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

William G Maryblood | The Faraway Paladin

[strength_of_will]

1. The Symbiotic Skyscraper

William and his Bursterfly and far more in synch than they were at the Elysian Grove. While William acts as vanguard, his Bursterfly becomes a nuisance to those who crash upon his shield. He's a lot stronger than his meagre frame would suggest - not that this seems to startle the techfauna which defend the control nodes.

"This reminds me of the undead demons back home," he mutters to himself. With a mighty shove, he manages to unbalance his techbear opponent and drives his spear right through the head. If this had been a flesh and blood creature, he would have gone for the heart. But as he doesn't know which part of the body contains its control unit, blinding it is the next best thing.

"Mindless, acting on certain stimuli--" He sidesteps a blind swipe from the bear and stabs his spear into the shoulder joint. One of the arms now dangles uselessly. "--And easy to predict once you understand how they act."

The only problem is that these things seem to repair themselves quite frequently. William sighs as the arm he just disabled begins to reattach itself. He just wants to disable ONE of these creatures and examine it... He's destroyed all the rest so far.

2. Who's that Pokemon?

Not every techfauna is a generic wild animal though. William stares at the yellow thing that dashes past him sparking electricity. He could swear that its shape is familiar...

Despite his better judgement, he starts jogging after the thing. Inwardly, he's cry-laughing.

Don't tell me that there are capsule monsters here too!!

3. Wildcard

If you have another idea, feel free to message me and we can work something out.

Pokemon, bless.

[gilgamess]

[ Mongrel, why you be chasing that Pikabot?

Gilgamesh looks so perplexed. Was William preparing to fight it, or trying to harness the energy, or something else? ]

Tch... I believe our goals are the nodes, you know.

[ That's what he says in passing, absent any other explanation, anyway. Not like he can't be persuaded to chase Pikabot, too. ]

But just what is that...

[strength_of_will]

I know, I know - I just thought it looked familiar...

[ He jogs to a halt, peering around to try and glimpse where it went. It seems to have gone into hiding. ]

It looked like, um... A creature I've seen before. I guess you could say it's-- an electric mouse?

[gilgamess]

I cannot say I have encountered such technology.

[ Gilgamesh halts with William. He's definitely considering, though. His first impulse was to focus on their more immediate goal, but ... well, in truth. ]

Do you suppose we should capture it?

... For research purposes, of course, hm.

[ Look, if Rhea'li and Lucy could yoink that Eevee... well. Gilgamesh is probably the wrong person to be the adult in the room here.

As with Lucy, William exudes those Hero-Protagonist/Master sort of vibes, so Gilgamesh looks to him a bit as he would Ritsuka if the latter were here. ]

[strength_of_will]

[ William gives it some thought. It doesn't seem dangerous in the same way those mechanical creatures were during their high-risk jaunt a little while ago. Then again, if it mimics what he's thinking of... ]

We can give capturing it a try. If it proves too dangerous then we'll leave it be and continue on.

[ But how to capture something that can potentially emit a dangerously high voltage of electricity? ]

[gilgamess]

[ Gilgamesh has an inkling of the difficulties William is thinking of with this. ]

Are you also learning the technology of this world? If so, it may perhaps be an opportunity for us to exercise our abilities with what we've learned thus far.

[ And so saying, Gilgamesh waves his hand, directing his Bursterfly and Lepidoperative to swoop down, following after the creature. By now, it has put some space between itself and William, taking advantage of the pause occasioned by their conversation and having turned one of the corners. ]

It has halted... [ As if curious or in thought, the mechanical creature seems to be looking up at Gilgamesh's own tech fauna: they are recording the information and sending it back to him. ] We can perhaps run a scan and figure out how to disable the high voltage, and then we may render it docile.

[ Oh, yes, he's going to have fun with this. Gilgamesh knows how clever William is, too, so he will probably have a lot to contribute in terms of helping figure out a way to disable the high electricity the bot is out-putting. Once that's done, they may even capture it, and make... what, of it? A weapon, perhaps? Or a pet? The thought briefly flickers across Gilgamesh's mind, though it does seem a touch silly. Well, having a curiosity of such a sort could be a useful tool for study, if nothing else... ]

[strength_of_will]

[ William's memories of more modern technology are hazy. As a shut-in, his most glaring memories of his past life feature a glowing screen and a dark room. It wasn't like he spent the time building computers or some such.

But as it stands, whatever he knows is probably more than Gilgamesh, who comes from an ancient tale. ]

Alright, um... We need to find a way to redirect the electric current or insulate ourselves. I can't tell from here how it produces electricity, so let's scan its body first.

[ Assuming it will stay still long enough for them to do so. William glances at his Bursterfly and starts to have it slowly approach. ]

[gilgamess]

Perhaps we could have these Bursterflies emit an energy dampening net...

[ Don't mind Gilgamesh. He has his aXess Link device pulled out as though it were his tablet (not the phone sort, but rather the ancient Mesopotamian sort... though he handles them similarly) and he's trying to do some quick research... ]

... though that might require collecting materials...

[ ... well, William is right about Gilgamesh having an ancient frame of reference. Though, he is an adaptable entity, and he has been summoned to modern times. Or at least what would constitute "modern" to his own world. So, needless to say, he is now on whatever the Magisterian version of Google is on "InfinityNet," Magisterian Internet, basically looking up "how to disrupt electricity flow in a cybernetic creature" or some such search engine query... ]

... these Bursterflies are capable of taking off in an aggressive, disruptive manner...

[ hence the name "Bursterflies." When they take off, sometimes it's like an airplane "bursting" into the air, as opposed to the gliding, calm flights that they and the Lepidoperatives engage in at other times. ]

... perhaps this could be made use of to disrupt its electrical flow?

[ that might be the simplest solution, though it's not guaranteed to work. ]

[strength_of_will]

[ William is focused on trying to control his Bursterfly to do exactly NOT that: bursting into flight and scaring off their quarry. Although with two of the things now seemingly pursing the creature, it's looking like it might break into a run again. William can't blame it for feeling cornered. ]

From what I remember, emitting some kind of electrical pulse can disrupt electronics. I'm just not sure how to actually do that in a way that wouldn't also hurt us.

[ Ironic, perhaps, given his previous life. But it's been almost twenty years since William has looked at anything remotely 'modern' and there does come a point where technology is inscrutable to the average person. ]

What do you want to do? I think it's going to run again soon.