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Brave New World Mods ([personal profile] bravenewmods) wrote in [community profile] bravenewmeta2014-05-23 09:02 pm

Attack on Caldera event info

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.
faithful_kitsune: Riiiiiiiiiight. (disbelieving)

Re: Plotting

[personal profile] faithful_kitsune 2014-05-24 04:07 am (UTC)(link)
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.
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Re: Plotting

[personal profile] aniiue 2014-05-24 04:08 am (UTC)(link)
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.
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Re: Aggression sign-ups

[personal profile] aniiue 2014-05-24 04:09 am (UTC)(link)
Getting in on this!!
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[personal profile] second_destiny 2014-05-24 04:12 am (UTC)(link)
Asemu is getting in on this.
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[personal profile] myfedorarocks 2014-05-24 04:13 am (UTC)(link)
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.
footprints_on_your_face: (happy)

[personal profile] footprints_on_your_face 2014-05-24 04:14 am (UTC)(link)
YO
myfedorarocks: (confident)

[personal profile] myfedorarocks 2014-05-24 04:15 am (UTC)(link)
...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.
willbethebest: (Monkeying around)

[personal profile] willbethebest 2014-05-24 04:18 am (UTC)(link)
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.
willbethebest: (And then maybe we could I'M CRAZY)

[personal profile] willbethebest 2014-05-24 04:19 am (UTC)(link)
Wukong is good at gorilla tactics.

I know what I said.

[personal profile] airguitarist 2014-05-24 04:20 am (UTC)(link)
Nero's for kicking ass and taking names all the way.
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[personal profile] flying_chains 2014-05-24 04:20 am (UTC)(link)
Morgiana will help the advance party by carrying all the supplies.

Re: Plotting

[personal profile] mightofdemacia 2014-05-24 04:20 am (UTC)(link)
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!
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[personal profile] flying_chains 2014-05-24 04:21 am (UTC)(link)
Team up?

Team up.
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[personal profile] footprints_on_your_face 2014-05-24 04:22 am (UTC)(link)
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
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[personal profile] bloomofhope 2014-05-24 04:23 am (UTC)(link)
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.

[personal profile] airguitarist 2014-05-24 04:23 am (UTC)(link)
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!
antiseptic: (Why yes I kill lolis.)

RANGERS

[personal profile] antiseptic 2014-05-24 04:23 am (UTC)(link)
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!

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