(re)construction plotting, signups and FAQ post, the followup adventures

Hello Exsilium and (belated) Happy 2014! As a followup to some of the stuff discussed in the previous plotting post:

This January, Chrysos will be pulling (or attempting to pull) together a large-scale collaborative effort to build proper base facilities on the ground in Exsilium. This is gonna require supplies! Manpower! Teamwork! Expertise! Character interaction! Caribou! Yaks!

If any of these things sound relevant to your characters' interests or yours, details under the cut:

insert Bob the Builder theme here )

Questions, signups, ideas, comments, throw 'em all here! Lemme know if I left anything essential out, I'll update this main post as things move along.

[ ver. 1.05, UPDATED: 12:18 AM GMT +8, Jan 8 ]
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[personal profile] initiates2013-11-23 11:34 am

Walking in a Winter Wonderland…



As some may have seen, the AI has announced a sudden sharp drop in radiation levels on the island of Exsilium. We're talking back to modern day levels of radiation, so well in the normal, nice, kind range that doesn't cause spontaneous mutation.

The question, of course, is how, and if this is the ticket down! The short answers are... too many ripples in the timestream lead things astray, and yes, now is time to start the reclamation process.

With sign-ups starting today and lasting through to Sunday, a group of Transports will be sent down to examine the state of Exsilium, two months after leaving. What they'll find will go something like the following... and boy, is it a doozy!
Note: The vote on how to solve the puzzle of Exsilium’s problem will be going up tomorrow. Voting has now been closed! This plot is a stop-gap to allow Transports back down on Earth in an uncomfortable situation, placing ongoing pressure on them to find an answer to the riddle of the United Earth (should they choose). This is not the fix for the United Earth problem!

Also, a move of everyone down to Earth again won't be in full swing until after December 1st. Until a location Earth-side that can support the Transport Pad and Aristeas Technology's energy demands can be found, a complete shift would be unfeasible. The official move down to Earth began on December 5th. Please refer here for more information!
More information beneath the cut... )Please direct all questions to the thread marked "Questions" below!

To sign up to volunteer to go down to Exsilium on the first scouting group, which can take up to 25 characters, please sign up in the "Scouting Mission" thread below!


The scouting group will be looking around for the first week and tasked with finding someplace that can support the Transport Pad's energy needs before bringing down those wishing to leave the Moon Base in early December.
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ANOTHER PLAYER PLOT

NOT ACTUALLY THE FOOD STORAGE BOSS, BUT CLOSE

Hello Transports,

So, as per AI's post, there is something amiss in the old medical bay in the east wing that should probably be taken care of! What that thing is is a bit of a mystery, but one that can be solved. Anyone can tag into this post to explore the area, regardless of whether this thing shows up or not in their thread.

Now with more cuts )

PLAYER PLOT:

CIVIL WARS ARE HOW YOU GET THINGS DONE

At approximately 3:00AM on November 16th, a group of Transports led by Charlie Cutter [personal profile] alittlesweptup and Chloe Frazer [personal profile] totallytrustworthy will sabotage key systems of the moon base and take possession of the Transporter room in order to wrestle away what little control remains in the Initiative’s hands and put it in the collective hands of the transports.

Over the course of the next four days, the mutiny will serve to spark a community wide conflict that affects the base as a whole. Lines will be drawn in the sand. Relationships will be forged and broken - do you side with the mutineers and help them from them outside? Do you support regaining the transport room and helping the Initiative take back control of the base? Do you choose to remain neutral? This is the place where everyone gets to pick sides, to wage small wars with or against people you understood to be your friends, your family. That inter-community conflict is the main focus of the event; taking the transport room only serves to light that spark.

In order to deal with the mutiny itself - but not necessarily to resolve the wider social conflict that occur as a result -, randomly selected teams of characters will work together to get the base’s systems back online and to eventually retake the Transport room from the mutineers.




Details behind the cut! )
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[personal profile] initiates2013-09-08 06:32 pm

UE Trip Q&A + Plot Announcement

So, you want to explore the UE! Well, you're in luck, here is a post for just that! This is where you can ask the mods any questions you might have about what your character can see or find if they veer a little off course. This post is open to kidnapped characters throughout their stay in the UE holding facility, as well as the characters on the diversion and rescue teams, after that phase of the plot has begun to play out. (That log will be up on the 19th.)

