Tu Shanshu | OOC

Greetings again, fearless chelonauts! This little post is meant to herald the coming of the second part of the Console Crash plot, which is now live over yonder!

April 24th-30th | HOSTILE TAKEOVER;

Strategically speaking, the intent was to knock out the consoles and bomb the city to cause chaos and mayhem – what's that line? Some men just want to watch the world burn? Well, Malicant wants to roast marshmallows on that open flame!

Given that everyone's focus and attention is presently elsewhere, he is going to be infiltrating the palace and setting up shop there all by his ownsies – providing said ownsies involve rather a lot of his foot soldiers! Ever since Eshai's death, he's been winning over the palace guard by any means necessary, you know the drill. Blackmail, torture, mind control, the whole nine yards. This plot represents his coup de grace to take control of the palace, which represents one of the major power points in Tu Vishan.

What this means:

Evandau probably deserves your censure.

He's a soldier, not an Emperor! During the bombing, he made the decision to leave the palace to aid the police force, where his loyalties and supervision resided too long to simply ignore. This action made in ignorance left it open and vulnerable to Malicant's little plot. Feel free to call him on it! Just don't expect him to go "my bad" about it. Or be happy. Hakuna Matata is not a thing that happens in war, tyvm.

New or respawned characters will no longer be brought into the palace!

Naturally, it's not exactly in Malicant's best interest to continue bringing in people to vanquish him, so player characters will be brought in by the combined efforts of Eva and Milyn working together for a brighter future! This will be conducted in a series of safe houses in and around Keeliai, with the deposed Emperor, the deranged Magician, and the darling Healer staying on the move to keep from Malicant spoiling their attempts at drawing reinforcements.

Characters will now wake on a metal cot, guarded by Evandau and with Milyn immediately checking their vitals, etc to ensure that they were summoned wholly intact. Then, Eva will appear in their line of sight, her arms soaked to the elbow with water - a key part of the magic that brings characters here - and waving a hand flippantly at the care. She'll be apt to say that he/she's fine and that the grogginess will wear off in an hour or two. If it doesn't, try a spot of coffee and you'll be right as rain!

This particular ramification will not come into play for another WEEK in-game (beginning May 1st both OOCly and ICly) as first Evandau needs to realize that he done fucked up and needs a new source for his Foreigner squadron.

Ganon's Castle is now booby-trapped to hell.

Forget those lovely jaunts to the palace, this place is a Sage-made rainbow bridge away from being the unholy lair of a final boss. Remember how the palace turned black when Eshai died? Well, now it's black. And spiky. There is also a barrier around it, so good luck flying overhead to get a closer look, or burrowing underneath to find a way in. Touching this barrier will result in one of several possibilities: characters will lose consciousness, be hit with several thousand joules of amperage, or their skin may be turned some funny colour (sort of like a scarlet letter, except indicating how very nosy a character is!) . The colour does not fade easily and, frankly, it's easier to amputate the limb than scrub it off. Hurts less too, for it doesn't react very well to soaps. Or chemicals. Or much of anything. It sits there, a reminder of the barrier, kind of like the way a sheet will leave a mark on your face if you lie on a fold of it for too long.

The war on the doorstep.

Keeliai is now officially occupied, and things will progress as such. Given that Malicant is now publicly known to be a technopath, and has been setting up spies on every street corner, nowhere is truly safe. Characters are going to need to work a lot harder to keep their activities clandestine. Kedan will begin to amass together in safe houses and outside the city, but they are not a fighting species and therefore need a leader to start even the slightest of resistance movements. Evandau will be actively trying to secure weapons and munitions from police storage houses before Malicant's troops clear them out. Milyn will be helping to save what lives she can, while Eva... Well. She's always been a bit of a wild card.

And all this while the consoles are still dark.

