Dammit, Cat.

[gamemakers]

 There is a LOT of information under this cut. Please be sure to read it all.

Also, please keep all major plotting to this post so everyone can see it and keep up to date with it. We are giving you guide lines, but you guys get to decided how most of the things in this plot go.Small things like "Hey, Eddie wants to wish Bert good luck." can clearly happen on plurk, but anything effecting more then a few characters should be plotted in this post. However you should now have all information plotting (besides a few details we may have spaced)

First! A Map!



Please be aware, for right now, this map is only for this plot and may not actually reflect any future, more comprehensive maps.


GROUP A

Group A is going to be going into the tunnels to eradicate the queen and her eggs. You guys may plot in some facehuggers if you like, the Capitol can remove them. The tunnel is straight back, large with two tracks and a maintenance off shot for about half a mile along side it, and about 25 feet high. It is also pitch black. The walls have been turned into the aliens nest, covered with alien stuff.

There are no trains inside, and the part the Xenomorphs have settled in is a 3 mile long chunk, before the tunnel opens up on the other side of the mountain (to more mountains. The rails eventually would end up in Colorado Springs to pick up Peacekeepers from District 2, but that is a very long trip)

They will probably find the remainders of the other teams, either dead, or having been entombed into the walls of the next (so pretty much also dead.)

Team 1
Gambit*
Eren
Klaus**

Team 2
Iskierka
Bert*
Dan

Team 3
Barbara
Pruna
Julie*
Cindy*

Team 4
Initiate
Anna
Ian
Tim



GROUP B

You guys will be going through the neighborhood to clean out the three xenomorphs who have been hunting there. You've got a lot of room to cover, hence being a bigger team. 

The neighbor hood is mainly residential + small business (restaurants, little boutiques, think of an upscale neighborhood strip mall.) There will be some bodies-peacekeepers and citizens who were unlucky, refused to evacuate soon enough, etc. They've also clearly been picking off wild and domestic animal life. The worst is closest to the tunnel.

Team 5
Maximus*
Karkat
Dualscar
Red

Team 6
Shepard
Chris
Eliot
Nep*

Team 7
Wyatt
Psii
Adelaide
Ian

Team 8
Callista
Enjolras*
Conner
Othar**

Team 9
R
Disciple*
Don
AndrAIa

Team 10
Perry
Jack
Orc

** Dying during this plot.
* Injured during this plot.

If your character is marked for injury, you can decided how they are injured. However, it is substantial. We're talking losing limbs, penetrating wounds, etc. 

All of your characters will be patched up by magical capitol medical, however, they will be entering the arena with a slight set back (a bad ass but still fake leg, or a weakness in an shoulder that was punctured by an alien tail) If your character is a Capitol citizen, however, this wound won't be erased when they die in the arena, so choose carefully.

Also, anyone not marked can choose to have their character wounded. 

You guys also, once intelligence tells you you are under attack, will have NPC control of the alien.

You guys will be getting heavy duty guns with lots of ammo and at least one flame thrower per team.

With the teams, you guys can stay in big groups or split up (or do both at different times), it's up to you.

INTELLIGENCE

You guys are the brains. You will be watching everything that is going on through security cameras, etc, and telling teams where and when to go.

OOC this will mean you will pop into their threads and let them know when an alien is attacking. You guys have the power. Each team above should get at least one alien encounter.

Two things of note:
Venus can teleport a few times and do basic medical. She is technically in Group A but can be moved around.
Some can teleport lots.

HOMEBASE

When someone is injured, they'll be brought to you guys to deal with. In addition, because of the evacuation, the kitchens will be open, and you all will be in charge of feeding the troops. 

You guys will also have less surveillance then normal. Don't let the power go to your head too much.

ALIENS

We are going for the regular aliens breed from humans, but we are saying they are a little less powerful so they don't just kill everyone. 

They do know that there are three that leave to hunt at a time, though they are not aware that besides the queen those are currently the only three. Nor do they know about facehuggers if anyone wants to tackle the bastards.


GENERAL

How would you guys like us to set this up? A post for each area? A big party post? What about a comm post with running comments for radio between intelligence and combat?

