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

EVERYONE ELSE

[inhumanity]

Check in if you're sticking around for this part! Also, please give us a bit of an idea of how your character might smalltalk other NPC Initiative people hanging around.

[inhumanity]

Christopher will stick around! He wants to enjoy the show. If he gets the opportunity to chat it up with Initiative members, he will tone down the aggressive friendliness and take more of the serene, gentle angle. Less on the erratic jerkitude, more on the agreeable, approachable friendly guy.

He may still try to talk to people about flowers though. Sorry. He can only control it so much.

Re: EVERYONE ELSE

[ringthenoise]

Raiden will stick around (possibly leaving the interception of goods to find the Initiative, after giving the interception team a route to take).

He's a good heavy hitter if things go south but also knows a lot about the Initiative. He worked with the Initiative before the bombing, actually, and recorded his patrols on the data chip in his arm. If necessary he would be willing to show them this data and the past/alternate timeline version of themselves. Wacky.

(According to the mods this would be a good way to get them to at least feel the Transports are telling the truth, if the Transports are up front about time travel.)