Mission Update

[lucetimods]

Desert Survey - Begins February 21st
Selected Volunteers: Ginia, Saber (Blue), Mega Man, Daisy, Haruhi, Cho Hakkai, Aether, and Amelia

Deep Sea Salvage - Begins March 3rd
Now taking volunteers!

Feel free to discuss and ask questions here!

Comments

[godbent]

Hi Desert Crew Haruhi will be making your meals for the next while, be sure to play nice??

[purestpurifier]

You don't have to worry about Mega Man not being nice! He'll just be making maps and doing some fighting if things go bad.

[godbent]

Cue sandworms.

[purestpurifier]

CUE SHINING LASER!

[daisy023]

Daisy would probably have to eat only what's necessary...

/Ragereads FM 90-3 like crazy. Very far behind the guide.

[godbent]

And thus Daisy ended up with a huge portion....

[daisy023]

If it makes Haruhi feel better, she still has a debt with Haruhi for the hatstand thingy. After this mission, it'd be fair to put Daisy in a maid outfit along with Mikuru or somehting.

[godbent]

AHAHAHA I forgot about that.

Daisy and Haruhi CR. She can ask about the hair (which is silly because she's growing out her own)

[daisy023]

She's going to be keeping it in a single braid to make things easier for the mission, but it can work! I haven't tossed Daisy at Haruhi for a while.

I keep thinking I need to either get her another anime PB for long hair, or change the icons.

[arturian]

Saber will accept the food.

But inside she will silently judge you Haruhi.

[godbent]

Wow what a bitch :I

At least I will get Saber CR. All will become one with Haruhi...

[arturian]

Look once you eat Shirou's cooking nothing else compares ok.

All hail the Haruhi...

[halfremembered]

Aether will play nice.

But if her cooking isn't up to his level, she can expect to be expelled from the kitchen whenever he's not beating accidental Third Party encounters to death with a cactus.

[godbent]

It probably is at this point, or at least it is within the limits of what you can actually practically use/bring on a desert spec ops mission. So no worries there.

[shadedsunlight]

Ginia will eat whatever is offered!

[daisy023]

DAISY: As a survival measure, be prepared to eat Scorpions and other bugs.

[-Actual suggestions from a lot of survival guides-]

[shadedsunlight]

Ginia: A light roast over a fire or let them sun-bake a bit, quite delicious.

[daisharin]

Hakkai would be willing to provide a few tips if needed! But he will still silently judge you.

[godbent]

Hey, she's actually a very good cook you dastardly person.


HUFF PUFF

[daisharin]

We'll see. We'll see.

/judgejudgejudgejudge

[thedicearecast]

Amelia won't judge if it means she doesn't have to cook. :|b

[blessedbyfarore]

For the deep sea mission - would there be an IC post giving details for it, or is that going to basically just be handwaved?

[markofthewise]

It's going to be handwaved. For the most part, the posts where people sign up are the IC explanations. Once they actually arrive, they'll have the extra details that you see in the log post, which should clear everything up.

But basically you can look at what Daisy is doing for the right idea of how to handle it.

[blessedbyfarore]

Okay, that works. Thanks :)

Also, when will people who volunteered find out?

[malnosso]

A post like this will go up. The selected volunteers will also get tagged back on the mission description. You can see how that was done if you click the "Desert Survey" link up above.

AS FOR WHEN, it will be a few days before the mission starts. I'll probably aim for the first.

[blessedbyfarore]

Okay, thanks :) 1st is good.

[shadedsunlight]

Checking in as a guard! Can we talk abilities and figure out stuff like guard shifts and other things like that?

Ginia has experience as a bodyguard and convoy experience in rough areas so this is up her alley. She'll have her knives on her, a handgun, and requesting a rifle for her loadout. Knows some filial magic - healing from Nala and minor speed boosts with Kipinn - and hand-to-hand too.

[daisy023]

Well... Daisy's the one with an absurd amount of warfare and military knowledge in a lot of fields. I think I should finish a write-up for a survival guide tonight.

As for other things, she's mastered wind magic, knows some healing and fire-making. Concerning weaponry, she's going to carry a short sword, her M6D Pistol, and probably her rifle. She's going to go without armor for this mission because of the constant shifts, and will suggest carrying survival gear, just in case.

Which reminds me: Will we be able to request more things than what's marked? I've wondered whenever if she would get the chance to be given an ODST suit (a suit given to Spec Ops normal humans in the Halo universe - most elite troopers of the UNSC only below Spartans).