Coordination and communication on the large-scale is in chaos and it's a situation like this where the Foreigners might have the upper hand, but do they? Can they? That's up to you. Does your character have a suggestion or solution for the technology dilemma? Feel free to email the mods (tushanshu AT gmail) or give us a summary of what your character would and could try to do to help the situation.

Have any questions? Please refer to the QUESTIONS section of the comments and ask away! We will answer them in as timely a method as possible. Otherwise, feel free to use this post to plot what your character(s) may be up to during this portion of the event!

NOTE: As a reminder, we now have an active game plurk @ tushan that you can add.

ETA: There will be a "State of the Shell" post going up within a few days of this plot ending, which will detail all the IC changes that come from this plot. It will include format changes (like canon updates) and gameplay changse (like IC reactions and statuses) so that everyone can refer back to it as needed.

Art by Rica.

( Landfall Details! )

Item Requests
The final list of approved item requests will be compiled and posted on August 8th. Please have your requests in by that date in order for it to be included in this landfall event! Information about the requests process and the currently approved items can be found here

Plot Volunteers
Those characters that have offered their services in exchange for information from the Emperor or Alderwood Commander (see: canon updates), your time to answer the call may be coming! We're looking or volunteers to assist with a mid-to-late-event plot. This event will involve assisting in maintaining the barrier around Tu Vishan and Sinbrilee for the duration of the landfall.

More information about this portion of the event will be released closer to its implementation.

Note: This portion of the event is solely for characters that traded their services in for canon updates.

If you're interested in your character participating in this subevent, please provide the following in the VOLUNTEERS header of the comments:

<b>Name:</b> <b>Character:</b> <b>Canon:</b>

( Death & Dreaming )

Disclaimer: This posts consists of a lot of reading, in particular for the OOC organisation of the event. Please read everything as it could all turn out relevant to your character(s).

It's official! The meta/power reduction kicked off on the 16th and it's time to roll out plotting for phase two: Malicant. To facilitate that, I've compiled the results from the Clueventure OOC survey and will go over it first before launching into the phase two material.

( Clueventure OOC Organisation )

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Phew! With that barrel of organisational details out in the open, it's time to discuss what's actually going to happen! And, y'know, the all important team sign-ups.

( Malicant - The Plot )

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Wow! I know, I know... 'Alex, are you done talking yet?' ALMOST, I PROMISE.

Sign-ups
If you would like your character(s) to be involved in one of the aforementioned teams, please fill out one of the below forms!

RNG Volunteers | For characters without a pre-formed team
<b>Name:</b> <b>OOC Contact</b> <b>Character:</b> <b>Account:</b>

Player Teams | For pre-formed teams
<b>Coordinating Player:</b> <b>OOC Contact:</b> <b>Participating Players:</b> <b>Character 01:</b> <b>Account 01:</b> <b>RNG?</b> In the event of too many teams, can this character be added to the RNG list? <b>Character 02:</b> <b>Account 02:</b> <b>RNG?</b> In the event of too many teams, can this character be added to the RNG list? <b>Character 03:</b> <b>Account 03:</b> <b>RNG?</b> In the event of too many teams, can this character be added to the RNG list? <b>Character 04:</b> <b>Account 04:</b> <b>RNG?</b> In the event of too many teams, can this character be added to the RNG list? <b>Character 05:</b> <b>Account 05:</b> <b>RNG?</b> In the event of too many teams, can this character be added to the RNG list?

Sign-ups will be open until end of day on June 22nd! As always, there is a thread for questions in the comments as well as a thread for sign-ups.

Greetings and Salutations, brave Chelonauts! This here is the heralding post of our SECOND In-game landfall, and as with the last time I ask that you please read it over carefully, as it will have some changes to IC gameplay. This is an 'opt in' plot rather than an 'opt out' plot. Characters who remain on Keeliai will have a few things to do or react to as well!

