thegamesooc | Ian Chesterton plot

I have a mod-approved plot going on with Ian Chesterton and it needs people to help with it.

He's been not happy about what's going on and being forced to fight in the arena and not always keeping his mouth shut about it. It all culminated in him setting himself on fire at the start of the last arena, which didn't go down well, funnily enough. So they recently took him off, gave him a nice bit of torture. It just had the slight problem of not working on someone willing to do things like set themselves on fire.

Of course the capitol have other ways of getting to him, so what is roughly going to happen is:
- the capitol grab someone else instead and get them to do an appeal broadcast to the Tribute tower to get Ian to toe the line to save them from torture.

- Ian, being all heroic, and thinking they're being held in the same place he was, plans a rescue mission

- the rescue mission fails

- the captured person is released (with a bit of torture beforehand)

- the capitol punish everyone involved in the rescue mission by giving them burns, but doesn't do anything to Ian

What I need volunteers for are:
- Someone to be captured and tortured. Almost anyone will work for this - Ian will be obviously upset if it's someone he knows, but just as angry if they've used someone he doesn't. Whoever it ends up being can decide on the torture and how much to play out/handwave.

- People to help with the rescue. They also don't need to be anyone Ian knows - we can either handwave that they've met or that he's asked someone he trusts and they've opted out but suggested someone they trust. Ideally it needs to be a small group of people to head to the torture chamber (because I don't think I can handle something big), but it could also use people to create a diversion.

Please reply to the relevant thread below. If there's more than one volunteer to be captured I'll choose randomly on Friday 28th March.
Edit: Ian G has ended up being the lucky victim. This doesn't stop people volunteering for the rescue mission!

Also consider this a plotting post for the rescue team(s) so we can all work out roughly what we're going to do.

This will all happen after the crowning, at the same time as the mini-arena.

Edit: Ian G's TV plea
IC rescue plotting post

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Ian was nice enough to Orc, and he's already been trying to find the woman who tortured him last time.

If Don is captured that Mindy with DEFINITELY help.

Could I volunteer Jessica to help plan the rescue mission, but not actually go on it herself? :3

Yes, she can definitely do that.

Awesome! She is in! 8D

Signing Enjolras up for the rescue!

Jack will help!

Some will help depending on who's captured. And it'd be good to expand the tiny bit of CR he has with Ian.

And if he is not the captured person Ian will very much be up to a rescue mission and helping Ian

and pointed remarks about how he told him to not do anything stupid

Seconded: if Carlos isn't the captured one he'll join in the rescue. I thought long and hard about whether he would, and settled on yes, he's mad enough at the Capitol to get involved.

Since Ian G was randomly chosen as the captured person, that leaves 7 people on the rescue, plus one to plan. If anyone else wants to volunteer they still can.

It all depends on what people want to do and how much they want to thread out. We could have an IC plotting post, but they're not going to be able to all plot in one group because that'll make it too obvious what is going on. Which will make the threading easier if people plot in small(er) groups and go between threads.

With the rescue mission, that's probably going to work best in small groups, so they can take different routes there, and everyone can do some threading without having an unwieldy number of people in a thread. The mission will fail because Ian G isn't where Ian C was held, but it can fail for other reasons as well. As long as one group makes it there, the others can fall to a hazard on the way (which could include being discovered, which could be a point for any loyal characters to come in).

Ian's idea is to go along, look like he's out for a stroll, happen to come across the location, perhaps pick up something he can use for a weapon. If anyone would like to do anything more complicated, then they can bring it up OOCly or ICly and perhaps we can organise the groups based on what sort of thing people would like to play out.

How will we be finding out that someone's got Ian G? How visible will the appeal broadcast be? How many people will see it?

It'll be broadcast to the tribute tower the same way the arenas etc are. So everyone in there at the time will see it. No one outside the tribute tower will, but doubtless people will talk about it.

Oh, interesting. So I assume Ian C will be mentioned by name in the broadcast? If so, Carlos would basically slam his notebook shut, turn off his burners, and go look for Ian, because somebody has to do something about this.

Yes, he would definitely be mentioned by name, so Ian knows exactly why someone else is being held and what the capitol want him to do.

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youbarium - 2014-03-30 22:05 (UTC) - Expand

Bert would certainly help! And he wouldn't be too easy to torture, so it seems unlikely he would be taken.

Eponine will be absolutely desperate to get Ian back! He's her best friend, and she knows all too well what'll happen to him, having been warned to behave herself. Can she come along too?

Definitely!

Would it be possible for Brainy as Lonestar to take a very passive role and maybe sneak them some useful tech to help them do this? (pending mod approval, of course)

The caveat is I can't really have him caught because he's also doing other stuff that he'd get executed for like allying with the rebel hacker but that also means he wouldn't actively be on the mission to be caught and the discovery of the tech would start to make him a target anyway, even though no one would know who he really was.

Giving them a useful doodad like a password cracker or something to bypass a retinal scanner is a nice indirect way he can help though.

I like that idea. The place where Ian thinks Ian is being held should have some security on it, so something that would get them past that would be a big help. I haven't really thought about all the details, so whatever you'd like to have him come up with will work. Te is the mod I've been speaking to about this plot, if you want to go to a specific one.

I'll put it by the mods! If they say yes, we'll work out where he can offer help and get them to him.

Edited 2014-04-08 06:41 (UTC)

Okay, so the mods approved it!

http://thegamesooc.dreamwidth.org/201734.html

He would have gotten them to Ian to distribute under his false persona, Lonestar. Would you like to do quick IC message on the network where he offers the help ICly?

Yeah, a quick IC network post would be good.

http://thegames.dreamwidth.org/44259.html

Here you go!

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