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Interdimensional Managers ([personal profile] interdimanagers) wrote in [community profile] interstellar4042016-01-29 11:42 pm
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☆GHOST QUEST: PLOTTING & OOC

☆GHOST QUEST



NOTE: THIS EVENT CHRONOLOGICALLY OCCURS JAN 30TH.

Alright, everybody. You know why you're here. This post is for the brave folks who decided to answer the ghost's pleas and help them free their spirit friends from somewhere within your relative HQs. This probably won't turn out well for you, but maybe it will be worth it. Maybe.

With this post, sign ups for this event are officially closed. The teams gathered are:

► PRIDE: GENOS, MAI, TERRY, KIDO, ROY, YUFFIE, TIGER, TOORU

► VIRGO: HARU, KEITH, CLOUD, LUCE, IVAN, MERIL, MARTY, NIA, PARKER

Through a variety of means, your patron ghost will have gathered you all together. If your thread didn't quite get to the point where they were fully informed, you are free to handwave an outcome based on what you've seen in other threads. Also, if you'd like to ask for more details regarding what would happen, you can ask that here. Pride Hope and Virgo Love had visions instead of hauntings, but they will have an instinctive sense of where to go to find the rest of the group, as they are being pulled towards the location of the trapped ghosts.

Whether through spirit instinct or through word of mouth, the groups will assemble, and will have a small amount of time to plan before drawing too much attention. At this point, the ghosts guiding them will only be visible to the people sharing the same alignment as them: in this case, for Pride that is Passion, and for Virgo that is Duty. They won't be able to hear Baryl of Arpegius speak when they are not directly connected, but temporary possessions will enable them to explain to the rest of the group, along with the ghosts's explanatory miming.

Through a combination of wit and regained (or earned) powers, each group will have to achieve their goal of breaking into the "secret" labs of their relative labels. For Virgo, this is the basement floors just beneath the area in which Juno's weird seance happened, and for Pride, it will be in the area that people are taken for reprogramming, lead to from an elevator near Lesedi's office and no where else. It's also the same place she teleported everyone into when leaving Naomi's mansion.

☆PRIDE RECORDS
It's possible to get up to Lesedi's office right now, as she is apparently not in, though it will take a combination of distraction and stealth to do it without getting bogged down immediately. Predator is busy dealing with other musicians and searching for ghosts, so thankfully the only think to potentially get in the way is the security force. Whether you fight them or whether you trick them is up to you, but you'll have to get by at least a few to make it to the elevator.

Once access to the elevator has been obtained (and a key has been stolen from a guard) you'll be able to take the massive elevator down - a trip that people who have been reprogrammed before will remember. Once in the labs, Baryl (riding the body of one of the Passion) will be able to direct you towards Octave's prison, which will turn out to be some kind of weird magic-science energy field. Enough tech savvy or smashing power will be enough to stop the machine and let the ghosts free, but escaping unseen afterwards will be pretty much impossible. A couple people might be able to slip out via their powers (even so, they will likely be spotted on cameras), but the rest will be stuck, and forced to deal with the consequences for their act of courage.

☆VIRGO ENTERTAINMENT
Team Virgo's journey takes them to the basement levels of the residential building, exactly like during the seance. Some may remember this room, the one that seems to scan people that gaze into the screen and display some kind of odd ID screen on a picture they never remember being taken. People couldn't get through the large door at the end before, but if Arpegius gives it his all, he will be able to get the doors open for them. From there, he will just barely have enough juice left to get them to Stella's prison.

Security guards will be ready to try to intercept upon the doors being opened, and so they may have to be fought or tricked in order to have enough time to get her free. With the guards either distracted or defeated, a mixture of tech savvy and smashing power will be able to destroy the weird space pod holding her spirit. Whether or not they escape the immediate outcome, everyone there will most likely be incriminated, unless they remain in disguise for the entire effort. The likely outcome is that they will be overpowered while still in the labs. Stella and Arpegius will be free, but at what cost?

☆THE PLAN
As we all know, large groups of players in one big thread can be hard to make progress on. So, instead of trying to get through this whole adventure tag by tag, the plan is to negotiate out an outline of what happens here and then thread out the finale (once they have found the containment areas) to figure out the specifics of the most exciting parts instead of the whole thing.

This post can be used for plotting, as can plurk and any other means you choose. Now is a good time to let people know about any specific powers your character might have that they will be able to use to their advantage, as well as any other ways they will be useful to the effort - or not useful, as the case may be. The rough outlines are given here for the sake of convenience, but if you manage to come up with a strategy that goes off the rails, I will do my best to honour it! Let's make this as exciting as possible.

Once you have an general strategy worked out, please reply with it to the appropriate header below. Also, please ask any questions you might have.
giglio_madonna: (It is a reminder that these clenched)

[personal profile] giglio_madonna 2016-01-30 06:03 am (UTC)(link)
Re: Security guards on the Virgo end of things

How any are there? Will they be visible through the door before it's opened? (Like is there a window peep hole or something) How armed are they?
giglio_madonna: (Some people are born with tornados)

Virgo Team Role Call

[personal profile] giglio_madonna 2016-01-30 06:06 am (UTC)(link)
Alright, let's get this organized!

