december event log ooc

[hohnkai]

E V E N T O O C

It's Event Time! - December - As of now, it's common knowledge to the crew that Tipota is dead. The manner of her death, however, is still being determined, and the other captains have sent another reminder through the MIDs to continue traveling in groups and not to wander around. The power issue has yet to be resolved, though it seems nothing is apparently wrong with the engines or the wings, but slowly, the chill begins to recede into something a little more tolerable—still cold but not freezing. The malfunctions that manifest aboard the Moira start to resemble a more systematic pattern, lights flickering in certain sections of the ship before shutting down in intervals of 30 to 60 seconds and coming to life again. It moves on through several areas, though it doesn't affect places with larger groups of people. A day or two after the power begins to stabilize itself, everything comes to a standstill. There's a moment that seems as if time slows and stops. Things are eerily quiet... Anyone in the hallways will hear the lock of one of the I.L.R. release, security measures suspended to preserve life support functions. What had been a peaceful moment roars into chaos. ☄ Ploiatos It's been here as long as anyone can remember. It lurks in the shadows, a human-shaped figure dressed in the tatters of a Moira uniform. In the dark, it feels the most comfortable, and its movements are impossible to pinpoint without the light. From a distance, it might appear to be someone you know, another crew member who's become lost in the corridors, but up close — well, no one actually knows what it looks like. At close proximity, it sinks itself into you, and the cold that has plagued the ship seems warm in comparison as the dark rises. On the 18th, the event post will go up and tell of Ploiatos; there will be three prompts: together, alone, and bait & lure. For the first prompt, your character will wake up after being attacked by Ploiatos; you don't realize that it's there until you're waking up, the marks of its touch spreading across part of your body. These are permanent, a beacon to Ploiatos that it's had you once and only needs to get you once more to end it. Once will not kill you, but a second time will. Any attempt at contact via MID isn't likely as they momentarily short out within proximity to the creature. The second prompt allows for two characters being confronted at the same time, but Ploiatos cannot decide who it wishes to attack and will retreat. There is always safety in numbers. Ploiatos is severely confused by the presence of more than one body, and though it's attracted to the particular emissions of the crew, it prefers the choice of one to two or more. Trying to hunt or capture it is impossible; it's gone as quickly as you can blink. The third prompt, bait & lure has a sign-up post down below. It can't be killed or stopped, but anyone observing will notice that it is confused by too many people at once, which means that any character can choose to help usher Ploiatos into one of the rooms in section J of the ship. The sign-up shows who is going to be in that area of the ship to help do that, and on the night of the 16th we will be RNGing for which of the signed-up characters will give Ploiatos the final push and which one will lock the door. This doesn't mean that only those characters can thread out fighting the creature off. Anyone who wants to be a part of it can be; the RNG'd folks will just have those specific roles. We'll PM out the information to those two. A captain's post, which will not be receiving any responses, will go up on the 18th to start the event off. Event Plotting Form: <b>Character(s)</b>: NAME <user name=NAME> <b>Is your character going to be traveling alone</b>: Will they be waking up after an attack? How seriously injured is your character? Are they hiding out somewhere and you want to thread that out? <b>Are you looking for another character to travel with</b>: If so, where will you be. Give us the deets on what you want. <b>Bait & Lure</b>: Did you sign your character up for this part of the event? Will they be helping other crew members usher the creature into one the rooms? <b>Anything else</b>: Is your character getting injured during this event? Dying? Need help with either of those things? Or something else completely, just put it here.

Comments

Sign-Ups

[hohnkai]

Comment here if your character is going to be a part of the Bait & Lure prompt.

[metabee]

eggsy

[commontype]

I WASNT GOING TO BUT...........

[forwardmomentum]

Athena

[pallantias]

Re: Sign-Ups

[vengeance_driven]

I'll go ahead and put Niko down as part of an early bit of bait and lure if that's okay?

