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.

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?

[hellsbel]

Seconding this question. Are there things that might work (or tragically/hilariously not work) against Ploiatos, especially once word has gone around and people arm themselves? (If there ends up being time for that?)

[galalith]

Yes, Wanda can peek into the Ploiatos's mind! It will not be fun for her at all, though due to the nature of the monster. If you'd like to pursue this line of plotting for her we can send you a PM tomorrow with all the horrid details that Wanda is going to see.

[hohnkai]

Ploiatos is incredibly fast and won't stick around long enough to be involved in any kind of fight. It is drawn towards people, but prefers to take its victims alone. In the 'together' prompt, Ploiatos will be confused by having accidentally confronted more than one, and will be gone just as quickly. By the bait & lure prompt, it will have become apparent that the only way to stop it is to crowd it in. Attacking will cause it to flee, so the only thing to do is trap it. The group of people will be too much and Ploiatos will be able to be ushered into one of the rooms and locked inside.

Your character won't know how it attacked them. They'll wake up with bruise-like markings (you pick where on the body) and uncertain as to what happened to them. They'll only know that they're weak and feel drained. As the event progresses everyone will start to travel in groups and pairs (hopefully), leaving Ploiatos desperate (which is how the crew discovers that crowding and overwhelming it is the best thing to do).

[hohnkai]

At the beginning of the event, anyone that is alone might be attacked (and have the effects of being attacked), but it will be quick and they'll wake up after it has happened. Further into the event, say the 'together' prompt, characters might be confronted because Ploiatos is confused, but it will be gone as quickly. The only real way to stop it is to group together and crowd it into one of the locked rooms. Ploiatos is more of a silent attacker, staying away from groups and crowds. People can arm themselves and try to attack with whatever weapons they have, but Ploiatos would be gone before anything could happen (at least until the bait & lure prompt). That's when the teamwork comes into play.

[tearmeanewone]

So building off of this-- characters definitely won't see it coming if they're alone? No chance that they'll be attacked and someone comes into the area to follow up on a noise/scream/whatever and cause Ploiatos to run off before damage is done?

[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.

[seeingscarlet]

Oh man, poor Wanda. First the murderbot, now the horrible nightmare monster...

She's going to go for it, so I'll hold off on the later event plotting until I see how bad the damage will be. :3

[hohnkai]

They won't see it coming if they're alone. The damage will be done before they even realize, but someone could find them after. You can always do a thread where it's in the background about to attack when someone else shows up, but neither would know it's there (maybe the feeling of being watched, something's not right?).

[hohnkai]

If any of the crew asked something that was an emergency or extremely important, they would have answered. Just no fun stuff or anything like that. If Peridot had offered to help, she would have been told that they are working on finding out what is going on and if she had gone to the Engines to look around, everything will appear to be in top shape. I hope this helps. :)

[metabee]

eggsy

[commontype]

[peridork]

It does, thank you! Likely she would have continued to pester them, demanding they give her more access to schematics and other ship info, and bellowing about how she could fix everything if they only let her :') So this gives me a pretty good idea of where she's at in terms of how ornery she's feeling about the state of things, by the time the event rolls around.

[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.)

[hohnkai]

We've PMed you the information. Let me know if you didn't get it.

[hohnkai]

Haha. If she continued to bother them, they would give her some information, but never as much as she'd really want. Hopefully this doesn't make her too ornery. D:

[hellsbel]

Great new information here and up in the post -- thanks for the updates!

[hohnkai]

Meh can attempt to interface with a computer, or the ship as often as she wants. The ship's navigator is always aware of what is happening in that regard, so she'd be able to see the basics (what is available on the MID) but then she'd be shut down. Is there something specific that you want her to do or find?

[hohnkai]

You're welcome! Sorry about the delay.

[imaginary_wife]

Not specifically, just useful to the particular plot at hand.

[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 :)

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

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