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

Travis, Caspian, Asch

[inhumanity]

Two things we need here:

1) To know how well we Travis and Caspian are at talks, generally, and how they're going to try to get the Initiative to trust them even a little.
2) To know how combat capable Travis and Caspian are. Because things might go badly, Asch doesn't want to leave them alone if he doesn't think they can fight their way out of it.

EDIT: Something to keep in mind! Psi dropped a few questions for the mod and the answers may be useful for y'all!

[ready_to_bloom]

For Caspian:

1) He's usually quite good at talks. His plan with the Initiative, once he's made contact, is to show them some activity from the Network, so they'll know there's a whole population wanting to come down and get into their fight. He's not sure it will get them to to trust them exactly, but hoping it will at least intrigue/entice them into wanting to know more, and to be able to bargain for power for the Transports' tech, and a cover for them when they all arrive.

2) He's combat capable. He's confident with his weapon, and being able to fight his way out, if need be. He wouldn't leave someone who wasn't, if Travis needed help.

Re: Travis, Caspian, Asch

[iciclerain]

Asch's general plan for this segment is to let Travis and Caspian handle things. They're both better at negotiation and talking than he is, anyway. If possible, Asch would like to leave this segment entirely in their hands and integrate himself with the lower ranked Initiative members, since having positive opinions from multiple angles will be a boon.