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MISSION [ the darkest wild ] + plotting post
Noth 11X8 is a small, uninhabited planet overrun by nature and wildlife. Deemed unsafe and lacking value by the federation of planets within the galaxy it belongs to, Noth 11X8 has been left to its own devices for over a millennia. Thus, any real information on it is outdated, however last known records claim no sapient species reside there.
The team’s objective is to find the orb. Viveca has traced it to the planet of Noth 11X8, specifically within a volcano located in the center of the planet’s largest island. Due to the combination of the atmosphere of the planet and the orb’s influence interrupting the station’s technology, Viveca is unable to teleport the team to that exact island, and so the team must sail from a nearby smaller island to get to the orb.
Small island: Roughly 8km away from the main island at its closest points, the initial island the team will be teleported to is largely uneventful... which is good, because the focus is getting to the main island as fast as possible. How, exactly, the members of the crew accomplishes this will be a personal choice...
Main island: As the largest island on the planet, it boasts a number of co-existing ecosystems scattered throughout its near-perfect circular shape. At its very center is a volcano wherein the orb is located. The team will have to determine the best path to get to its center, and from there how to enter the volcano to retrieve the orb.
Volcano: Active and angry. Very hot.
Because the planet is (allegedly) uninhabited by sapient lifeforms, there are no listed Persons of Interest. Instead, the following Creatures of Interest are the known top apex predators of the planet, and should thus be dealt with caution or otherwise avoided.
Each creature is named after the brave scientists who lost their life to documenting the species.
TADEAX
On average, Tadeaxi are around 2-3 meters tall but a single Tadeax has been known to grow as tall as 4 meters and twice as wide. Obligate carnivores and scavengers, Tadeaxi typically use brute strength to take down their prey, charging and ravaging with their abundance of fangs and claws. Additionally, the spikes along the back of their head and shoulders regularly secrete a numbing poison to counter any creature foolish enough to try and get the jump on them.
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KE'KRO
The last known documentation on these creatures written by Klaed Ke'kro, the zoologist who studied them, reads as thus: "May the merciful hand of Zomaela strike down the fool who wish to trifle with these beasts, as I wish She had done to me." Though on average no bigger than 5 centimeters, Ke'kros travel in swarms of up to a hundred and emit a high-pitched buzzing sound that can temporarily disorient their prey to the point of delirium. If your insanity doesn't get you first, their razor-sharp pincers and tail will.
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QUEKLOREN
Quekloren are giant water serpents that can grow up to 15 meters in length. They are known to sleep either submerged in water or hanging from the sturdy branches of trees, easily blending into their environment. Despite their massive size, they are fast and don't even bother injuring before the kill; instead, they flex open their jaws and swallow any threats whole. If the crushing muscles of their esophagus haven't already done the job, the toxic acid from their stomach lining can melt through even steel.
This mission will focus on survival and teamwork. It takes place two weeks in the middle of November. Players who elect to have their characters participate in the mission will have those characters return to the station a week before November ends. Note that this will be the last mission for the year, as the crew will remain on the station throughout December.
The team’s main objective is to find the orb and retrieve it. This time around, they know exactly where the orb is, but the true struggle will be in the retrieval.
When the log drops and the mission officially begins, a glitch happens wherein some of the team gets teleported as they’re meant to, but then the rest do not. ICly, the characters have no idea this will happen, and thus have no choice on whether to remain or stay. The mission file is delivered with the understanding that everyone will participate as usual. OOCly, though, players have free reign to decide if they should like to participate in the mission or not. Please note that there are no IC or OOC benefits or repercussions for choosing either option.
For the characters who go on the mission, there will be a mod-created event log just like usual. For those who remain on the station, there will not be a mod-created log but players are encouraged to create their own, just like they would during any station downtime. While the intent of this mechanic is to allow for players to opt out of the mission for a little more breathing room to either focus on previous tags or what-have-you, note that there will be a slight metaplot opportunity for those stuck on the station — should they choose to approach Viveca or Degar about it — that will then get expanded on in December. Note that characters going on the mission will not be prevented from participating in this metaplot come December.
