shea
Character Name & Journal: Éponine Thénardier ([personal profile] jondrette)

Mission Choice #1: DUST
Mission Choice #2: SIAXHI
Mission Choice #3: n/a
escarabajo: (Beetle/Jaime: ringringring Scarabphone)

[personal profile] escarabajo 2014-03-02 10:56 pm (UTC)(link)
Player: Danni
Character Name & Journal: Jaime Reyes | [personal profile] escarabajo

Mission Choice #1: Teyran
Mission Choice #2: Vian Thax
Mission Choice #3: Siaxhi
fearlessherosheart: Tazendra (Default)

Re: SIGNUPS FOR MOD MISSIONS

[personal profile] fearlessherosheart 2014-03-03 01:59 am (UTC)(link)
Player: Stareyes
Character Name & Journal: Tazendra/[profile] fearlessheroesheart

Mission Choice #1: Teyran
Mission Choice #2: Vian Thax
Mission Choice #3: Gha'nal
spideyfanone: (Default)

Re: SIGNUPS FOR MOD MISSIONS

[personal profile] spideyfanone 2014-03-03 03:54 am (UTC)(link)
Player: Siobhan
Character Name & Journal: Kurt Waggoner [personal profile] spideyfanone

Mission Choice #1: VIAN THAX
Mission Choice #2: GHA'NAL
Mission Choice #3: TEYRAN
alphatar: (Knockem out)

[personal profile] alphatar 2014-03-03 07:10 am (UTC)(link)
Player: Sker
Character Name & Journal: Korra [personal profile] alphatar

Mission Choice #1: TEYRAN
Mission Choice #2: GHA'NAL
Mission Choice #3: VIAN THAX
shorttempered: ([Inv] Need more than some rocks)

Re: SIGNUPS FOR MOD MISSIONS

[personal profile] shorttempered 2014-03-04 02:59 am (UTC)(link)
Player: Kaitie
Character Name & Journal: Kaine [personal profile] unobtainableredemption

Mission Choice #1: Dust
Mission Choice #2: Vian Thax
Mission Choice #3: Siaxhi
Edited (Swapped characters so Mark could participate in a player mission) 2014-03-05 01:33 (UTC)

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