bravenewmeta | A city besieged

Now that the Advance Party has reached Caldera, a Waypoint has been established. Characters can now travel instantaneously to Caldera. However, the Waypoint can only send a few people at a time. Using the Waypoint uses a great deal of power, and it cannot be activated again for an hour or so. ICly, this means that your characters are free to move between the cities at will, but due to the limitations you can’t really abuse it to move large amounts of people.

As of now, the Advance Party sign-ups are now closed. The city of Caldera, as well as the Western Desert and the Flower Grove are open to all players for bonding. Those bonding requests that were held will be processed shortly.

As mentioned in the IC post, the General has some ideas of how to repel the forces. For the next few days, players will have the ability to gather information from Caldera natives and plan their next moves. Expect a few more NPCs to surface in the next few days! Using this information, you may plot out what you want to do. As you may recall, you were recently given the opportunity to sign-up for Aggression or Diplomacy, here is where you will have the opportunity to plan and solidify groups. In order to ensure speedy log progress when we get underway, please break into smaller groups of no more than 4 characters. We will ensure there are scenarios for all smaller groups to take part in.

This OOC post may be used to solidify group plans, general sign-ups for the logs can be found here

Edit: Players are highly encouraged to be creative in their solutions, be it working within the presented framework or going off the rails and coming up with their own solutions! Those who really go above and beyond and come up with interesting ideas may draw the attention of something that will lead to interesting things down the line!

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Dunno if Hans'll be too partial to a group, but OOCly I'm totally alright with this!

Sweet!

Just think of Hans as the supporting babysitter you never knew you wanted.

Pretty sure we don't want him but whatever you say man.

It's okay no one wants Hans, not even his own family /badumtish

No, but seriously, he'll stand back and observe and play it by ear (while grumbling internally) so just expect a lot of concerned faces

He can always insist on coming with them for their own safety. After all, Lux, Renko and Pamela aren't members of the Swords, and both Lux and Pamela are nobles.

He's just being responsible and princely, gosh.

Exactly. That many well-born young ladies need a charming prince to watch over their safety, duh. He's just being chivalrous here.

Chivalrous and in no way, shape or form self-serving.

^_~ Pamela appreciates having a meat shield around if she needs one, though.

...mostly unrelated, but now I've got this hilarious image of someone going "I choose you, Hans! Use your Smarm attack!"

Main reason he doesn't want anyone to know he's a shifter-- he sees pokemon as tools so he's like "ugh people will get dumb ideas"

Because, y'know, being a pokemon doesn't mean you have to be particularly sympathetic towards them or anything....