Not everyone will find something useful, but through a random lotto, we'll be assigning some characters important plot-findings, clues to reveal more about the UE and their intentions, and miscellaneous information. So if your character is the type to explore or poke around, find the correct section in the comments for their situation, set up the scenario in which they would be exploring (more information on this below), and we'll let you know what they can find. You may also sign up in groups, with one player selected to fill out the form for all characters in the group.

Take note, there are consequences when characters on the distraction team abandon their post! Since there's one less distraction when you sign up a distraction-team-character, it means that people on the rescue team/kidnap group could be injured. For each sign-up we get from the distraction group, someone signing up for info in the other two groups will be given a 1-10 scale injury from the UE during the escape.

Note: as of this post, sign-ups to be kidnapped are now closed. Rescue and diversion teams are still open.

sign-ups and more info under here! )
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[personal profile] initiates2013-08-29 09:28 pm
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Princess Peach Sign-Ups

This is the page to sign up to be chosen to have your character controlled by Catsovi between Aug 30th and Sept 12th, to deliver themselves into the waiting hands of the UE! You may also sign up within this thread to have your character go uncontrolled, but kidnapped by a controlled character. Here is the main page for this plot, and again, here is a breakdown of how Catsovi’s powers work.
Catsovi’s mind-control can manifest in your character in one of two ways:

1) Your character believes they remain in control, noticing nothing wrong about themselves, and carries out the tasks Catsovi wants them to as if they themselves decided to do those things -- think Inception!

But what if Catsovi wants your militantly pacifistic character to gut their roommates? There is probably no way that your character would ever consciously do that, regardless of how much external sneaky psychic prodding they receive. In that case, there’s option 2:

2) Your character is straight-up hypnotized to carry out Catsovi’s will, with the character’s actual conscious self knocked-out and unawares. This option is used when Catsovi requires your character to do something so wildly OOC for them that subtlety of option 1 would never work.

And again, if you’d like to enter your character, we suggest clearing it with their close CR first, or at least warning them!

Comments will be screened, and players will be notified here if chosen. We ask you not to spread the word in advance if your character is chosen to be mind controlled. It will undoubtedly be obvious in some characters, but some characters might take a subtle route, and everyone loves a game of murderous Clue.


Use this form to sign up:
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[personal profile] initiates2013-08-29 09:23 pm

Operation: Mario

HERE IS THE UPDATED PLOT POST, save yourself some time and read that first! The information on this page is now secondary and optional reading material.


Dear Exsilium, we hope you’ve had a good vacation from pain and suffering, because Catsovi and the United Earth are teaming up to bring us back to our regularly scheduled broadcast.

To kick things off, beginning today on August 30th, Catsovi will be selling out to the UE friends, acquaintances, and people he’s never even met before, like the charming fellow he is. That means that this is most definitely a chance to sign up for that plot, but first, details!

Details under the cut! )
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[personal profile] initiates2013-05-13 12:08 am

homeward bound: guard dog sign ups

The results are in, and our official volunteer for the highly experimental trip back to a home world (IC announcement here) is Elmer C Albatross! That means there’s just one more round of sign ups, that being the volunteer team to go with him and a few Initiative NPCs to his world.

Details here! )
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[personal profile] initiates2013-05-07 09:08 pm

UPCOMING PLOT: homeward bound (now with fewer talking animals)

Two announcements! One, the Housing Page has been updated with all of the reassignments. As of now, it’s officially safe to move into the renovated building and meet your new (or old!) roommates!

Note: the ghosts, previously haunting the mostly-closed-off 13th floor, have moved down to the 7th floor. 7th floor denizens can expect odd bumps in the night, lights sometimes flickering, and the occasional blood curdling scream at 3AM. Sorry about that, 7th floor.

If you see anyone placed incorrectly, misspelled, or listed as having a room when they’ve moved out, just let us know on that page. Thank you!

Secondly, a plot! )
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[personal profile] falsehoods2013-03-22 04:30 pm

Plot: UE is attacking! ...We think?

Starting on Friday the 29th and ending on Monday, April 1st Exsilium will be under attack by the United Earth!

Only, no, not really. Attacks will apparently be occurring in the northern parts of the city, while UE vessels will be sighted sweeping over the Hold, visible one moment and gone the next. Soldiers to the North will behave erratically as well and also disappear. Some new form of stealth technology? Or could you really swear they were ever there to begin with?

