September Plot II: Plotting Post and IC Objectives

[savmods]

Greetings!

The breakout log is up. The player characters are, at this time, their own authorities. Mother will remain in contact, but her child cannot be saved without a way to the Ingress Complex—something that will be achieved next log. While we are opening OOC signups now (more info below!), characters will need to find the intermediaries' leadership to accomplish this—and to hopefully resolve their conflict with the Savrii as a whole.

The goal of these weeks is to allow you to put your characters in a position to do so. While the fighting will come to a head in two weeks' time, the successes of the characters between now and then will determine how much of an edge they have in that confrontation.

Fortunately, some advantage has already been obtained. Before falling prey to the simulation, Adrien Arbuckal solicited the help of Alan Bradley and Nihlus Kryik in modifying saved Trojan code into a functioning program. They then released this program into the Savrii's servers. Over the last month, it has been saving up data, and on access to any sufficiently high-clearance terminal, they will be able to receive the reports.

The below list contains a set of potential goals, derived from both their information and the situation as a whole. Please note: character choices are in no way limited to these options! The main purpose of this post is to provide a forum for OOC plotting as you decide what your characters want and how they will achieve it. Take a look, decide what interests you, and tag around! Teamups are the name of the game.

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Objectives

Item Retrieval:

Maybe that sword was a family heirloom. Maybe they stole your pet cat. Maybe you keep your brain in a frisbee. For whatever reason, some people might not be content to fight a whole planet with shock sticks and fickle dinosaurs alone. Once downloaded, the Trojan's data will point the way to your belongings, but there's still a complex full of guards and killers to fight through—supported by beings who can neutralize half your number. Plan?

Communications:

If not quite so terrible as people rifling through your mind, people rifling through your communications isn't fun. Moreover, it makes it very hard to coordinate assaults across a planet. Are you planning to take down the network hub? Hijack it? Supply misinformation? Take your pick.

Intermediaries:

Speaking of people rifling through your minds... kill them with fire, or try to spare? The intermediaries don't seem to be especially combative on their own, but anyone left alone with them for long might find their side of things oddly appealing. Possibly more concerning than the ones in sight are the ones you can't find. Those familiar with the intermediaries' power structure might notice that all the ranking members have disappeared from sight. Weren't there rumors about that one "remote" mediation center? It might be worth a search.

Public Relations:

Even if you don't trust the intermediaries, surely some of the Savrii have to be redeemable. Salvageable? Worth telling about the manipulations of their leaders? Or maybe you want to talk to them about those ominous storm warnings... or the way the sky seems to be splitting open. Not many will be willing to listen, but you can certainly give it a shot.

Defense:

Between all the crazy people throwing themselves in harm's way to help and all the crazy people throwing themselves in harm's way to murder... someone has to play the sane middle ground. Set up a perimeter, stake out a warehouse, or just play bodyguard. But make sure others come back safe.

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important notes

• One objective not listed in the above is rescuing Mother's child. While ICly a character goal throughout the process, that will be OOCly accomplished during—and parallel with—the confrontation with the intermediaries' leadership. The remote mediation center where they are holed away contains the necessary controls to deactivate the Artifixx field, and once the characters who enter do so, those helping Mother will be free to invade the Complex.

  The two missions will be logged separately and simultaneously—so please note that a character cannot be in both places at once. If you have interest in being part of the rescue team, sign up for the RNG below.

• As alluded to in the log, character deaths or captures during the next two weeks will have unique consequences. With deaths, players may choose to have their characters' bodies recovered by their teammates, resulting in continued death until the setting change (end of the month), or by the Savrii. Those recovered by the Savrii will be brought back to life, and reunited with their companions on the 24th! They will not, however, be entirely on the same side. The same goes for anyone who is captured.

  If you have interest in subjecting your character to this experience, sign up below!

