EVENT PLOTTING AND QUESTIONS POST

[soulmods]

March Event - OOC Post

The actual post itself is already up, so we're forgoing a summary this time. This is a post for OOC plotting, questions, and maybe even some collaborative effort on figuring out what the more mysterious parts of the event are all about. If you have any questions about this event, please leave them here.

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QUESTIONS

[soulmods]

[makeadragonwannaretire]

Now that it's closer, what can we/Azula's dragon eyes make out about what's trapped in the Crinoline/cage?

Re: QUESTIONS

[scythersergeant]

Shinoa's active ability can single out weak spots, so would she be able to highlight anything that might slow it down, weak spots on the cage, etc.?

Re: QUESTIONS

[greyerrant]

If the creature disarms us early on, will we be able to retrieve our weapons at a point later in the fight?

In fairness, I knew the likelihood of garviel getting dunked on early in the combat, if only because he'd be the first person to go in with a melee weapon, just curious :3

Madoka

[cyclicalconcept]

OK. Madoka's got her bow and arrows, and first things first, based on what she sees, she's going to focus first on freeing the magi with her arrows. She will try to encourage those with ranged weapons and items (Sandy, Bonnie, etc.) to use their bombs to do likewise, and then once they're freed, go on the offensive entirely.

[justoutrunyou]

It won't take too much encouragement to get Sandy to fallow. Bombs away!

[lapidarius]

hey madoka, want a regenerating human shield that throws paint

Re: Madoka

[greyerrant]

Loken's utterly up on freeing the magi, at the cost of his own life if need be.

[loveedition]

Sooo, Ryoko's main focus is going to be on defense. As she's got not much confidence in her offensive capabilities at this point, she's going to be utilizing her closed spaces to heal up and protect others from the creature's attacks. Considering she's also kind of terrified, she's going to want to keep her distance anyway.

[formerbanchou]

Mafuyu's attacks are mostly close-range, so she would likely focus on the freeing the magi from the cage, possibly by going up to it after it's been attacked by others and finishing the cage-breaking process + helping the magi to get clear if they can't move on their own.

After that, she would keep her distance from the main boss, because punching range = being in range of potentially deadly attacks. She would keep her power in reserve, for if/when the ranged attackers get tired, or if the boss has minions that need to be taken care of.

Azula

[makeadragonwannaretire]

Azula's taking full advantage of her flight abilities to try and hit em high with her fire blasts.

She can carry one person with considerable effort if anyone wants to try and convince/beg/bribe her for a ride but the odds of her dropping you to save her own skin is high.

Sandy

[justoutrunyou]

Sandy's going to follow Madoka's lead and use her shovel to lob bombs at the thing and/or try to blast open the cage to rescue the Magi.

If anyone needs supplies, a med kit or something you can tag me here and shout for her and she'll come running.

[soulflash]

Ayyyyyoooo!!! So, just a heads up from me and Bonnie-mun that these two idiots are essentially one unit right now. Think of them like... idk. TEAM COOL HUGS. Lilith is giving Miss Bonnie a piggy back ride for this fight because she was an idiot and tried to take down one of the few long range Magi! You can thank her later.

We'll probably godmod things out between the two that really don't require a big mass of people tagging for simplicity and speed's sake, maybe throw in a one comment thread jack here and there if Bonnie doesn't wanna shut her mouth and shoot things. We will make an attempt to let ya know what to expect!!!!

In terms of what they'll be doing: Lilith will be trying to get Bonnie to where she can blow shit up, while keeping an eye out for any familiars that might get too close range. Bonnie doesn't care what she's blowing to bits, so she won't be saving any trapped Magi. Lilith, since she doesn't have much of a choice, will end up mid range to the big evil monster thingy! If any of the Nyoi-cho Magi are nearby her and struggling, she won't hesitate to scoop you up and deposit you towards safety. She's the mule for Nyoi-cho today.

[justoutrunyou]

If Bonnie wants I dunno some Aspirin or vodka for those injuries Sandy's not above giving a heavily armed girl pain killers.

Azula on the other hand will laugh about this later when they aren't risking life and limb.

[dokkans]

COME AT US, ALL YE FAMILIARS AND NIGHTMARES, SO WE CAN KICK YOUR ASS.

(also if lilith drops bonnie prepare for a loud hunter getting mad)

Diarmuid Ua Duibhne (Lancer)

[oathshackledbird]

Since the mods confirmed that Diarmuid is going to be feeling intense feelings of NOT GOOD THINGS (aka: Despair and all that jazz) coming from the creature thanks to his empathy, it is going to be easy for him to become overwhelmed. That is why as soon as he realizes how strong the emotions he is feeling are getting as it gets closer, he is going to leave to focus on evacuating the innocents in the area. He is going to be using his empathy to help speed along the process since normal people won't be able to see the danger closing in on them.

I am going to put up a thread if anyone wants to help him. Later, once he has moved everyone to the safest place he can find for them in the northeast part of the city, he will rejoin the boss fight. His weapon is mid-range, so between that and his empathy, he is likely only going to be good for shielding people for the time being.

