terminal scavenger hunt

[melnik]

Hi, expi! As I'm sure many of you know by now, there has been an IC discussion going on re: forming several groups to go seeking out the terminals. Root (computation) suggested to Miller that he take charge of organizing these groups while she would work on organizing the technical side. They are specifically interested in doing the reset after making a backup of the current system. So, just making this post to let the plotting commence!

Obviously this is a player organized sitch, so please feel free to ignore and it and completely do your own thing if that works better for you!

But for those who are interested, here's the basic rundown right now:

- Groups will be assigned by general scouting location (Aldrip and surrounding area, Ketsora, Lorentia Cave, Desert, Pessiria Forest/Rumpitur area, Ruins).

- STEM club will be providing a telemeter to each team which will provide a signal helping lead them to the terminal.

- Communication will take place via the STEM club's established darknet to keep details as secure as possible; characters who can’t already access it will be provided access. Spock, Kirk, and Pike will be acting as support and coordination for everyone.

- ICly, Miller will be looking for at least one tech-savvy person for each group and at least one battle-ready person (but preferably more); he would favor characters going to certain regions based on their own background in game or in their own canon (e.g. he's from an apocalyptic underground society, so he knows how to navigate underground), but we can pretty much flub anything based on your preference.

- If your character wants to be in a group with another particular character or characters, just let me know you'd like them to be paired together!

- If you have a preference for a location you either want your character to go to or don't want your character to go to, also let me know! If no preference is given, I will RNG your character into a team. The idea was originally for 6 teams, but if we get too many people, we'll just have more teams!

- Want to be involved and your character hasn't talked to either Root or Miller? Totally cool to handwave that interaction with Miller! No need to ask my permission. But feel free to add me on shomonkai or hit me up in the game discord @ seraphita2033 if you need to hash anything out.

For the sake of not slowing down the event, sign ups will close on 9/20 at 12 pm PST (GMT -8) at which point I will respond to you with your team assignments! But there is, of course, no time limit on what you devide to do with it. Happy searching, Chosen!

Feel free to use the comments below to plot out things amongst yourselves, not limited to but including trying to throw a wrench in these plans completely.

Comments

ALDRIP

[melnik]

[memori3s]

Omg... Babysitter Seimei and some kiddos (yes Ange that includes you)... Happy to plot here, on Discord, or on Plurk, whichever is most convenient for all 4 of us!

Minato will likely spend his time following Ange around, but I'm flexible for whatever works best! 4way thread, splitting into pairs to divide and conquer, just lmk 👍

[foxphorus]

I'm also up to hash out plotting wherever! Forewarning for whatever happens, Seimei's gonna end up corrupted so the babysitter will turn spicy once they actually get to a terminal..........

[heroondecku]

I don’t use Discord, but I’m good with plotting either here or on plurk, whichever works better for everyone. I’ve also been running with Izuku having his Quirk randomly vanishing and returning due to the glitches, so “superpower stops working at the exact worst time” is an opt-in complication we can throw into the mix if everyone wants.

[entreats]

EXCUSE YOU ANGE RESENT THE NOTION THAT THIS IS KIDDO CLUB!!!! But I don't mind plotting on here, that's cool with me!

I think an idea might be to split up in pairs (I assume Ange + Minato and Seimei + Deku because Minato is Ange's puppy now I guess) since that's a little easier to thread a bit more on the event than just one slow-moving fourway thread, and then maybe do an extra fourway thread for them actually at the terminal, especially with Seimei getting spicy there? Kiddos dealing with the spice....

[heroondecku]

I’m okay with that thread arrangement if everyone else is!

How should we handle setting up the threads, one person doing a “Location” blank TL we do the threads under or individual locked TLs? Also, does anyone have preferences for which terminal the team gets teleported to?

[memori3s]

I just hit track on this entire thread series so I am ok with plotting on here too! I'll give Gray a poke as well to glance down here just in case!

I'm okay with that thread arrangement as well! I like the split 2 and 2 and then all 4 of them meeting up at the terminal, especially since all 3 of Ange Minato and Deku might need to be there to deal with. The Spice.

I think we should do the "location" blank TL, 1 for Deku and Seimei, 1 for Minato and Ange, then 1 for the final four-way? If everyone's good with that I can throw one up later tonight (it is almost 4pm over here)!

As for me I don't have a pref for which terminal they get teleported to because frankly I did not even realize there were multiple terminals 👍

[heroondecku]

I didn't realize that there wasn't a terminal at every location until I read through the event prompts a few times, so mood on that. And I'm good with that thread setup!

[foxphorus]

Poked and tracking, good to plot! I'm also down for that team and thread arrangement, looking forward to Seimei and Deku time before everything gets a little wacky. I have a preference for them getting dropped in the ruins 'cause Douman's player and I were tossing around ideas, but know there's gonna be a lot happening there too so I don't know if we wanna shoot a word to that team's players as well or go for something maybe quieter? I don't wanna disrupt anything, y'know, especially with so much already going on.

