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Save the Earth Mods ([personal profile] theearth) wrote in [community profile] saveyourselves2014-02-16 01:13 pm
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Plot post for February 16th - Poll results and preparation for the Season 1 Finale!

The results of the two polls are in!


RESULTS


In regards to the alien and Wise Snake battles, the majority have decided on Scenario 2:
The alien flees the farmhouse and escapes to Locke City, where it may be apprehended and destroyed. Its destruction will lead to the release of a burst of energy that will be felt by and immediately afterward awaken Wise Snake. Characters involved in the farmhouse battle will be in the fray with no-to-minimal time to prepare or recuperate; characters that participate in the battle against WS may be identified by non-reincarnates.


In regards to a breather period between Season 1 and Season 2, the majority have voted in favor of a breather period lasting two weeks.

So let’s get down to business.

The plot as a whole (the alien + Wise Snake) happens on the same day, but we will be staggering their respective posts. The post for the alien showdown will be forward-dated two weeks in advance. The post for Wise Snake’s awakening will be forward-dated at least a week in advance.

The alien post will go up no later than February 23rd. The IC-date of the post will be March 9th, a Sunday, during daylight hours.



THE ALIEN


Much of the IC plan draft remains the same. However, Roxy (and Danny?) will use their intangibility to investigate the room with the keypad lock during the one-week period of surveillance (IC date: March 2 - 8) . Therefore, characters will know that the room is decorated to hell and back with various flowers and artificial lighting. There are two inhabitants in the room: the small alien, three apples high, and its "steed", seven feet tall. There are also computer screens and such, the designs of which look like they've come straight out of retro science fiction.

The activity of the small alien will be enough for the characters to guess that it is, in fact, the alien (rather than the seven feet tall robot).

Once the alien has reached a worrisome damaged state, it will flee the farmhouse via flight. It will fly towards Tuning Towers. Characters must finish the alien off. Even if this conclusion isn’t reached through threading, we will go forward with the assumption that the alien will be defeated and subsequently explode.

The explosion will not be traditionally fiery or loud. It will be more like an invisible force bursting outward in a ring that will be felt by both non-reincarnates and reincarnates. The reincarnates will feel it much, much more, though. It won’t hurt, but it will have the effect of knocking reincarnates off their feet, temporarily disorienting them, etc.



WISE SNAKE


Immediately following the alien’s destruction, an earthquake similar to the one that occurred on December 3rd will strike as Wise Snake emerges from below Tuning Towers. Wise Snake is several blocks long and light pink. It will go on an indiscriminate rampage that does not target any one thing, but will respond to attacks on itself. It does not have any special “attacks”; it is a monster of brute force. However, it is capable of shedding individual scales which reform into miniature snakes ranging approximately 10 to 30 feet long. Unlike David Proud’s statues, they will not explode upon destruction.

Reincarnates will not be the only ones engaging Wise Snake in battle. The National Guard will be deployed to destroy Wise Snake as a threat on the city. They will not intentionally harm those involved in battle, but they will not go to great lengths to prevent harm to them, either. Basically, if you’re in the way, you better get out of the way.

The defeat of Wise Snake will result in an explosion very similar to the explosion following the alien’s destruction. Unlike the alien, however, Wise Snake will not physically explode, but immediately turn into mundane stone and release ethereal bubbles that float into the sky before disappearing, not unlike video game bosses.

Wise Snake will be defeated after taking an unspecified amount of hits from both the reincarnates and the military. The mods will not be NPCing Wise Snake. Players are free to incorporate Wise Snake’s reactions into their threads using the aforementioned information. Players who do not wish to engage their character directly with Wise Snake will have a thread in which they can set up their own open or planned threads in response to the destruction caused by Wise Snake, its miniature scale snakes, and/or the National Guard. In short, characters can be as plausibly involved as their players want them to be.

Wise Snake’s scale snakes can be NPCed by the mods by request.

Players will be responsible for NPCing civilians. Assume they’re in a panicked state similar to city populaces that are under attack – ex. a lot of the city-wide battles in superhero films.

The threading for the actual moment of Wise Snake’s defeat will be restricted to selected characters. The following criteria will be used: characters who possess offensive abilities, characters who have not yet had a moment to shine, characters who can feasibly be involved in the battle, players who are reliable taggers, players who are reasonably active.

If you’re interested, please sign up here before the 23rd. We’ll do our best to make a speedy selection and throw together the team so involved parties may plan how they might wish to go about executing the final barrage of attacks.

Characters who don’t make an effort to reasonably obscure/conceal their identity and use unusual powers will eventually have their identities squirreled out by the FBI.



THE AFTERMATH – IMMEDIATE


A good chunk of the business district will be in ruins. The damage radius may be larger depending on character action. There will be a lot of casualties. Emergency responders will be working alongside the National Guard in rescue efforts.

On a more light-hearted side, though, if there’s enough interest, players will have the option of a news reporter pulling their character over for a brief interview. Players are free to NPC their interviewers or request a mod to NPC. We’d probably add this thread onto the Wise Snake post later on.

If you’re interested, let us know!



THE AFTERMATH – TWO WEEKS


This will constitute our two-week breather period.

The entirety of the business district will be without power or water for several days. Rescue efforts will continue. Schools will be closed for a few days. The FBI will investigate the remains of Wise Snake, but the monster will, for the meantime, remain where it fell. The area will be guarded in part by local police, sniffer dogs among them.

Locke City and its “real life superheroes” will be a hot topic around the world. There will be several shitty phone videos of Wise Snake’s rampage in which characters may be (poorly) visible if players wish uploaded onto YouTube. Some people will think they’re great. Others will think they’re an abomination. Still others will think this is all an elaborate hoax. Feel free to come up with different public opinions!

