melodiesooc | A New Hope: OOC Plotting Post

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.

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- Sparks is taking charge of this but your character is totally free to do what they want/tell him to get bent/whatever, it's totally cool.
- Everyone interested in going is going to meet in Balicea since Saori went ahead and rented some ships.
- The team was to wait for word from Ramza and Jack, if their peace talks with the Empire went well. They don't, so they'll eventually set sail,
- Sparks scouted ahead of the group to see what security on the island is like. There are no guards or anything visible outside, but there's also nowhere to hide their ships so they're probably going to know we're coming. He'll advise that everyone coming along come armed and ready for anything.
- ???
- PROFIT?? Or death, maybe that.

I'll post to the log eventually, forgive any slowness as I have a chest cold that's murdering me right now.

Yuna will be tagging along with team distraction. She will follow whatever plan is because I don't know what the plan is lol. She will happily jump in and kick some faces :3

Ravio is part of this party I believe, however both his classes (White Mage/Summon) means he's primarily support. Im pretty flexible and he can be paired with whoever is most appropriate.

Jade is a Black Mage/Dragoon and it so happens he has just learned the -aga spells! Naturally, his role in the distraction team is to sling some magic around and cause as much chaos as possible. Any ~~meat-shields~~ brave warrior-types who can protect him while he's casting will win his ever-lasting appreciation. ♥

Shigure is going to show up completely uninvited. Like, he's just going to get on a boat. He was at the hero meeting, so he should at least be identifiable? But yeah, he's just going to be like "WELL DON'T MIND IF I DO" and join.

What he'll do is up in the air. He's a vampire/ninja, so.

Saori may have to hang back with the ships in case security gets too close/keep the engines warm for the getaway. The last thing they need is to have their means of escape destroyed. She can also keep an eye out if the Empire sends someone from the mainland for reinforcements and alert everyone.

From Balicea, they'll travel north, and thanks to the magic of FF world travel, they'll be heading to the island from the south.

She'll be Dragoon/Ninja with her Dragoon job fully maxed out.

Kidd wants to go in to help get people out because this is reminding her very much of her final moments back in her own world.

In getting to and from the research island she will be more than willing to take a turn at the helm of the ship (though she may need a quick tutorial on tech)

Saori has learned the basics from the locals so she'd be willing to teach. It's always a good idea to have a back-up driver too.

I actually thought to bring supplies (aka weapons/swards) as extra gear for when people get out.

Does this work into the plan or am I being unreasonable?

No, that's a great idea!

Fayt will be with the rescue squad, ~~and has a lot of experience at figuring out otherworld tech on the fly~~ and will probably be with Nel, a friend from his own universe. He's got Paladin and beast tamer as job classes right now.

After discussing it on plurk, a bunch of us though it might be a good idea for the attack team to split up into smaller squads so that everyone has a place to tag and the threads don't get bogged down with too many people.

The idea is to have separate threads for four squads -- two taking out enemy patrols, and while the patrols are busy, two squads taking on the Magitek Knights guarding the doors (with two Knights for each squad). That will let people choose whether they'd rather go for a more stealthy approach or more in-your-face battle. We don't know what will happen afterwards, but let's just get the ball rolling and figure out the rest later.

There is an IC thread discussing teams if you want to jump in on that. Regardless, I'm going to leave replies to this post that people can respond to and decide whether they want to be in

Patrol Squad A
Patrol Squad B
Magitek Knight Squad A
Magitek Knight Squad B

(Obviously if you have other plans, go ahead and do those. This is just so anyone who doesn't have prior plans, which is most of us, has something to do. If there turn out to be more people than what was listed earlier, we can always make a third Patrol Squad.)

fsdgedfsgd thank you for this

As someone who just learned a job-related lightning attack, and an affinity for mecha, I put MarKus here!

I was gonna put up a post with Yuna fighting one of the teams at my lunch break.

I'll place Ravio here for heavy summoning attacks and mass healing.

Jade and Fayt will be fighting these guys!

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red_planet_blues - 2015-03-06 20:34 (UTC) - Expand

Liz was trying to sneak in in the confusion and actually get an understanding of the lay out of this dungeon (base) to figure out the actual rescue.

Mind you, this will probably devolve into a mess if someone isn't there to keep her focused, so if anyone else wants to try the sneak in and set the people free thing lemme know?

MarKus can take the sneaky people. He has thief class!

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elevatoravatar - 2015-03-06 23:00 (UTC) - Expand

I want to have Kidd stealthing into the facility as best she can, but she can take out some troops as well on her way. Where do you want her?

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