Reply here with what your character can contribute via powers or skills to this whole effort, along with any ideas for the plan in general!
giglio_madonna: (On my grave I want VIP not RIP)

[personal profile] giglio_madonna 2016-01-30 06:12 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, okay, I see! Thanks for clearing that up.
sponsorigami: icon of Ivan transforming (*NEXT 擬態!)

[personal profile] sponsorigami 2016-01-30 06:15 am (UTC)(link)
Ivan has his shapeshifting that he's been practicing. A limited number of forms, but he could be a distraction technique or if there are vents, possibly able to crawl through them and help out that way... probably again as distraction
sponsorigami: icon of Ivan looking upwards (折紙 Didn't know Blue Rose could do that)

Virgo Side

[personal profile] sponsorigami 2016-01-30 06:18 am (UTC)(link)
Are there vents that a small critter could run around through? For distraction purposes or opening door purposes?
giglio_madonna: (Real magic can never be made by)

> Luce

[personal profile] giglio_madonna 2016-01-30 06:18 am (UTC)(link)
Luce so far has only managed to get one power regain: a minor use of her Sky Flames that manifests in her voice when she sings. It basically acts as an empathy connection between her and those who hear it. However, she's only vaguely aware that she's capable of this. (And she also thinks it's something else entirely.)

On the bright side, she has decent leadership skills and has learned a valuable lesson about herself which is that she's totally not afraid to play vicious and unfair when it comes to those that are threatening her or those she cares about. So if she can figure out a way to screw over the guards, she darn well will.

She'll probably suggest disguises of some sort in the hopes that they'll be able to escape somehow, even if she's not sure about the chances.

Also: she'll be determined to figure out a way to ensure that Ivan Karelin and Cloud Strife get out alright. Ivan is her bandmate and she promised Yuffie to watch over Cloud.

EDIT to add that, oh yeah, she'll totally be up for taking most of the blame if she can help get anyone else away.... And she might also try to blame this whole event on Pride if she can manage it. But I'm still thinking on that.
Edited 2016-01-30 06:23 (UTC)
giglio_madonna: (sassybird) (Please don't expect me to always)

[personal profile] giglio_madonna 2016-01-30 06:20 am (UTC)(link)
Precious ninja son, Mom will do her damndest to make sure you sneak out and get back to bandfamily.
giglio_madonna: (sassybird) (Where do boys get off thinking they’re)

[personal profile] giglio_madonna 2016-01-30 06:21 am (UTC)(link)
Question number 2, because... it needs to be asked.

How armored are the guards? That is to say... is their junk appropriately protected?
sponsorigami: icon of Ivan transforming (*NEXT 擬態!)

[personal profile] sponsorigami 2016-01-30 06:23 am (UTC)(link)
Ivan is going to be rather small. We'll see if anyone can pry open a vent for him .
sponsorigami: icon of Ivan flustered (漫画 Why am I the fandom bicycle?)

[personal profile] sponsorigami 2016-01-30 06:25 am (UTC)(link)
Good luck. He has bad memories spurring him on to make self sacrificing decisions... so, she'll have her work cut out for her
giglio_madonna: (sassybird) (We are the granddaughters)

[personal profile] giglio_madonna 2016-01-30 06:27 am (UTC)(link)
Don't worry, Ivan, she can guilt trip like all talented parents.

(Or to be serious- something like "Someone has to get back and give this information to the Doctor, and you're the only one who can do it".)
sponsorigami: icon of Ivan looking disturbed (漫画 I'm only known as a bike)

[personal profile] sponsorigami 2016-01-30 06:30 am (UTC)(link)
The later would probably work best because hey, he did something like that in canon

And actually, that could give him a memory regain too
giglio_madonna: (What would an ocean be without)

[personal profile] giglio_madonna 2016-01-30 06:32 am (UTC)(link)
Then win/win!

We'll finalize this when some of the others pop in with ideas and things.
worthlesspride: (Default)

Pride Sreategy Meeting

[personal profile] worthlesspride 2016-01-30 06:33 am (UTC)(link)
OKAY! Let's do this.
worthlesspride: (Default)

> What Oikawa can do

[personal profile] worthlesspride 2016-01-30 06:33 am (UTC)(link)
Oikawa is not a fighter. He's an athlete so he can defend himself if need be, but he has no training whatsoever.

What Oikawa has that's useful is his eyes. He's very, very good at noticing things. Really, almost nothing escapes his eyes. So it's possible he would notice the right thing to poke at before figuring out what to do with it. He will also be good at planning and directing the fight. He will notice the weak links of the guards and tell people to exploit them.

He's passion so he's a possible contender for Baryl possessing him.
sponsorigami: Ivan unconscious in the hospital (痛い Ivan quit dying already!)

[personal profile] sponsorigami 2016-01-30 06:37 am (UTC)(link)
To make it really like canon, he's going to need to be beaten up, but who would harm one of these? Don't answer Lesedi

Okay so the robots probably don't care either
sponsorigami: icon of Ivan from behind in his jacket (Default)

> Ivan addition

[personal profile] sponsorigami 2016-01-30 06:40 am (UTC)(link)
I forgot to add that he's Duty, so he could get possessed if need be.
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[personal profile] snapcrackleburn 2016-01-30 06:41 am (UTC)(link)
Roy is brand new so he has no regained powers yet. Would we be able to request potential regains as being permanent thanks to Daft Punk or do we need to stick only to memories/powers they currently have IC?

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