WHERE ANGELS FEAR TO TREAD - Mod Plot [Refined Plot Plan and Signups]

[letsgolegion]

Now that the characters have decided on a plan and new additions have been made, we can now have a final plot plan and sign ups!

WHERE ANGELS FEAR TO TREAD

NETWORK POST/IC BRIEFING AND FINAL PLAN

PARTS OF THE PLOT

While the npcs (Alpha Team) handle building and defending the sun cannon that will damage Galactus' ship as a distraction, five separate parts of the plot will run simultaneously, five major tasks the Legion will have to do to handle the crisis.


PART 1: STARDUST

Beta Team: will confront and destroy Stardust, then collect her energies with two handheld threshold devices that will send them to containment units in two separate star system. This team has the option to attempt to get Stardust off the surface of the planet into an intercept position in orbit so that one of the sun cannon blasts directed towards Galactus' ship also hits her. Or they can defeat her through brute force or some other creative means.

Size: 4 characters max


PART 2: THE MILITARY

Gamma team: will directly intercept the UP military fleet and infiltrate the ship with the general in charge of their mission and use any nonfatal means necessary to delay their attempt to attack Galactus head on so that the UP military isn't destroyed.

Size: 2-3 characters max


PART 3: THE SPECTRE

Delta Team: will handle finding and freeing the Spectre so that he can remove Galactus from the universe. Thanks to the Legion's allies on Sorcerer's World, they have a lead on where the Spectre is contained. Once they find this location, they will have to undergo magical tasks that test courage, a sense of justice, and other traits to free him. They must also attempt to find out how he was contained in the first place so that the Legion potentially has a means to trap him again in the future.

Size: 6-7 characters max. However, if all other parts are filled to capacity and we still have characters without a part, they can participate in this part of the plot, so this will act as our catchall once all other plot parts are filled, especially if the game receives more players mid-plot. Characters in this part of the plot will be split into RNGed pairs or groups of 3 for each magical task.


PART 4: THE SILVER SURFER

Team Epsilon: will fight the Silver Surfer and prevent him from interfering in the fight against his co-herald Stardust. After she's defeated, Epsilon will have to try to appeal to the Surfer to move Galactus away from Braal into a trap where he'll be faced with the Spectre.

Size: 4 characters max


PART 5: HARROW

Team Zeta: will be given psionic-blocking devices and investigate what's causing Braalian civilians to display unknown preternatural abilities and attack each other.

A parasitic threat called Harrow that's riding along in Galactus' ship is responsible. Harrow is able to psionically possess people down on planets that Galactus feeds from, skipping from person to person and using host bodies to mass murder people. After receiving a panicked call from the Science Police on Braal, the Legionnaires will have to find a way to stop Harrow in his murderous rampage.

Size: 2-3 characters max


ADDITIONAL INFO

The deadline for players to sign up is 5/19/16 11:59 PM EST.

Each character may only participate in one team/part of the plot.

Characters may opt out and help with organization on Legion World if you'd like to avoid tossing them into the the plot.

Please sign up with whatever part you want most. If anything is over capacity, we'll RNG which characters participate in that part of the plot. For any characters that aren't RNGed into that part of the plot, we'll ask for the player's next choice of open parts.


WHAT'S NEXT?

Discussion posts for player planning will go up when the parts of the plot go up on 5/20/16.

After this first stage of the plot is completed, a second one will take place where the Spectre is unleashed against Galactus. During this part of the plot, the cause of the characters being brought to the game universe will be revealed!


You can ask questions and sign up for the parts of the plot in the comments below.

Comments

PART 1: STARDUST - SIGN UPS

[letsgolegion]

Please sign up what characters you'd like to participate in this part of the plot below.

Re: PART 1: STARDUST - SIGN UPS

[got_gud]

Signing Alexander of Astora up for this, but if more than 4 sign up for this part, I'm willing to send him over to part 3 or part 5 (if neither is full)

Re: PART 1: STARDUST - SIGN UPS

[fourstars]

Signing up Son Gohan for this. He knows what his powers can do and where he'd be the most useful, and it's against someone he can go full-out on.

[sofresh]

Signing up Kon for this!

Re: PART 1: STARDUST - SIGN UPS

[the_civilian]

Signing Tadashi up for this!

