PLOTTING POST: The War Event

[spoofer]

PLOTTING POST: THE WAR

Posted October 30, 2017

Your Main Options

Hello team! Per the latest mod announcement, we're having a war event starting November 4 and ending the 18th, before we break for the holidays. You have three main options in this plot:

1. Combat against D.E.S.T.I.N.Y. agents, primarily NPCs, although we might get some PC antagonists too. The agents can be non-sentient monsters, earthquakes, firestorms, or intelligent warriors with a variety of armaments.
   
   
2. Temple Sanctuary, essentially hurt/comfort, healing injuries, camping out, the "home front" and talking.
   
   
3. PsyLink AKA "the Drift," similar to the Pacific Rim, in which 2+ characters share their minds in order to activate unknown defenses for Xistentia. Again, characters will be unaware of how the Avatar protocol (the mystery measures) exactly manifests.

You can RP or handwave as many of these options as you like. Below, we've provided a form to structure the Drift. You can also ask questions of the mods in the comments.

PSYLINK DESIGN

The PsyLink between 2+ characters helps protect Xistentia through unknown mechanics. To maintain a connection, the character must resist intense emotions, as well as intrusive memories and future worries. It's about staying in the present and pulling your partner back from the edge. Mechanistically, that means characters will have to save each other from reliving traumatic memories, fending off a unique shadow entity that symbolizes these psychological triggers.

Feel free to use this handy dandy template to construct your own PsyLink experience. Comment below with the completed form! Others can then use that to springboard thread ideas.

<b>Character Name:</b> <b>Character Username:</b> <b>Canon:</b> <b>Labyrinth Name:</b> E.g., "Foxholes of World War II," "Kaiju Attacks Tanegashima" <b>Brief Description:</b> Try to keep this less than 100 words. You'll be doing more description in your tag! Mention if it's urban, etc. You can include images, but use a link not an image tag! <b>Shadow Name:</b> E.g., "Zombie Soldier," "Kaiju" <b>Brief Description:</b> <100 word description of the creature, manifestation of your character's anxiety, fear or even other, less negative emotions that are still too strong. <b>Plans So Far?</b> If you've started setting anything up for Combat, H/C, or Drift, feel free to share!

Comments

[smileslie]

Character Name: Mandy Slade
Character Username: smileslie
Canon: Velvet Goldmine

Labyrinth Name: Bijou Records
Brief Description: An abandoned record agency office, full of dusty photographs and albums with all furniture covered in white sheets, leaving it looking very ghostly and empty with few hints of any color.

Shadow Name: Maxwell Demon
Brief Description: A bald, seemingly sexless humanoid alien with sparkling blue skin, in reality one facet of her ex-husband's rock star alter ego, Maxwell represents Mandy's worry that it wasn't just Brian who was wearing a heavy facade--that maybe she was also just seeing dollar signs and cheap shock value when she talked of sexual revolution and that everything they did only hurt people in the end--as well as her deep fears of ever loving anyone again.
Plans So Far? Drifting with Arthur, otherwise up for any sanctuary stuff!