farmhouse/alien attack IC plan (draft)

[amberhearted]

Hi all! Apologies for the wait, unexpected increase in work days. Anyway, here’s the IC plan for the farmhouse attack. It’s not finalized; there’s some wiggle room for character placement and the plan itself.

• PART 1: Monitor the area for a week+.

◦ Remotely or invisibly:

‣ Christobel (drones)

∙ plus others who are willing to look over video footage (from Chris’ drones?), take notes of patterns, anything of interest

L?
Shiro

‣ Bakura (invisibility) – weekend, if anything (student, ergo theoretically at school on weekdays) weekdays
‣ Danny (intangibility) – weekend, if anything (student, ergo theoretically at school on weekdays)
‣ Roxy (intangibility) – weekend, if anything (student, ergo theoretically at school on weekdays)

• PART 2: Actual attack.

◦ Volunteers split into:

‣ Underground tunneling led by Sophie (characters that can hold their own in a fight; expecting resistance inside [robots or chimeras]; also closest to the white door with the keypad)

∙ Soren (telekinesis to move items or animals)
∙ Aria (telekinesis to move items or animals) (moved to ground cover)
∙ Davin (telekinesis to move items or animals)
∙ Neku? (psychic look-out for people detection, offensive support?)
∙ Toushirou (offense)
∙ Hajime (offense)
∙ Mac (offense)
∙ Shiro (offense)
∙ Bakura (not present, but monitoring the farmhouse via Diabound from a distance – specifically, another set of eyes for the underground team)
∙ (at least one of them keeps a video-format Network post open for mission control)
∙ (I know Chris said her drones could release the animals, but I’d rather give that task to characters)

‣ Ground cover (characters that can hold their own in a fight)

∙ Aria (telekinesis to throw people)
∙ Benjamin (disarming alien defense tech)
∙ Danny (helping Benjamin)
∙ Roxy (offense, sneaking)
∙ Alexander V (offense, hypnotizing)
∙ Anthony J (offense)
∙ Octavia (mind control as many cops as poss., then try to mind control the alien?, offense)
∙ Ax-Alex (offense, look out)
∙ Shou (offense)
∙ Kotetsu (offense)
∙ Arthur (offense)
∙ Luke (offense)
∙ Kari (rear line support)
∙ Miranda (rear line support)
∙ Isaac and Miria (van ram)
∙ Calvin (offense)
∙ Yoko (offense)
∙ Kanti (offense)
∙ Miles (offense)
∙ Chris (rear line support)
∙ Harding (rear line support)
∙ (several of them keep a video-format Network post open for mission control (GOPRO, YEAH))

‣ Distant offense

∙ Marisa (flight, offense)
∙ Reimu (flight, offense)
∙ Gerald (sniping from a distance)
∙ (they keep a video-format Network post open for mission control)

‣ Mission control (characters that are skilled with computers and/or analysis and communication)

∙ Barnaby
∙ L
∙ Asuka
∙ Michelle
∙ Elian
∙ Wheatley
∙ Bakura (physically present, using Diabound to monitor the farmhouse)
∙ (they will have open video/audio Network connections)
∙ (they will be in one of the safehouses)

‣ Medics

∙ Sierra (magic first-aid)
∙ John Smith (doctor)
∙ Ravindra (magic first-aid, guard)
∙ Nick (guard)
∙ Calvin (not directly, but may be told to keep on ear open for the medics so he can bust someone out of the field with his super speed if necessary)
∙ Granny Curry (super granny guard)
∙ (they keep open lines on the Network)
∙ (they will be stationed a safe distance away, but close enough to reach the offensive teams if dispatched)

‣ Other (not directly involved)

∙ Henry (item transformation)

◦ The rough plan of attack is:

‣ The ground and aerial teams take the attention of the sniffer dogs/corrupt cops outside of the farmhouse.
‣ While the ground/aerial teams are distracting enemies, the underground team tunnels into the farmhouse from below and releases the animals/chimeras.
‣ Once the underground team achieves that, they move on to waiting outside the white door with the keypad. (This is why hard-hitters like Toushirou, Hajime, Mac and Shiro are in the underground group – to keep the alien engaged while the others take care of the enemies outside.)
‣ The chaos is meant to coax whatever is in the room with the white door/keypad lock to leave. (Spoilers: it’s the alien.)
‣ If the chaos does not coax the alien out of the room, then Danny and Benjamin make a beeline for the door to bust the keypad.
‣ Destroy the alien.

