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

[floweroftheapex]

"I don't know, it does make things more interesting." Musashi points out. The one thing she never has to worry about Magisteria being is boring, that's for sure. But she does seen a bit exasperated. "...but I sm getting a little tired of waiting for the fun part to start."

As they walk, a pack of machine hyenas watch them from the tall grass of a nearby biome. Musashi's gaze lingers on them as the walk past. Hmmm...a pack. And there might be more hidden in the grass where she can't see.

She prefers human (or humanoid or...you get the idea) opponents over beasts, but these ARE machines. Anyway, beggars can't be choosers.

"You go onto the next node. I'll catch up." She decides, drawing her swords and stepping aside.

"Those hyenas look fun. I'm gonna go fight them." And off she goes

[gilgamess]

Ah, and once more, Gilgamesh finds himself encountering the Berserker form of the Japanese hero, Miyamoto Musashi. Having interacted with one another previously, and even battled together in the group that fought those Fractured, Gilgamesh has gleaned some knowledge of her temperament now. Although their class distinctions seemed to matter less in this world, she was always quite a bit more gung-ho for such adventures than her Saber iteration, a fact which Gilgamesh could generally appreciate.

At the moment, however, he is left looking somewhat exasperated as Musashi departs for her battle. After all, even if Gilgamesh's own class was different and he is the wiser/older version of himself... just what exactly is he doing, handling this tedium of finding and disabling a mechanical node, while Musashi is taking charge of the battle? Gilgamesh is feeling rather disgruntled at the moment!

"Hmph... the sacrifices a man must make for the good of his people..."

Not that Magisteria is his kingdom, but being Gilgamesh, he could lay claim to it nonetheless. He was after all the Chief Financial Advisor among the Otherworlders, thus he had a Responsibility to this citizenry and those who had arrived with him, he supposed. Heroic sage-king life might be a thankless and long-suffering one, but Gilgamesh supposes there is no choice but for him to assume such a mantle.

At any rate, he proceeds to dial in the coordinates, seeking out the mechanical structure responsible for this disruption, that he might pursue and interact with it, using the scripts and codes he gained from their former quest together. Just what role is this world training him for, anyway? Gilgamesh has never thought to end up working with his hands on technology of such a sort... and yet here he is, performing a role more adequate to someone like Lucy.

[floweroftheapex]

As Gilgamesh works, he hears the sound of battle somewhere behind him, of electronic snarls and the clashing of Musashi's swords. Fun is clearly being had.

After a moment, a shadow passes overtop of the King, and a hyena lands in a heap a few feet away, apparently tossed there by the intensity of one of Musashi's strikes. It gets to its feet, blearily, but still functional...

And its gaze falls on Gil. It bares teeth, and advances.

"Oh! Sorry, sorry! I think I got a little over-eager!" Musashi calls out. "You need a hand, Boss?"

[gilgamess]

Fun is clearly being had, but not by Gilgamesh. He is in Grumpy Cat mode right now.

Then that metallic hyena lands in front of him, and well... Gilgamesh is still in Grumpy Cat mode, so he summons his axe and strikes the beast aside. It does not seem to be expecting the blow, so it lands particularly sharply, though he does not immediately check to see whether it has been completely felled.

Okay, admittedly, he does feel a little better, having had a bit of a chance for fun. But the vibes are still all off, here. However, there's no time to be thinking like this. They both have more pressing matters to attend to.

... ah. And once again, Musashi uses that title. Gilgamesh has to wonder just what his Edo self was like, exactly. Not that much of his own doings would be likely to surprise him, but.

"Hmph... are you still fighting them?"

If so, he may need to check about this other one. Though he now has to decide whether she needs assistance or whether she has the battle covered, and what more to do before prioritizing the node.