Event #002: Training in High Rise Village, Pt II

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Event Two: Wreckage Intensifies

Note: This event will double as a TDM! Characters are now up to 30-35% of canon powers. That's going by a metric of fairly OP characters. If one is unsure about whether a particular power would transfer to the game, feel free to ask a mod!

For new players/characters: the tech and magic from the first event can be acquired by working with fellow PCs! New players are encouraged to look at the previous event (tho this one will be a bit simpler), the coffee shop mingle, and, possibly, the High Risk Quest. It can now be assumed that techies have the tech from the High Risk Quest.

For in-game powers, techies and magic users who have been in the game for a while can fast-track some power transfer to the newbies. For the magic users, this is particularly true of those who helped take the runes of water/fire respectively. Tech users can handwave various abilities related to their implant or enhanced tech state. Both sides can use their Synthesis power creation hack. If new players have any questions about how to get involved, or if anyone has any questions about the event or world lore (it's a lot!), feel free to ask mod below.

*Characters who pursued the animal speech blessing on the TDM can go ahead and utilize that for this event!

I. Outside the Symbiotic Skyscraper

Rosalind: “Vile android woman,” huh? ... tho it does sound kinda bad-ass.

Well, we got a pretty big clue. They’re after technology that melds the biological and the artificial. Even the Otherworlders with their powers have to acknowledge that our city’s abilities in this domain are superlative.

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Avenaticus: Presently, High Rise Village is being scoured. Disruption-centric technology is to be removed and disposed of.

The problem has been the pre-emptive location of such technology. Even after analyzing the scripts and building countermeasures, the digital signatures have changed. It is virus-like behavior – a modification from our friends, no doubt.

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Rosalind: So put simply, we’re still vulnerable to sudden activations of disruptive technology. You guys should have the resources to put down this sort of thing by now, but we need to get focused on preventing such incidents in the first place. That’s what we’re going to be working on, going forwards.

II. The Symbiotic Skyscraper

This facility is run by another android, Avenaticus [above]. Its exact purpose is opaque to outsiders, except that research seems to occur here. The research involves the tech fauna. The level of weaponry attached to this particular group of tech fauna also stirs rumors of involvement/cooperation with the military.

Once again, another disruptive incident is in progress. Fortunately, Otherworlders now have the means to disable the disruption tech.

Today, Otherworlders are tasked with making their way through the skyscraper and finding the control nodes with the hostile technology so as to then disable them. The main obstacle is the tech fauna themselves

Tech Fauna: Chonkers Edition

Scanning the tech chonkers with the aXess Link will give names, usually combinations of animal names with letters and numbers. For example, one might be 12-XA Bear.

Boss-Tier Tech Chonkers

Bonus: WTF-its!

Objective: Get past the tech fauna and find the nodes causing the feral/disruptive behavior to disable them. It's fine to get rough with the tech fauna; assume they have pretty high mechanical regen.

[ Feel free to propose names for the fauna. Some might even become game canon names. Tbh, I just don't feel up to assigning them all names, but you guys can go wild. ]

III. Magic Training: Whisperwind Alley and Glimmergrove

Obstacles: Wind Colossi and Glimmergrove Creatures

Pictured: Tree spirits, wildlife spirits, great amphibians, Earth elementals, and Rose Whips.

All these creatures can be challenged directly. Some may be appeased in other ways than through combat, but all are applicable for PVE. As this is a training event, it's expected Otherworlders won't engage in fatal combat, but then, these are all pretty sturdy entities in any case.

Objective: Acquire the two runes!

Comments

Emet-Selch | Final Fantasy XIV | open (will match format)

[emet_sulk]

Whisperwind Alley

Azem would enjoy this, he thinks to himself as he stares up at the bazaar and then glances at the ground below. The markets are so different here compared to what either of them are used to, although the hawkers' cries and heated bartering between vendor and customer remain much the same.

If you encounter him at the market, you may hear him engaging in a very lively (or intense) round of negotiation with someone over some fruit. Beneath the boisterous veneer of friendliness is a sharp haggler.

If you encounter him fighting the wind colossi...

"Get out of the way!"

A blast of wind strikes the ground, knocking the unwary off their feet. Emet-Selch takes the wind into the flame barrier surrounding him and uses it to fuel an even greater inferno, which he then directs towards the colossi.

Glimmergrove

This place is less friendly, but Emet-Selch is used to the dark. Maybe you're lost and stumbling about alone. Maybe you've run into one of the native flora/fauna and are in trouble. Only then does he somehow materialise out of the dark. Something slashes and whatever it is reels back with a screech of pain.

"What are you doing?!" he hisses. "Be more careful!"

Wildcard

I'm up for Emet acting as support for other, new characters who didn't get to do the first magic learning round. He's...difficult to work with, but hey, learning how to cooperate is part of the journey right?

(I'd also love for someone to drag him into helping the Tech users.)

wind colossi

[nightmare_fuel]

Sakura understands. She is a Master, after all. That's what she was in her world, in any case. As such, she had cooperated with Servants. They were not quite gods; more like gods scaled down to demi-god warrior in vessels. Shells. But still, something much more than a human.