• OTHER NOTES:

◦ In regards to killing, Alex would want everyone to accept killing someone in combat as a real possibility and to not begrudge anyone else for killing any corrupt cops/sniffer dogs/animals/chimeras/etc. If anyone openly has a problem with this, he is going to want them to rethink their involvement.
◦ I would love to see Granny Curry kick ass on the field, but I need some IC justification to put her on a team.
◦ The log will be forward-dated by at least a week. IC-wise, it will happen on a Saturday, either 2/15, 2/22, or 3/1. Not sure if day or night yet. Probably day so everyone can see without resorting to extra equipment.

Please confirm your character’s role and placement.

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Now here’s some OOC information:

• Enemies consist of:

◦ corrupt cops
◦ sniffer dogs
◦ automatic defense systems
◦ chimeras
◦ two robots (at least)
◦ the alien

• We will add more robots by request. (Not a kerjillion billion, but an additional handful are a-okay.) If you’re interested in NPCing your own robots/corrupt cops/chimeras, let us know and we’ll provide you with their stats.
• The alien is not susceptible to mind control, but the characters don’t know that.
• In the interest of simplicity, the alien will leave the room.
• The thread for fighting the alien will not not be restricted to the underground team. They will encounter the alien first, but they will not be the only ones attacking it. They cannot destroy the alien by themselves.
• The thread for fighting the alien is likely going to be a clusterfuck. I’d like to give all the participating fighters a chance to shine. It will be a free-for-all, so please do any planning for it on the OOC community where those involved can contribute and keep it flexible. Please also be flexible if someone tags in without notice. Don’t worry about tagging order.
• Characters engaging the alien in battle will not emerge from battle uninjured.
• If you want to avoid your character’s direct involvement with fighting the alien though they would IC-wise want to participate, you could say they were incapacitated by a different enemy.

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If you have any questions, feel free to ask!

Edit: Fighting the alien will grant one Echo.

Comments

[shiromadoushi]

Bakura will totally be watching during school because he's such a good student that way. :)

He likely will physically be with mission control so that if he does spot something, someone else can quick get the heads up to the relevant parties (since it does no good for him to just be watching without that realy)

[amberhearted]

Is him watching during school something he would argue for? Alex would discourage it, but ultimately concede (because he can't stop Bakura from doing what he wants short of hypnotizing him, and Alex doesn't think this is dire enough for that option).

If Bakura is physically with mission control, will Diabound be able to reach the farmhouse?

[detectivetroll]

Everything looks good for Nick and Benjamin's role!

Nick is trained as a first responder (or an emergency medical responder, whatever it's called in New Jersey), so he can help out the medics as well. ...except for the magic healers, obviously, other than guarding them while they do their thing.

If needed, he'd go in and help in alien fighting, but I'm flexible on whether or not this happens. Except if any of his close CR gets seriously injured or put out of commission, then he's highly likely to head in there whether he's needed or not, if only to get them out of the situation. If anyone was already planning on having their character injured/out of commission, I'd love for this to happen!


Benjamin will be looking to take out those automatic defense systems, and possibly robots! I'm sure other people'd like to fight those, so I'm good with working out the timing so he doesn't use the blaster until people have fought them, taken out however many of them they want, etc. ...even if I have to come up with something to make him wait until the majority have already been taken out, I'll come up with something. Maybe have him wait until the alien actually comes out.

He is also a doctor, so once he disarms the alien defense tech, he will likely be falling back and possibly available as immediate medical assistance, if anyone's badly injured, until the designated medics can be dispatched.

