Plotting Meme #3

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How It Works

Welcome to the first plotting post for Mission #3 of Annexed!

How Mission Logs Work: There will generally be two main missions per month, with different focuses tailored to different skillsets (usually stealth vs. fighting, though other skillsets will be tapped on). Each mission will be posted in phases, with a prompt for the start of each phase. The plotting post will give you a rundown of what the missions are, how they might go, and what might be discovered. Characters may partake in whichever pat of the operation they choose, whether it's a large prominent part or a more supporting role. Characters may participate in both missions, and as many phases as they wish.

Mod Guidance: Players may request occasional scene-setting when they hit a point where they're unsure what might happen next in a log or what their characters might encounter. There will be a "Mod Guidance" comment that players can reply to in order to request this kind of scene-setting.

Completion of Missions: There will be a submissions comment for anyone who's threaded out a portion of the mission. Once a thread has been completed at least halfway, please submit your character's progress and plans for the thread to the submissions thread. These submissions are the main way that the mod will decide how the mission went in the next month's wrap-up post, so they are very important!

After The Mission: A couple of weeks after the mission is posted, a Relief Log will go up for characters to patch up, wind down, and interact casually. There will be a wrap-up post toward the end of the month after the mission is posted to explain how it went.

Mission Log: TBA

Insert Creative Mission Name Here

So far, the rebels have mostly been reacting to the Sylphid - they plan something and the rebels stop them. This month, the vibe around the Camp is significantly different because this time, they're making the first move. They're not just reacting, they're acting.

Remember last month, when the Witches put out a call for propaganda materials - for videos and posters and interviews and all the other footage and information that was gathered? Well, the Witches have cobbled that footage and those videos and interviews together into beautiful propaganda videos with special effects and a powerful message for anyone in the city who may be desiring freedom but who is too afraid to pursue it alone.

This month's meeting and mission overview will start off with a screening of three different propaganda videos that were made from the gathered footage and interview excerpts that were turned in by new arrivals and existing Witches alike. After the videos are screened, the Witch will be calling a general meeting at the Command Center where she will explain the situation and the steps to be taken to distribute the propaganda.

Mission A: Distributing Posters

Mission Appropriateness: Chipped or Stripped
Mission Focus: piloting, riding magical creatures, air battle

This mission will focus on distributing the posters that have been created by the Rebels. The Witch has had printing presses busy making up the posters and flyers created by player characters and NPCs alike. These posters will be distributed through a combination of a fleet of cobbled-together magic and tech based flying machines, a bevy of flying animals, and the Skyclad on hoverboards along with anyone who wants to join them.

Phase I - Flight Lessons: Characters will need to learn how to use the various methods of flight, training on hoverboards, an outdated fleet of flying vehicles, or a type of flying magical beasts called sky mantas.
Phase II - Distribution: Characters will employ their chosen methods of flight to deliver propaganda posters and flyers to be dumped over the city in sympathetic areas.
Phase III - Dogfights: Characters will need to conduct aerial battles while continuing to distribute propaganda materials and escape the city.

Mission B: Electronic Intervention

Mission Appropriateness: Chipped
Mission Focus: stealth, recon, sabotage, battle

This mission will focus on a stealthy invasion of the city to locate and overtake the broadcasting equipment and facilities in the city and infiltrate them. Once inside, characters will be asked to stop all transmissions on every channel and broadcast the propaganda films created by the Rebels. This will require significant stealth in order to infiltrate and some electronic know-how to work out how to broadcast the propaganda on the fly. They will eventually be pursued by the Sylphid as they catch onto the plan and make efforts to stop the broadcast in its tracks, and need to fight and/or flee the area as quickly as possible, either using hoverboards or hover-ATVs.

Phase I - Recon: Characters will need to go into the city and locate the broadcasting stations for the major entertainment and news channels in the city.
Phase II - Infiltration: Characters will need to infiltrate the broadcasting stations in a coordinated attack through a system of sewers.
Phase III - Broadcasting: Characters will work out how to broadcast the propaganda that was created by the Rebels and retreat as quickly as possible to avoid capture by the Sylphid.

Mission C: The Rescuers

A simple side mission involving rescuing anyone who has seen the propaganda and wants to leave the city immediately and escorting them to the Witches Camp without being caught by the Sylphid.

The Plotting Form

Please fill out the form below and post to plot for the event with other players!

<b>Character Name:</b> <b>Chipped or Stripped?</b> <b>Heba or Tian?</b> <b>Useful Skills & Abilities:</b> <b>Missions:</b> Just write which mission(s) you are most interested in participating in. <b>Phases:</b> Just write which phases of the mission(s) you are most interested in participating in. <b>General Plans:</b>

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Comments

Mikumo

[stargazed]

Character Name: Mikumo Guynemer
Chipped or Stripped? Chipped
Heba or Tian? Heba
Useful Skills & Abilities: Very experienced with infiltration/stealth work, capable fighter, used to taking initiative on these sorts of missions. Her Heba ability allows her to use existing water sources as weapons, essentially, so as gross as it might be, a sewer system attack is going to make that pretty useful.

Missions: Mostly B and C - she could potentially do some parts of A, but she'll be more focused on B since there's a more limited pool of people able to do that mission.
Phases: All three phases of mission B are fine with me, though I'll probably have more of a focus on II and III since they're likely to be a bit more "active". I'll probably at the very least put her on phase I of mission A for interactions with non-Chipped characters, though if anyone wants to do mission control type stuff during mission B if they're not able to go on the mission in-person, I'm up for that too.

General Plans: Mikumo has been pretty curious about the city, so she'll be taking the chance to explore and find out more about how life generally goes, but prioritising the mission. She has taken part in wartime broadcast hijacking back home, so she does have some applicable oddly specific experience for this one.

[tech_nically]

Likely leaning towards B-II and III too. Tech wants to have a look at how things are in the city as well. I think they're of like-minds here so far as exploration and mission prioritization goes. Mind him tagging along?

[stargazed]

Sounds good! Mikumo's finding it useful here to bounce information and ideas off people, too, since she doesn't have a whole lot of lived experience to draw on, so she'd appreciate having someone around to discuss initial impressions of what life is like in the city.