You disembark from Tu Vishan to a clean, well-kempt port. There are a fair amount of ships here, and though they're dwarfed in size and scope by Tu Vishan, miraculously none are capsized. Everything is almost militaristically organized, and there are officials posted at intervals along Tu Vishan's docked side checking paperwork as people disembark (said paperwork is official documentation of your character's stay in Keeliai, it will be delivered to your character's suite a few days before they make landfall) It's standard procedure, they explain. There will be a mandatory quarantine period of up to twelve hours for anyone trying to gain access to the portside city of Atamsichar. This quarantine involves your character being stripped, hosed down, their blood tested and a period of isolation while their bloodtests are checked for anything particularly nasty. Rest assured, unless you've been engaging in sex with corpses, you're probably fine.

( IN ATAMSICHAR )


( IN KEELIAI )


As usual, feel free to use this post to plot amongst yourselves, and there will be a comment header for any questions you might have. Please field all questions/concerns/etc to Roy, either here or over at vonnerdyce!

Also, if we find this event needs to run a bit longer so people can accomplish things in a less constrained timeframe, that's also cool, we're going to take a look at how the event's sitting a few days in and make a decision then, but we'd also love to hear your opinion in the meantime!


AND AS A REMINDER: ITEM REQUESTS are still open for this landfall! We will be compiling the requests and adding them to this page in a few days, you will have until WEDNESDAY the 3rd to get your requests in and have them count for this round!

Hello again, Turtlelites! Come one, come all! Beginning on the 17th and running until the 28th (ish, that point isn't as set in stone) we're doing one of our Metaplot Events! This event is a three-tiered critter that needs some – you guessed it – volunteers!

Below I'm going to provide a summary of the details, and then you'll have a chance to sign your characters up. #yolo

( plot details within )


DEADLINE FOR SIGN-UP IS ON FEBRUARY 14TH.


SIGN-UPS ARE NOW CLOSED. A DECISION WILL FOLLOW SHORTLY.

Greetings, Chelonauts! This here is the official OOC planning post for the LANDFALL event! This event is going to run from November 1st to November 31st (with a sort of gradual 'wind down' on the last few days) and participation in it is entirely optional! Characters can pretty much stay in their houses if they don't feel like taking part. LANDFALL COMES WITH NUMEROUS CHANGES TO IC GAMEPLAY, SO PLEASE READ THIS CAREFULLY AND ASK IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS.




You disembark from the back of Tu Vishan into a realm of hellish misery. There is nothing visible near the coastland at all. The ground beneath your feet is cracked and broken and dry, the air is hot enough to scald the lungs. There are no cities, no streets. No structures in the visible distance. There's an eerie stillness all around you, and noises – rather than echo – seem almost stagnant in the air. The kedan seem restless and uneasy. Most of them opt to stay behind on Tu Vishan rather than forge onward into the mainland, though some are content to merely collect their day's rations and go.

Note: Anyone who leaves Tu Vishan is given approximately 24 hours' worth of water and food, and are expected to return within that time frame. However, as not all characters are like to comply to this, it is possible for characters to pool their rations in the hopes that someone can get a significant distance into the continent, if they're an exploratory-type character. Your character could also smuggle rations from home – but the continent's a big place. Are you sure you want to set out with nothing more than a backpack?


THE MAINLAND


● While on the mainland, characters will have small, cellular communicators courtesy of Stark Industries. Please note: THESE CAN ONLY MAKE PERSON-TO-PERSON CALLS. They cannot under any circumstance connect to a 'network' and they cannot do 'network' style posts.

● Some kedan may approach foreigners of their acquaintance with special requests. They might ask for a specific sort of food from the mainland (maybe there's a rare sort of plant or flower that's managed to grow, or maybe they're hoping for some canned rations from one of the burnt out cities) or they might need some sort of resource in their day-to-day lives. They'd offer up meagre savings for these requests. But surely you won't take money just to be a decent person, right...?

