A New Hope: OOC Plotting Post

[melodiesmods]

Hello, this post is for you to plot and coordinate everything about the current event, as the first event post is now getting a bit old. Refer to this post for previous plotting and event details.

As a reminder, all new characters + all those who were made prisoners back in January are prisoner in the Heran Research Center. A team will be attacking the Research Center, while another will be going in to rescue the Heroes kept prisoner inside. Meanwhile in the Imperial City, many characters are interacting with imperial agents, both to create distraction and further their own plans.

At the same time than the rescue team will attack, power will flicker in the research facility. Power will go on and off at intervals, meaning this would be the ideal moment for imprisoned characters to do whatever they have in mind. The doors won't magically open, so if they have a plan of some sort to get out, they will have to enact it.


This post will be updated as the event progress. Player plans and new enemies encountered relating to what is happening within the Research Facility will be posted here to make tracking things easier.

Comments

PLOTTING: PRISONERS

[melodiesmods]

PLOTTING: PRISONERS

[thegreatninja]

Yuffie's plan is as follows.

.1) Break the floor. (With Luffy's help)
.2) Break the floor again until they are on Level 26.
.3) Do this before dinner so that Cid might be working on the ship and they don't have to eat that crap for another night.
.4) Save Cid and have him fly the airship outta there.
.5) Possibly check out level 27 if they have time.
.6) Fight off guards and look awesome while doing so.
.7) Then ESCAPE!
.8) Then take airship and roam the sky's as a Pirate Ninja Princess.

[sizedoesntmatter]

I feel like my icon is Yugi's exact reaction to such a plan.

Re: PLOTTING: PRISONERS

[roughlybargesized]

.9) Take all the credit

[erfingi]

Loki would like to point out that it might not be necessary to keep breaking floors. Depends on the security of the next floor.

[makes_it_rain]

Lol Yamamoto is gungho with helping Luffy and keeping guards at bay. o/

Re: PLOTTING: PRISONERS

[boomchucka]

So would Yuffie be interested in mischief, mayhem and destruction with another vertically challenged badass? :D

Attack the Doors!

[flowers_suck]

After the first time the lights go out, Olivier will be smashing tables and bed frames to make prying/ramming tools to get the doors open. Also, weapons. A club is better than nothing.

We will only be able to get them open while the power is out, though!

Re: Attack the Doors!

[deadlyvu]

Thoughts. A) So the Doors will automatically be closing again while the power is 'on'? We can't jam them completely open?

B) The downside is the doors make a choke-point, as only a few chars will be able to climb around them at a time.

Re: Attack the Doors!

[roughlybargesized]

Gaston will not be happy to take orders from Olivier but if you play to his ego he'll do what he needs to

Re: Attack the Doors!

[hiddenedges]

Kenshin is quick and small enough to slid through a small opening in the door and he can go scouting on ahead. He has been very much trained for that kind of work, alas his Jobs reflect that. Give him a couple of staffs from the bed frames and he can also attempt to take down a couple guards if need be.

Assignment List: (Please Don't Comment/Still Editing)

[flowers_suck]

These are the tasks players have already agreed to.

Scouting:

Group 1: Kenshin, Lydia, & Yuffie
Group 2: Daisy-023 & Tazendra

Front/Rear Defense: Zell, Yamamato, Owain, Gaius, K'pandolu, Logen.

Outside of Door: ? (Maybe Gaius)

Inside of Door: Olivier & ? (Maybe Gaston)

Crowd Control: Kaiji ?

Assignments Volunteers/Requests

[flowers_suck]

We have two scouting groups to look around the floor we are on while people are being helped out of the doors.

We could use one more person to go along with Daisy-023.

We need at least one more person as back up defense in case anything gets by the scouting group (it won't while we're on sublevel 20, since the mods have said it is not staffed).

And we need volunteers to help people get organized once outside the door, and volunteers to help keep people from rushing the door inside.

Re: Attack the Doors!

[theblackwolf]

She and Gaius already have something of a rapport, so he'd be willing to assist her as needed. Any preference where he's needed?

Re: Attack the Doors!

[thegreatninja]

I think Luffy is still gonna sneak through the doors with a group and possibly focus on freeing moogles and getting the air ship. I wanted to know if each group had goals that they were looking for so we knew where everyone was heading?

<3

ADDING MONSTERS TO THE MIX Y/N??

[melnics]

So, fellow prisoners! If you please, humour me with a vote!

According to this it is possible to add more confusion to the mix by having Meredy's furry friend travel through the air ducts and create some chaos on other floors... but this also means another possible obstacle for our heroes.

What are everyone's feelings on this happening? It doesn't matter to me either way, I just know that a distraction was talked about and this might possbily help with that! So what does everyone think? RELEASE THE MONSTERS, Y / N?

