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MISSION [ bad company ] + plotting post
Scorpion’s Bend is a town among many scattered on the planet of Badrock, where the landscape is devoid of plants and greenery, and harsh sand and high, bare mountains rule the scenery. The entrance to Scorpion’s Bend is protected by the valley of Sandgorge and the slopes of Guncross Mountain, which has given rise to one of the town’s main sources of income: mining. Many riders come to the town to seek a fortune, or to start a new life far from wherever they were… in Scorpion’s Bend, no one asks too many questions about where you come from, as long as you do your part.
The team’s objective is to locate and retrieve the orb. Viveca has traced the orb’s signal to the town, but where there it is and who has it — that is what the team must find out.
To make the team’s arrival to a relatively small town less conspicuous, the team will be teleported to the city in three batches — all to different times. This means that while everyone is teleported from the station in the same instance as usual, their arrivals will be at different points in time. The last group will be the newest arrivals, while group 2 will arrive two weeks prior to that, and group 1 will be the first one to arrive, a month before group 3. So timeline will be as follows:
GROUP 1 will have been in the town for one month by the OOC start of the mission:Billy Butcher, Ziggy Berman, Itachi Uchiha, Katsuki Bakugo, The Doctor (12), Drift, Andromache, Erik Stevens, River Song, Marta Cabrera, Sabriel, R0-GR, Alina Starkov, L3-37, Shang-Chi, Gamora, Peter Parker, Cobb Vanth, Portgas D. Ace, Leonard McCoy, Takeshi Kovacs
GROUP 2 will have been in the town for two weeks by the OOC start of the mission:Yelena Belova, Athrun Zala, Percy de Rolo, Lan Xichen, Finn, Raleigh Becket, Shinjiro Aragaki, Luke Skywalker, Megatron of Tarn, Sebastian Michaelis, Daisy Johnson, Zari Tarazi, Harley Quinn, Ken Kaneki, Kaidan Alenko, Edward Elric, Rosinante Donquixote, Rhysand, Peter Quill, Newton Geiszler, James T. Kirk
GROUP 3 will arrive at the OOC mission start:Cagalli Yula Athha, Clarke Griffin, Shikamaru Nara, Jiang Yanli, Soldier Blue, James Barnes, Gwen Stacy, Goro Majima, Deuce Spade, Clara Oswald, Zhao Tianyou, The Doctor (11), Tony Stark, Natasha Romanoff, Aleksander Morozova, Dean Winchester, Ratchet, Hermann Gottlieb, Yzak Jule, Yamato
All groups must make backstories for themselves to explain why they are coming to the town. In addition to that, groups 1 and 2 will have to live in the town for the number of weeks they have before the entire team has arrived and the mission can fully start.
The town is situated on a wide expanse of dirt and dust, with modest rows of establishments lining the main street. Like something straight out of a Spaghetti Western, the main street is where all of the action happens, a central hub for its inhabitants. Signs in big, black text are posted above each humble business: the SB Trading Post, the Crow’s Tooth Saloon, the Scorpion’s Bend General Store, among several other smaller fronts for shops with more wares than one might expect of a humble mining town. Orbers can find lodging at Crow's Tooth Saloon, Thornbush Inn, or other accommodating establishments and locals.
Past the more respectable businesses, behind Crow’s Tooth, is Sindown, a pleasure house for the rowdy and the sleepless. Not far are the stables for the town’s horses and wagons. At the opposite end of the street is the church and schoolhouse, and adjacent to that is the Sheriff’s office and holding cells.
The closest mines to the town are right at the edge of it, opening deep into the ground. While these are not quite so full of precious ore and minerals as the mines built inside the Guncross mountain, they are accessible to everyone in town — whereas the mountain requires a miner of experience, and no novices are taken along.
At the border of the town is a range of wire fencing to delineate where the land starts and the outer territories begins. A thick wooden post indicates the name of the town and its sheriff; old remnants of advertisements and wanted signs remain stapled into the aged wood from a time when the town was just beginning to prosper. Outside the town is endless dry dust and a mountain range that lines the horizon as far as the eye can see. Scattered across the deserts are cactus trees and dry grass and no signs of path or roadways.
NOTE: Characters will be unable to access areas outside of the town and the mines adjacent to it. The reason for this will become apparent in the log.
THE SHERIFF
The one in charge of keeping law in town is Wilson Brewer, also known as One-Eyed Wilson. He lost his eye long ago in a duel and has since defended the town from bandits, bounty hunters and other small-time criminals. He was wounded in a bandit attack a year prior, but made a miraculous recovery… and swears his reflexes aren’t any slower after, dammit!●
THE DEPUTY
Levi “Bushwacker” Duke is the young and enthusiastic deputy of the town. He earned his nickname already as a boy, as he tended to sneak up and ambush wrongdoers — and he’s followed his calling to become the town’s youngest deputy to date.
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THE MAYOR
The town responds to the rule of Madam Alva Reilly, whose amiable exterior hides a steely interior and an organised mind. She runs the town like clockwork, making sure the people are fed, the workers are paid, and that no one in the town wastes their talents.
The mission spans the months of January and February, and characters will return to the station in mid-February.
The team’s main objective is to find the orb and retrieve it. To do that, they have to find out where exactly it is in the town and who is in possession of it.
A new thing about this mission is that the characters will be arriving to the town in three separate groups at different points in time: group 1 a month before the official start of the mission, group 2 two weeks before it, and group 3 right as the mission starts. Essentially, Viveca will be teleporting all three groups into different points in time to the planet, but everyone will have left the station at the same time. They will have been instructed to create backstories for themselves to make their presence and purpose in the town less conspicuous.
The focus of this mission is blending in and information gathering: in the first log, characters will have to act as if they are native citizens to the planet and live in the town while gathering clues about where the orb might be. To do this, every character will have one search request to use to speak to NPCs or try and search areas mentioned in the log. There will also be one (1) NPC thread slot.
This mission has one time-sensitive NPC thread. If you want to sign your character up for a thread with the NPC, please respond HERE by January 14, 6PM GMT. Note that unlike before, the sign-up period will overlap with the log, and the thread will go up on January 15. From there, the chosen character will be expected to wrap up the thread by January 29.
Characters are encouraged to share information through the network, and a mod-provided plotting post will be posted later in January that can be used to plot for February’s log.
The personal goals have been assigned and can be found here. If you have any questions about your task, please ask us here! In the same comment, there are instructions for what to do if you are unhappy with the task your character has received.
Please use this post to plot for the mission and make your own plotting comments. You can use the form below. If you need help thinking up a job for your character, feel free to ask us or your fellow Orbers!
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