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

[precipitous]

Name: Bayley!
Characters:

Tony Stark (alloys), dealing with event fallout and slight post-traumatic amnesia, but in a pretty damn good mood on account of gettin' hitched. Tony is taking wedding-planning cues from Pepper, but other than that, he's been slightly more laid back, though he still regularly heads into the tunnels to work on the passcodes and works on research in the medlab.

Korra (precipitious), ALSO dealing with event-fallout and it's taken a toll on her usual training schedule. She's still showing up for work at the convenience store, but she has been particularly short-tempered and agitated lately.

Rapunzel (degleamed) is doing pretty well for herself, in fact! Rapunzel keeps up her usual schedule at the bakery and co-runs the art club with Ikki. The art club is a YEAR OLD as of September, so they will probably be throwing some kind of bash for it soon!

CR Opportunities:

FOR TONY: He's recently begun training in hand-to-hand combat with Suki, so I'd like to find him other sparring partners so he can test what he's learning against various skillsets. Additionally, he is at the medlab quite often, so he is probably running into staff and Battle Dome regulars a lot (and he's probably getting on their nerves most of the time). He'll also be running into any other tunnel people on a regular basis. He's not as frequent a visitor to Good Spirits as he used to be, but he can be found there often enough as well. Also, considering his relationship is going just swimmingly, I'd really like to get Tony offering people relationship advice BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT EVERYONE WANTS, RIGHT. He'd be only so happy to dispel his wisdom to others. :|

FOR KORRA: I'd really like to push her into accepting what happened with the event, which really requires more people willing to push her out of her comfort zone and confront her about it. In turn, this development should lead her in the general direction I'd like her to go, which is an airbending breakthrough. I would also like to start sending her on some missions, but she wouldn't want to go by herself for her first time, so if anyone is up for some joint missioning, I'm there. Of course, Korra can always be interacted with at the convenience store, and she is always looking for opportunities to prank customers and/or challenge them to games of ping-pong on the roof, so if you want in on that, let's hear it.

FOR RAPUNZEL: Rapunzel can always been caught at the bakery, but she is also regularly at cherry blossom hill, the art gallery, the tea shop, and the library. She has learned a bit of combat from Rock Lee, but I'd like to get more sparring partners for her as well. I'd also really like Rapunzel to learn some Filial magic, particularly Nala's healing power, so if there's someone who wants to help lead her through that initial contact, that would be great! And as mentioned above, the art club will be having a big bash for their anniversary, so if anyone wants to get involved with throwing that, that'd be swell, as well!

A good way to contact me is: Plurk is cinematic, and AIM is wavybluebayley. PMs to any of my character accounts work, too!

Anything else?: I love new CR of all shapes and sizes, so if you have an idea not listed here, please do share it!

[endgames]

I always want more Tony CR, just to get that out of the way.

To offer something more specific though: KORRA. Like I've addressed with Shikamaru in a couple of his other threads, he's bothered when the people around him are bothered. Since they work together now, if he picked up that she was still having a hard time coming to terms with what happened, I could see him talking to her about that.

...Also more convenience shenanigans, of course.

[precipitous]

does Shikamaru want Tony Stark trademark love life advice HOW COULD HE NOT.

Yes, that sounds great! it's definitely not something Korra would bring up herself, but she's being pretty obvious with how distracted she is, so he'd certainly notice it. We can make an appointments thread of it, perhaps?

And yes, convenience shenanigans always.

[endgames]

HE DOESN'T BUT HE SHOULD GET IT ANYWAYS, BECAUSE SINCE WHEN HAS THAT STOPPED TONY.

And yes! I am good with that. He will be back on the 1st, so we can make an appointment's thing sometime after that. Also! If you want her inspired for missions, he takes them all the time so he could also recommend those to her or answer any questions she has about them.

[precipitous]

Okay, cool! She will definitely have questions. Your appointments or mine? I'm good with either. :|b

[corrinesbell]

Joint missioning you say.

Event drama confronting you say.

Two badass combat ladies you say.

[precipitous]

I do say. Let us kick butt and chit chat all at once. :|b WHEN SHALL WE DO THIS.

[corrinesbell]

I WILL WORK WITH WHAT IS GOOD FOR YOU pretty much, although there's also talk of a Fed Up With This Business Club meeting and I'd want Sheena in the village for that too. So it depends and I really hope it all fits in together like a puzzle.

[saltprince]

I have Haruhi and Rapunzel for magic. Stuff.

Korra and Masaomi stuff too but that's another thing.

[precipitous]

Oh, sweet! I have been hoping to get some solid Haruhi CR again. Rapunzel will have a post in the next few days and I can have her asking about magic there. :|b

And yes, Korra and Masaomi being Korra and Masaomi 5ever. Someday we should do a joint post with them at the convenience store.

[saltprince]

Yeah that's something I figured we can be new ~friends~ out of. Or well, more of anyway.

But I'd love a joint post. Love it.

[funnygirl]

Tony & Steve: Steve will be one of those regular Battle Dome visitors that Tony irritates I'm sure. He's also very open to the idea of being one of Tony's sparring partners because what else is a teammate for? also yes please try to give him relationship advice and watch him die of embarrassment.

