PLOT PLOT PLOTTERY i apologize for tl;dr in advance

[brotagonist]

OKAY GUYS. It's been ten days and most of the new votes aren't recent, so it seems like people are more or less done voting in the plot poll! The mods have stated that any attack on the darkness is going to be player driven and, while this may not have been the best time for a lot of us OOCly, our characters wouldn't ICly forget that this was a thing! Considering that the plot meeting took place 3 IC days ago and that was supposed to be where the decision we were addressing with the vote took place, we should probably get cracking on OOCly planning this out. Here is my proposal:

1→ Handwave that the characters discussed and agreed on when the attack would be ICly at the meeting on day 259 and have been working with that goal in mind since then! You can say your character heard about it any way you like.

2→ Decide on a firm ooc date for the plot to take place now! It looks like the poll is leaning heavily towards "an IC week after the meeting" both oocly and icly, which at a 3/1 day ratio puts us at about July 12 for an attack. This would make the weekend of July 13 a great time for all this to go down! Let's make that our plan.***

3→ Decide what we're oocly planning to do as preparation before that plot happens! ASSUMING WE DO GO WITH "ON JULY 13," some things that was brought up heavily during the IC discussions that did occur were fortification and disguise. A couple of characters can do some planning/setup with relevant Personae either offscreen or onscreen over the week — then we can have a big but low-intensity preparatory post this coming weekend to facilitate a way to further fortify the Great Hall against anything that'd get in while the barriers were down and make sure stealthy recon could happen. I'm thinking "joint-Personae mass quest!" I believe the Personae who were going to be consulted on defense and stealth were Guinevere and Columbine, so whatever can be worked out with those Personae players and the mods would be good.

4→ Showcase what our characters are doing in preparation in general, especially if your character WOULD be doing things but it's all mostly offscreen at the moment (I'm in this boat!) In the mass quest post or in another post designed for that. For example, Josh and Mau's siege weapon lessons or bomb handling lessons for the list of people who donated to Shark's bomb making efforts and would have a continuing interest in that would go there! These could be handwaved and the post could just contain talking about those afterwards but some showcasing of it would be good.

5→ Clear up what our characters would want to be helping out with so we can build up to that icly or plot how characters would be interacting over it over the next week! It's probably okay to handwave how your character got roped into whatever you want them to be doing if we establish who and what by then — we can always say it was discussed at that IC meeting that got sort of left hanging OOCly, or put up on the bulletin board. I'm going to put a bunch of subheaders in this post for people to comment to indicating interest (like Josh and Mau did on their bulletin board signup, except OOC instead of IC) so we can get a start on that.

Please feel free to add more subheaders! Or propose a completely different plan! I'm adding a subheader to discuss why I'm dumb and this is all a bad idea just in case. None of my characters would ICly be leading the effort here and I'm OOCly on nothiatus and about to go take an exam as soon as this is posted, so I'm about as far from in charge of this as it's possible to be! LET THE IDEAS FLOW.

Comments

* PLEASE TO DISCUSS TIMING ISSUES OR SERA THIS IS STUPID HERE

[brotagonist]

THINGS OF NOTE:

2→ An alternate date that would work well for not having a con in it or a trauma (?) game I don't know anything about would be the period surrounding July 27, which would OOCly give us more time - however, since the IC tide of opinion on the poll leaned towards sooner rather than later, we'd probably need some IC justification for putting it off till then. There's also a losergame at that time! :'D I'm sure the mods can come up with IC reasoning for the Personae involved to give everyone if this or something entirely different is what we want to do as a community — if people super didn't want to do this soon I'm sure even the 3-ic-week deadline could be moved — but the poll says otherwise so SOMEONE TELL THE CLASS IF THERE ARE REASONS THIS REALLY WOULDN'T WORK and otherwise we can maybe go with this as a plan? I don't know.

3→ If anyone else has ideas for big events let me know! This seemed like the ideal ooc/ic tradeoff of maximum visibility for minimum effort re: what I saw characters discussing ICly.

4 & 5→ I don't actually have a lot of ideas for what these things would be so please add more subheaders aaaa

Re: * PLEASE TO DISCUSS TIMING ISSUES OR SERA THIS IS STUPID HERE

[appleofhiseye]

When I looked at the calendar my vote leans towards July 27th because the 13th is already next weekend and it's SUDDENLY NEXT WEEKEND but I also have bias because I'm going to be out most of the July 13th weekend. But like you said that would involve IC justification, most likely in the form of strengthening the barrier in some way to ICly give characters more time or something like that. It would also depend on whether or not characters need more time ICly; if we have most everything set up then there’s no reason to wait. I don’t know what we’re setting up besides siege weapons and bombs and coordination on who is doing what, if that’s it we’re probably good to go huh (in addition to whatever we coordinate here too, of course). Basically I'm cool with the 13th if we're ready for it! And the ooc poll seems to indicate we are ready for it. I am just not sure how to ICly or OOCly be ready for it so next weekend seems fast to me. Do I have homework to do or do I just show up and wait for the party to start, etc.

