Plot post for March 23rd / Season 2 kick-off!

[theearth]

This format of plot post is designed for players to ask questions and find ways to influence the plot. Be bold and ask what you can or can't do; the worst that can happen is that we will say no. As plots in Save the Earth are not self resolving nor on a time limit they can evolve in many ways. Although some potential outcomes are given, they are little more than suggestion and can be changed by character action. What role you take is up to you.

The post is also open for players to plot and coordinate between one another.



• First off, thank you so much for making the Season 1 finale a success! We ask for your continued patience as we enter the new territory of Season 2.

• With the dawn of Season 2, we’ve updated the FAQ! We encourage old, new, and potential players alike to check it out here! Additions and edits have been marked.

• The Application has two new additions: Current characters in the game and Starting Location. If you or someone you know has already begun their application, please make the necessary edits! Characters who have already been accepted into the game do not need to retroactively add these sections to their applications.

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Events occurring currently:

• Thanks to the accusations thrown among the information reincarnates have publicly shared, the FBI have started an investigation into the alleged corruption within the Locke City Police Department. They have dismissed the sex scandal as baseless. However, their investigations have so far led to one boon for the reincarnates – they’ve found no evidence lending credibility to some of the charges against Alan Hunter (wirsinddiejager), Alexander Varista (amberhearted), Octavia Serket (drama8om8), and Ray Zimmerman (synonymouswithdookie). As such, all false charges have been dropped. These reincarnates are free to return to their normal lives.

Or what passes for ‘normal’ now.

The FBI’s investigation is on-going.

• Amidst the buzz around apparently superpowered people, the city is still recovering from Wise Snake’s rampage. The number of dead has reached several hundred. The situation is stable enough for the National Guard to have pulled out, leaving space for reconstruction efforts to begin. Despite allegations thrown their way, Thunder Corp is spearheading reconstruction in the Business District with their advanced technology. They’ve partnered up with Rain Enterprises to make new buildings more sustainable – after fixing the underground structural integrity and the roads, of course.

School has since reopened.

The body of Wise Snake still remains where it fell, taped off and guarded by FBI agents now. They’ve relieved the Locke PD from that duty. On the plus side, hotels are seeing a slight rise in business thanks to gawkers flocking from every which way on the globe to see the gigantic stone snake in person. Rather than remove it wholesale, there is talk of keeping part of it where it lays and constructing a memorial around it, wherein the lives lost on the ninth will be carved into the stone.

Overall, the city’s mood appears to be recovering from the tragedy.

• From various sites, like Reddit, Imgur, and other forums, comes a group of people united in their fascination with the reincarnates and their existence. Right now, they have a thread on Reddit wherein they’re taking name suggestions for what to call themselves.

The thread is pretty well-known.

The question is: will any reincarnates infiltrate their group and add a suggestion of their own?

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Events occurring in the immediate future:

• On the morning of March 23rd, a pink light will shoot up into the sky much like the first pink light in Locke City, nearly a year ago. This light, however, is coming from Las Vegas, Nevada.

That’s right, folks. Your next location is Sin City. More information about this new addition to the setting can be found here. We’re going to try something new: updating changes to the location in the location’s post. You may want to consider tracking it for updates.

With this new location, new characters can now be applied for as starting in the Echo boundaries within Las Vegas or Locke City. The pink light may also be used as a Las Vegas-hailing character’s First Echo.

• On March 29th, Locke City will be invaded… by a conglomerate of unusual pests and threats. See:

- Several iPods that blares songs on shuffle that varies depending on the owner’s iTunes library. Every time a song ends, the iPod transports to a random area within Locke City. Its charge is replenished by the ire of the people.

- A child-sized eraser and an adult-sized pencil that erasers traffic lines and draws new lines that make no sense. They also have the ability to draw doors onto anything and escape through them.

- Several sets of at least five keys on a keyring that can unlock secrets from their victim. These keys force the victim to blurt out a secret about: first key: their friendships; second key: their love life; third key: their job; fourth key: their desires; fifth key: their greatest guilt. If there are more keys, they don’t do anything. The keys sneak their way into pockets and purses, gobbling up the original keys and assuming their form to deceive. Secret-blurting happens when a person makes skin-contact with a key.

- A brush monster that entangles victims with the loose strands of its previous owner’s hair. It “eats” victims – more specifically, it eats the hair on their heads – and spits them out bald. With each head of hair eaten, it grows larger and more powerful.