Rapunzel & Steve: Also possible sparring partner, I guess? no he's not going easy on her don't look at him like that >>. Also they should hang more whether during art club meetings or not. ALL the disney princess cr for me

Rapunzel & Belle: Belle is also thinking about learning some Filial magic (particularly Nala's) so maybe they can do it together or something? Or at least encourage each other through it.

[precipitous]

Awesome. Then sparring partners they shall be! And oh gosh now that Tony has an inkling about Steve and Peggy because of the event HE IS GOING TO BE ALL OVER NUDGING STEVE IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION

Ooh yes, I definitely want more Steve and Rapunzel, too. THEY COULD SKETCH TOGETHER. And sparring would be good, too!

And it would definitely be good for Rapunzel to have someone to check in with about learning Filial magic, so if she and Belle want to tackle that together, it would be swell. I should have an entry up in the next few days for her, so I'll plan on covering the magic thing in that.

[wise_maiden]

LETS DO THIS THING.

RAINE:

- For Rapunzel and magic, if Rapunzel would think to ask her, Raine is a teacher and is known to cover Filial magic at school, also they know each other from the art club and have had a thread here and there. She probably would also know Raine is a healer from a drafts too. And she'd definitely help out with the art club bash too.

- For Tony there's still Malnosso related things (like the followup to the tunnel situation despite that being put on hold, I guess it's being picked up again?) And anything else you might think of.

- KORRA - Raine has a lot of CR with the avatar household, there's no way they don't know each other/know OF each other, though I'm not sure in what capacity or if this can be broadened somehow


ANYA:

- For Rapunzel they still have their post-possession awkward going on, Possibly a followup to Anya trying out that recipe and other opportunities, Anya is so frustrated with her lol. SHE WANTS TO LIKE HER, SHE JUST WANTS RAPUNZEL TO STOP BEING A WILLING DOORMAT and she can't really see her in any other light right now. She does practice weapons and stuff on her own so there could be a run in while training maybe? She doesn't use the dome, she goes to the barracks and things like that.

- For Tony there's still POST-INVASION awkward to explore, especially since their sibling connection was just so complicated, lol. Plus Tony and Buffy are close so there could be interesting avenues that way too. She does go to Good Spirits, so they could potentially have had a run in there.

- For Korra she does visit the convenience store often enough (she might even get a job offer from Shikamaru but right now I don't know how that will end up). She might even take up an offer for ping pong though i dont know how that would go, since the event gave her memories of playing tennis, but i don't think she has any ping png experience so that would be.... interesting.

[precipitous]

RE: RAINE: Rapunzel will have a post in the next couple of days, so there will definitely be a chance for both magic interactions/art club bash planning there! And Tony would want to touch base with her after this recent tunnel development. Because he is gonna be on the fence about the whole Shift machine situation. And as for Korra, maybe her friends can try to drag her to school? KORRA WILL BE THAT LAZY STUDENT WHO FOLDS AIRPLANES ALL DAY.

RE: ANYA: Ooh, a run-in with Anya while she's training would be neat! Rapunzel usually goes wherever her teachers/sparring partners prefer, but she could definitely hit up the barracks on her own for some interactions there. Awkward non-sibs run-ins with Anya and Tony is a must. SOMETHING TELLS ME THEY WILL BE JUST AS SNARKY AS BEFORE. And ping-pong with Korra can definitely be a go! Korra's pretty athletic so she is probably pretty good, but she will take on anyone. :B

[wise_maiden]

I'll keep an eye out for Rapunzel on both counts! And Tony too, now that that's getting started up.

I threw Raine at Ikki's party, so maybe the semblance of something with Korra can start there? Ooor we could see if we can get Aang and Ikki on Korra's case and Toph's too while they're at it and see if she'd go to school.

HAHA I am honestly not sure how well Anya will be at ping pong so it will be fun to see if it goes anywhere beyond that. They have similar personalities in a way so it's a tossup for how they'd get along. AND YES AWKWARD NOT SIBLING TIMES.

[ex_tessen852]

Korra and Suki should be closer, and you already know that I love Suki+Tony. Maybe I should just get some Rapnuzel CR too <3

[precipitous]

Korra and Suki could definitely spar with each other more often! And gossip about Sokka, natch. Suki+Tony is so golden I LOVE THAT CR. And maybe Rapunzel should try and drag Suki into the art club? :B

[ex_tessen852]

Rapunzel should see Suki's face paint and be like "JOINNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN"

[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.

[precipitous]

Awesome! I'm down for joint missioning and sparring for Bulla and Korra. They can distract themselves from the freaky stuff!

And stealthy Rapunzel would be cool! AND DEFINITELY A SKILL SHE LACKS. If nothing else, they should definitely talk more!

[origami_ninja]

Punching things is a perfect way to burn off stress. Especially with the lack of shopping malls around.

Slowly but surely, Rapunzel will become an honorary ninja. Just wait for it. XD

[ofwesternwinds]

Always want more CR! Rapunzel and Rudy are always total cuties when they interact and they def. need to become better cutie friends. =3

[precipitous]

Yes I agree! If he ever comes into the bakery, they could get to know each other better that way?

[ofwesternwinds]

He visits it fairly often, actually. c: So there's one idea there.

But if we need more ideas, the library and the cherry blossom hill also work since he frequents those places as well. The library especially as of late, in fact. (They could totally discuss their taste (or lack thereof) in books or something.)