FEAST OF ST. VALENTINE - OOC PLANNING

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FEAST OF ST. VALENTINE OOC PLANNING
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This post serves as OOC planning for the Feast of St. Valentine Daemon battle. Players aren’t required to plot here, they can use their own Plurks, Discord, or any other method they want to form into groups to face down the Daemon invasion.

Students are asked to form groups of no more than 6. Faculty will have a few options - Faculty can either join a group of students to help, or form all-Faculty super groups to face down Daemonic Commanders. The Daemonic Commanders are command units within the invasion force, they are lead by a stronger Daemon who is also commanding a squad of around eight to twelve lesser Daemons, each one at roughly the strength as the single Daemons the students will be facing in groups. Daemonic Commanders are especially dangerous and their units will use more advanced tactics and stronger abilities. Either way, please only have your character involved in a single group. Faculty are further asked to prioritize smaller groups of 2-3 students if at all possible.

Players are free to plot out and thread how their fight with the Daemons will go. Daemons will generally attack with lightning and flame magic in addition to their flame whips and lightning swords. Their wings afford them limited flight, and they’re resistant to flame, lightning, and conventional weaponry. Finally, they have supernaturally powerful physical capabilities, they’re not overly fast but their punches can shatter conventional walls (the walls in the dance hall are NOT conventional and will be fine, same with the floor and the side-tables which will be warded with barriers that the students can enter but the Daemons cannot). Some may have peculiar or unusual abilities which can be determined by each group. If your group is interested in getting into trouble and having a faculty intervene to save them, this will not count toward the faculty member’s involvement in a group - any faculty can intervene for a save while still taking part in their own group.

Players should also determine if their group will be able to take the Daemon alive. The Daemons will fight ferociously to the death if permitted, to be subdued they will need to be bound or restrained which can be difficult.

Feel free to use the form below if you are looking for a group:

<span style="font-family:Palatino Linotype;"><b style="color:#307151;">NAME:</b> (Player name) <b style="color:#307151;">CONTACT:</b> <user name=YOURUSERNAME site=NON-DW URL> <b style="color:#307151;">TIMEZONE:</b> (What timezone are you in? This helps people plan around schedules) <b style="color:#307151;">CHARACTER:</b> Character Name/AU Name (if applicable) | Canon | <user name=CHARACTERJOURNAL> <b style="color:#307151;">FIGHT IDEAS:</b> (What are some ideas you have for how you want this fight to go) <b style="color:#307151;">SPECIFIC WANTS:</b> (Are there certain personalities or combat styles you’d like involved in this log? If so, specify it here)

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[hippocarnival]

NAME: Athuria
CONTACT: monochromic
TIMEZONE: PST

CHARACTER: Yuya Sakaki | Yugioh Arc V | hippocarnival

FIGHT IDEAS: Yuya is going to bring in Odd-Eyes, his big bulky dragon familiar so it is... a good thing most potential property damage is limited. He also has some energy bending he can use to push people around.

APPARENTLY they're sturdy to fire and raw beatdowns so Yuya's at a disadvantage, but Odd-Eyes can provide crowd control and Yuya can move himself around the crowd to help people less equipped to actually fight so they get hide in safety. He'll definitely be stronger with others who have more effective attacks. COME GROUP WITH ME.

He can be convinced to take daemons alive because he's kinda a weenie, but he also won't prevent a group from going the murder route.

SPECIFIC WANTS: If someone wants to get dramatically saved by Yuya or dramatically save him, let's do it. Let's go full tilt trope.

[peace_keeper]

NAME: Eric
CONTACT: overbringer
TIMEZONE: PST (GMT-8)

[peace_keeper]

CHARACTER: 82 White Chain | Kill Six Billion Demons | peace_keeper
FIGHT IDEAS: The specific thing I plan for White Chain to do is to stand right in the middle of where the daemons will spawn, so that when they do appear she can become a whirlwind of fists and pain.
SPECIFIC WANTS: I'd like to get a little group of the absolute biggest combat badasses to join her and just go to fucking town. In RPG terms she and her group will be the tank and will draw aggro from the entire daemonic force so that all the less experienced fighters can have less attention focused on them.