She may look like a rather hapless individual, and indeed, she was young and unworldly. But she had her mage instincts. And she knew she was probably outclassed here. Still, she had been giving the matter some consideration, and there was something she could contribute: Bios. Of course, it always went back to that, huh? But the analogue to mana in Sakura's world was close enough that the concept made sense to her.

She wishes to contribute. She knows she can do so. Therefore, watching from a certain amount of distance, she channels her Bios -- her magic -- towards Emet-Selch in this particular endeavor. That was cooperation, yes? "Synthesis"?

Well, on Earth, she had quite a bit of mana. Not sure how that would translate here, but she figured it would be a meaningful contribution for a great sorcerer.

... also, sorry, bruh. Not like Sakura is necessarily trying to brush into you everywhere, but the two of them are on a pretty similar magical journey here, So.

[emet_sulk]

Not expecting the sudden boost in magical power, he startles and glances around until his eyes land on her. In that slip of concentration, the wind colossus raises a turbulent fist and slams it down near them. The blast knocks Emet-Selch off his feet and he goes tumbling backwards.

"--Gh!" He hisses in pain, the world flashing as he pushes himself upright. The way his eyes glare at the giant, his pride seems more hurt than anything else.

[nightmare_fuel]

This is certainly not the outcome Sakura was hoping for when she lent her assistance. She has come here intending to cooperate to achieve another shared goal, and instead, her intervention has resulted in a newfound difficulty.

Feeling somewhat apologetic, she runs forward. She may not have sufficient power to actually battle the colossus, but perhaps there is something else she can do. Sakura has been practicing with magic of the four elements, so she pours her Bios into the flame barrier, launching it outwards like an arm -- one intended to swat at the creature, perhaps encouraging it to back off.

Really, when she thinks about it, Emet-Selch had a wise idea here: Sakura would not have thought to use fire to battle a creature of wind, but when you considered that the effect of its wind could backfire into literally feeding the inferno... then this approach actually made a great deal of sense, from the perspective of a sorcerer. She thinks she could certainly learn something from training and fighting alongside him, as she herself is still aiming to become an excellent magus.

"Are you okay?"

Only once the fire is strengthened does she chance a glance to her side.

Her Bios flares up, and maybe his Soulsight will perceive that she has quite a massive amount of capacity, although she is relatively untrained in magic (this world's or any other's). If there's nothing else she can contribute, Sakura has learned she is an excellent support unit for the great and powerful beings of the world.

[emet_sulk]

"I'm fine."

He pushes himself up, scowling. He's not annoyed at her; he's just always scowling.

"What did you add to the barrier?" It's difficult for him to see through the wall of magic. He squints harder. "Is that an arm?"

Ask and you shall receive! re: tech wildcard.

[gilgamess]

It is unorthodox for someone in the tech side to ask for cross-factional assistance, right? Except they had cooperated before, such as against the Fractured.

Therefore, sometime during the Symbiotic Skyscraper nonsense, Gilgamesh contacts Emet-Selch via the Link device. By now, he's gotten enough of a feel for how to reach fellow Otherworlders.

"I think this particular expedition might benefit from your expertise."

You know. Animals and such. Hadn't he been one of the ones to receive that speech blessing? Well, did it work on tech fauna? Perhaps time to find out.

\o/

[emet_sulk]

Emet-Selch frowns when he receives the call. Since Gilgamesh didn't bother to elaborate on exactly what expertise he's referring to, the mage naturally assumes it must be related to his sorcery.

"What is the situation?" he asks briskly. As abrupt and to the point as ever.

[gilgamess]

That would be a perfectly reasonable assumption. Alas that matters were often less than reasonable in this world.

"The... mechanical fauna are proving somewhat difficult."

Gilgamesh was only just developing the language for these robot creatures, even if he was a quick learner.

"You are experienced with those, yes? Animals?"

Mr. Bear Guy and Charmer of Cursed Furby Creatures, Emet-Selch. He must be the hero they would need at such a moment.

[emet_sulk]

"You called me here to eliminate mechanical creatures?"

That's what Gilgamesh means, right? Emet-Selch has yet to utilise his blessing.

he can jump in w/the thread w/lucy above. as soon as i whip up a tag for it, i'll let you know

[gilgamess]

"Perhaps neutralization may be more the order than elimination. Apparently they are property of the research facility, which does not want them utterly eliminated. Yet I do not think it truly matters... they seem difficult enough to truly damage that I suspect, even were we to try, they might re-assemble or be easily repaired."

If Emet-Selch wants to try to blast these things to smithereens, Gilgamesh isn't exactly one to oppose the idea. Even in Wise King mode, he's never really been a great voice of restraint.

But, yes, in theory, they're supposed to try to disable rather than destroy outright. Property of research facility, scientific research, yadda yadda.

"But would you be willing to assist those of us on the technology affiliation?"

It's a little unorthodox, but this city was always going on about cooperation, after all.

/thumbs up, also sorry for late ;;

[emet_sulk]

"Ah... I see."

Emet-Selch isn't opposed to a little machine destruction but neutralising them - without damaging them, he presumes - will actually be a challenge.

"Very well. But if you don't intend to decimate these things then what would you have me do? I am a mage, not a...technologist."