- Several normal-sized lighters that scurry around starting fires.

- A child-sized Tokidoki keychain figure that throws Altoids into well-populated areas. When the mint hits a surface, it explodes in a disproportionately large powdery mess of peppermint that causes irritation to the eyes, nose, and throat, the effects of which lasts roughly 24 hours. Definitely not stuff you want to breathe in.

- A compact mirror that has taken the guise of an existing citizen in Locke City. It randomly assumes a new form – always one of an existing person in Locke – and acts in a manner completely opposite that person.

- Angry toothpicks bitter about their destiny wielding other toothpicks as swords. They range from adult-sized to actually-a-toothpick-sized. Their swords are extremely sharp. Don’t underestimate the toothpick-sized toothpicks. You don’t want to be pricked in the foot by them, do you?

- Gum strips that fly through the air like Aladdin’s magic carpet. Upon “randomly” choosing a target, they increase in size, wrap around the victim and stick them to walls, floors, ceilings, street posts… Anything, really.

Why is “randomly” in quotes? Well, though all of the monsters above attack both normal folk and reincarnates alike, they seem to be attracted to reincarnates more…

As the days go by, the number and types of pests will slowly increase. They will always be based on items one may find in a backpack, a purse, a wallet, a pocket, a vehicle, etc, and possess an ability or two that are related to that item, no matter how absurd. Using this as a guide, players are free to design their own monsters, too!

These monsters can be taken down by reincarnates! However, we ask that you do not rush to kill them all at once. There will be a new development within one to two weeks.

The local police force will aid in controlling these pests and threats, as well as the FBI already stationed in Locke City (and there are, at present, quite a number of them). You can expect the Locke PD to be on good behavior.

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Potential Echo Opportunities

• Seeing the pink light in Las Vegas (either in person or through a video recording) will grant one plot Echo.
• Interacting with one of the monsters beginning March 29th will grant one plot Echo. Only one Echo can be gleaned from these monsters regardless of how many monsters a character interacts with and it will always be from the first interaction.
• As always, canon recurrences grant related Echoes!

Please direct questions regarding these plot points to the thread below and not the post in general.

Edited 3/23/14 to specify potential Echo opportunities as plot Echoes.

Comments

[grannyfucker]

All three of mine are staying in Locke because they're all losers with too many obligations to just pick up and leave.

Danny is going to start making public appearances as the mysterious, masked Cure Phantom when the March 29th attacks start up, I'd like him to save some NPCs (or PCs, if anyone wants to volunteer as a victim) from one or two of the monsters--I don't know which ones yet. I think he could handle the Altoid-throwing keychain solo, maybe? For another one he might need to team up--how do the other Precures feel about handling some of the monsters, either individually or possibly teaming up in small groups to handle it?

I'd like for that to result in some local/online buzz about him if he gets spotted. (He will also later upgrade to a better mask but I haven't ironed out the final details of what it's gonna look like just yet.)

Jovan will have a pretty badly broken arm for a while and will fall victim to one of the monsters. Either the brush monster or the gum monster. Would anyone like the honor of saving this damsel in distress?

After that, he may start carrying around his lightning staff everywhere (with the golden dollar sign on top covered, to preserve his dignity), and might take one out later on should he encounter another. I don't know.

Chuck will also likely run afoul of one of the monsters but I thiiiiink I have something worked out for him...? I don't know, if anyone wants to do something with a cyborg-turning-actual-robot Blood Key/basketball player, hit me up and I'm willing to work stuff out!

[orangehoodie]

anthony will save him from a gum monster without realizing who this asshole is

what if they became friends because he saved this damsel

[grannyfucker]

OH MY GOD I'M CACKLING

THAT WOULD BE FANTASTIC

Jovan is very bad at making friends though could Anthony make up for that to get them in a friendly direction?

[orangehoodie]

ANTHONY IS STUPIDLY SOCIAL. the type to sit down and talk to hobos if he found them interesting enough

(he goes to eat pizza with strangers)

don't be shy jovan he'll be NICE to you 8))))

[grannyfucker]

omg that would be really cute though

jovan would just have no fucking idea what to do or how to respond because he is just atrociously bad at socializing, wow, he's never really had a FRIEND before

[anequal]

oh man that would be CUTE

come. come hang out with him Jovan he'll buy you a soda for your hardships with the gum monster

[grannyfucker]

and so begins the cutest most awkward friendship ever

(this will be the second time someone gives him soda after finding him helpless due to weird magic shit)

[pianistofraielin]

I would enjoy a Danny/Russel team-up to take down a monster sometime!

