lucetimods | July/August Round-up + CR Plotting Meme

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July/August Round-up + CR Plotting Meme

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:

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

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

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Name: Gore (that guy who plays everyone)
Characters:
Aang (

savedtheworld): A monk who is currently almost physically 15, has arrow tattoos and is no longer puny. He meditates, explores nature, practices bending and likes to read books from the library. He works shifts at both the Welcome Center and the bakery. He also has a giant sky bison who is hard to miss when flying over the village.
Rock Lee (

niceguypose): A hyperactive young ninja who tries to make everything into training. He often jogs around the village and engages in various types of training virtually anywhere, and he also works as a server at Seventh Heaven.
Kurt Wagner / Nightcrawler (

wildbluevagner): A dorky trouble-making teen mutant whose true form is blue, fuzzy and demon-like. He wears a watch called an image inducer which holographically makes him resemble a normal human teen. He's one of the X-Men and trains with them at the Battle Dome, but he's insecure and tries to keep his true form a secret. He also works at a barista at the coffee shop and helps out at the item shop.
Jade Curtiss (

yourfononsarewhack): A highly intelligent military figure from the world of Auldrant. He is a prodigy at fonic artes and depending on the person can tend be somewhat of a trolly jerk. He tries to collect as much information as he can about this world and others' worlds in order to something close to being comfortably in control of things.
Mytho (

soheartless): A storybook prince who lost his heart but still has a love for ballet. He's a very quiet and subservient person, but he has been slowly regaining some of his heart shards in Luceti: particularly for the emotions of devotion, fear, regret and sorrow. He does still have an infection of raven's blood within him that may cause him to occasionally act as his evil self.
Van Hohenheim: He's a man who used to be a living Philosopher's Stone. He's the bumbling father of the Elric brothers and is getting used to living a relatively stable family life here in Luceti. He can be a bit of an oddball and cold at times, but he can often be friendly towards strangers. He is also one of his world's most skilled alchemists.
CR Opportunities:
Aang: Aang is very outgoing and kind, and easy to befriend. He's often in the forest, at the library, at the tea shop, by his house or working at the bakery or the Welcome Center. He also attends school. He's very interested in learning about other cultures and other worlds, while secretly hoping to find cultures like his lost people, the air nomads. Generally he really just loves getting to know other people and to help him however he can. He can't carry out his full mission as the Avatar here, so he sees helping individuals as the closest he can do. He also has bending abilities which he likes to compare to elemental magic - and he should be learning more of the filial magic sometime too (currently knowing only Kipinn and Nala). He lives at House 56.
Rock Lee: Rock Lee can be somewhat intense and off-putting with how he portrays himself. But he's eager to meet friends in his own way. He likes to train in a variety of locations around the village and will help anyone whom he thinks is in trouble in a very over-the-top manner. In fact, he does almost everything in an over-the-top manner. He's very interested in physical combat, as he doesn't have ninja magic so he instead has become a master of taijutsu, his world's hand-to-hand combat. He is a big fan of curry and always seeking new friends or training mates. He also hatches a number of hair-brained schemes like trying to train the wings to fly. He lives on the fourth floor of CH1 (aka the ninja floor) with his teammate Neji.
Kurt Wagner / Nightcrawler: He's very social in his own way, although Kurt is someone who is likely to spend some days lazing around indoors or at the rec center. He matches your average teenage dork interests - he likes comics, video games, nerdy shows and movies like Star Trek. He's from the early 2000s but speaks with horrible 90s-esque lingo. He strives to be cool and overcome his insecurities, especially regarding his true appearance. People are free to be horrified by that, by the way. He's probably looking for more people in his age group to bro it up with. Also, his primary power is teleporting, but he's been meaning to look into learning swordplay to defend himself during drafts. I also intend to eventually develop him in a direction of becoming more religious, as a way of slowly building him towards his adult self in the comics. He lives in House 16.
Jade Curtiss: He's someone who can be tricky to get to know. He can often act professional and formal towards others, but with a side of snark. And he's not afraid to deliver unpleasant or potentially cruel truths in most cases. Jade is primarily a military-minded man and has a number of concerns regarding Luceti's defenses. It's exceptionally hard to become something like a friend with him, but he will at least look into people who amuse him in some way or show some type of potential. ...Or frenemies (although I'm working on calibrating some parts of his treatments of others that may have been ooc). He may be willing to brief others in basic combat - he hates teaching in particular but he also sees that the populace needs to shape up in order to truly defend itself. Sometime in the future, I want to play out an exploration of his child self - and, either before or after that, possibly something about him contemplating a pact with Nala. Jade is a man who has many skeletons in his closet, but they're ones that are very hard to come up with actual CR - such as that he invented his world's equivalent of cloning and he's also responsible for his teacher's death as a child (Gelda Nebilim, who previously taught at Luceti. I would be interested in him meeting any remaining CR/students of hers as well). He lives in House 1, and he sometimes frequents the library and tea shop.
Mytho: He's someone whom it can be hard to hold a conversation with. Although if you can get him dancing, at least it's a neat-looking show. He doesn't have particular hangouts aside from an attraction towards the fountain. Really, he's somewhat dependent on whoever's around him at the time; he's pretty much reactive to an extreme without his full heart. He will be showing more autonomy as time goes on - and at the same time there will be more surges where he's taken over by his creepy evil side, although I'm not sure yet how I'll play out that part of him. He could use more people to act as a support group for him, especially with his loyal knight being absent. He lives on the first floor of CH7.
Van Hohenheim - He's more of a quiet researcher, but at least he's easier to befriend than Jade. I really just have to work on getting him out there more (part of the summer wound up being distracting enough to keep me from establishing him well enough). He likes reading, learning, performing alchemy. Thinking he may attend school, even. And he may be working at the grocery store as well. He may be seeking to learn more about how family life is supposed to work, which he had some insights from via Luceti Valley, and he has his own demons from his past to contend with. He also started off life as a slave, so that may be something to explore at one point. He lives in House 30 with his wife.
-In the future, Rock Lee and Kurt could possibly be available for joint missions! Possibly Aang as well with trusted people only (because of what happened to Sokka) and possibly Jade (thinking over the ICness of it).
A good way to contact me is: My plurk is