Please note that since this mission is a little more straightforward than the others, there will be no search requests or NPC threads. On the log there will be an opportunity for players to submit suggestions on the exact method of orb retrieval, similar to how they would for an OOC voting post; we will be using these to influence the mission’s conclusion. More information on this will be expanded in the log.
This time around, the personal goals will also be handled a little differently.
If your character gets sent on the mission, their goal will be:
Choose between injuring yourself or a fellow teammate.
If your character winds up getting stuck on the station, their goal will be:
Offer terrible advice to a fellow teammate, or enable their reckless behavior.Please use this post to plot for the mission and make your own plotting comments. If you're waiting to see what the mission entails before making a final decision, feel free to plot out both options! You can use the form below:
MISSION QUESTIONS.
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Re: MISSION QUESTIONS.
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Rosinante | MISSION TIME LET'S GO
Character: Rosinante
Personal goal: Choose between injuring himself or a teammate - well that's an easy choice for him, he injures himself daily by falling or burning himself or etc.
General plans for the MISSION: Hey do you need someone with extensive sailing and survival experience? He's your guy.
Being actually experienced also with more primitive sailing methods means he'll be packing along a saw and hammer, some rope and canvas (or bedsheets if there's no time to order stuff before they leave I guess) so that at the very least a basic raft with sail can get built. If anyone wants to collaborate on planning and packing and preparing for this sort of trip, please let me know! Building a full-on boat probably is beyond the scope of a short mission, but the more people who help out with this, probably the better their odds are at actually making something that floats and can hold a few people, haha.
That said, if everyone would rather fly or teleport and has some kind of method for that, he'll accept that with a little bit of sadness in his heart. ;)
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Minimus | On the Mission
Character: Minimus
Personal goal: Choose between injuring himself or a teammate - he will likely throw himself in the way of danger at some point or another.
General plans for the MISSION: Minimus can be in charge of scouting or traveling dangerous terrain, and he'll focus on keeping a detailed log of their sailing and movement to map out their progress.
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joric | mission
Character: Joric
Personal goal: Choose between injuring himself or a teammate: he'll take the hits, no problem. He's used to pain.
General plans for the MISSION: he is really just big, dumb muscle man so he won't be coming forward with many ideas, but will be here for executing the physical labor part. So for instance, if they need to construct rafts, he'll help build them, if they're swimming, someone who can't swim can get ferried across on his back, etc. He will have exactly zero ideas on how to get the orb out, but will volunteer to do dangerous things since he'll take the place of someone who might otherwise get injured in the attempt.
Just... don't burn his face off. Not his beautiful face.
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Lan Wangji | Station
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Personal goal: "Offer terrible advice to a fellow teammate, or enable their reckless behavior. - Wangji is uh... not going to purposely offer terrible advice to anyone, but he might enable reckless behavior if he doesn't think it will ultimately hurt them in any way. He's helped raise a gaggle of teenagers, he understands the urge to fuck around and find out. Not sure how much harmless but reckless behavior there will be on the station, but if anyone has ideas I'm open.
If anyone wants to encourage his reckless behavior, they can get him drunk pretty easily. He doesn't know most modern alcohol and as long as the drink doesn't smell like alcohol he's not going to know until too late.
General plans for the STATION: Wangji, once he realizes he has not been transported as expected, will first ensure that any others who didn't go are okay, and then spend his time mostly puttering around the station training, practicing for the play, fretting about any who did go, and visiting his brother in the infirmary. And if the special preview for the December meta plot is cool and I have time, I might get him in on that.
