July/August Round-up + CR Plotting Meme

[lucetimods]

Hi-ho, Lucetians! It’s your new mod Bayley here. Whenever you see these mouse ears flying by, I’ll be the mod close at hand. I’m very excited to roll out some new stuff for you guys! It’s the end of another month, the smell of apps is in the air, and we’ve got a few updates for you. Check out the deets below the cut!

Did you know we have a Luceti Workers spreadsheet? Whoa, awesome! If your character has a job in Luceti, go ahead and add them to this page! It’s also a handy reference for figuring out who works where. Look for this to appear somewhere on the Housing page soon. Speaking of, please review the Housing page and make sure your characters are listed in the right place! Having a place to live is muy importante.

While we’re on the subject of spring (fall?) cleaning, check out the Luceti Contact spreadsheet and make sure your information is up to date! Thanks for taking the time to do this.

Have a player plot? Cool. We want to plot around you! But in order for that to happen, we need to know when your cool stuff is happening. Use the handy-dandy player plot sign-up post to do so. This link is now easily accessible on the directory, so you won’t have to look too far to find it later. Make sure to contact a mod about your player plot before signing up on this post! Help us help you.

Now, a recap of recent plot developments! Back at the end of March, Lucetians were called upon to fight cultists in Region One, but were first sent to TERRACE, a formidable Malnosso stronghold in the sky. There, they, with other draftees and MSF soldiers, were ambushed by the Third Party and had to reclaim the airborne city before it was lost entirely. Over a series of days, the forces fought back against the cultists, eventually defeating them. It was eventually determined that these forces were led not by the General, but by a new and different sect of the cultists. They used unusual tactics during the battle and seemed to have intimate knowledge of the inner workings of TERRACE. The cultists managed to take it over by infiltrating the fortress beforehand and disabling its defenses prior to the attack.

In April, Lucetians were subject to a bizarre experiment that found them assuming the lives and storylines like those found in soap operas. Fortunately, there were no lingering effects.

In May, Carol and Specialist Davis paid Luceti a visit. While they were in the village, Gai Tsutsugami was able to obtain a key for the tunnels beneath Luceti from them. Using that key, residents were then able to access a new part of the tunnels (you can check out the details on that here and here). In the course of exploring the tunnels, Derek Bliss triggered the release of Twila, a Filial Spirit of Darkness. Villagers spent the next week possessed by various Filial Spirits, until John appeared on the network and characters began to discuss various options for depossession. Eventually, everyone worked out their alignment and got back to their normal selves, though Twila’s presence remained in the enclosure as a possible source of magic for those willing to learn it.

In June, Vash found a keycard on a skeleton down in the tunnels. After investigation from several of Luceti’s residents, work began to repair the computers down there so that the keycard could be examined. As it turns out, the keycard could be used to decipher passcodes for the doors down the elevator.

In July, characters working on deciphering the passcodes for the doors in the tunnels held a vote to see what door residents wanted to unlock first and discussed it here. The time for door-opening is almost upon us! Look for more details about this in the near future.

A few weeks ago, cultists under the leadership of Count Zompano invaded Luceti and Dream-Shifted the villagers into thinking they were 1950s-esque families engaged in class conflict. Though villagers had no suspicion anything was amiss for the first few days of the invasion, soon they began to realize little odd things that added up to a lot of wrong things. Many villagers started to question these oddities openly, only to be detained by police. However, unrest prevailed, and Shayera Hol freed John from imprisonment in the Bilruben Institute. The Shift barring the villagers’ powers was lifted, animals were freed, weapons were reclaimed, Zompano was killed by Saori, and Dream Shifters were defeated. All was well again, except not really! Event fallout, and all.

A week later, Carol addressed Luceti from within the barrier, explaining that the events of the weeks previous were the acts of cultists and offering her services as a liaison between the Malnosso and Luceti. She spoke with many of our lovely residents.

