weather? draft? halloween? a vertible october cornucopia of stuff!

[lucetimods]

It ain’t just our 5-year anniversary, it’s also...October! Happy October, folks! We have wonderful October gifts for you! Kinda. Not really. Not unless you really like the gift of zombies. And then there might just be something wrong with you. But wait. Hey, look at that weather page. Does it say TORNADO tomorrow? In MY Luceti?

Here’s the deal. The tornado is going to hit part of the village. It’s not an especially strong tornado. And we mods have ABSOLUTELY no preference for how it’s handled. This is something we’re going to let you guys play with. Will the tornado be stopped by our weather wizards? Is this tornado maybe gonna have a Shift that just makes it more powerful as people mess with it? Will it even hit anything of importance? Here is an idea of its path of destruction:



It will blow in from the west and into the east before being broke up by the mountains. This is a relatively weak tornado that undeterred, will mostly just cause roofs to rattle, knock things over, break windows, pull up water, and basically just cause surface destruction on places that will auto-repair anyway. F1s tend to see winds that range from 73 to 112 MPH. As long as people stay inside, it won’t cause serious harm to them.

The tornado can be stopped, but only temporarily. Think of it as stepping on a hose. You stop the water for awhile, but then it comes out in a powerful burst. If people want to play with that aspect, it could potentially be used to cause the tornado to split off and cause serious damage and harm in places off its designated path. There will be a comment below where you can discuss all tornado-related plans.

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Now that Masa’s done playing weatherman, let’s talk about zombies. Halloween is coming up and part of how we’d like to celebrate this spoooooky holiday is with a zombie-themed draft. This means that the horror, mayhem, and gritty violence is something you can opt into by signing your characters up below! Until we release our more detailed timline, here are the more pertinent facts to help you decide who you wanna enlist on this Draft of the Living Dead*:

This draft is (potentially) a long one. It’ll run in full from October 25th to October 31st. However, there will be an opt-into battlefield-evacuation subplot on the 28th. This means that your characters will have the ability to return to Luceti early. The circumstances for the evacuation will be expanded upon in a follow-up post.

The short-form gist is this: Luceti draftees will receive their marching orders on the 25th with only an hour of warning. The draft will be taking place in another enclosure, named Vaskoth. At first, it seems just like any other draft...until people start falling ill. A virus quickly spreads through the battlefield, affecting MSF, draftees, and cultists alike. Infected individuals will show zombie-like symptoms, starting out as fast-paced 28 Days Later-like berserkers until they become more traditional shamblers as the virus runs its course.

Expect things to be flexible! Your character can survive the draft entirely or contract the infection and have to be put down by someone they know and trust. Or they can infect others. Or they can contract the infection only to miraculously benefit from a potentially developed cure come the end of the draft. Hell, your character can help develop the cure! Although this is a zombie draft, when it comes to spoooookiness we want you guys to make your characters’ individual experiences to be as varied as you like.

As with previous drafts, you can sign up on this post. There’s no limit on how many you can send or if you indeed have to send anyone at all. Consider this the ‘opt in’ portion of the draft/event.

A more detailed timeline will go up this weekend once we get a rough idea of the numbers involved.

* Okay okay so it’s a virus. The zombies aren’t really dead until they’re decapitated or dewinged but I wanted a cute name for it.

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If this isn’t your cup of tea, we will be having more typical Halloween shenanigans happening in the village around the same time as the draft. Already, you’ll see on the weather page that there’s appropriately spooky mist. But what else is there? Well, we’d like your input. Toss out some ideas for various things you’d like to go down this time around and we’ll pick the good ones and come up with a...melange-a-halloween, if you will. Just bear in mind that the village stuff is intended to be less intense than the draft’s horror. So think fun spooky stuff! You’ll find a suggestion thread below where you can share your ideas.

And that’s it, everyone! If you want to plot for random stuff, use the rest of the post for that. Otherwise we’ll have four leading threads for MOD QUESTIONS, DRAFT SIGNUP, TORNADO PLOTTING, HALLOWEEN SUGGESTIONS.

Comments

[the_tv_is_a_lie]

You are increasing my temptation to bring Shepard along for the ride, despite her overload.

Seriously, it's probably no coincidence that ME and Halo make their trade in body horror.

[daisy023]

I haven't played the Mass Effect games, but cripes. Mass Effect 2 has a freaking squadmate decomposed alive. That shit was heavy.

But, I admit it's only a thought of mine so far. Because of the number of threads I have that I haven't attended, I've been tempted to pretty much drop a lot of them. Shepard's overloaded in tags, or in the things she's gone through in Luceti?

[the_tv_is_a_lie]

Iiiiiiindeed. And all three games had mutation into cyber-zombies via those spikes.

As for what's overloading Shepard? The latter. Stress piling up left and right, what with some events between her budding CR chewing into her--though considering she didn't get hammered with amnesia, she's probably more ready for this than I make her out to be. :|a

[hadtobeme]

They say killing zombies is very therapeutic. Take two guns and call me in the morning.

...Better yet, turn to your left and tell me how you're feeling, because Mordin is totally coming with her.

[windandrain]

Awman. Daisy, Mordin, Shepard, and Luke.

[daisy023]

To be fair, it's going to be a much more prepared team than they get to take in their respective canons. Either they go alone, or someone dies.

[windandrain]

You want someone to wind up dead?

[daisy023]

I'm actually cool if everyone makes it. Having them scarred by the experience but telling themselves they all made it will still have a greater effect with the memories of similar things in their worlds.

[windandrain]

*nod* Maybe they all get messed up a bit. I've been thinking that maybe Luke should be stuck in such tight quarters with the others that he can't use his lightsaber without hurting a teammate.

Just lots and lots of zombies. I think that'd be REALLY awesome. All of them make it out alive, but fail the mission, and have a few wounds to show for it. Nightmare fuel for Luke, at least.

[hadtobeme]

Mordin is going to be collecting tissue samples from any zombies we kill. With a bit of luck, and some time, maybe he can come up with a cure, or at least something that can stave off the disease spreading to uninfected people.

[windandrain]

Excellent. This is a very Mordin thing to do.

[hadtobeme]

Everyone, make sure you're not wearing a red shirt.

[windandrain]

OH YOU 9v9

[daisy023]

FUCK.

[the_tv_is_a_lie]

CRAP.

DAISY, GET A CHANGE OF CLOTHING, NOW.