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

[encharrneered]

and then rinth ruined everyone's plans by insisting on remaining a large angry cat thing

Though seriously, someone might want to convince her that the holographic disguise is a really, really good idea. The idea of playing at being human will piss her off forever, but common sense will probably win out.

Aside from that, she'll be focusing on locating a decent power source for the transporter (she's an engineer, so, she can reasonably guess despite the differences in tech here) and hunting down and killing a yeti, because she needs to show this stupid world that charr are superior. Also think of how cool that thing's skin will look as a rug. Like. Super cool. though tbh that can probably wait for the week everyone is on Winter Earth.

[inhumanity]

i'm sorry but if Christopher hears debates he would encourage Rinth in looking exactly like she is. YOU GO GIRL DON'T LET THE HUMANS GET YOU DOWN

[encharrneered]

Finally, a human-looking thing that has some sense.

LET THE USELESS MICE OF EXSILIUM LOOK UPON REAL STRENGTH or whatever idk god why are charr so full of themselves.

[inhumanity]

this will be so unhelpful

because every series needs at least one Really Proud Species??

[encharrneered]

so very very unhelpful

And every species in GW2 is kind of like that except for like one, so. Mighty Ego Clashes.

[jackanope]

ll rabbit kid is gonna follow big cat lady around like a puppy, because humans are scary and what the fuck is snow anyway. is that okay C:

[encharrneered]

Yeah, sure.

I dub thee Emergency Rations.

[oldsoldiersneverdie]

If you don't take the hologram Nate is going to telepathically disguise if you want it or not :|

[encharrneered]

well now to decide if I make Nate's trip down an endless headache or not

[oldsoldiersneverdie]

it will probably already be an endless headache, his life is suffering.