Carol also mentioned that the Malnosso’s best were working hard on modifying the barrier to prevent future instances like Zompano’s invasion. Great, right? Except it’s not all smooth sailing. As they continue to work out the kinks, Lucetians may notice a few oddities affecting them, in what can be termed “barrier incompatibilities”. These effects include (and ARE limited to):

Time slowing down around your character so they are moving much, much slower than everyone else

Cold and allergy symptoms (though there is no actual disease present, so taking Nyquil won’t help)

Sensitivity to sunlight

Excessive sleepiness/fatigue

Excessive dizziness that significantly limits mobility

The idea here is to give you guys as players more options when it comes to hiatuses, since there are some characters who won’t go on missions and mallynappings can lead to unwanted trauma. Keep in mind that these “glitches” aren’t a free-for-all; please only use the options in the list above to keep your character out of the game for awhile if you need to hiatus. There is no set amount of time that these effects need to last. If you have any questions, please direct them to the Mod thread below!

Meanwhile, for those who have been on a mission within the last week or so, there’s information circulating among the other volunteers from other enclosures. If your character is out there too, these are some of the things they may have overheard:

Several other enclosures were subjected to the same brainwashing as Luceti. Vaskoth was lost entirely and has given Count Zompano an additional five thousand soldiers, many of them powerful enough to be comparable to Elites. Tyrus was attacked, but like Luceti, they overcame the brainwashing and freed themselves.

Nobody has seen anyone come out of the enclosures Pagoda, Quell, or Zompania since the multiple invasions occurred.

According to MSF (Malnosso Security Forces) soldiers, the General’s forces haven’t attacked for several months. In fact, there hasn’t been a confirmed sighting of him since Luceti’s encounter with him.

Like Luceti, all the other enclosures are starting to experience these ‘barrier incompatibilities’. There is much bitching to be had.

There’s some chatter about the Kin’corans organizing some kind of information network. Nobody will talk to Luceti about this, however. Volunteers of other enclosures have been whispering to each other about such things, but don’t seem to trust Luceti.

Cave Johnson, former RP Manager and head of MARS (Malnosso Assignment and Reward Service), was recently promoted as the Project Head of Region Six, putting him directly in charge of Luceti and Kin’cora. The chatter among the MSF and other Malnosso workers seems to be that of disdain. There seems to be some talk about some closed door dealings in regards to a recent big trial involving him and a member of the MSF.

According to Tyrus volunteers, TERRACE is finally fully operational again.

Get ready, everyone! Applications open on Sunday, September 1st at 12:00 AM EST! Super duper. You can still reserve your characters on the Application Interest page, and it’s not too late to test them out on the Test Flight meme as well. Applications will be open until 11:59 PM EST on September 7th. Hop to it!

And on that note - did you know you can sign-up to help out with applications? Yes, you probably did. But in case you haven’t signed up before, please consider volunteering! It’s very useful to know who we can call on to help us with a canon we aren’t familiar with. Your time and willingness is invaluable! Thanks for pitching in.

Still with me? Good! Now on to the fun part!

CR PLOTTING MEME

In order to encourage plotting between new and old characters and players alike, we will be having a bi-monthly CR Plotting Meme that will accompany these Round-Ups. Below, you will find the appropriate copypasta in a magical text box, and we highly encourage everyone to use this opportunity to reach out to new CR and get some ideas flowing for the new cycle! This is no ordinary CR meme - we really want to see more than just, “Hey, let’s tag more!” We want to see, “Hey, your character works at Seventh Heaven, and mine is a foodie. Maybe yours can teach mine more about cooking!” Or, “Hey, your character wants to learn Filial magic, and mine knows it very well! Maybe mine can teach yours!” As you peruse CR opportunities, think about your character’s habits, where they live, where they frequently go, and so forth. Maybe your character has been passing their best-friend-to-be - or perhaps their best-frienemy-to-be - on their walk to work everyday! Be as creative as you wish.

And speaking of, here’s that magical copypasta:

<b>Name:</b> Your name! <b>Characters:</b> List all of your characters and give a brief description of what they’re up to these days. <b>CR Opportunities:</b> Break this down for each of your characters and describe options others have for getting CR with them. Where do they go? What are their hobbies? Do they work? Where do they live? Do they go outside a lot? What do they want to learn? If you are looking to branch out with a character, e.g. have them learn a new combat skill or Filial magic, mention that here as well! What do you want to do with them? Go crazy. <b>A good way to contact me is:</b> List the ways players can contact you! <b>Anything else?:</b> Whatever you want!