[markofthewise]

The Mission-side of the Malnosso are fairly stingy with what they give out. So beyond some very basic gear, they're not going to offer much more. It's up to the characters to bring with them anything extra they might feel they need.

[arturian]

sup fellow Guard here :|b

If you want to talk shifts, Saber can handle night pretty easily. She doesn't normally require sleep with her Servant body, so guarding at night is easy enough.

[halfremembered]

Aether has a lot of experience as a soldier, so he's another guard who'll be feeling right at home. Other guards might notice that he'll carry only two weapons on his person - a survival knife, a hand-crafted crossbow with a quiver of bolts. He'll also carry a black holster decorated in blue circuitry, but it will be doubtfully used due to heavy Shifts in the area.

They'll also notice that Aether's fighting skill extends to absolutely anything that can be used as a weapon. His physical condition and survival skills are equally impressive, if a little different from others. He'll carry and consume about three times more water than everyone else on the team, for one. Asking him about it will earn a dismissive comment about him not being quite human, but he'll avoid providing further info unless pressed.

[thedicearecast]

Late! Also checking in as a guard.

Amelia's a zero on magic, but she's a really good shot and also good with hand to hand, both consequences of being a professional bounty hunter back home. Also, canon shows she's an ace driver on desert terrain. She'll have her personal rifle with her, along with a hand gun.

Amelia might actually be one of the better ones for the day, since her home planet is a desert with two suns. The heat isn't going to bother her nearly as much (to the contrary, she's going to be damn happy to be out of the cold), but she'll go with whatever the group decides.

[arturian]

For the people going on the desert survey - which character out of them all would need the most protection?

I'm asking this because Saber has a special sheath called Avalon. If she's close to anyone who is carrying it on their body (and it can even be magically inserted into someone's body as well if need be) it can act as a protective healing agent. Your body will still suffer pain if damaged, but it will heal a lot faster than normal if she is close by the holder.

She'll likely bring it with her for the sake of better guarding a person, but it can only affect one person at a single time.

[daisy023]

Daisy is going to be alright on her own, and insist for it to be used on someone else. She's going to suggest to stay in the same fire team (jeep group) as the protected one, though.

[godbent]

Not that Haruhi would phrase it quite like this, but she's the only stated non-combatant on the mission. She's (unnaturally) lucky, athletic, and talented in everything ever, but she's the only one who can't fight beyond basic self defense.

[arturian]

In that case, she would probably give it off to Haruhi then. Would you mind if they rode in the same jeep together too?

[godbent]

Nah it makes sense for me and I would like this.

[halfremembered]

Since we're bringing up character-related quirks, I feel I should mention something. Aether is normally very secretive about his identity, but there are certain things about his abilities that will make the right person clue in on parts of it.

So here goes.

First of all, Aether talks to his weapon a lot. He always carries a black sheath on his person and paying attention to him will reveal that he tends to mutter things at it whenever he thinks no one would notice. He's especially prone to doing it whenever he's on edge. If there was a fight or a major problem during the day? You can bet that he's going to sit somewhere in the corner and hold entire conversations with his sword, often reacting as if it actually responds. ( It does, but that's not what we're here to talk about. )

If a fight does break down and a Shift won't keep him from using his weapon, someone might hear him address the weapon by name in order to activate it. The standard sword shape is named Arondight; while it's not the only one, it's the one Aether uses the most due to his affinity with it.

So far, Kida Masaomi is the only one who knows this bit about Aether's weapon. He didn't pay much attention to it, but I figured someone else might.

Another thing worth noting is that Aether will always prioritize his team's safety over anything else. He is pretty much obsessed with never leaving anyone behind and will move in to air or protect other party members even if the decision looks hopeless or suicidal, as well as terrify someone in the process.

[daisy023]

Daisy will probably listent to it at some point. Spartans have very keen senses when shifts aren't mucking her around, so she may get to hear Aether at one point or another -- and might worry her. She'll think he's either facing hallucinations, or was teamed up with someone with schizophrenia.

Still, I'd rather have your permission for it. Maybe the shifts of the desert muck her senses more than usual or she's just too focused on the problems ahead to pay attention to mutters.

[halfremembered]

Hallucinations wouldn't be an incorrect guess. While Aether can feel his weapon respond due to high affinity between them, anything he would actually see or hear from it is just his senses adjusting to the magic resonance. So he's essentially forcing hallucinations upon himself because he doesn't trust anyone in Luceti with who or what he really is, but he still needs some way to sort out his thoughts and feelings.

And yes, she's completely free to notice. Aether will act fairly dismissive if confronted about it and try to dismiss it as moments of stress, but Daisy is free to think different and research the sword's name once she's back in the village.