Let me know in this thread, as well as any other mod feedback for this plot. We know it's a bit different, so talk to us about ideas for this. This is the thread for plotting out mod related stuff.

If you have any questions, go ahead and stick them here. If you aren't sure if you have a question or feedback, just go with whichever seem right, we'll see both.

Plotting for Combat

Plotting for Intel

Plotting for Homebase

Everyone can and should be in all the plotting threads. They are separated for organization, not to keep you guys apart.

Comments

FEEDBACK

[gamemakers]

[(Anonymous)]

Having had some time to think about this plot, I have a concern:

I'm not sure why there's been this sudden push of forced CR. I'm not against it every not and again, but we just did an arena where characters were forced to be apart in randomized groups, now this big plot... I mean, we already have the 25 point bonus for new CR, is that incentive enough anymore?

I'm all for tagging out and try to it as often as I can, but there's a difference between that and being told I have to.

In Character Knowledge

[earthborn]

At what point would the characters themselves become aware of these team assignments? I mean, I appreciate the function of randomized teams in deliberately building new CR, but I get the feeling that for a lot of these people, it would take a lot more serious a situation than mopping out invading aliens from a neighborhood to send them into a fight of this type with people at their back whom they've never met, and barely heard of.

Re: FEEDBACK

[stilest]

No matter how you guys decide to set it up, is there going to be a place where people can do the pre-mission threads? Because I can see a lot of my guys wanting to do that kind of thing and I know that it would probably annoy the hell out of people if everyone who wanted to do that did a separate post for it.

(Speaking of which, we can also still do stuff before everyone sets out and over the communicators while this is going on with whoever else we're not assigned with, so there's still a chance to get stuff in with out usual CRs.)

Re: FEEDBACK

[orestes]

Usually I'm all for giving you guys the benefit of the doubt and letting you rock on with your crazy selves, but I have to admit this is becoming a problem.

I, for one, had a set interaction I really wanted to happen with this plot and now that's completely out the window. I'm fine, and I'll survive, but I feel like there's an over emphasis on manufacturing ways at getting at new CR that's actually pretty unnecessary in this setting. To be honest, I've been really lazy the past AC period, and I'm still not hurting for new CR. My intention with this was to solidify certain dynamics between characters who have already met. And, granted, that's my own personal concern, but it's a major major let down, and one it looks like a few other people share.

My second concern is that this is almost an echo of what happened with the last Arena. (By which I mean the double-Arena surprise.) It's not to say that I think surprises can't work in this setting or with these players, or that you should stop promo-ing events. Rather, I think you should promo them. Get people excited! But also understand that the more excited people are, the more they're going to talk and the more misinformation can spread. The longer you wait between the promo and the actual info post, the longer people have to get attached to plans if they aren't told up front that they shouldn't make them. So yes, promo things, get people talking... But be sure they understand the limitations up front.

And lastly, I'm debating pulling out altogether because of the mandatory injury. I had intended for Enjolras to get injured and need rescuing during this plot, but it was with the assumption that it wouldn't affect his standing within the main Arena. He's already not a real contender within the Games and I already kind of loath playing out Arena stuff with him. I can't help but think having to account for a handicap (which I didn't really sign up for to begin with) will put a major damper on my enthusiasm for the Arena, no matter how cool it might be.

Re: FEEDBACK

[the_hit_list]

I'm a little confused about the answer being "no, really, they're just that stupid." I think the Capitol has a better understanding of psychology than you're giving them credit for, look at what they did to Peeta to hurt Katniss.

Let me be super clear, I'm good with terribly designed groups for the awful hilarity of it, but the reasons are a bit slapdash, given that the other one is "we want to encourage/force new CR"... and the groups are then picked based on negative CR in many cases. I love the group I'm in, but I'm disappointed that I'm not getting to work with people I haven't before (although... I'm not sure if Tim knows Anna or not).

Re: FEEDBACK

[saisamour]

More of a suggestion than anything but in relation to the feedback of others! Might I suggest that next time, maybe give players the option whether they want to be in a pre-arranged group or a random group? I just recalled we did have something similar to this in another game that I play in, and it allowed for both players who had plans with each other and those who wanted to expand their CR.