Go to town! Make plots, and most importantly, have fun.

And that’s it! Thanks for tuning in. Enjoy the appening!

Comments

[origami_ninja]

Name: Lex
Characters:

Konan origami_ninja - Konan is a former antagonist in the Naruto series that did a heel face turn, pledged her support to the village she'd previously helped to destroy and made a pretty impressive attempt on the Big Bad's life. She's a quiet person whose hobbies are origami, flower pressing and strategy games. In Luceti, she's a member of the art club and Loki's strategy games club. Although she sort of wanted to reach out to others before (at least more than she had done in the past), after the event she'll be more actively seeking to form friendships with others and to atone for things she's done in the past.

Bulla fashionably_strong - Bulla is the daughter of Vegeta and Bulma in Dragonball GT. She's a very outgoing and sociable girl whose favourite hobby is shopping. Prior to her arrival in Luceti, she had little to no interest in training. Since finding out about the drafts, and after discovering that she's actually a lot stronger than she realized, she's been more interested in reaching her potential. Training is still at least half a social thing for her, though. She's currently the co-founder of Luceti's Fashion Club with Quinn, and she's a member of Billy's Alliance. At the moment, she's been less sociable than usual because of being badly injured and her mother being sent home. Thanks to Sakura's healing and natural Saiyan recovery time, she's much better now.

CR Opportunities:

Konan - Does your character want to learn how to fight strategically and work with projectile weapons? Konan is a master of that and patient enough to be a good teacher. Though she has some skill, she definitely needs work on her hand to hand skills and would be willing to trade lessons. Alternately, she's also artistic and willing to share that skill with others. She's not the most sociable character generally, but she does tend to be devoted in her own quiet way when she decides she cares about someone. At the moment, she's actually more sociable than she typically is, because the Luceti Valley 2.0 experience was mostly a good one for her, and it's made her realize that she would like to have an extended group of people who she's close to.

Bulla - Is your character in need of a durable sparring partner? Or perhaps your character needs a fashion buddy or a makeover? Bulla's good for both of those. She's also very good for drawing more introverted characters out of their shells, because she is so friendly and she's got a very high threshold of weird (seriously, just look at Dragonball canon - that is Bulla's normal). Bulla's doing pretty well for CR because she is so outgoing but I am always open for more. I'd like her to learn some Filial magic. She'll probably do reasonably well at making contact with Eferin, since he's the spirit who possessed her before.

A good way to contact me is: Plurk (FightingSpirit), email (evil_wild_lex (at) yahoo (dot) com) or PM either of my journals.
Anything else?:

[aerialassault]

Let her world be shattered by a HAMMER OF MIGHT.

Oh, wait. No special moves in a bar.

Also, that sounds like a grand idea. It's an awesome way to get CR and all. Just, be warned. Cliff ain't to gentle about ending fights.

[cilantro]

Okay! I don't know when my next Cilan post will actually be yet, but that can work, or even just doing something on an appointments post or event! Ssomewhere, somehow, sometime!!

bless xseed for making dreams come true and bringing me what would end up becoming my favorite Wii game of all time... ;A;

[sun_showers]

Yes, this will happen! The log turned out being put up at a bad time cuz event, but I promise these two will do more. Yuuna loves those little hatchlings of his. And honestly, they just need to talk and get to know each other better, which is easily done! SO YAY. MORE TALKIES.

[tickle_me]

/insert "Hammer Time" jokes here

You can't really be gentle when it comes to a problem child like Revy. :|

[tickle_me]

Do you have a preference (or anti-preference) for dates or timeframes?

[dedicatednoless]

Not sure what they may have said either, but since nothing's been said in any threads it's probably very little. I think maybe he knows that HE was here before and he's heard about Anise through Norma.

Though nothing about his old Professor or Ion's incidents (other than what he physically sees at home). And I'm sure if she visits house one again that'll be opening enough for him to talk to her.