[entreats]

Just a +1 that I'm good on that setup, and I don't have any particular preference for a terminal either! It does seem like the ruins will be ROWDY, so it might be good to check with the players there, since I think there's already a big fight going on there and I don't know how running our own thing next to that would go. Maybe something more quiet would allow us to deal with The Spice a little better, though I wouldn't want to ruin your plans with Douman either!

[memori3s]

I think we can have them get dunked into the Ruins once they reach the portal, but maybe they get dropped off in a different area from the Ruins? That might let us move everyone there, and then you can wild out with Douman's player as planned! Plus dropping them off in a different area within the Ruins would let us dodge the skirmish that I think might be happening over there????

In any event tho let me go make that blank top-level for us!

edit: top-level over here! I figure we can comment off it with the 2 teams, depending on who is writing the starter based on Abe no Seimei + Deku and the Ange + Minato groups!

[heroondecku]

I don't have a terminal preference either, so if we can make the Ruins work out I'm a-okay with that. And we can always take some extra time to set up the four-person thread at the terminal and just start with the buddy threads, if we need to!

Thinking about it, we could always see if the other folks are cool with the idea of this group technically getting to the Ruins first, but having to abandon the terminal and end up somewhere else in the area as a consequence of dealing with The Spice and such. Getting unwittingly teleported directly from Aldrip does give us that option, at least.

[entreats]

Aaah, I'm sorry to be so difficult, but I would like for Ange to at least be able to end up near a terminal, since I feel like if they got completely sidetracked and didn't end up near one at all (or had to permanently abandon it) then she would feel like crap about it after the event.. It's okay if there's distractions (like The Spice, i love The Spice) along the way, but I'd like for the outcome to be at least semi-productive, if at all possible!

[memori3s]

It's cool, I can roll with anything personally! It's also possible that maybe we land near the terminal before or after the Ruins group gets there? I don't know whether that group is resetting the terminal themselves given the brawl, but I don't mind asking them at all whether the Ruins group intends on actually resetting the terminal, or whether it's okay for our group to arrive after their big fight to reset it!

[computation]

Just putting in a little note that I don't think there's anything that says the whole group has to get teleported to the same place if any of you want to break off and do your own thing!

[jaganshi]

Hey guys!

Sorry to bust in here but I can't help but see Ruins talk.. with Bones dropped I would like to stick a leggy out for tech help from Team Aldrip if at all possible!

If the tech person is not super-powered Hiei can wear them like a probably taller than him backpack and they can parkour to the bottom, etc!!!

[memori3s]

Me looking around at Ange, Izuku, Seimei, and Minato... I think the most tech-savvy person among the group might be Izuku, though I'm not sure what Ange's computer skill is like so Jelle can chime in there!!

[jaganshi]

Honestly with the chaos of Fauna and X-Men thunderdome going on outside of the pit and Bones suddenly disappearing any assistance is better than Hiei ringing Kurama up on the Jagan for tech support from afar.. LOL

[memori3s]

don't mind me wandering in here like this but yeah, like you already said... Minato is following Ange around. I think it would extremely funny for Ange to find out in this event that Koromaru is Not Like Other Dogs, though I'm not quite sure how that would come up. Either way we can spitball here or Plurk or Discord, wherever is most convenient for you re: where in Aldrip these 2 will go! Then check in with Gray and Leriel re: where Abe no Seimei and Deku will be looking within the Aldrip scenario!

[entreats]

Well, if you want a chance for the Koromaru thing to come up, maybe they could run into some sort of danger? It does say Aldrip and the surrounding area, so maybe they could go out into said surrounding area and run into something dangerous.. Either a monster, or a glitch... or a glitched monster, the worst of all possible worlds!!!

[memori3s]

I DO LOVE THE WORST OF BOTH WORLDS... I will be happy as a clam so long as Koromaru get to show his stuff 🙏 They could tackle that and then maybe come across a portal later on + let Seimei and Izuku know what they found, or Seimei and Izuku can find the portal first. Either way I am game!! If we wanted to save time, we could even just stick them in the outskirts of Aldrip and have the two of them running back to the city after bumping into danger?

[entreats]

I would definitely be alright with starting things out there! c: Would you mind writing a starter, or should I?

[memori3s]

I can write the starter for us! Is it safe to assume Ange reached out to Minato to look around Aldrip with her? Or should I just run with the assumption that Miller just threw the 2 of them together in a group with Izuku and Seimei?

[entreats]

You can assume Ange would have reached out to Minato! Maybe sometime around the time of their post-Gnosia event conversation when he invited her out to eat together she would have realized that Minato is a little bit like a puppy who needs some direction.. So in that case she would have made sure to drag him with her to make sure he doesn't end up in anything dangerous this event.

[memori3s]

omg Ange dragging him around to make sure he doesn't end up in anything dangerous... especially since he ran into so much trouble the prior event... Ok that works! I'll get that starter going for us asap and drop the link in here!

edit: got our starter over here! Lmk if you need edits!