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Clayton | On the Mission
Character: Clayton Epps
Personal goal: Clayton would choose to injure himself instead of someone else even if it wasn't his goal lmao (although with the number of people here that would do the same, I think it would be hilarious if that resulted in the opposite on accident, like, two dumb self-sacrificing hero types try to dive into danger ahead of the other and one of them gives the other a concussion or something)
General plans for the MISSION: Mostly sending Clayton here for the sake of being a competent field doctor because y'all are gonna get munched and he's worried about that. Otherwise knows some really basic outdoor survival stuff and will be treating this like a very intense camping trip, complete with bringing a backpack full of shit he's scrounged from around the station and Delivery Day dropoffs (a couple of blankets, a cast-iron pan from the kitchen, box of matches, probably a couple of first-aid kits, fishing line, trail mix, etc.).
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Rodimus | Stuck on the Station
Character: Rodimus
Personal goal: Rodimus almost alwyas gives terrible personal advice. So if you need terrible sexual or relationship advice or something reckless... he's your guy. And he'll do it without a shred of self-awareness.
General plans for the STATION: Sulking a bit about his personal life. Maybe actually confronting some of those demons. Training. Relaxing. Just being a pill in general. It's sort of what he does. He might try to organize some kind of morale-booster because that's what good leaders do, right? Or maybe he'll keep spiraling in his own head! All possibilities!
jyn erso ✧ mission
Character: jyn erso
Personal goal: choose between injuring yourself or a fellow teammate | she will stab a bitch, just ask daisy
General plans for the MISSION: this girl died on a beach she will do anything to get off it and to the volcano because honestly that seems better!!! she is used to roughing it and exploring and she is INCREDIBLY MOTIVATED to find the orb and ditch the beach. sometimes the beach is bad, guys!!! also she will make a fire and spear a lizard to eat to she would be great to be camping pals with
ETC: GET ME OFF THIS FUCKING BEACH
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joe | mission
Character: yusuf al-kaysani aka joe
Personal goal: choose between injuring yourself or a fellow teammate | lmao why would he let someone else get hurt when he will just immediately heal? nah, he will take one for the team 100%
General plans for the MISSION: joe is A Sad Man so this mission will be a nice distraction from that, especially since mountain climbing is one of his favorite hobbies with his sister. he would be a great support man for anyone who isn't a great camper/climber/outdoors person and he doesn't hide his immortality on the ship so anyone around from the fox and hare mission will know he can straight up die and get back up again, please let him get injured for you, let this man fulfill everyone's personal goals!!!!
ETC: yes, i have a gif for it, you can't stump me, lena
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Character: Gwen Stacy
Personal goal: Choose between injuring yourself or a fellow teammate. Neither, bye.
General plans for the MISSION: City girl offended by the very concept of hiking. Yes, she walked more miles than this on average just getting around Queens, that is not the point. She has no ship building experience, but she does have strength and, more importantly, can easily lash things together or weave an entire sail if necessary in about fifteen seconds. In addition, host to a symbiote sensitive to sound gonna run directly into ke'kro because of course. Mostly, she is straight up not having a good time, bro.
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clara oswald | mission bound
Character: Clara Oswald
Personal goal: The fun part about this goal is how Clara would handle it depends greatly upon who steps up. If it's someone she has negative CR with or doesn't think is going to align with her goal of getting the orb quickly? Yeah, she'll probably find a way to accidentally hurt them. If it's close CR or someone that she views as useful (or a "good person"), she'll choose to let herself get hurt instead. So if you're interested in toying with the personal goal, please let me know and we can figure something out!
General plans for the MISSION: Clara will be highly motivated to high tail it over to the main island, and isn't opposed to giving a big pep talk about how they should all just try swimming. But she's also clever enough to try and get the group working together to fashion some kind of float or boat for those that can't swim. She'll also be pretty keen on figuring out how to get the orb down in the volcano ASAP. Which of course, will lead to her being reckless. She's not much of a fighter and given the creatures and other jungle calamities that are sure to be around, it would be easy for her to choose to get injured over letting a teammate get injured if anyone wants to play with that. Her primary focus though will be that volcano. Which is fun, because like the volcano, she herself is active and can be very angry. And she sure can run hot when she's under pressure.
I'd personally like to see more of her narrow determination to get the orb come out here, whether others agree or are at odds with her determination can lead to some interesting cr building and interaction.
