MARCH MISSION SIGN-UPS

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MARCH MISSION SIGN-UPS
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The following missions are available for the month of March. We will open official sign-ups on March 1st, but we will hold slots for interested parties in the OOC discussion for 24 hours.

SUPERNATURAL SURVEYOR:

Part of the preparation for Nightfall is the accumulation of resources and the development of weaponry and technology to protect humanity in its darkest hour. It’s important for students to understand the hard work that goes into keeping the world protected beyond their own training. Interested professors may bring their classes to an Outland Orichalcum mine. This is a good opportunity to lecture on the properties of the mythic metal, the dangers of mining it, and its uses and applications.

Supernatural Surveyor is open to as many Faculty and Students as desired, and will be run as an open log.

PAYBACK TIME:

Now that the daemon invasion had been beaten back and enough information was extracted, it was deemed necessary to head to the outlands and eliminate the rest of the group that ruined a perfectly good dance. While they weren’t the most the competent group, removing a thorn from Daybreak’s side is good for the long run.

In-Depth Description:
Payback Time is a plot event and is open to all players. Students will be sorted into groups of 3-6, with one Faculty leader. Interested Faculty will post up a top-level in the sign-ups when they are posted, and students can sign up for each group. Additionally, students may submit to the randomizer and be placed in a random group.

Finally, students and Faculty who wish may instead take part in the control room. Control Room characters will not be in direct combat, but will instead have an opportunity to speak with and guide all other groups, and will be given special information depending on the groups they are focusing on.

Control Room:
Faculty: Yang ohgoodgrief
Students: Tokidoki Rikugou yokeye, James onebetter, Kano suddenlybees, Ekkehardt Gehring spelleton

The Group: the Stone Skull Daemons are in the grand scheme of things small fry, and their failed raid was an attempt to bolster their reputation. Their pocket of the Outlands has the same ‘trying too hard’ feel. Dead forests, a fortress that’s in the shape of a skull - the region is uncomfortably warm and kind of… squishy. But it does feel like everyone’s being watched.

Threat: Aside from the remaining daemons: Mimics. Mimics every fuckingwhere. Start easy and scale up in terms of number and absurdity. Take cues from bullshit tabletop modules, including a room where every item is a mimic. Also a room where the mimics are pretending to be things but like, really badly?

The breed of mimics that the daemons use to guard their castle and lands have a preferred shape - a treasure chest, a statue, a rug, and so on. They can, with some effort, shift into things that resemble that shape or are more decorated versions of that shape, but vastly prefer to stay the way they are. When actively attacking, part of their true form leaks through.

This particular breed of outlands mimics, in their true form, are amorphous beings that appear to be made of semi-solid darkness. They're shockingly malleable and can be squashed into all sorts of places, if sufficiently caught off-guard or convinced. They have the intelligence of a particularly bright dog, and have the capability to be trained and befriended if you really want to take one home.

Though why you'd want to is a matter best left unexplored.

AN ICY RECEPTION:
A dig site that has provided valuable information on a lost, ancient kingdom in Germany has been abruptly overtaken by a malevolent force that seems to be freezing anthropologists working there, and contact has been all but lost. A small team of students and staff will be sent to investigate this incident.

In-Depth Description

2/2 Faculty (Avery Atchison subconmodo, Hieke inflictwounds)
6/6 Students (Imelda Rivera no_dejare_de_quererte, Puella Tempus hattersgonnahat, Héctor unpocoloco, Bumblebee thebreakfastbug, Tatsumaki tsunderetornado, Keith marmoron)

The job of the students and faculty on this mission is to search for survivors among the ruins, question them, and try to find out more about what happened and what the trigger for this sudden attack was.

HUNT: TAKE ME TO THE RIVER
March 21st

A particularly vicious kelpie has been sighted in numerous places near popular bodies of water in Scotland, and reports of strange and sudden disappearances near them are starting to emerge. There are also signs it may not be working alone, and traveling in a herd or group of similarly-minded creatures - students and faculty are advised to approach with caution.

In-Depth Description

1/2 Faculty (Michael eudaimonikos)
6/6 Students (Naoki Kashima gaiarage, Fakir schwanenritter, Emil Västerström enflame, Kano suddenlybees, Nana Daiba playitagain, Adelaide transfusionem)

Kelpies are fae creatures that can take the form of humans or horses, and are able to sing hypnotic songs to lure victims to them. When they do, their skin becomes viscous and sticky, producing a powerful adhesive that renders it incredibly difficult for the victim to pull free, and they then drag targets underwater.

Most kelpies do this in order to feed, and will drown a victim (or several) before devouring them and throwing their entrails ashore. However, some may serve another fae creature or another master, and use the lakes and rivers of Earth as portals to the Outlands in order to take captives for unknown but undoubtedly sinister motives.

They are powerful swimmers and primarily aquatic creatures, and find it hard to spend more than a few hours away from water. When faced with no other options, they will retreat to the nearest water source that can hold them.

Finally, there is an option for up to 3 characters to be kidnapped during this hunt. If they are, a rescue mission will take place early next month that ties in with the game’s plot, allowing both kidnapped characters and rescuers to discover more information about a faction participating in Nightfall. Kidnapped characters will not be locked out of Spring Break.

