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

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-)

[fonlines]

so I heard we need to soothe some ruffled feathers

or basically: an empath on the diplomacy team can only be the best/worst thing possible, right? It'd definitely be a first major trip outside the city to remember, if that's the case...

Re: Plotting

[tagteams]

Quinn:

She will be joining the advance party along with helping the aggression forces likely depending on how things goes. Her main focus would be make sure the fighting stops and no innocents/comrades and their Pokémon got hurt.

Alice:

Still thinking on her, she might sneak out on her parents wishes and tag along with the Swords of Savior as her magical girl form, Cure Rosetta and help however she can.

This is a chance to reveal that Alice = Cure Rosetta to certain CR, but need to talk before things like that happen. Alice wants to keep it from public information, but she wouldn't mind telling a few people if they can keep their mouths shut.

edit: ALSO ITS EVOLUTION WEEK FOR HER aka she's able to create a giant shield isn't that handy

[footprints_on_your_face]

Chie here will be heading to Caldera with the Swords of the Savior, ostensibly being watched over by one of the commander types once it's hashed out who among them is going. My tentative plan is to have her helping defend refugees, and she will probably end up with Morgiana at some point.

Jinxie is going to work on the supply lines shuttling stuff back and forth. She's not much for front line combat and has over 20 Pokemon at her disposal, so she's fairly well-suited for this.

Merrill will be assisting refugees on the Union end of things, helping them get temporary housing and food and whatnot.

Squid Girl, for the moment, probably won't be getting deeply involved in this, but could be convinced by the right people.

I welcome planning for any and all of my characters!

Re: Plotting

[realmenknitplushies]

Alright. Kanji's going to want to get involved, but not sure if he's going to be taking the fight to Gigas or if he's going to be talked into helping refugees or supply lines. Put him down as helping refugees, probably from Union side, for now, but if anyone wants an angry sparkface to throw at things?

[ordnungsliebe]

I'm still debating whether or not to sign Ingrid up for the advance party! Either way, though, she'll be working with the refugee protection group. Open to plotting any kind of shenanigans, just hit me up.

[hopefinder]

Aqua is signed up to go for the advance time because ~helping~ people. That, and she's a field medic so that may just be useful. Also it's a good way to test out her newly evolved pokemon.

Meanwhile, I haven't decided if Arietta is going to do anything that all. She might go for Refugee Protection because protecting people is a good thing. But not sure yet.

Re: Plotting

[stahlflugel]

Eren is going with the advance party, of course. He'll also be aggressive toward the Gigas folks, but he doesn't want to lose his Ranger job, so not TOO much. He'll be practicing flying on the way.

Lea is going to be helping Roxas and Xion with refugee duty!

Re: Plotting

[rejected_trash]

Right, Sync's on the advance party, and he has evolved, so he'll be wearing his trademark(such as the one in his icons) have masked PKMN, and wearing a long coat tailored for his wings. He's also very likely to be part of the aggression group if they get a go at things.

Also if your name is like Orion or Asch or some other lame name he will pretend not to know you and/or make you swear never to tell a soul because he's going back to his family like a good brother after this settles down.

Also if you're his supply guy, this is why it was probably best you never asked questions.

Re: Plotting

[crimson_pinnacle]

Red will be getting there just a tad late, so he'll probably help guard and participate in the supply line in case this turns really dirty, if you want to pull him for another thing say so though!

[mastermedium]

Now without misfiring!

Luc here with Maya! For the first part of the event, I'll be busy moving into a new apartment/heading to my parents' house for medical reasons. However, after that I'll be free, and I'm having Maya join Jinxie on the supply lines!

She's not going to let her cousin go without her, after all.

EXPLORING CALDERA (Related to Defense Force???)

[actsmagnificent]

So while Haruka is ostensibly probably going to end up on the Aggression team, she's also planning to slip away the first chance she gets to explore the new city. She'll be in her Defense Force mask for this and trying to stay out of sight, but anybody who wanted to tag along or discover her or also be exploring would be more than welcome! She will specifically be looking for anything to do with the gods. :)