Mission Board

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Mission Board

In-game Mini-plots and Operations

Be aware that, unless otherwise specified, missions are generally not GMed by mods. They will be handled through information packages, Q&A (which can follow along as the thread/s progress/es) and OOC coordination.

As a general rule, the information seen on this page will be IC knowledge if/when characters decide to take a mission, allowing them to assess risk fairly accurately. More details are likely to also be available.

To take or suggest a mission, please comment to this post using the form below.

RETRIEVAL

Mineral QQ	Moderate Risk	2+ characters	This mineral can be for aged and placed in special units at the Citadel and/or Temple in order to boost the effectiveness of energy drawn from the inhabiting characters throughout Xistentia. On the upside, that means stronger, more stable shields from D.E.S.T.I.N.Y.'s various attacks, whether on the ground or side-effects in weather and environment. On the downside, more unexpected boosting effects may occur when the mineral is improperly handled... including exaggerated vices, virtues, or even powers.
Misteleported	Low Risk	2+ characters	The teleportation phenomenon between the Citadel and the Temple are well-known-- basically, there's one-way instantaneous travel between the locations. However, there are occasionally glitches to the system. A powerful artefact from the Citadel was accidentally dumped at the Temple, disrupting the Warning System. It must simply be taken 40 miles back West across the city. Only one problem: it causes carriers to experience shared hallucinations of their homeworld apocalypse.

HUNT AND HARVEST

Sea Dragon	High Risk	2+ characters	Climate consequences have affected the breeding patterns of 80-foot long amphibious reptiles off the coast of Xistentia, and there are now too many males. Their aggressive behavior is likely to affect the beaches. The hunt is on! But beware, their venom is known to induce disorienting mind-share episodes, and their scales are as hard as stone. Further, their favored tactic is to draw prey down to the crushing depths of the sea...
Unicorn hair	Low Risk	2+ characters	Though threats of invasion seem minimal, the Citadel and Temple have both raised an alert that strands from a unicorn tail are needed to complete designs for small, portable D.E.S.T.I.N.Y. detection device. The problem is, unicorns are touchy, delicate, and prudishly themed creatures to begin with, and the samples must be uncorrupted. What to do?

ESPIONAGE

Infiltrate Prison World 0

High Risk

2+ characters

Infiltrate and explore the original Prison World and discover some unexpected elements in the coding and reality distortion. Intelligence gathered will affect future Prison World plots. Note, the AU canon may be selected based on the players' interests and preferences, but the mods will have to determine the appropriateness of the fit!

GMed by the Mods

Pitchforks!	Low Risk	2+ characters	Thus far, the various races of Xistentia have lived in harmony. However, NPC residents of the Xistentia are beginning to complain about strange symptoms, of blacking out, lost time, dizziness upon waking. Rumors are starting up about an attacker from within. Perhaps it would be best to start an investigation, before folks start to grab pitchforks and look at the non-humans with needless suspicion. Note, collateral damage/drama to supernatural characters will be limited.
Speak To Evil	Low Risk	2+ characters	Use defense interfaces at the Citadel to receive a message from an arrogant entity who claims to be a D.E.S.T.I.N.Y. agent. Field their threats, and prepare for the eventuality of war approaching Xistentia.

MISSION SIGNUP FORM

<b>Participating Character(s)</b>: Include names and account usernames <b>Name of Mission:</b> If you're taking a prewritten mission as seen above, please tell us the name. Otherwise, note your own title! <b>(Optional) Proposal:</b> Have an idea for a "mission" type plot? Describe the basic hook here with as much detail as you like, and we'll help you fill in the holes. (If you want to sign your own character up, please have filled out the Participating Characters field to indicate this.)

Comments

[astralera]

One bonus of the Echo is that Era can communicate and understand all sentient beings with souls (part of the 'all languages' schtick). Would she be able to get some use out of it for this mission? If Era discovers they are similar to the Beast Tribes she's befriended back home she'll want to talk to them and ask permission rather than treat them like animals.

[spoofer]

That will certainly work, but it'll be a slow process since what the unicorns want primarily is to be left alone. It will be a difficult balance to strike, respecting their wishes but also moving forward with their agenda. I don't know much about Beast Tribes, what negotiation tactics would she use?

[astralera]

The Beast Tribe quests are pretty neat actually! But essentially each tribe was split into two factions: one that wanted to live peacefully and were not Tempered by the Primal their opposing faction summoned, and the second were the ones Tempered by their summoned god and were violent - kidnapping others to sacrifice to their god, blah blah blah blah blah.

Era's M.O. was always to make initial contact and learn about them - offered her services to help them in whatever way she could once she found out their problems. I think the Sylphs would be most relevant here, as they lived in harmony with the forest (the others were desert-dwellers, sea dwellers, bird people, other bird people in the sky, moogles, and crab-bug things). Era learned as much as she could of their culture and wanted their assistance with... idr - probably just for them to have peace with the local settlements - and they gave her more involved tasks the more she did for them to gain their trust. This always ended up with her crippling the violent factions. With the Sylphs in particular this meant rescuing their unhatched/bloomed (they're like floating cabbages so - plants lol) because the Sylphs themselves were incapable of doing so themselves.

It's been ages since I actually did the story lines but I guess the TL;DR is that she had a reason to go to the tribes needing something, would be open about what she was there for, and would offer to help them with any problems they might have in return for whatever it was she needed. It would take time and she'd always end up continuing to help long after she got what she needed from them, considering them her friends. In return she eventually became an honorary member of each Tribe she helped.

I know that if those Nom Tree things attacked a unicorn in their view, she (and Aymeric too ofc) would cull the crap out of the tree to rescue it. And then she would offer to heal it if it permitted her

Blah blah blah blah

Lots of honesty and desire to help and understand them, treating them as equals and not any old beasts.

I know I don't mind this being a long-term sort of thing, since Era kind of loves unicorns. And she definitely would not want to take anything from one without its express consent.

[spoofer]

I think that would work well! They could happen upon unicorns in distress with the tree and help out, initiate contact that way. Befriending them will probably take approximately 2 weeks.

[astralera]

That works great! :) She'll bother them every day until her canon update, stop by to wish them well/say goodbye/apologize for leaving so soon but her home is in desperate need of her/etc., then as soon as she's conscious again after you can bet she'll be visiting the unicorns, injuries be damned (ʘ‿ʘ✿)


edit a million years later -- but any idea how the unicorns would react to a visit from a recouperating Era? assuming they'd act any differently, that is!

also how would unicorns treat someone they befriended?


... and I guess if you happen to have an idea, would they have any weird speech quirks?

[spoofer]

On foot, at normal human pace, it's a bit of a hike from the city to the Northern part of the map to go every day, she would probably not be able to get much else done if she were to try. But she could certainly go at least a couple times a week.

The unicorns would not change their behavior much visited by Era if she has injuries. They might express some concern or fear that she'd brought danger with her, but in general, they'd just observe and go about their business as usual. There would no be grand gestures of help or indications of hostility.

[astralera]

Good to know! Again, thanks a bunch. :)