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With the player-directed focus of this plot, we realize clarifications may be needed. As usual, please feel free to deposit questions or ideas for us below! For this event in particular, we encourage public plotting, but if you need to privately communicate an issue to us, the feedback page is always open.

Kick ass, take names, and have fun!

Comments

Questions/Comments

[savmods]

[petridish]

Did they go through pac-discs, or just things left at home full sized?

Just confirming: Are powers and embedded tech that was neutralized (eg. ME omni-tools and biotic amps) back?

Re: Questions/Comments

[lavelly]

Are there any clues to find this "remote" mediation center that characters can pick up on or is it just handwaved that they'll figure it out somehow?

Also, is it the same one I'm thinking it is and, if so, is there anything about the location that might resonate, e.g. something that Lavellan (or Shepard) might piece together from memory in order to find it OR something he might recognize in order to help navigate. Basically will anything from Having Been There Before help here?

[squadgoals]

hey so ummmmmmm not in my house but uh

entire business full of guns and stuff

did you assholes take all my guns and stuff

[shashka]

i think there's only like two-three of us this applies to

but what about the people who have their shit on chioni?

[squadgoals]

NEXT QUESTION:
Chara's getting captured, which will go down about as well as, for example, the intermediaries eating her hamster instead of hamsternapping it. I've cleared it with the player — can we have soft permission to rescue Chara from the intermediary remote center once they find it?

[yondu]

Kaz had a secret panic room where he'd been storing weapons in the diner. Would they have been able to find that or is that another point where they could grab a few of his things?

If Yondu went after his arrow, what sort of containment would be it under? How quickly would he be able to get it to respond to him?

[camouflage]

re the Outer Sewer Heaven:

is there a general layout of this "base" down there? maybe a map of the sewer systems surrounding it? or is just a set of open spaces that characters could potentially bed down/store shit in?

ALSO do characters know about it/remember it or is it just something to be stumbled upon?

[petridish]

Is the reclamation depot kennel above or below ground? Got confused by the just plain "adjoining" :D

[cockade]

I'd imagine hidden stashes of weapons or ammunition in businesses/homes were confiscated upon the characters having their mindfuckery, correct? Even if they were warded (ie wards to hide them from sight or sound detection)? Arno knows wards pretty well and would use them to make his café a place for people to bunker down and take a break if they needed to. He'd use wards that conceal rooms or make rooms silent and unable to be heard in (unless the person was included in the ward spell), would any of these work or would the intermediaries see right through it?

Also, in the case of Siegfried- Servants can easily call their armor and their weapon back to them whenever they desire, even if they don't have them right on them at that moment (their gear is as much a part of them as their legend is). Would Siegfried be able to immediately call upon his stuff as soon as they get out of Region 6, or will he have to go to the Reclamation Center also (mostly for plotting purposes so I don't throw myself everywhere)?

SIGNUPS: Helping Mother

[savmods]

If you have interest in being part of the away team that goes to rescue Mother's child, please fill out the form and comment below. Please note: if your character is selected to participate, they will not be present to confront the intermediaries' leadership.

The away team is currently capped at 10, to be decided by RNG from those who sign up.

<b>Character Name:</b> <b>Psychically Linked to Mother?</b> <b>Any other notes?:</b>

YO

[gh0stamidstthec0mbat]

Character Name: Zer0
Psychically Linked to Mother? yup
Any other notes?: He kinda feels weirdly responsible for the whole creepy kid being caught by assholes thing and feels like he should be helping out and shit. Also fuck the Intermediaries. It's mostly that second thing.

[a_shadow]

Character Name: Agent Texas
Psychically Linked to Mother? Yes
Any other notes?: If communication is available to the away team, she'll be coordinating things with L's help

[ryuuzaki]

Character Name: L
Psychically Linked to Mother? Yes!
Any other notes?: He is SUPER SQUISHY. (ETA: Not a concern since the impounding depot was raided.) If not selected he'd be willing to, as Tex mentioned, help in other ways.