[chalicejoker]

I am 100% A-OK with Hajime and Arthur's placement on the teams! Hajime's not going to be doing much as far as plans go; he's just getting in there and hitting things as hard as he can because this is what bugmen do in these scenarios.

Arthur will be wearing his Aquaman uniform for this because this is DEFINITELY SUPERHERO ACTIVITY. I am not sorry.

[gogoghostpowers]

Danny is down for monitoring on weekends, although I'm not sure what information of use (if any) he'd find from doing that--would any of the listed enemies be out in the open around the farmhouse?

I am also okay with him being on ground cover, in the ensuing alien fight he will still be on defense, trying to help people dodge and keep them safe from attacks.

Although, QUESTION. I don't think I've seen it explicitly stated anywhere before, and I'm pretty sure I know the answer, but just to confirm. Will encountering the alien give characters an echo?

[amberhearted]

The cops and the sniffer dogs will be guarding the area! They switch off in 12-hour shifts and generally don't linger once their shift is over. Robot sightings are also possible, though they don't stay outside of the farmhouse for long.

He could also see some animals being transported into the farmhouse, too. They'd be in cages of various sizes, covered.

Yep, the alien will give characters an Echo.

[hollowleg]

Looks good to me! Shiro will also help Chris look over her drone videos.

If encountering the alien grants an Echo, Shiro will get his own nuclear reactor of reishi, upping his abilities significantly and possibly injuring sensitives until he gets it under control.

[theboywiththebook]

I'm 100% okay with my position in all of this. Henry will refuse to make anything for people if he's told "Well whatever you make might kill people." This will be his face: :I big nope.

Of course, if he's not told that he'll just make stuff for people whatever it might be. Except probably not guns.

That's pretty much it. Uh I don't think he'll be at the battle at all anyways so, feel free to lie to him. Just negative cr for awhile if he finds out he was lied to.

[amberhearted]

Actually, Alex is going to want to ship him to outer space him to make medical supplies for the medics! Transform items to save lives, Henry.

[ursoreckless]

Shou will definitely be part of the offense. He's gonna need to acquire some more weapons because he has been feeling very off-balanced with just one gun, so I may make a post before this happens for him asking about getting more weapons. He is also use to fighting against people in a group so if anyone wants to tap him for that knowledge this is the time to do so. He also will be okay to keep a comlink to mission control if/when he does take on a command role for a team.

So anyone want to work with a playboy becoming a mob boss in this attack?

YES CONFIRMING TOO. alsksdjdlf;sdjkse

[amberhearted]

No worries, you're good!

[pokebonnet]

If Alex doesn't want the old lady in the actual battle, he can persuade Ivy to stay back in a support role with mission control or the medics. And then see her sneak away to help Arthur. Or not. I'm happy with whatever roll she plays.

[amberhearted]

Okay, I moved her to the medic group as an additional guard!

[drama8om8]

A-OK with Tavia's placement! I don't think it will affect anything, but just in case: she is going to launch a horrible sobbing breakdown of a screaming fit at Ravi when the "yo guys Proud kind of just died oops lol our bad #yolo" post goes up. If that'd be behaviour considered bad enough to get her kicked from the operation that's a consequence I'd be willing to accept.

[healspec]

lmao well Ravi's not going to advocate against her for that, at least. IT'S KIND OF UNDERSTANDABLE IHO

[metalbent]

OKAY WITH EVERYTHING. Sophie promises not to go mad with power for the tunneling charge.

[healspec]

Confirming Ravi's role as a medic.

Fighting the alien will grant one Echo.
In past plot events, proximity or visual confirmation has usually been enough to trigger an Echo, so I'd like clarification on this. Does this mean characters who participate but do not directly engage the alien are not eligible for this plot Echo?

[amberhearted]

Everyone involved in this mission will get an Echo off of the alien!

