tushanshu_ooc | Entries tagged with #volunteers needed

UH hello, guys. Knightblazer/KB, player of baby!Hal, here with something of a plot!

Soooo back in the last big event with the fog and the bottle stuff happening, basically the two Hal Jordans kind of ended up facing each other and it ended with comics!Hal killing off baby!Hal. Of course, baby!Hal has been brought back after that, but the entire thing kind of messed him up really badly. Enough to make him ragequit the Corps...

...and throw away his ring, in a complete moment of folly. (Not that Hal thinks so.)

SO this is basically a post where I go 'so who wants to have a shiny ring of willpower at their disposal'!! Since Hal more or less rejected the ring now it'll most likely attach itself to the first person who picks it up - and it doesn't even have to be a good guy. It can be a bad guy, or somebody who doesn't really care, or whatever. Short of attacking Hal directly, the ring can pretty much do almost anything else it's able to do in (movie) canon i.e, create anything out of willpower, mostly. The movie doesn't really show a lot of what the ring can do.

tl;dr this post is just to see who wants their character to get the ring! I'm planning to just RNG the individual who's going to pick up the ring and see where things go from there. Depending on the person who picked up the ring, big things may happen, soooo yeah. \o/

Interested people please do post with the character you want to pick up the ring here. For the sake of fairness I'm going to say a limit of one character per player, and if there really isn't enough interest I'll just take to poking around and ask via PM. And that should be about it! Any questions/etc, please don't hesitate to post them here or PM me directly.

EDIT 17TH MAR: SIGNUPS CLOSED! THE RNG HAS RUN AND SELECTED THE NEW RING BEARER. THANKS TO ALL WHO EXPRESSED INTEREST!

skybluejeep

Hello, Turtle Game! Lis here with a mod-approved plot I'd like to run by you all.

( The Stilinski Comedy Hour, sponsored by Texaco! )

Please sign up here. For this first time around, I'll take 4 players. Which characters you bring to the table is up to you. If I get more than 4 players interested, I'll use a RNG to pick. Next month, if all goes well, I'll get more people in.

If you sign up for this event, you're committing to a tagging order and a promise not to drop the post. I'll be poking people to get tags out of them, so I'll need some form of OOC contact as well.

EDIT: For the record, my plurk is

lisandraface and I'll be adding you for ease of communication.

neverleftharlan

GREETINGS TURTLETOPIANS.

As per this discussion with the Emperor, Raylan is putting together a temporary task force to try and keep the Foreign population out of the breached areas of the turtle shell. And as per the existing plot, this effort will be met with mixed success, which can be partially dictated by YOU, THE PLAYER.

Noted in the linked thread are the IC benefits - two weeks off from regular work and 100 juulan in monetary compensation. Those who participate may be seen in a slightly more favorable light by The Powers That Be.

Organization

How this works will largely depend on the number of PCs who get involved. In terms of organization, Raylan will divide participants into three eight-hour shifts. To limit the potential for anyone to double-cross or try to use their place on the task force to help others into the sewers, characters will NOT be given the name of their shift partner or their shift's patrol route until they arrive that day. In other words, characters will know what time they are patrolling, but until they arrive at 'headquarters' for the beginning of that shift, they will not know a) where or b) with whom. He will also try to sort people based on whatever listed skills they present so that each pair is roughly equal in terms of its strength. For example, he might place Superman with a baseline human, and put two mutants of average power together, in order to ensure that each pair can execute their duties no matter who they come up against.

OOCLY, this gives a great deal of freedom to establish new CR and cross-canon relationships. If Raylan has noticed a given pair talking a lot on the network, or sees two volunteers being buddy-buddy off duty, he'll split them up to try and make sure nothing conspiratorial can take place.

Please note that Raylan will ONLY be aware of the abilities of your character if said character informed him of them upon signup, or if your character has had reasonable exposure relating to said abilities via the network. The number of PCs will be filled out by NPC kedan as necessary.

Possible Plot Developments

-Arrests

The mods have given permission for the majority of arrests made to be made by the task force. In other words, you can have ~~hot Foreigner-on-Foreigner action~~ a patrolling pair see and arrest any of the listed trespassers in the plot post (provided you coordinate the arrest with the corresponding players). There can be arrests in excess of those listed in the original plot post, but those arrests WILL NOT RECIEVE THE INFORMATION OR ITEMS LISTED FOR THE ORIGINAL GROUPS. They will be handed over to the palace and incarcerated until the Emperor or someone on the inside sees fit to let them go. The potential here for negative CR is unavoidable, but could also foment a lot of interesting political and emotional divides amongst the characters populating the turtle.

-Double-Crosses

Despite the precautions Raylan is taking, it is of course possible for your character or characters to use their place on the task force to try to help others get through into the sewers. This can be as simple as looking the other way when a Foreigner goes by or as elaborate as creating a diversion so no one is watching a given area at a given time. It's also possible for double-crossers to be caught - any who are will be taken to the palace by Raylan himself and handed over personally to the prison guards. He doesn't like being lied to. Neither do the kedan and their leaders. According to the mods, anyone caught trying to help Foreigners get into the sewers will be looked upon with distrust from NPCs.

Consequences

PLEASE KEEP IN MIND THAT ALL IC ACTIONS WILL HAVE IC CONSEQUENCES. If you do not want your character to be distrusted by some, don't have them arrest fellow foreigners. If you don't want them to spend time in the palace prisons, arrange a way for them to avoid being caught in a double-cross. This is an opportunity for a lot of interesting CR developments, but remember to think through the potential complications before deciding if you want to jump in.

Signup form thingy:

Feel free to plot amongst yourselves or ask any questions that come to mind!

ironwood

OKAY SO this is sort of a spontaneous plot decision, but we find ourselves again in the position of Needing Volunteers For Plot Purposes!

Essentially, we're looking for five or six characters at max to stumble upon the Emperor's treasure room and make off with a few important artefacts during the chaos and general din of the Turtledive Zombie Extravaganza.

How is this going to happen, you say? Well, the barriers that generally keep people out of certain rooms are going to fail, and people are going to find that when they walk through doors, they end up being accidentally transported to other areas of the palace! So, in this merry little accident, a group of characters at the palace are going to miraculously find themselves part of a Temporary Team-Up that (hopefully? theoretically?) leads to the treasure room!

There are also options to stop off at an armoury, so this is also possible for people who are interested less in treasure and more in super cool weapons or armour.

The ultimate goal of this plot is to get powerful magical artefacts that characters have left behind - such as the Helmet of Fate and the One Ring - back into the hands of the general population for later plotting purposes.

Here is your handy-dandy form to fill out a la volunteering! We will be choosing people via RNG within 48 hours, so please fill this out ASAP if you're interested.

PLEASE NOTE: Chosen volunteers are the only people who will have access to the treasure rooms/armouries, so please don't have your character wander into these areas without pre-approved permission!

Tu Shanshu | OOC

WANTED: one (1) new ring bearer (???)

Radio Show plotting and sign-up post.

TURTLE TASK FORCE PLOT

needed: one team of hapless adventurers for potentially shady reasons

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