[yondu]

Character Name: Yondu Udonta
Psychically Linked to Mother? yup
Any other notes?: One good turn serves another. Let's go get mama her baby back. Also he's on team fuck the intermediaries.

[handofrapture]

Character Name: The Big Sister
Psychically Linked to Mother? Yup!
Any other notes?: The Big Sister is pretty much an expert at kidnapping rescuing little girls so LET'S DO THIS!

[soldiergenes]

Character Name: Solid Snake
Psychically Linked to Mother? Yep!
Any other notes?: He's good at sneaking into things and retrieving stuff, so hey, let's do this. :|b

SIGNUPS: Capture, Death

[savmods]

If you intend to have your character captured or killed by the Savrii, please sign up using the form below.

Please note: captured characters will return mentally altered on the 24th, for the log with the Intermediary leadership. Killed characters whose bodies were recovered by the Savrii will return in the same way. If their body is recovered by their friends, they will not experience any mindscrew, but will also not resurge until the beginning of next month.

The mental changes will be temporary, but may have lasting effects at the players' discretion. In either case, the regular death penalties will be optional for the duration of this event.

<b>Character Name:</b> <b>Death or capture?:</b> <b>If death, who has the body?</b> <b>Do you want a death penalty for your character? If so, what kind?</b>

[ascendit]

Character Name: Nathan Drake
Death or capture?: Capture

PLAYER PLOTTING: Item Retrieval

[savmods]

[beautifulspaceraptor]

Nihlus will be going to his tech shop in R1 to try and retrieve the fabricator there. The machine is capable of breaking down and reforming materials into potentially useful items, in this case, weaponry and communications devices.

PLAYER PLOTTING: Communications

[savmods]

[petridish]

Nova's keen on network stuff - she's a programmer, and would probably be better suited to hacking the Savrii's comms but more eager to protect their own so might need some persuasion around that. However, she's immune to the intermediaries, so she'd be also be good for physically going into the hub!

I'm happy for her to slot in anywhere to fit in with other people's ideas.

PLAYER PLOTTING: Intermediaries

[savmods]

Re: PLAYER PLOTTING: Intermediaries

[lavelly]

GUESS WHOOOOOO is gonna be on the warpath to find this place for Personal Reasons (and also anxiety regarding missing captured or dead persons, because hey getting arrested by the Savrii is NOT A FUN EXPERIENCE).

Interested in people who want to come help wreck shit OR who recognize him as being Emotionally Compromised and want to get him to slow his roll.

PLAYER PLOTTING: Public Relations

[savmods]

BROADCAST PLOT

[beautifulspaceraptor]

Related to Communications! And FAQ tracking here!

When/if the network tower has been taken over and all the data that can be harvested has been harvested, Nihlus will try and get a broadcast/data packet out to the general civilian population through the TAB network to try and get their sympathy and/or generate chaos for the local authority figures. If anyone wants to contribute potential data to this, it would be welcome!

What will be in it so far:

- What Siddony had revealed to them about the nature of the storm.
- The encounter with and information about the child and Asteroid 276.
- What has been done and what is being done at the intermediary centers.
- The genocide committed to keep Ingress tech in the hands of the very few under the facade of protecting the multiverse and how it's contrary to what Siddony had revealed
- The fact that they were very likely brought here by Ingress authorities and lied to about their ability to leave.

PLAYER PLOTTING: Defense

[savmods]

[camouflage]

hey sav let's set up a cool pillowfort in the sewers for soldiers only for our Resistance

big boss will be establishing a perimeter in the sewers full of traps/alarm systems for any Kill Groups that might come after them. groups w intermediaries will Fuck Him Up due to the non violence thing, but he'll also be running guard duty for Their Sweet Sewer Base

PLAYER PLOTTING: Non-Combatants

[savmods]

[culver]

nill will be hanging back, patching up the injured and doing her best to keep things in the non-combat zone organized.