[skycutter]

A-okay with Miles' role here. He's likely to make a beeline for those robots and defense systems because a) he'd rather avoid the cops and animals, and b) what happens to metal when superheated? Miles knows and can do just that!

[whiterabbit_dot_obj]

I'm good with what's listed for Barnaby! I do want to warn the others who're going to be doing mission control that Barnaby may well attempt to take charge there - this is the third or fourth time he's done this, after all, and he's got something of a system for handling all the feeds and info (it's probably a really common sense system but still).

[amberhearted]

Ahh that reminds me, I think Alex would pitch the idea of mission control getting together prior to the mission so they can figure out how to work with each other. TEAM BUILDING EXERCISES, YEAH. That means playing MMOs together.

[show_my_cannons]

Is it too late to volunteer Harding here for offense? He has a huge cannon now, and knows how to use it.

... Plus if his wife Benjamin is going in, he definitely wants to follow.

[amberhearted]

Because Harding has an IC desire to be included due to another volunteer's participation, I'll take him in as a late volunteer. In the future, please be more attentive to plots with sign-ups.

[idealofhope]

100% okay with Calvin's role in this. I really like the idea of him assisting medics with his super speed, so any expansion of that would be great too.

[centurian]

THIS WORKS REALLY WELL.

So hopefully, Gerald's going to be able to echo back Garrus' sniper rifle SOMETIME around the battle, so that adds some alien sniper rifle tech into the mix. Until then, he'll be using one that's provided to him and will be feeling a little apprehensive about the mission. He might voice his concerns (since he's not exactly one to stay SILENT) but ultimately, he will fall in line because this REALLY needs to be done and the police are REALLY REALLY corrupt.

[icy_heavens]

Confirming combat for for Toushirou. He's going to be going through a lot of mental preparation for the possibility of killing (and probably feeling like a bit of a hypocrite for going off at Luke the way he did.) Won't openly express any resistance to it. Just probably be kinda broody because he knows this needs to be done.

[songoftimaendtimeagain]

Psssst threading out a 'what if I have to kill a person' midnight philosophy thread between them would kind of be great if we can finagle a way for that to happen.

[epimethean]

Confirming Wheatley's involvement!

[scramasax]

Confirming Anthony for combat as well!

[moarnomsplz]

Totally down with Ax-Alex being ground cover!

[sucrosity]

just confirming yoko for ground cover!

[tenaciousc]

I'm A-OK with Michelle's role!

[siesinddasessen]

I'd like to get mine involved too, if that is still possible, I seem to have missed the first post (I assume that was IC?). hustru and vaimo could do distant offense with sniping, and siesinddasessen could be on the ground cover things and depending on when Part 1 starts she could look over drone stuff (becuase she'll want something to do that she can do from a home).

Yeah. Can they still join?

[amberhearted]

The first post regarding farmhouse showdown was on Jan 16th in the OOC comm.

Those characters weren't present at the meeting. Do they know any current volunteers that would inform them of the plan and pass on their willingness to participate? I'll add them to the list if they do, but in fairness to the players who did sign up on time, please be attentive to plots with sign ups in the future.

[reapsthewind]

I am willing to have Chris fight! She actually has considerable range on her guns, so if more distance support is needed, she can snipe. She can't fly particularly well yet, though, so it might be better to have her be up close and personal.

[amberhearted]

I'll put her as rear support with ground cover! Farther from immediate danger, but close enough to quickly jump into the fray if she wants.

[dododo]

Checking innn.

Towards the end of the battle, John's going to get injured enough by something to kill him. For regeneration to kick in it can't be really instant, but it could definitely be quick enough for anyone who might have the ability to heal him to not manage to do that. And then he's going to regenerate into the Third Doctor.

I should still make a complete own plotting post for this to alert everyone of account change and. Things. BUT since I am here. It's... going to really disorient him, and whether or not he ends up fainting (I haven't decided yet) he's going to need some help to at least get out of harm's way. Any volunteers?

[pokebonnet]

Oh my fucking god I love you. Fuck. Fuck.