● The kedan will warn your characters about the 'llothi' before they disembark from the turtle. Llothi are nine feet tall creatures with horribly inverted joints (that look broken more than naturally formed) and don't appear to have any skin. Their features are almost canid and their eye sockets are empty, though ichor seeps forth from the sockets themselves. These creatures will attack based on sight, smell or sound and any scratches incurred from their claws will become horrifically infected. They've been known to swipe through solid steel, so look out! These creatures hunt in pairs usually established by mating hierarchy. Despite their feral nature, they're ruthlessly intelligent, and will sometimes employ a third creature, a 'daemid', to lure people into traps. Daemids are small, scaled humanoid creatures that can mimic sounds and voices and will often stalk people for days to be able to accurately reflect their voices, and will oftentimes pretend to be trapped or injured to facilitate a response.

● The terrain on the mainland is black, scorched rock, the climate is arid and there's almost no above-ground water anywhere. Earthquakes are frequent. There are numerous active volcanoes in the area, and there's almost always a fine coating of ash on everything, despite the frequency of sirocco winds. Everything is varying shades of dismal grey.

● Characters will encounter burnt out buildings, twisted hunks of metal and concrete. Some radio towers are still active. What remains of the buildings suggests a domed shape and structure, though some are simply straight spires. The buildings have been superheated and warped beyond any feasible repair. Some still reach up into the sky like broken fingers, and they're certainly climbable to those that like their heights. However, ascending to the top will only give you more view of the same – the wasteland, dotted with the occasional burnt-out city or town. There are mountains in the far distance some several hundred miles away and they might be covered in vegetation, but it's hard to tell at this distance, isn't it?

● For characters with powers, you will find them dampened the further they venture from the turtle. At ten miles onshore, their powers will have faded by roughly half. A further ten miles will see them completely removed. This affects every preternatural ability – laser vision, pyrokinetics, super strength. If you aren't sure whether your character's abilities will be affected, please ask.

● For characters who rely on technology rather than superpowers, they'll find those rather difficult to use as well. Gadgets that were working flawlessly a few minutes ago now seem aged and worn beyond usefulness. Oh, you have a jetpack from the planet Zorg? Congratulations, it won't work here. Explosives seem to have lost their potency. The cellphones that are issued to the characters will have difficulty connecting the farther out the characters venture, and there's quite a bit of static on the line when they do make calls.

● THE MAUSOLEUM: The mausoleum is the only standing structure within a few days' walk from the Turtle, and it's a doozy. The walls look to be made of an unidentifiable black metal, and no attacks or explosives will so much as scratch it. Inside...? Well. Inside is lined with thousands upon thousands of coffins. These coffins are numbered rather than named. Pulling them out of their niches in the walls and breaking them open will reveal corpses in various states of decay from the very recent to the very ancient. They all have one curious thing in common, though... all of them seem to be twisted in agony. However, any forensics taken will reveal nothing unusual in even a full-panel work-up.

●WHAT CAN BE FOUND IN THE OLD CITIES: Nearly anything within reason. If you want your character to open up a hidden trap door in the concrete foundation of an old building and find some stuff, feel free. Try not to overdo it – they aren't going to find a fully stocked panic room with a million shiny gadgets over which they can ooh and ahh, but they could definitely find a panic room with a bunch of rotted rations and maybe some firearms. Some will be rusted or unusable, but you might get one or two viable firearms, and you might be able to find ammunition somewhere. Just be realistic. If you want your character to find something in particular and you aren't sure if it would be allowed, please ask.

A thing to note is that there are no corpses anywhere in any of the cities.



ITEMS:

Certain items have been approved to be found on the mainland! The people requesting them of course have first dibs to find them, but perhaps it can be worked out otherwise if people want some quick and easy CR!

GARRET HAWKE | one (1) approved mabari warhound by the name of 'Dr. Thunder'
FAVRIELLE NO EGLANTINE | two books (The Trois Milles Joies & Naamah's Journey) and a bottle of joie.
HANCOCK | his supersuit
BRUCE WAYNE| his Batsuit.



