Attack on Caldera event info

[bravenewmods]

The Map Expand is now live! You may check it out on the Map Post. You will note that currently, only one new area has opened. As the expedition progresses, two more new areas will open up - the Desert, and the city of Caldera. This will encompass the entirety of the initial group traveling to Caldera, and for the first three days those areas will ONLY be open to the party traveling to Caldera. Once Caldera is reached and the Warp Marker has been set up, they will open up to the rest of the game. All other areas will not open up until player plots are completed to explore them. While players may plan them now, we won’t be starting any new plots to open areas until after this event has finished.

The objective of this event will be to convince the Gigas troops to withdraw from Caldera, and hopefully gain an ally in the process. As such, we are being up-front with the steps and general planned timeline of this event so plans can be made. Note these won’t be all of the event postings going up, but this is intended to give an idea of what to be planning for.

5/24: Sign-ups for the advance party to Caldera open, Flower Grove area opens for advance party members
5/25: Desert opens for advance party members
5/26: Arrive in Caldera, sign-ups for the advance party close. Flower Grove, Desert, and Caldera open to all players for bonding. Meetings begin to determine the way to proceed begin.
5/29: Begin response to Gigas threat
6/1: Gigas responds to Union and Caldera action
6/4: Tentative event end, depending on log progress. Post-event results and rewards announced.

There will be several general options available to players, both in and out of Caldera.
-Diplomacy: Attempt to peacefully convince Gigas forces to back down.
-Aggression: Through guerilla tactics, cripple Gigas supply lines and force them away.
Note: Depending on the actions in the Diplomacy or Aggression threads, they can impact each other.
-Refugees: There will be a large amount of refugees to be evacuated from Caldera and escorted back to Union. This has a Caldera and Union component, those in Caldera will need to provide the escort service whereas those in Union will need to prepare shelter and supplies for them when they arrive.
-Supply Lines: Those in Union will need to depart and move supplies of food and medicine up to Caldera to help them withstand the siege.

This post will be open to planning, we encourage people to decide what they would like to do to take part in the event. Please note, while this event is not mandatory no rewards will be issued to characters who do not take part. While these are the routes we’ve identified, players are encouraged to come up with other avenues to address the event organically.

Additionally, any characters hailing from Gigas are eligible for a bit more setting information, they may contact the mod team if they wish to have it. The suggested method of contact is sending a Plurk message to all moderators.

Comments

Questions

[bravenewmods]

[revolutionista]

Is it possible to sign up for the advance party a little later? Mari, Atsuro and Kaido might all join it, too, but it depends on Mari's response, and her player is away until the 26th without internet, so we have no means on contacting her.

[whateveryoueatliveitspart]

What are the dangers and limitations of the Warp Marker, and where in Union will users appear and disappear?

[actsmagnificent]

Clarification re: Danger Levels!

Does the +5 perk for Gods of War apply only to the Enlightened human specifically, or is it a general +5 for the total level of their group? Haruka and Michiru might be going it alone for a bit and I want be sure I'm adding the +5 in the correct place.

[the_saner_one]

Terribly late to be asking this, I know, but hopefully not too late. I signed Yuui up for the advanced party thing but it is possible for him to take part in the diplomatic things as well?

Plotting

[bravenewmods]

Re: Plotting

[faithful_kitsune]

I think Ran's definitely going to want in on this, although I'm not sure exactly what sort of role she should play. My inclination is support based on the sort of job she has, but I'm open to suggestions.

Not sure what Hiroshi will do. He has a bad habit of being a tad neutral on these sorts of things. Again, open to suggestions.

Re: Plotting

[aniiue]

Chester will definitely be going! I can see him on the aggression team, taking out forces with his stealth arrows. Any other Rangers could go with him or whatever, I'm up for anything.

[myfedorarocks]

Flemming is all for this. His skills are definitely not ones that lend themselves to combat, so he's going to be doing the whole diplomacy thing. So long as he's not the one doing the talking because no one wants that.

He's also an Engineer so he should probably be able to help with the technology.

[willbethebest]

Wukong will be...doing whatever Ogami tells him to do, but he WANTS to go to Caldera and see what's there. And possibly rough up some Gigas guys, just to see how strong they are.