[infestedcouncilpresident]

CHARACTER: Kohaku Yuhara | Original | infestedcouncilpresident
FIGHT IDEAS: This is her first time she's faced hostile daemons since she was 12 years old and that last time didn't go great, so she may freeze up for a moment. Other than that, she fights with a katana and superhuman reflexes. You know, max generic anime style. She's also immune to pain when she wants to be, though not to injury.
SPECIFIC WANTS: Someone who actually has some combat experience under their belt to keep her from panicking would be cool.

[gaiarage]

NAME: Comrade
CONTACT: boymayors
TIMEZONE: PST
CHARACTER: Naoki Kashima | SMT: Nocturne | gaiarage
FIGHT IDEAS: Naoki's very much a heavy hitter, so he's def going to be in the thick of it as soon as he can, so maybe some ranged support would be cool? He's gonna be pushing hard for some daemon murder, but you could probably convince him not to if you're smart about it.

At some point towards the end of the fight, he's gonna get a little bit overwhelmed and go kinda berserk for a bit, running around, breaking stuff, before he just up and runs off into the woods. Someone should maybe try and stop him before he hurts himself.
SPECIFIC WANTS: Ranged fighters, other brawlers, sensible types to try to talk him down or marvel at his horrible bullshit

[spelleton]

NAME: Ruka
CONTACT: rukafais
TIMEZONE: GMT +9:30
CHARACTER: Ekkehardt Gehring | Original | spelleton
FIGHT IDEAS: Ekkehardt will be hanging about on the sidelines ready to treat injuries, but he'll step in if he sees students, especially those he knows aren't good combatants, in trouble. He might do a bit of knifework here and there but mostly he'll be using spells to divert attacks and attention.
SPECIFIC WANTS: Feel free to pick him up for use in containing daemons! His skills lend themselves very well to disabling and just knocking people the fuck out, so if there's any group in particular that wanted to wrangle themselves a daemon and need Ekke for extra assistance, feel free to grab him.

Otherwise he'll provide support and healing but will carefully avoid direct combat if possible. He'll stay at range unless students are in huge trouble, so if you need someone for a quick save he's ready for that.

[playitagain]

Theater bestie team-up? :E

Nana could totally save him, or he saves her, or they trade the favor? I also vote fighting back to back at some point if we can swing it because I love that visual.

She’s gonna go violent on the demons unless asked otherwise because Nana doesn’t really get restraint in these situations.

[p1]

Biggest combat badasses you say?

[subconmodo]

NAME: Hayley
CONTACT: ShadetoShade
TIMEZONE: CST

CHARACTER: Snatcher/Avery Atchison | A Hat in Time | subconmodo
FIGHT IDEAS: Avery has a lot of pent up aggression toward the month of February to work out and will probably be going into melee range with a crowbar to beat the ever loving shit out of some demons if he gets an opportunity.

Otherwise, he'll be a long range fighter, tossing out the occasional geyser of shadow magic and offering crowd control with his traps. He can get some good damage going by shifting to his shadow form, but given how crowded things are going to get, he'll probably stay away from that for practical reasons.

He won't mind taking daemons alive, but he will definitely want to be one of the people who interrogate them.

SPECIFIC WANTS: I don't know about specific, but if anyone wants to make use of his traps to capture a daemon alive, let me know. Alternatively, someone who will help him CALM THE HELL DOWN and stop beating up already dead daemons to focus on the battle at hand.

[arcadianvampire]

So.... Good Cop Bad Cop on interrogation? Or Dramatic Cop Bad Cop?

[subconmodo]

I feel like they'd go in intending the former, but really it's the latter.

[arcadianvampire]

NAME: Triad
CONTACT: triadorion
TIMEZONE: US Eastern
CHARACTER: Valvatorez | Disgaea 4 | arcadianvampire
FIGHT IDEAS: Even without being a Tyrant anymore, this might be one of the rare opportunities Val has to cut loose and kick a few asses. Despite his short, thin stature, Valvatorez is still immensely strong and is a sword master, along with plenty of daemonic/vampiric tricks up his sleeve. He will not hesitate to wade headlong into battle and show little mercy while he's at it. I'd like him to take on a Commander at some point, but he'd also stick to a student group that needed additional protection like glue if need be.