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Comments

OOC Discussion

[thewatchers]

Icy Reception

[no_dejare_de_quererte]

Ice, you say? Sure would be a shame to have someone bring along fire spells...

Also I'd be lying if I said I wasn't mad curious as to why Avery's auto-locked in on this mission...

So that said, I'm definitely eyeing this mission for Imelda.

[gaiarage]

def gonna be throwing Naoki in for Take Me To the River!

also potentially putting him in the randomizer for payback time, will update if that changes

[hattersgonnahat]

I really want to sign Puella up for the Icy Reception for primarily selfish reasons. And to relive that level all over again.

I figure it might've been something Puella signed up for anyway just to prove that she's not completely helpless... Even though this might be more than she bargained for, but I guess this is what you call a trial by fire....or ice in this case.


Also curious about Supernatural Surveyor too. Learning about magical metal and how it's harvested might be useful for future tools in her kit.

Icy Reception.

[unpocoloco]

Héctor is joining the ice team. He hates the cold but he hates being underground and in the outlands more and at least knows he can push through the cold and "live".

Did I upload frosty Héc icon just for this, you bet I did.

[schwanenritter]

Hunting Fay? Fakir will be on Take me to the river

[enflame]

I def want to throw Emil at Take me to the river! He'd essentially think he had too much willpower to be lured in but jokes on you, dumbass...

And Kanata is mad his daughter was put in danger, so hed like to sock a demon in the face. So he'll be into Payback time!

Re: OOC Discussion

[thebreakfastbug]

I'm tossing Bee at Icy Reception.

[tsunderetornado]

Throwing in Tatsumaki for Icy Reception!

[subconmodo]

Keeping Avery to Icy Reception for now, but might sign him up for something else depending on how the thread goes. Pretty sure he'll be okay for this one, but want to give it some room.

Payback Time (Control Room) & Take Me To The River

[suddenlybees]

laughs, Kano's not a combatant, hates cold things and has had enough of being thrown into water, so

Payback Time: I'm interested in having Kano remain in the control room and guide another group, if anybody. you know. trusts your lives in his hands. He's very perceptive and makes it a habit of keeping an eye on all things at all times, and would be a very good navigator in this regard, if you can stand him chatting your ear off the entire time. Let me know if you've got a group together and would like Kano to focus on yours, since I'm not going to spread him out into every group!

Edit; actually, wait, I have a idea that would work very well for him for Take Me To The River so I'll throw him in here too. Maybe he'll also get kidnapped and y'all can abandon him and good riddance.

[playitagain]

I’ll sign Nana up for Take Me to the River!

She’ll be in Payback Time too. I’m sure it’ll be fine!

Yang is gonna be in the control room there. I can have him him guiding a group and/or helping people? Doing a command center is his specialty.

[inflictwounds]

Hieke will tag along to Icy Reception! Someone’s got to be able to feal with all the hypothermia. He might also take a group for Payback, but I’m not sure yet.

And I’ll throw Adelaide into Take Me To The River, why not.

[eudaimonikos]

Well shit, I guess I better get in on Take Me to the River before we lose half the drama club to kelpies? Michael's sufficiently good at combat to fight some kelpies, plus his physical body is basically meaningless to his continued existence and may not even contain lungs. If he gets dragged underwater for a time, it isn't that big of a deal.

He's also got his rarely-used memory wiping ability, so he could potentially steal a few minutes from people here and there to make them forget having heard the hypnotic song in the first place? Food for thought.

[yokeye]

- Supernatural Surveyor; Because mines have shiny things and there's always the potential for disaster.
- Payback Time Control Room; Who wants to listen to Toki for the entire mission?

[deuteranope]

Maverick's been feeling extra angry and useless since the daemon attack he didn't participate in, so he's gonna suck it up and go for Payback Time despite hating being around the spooky stuff.

He's a close combat, mundane fighter...this will go great I'm sure

Re: OOC Discussion

[aduration]

Alt's going to get involved with Supernatural Surveying

[onebetter]

James doesn't have any real combat ability yet, so he's going to try and join the Control Room group for Payback Time. Seems like so far there's primarily disasters in there so maybe he'll spend more time controlling the control room than anything else....

[marmoron]

If there's still space, I think I might have Keith join the Icy Reception! He has fire powers so hey maybe he'll help keep people from freezing??

Otherwise, I may just keep him in the Payback mission fighting cuz of course he would.

[spelleton]

Ekkehardt's going into the control room for Payback Time because otherwise, UHHHH. He'll be keeping a general overview on everyone's progress, though he'll focus on one group if requested. Most of his job is probably going to be stopping the control room from going haywire honestly.

Re: OOC Discussion

[tiredcharmer]

Incredibly late for this, but Tyzias is going for Payback Time.

[nor_iron_bars]

Jail would definitely be interested in the Supernatural Surveyor trip, since magical item crafting is the basis of her class. Field trip time, kids.

I'm also willing to toss her at the Take Me to the River hunt, if no one else really wants that other faculty slot. Maybe she can make some noise-cancelling headphones...

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