Questions

[hohnkai]

[seeingscarlet]

I hate to be That Guy, but if Wanda gets near this thing she's going to want to peek in its head to figure out what it is/what happened to it and if what happened to it could happen to the rest of the crew. Can she and if so, what will she see? If not, would it be okay if she's overwhelmed a la Ultron?

ilu guys have a puppy in a dino suit

[backsassin]

Can characters harm the Ploiatos or otherwise fight it off via combat? And how exactly does it attack them?

[peridork]

I have kind of a weird, semi-related question to the build up to this event that I'm only just getting around to asking now bc I've been on a weird semi-hiatus: If Peridot had offered to help fix the power issue over the previous weeks, what kind of response would she have gotten from the captains? They haven't been answering any messages from the crew lately, right?

Just want to know so I can kind of add some flavor to deciding where she's going to be when this starts going down.

[imaginary_wife]

I guess I might as well ask! So I've been hoping for the excuse for Meh to interface with a computer at some point. Can she help hunt down a diagnosis for the ship's problems? (Even if she doesn't come across more information than that.)

Re: Questions

[metabee]

Are there any other side effects to being attacked besides the marks and winding up unconscious?

Re: Questions

[whynotgoonmyown]

Probably should have asked this earlier, but better late than never: can the Ploiatos be tracked by scent, and if yes, what's the scent like?

[hellsbel]

OK! So Ploiatus 1) can be seen but not described except for "tattered Moira uniform"; 2) "sinks into" victims in an attack too fast to be seen; 3) leaves permanent black-lightning scars after a successful attack; 4) kills at a second successful attack. Questions!

• With Ploiatus emerging on the 18th, can it be assumed the ship gets less cold around the 15th and the power starts to stabilize between the 16th/17th?
• Can the scars be removed when a dead character is restored? What about if the character loses a limb the scars are on?
• Are they a souvenir or do they become plot-important again at all after this event?
• When Ploiatus is contained, would the crew be reasonable in assuming containment doesn't mean the threat can't occur again?
• Do attacked crewpeople see any captains in the medbay?
• Now that word's gone out, if people message the captains asking why Tipota hasn't been revived like other crew members, will they get an answer or silence?

Aaaand that was a lot of questions but I'm really excited :)

[hohnkai]

- Since the event starts on the 18th, that's when the power will begin to stabilize itself and the ship will begin to slowly get less cold. It won't be immediately noticeable in all areas of the ship, starting with the main sections first, and will still be uncomfortable for most characters. Everything is still in limbo when Ploiatus starts to make more out in the open attacks, and the power will continue to flicker in and out in certain areas.

- If you want any scars to be removed when your character dies, you'll have to include that when you apply to the Resurge page since all of that is decided between yourself and the mod then (but if you want them removed it's always possible). If a character loses a limb, they'll lose the scars.

- We can neither confirm nor deny. Haha. It's your choice whether you want your character to get injured or not during the event.

- The crew are allowed to come to any assumptions that they want, and are free to ask the captains questions about anything when something like this occurs. Some captains are more likely to give detailed responses than others, but no character will be down right ignored. It's up to you to decide who to ask and what to ask.

- Curre runs the medbay so she's typically around that area.

- This is a good question, but it's really up to you to decide who and what to ask. The captains do give away information when they're asked the right questions, so it's really in your hands what your character will ask.

We're glad you're excited!

cloners | Mass Effect

[petridish]

I'm sitting this one out, but if anyone would like to handwave finding cloney after an attack and taking her furious to the medbay, I'll take the first person who comments!

[manyvoiced]

DIBS

[hellsbel]

Handwave of a medbay visit? c:

[metabee]

Character(s): Starflight petrifiedshadow
Is your character going to be traveling alone: Starflight will have been attacked by Ploiatos early in the event, I'm still figuring out what extent he will be injured, but he will have marks on the side of his neck.
Are you looking for another character to travel with: No
Bait & Lure: N/A
Anything else: For the most part Starflight is going to be in/around the infirmary, if someone wants to do something. If anyone wants to be the one to find Starflight passed out, give me a ring. Far warning, I'm not planning on doing a ton of stuff with Starflight this event.