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steve harrington | mission
Character: Steve Harrington
Personal goal: Choose between injuring yourself or a fellow teammate. As if Steve "I'm going to jump into Lover's Lake so nobody else has to" is going to injure a fellow teammate. He is absolutely going to injure himself.
General plans for the MISSION: He's...good at swimming? He's also pretty good at manual labor, so can help with anything related to building a vessel that can transport them to the main island. He doesn't have many survival skills, but he probably could help with fending off the creatures. Preferably with backup, since all he has is a spiked bat and no healing abilities.
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Character: Dante
Personal goal: lbr this is going to be real easy, Dante's going to choose to get himself injured. it's fine, y'all, he can take a little impalement!
General plans for the MISSION: Dante can tank a LOT of damage. it takes a lot to slow him down, and he still has access to both Devil Trigger and a few of his Devil Arms, so he's willing to take point and play bait to draw aggro away from everyone else and onto himself. the volcano's gonna be a bit tricky, though, as well as the Ke'kros—he can deal with the bigger beasts just fine, and will likely be the first to wonder if they're edible, but the insects? he doesn't have anything for that, welp.
ETC: listen. my personal goal for this mission is to get Dante fuckin' impaled, because I think it would be exceedingly funny to watch everyone's reactions. don't worry, he's fine, this happens to him in his games all the time.
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Castiel | Mission
Character: Castiel (circa end of season 5 / early season 6 for anyone SPN-familiar)
Personal goal: mostly interested in having him talk about how weird these goals are with someone who's been around longer tbh
General plans for the MISSION: I'm gently power nerfing Castiel for this mission by saying he was injured from the holy fire of last mission and his grace is still recharging. So he's still an angel but he's got very limited abilities, like healing someone will take it all out of him, and if he gets hurt himself, it'll last through the mission. Make things a little more interesting for this OP bastard that way. I'm hoping to force him to rely on others for help more this mission and try and fail to be human-ish, so anyone who wants a piece of that, come at me!
ETC: cas in general is very bad at socializing and very mission-focused, so he'll definitely be looking to get the orb and get back to the station asap, without getting anyone killed or destroying the planet, if at all possible.
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Talk about Dean behind his back?
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cassian & andy | mission
Character: andy / andromache the scythian
Personal goal: Choose between injuring yourself or a fellow teammate - please feel free to hurt andy if you don't wish to hurt yourself, she will be fine in approximately .5 seconds. take advantage of her healing!!
General plans for the MISSION: bro survival is andy's niche. it's her thing. i'm sending her on this mission because it will be better for her state of being than being stuck on the station, she will probably be hype for most of it. i want her to build shelter and hunt animals/food and be a PROVIDER!!! please let her drop an animal carcass in front of you, it's how she shows she cares. she also loves to climb mountains so 100% here to scale a volcano, it's not like any lava will hurt her either so she can climb inside it's w/e. it's time to embrace her inner feral nomad self and stop being miserable!
Character: cassian andor
Personal goal: Choose between injuring yourself or a fellow teammate - you know what cassian probably isn't opposed to hurting someone if the situation called for it so his could go either way depending on context!
General plans for the MISSION: cassian is highkey adaptable to almost anything and he is a great shot so mostly i'm looking to throw him at the survival nature of it all and try to build up more cr with him since he's still fairly new! c: the beach part will be very traumatic, he literally just died there so give him a minute. he's heard sketchy stuff about the orbs but is still pretty interested in getting them so!!
ETC: i want to keep it easy on myself this month due to some irl work nonsense, but here to have a good time on the mission pls and thank u
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clarke griffin | mission
Character: Clarke Griffin
Personal goal: Choose between injuring yourself or a fellow teammate.
She would absolutely choose to injure herself vs injuring a teammate because why would she let someone else get hurt? She knows that there are others who are similar minded about these thing so if it gets around that they all have the same goal, she'll be around to patch them up their injuries from this.