The FBI and local PD are going to want the identities of any reincarnates who displayed unusual abilities during Wise Snake’s rampage. However, during this two-week period, no characters will be openly investigated. All characters whose identities were intentionally or accidentally revealed will be covertly monitored.

This gets tricky for the characters who Echo back mecha units. Their size makes them easy targets for the FBI to locate and potentially acquire. Players who are planning to Echo back large, easily noticeable robots/units/etc., please go to this thread.

Regardless, we’ll put up another OOC post specifically for the two weeks after the defeat of the alien and Wise Snake once we’re closer to it. The rest of what happens during these two weeks – damage control, relief aid, national confusion, worldwide attention, etc. – will be considered background noise.



ECHO OPPORTUNITIES


Participation in the battle with the alien grants one Echo. Proximity to Wise Snake grants one Tier 2 Echo independent of the monthly Tier 2 limit. As always, canon recurrences grant related Echoes!

Please direct questions regarding these plot points to the thread below and not the post in general.
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[personal profile] professorwolf 2014-02-16 11:54 pm (UTC)(link)
Lyall is gonna be mostly doing search and rescue and possibly running into the smaller snakes, with Rei, Jeffrey, and the talking parrot, and he'll be a little late to the party since he'll have to hear about it from somebody else (he doesn't go out much during the day if he can help it, and it's not a school day).

But if anybody wants to run into him while on his way, while separated from the others a bit, etc, totally open to it. In fact, I'd like it, to get him out there a little more?

Thinking I might give him better wolf-form control so he'll actually be of a little use, more often :| As long as it's after sundown, anyhow. So there might be a tawny wolf running around doing search-and-rescue AGAIN once the sun sets.
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[personal profile] goldenclothes 2014-02-16 11:59 pm (UTC)(link)
Ghannam-mun has requested that he tag along as a doctor! I'm willing to do this with the group or separately with just Rei or whoever. Might even just end up being a cameo!
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[personal profile] stormcloud_ofcaring 2014-02-17 12:05 am (UTC)(link)
Hallo Ghannam-mun here--what's the definition of 'cameo' in this context?

Also my loser is gonna leave the hospital to go find people at some point and could run into this band of do-gooders then?
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[personal profile] goldenclothes 2014-02-17 12:08 am (UTC)(link)
I guess it depends how it works out! If it turns out that he leaves the hospital that changes from if they bump into each other and go to the hospital afterwards. I misread, sorry!

I have no problems with this!
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[personal profile] stormcloud_ofcaring 2014-02-17 12:11 am (UTC)(link)
is okay! I think I'd prefer him leaving the hospital and running into the group because then he can be gone for forever and it doesn't really matter
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[personal profile] professorwolf 2014-02-17 12:55 am (UTC)(link)
I'm cool with the doctor teaming up with them, sure :3 They might need one, given, ya now, finding people under rubble and whatnot ^^
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[personal profile] stormcloud_ofcaring 2014-02-17 12:58 am (UTC)(link)
Yay! He will be happy to be of service

...well not really. He'll likely be grumpy and bossy but that won't be your characters faults its just how he deals with shit he should be rightly terrified by
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[personal profile] professorwolf 2014-02-17 01:01 am (UTC)(link)
My boy's a high school teacher. He can handle it ;)
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[personal profile] stormcloud_ofcaring 2014-02-17 01:05 am (UTC)(link)
Yeesh, I'm sure. He should bring that up to Ghannam; he'll have a new appreciation of Randy almost immediately
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[personal profile] professorwolf 2014-02-17 04:48 am (UTC)(link)
Hee, well, I'm sure we can get it to come up SOMEhow :3 If just that half the time that's how he introduces himself, ha.
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[personal profile] goldenclothes 2014-02-17 12:03 am (UTC)(link)
Also, Rei can't morph at will like Lyall can but she can still help with sundown searching.

I have also been toying with this being the point where she eats a person. if uh anyone wants in on that. :|a
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[personal profile] professorwolf 2014-02-17 12:57 am (UTC)(link)
Lyall will be appalled and tell her to stop that right this instant, people are not food :|

(Made all the more poignant and horrifying to him because they'll all smell like food to him, too >.> )
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[personal profile] goldenclothes 2014-02-17 02:49 am (UTC)(link)
what no oh my gosh you didn't see anything
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[personal profile] professorwolf 2014-02-17 04:48 am (UTC)(link)
we should totally make this happen somehow so it can at least be confronted.
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[personal profile] detectivetroll 2014-02-17 12:05 am (UTC)(link)
I'd love to have Nick team up with him for round two of search and rescuing, once the sun goes down! Maybe Lyall can find them and Nick can tend to them or report their location for others to go help them, if they're really bad off?
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[personal profile] professorwolf 2014-02-17 12:58 am (UTC)(link)
yessssss. this needs to happen :3 and Lyall can be pleased that he can be himself and a wolf at the same time, and pleased Nick came along to help, and generally pleased to be useful and not likely to get arrested....
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[personal profile] detectivetroll 2014-02-17 05:24 am (UTC)(link)
eeeexcellent! Nick'll be pleased at all of the above, too, so they'll make a very content team. XD ...he'll probably also snag a vest from the actual search and rescue dog teams and try to get Lyall to wear it.
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[personal profile] professorwolf 2014-02-17 05:26 am (UTC)(link)
might actually be convinced to do so, honestly :P makes him less conspicuous. Nick can pretend he's a husky or somethin'.
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[personal profile] detectivetroll 2014-02-18 05:22 am (UTC)(link)
Dude, yes, Nick will definitely be on board with that. If anyone asks they are just an awesome search and rescue team, nothing weird going on here.