If you'd like him somewhere, don't hesitate to ask. He's more than happy to help his students.
SPECIFIC WANTS: Val's a frontliner by nature, so anyone who needs one, I'm fully up for it. I'd like him to end up with students that might need a rock or protecting. And I'd also love someone he can fight shoulder to shoulder with like a partner.

[betheman]

As if there were Any Doubts Gon would be on this team.

The tank is here, regardless of their advantage against beatdowns

tbh aikido based techniques will probably work easier on these guys anyway (being closer to People size) and might even help catching one alive.

[lastexit]

NAME: Rakath
CONTACT: Rakath Or hit me up on Discord (purplerakath#9861) if it says do not disturb message me anyway.
TIMEZONE: EST (but my power is out so expect my tagging to be... sporadic.
CHARACTER: Maya Matlin | Degrassi | lastexit
FIGHT IDEAS: Maya is entirely without use during the fight, so she is here to be rescued. She is able to tell you where demons are due to her sensory abilities.
SPECIFIC WANTS: Honestly I have no idea, I'd be better at planning if the heat was working at night. Rescuing her from demons is definitely a go-to. I also definitely want more seers to get mad at Maya screwing up seer-stuff by being around.

[shockingblue]

NAME: Triad
CONTACT: triadorion
TIMEZONE: US Eastern
CHARACTER: Gustav "GV" Gunvolt | Azure Striker Gunvolt | shockingblue
FIGHT IDEAS: Lightning and Conventional Physical resistant daemons really cramp his style. It's not going to stop him from fighting, but he's going to have to push himself much harder to get the same results. GV will need some serious help in direct combat.
SPECIFIC WANTS: I love me some dramatic shoulder-to-shoulder, back-to-back fighting against tough opponents, and I'd love for GV to see what strong Candles are truly capable of.

[spelleton]

Please stop punching corpses Avery

[spelleton]

If Val needs someone to push/pull/divert targets for him to take out, Ekkehardt can definitely do that.

Or someone to distract a Commander for him, he can also do this! It'd be fun for them to take on a boss together tbh.

[spelleton]

DOES MAYA NEED HER RA TO COME GET HER OUT OF TROUBLE,,,

[subconmodo]

N e v e r

[heromedal]

Here’s an awful fucking idea- Naoki works out Rex is also spooky mask man, they end up competing with each other in lieu of beating each other up.

Or beat each other up over if they kill or capture daemons.

Or beat each other unconscious in the woods, because Rex gets very battle happy and a berserk Naoki would be great fun!

[spelleton]

he will literally drag you away from corpses if that is what this takes, don't test him

[bejustorbedead]

Guess it's time to have a practical lesson

[tiredcharmer]

NAME: The Doomkitten
CONTACT: The Doomkitten#8383
TIMEZONE: Mountain Time
CHARACTER: Tyzias Entykk | Hiveswap | tiredcharmer
FIGHT IDEAS: Thanks to Ky's elemental combat class, Tyzias has a pretty decent handle on a variety of elemental attacks--including holy/sacred/light whatever you want to call it. She's sacrificing her barrier runespell to infuse her teleportation, titanium transformation, and lancer-type lasers (what she made for the Bone Horror hunt, her normal lasers but with more piercing power and tipped with explosive payloads) with the holy element and a bit of the White Flame of Creation (thanks for existing White Chain) to really bring the pain.

She's a pretty scrappy fighter, but unfortunately her pseudo-undead soul clone Hollow is going to take the opportunity to crash the party and try and catch Tyzias by surprise. While also helping Daybreak fight the daemons because she's like that. Twozias's powers are very similar to Rage Form Sora's if you've played KH3, except with a fuckoff monster arm and access to shadow magic. She also only kinda wants to kill Tyzias at this point, so it should be easy-ish to redirect her focus to the daemons.
SPECIFIC WANTS: Somebody who can get Tyzias and Twozias to focus on fighting the daemons instead of each other would be nice. Somebody who has previously thought Tyzias was just a grumpy nerd and hasn't actually seen her go to town would be entertaining as well. Other than that go ham.

[tiredcharmer]

Honestly, I would be down for Tyzias grouping with Kohaku or White Chain for this one. There's good potential for either, to be honest. It's up to you.

[tiredcharmer]

Tyzias can definitely at least try to get Maya out of trouble. This would be a good opportunity to show that Tyzias isn't 100% a heinous asshole, even if she's a massive, weird grump.