RELEASE THE KRAKEN. I mean monster.

[lelisjaune]

Voting yes on this.

Re: ADDING MONSTERS TO THE MIX Y/N??

[hiddenedges]

Go for it! sorry buddies outside but well needs must

[unyieldingspirit]

The more trouble for the captors the better, so yes.

Re: PLOTTING: PRISONERS

[littlemak]

Makoto is down for just about any plan, especially if it involves him talking to any of the captors in pretty much any capacity.

[flowers_suck]

After they get the room cleared, Olivier will be heading down the sublevels 26 (airship) and 27 which the computer files mentioned.

[unyieldingspirit]

Nnnnnot sure where this'd go best, pardon- I'm thinking of putting K'pandolu towards keeping an eye on people/distractions (assuming that'd work without job skills, too?). If something else needs doing, I can try and see! For what it's worth, she'd be particularly interested in checking out level 27, but yeah dunno how well that might work.

Sneaking out?

[lastfonmasterguardian]

Anise's first plan is going to be punching guards in the face until she reaches Kalki, but once she calms down, she'll be willing to take orders from anyone who looks like they know what they're doing.

Unfortunately, all her powers are nerfed, and she's practically useless in battle, but she's very small and can thus fit in very small places.

According to the mods, there's an air duct that the characters can reach if they work together. Would anybody be up for assembling an air-duct team to see if they can sneak their way to a door or airship?

Re: PLOTTING: PRISONERS

[gomu_ningen]

Please let me know if I'm stepping on toes here with this post, but I'm hoping to get things organized her so that every one is on the same page and included in what has been proposed thus far. Also, please let me know if I leave anything out so that I can edit this post and include it so we've got a single "catch-all" for what the prisoners will be doing.

As it stands, here is what it looks like we have thus far:

1.) Characters eventually working their way through the Air Ducts
2.) Characters taking advantage of the power-outage to get through the door.
3.) Characters using animals/companions to get out through the Moogle door for reconnaissance.

So far, it has been given that the Air Ducts will allow for characters to (one at a time) traverse through the system to get up/down and out of the Prison. It hasn't been stated where they go exactly, but that they are big enough to fit the characters so long as they file one after another. What I have read in the posts about the door is that there are multiple methods available for the characters to try and open the door, be it by prying to allow a few characters at a time, etc. If we are able to, we should try and go for both routes so that way every one can be involved. The plan I have so far is having Luffy attempt to make good on his word and crack the floor further, but then encounter the fact that the floors are a lot more dense than he had assumed, thus having Yuffie scold him and have him find another way to get out. It will take either boosting some one up to it or using tables/bed/furniture to get up there.

From that point, I know a lot of people have mentioned scouting ahead to help with the other characters being able to escape. This will probably be the "Door" group as it will take longer for the other characters involved with Luffy and Yuffie to get to the Air Ducts. Once they're in the Air Ducts, they will have a few things they will be trying to accomplish:

1.) Rescue the Moogles, so long as they're looking to be saved.
2.) Rescue Cid, so long as he's looking to be rescued.
3.) Steal the Airship 'cause damn it Luffy needs/wants an Airship

Ideally, we're looking to try and get every one on to the Airship, but that ultimately depends on when the Rescue Team is set to arrive. Luffy won't be trying to leave any one behind, but he won't argue with any one who is looking to stay behind just in case.

All of this is VERY subject to change pending Mod interaction and other ideas that people propose, so none of this is set in stone. If people wish to elaborate, offer ideas, suggestions, and the like, please do! I'm not sure I covered everything, but this should be a decent start for where we'd like to branch out from and where things might go once we really bite into the Escape Log.

PLOTTING: We are the prisoners who don't do anything~

[vindr]

I wanted to add a small plotting post for characters like mine who are 'non-combatants' or otherwise have reasons for not being in the more active groups.
From what I'm gathering...

-It might be best if the non-combatants are together with the group going directly to the airship.

-There may be a chance for some non-combatants to give a hand in other groups where needed (like if the air duct group says 'we want a tall-ish person with us to help boost people into the duct', for example. Just a random idea, could be anything)

-Sounds like there is a good chance of every group running into guards (and/or monsters?), which is an opportunity for some CR between combatants and non-combatants. (I know Manami could do with having his bacon saved a couple times for good measure.)


And although I call us non-combatants, I assume that will change if we get our weapons back/get away from whatever is inhibiting our Job skills?
Has anyone found out yet about if we will get our skills back while in the facility? (I feel like someone must have asked already, but I might very well have missed it...)

Comments/ideas/clarification welcome! Thanks! \o/