[i_speak_softly]

For the record, this comes from watching BatB as a little Turtle and wishing someday a smart girl would like him like that. It's been established in actual threads, even.

[funnygirl]

Well Steve isn't around much immediately after the event. So about a week post-event is probably the earliest that a thread would be possible. So any time after the 19th?

[funnygirl]

That's adorable. Does Beast know at all?

[i_speak_softly]

This is going to be the most awkward first meeting ever.

[tickle_me]

That sounds good! I'll try to at least set up the initial tag within the next few days. :)

[i_speak_softly]

I don't think so. Don fans Beast like a dork, but he's good at keeping his secrets.

[aerialassault]

Aw, sweet. This'll be a thing of beauty.

[funnygirl]

That's probably for the best. xD

[origami_ninja]

If Bulla runs into Vash while grocery shopping, she'll talk to him. She was already acquainted with him before, but now she's got residual doofy uncle feels for him.

[origami_ninja]

I'd like to have some CR with Clint and Konan again. They got along well enough and she's more open to talking with people. She'd also like to work on her hand to hand skills...and I think they could have a little fun doing some competitive training in the Battle Dome with projectiles. :D

[origami_ninja]

More Konan and Yuuna CR, perhaps? Konan has become more open to being social since the event and they'd already spoken before about flower pressing.

...and it's kind of a given that I want father-daughter CR between Vegeta and Bulla but I'll say it anyway. XD

[origami_ninja]

Possibly some Konan and Barnaby CR? I didn't get to have Konan interact with him during the event, but they were related through marriage in their alternate/fake reality life. XD He might remember her as Nagato's wife...and perhaps notice in game that she and Nagato are still very close.

...also, one day Bulla should see Cliff and Vegeta drunk. XD Because the reaction would be golden.

[foundafamily]

All righty! I can hit up your appointments post, then? Do you want to backdate it to maybe a little bit after the event? (With backdating, the only constraint on my end is that Firo was mallynapped before the event).

[herotypical]

she may. i won't lie -- whether she does from month to month will entirely be dependent upon the time that i have. people are probably best to contact me first to say "hey aly if my character pings carol this next post will you be able to take on a thread/will carol be around for it?"

[i_speak_softly]

I'd be happy to re-establish some CR with Selphie, especially if she still remembers visiting Don's world.

[untrueheart]

Gotcha. Thanks for the quick answers!

[disastergirl]

Name: kanon

Characters:

Jane: Jane is out and about pretty much all the time, so it isn't terribly difficult to find her if you know her usual haunts. As of late she's taken an interest in going farther away from the village, to the point where she has to pack some supplies and camp out for the night to get to where she's going. When she's in the village she usually spends her time in the Battle Dome (although her visits have become less and less frequent), having a cup of tea at Celsius Tear, or doing some research in the library. Honestly the least likely place to find her is her apartment in CH3, but when she's not roughing it she has to sleep sometime, right?

CR Opportunities:

Filial Magic: Currently Jane has contacted Nala, Kipinn, and Eferin. Eferin's magic comes easiest to her thanks to the possession event, although she enjoys speaking with Kipinn the most. She could be convinced to teach someone in exchange for something (help with Tsinku, maybe). Nala's magic gives her the most difficulty, so if your character is good at that then they could teach her instead.

Future CR: I'd like her to meet people who can pull her out of her shell or just have cynical similar viewpoints. She isn't shy in the quiet sense, but she's very hesitant to open up to people or even make friends at the moment, and Caius' departure exacerbated that somewhat. She doesn't want to lose any more friends but at the same time she doesn't like being alone. :c

A good way to contact me is: PM is probably the best way, but plurk also works (sibilative)
Anything else?:

[origami_ninja]

Now that Bulla's recovered from her injury, she can be a durable sparring partner for Korra? Bulla's actually pretty freaked out by a lot of things, so she could be easily talked into going on a mission just to put her excess energy into something.

Konan will continue to help Rapunzel learn how to throw shuriken and perhaps start teaching her how to be stealthy? IDK. I like Rapunzel and Konan CR, because Rapunzel is one of the characters that Konan feels protective over, and who draws her out of her shell.