Speaking of time, though, he does have 1.) time stop of five seconds that can be used to get himself close to the creature if needed. Obviously, since the time stop will stop everything but him, this is something we would need to chat about to use.

So come at me! Lets get something set up here!

[lapidarius]

so

medium-range fighter party?

Pokey

[ceasetoexist]

Pokey is going to start off by freaking the fuck out and choking when he first see's the thing that's approaching, but he'll get his shit together as quick as he can. Considering his powers, he'll be running support. He can create a dome that can keep the people in it (about three-four other people alongside him) completely safe, though unable to act against anything outside it as long as it's up. He'll be using this as defensively as he can to protect others who might be injured or need down time as well as letting people take a breather to plan. He has his dumbass shield too, but him taking the offense on this would be a bad idea.

That being said, if you're someone he considers himself close to, he can also create a damage transference shield around you, though he can only do this for one person. The catch is that any damage that person takes, up to a killing blow, will be transferred to Pokey instead. So keep that in mind.

That being said, I'm honestly kind of interested in Pokey getting killed in this encounter, though I have no absolutely concrete ideas on this quite yet, and it's not something I need to do so much as kind of want to do. We'll see if he survives this or not.

[lapidarius]

Basically, Kakyoin's gonna be pretty useless because he fights with a paintbrush. Not really the kind of offense that's gonna do much. So he'll probably default to the same as Diarmuid in an evacuation/defensive capacity, possibly taking advantage of his regen magic to act as human shield on occasion if really necessary.

[oathshackledbird]

Kakyoin, I thought we talked about this whole overwhelming selfless streak thing you have going on... :-P

Asriel Dreemurr

[pleasereset]

Asriel will be trying to help the trapped magi first. But aside from that, he can help support other magi (using his vines to get them out of the way or help them get to where they need to be quickly), and he also has Star Blazing, an attack he can only use once before it uses up all of his energy.

[scythersergeant]

I thought of something- Asriel can try using his vines to trap the Nightmare in place or slow it down! At least we can sort of figure how strong it is.

[screwballkoopa]

LEMMY REPORTING FOR BOMB SQUAD o7

He's also got his amazing distraction powers for anyone who needs him to pull aggro off them!

[makeadragonwannaretire]

If we need to test what happens when Magi touch the thing directly, Azula volunteers to throw Lemmy at it.

[greyerrant]

Loken's going full Astartes, moving in fast, shouting suggestions/orders where he can, trying to keep the creature occupied with the ranged attackers while he tries to clamber his way up and cut the kids free of the crinoline cage.

[soulflash]

SOME PLOT THINGS I INADVERTENTLY STUMBLED ON.

THERE IS SINGING HIDDEN IN THE STATIC. IDK WHAT IT IS. I got the sound removed to this point (ITS LOUD STILL BTW) but I can't figure it out any further and Kyuubey crashed my computer when I tried. I shit you not...

AND THE RUINS. Probably do mean something BUT. BUT. If you're a genius and accidentally post it somewhere that messes up transparency (cough cough) or mess around with the image in Photoshop, you can find in reaaaally small text that reads "If you want to save them, drop dead and fight from the inside."

"from the inside" is a bit more garbled so it might not be that???

OFC i am just apparently a very lucky dunce tonight so I will drop this info off for other people to decipher!!!!!!!!!!

[lapidarius]

here you go, i zoomed way in and changed the contrast just slightly, but you can juuuuuuuust make out the faded pixels, it's 99.9% definitely 'from the inside'.

[lapidarius]

HEY GUYS WHO LIKES ANAGRAMS

NOT ME SO I'M LEAVING THIS TO YOU

so as far as the actual runes i think i managed to match them to the letters they stand for here, and here is what we know:

-one of the runes in the last word isn't a letter (i am ASSUMING it's the last one i mistook for an R, because it doesn't quite match up to anything)
-the last word is purposefully misspelled by missing a letter
-i have no idea if it's actually even english at this point it is 3am please send help

I'M TAGGING OUT ON THIS ONE. IT IS UP TO PEOPLE SMARTER THAN ME FROM HERE.

[storyofarebel]

Raven Queen has good news and bad news. The good news is, she can join Team Free Magi and use her mirror ability to send gigantic sharp shards of glass to help cut/destroy the cage. Bad news is, she can only use that ability once per day. So after getting some assistance in making sure she can get as close as she can to hit the cage, she'll be leaving the rest to you heroes and getting the townsfolk outta there.

She'd love to stay and fight, but one can't really reflect 'giant things hitting small things'.

[scythersergeant]

Shinoa will be yelling at people.

Okay but seriously, she's currently trying to give directions to the lost sheep of the crowd (which is most of the crowd). Since she doesn't know what the boss is like yet she'll just be pitching in where support is needed on the field, though since she's a mid-range fighter she won't be attacking it anytime soon. Not until it's certain people can go near it without bad things happening.

If your character is unused to fighting in such chaos, you can ask her for some advice or something, haha