goreo! Feel free to add me if you like!
Anything else?:

Edited 2013-08-31 06:14 (UTC)

Tsuna and Jade, let's go!!!

Whippersnapper.

keep up old man

...Yes.

Really that's all I have to say :|a

Okay

Hilariously it's harder to break down more than that. I keep thinking "Makie needs to talk to Jade more" and "Makie has spoken to both Mytho and Rue now and is wondering if they're connected" and "Aang is sweet, let's totally have them talk more" and "Rock Lee kind of terrifies her so let's do that again" and that's without even throwing Nami in the mix assuming she's accepted and all...

So. Yes. |D

Rock sounds like a freakish combination of Michelangelo and Leonardo. He and Don have probably at least said hey to each other while out running.

In a way that does fit! And yeah, I'm okay with them having had jog-by hellos. Sometimes he's too intensely into his workouts to stop but he would at least work in a greeting as he passes.

Cool. Don is usually lost in his own head while running, but he would at least manage to say hello. He would also be delighted to spar with a non-magical ninja.

Kurt needs to find out that Steve is Captain America. ~~preferably in the most awkward way possible~~

Yes, yes he does! Possibly through the Battle Dome or if they're on some kind of mission/draft together in the near future. All the fun awkwardness.

I don't know when the next mission/draft will be. But the Battle Dome is always an option. He doesn't usually train in costume but he does sometimes train with his shield.

Pretty sure Kurt wants nothing to do with Suki right now, but we still need more Aang+Suki and Rock Lee+Suki CR!

Good idea! She shouldn't settle at breaking just Kurt's heart, after all.

sdfkjsdfds NO! ;_;

I REALLY WANT MORE CR WITH KURT.

MAYBE A MARIO KART TOURNAMENT WILL BE FITTING. LOKI ROCKS AT THIS SHIT.

UM YES ALL THE MARIO KART

Excellent.

I always get overly excited and then capslock happens :c

I would like to do more Aang/Hinata stuff and Kurt/Hinata interaction.

Would you like fries with that? I'm definitely down for keeping up with such CR.

Yes, please! And... Perhaps Nel meeting Jade in person? I want to do more trolly stuff with her. It's fun.

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wow capslock

WOW

lol sorry

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