Scouting Group for Winter Wonderland

[initiates]

The results are in, and after a trip over to Random.Org the following 25 names have come out on top. Congratulations!

Abbey Bominable
Asch the Bloody
Belle
Carlos
Caspian
Chris Pratt
Christopher Chareau de Red
Cross Marian
Elissa Cousland
Elmer C Albatross
Hitsugaya Toushirou
Irisa Nyria
Joy P Buckhead
Kallen Kouzuki
Kili
Leaf
Mai
Merrill
Nathan Sumers
Noh-Varr
Oerba Yun Fang
Raiden
Rinth Ghostshot
Travis Marks
Zelos Wilder

You all have the dubious honor of scouting out the situation Earth-side, and reporting back what it is you find to the people up at the Moon Base. You leave 11/27 0300, arriving planetside at 0800. Gotta love that trip back down.

All those on the scouting mission will need to scavenge supplies beforehand from the Moon Base. They will be told about the temperatures, and as of tonight, the AI has successfully hacked some of the satellites in orbit around Earth to get good imagery of what the ground looks like. Based on heat signatures and taken images, the AI suspects they're dealing with snow, and smaller numbers of people living in scattered groups, centralized around one large, city-like group it plans to land the scouts.

Mission objectives are simple. Locate the Initiative and begin a dialog. It's suggested everyone make use of the holographic technology still maintained on the Moon Base in order to blend in with the locals. Be warned, the holographs don't hold up under actual touch, and they don't change what your footprints look like outside of immediate physical range.

Any and all non-humans will be met with fear, up to and including violence.

Be careful, and be on the lookout. This iteration of the Initiative works on the extreme keep their heads down side. Talk to everyone, and be as subtle as you can be. That's the best way to flush them out of hiding.

Plotting and questions invited below (questions to the questions thread only, please, to not be missed!). The game at large will go down to Earth the first week of December.

Edit: The Scouting log is now up here!

Comments

A Plan: Doing It Like It's The Prohibition

[inhumanity]

as per this

Basically the plan: find some smugglers, stalk some smugglers, convince the Initiative to like them when we get there.

THIS PLAN CANNOT BE DONE ALONE. We need:

1) People to find smugglers. Wheedle info out of people, read minds, stalk people, WHATEVER.
2) People to intercept the smuggling/stalk it. Fighting is an option here. Talking very nicely is also an option.
3) People who can sweettalk the Initiative. Or at least Make An Attempt. I'm not exactly putting my money on this team, is what I'm saying.

So please! COMMENT HERE if you want your character in on one or more of these stages! Multiple stages is great too! Let's greet the Initiative with a bunch of people who can flirt and stalk but suck at actual genuine human interaction! Whatever!

My plan is to get at least two people for each section and send them off in little paired threads to play out info gathering. I can ask the mods about what they want us to do for 2 and 3, if people are interested in this!


ALSOOOOOO Christopher isn't organizing this. He is not suited for that sort of thing. He would just suggest they go through smuggling channels. SO! If any character wants to take charge that'd be awesome too! We can thread out them plotting things, or we can not, depending on what people feel like.

[revolutionized]

This is Fang's player under another account!

She'd be well suited for stages 1 and 2. 3 not so much.

[mynameonyourpanties]

If flirting counts as sweet-talking then I'm game. >.>

Re: A Plan: Doing It Like It's The Prohibition

[highfrequency]

I SAID THIS UP THAR BUT...

Raiden can absolutely be of use for steps one and two with his robo eyes, scouting abilities and ninja skills. Don't let him do the talking, though. He doesn't always rage at people but he tends to say the wrong things more often than not.

He can also take charge of the operation if someone else comes up with the idea buuuut that would probably guarantee failure. Poor guy isn't exactly great with foreseeing the consequences of his actions for various sad reasons.

Re: A Plan: Doing It Like It's The Prohibition

[heartstorage]

This is Zelos's player on another account!

And he is...mostly useless! But #2 is possibly one he can do without horribly ticking off someone by accident. Though #3 can work if flirting is...a way to get the Initiative to do what they want.

He's a good contribution to the mission

Re: A Plan: Doing It Like It's The Prohibition

[ready_to_bloom]

Caspian might be of some use in #3! He's been gathering info on his own, and is trying to get into one of the better parts of town to see if he can get Initiative contact there.

[yourdistraction]

Merrill might be good for options 1 and 2, but only 3 if there aren't like...better options. Because humans, what do? Not that she doesn't have plenty of questions, and she can be very polite and is hiding her ears and all. But really get someone better.

Re: A Plan: Doing It Like It's The Prohibition

[iciclerain]

Asch will be good for all three stages, but will be particularly useful for stage 2, and somewhat useful for stage 3!

More importantly, Asch can also competently lead this operation! Or at least, reasonably competently. He may be the only non-flirt on the team that can reign in his bad social skills long enough to actually hold a conversation with potentially hostile strangers, at least. And absolutely no team will be as much as a nightmare to work with as his team from back home...