PART 2: THE MILITARY - SIGN UPS

[letsgolegion]

Please sign up what characters you'd like to participate in this part of the plot below.

[thethinzooline]

Signing up Nick Wilde for this!

Re: PART 2: THE MILITARY - SIGN UPS

[the_fuzz]

Signing up Judy Hopps for this.

[nerdninja]

Signing up Donatello for this.

PART 3: THE SPECTRE - SIGN UPS

[letsgolegion]

Please sign up what characters you'd like to participate in this part of the plot below.

[captainbuzzkill]

Signing up Dipper Pines for this!

[ringslinging]

Hal Jordan is the closest thing this team has to a Spectre expert, I'd definitely like him here.

[sir_vancelot]

As much as he dislikes the idea of using the Spectre, Vance Astrovik will go on this one.

[deafleppard]

Would like to toss Gwen Stacy into this part.

PART 4: THE SILVER SURFER - SIGN UPS

[letsgolegion]

Please sign up what characters you'd like to participate in this part of the plot below.

[headinjuries]

Signing up Sam Alexander for this!

[whyarewehere]

Signing up Dexter Grif for this.

[floraltranslator]

Signing up Tsubomi Hanasaki for this!

Re: PART 4: THE SILVER SURFER - SIGN UPS

[wherenoonegoes]

Signing up Hiccup for this.

PART 5: HARROW - SIGN UPS

[letsgolegion]

Please sign up what characters you'd like to participate in this part of the plot below.

Re: PART 5: HARROW - SIGN UPS

[kingtyrantranger]

Jason's powers make him a good fit for this, so I'll sign him up here.

[notwithoutafight]

Adding Videl here.

Re: PART 5: HARROW - SIGN UPS

[leverageintceo]

Sending Parker here!

OPT-OUT

[letsgolegion]

If you'd like to opt any characters out of the plot, you can do so here. (Please let us know so we can keep track).

Characters can help on Legion World as there would be many important tasks and organization that would be needed there.

[iamresponding]

Opting out with Rich. He'll be recovering in Medbay for quite a while.

MOD QUESTIONS

[letsgolegion]

Feel free to ask the mods any questions here!

Re: MOD QUESTIONS

[notwithoutafight]

ICly, how are characters being sorted into teams? Do they have input on where they go/can they choose, or are they being straight up assigned?

[letsgolegion]

Sure, we can explain that!

For some of the teams, the whole group will be in one thread together. For the fight against Stardust and the fight against Silver Surfer, fights can be pretty straightforward, so since that's less intricate, each group of 4 will be able to thread together in one thread. We'll provide a place in the OOC for everyone to plan their tactics in the fights and discuss what they're doing as they go, to to make it so they can go about it a dynamic way without the fights being spread out too long. We'll try to npc those fights in a way that four people can engage easily, possibly by the npcs interjecting in after every two tags.

For Harrow and the Military group, those are both groups of 3, so again they'll be kept together as just groups of 3.

Since the Spectre tasks might get a little more intricate, that will be in RNGed pairs to keep things moving more easily.

Since a lot of this could take some time to thread out and organize, that's why we're allowing the plot to go a little into June and have the tdm and camping thread set up before it all so that people still have other places to have alternate threads going alongside tagging the plots. We do plan on keeping most of the fights/tasks pretty straightforward and not too complicated to make sure we don't get bogged down (for instance, the Spectre tasks will just be one magical test per pair).

And we'll stay in close communication with everyone as we go to adjust anything we need to as we go.

[notwithoutafight]

This is all awesome and really helpful information, but not entirely what I was asking. ^^;;

My question is: how are the PC Legionnaires being divided up into Teams Beta, Gamma, Delta, etc? Is someone like Brainy handing out assignments or are the Legionnaires choosing which team they want to be a part of?

[letsgolegion]

Oh sorry! I missed the "ICly" and I thought you were asking how they'd be divvied on teams on the ooc end, like whether it'd be RNG.

On the IC end, they'd be assigned their teams by Kid Quantum, though usually with some behind-the-scenes discussion. When everything goes up, you can assume they were handed out their assignments but were allowed to have at least a little input on where they were going.

[notwithoutafight]

Okay, thank you! I was trying to determine how I'd ICly explain why Videl chose not to throw herself into the thick of the fight with one of the heralds, so I'm glad to have some npcs to lovingly blame.