I'm also wondering if I can't figure out a way to get Wukong his trademark staff out of this somehow...

Morgiana, after her all her talk about wanting a job that DOESN'T involve fighting, is going to also jump on the first opportunity to do so. She does not like Gigas. Because of reasons.

Overall, I figure I'll at best get one character on the advance party, it's just a question of which one. I could go either way. Let's say Morgiana for that if no one has any cool ideas that involve Wukong, and Wukong will show up later.

Re: Plotting

[mightofdemacia]

Obviously Garen is going, unless Ky, or Hans both insist on going. They are so far the accepted most senior members, and all three command positions would be kind of bad to have out in the field if something does happen. I am up for plots though either way!

[footprints_on_your_face]

Chie's only authorized to go on this thing if she has a full member of the Swords with her to keep her safe since she's still a babby Sword in training. So, any volunteers? :D

[bloomofhope]

Ceireia - Will definitely want in on this to help people. I'm currently trying to decide between Diplomacy or Refugee Protection. She's not much of a fighter, but she has a lot of status affecting moves at her disposal. She's also been trained as a medic.

Eve - Aggression team. She won't be very stealthy about it, but with her and her team's electrical attacks and simply brute force, they should be able to help tremendously.

Renko - Diplomacy. Being a former resident of Gigas, she feels it's her responsibility to help and try to set things right.

[airguitarist]

Nero's going to want in on this, for so many reasons. He's the type to want to kick some ass, and any reason to get out of Union is a good reason in his book. Also, he'll proooobably be going Pokémon for this so if anyone wants to see a shiny Gible yelling profanities as he dropkicks Body Slams everyone in the human language let's talk!

RANGERS

[antiseptic]

HI RANGERS do we want to try get a coordinated group effort going? I figure most of us are looking at the advance party and aggression or maybe supply lines, so we could totally work together :|b

An alliance with the Swords could also be fun! New CR, the betterment of humanity, etc etc etc!

Fight! Divine Defense Force!

[lifeissuffering]

Divine Defense Force assemble! Since one of our duties is to protect the people of Union, Ogami at least thinks this should extend to everyone. How are we handling this? Do we want disputes or should they all go in united?

Tolkien Swords plotting post.

[mightofdemacia]

Get it? That's a pun. And a sign I need to go to bed, but here's the plotting post.

Garen's announcement is here.

So far he's of the mind that one Commander or almost Commander needs to stay. Feel free to convince him otherwise, as of right now that means that either him, Ky, or Hans needs to stay, as I said that's up for debate and changing of minds, if not, I am okay with Garen not going(and passing Chie into the care of either Hans or Ky. ='D) but if you want him on board and am up for changing his mind, let us do a thing. Let us also discuss what the hell we plan to do once the Swords get there, and with that, bed.

[niepokonany]

On the one hand, Feliks wants to try and talk them down. On the other hand, his sass is not precisely what one would call soothing.

So he'll probably end up either making life harder for the diplomatic side, or with the attackers.

[radiantwingedone]

Duke is going on Supply Line stuff, if anyone is interested in going with him- (two are better than one, right? right-)

Advance Party sign-ups

[bravenewmods]

[second_destiny]

Asemu is getting in on this.

Aggression sign-ups

[bravenewmods]

Re: Aggression sign-ups

[aniiue]

Getting in on this!!

Refugee protection sign-ups

[bravenewmods]

[footprints_on_your_face]

YO

Diplomacy sign-ups

[bravenewmods]

[myfedorarocks]

...now in the right place this time.

Flemming's up for it.

Let's force him to stop working on his personal projects for a bit.

Supply Line sign-ups

[bravenewmods]

[somnambulatory]

Jinxie can handle this, so once the advance party has things in hand she'll be traveling with her Pokemon to shuttle supplies back and forth.

Side Mission sign-ups

[bravenewmods]

If you have a proposal for a different tactic, you may propose it here for approval

Re: Side Mission sign-ups

[antiseptic]

HI MODS this idea is super tentative right now and will probably depend on how the diplomacy mission and everything else goes, but would it be possible to kill the Gigas leaders? Either the person/people in charge of the whole operation or whoever is in charge of the supply lines?