And it also allowed for a pre-arranged pair + players who wanted their characters to be in a randomized group, too. For example, each a team is allowed a maximum of 4 characters. Two players have arranged for something with their two characters, but don't really care who else they're grouped with, so the remaining 2 slots are then RNG-ed by the mods from the pool of players who signed up for random groups.

I think that would have been a better way to accommodate both those who wanted random CR and those who already had made plans? Just something to think about for future plot stuff. :>

Intel

[formersurgeon]

So, I'm a bit concerned by how Intel is being handled. From an IC standpoint, I'm not sure it makes sense for all Intel people to be expected to watch all teams all the time, as opposed to being assigned teams to keep an eye on. From an OOC standpoint, I'm worried about a lack of coordination. Every group should get at least one alien attack, but I'm concerned that teams may fall through the cracks, because there's so much for the intel people to keep up with, and because of the Bystander Effect (that the more people there are in a situation that requires action, the less likely any one person will take that action, and thus the less likely it get done at all: i.e. accidents with lots of bystanders are less likely to have authorities called because everyone assumes someone else is going to do it).

Also it can be hard for people (IC and OOC) to come out of their shell and throw an alien at people they don't know without having been assigned to them (one of the reasons the randomization of the combat teams is a good idea, which makes me confused why you guys didn't do that for the intel as well).

So, yeah, tl;dr, I think assigning intel to teams would be a Good Thing, both IC and OOC.

[earthborn]

I'm having trouble getting in contact with one of my character's team-members. Can you give me more information about "Nep"? I can't find them on the Player Contact or Taken Characters post.

Unless you mean "Nepeta" in which case, can you please tell me which one, as there are two?

QUESTIONS

[gamemakers]

[futilecycle]

Sorry to be hasty as I'm sure you're still sorting stuff out, but did you come to a decision about Terezi and Sigma's powers?

Re: QUESTIONS

[grandmas_gurl]

Would there be a full moon at any time during this? Out of curiosity. >,>

[doc_holi]

For the intelligence guys, are they just going to be sporadic and trying to help out everyone at once or assigned certain groups/teams? I'm sure you would have mentioned it if it was the latter, but I thought I'd make sure just in case.

Re: QUESTIONS

[justoutrunyou]

I hate to be a pest but Sandy hasn't been assigned a combat team.

Re: QUESTIONS

[splendid_roman]

Which of the Ians is which? By which I mean is Ian C in group A team 4 or group B team 7?

[saisamour]

I kind of sort of signed Marius up a bit late (on the 20th, iirc) for the combat teams, so I was wondering whether I'd been too late for sign-ups? Totally cool if I was, just wanted to clarify it and stuff. :3

Re: QUESTIONS

[gunshiptotheface]

I'd like to throw Garrus on a team if that's okay!

Re: QUESTIONS

[clarityinchaos]

Hi there! I'd like this guy on the Intelligence team! He has no idea what's going on, but he can roll with it.

Edit: And further, he's going to try really freaking hard to get on Eren's team (A-1). How possible/what consequences of this would there be?

Re: QUESTIONS

[carnagecarnival]

So, reteriating my question from plurk in what is hopefull the right place |'D

it isn't said in the post so morphling is not available for healers to use on injured tributes then? This is fine if that is the case, it was merely that I assumed (sorry) pre-emptively that it would be available and so I would be able to use it launch of a personal plot.

COMBAT

[gamemakers]

Don: Team 9

[polyturtle]

Don's in Team 9, so I'm up for whatever Team 9 wants to do. He's still kind of messed up, just as a warning.

Adelaide: Team 7

[victorysass]

Gather round, team 7, you guys have a victor on your side and she would just love control of the flame thrower. Don't let her have it, dear god.

Group A, Team 3

[undercoverprincess]

Let's plan stuff! Cindy is apparently going to be injured, unsure as to what just yet, but let's do this!

INTEL

[gamemakers]

SOME THE TELEPORTER

[gruesome]

Some is going to be going out to basically retrieve injured people. So anyone need a ride back to base?

Caveat: If you're the group with the flamethrower, you are out of luck. He'd appear, shriek, and disappear again.

HOMEBASE

[gamemakers]

PRIM THE HEALER

[andproper]

Yep.

Thirteen years old. Trying to be useful. Why won't you let her in the field?