On April 1st Loki will reveal that he was responsible for the "attacks" and that he was trying to prove a point: that the Initiative is incompetent in actual warfare. April fools!

Before then, though, people will be able to investigate the attacks and determine that something is off about them.

-Observation of the soldiers will show they only mutter the same few phrases and that they behave like a very primitive AI. Killing them will cause them to turn into rubble or simply vanish.
-In combat, it is possible to be killed by the soldiers when in melee range of them. They fight viciously but without any creativity meaning it is easy to trick them and they will never actually chase anyone down. Curiously, while they may seem to be armed with firearms they will never actually use them...
-Soldiers will attack people in the northern outskirts of the city, but will not seem to progress further south.
-People who try to detect magic when soldiers or vehicles of the UE are present will detect a lot of it.
-The bombers that sweep over the Hold do show up with heat signatures but since it's the heat of magic, their signatures will be strange.
-The bombers will never actually attack the Hold.

Some people who are familiar with Loki's canonical shenanigans (or the shenanigans of his mythic self) are welcome to suspect him.

Questions? Comments? Plotting? Do so here!

((This is all Mod Approved))
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[personal profile] thebutt2013-03-04 07:56 pm

Body Swap Sign Up

Apps are now closed, and as promised in the Mission Info Post, here is where you can sign your character up to be given a randomized swap buddy! Newly accepted characters are welcome, as is anyone that didn't get in on the plotting post and is still interested, or just anyone that wants to be randomized. Also, since the results of this poll are in favor of allowing two swaps, that will be permitted for the event.

As discussed in the poll, there are two options for the timeframe of your swap (the mission itself, and then the 5 days spent in Exsilium afterward), and you're welcome to pick both or just one. It will also be optional whether you'd like to keep the same partner for the duration of the event, or have two. And finally, the three-way swap option that was given on the last post (X → Y, Y → Z, Z → X) will not apply to the sign-ups, for the sake of organization and my head not exploding.

As a note, there will be a field to indicate the preferred gender of your character's swap! If you have no preference, just leave it blank.



I'll do my best to accomodate all preferences, but priority will be given to character gender preference, then swap timing, and finally whether or not you keep the same partner for the duration.

You have until 12:01 AM (EST) on March 6th to sign up in a comment to this post! I'll put the results up (hopefully) within the following hour, and you'll have 23 hours before the event starts if you'd like to contact your swap buddy and plan things out. For new characters: if your character is late being accepted and you miss this window, PM this account and we'll see what can be done.
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[personal profile] falsehoods2013-01-26 10:25 am

Plot: Mad God's Rebirth

Upon returning from the upcoming mission Loki will revert to his usual age. Time rushing to catch up with him will also bring with it the various unhappy feelings that have turned adult Loki into (using his own words) "a creature of spite and will". He will attempt, unsuccessfully, to resist becoming the being he was before the event. Life sure is fun when you're a deity.

What does this mean for Exsilium? On February 1st, people all over the island will start to experience negative emotions. These emotions can be rage, sadness, stress, hatred, jealousy, anything you want, really. Your character can also experience them however strongly you want. They can flip tables or just feel like they're having a generally lousy day. Some characters may also be plagued by this at night and have vivid nightmares.

The event will last for a week, petering out at the end as Loki regathers his thoughts and emotions by simply existing. He won't make it known that he was responsible for any of this but if you play some type of magical or psychic character that you feel would be able to trace it to him, let me know. (There is a chance he'll take responsibility if he suspects he can get sympathy for doing so)

A few things to keep in mind for this event:


  • Emotions are changed, but not personality! Your character won't suddenly Hulk out unless they already have a violent temper that would allow for that.
  • While the event lasts a week, it should start to slow down after five days or so. And you are welcome to play with the emotions plot for even less than that, if you want to. Your character might have one bad day then be fine the next. Think of the "week" as being a maximum here.
  • This mini plot is completely optional. Don't want to take part? No need to!


This is all mod-approved and, for any potential appers reading this, if you want to get involved in the plot too when it "goes live", then please do so!

Plotting, questions, comments and concerns can all go here. And if people feel strongly that this plot should not happen, let me know that too.
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[personal profile] falsehoods2013-01-18 06:23 pm

SUB PLOT: Loki's Avengers

During the trip to Black Rock Loki got his first taste of being forced to go on a mission. This was not okay with him. He passionately hates feeling like anyone or anything has power over him, it makes him feel trapped. And how dare the Initiative drag him away anyway!? He is a god! What kind of abominations are they!?