[grannyfucker]

ahaha, hell yes! The two All Star Boys, bonding over crimefighting! Well, weird-shit-fighting.

Any preference on which monster they fight? Any of the above, perhaps, or a custom one?

[pianistofraielin]

Hmm I think a custom one sounds better for a team-up type thing. I'm not getting any good inspiration out of the current list.

WAIT THIS CAN BE HOW RUSSEL FINDS OUT ABOUT DANNY'S REALLY STUPID MASK CHOICES AND OFFERS HIS SERVICES

[grannyfucker]

PFFFFFFF I'm actually still not sure whether Russel or Henry will be helping him with the mask uuuugh i need to work out timing of some stupid costume shenanigans with Henry's mun first to see if Russel would need to get brought in for help instead

As for the team-up, I think the way we should create a custom monster would depend on their powersets. Danny specializes in being sneaky, flying, and turning shit intangible and sticking it somewhere where it can't do further damage. What about Russel? I know he's got a piano but I'm not entirely clear on what exactly it is he can do? Based on that we can come up with something that would be really good for them to fight together.

[pianistofraielin]

haha sure thing, just let me know when you figure it out!

Russel's powerset CURRENTLY is thus: shounen durability, being strong enough to lift a car, being able to summon a phoenix with a piano, and being able to play bard buffs/debuffs on a piano (but he'd need to pre-arrange those because at the moment he has to learn the song and play from sheet music like anybody else).

So he can either fight physically or fight as a summoner or hang back and make Danny better at something. (I don't think he can debuff the monsters since they don't...seem like they would have emotions capable of being manipulated by music.)

[grannyfucker]

omg that actually reminds me, I totally forgot. Danny has shounen durability and incredibly fast flight, he could just use himself as a cannonball too if he wanted. But nah, if Russel's got superstrength we could just use that for offense!

An oversized stapler that can staple people to whatever it wants? Or a hole punch that operates similarly. A pack of tissues that covers you and rubs against you vigorously until you have a really nasty rash?

[sun_sun]

Evil monster toothpicks are basically already a precure monster. I'm down.

[grannyfucker]

Hell yes. Annie can punch them to death, and Danny can keep the poor NPC victim safe in the meantime.

~TEAMWORK~

[flashover]

Ahhhh cure phantom GIMP BADGER, KAKUIIIIIIII

[grannyfucker]

wait a minute i saw mention of you going to vegas, buddy

are you gonna long-distance fanboy all the way from nevada or something

[flashover]

yeah then I changed my mind because rin has exactly zero money and zero assets.

plus vegas is too close to his LAME DAD WHO WANTS HIM TO COME HOME AND STOP BEING AN AWESOME SUPERHERO

[grannyfucker]

awww well that's okay you can stay in locke and fanboy everybody's favorite ghost kid!

[flashover]

soooo coooool gimp badger-san!!

[grannyfucker]

yeeeeessssssss

(but no actually. are you ready to commit to the role of being his fanboy? Because I would love for Danny to actually have a fanboy. One with a bad taste in names, but hey, you can't be too picky.)

[umbrael]

i'm sorry, this doesn't exactly relate to your post here, but man I didn't realize this until Danny made the conspiracy theory roundup post:

Reptiloids

Or Reptilians, whatever the cool conspiracy kids call them nowadays. I could have set Doyle up as a basis for theories about reptilian presence in Locke ughh

[grannyfucker]

IT'S NOT TOO LATE. The conspiracy theorists are staying! In fact, their numbers will probably only grow what with everything that's happening.

If Doyle pulls reptile shenanigans after Wise Snake, I can definitely work it into a new round of conspiracy theories--ones that either get mentioned in another roundup post (which would be in A While) or just casually in threads every now and then.

[umbrael]

;u; thank you

He's aaaalmost got his ability to turn into a human back, so hopefully someone will catch him at it because basically that's what reptilians are all about! Reptile(people) in disguise...

Until then idk if an ordinary dinosaur appearance would do that or spark more talk about animals :/a Well, either way!

Mostly i'm just mad at myself for forgetting to mention reptilians when I made a joke about that in his freaking app samples hah ha ha

[grannyfucker]

hahaha well either way if Danny ever threads with Doyle, I can try and remember to mention it to bring it to his attention!