General plans for the MISSION: Clarke will be in her element with this mission because she has a lot of survival experience because of her canon. It was something she had to do on a daily basis so things like gathering supplies, hunting for food and making shelter are in her wheelhouse and she's happy to help people out who aren't so familiar with it. On the flip side, she can't swim unless it's really shallow waters so she will most likely be advocating for trying to get a boat or something similar to get across to the main island and as usual, with how she's missions tend to go she'll be around for medical support.
Aleksander / The Darking. Station
Character: The Darkling / Aleksander Morozova
Personal goal: Offer terrible advice to a fellow teammate, or enable their reckless behavior
He's all about bad advice, but it probably won't be on purpose? Help please!
General plans for the STATION: He saw his worst nightmare on the last mission; staring in to the abyss of Eternal Life (alone). Unlike most of the jump scares, living forever alone is actually what he will be doing once he's back home from the station. So.
That hit home in the worst possible way and he's rethinking his life-choices and being maudlin about it.
Also, he is feeling some kind of way about the arguments and fights he was in on the mission, as well as THIS WHOLE THING!
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[To anyone not canon-familiar, this is very much what he has done several times in the past.]
bucky barnes (mission) | daryl dixon (station)
Character: Bucky Barnes
Personal goal: Well. He's going to be triggered this mission. So if anyone wants to be hurt by the Winter Soldier, come on down?
General plans for the MISSION: As mentioned, Bucky is going to be triggered by the orbs to force him to go on the mission. That means he's going to latch on to a couple of people to be his "handlers" for the mission. (Clara, Yelena, and Natasha get free passes for this one ofc.) So he'll be basically doing whatever he's told, whenever he's told. And will ofc go and fight anything that comes after them.
He'll be coming back to himself by the end of the mission though. So please let me know if you'd prefer to avoid anything to do with TWS for this mission!
ETC: ...he may end up making a second deal with the orb this mission too. But that's in discussion, so TBC...
Character: Daryl Dixon
Personal goal: lmao he's all about enabling reckless behaviour. Drinking buddies, pls and ty?
General plans for the STATION: Don't really have any plans, as such. Though he'll be questioning Viveca/Degar about wtf happened and why they haven't been sent out. So possible team up with the other rejects to go explore the start of the metaplot?
ETC: Someone pls get him to leave the sunlight room at some point :|b
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Sam did tell her a little about Bucky's situation, so she knows in theory that this is something that could happen, but somehow that's not enough that she'd expect it to actually happen. Especially not on a mission like this.
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Natasha Romanoff | Mission
Character: Natasha Romanoff
Personal goal: Choose between injuring yourself or a fellow teammate. Either of those is actually pretty easy? Depends on how things shake out with the mission. Generally she's inclined to let herself get hurt rather than someone else, but there's definitely circumstances where that could go the other way?
General plans for the MISSION: This isn't a mission that really plays to Natasha's strengths, but she's not useless either. She's physically in excellent condition, has survival training, etc. Grappling hook? Grappling hook.
She'll definitely want to get their work done and get out ASAP. She doesn't like this whole glitching, splitting the party thing so let's get THAT settled.
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Zhao | Mission
Character: Zhao
Personal goal: Zhao will probably chose to injure himself since he's not sure he wants to hurt anyone else right now. Not sure exactly what he's gonna do yet but I'll cross that bridge when I get there.
General plans for the MISSION: Not sure how much use Zhao will be here, laughing, but better on the mission than on the station. For both of us. I prefer missions for inspiration, and he does not need to be stuck moping on the station. His final boyfriend left recently and he's not happy that he's lost two boyfriends now. Especially since he's not sure what will happen to Majima (well, rather, he does kinda know and it's not happy and he doesn't know if either of them will remember any of this when it's all over so. that sucks to think about.). Boyfriend rambling aside...
Zhao isn't really a nature person. He's a city boy. He's gotten by in past missions with just sticking with others and figuring out what they do to survive in the middle of nowhere... but this will be completely in the wild with no provisions to start with except what they bring with them. Anyway! Have some awkward city boy interactions or something. idk. I just wing it every time.
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