Also so this isn’t a lot of random rambling as far as BIG EVENTS!! go we could maybe have brief "training hours" or "helping to gather supplies"—like posting on the bulletin board that there's going to be sparring practice for fighters in the Gym at such-and-such time or healers setting up supplies in the Great Hall at another time. And training people could work as an easy way to get supplies from Personae; for every hour you train someone/learn something new you get supplies for that thing you’re doing (medic supplies for medics and weapons/shields/armor for fighters?). It's easy to handwave or play out in a mingle but also a way to show "hey we're doing a thing". If that’s what you’re looking for :|a

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[silentknight]

ty for putting this together Seraaaaaaaa

As a note, the 12th is claimed for a "low trauma" game. The weekend of the 27th is reserved for a loser game but not claimed. There is nothing on the weekend of the 20th before a Mulan game the following monday.

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[orange_sun]

ty for organizationinggg

Mau and I were thinking of doing a COME PLAY WITH OUR BALLISTA post sometime this week (wednesday??) so that may be happening. As regards actual event timing I can probably work with either day? My ability to predict my schedule gets exponentially lower as time goes on so by that metric I'd prefer the 13th (and I think two OOC weeks is actually pretty good for notice, honestly) but personally I can probably make anything work.

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[fraternaldevotion]

Maaaybe we need an actual poll to pick between dates. One that is like 13TH OR THE 27TH, DECIDE YOUR DESTINY NOW. Personally, I'd prefer anything that started sooner rather than later because of IC/OOC reasons, also heart games are at the end of July right? but I'd roll with what the majority decided.

. . . I'm terrible at general ideas for posts and events, but I like Apple's suggestions.

CHARACTERS WHO'D BE INTERESTED IN ATTACKING

[brotagonist]

At the gates as the main offensive force or whatever?? I assume these guys would be TRAINING TOGETHER in the gym or something to prepare.

Re: CHARACTERS WHO'D BE INTERESTED IN ATTACKING

[yourmama]

Whether I end up handwaving or not, Viola is definitely interested in punching the fuck out of the darkness, possibly with Holy Lance, idk.

Re: CHARACTERS WHO'D BE INTERESTED IN ATTACKING

[fullmoonblooms]

Estelle is leaning towards offensive and Photoning Darkness in the face, though if it turns out we're short-handed on medics she can easily go back to the Great Hall for that if someone brought up the need for it.

Re: CHARACTERS WHO'D BE INTERESTED IN ATTACKING

[performing]

I think this is where stupid shounen types go, hello

Re: CHARACTERS WHO'D BE INTERESTED IN ATTACKING

[oneknightstands]

I like attacking the darkness.

Re: CHARACTERS WHO'D BE INTERESTED IN ATTACKING

[antreegonist]

Yeah Mithos goes over here.

Re: CHARACTERS WHO'D BE INTERESTED IN ATTACKING

[deadofknight]

All Ace has is stabbing things real good, so if that counts as helpful fighting against the Darkness, then he definitely wants to be stabbing things real good. :|b

Re: CHARACTERS WHO'D BE INTERESTED IN ATTACKING

[parasaitic]

Anri will probly stick to sparring with Carnelian but she'll still show up for the actual battle.

nts finish quest :U!!!

Re: CHARACTERS WHO'D BE INTERESTED IN ATTACKING

[knighttoremember]

Naoto probably goes here??? POINT ME AT A THING I'LL SWORD IT

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[tsunbender]

I don't know if i'll handwave it or not, but Zuko is gonna be here using all the fire at the darkness.

Re: CHARACTERS WHO'D BE INTERESTED IN ATTACKING

[wildnight]

Naha is kind of looking forward to this part, actually.

Re: CHARACTERS WHO'D BE INTERESTED IN ATTACKING

[justaking]

Going here!

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[heroic_homemaker]

I'LL ATTACK THE DARKNESS

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[heroicmemory]

Barnaby is up to the task! I kind of see himself falling back more and sort of taking up the space between head-rush attackers and defenders.

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[autorejoin]

Clue is going over here.

Re: CHARACTERS WHO'D BE INTERESTED IN ATTACKING

[demonick]

Why do I have two characters who want to do this, sob? Nick goes here, too!

Re: CHARACTERS WHO'D BE INTERESTED IN ATTACKING

[squirreledaway]

If the dates are the 13th, I'll have to handwave Mako and Emil attacking. But they'll be there.

CHARACTERS WHO'D BE INTERESTED IN DEFENDING THE WALLS

[brotagonist]

VIA WEAPONS EXPERTISE

[brotagonist]

CHARACTERS WHO'D BE INTERESTED IN SCOUTING THE DARKNESS

[brotagonist]

LEGACY CHARACTERS GO HERE

[brotagonist]

It's been ICly brought up that these guys might be safer out there?

CHARACTERS INTERESTED IN STAYING IN THE GREAT HALL THANKS

[brotagonist]

itp "the smart ones"

...AND HAVING USEFUL THINGS TO DO WITH THEIR HANDS

[brotagonist]

Cooking or heating water or helping out with weapons cleaning/preparation or occasionally going out to get wounded, stuff like that?