Character(s): Metabee metabee
Is your character going to be traveling alone: Nope
Are you looking for another character to travel with: Possibly? Ask me if you want to do anything here
Bait & Lure: YES! Metabee will be the one slamming the door in Ploiatos' face so he will be involved in this part of the plot. This will be my main focus for the event.
Anything else: If you want to do anything outside of the Bait & Lure portion of the event, let me know.

[vengeance_driven]

Character(s): Niko Bellic vengeance_driven
Is your character going to be traveling alone: No because at some point I would forget he's supposed to have marks.
Are you looking for another character to travel with: Possibly someone to help, mostly someone to travel with.
Bait & Lure: I was considering it. I think it's too late now.
Anything else: Nope

Character(s): Meh Yewll imaginary_wife
Is your character going to be traveling alone: Nope
Are you looking for another character to travel with: Yes. Nothing specific but she'll want protection. Or else she'll just stay in medbay all the time.
Bait & Lure: No
Anything else: If anyone is getting injured and wants to thread/handwave Meh treating them let me know. I might do a post for her after the event referencing some things if allowed.

[commontype]

It's never too late!

Wanna do something with me?

[petridish]

Handwave Meh treating grumpypants so displeased to be treated by an alien on top of being embarrassed that she got jumped? c: Totally down for you referencing treating legs.

[hellsbel]

Character(s): Bel Thorne hellsbel

Is your character going to be traveling alone: Bel won't be traveling alone during the event (unless plans change; I'm pondering a Ploiatos attack but not sure how to get Bel alone later in the event). They'll be with Clark part of the time, hunting the invisible enemy and failing to find it.

Are you looking for another character to travel with: Yes. Mostly, looking for people who are looking for someone to travel with!

Bait & Lure: No. When the plan is made Bel will intend to go along, but may be needed elsewhere when the time comes. (Who wants to be the elsewhere? ^^)

Anything else: Bel has offered to accompany Yewll to bring Manasseh to safety, and will be one of those responding to Wanda's mindreading crisis. Ping away if an impetuous angry mercenary would be useful to your event goals!

Working on catching up with tags and will have much more time from Wednesday onward!

BREQ + RATCHET

[neveroutwrenched]

Character(s): Breq manyvoiced
Is your character going to be traveling alone: Fresh outta the icebox; Breq will initially be finding Clone-Shep and helping drag her ass back to medbay. She'll head back out though, probably go looking for whatever's loose...
Are you looking for another character to travel with: Probably! Breq is going to go out of her way to look for what's causing the trouble, and would make a very capable someone to travel with, or help you out if you need it!
Bait & Lure: Did you sign your character up for this part of the event? N/A
Anything else: I'm DEBATING her getting injured by the creature, but I think it might be kind of mean to have something like that happen right out of cryo. :') I'm open to any ideas being tossed around. If you need someone strong, prickly, or just a really good shot, this is your gal.

Character(s): Ratchet neveroutwrenched
Is your character going to be traveling alone: Coming fresh out of cryo, with exactly zero idea of what's going on (not that anyone else knows either??) Ratchet will be wandering out of the medbay alone to start with
Are you looking for another character to travel with: Ratchet will actually be very preoccupied with the more pressing issue of life-support failing, and although nothing seems to be wrong, will probably be heading for those areas of the ship first and also navigation
Bait & Lure: n/a
Anything else: Like Breq, I am still figuring out the details of what I'd like to do with Ratchet, so if you have and plotting or need anything, my schedule is OPEN.

FINAL NOTE: I'm coming back from hiatus on the 21st, but I am backdating both characters as coming out of cryo on the 18th so I don't miss the event entirely! If you don't mind waiting a couple days before I can start tagging, I would love to do something!

[peridork]

I don't have any good specific ideas, but if you want Peridot to be involved with either of your guys I'm sure we can swing that. I have a top level up already... and you might be able to get Jasper in for the deal too, if Harry's up for it.