With those dark thoughts, Loki will be burning with a desire to get his revenge. But he's the Trickster, he doesn't do his own legwork, so he'll be building a team to get revenge for him.

His plan is to locate people who do not seem to like or trust the Initiative and manipulate events around them so that they will meet up and, he hopes, form a hidden alliance that he can eventually use to avenge himself. His hand in the group's creation will be a hidden one and he is not likely to show himself or reveal his involvement until the project's inevitable failure.

This is not a revolution plot. Not at the start anyway. This will be a slow-boiling sub plot and the group's apparent purpose could be anything. Anyone who does not trust the Initiative can be involved in this. Use it to get new CR! I would love for people to have fun with it.

Notice: Since it will secretly be Loki's project, this means he is likely to use scrying magic to watch the group and the people involved in it. He will want to observe his chosen champions. He will only interfere if he feels like he is in danger of losing control of the situation, otherwise everyone in the group and the group itself are free to do as they please. (People are obviously welcome to request that he not see certain things their characters do. He is not all-knowing.)

This is all still in the planning stages so feel free to ask questions, etc. Also let me know if you think this is just an all around terrible idea.
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[personal profile] feyted2012-12-14 06:22 pm

Shotgun Trial, coming to an Exsilium near you!

What is this?

Either something to ignore or something to stare at, but the two lawyers wrangling some concept of law into order are about to get their first case -- unintentionally. With the official start of the Transport Police Officer Wing coming soon, it's time for the lawyers to also get into the thick of it and start applying what they know.

Which, as it turns out, is probably a grand load of nothing.

Read more... )
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[personal profile] stonefaith2012-04-20 10:19 pm

WHO WANTS TO GO ON A FIELD TRIP????

'CAUSE I GOT SOMETHIN LIKE A PLOT FOR YOU

Bariyan and Osprey/[personal profile] checksum are in the process of planning a trip into the United Earth, but unfortunately for them, they currently have no way of getting across the water. It's feasible that they might find a slightly serviceable boat somewhere on Exsilium, but even then they've still got problems:

  1. it'll probably have to be fixed up at least a little bit
  2. who here knows anything about ships?
    Answer: NOT THESE TWO


So! If you've got a character who could help out (either with Boat Problems, or if they've got any alternative way of getting a couple people across the Channel), hit us up C:

Or actually if you just want to throw your character into this trip in general, feel free to chime in and we can work something out B) Though ICly they might want to keep the numbers reasonably small to avoid getting noticed by either the Initiative or the Government HEH......

PLOT!

HELLO THERE, FELLOW RECRUITS! This is RW, your resident one-eyed creeper back again with a little plot!

Here's the deal:

Ever since Slade arrived, he's been gathering intel and combing the backlog of the network in order to get a better understanding of Exsilium. He has since been informed of the attack by United Earth's Masked, and honestly, he finds the lack of defense against them quite unsatisfactory. THUS, he has struck a deal, of sorts, with the Initiative. Aside from being given an office and an instructor's position, he has also be given license to start beefing up Exsilium's security.

What this means is:

- Exsilium will eventually have a robotic security force. Made by Slade, of course.
- Traps and high-tech defense mechanisms will be set (mostly) around Exsilium's perimeter.
- New early warning systems will be installed.
- Surveillance equipment will be set up around the island, not all of which Slade will be telling the Initiative about.
- He will be recruiting people and training them for this purpose.

THAT BEING SAID, here's where you come in!

If you would like your character to join this security force AND/OR receive training from Slade, let me know here! I'll be putting up an IC post to kick this off in the new few days so if your character has an interest, you can hit him up ICly also!

Also, since Slade will be using this tech not only to keep an eye out for invaders but also to learn more about Exsilium and its residents, his permissions post is very important! If there's something in particular you'd like him to pick up on, about your character or something they've said/done on the network or otherwise, please do make a note of it there!

And now, for the form!



Training
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Tech Team/Surveillance
- Leo Valdez
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Guard Duty
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AS A NOTE: Slade will not be operating under his real name, but under an alias, Alexander Wiseman (and possibly one other). Eventually, I expect his cover to be blown, but for now, he's going to be covert.

Questions, comments, or concerns? Feel free to hit me up with them here! o9

This plot has been mod-approved. ♥