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

[lightduties]

[Unfortunately, electricity is one of elements he doesn't know any spells for. It certainly would come in handy whenever he encounters mechanical beings with weaknesses to electricity (i.e. all of them). It's an unfortunate oversight, really. And he's going to do absolutely nothing to correct that weakness.

His rocky construct, Titan-egi, holds the struggling mechanical creature without any kind of emotion.]

Knocking it out seems for the best, cute as it is.

[A pause as he peers at it, scanning it with the aXess device and reading over the description.]

The scanner indicates this creature is an Eev-33. Supposedly it can change shape when exposed to different stimuli...

[lunardreaming]

Really.

[ It comes out flat, but Lucy actually is kind of interested. A robot that can change shape when exposed to different stimuli? She's never heard of anything like that; it sounds pretty cool.

But she's trying not to get distracted from her work, so she refocuses. Doubles down, engaged her cyberdeck a little harder. Eyes lighting up orange with the hack-work, Lucy's world narrows down to code and numbers. She's close enough to shutting down the node, and once they get enough of them, the disruption will end, and the tech-fauna here won't be coming after their asses anymore.

A minute more, and it's done. The screens go dark. ]

Node's down. Any changes to the robot?

[lightduties]

[Rhea'li can't help but watch Lucy at work with some interest; though his homeland has a decidedly magical bent and the technology that exists is almost indistinguishable from magic in many ways, it's nothing like the way people can interface with the systems here.

He glances down at the Eev-33 held in his Titan-egi's stubby little arms. Unfortunately, it still appears to be struggling to escape, still caught in under the disruption's thrall.]

Nay. If we are to proceed without hassle, it would be best if you knocked it out.

[If these creatures are effectively mechanical versions of the biological creatures he's much more familiar with, then he's loath to kill it unnecessarily. But they've a job to do and they can't have this little robot dogging their steps, as cute as it is.]

[lunardreaming]

[ Lucy nods, and with a thought, she dives into the robot's coding. Just a surface level scan, not deep enough to render her immobile, but just enough that she can grab the thing's programming, give it a quick yank, and overload its electrical circuits.

It yelps, flickers with electricity-- and then ripples, its metal plating turning a bright yellow, a ruff flaring up around its neck, ears elongating. And then it topples over, unconscious.

Lucy blinks. ]

Now I kinda feel bad.

[ She steps closer, crouching down to examine the bot. She gives Rhea'li little elemental a curious glance, and restrains the urge to poke it. ]

I guess that's one of the different stimuli you mentioned. Huh.

[lightduties]

[Fascinating. Rhea'li watches the mechanical creature's shape change from the electricity in rapt attention. Would it be able to revert back to its original form later? Something to research later, mayhaps.

He doesn't approach it, instead keeping attention outwards in case other mechanical creatures find them and are looking for a fight.]

Let us press on before it wakes.

[A pause as he considers Lucy's understated interest in it.]

Once our work here is done we can come back and check on it, if you'd like.

[lunardreaming]

[ Abruptly, Lucy realizes she's been caught caring about something. She's not a fan of that. So she stands, makes an expression like she's rolling her eyes without actually doing it, and says: ]

No point. It's just a bot.

[ She doesn't give it a second glance as she moves away, looking upward at the ceiling as she studies the blueprint file she'd snagged. The rest of the nodes are easy enough to see in the overlay on her vision. ]

Come on. Next node's two stories up and on the other side of the building.