(We're posting this one week in advance for planning purposes. Let us know if this works for you!)

The gang war kicks off now, with an IC post going up from Evandau (alderwood) in the next few minutes to get IC things going. How's this going to work? Easy!

Over the course of the next week, three separate party-style logs will be posted by the mods for the main events mentioned in this post with details about the specific event, the challenges that will be faced, and the likelihood of success that the participants will have. The participants to these logs will be limited to the crisis response teams that Evandau is going to list in his post (and is listed later in this one). These teams were formed based on the sign-up requests of the members, with each character limited to one team and, therefore, one log. The first log will go up later tonight!

In addition to the team events/logs, there the solo events officially kick off today! The bottom of this post addresses that and includes a link to the Gdocs spreadsheet that details how many solo missions each character has, along with the number of times they succeed at it.

IC Impact:
Aside from the impact of the major events, characters are likely to notice a further increase of crime, to the point that it's not recommended that one go out alone. Violence is spreading and those familiar with the signs will be able to tell that the power vacuum in the wake of the festival is coming to a head. There are targetting killings, largescale thefts, and plenty of people being made example of as gangs seek to establish their superiority. It's gotten to the point that event the normally peaceful, crime-free sectors are experiencing unprecedented levels of criminal activity.

Team Events - Teams:
As mentioned, each of the major events will be addressed by teams of player characters based on sign-up requests. These teams are as follow:

>Crowd Control:
>Summary: Two gangs go head-to-head in Metal.
>Team Composition:
Aaron Cross | twelvepoints
Asami Sato | stickshift
Chase Young | repelled
Damian Wayne | demon_brat
Kon-El | tactile_telekinesis
Korra | allbend
Megamind | notpredictable
Namorita Prentiss | littlecousin
Princess Yue | lunargoodness
Shifu | shifu_sifu
Sokka | whoneedsbending
Stephanie Brown | controlledvariable
Triela Hilshire | daughterofelysium

>Sacrificial Altar:
>Summary: Sacrificial offerings are made on the turtle's head.
>Team Composition:
Aisling | mistyoldworld
Annabeth Chase | sophos
BA Baracus | b_ad_a_ttitude
Brandon Sharpe | conductivity
Bucky Barnes | trainwrecked
Cassandra Cain | shobogan
Karrin Murphy | whatfriendsdo
Liz Sherman | memoriesinsmoke
Ororo Munroe | storm_warning
Rin Okumura | dadissues
Tim Drake | inhisherosimage
Wally West | sciencewhizard

>Break-in at the Palace of Landed Sky:
>Summary: Prison break at the palace!
>Team Composition:
Billy Kaplan | myothertights
Clark Kent | andaway
Clint Barton | arches
Garret Hawke | imlikeabird
Jason Todd | redjay
Kara Thrace | knowsmadness
Peggy Carter | shootingshields
Rikki Barnes | withoutaworld
Steve Rogers | usavatar
Teddy Altman | nohulkingout
Tommy Shepherd | crotcharrow
Tony Stark | iron_ego
Yelena | tasteforpoison

Solitary Missions:
These missions are free to handwave or log however you like on your own. It's basically an opportunity to get your characters out there and involved without the deeper involvement that will come with the team events. Based on the sign-ups, we've done up a Gdocs spreadsheet that lists how many official missions each character will undertake, along with the number of successes.

Solo Missions | Breakdown

Rather than us set it in stone, we've left it open to you to decide the nature of each mission your character(s) will undertake, be the outcome success or fail. As a reminder, the general idea of tasks up for offer will vary, but run along the lines of:

>arresting known gang members
>seizing contraband
>escort valuable goods/persons
>finding/freeing hostages

That about covers it! If you have any questions, feel free to ask them here or by contacting one of the mods and we'll answer them as soon as possible!