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Event #002: Training in High Rise Village, Pt II
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.
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.
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
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.
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. ]
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!
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!
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'course you did.
[ Of course Gilgamesh fought an Evil of Humanity that's also a primordial goddess and also a dragon. Why does she even ask? Just when she thinks his stories and experiences can't get more ridiculous, he somehow manages to surprise her.
She turns her attention back to the stack of servers powering the node, and dives in. It's complicated, but nothing she can't deal with -- mostly, it just seems like it'll be time consuming, so it's best that she gets started right away. Out of the corner of her eye, she takes note Gilgamesh summoning a pair of guns and firing what have to be Bios bullets at the dinosaur-bot, and nods to herself, sure that he'll manage to secure the situation.
Reasonably sure, at least. Lucy's too much of a pessimist not to assume that something will probably go wrong. ]
This'll take a few minutes. Bit longer, maybe.
she can react however and i'll roll with it lmaooo; he has a Plan but idk if she wants to do smth
On the matter of dinosaurs, Quetzalcoatl's pterodactyls were also involved in that conflict, as I recall...
[ Though, Gilgamesh thinks, he is not an expert on such beasts. Now, were one speaking of a divine animal, such as the Bull of Heaven, then he might be more well-versed, but -- ]
Ah. [ He murmurs. ] How troublesome...
[ The grazing shot seems to have agitated the animal (?). It emits a cry that is distinctly not that of flesh vocal chords, full of the roar of cyber-materials, metal parts like gears shifting within it, and the next thing they both know, its movements become quicker and more erratic. More than anything, Gilgamesh seems to have startled this cyborg dinosaur, and now it's moving with a chaotic lack of a path, liable to crash into Lucy and the server if not diverted. ]
Tch. This mongrel. I will have to change courses, I suppose...
[ He shakes his head. But he does sound as though he has something in mind. ]
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Turns out it's pretty hard to do delicate coding work while a mental dinosaur is stomping around not far from you, but Lucy's worked under more tense circumstances. Dinosaurs have nothing on Arasaka goons beating down her door, and Lucy has always viewed stress as a motivator rather than an inhibitor. Her fingers fly over the keyboard, working in tandem with her cyberdeck.
When the dinosaur cries out, Lucy darts a look over her shoulder. Shit. Is that thing heading this way? Suddenly she wishes she'd acquired a gun.
She casts a wild gaze over the desk, and picks up a pencil, of all things, and throws it -- not at the dinosaur, but just past its eye-line, distracting it just enough to change it course a little. But not enough. ]
Do something, Gil!