// MISSION: OROS_

[eluviomods]

// MISSION: OROS_ Welcome to our first real plot! We hope you're as excited about it as we are. We're going to be running events a little differently than the standard event post/mingle log combination. Because this is our first event, there might be a few hiccups in how it's organized and managed. Please bear with us if something occurs and we'll get it sorted out as fast as possible! We'll be asking for feedback on the event after it's over, so please let us know what you think. If things worked out, great! If something didn't work out or you thought something was too complicated or frustrating, we want to know that too! But, we will cover that more once this event has been closed. For now, please read this post in its entirety before asking questions! We are trying to be as transparent as possible and give everyone all necessary information. ➣ General Info Starting on JANUARY 9TH, the fleet will enter orbit around OROS. It is an ancient desert planet inhabited by Trilk and Feks. For several hundred years, they have been at peace, which has been brokered under the Einides Plains Treaty. Except something seems to have gone wrong and a civil war has broken out. Immediately, characters will have a message sent to their communicator directly from the captain. PASSENGERS, EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY, WE ARE ACCEPTING VOLUNTEERS FOR A RETRIEVAL MISSION. THREE SMALL TEAMS WILL BE DEPLOYED WITHIN THE NEXT TWENTY FOUR HOURS. ALL TEAMS WILL EXIT THE ELUVIO AND BE DROPPED PLANETSIDE. PROVISIONS WILL BE PROVIDED. ALPHA TEAM: ACCEPTING VOLUNTEERS OF THOSE WHO ARE EXPERIENCED IN HEAVY ARMS COMBAT. VOLUNTEERS ARE EXPECTED TO WORK AS A TEAM, FOLLOW ORDERS IF/WHEN GIVEN, KNOW HOW TO HANDLE VARIOUS FIREARMS. THIS TEAM WILL BE PROTECTING BETA TEAM AND THE RELIC. PLEASE REPORT TO LT. DOWNS IN THE ARMORY. BETA TEAM: ACCEPTING VOLUNTEERS OF THOSE WHO ARE EXPERIENCED IN INFILTRATION AND SMALLER AMMUNITIONS. THERE WILL BE AT LEAST SIX DIFFERENT SYSTEMS TO BREAK THROUGH WITHOUT BEING DETECTED. THIS TEAM WILL BE HEADING DEEP UNDERGROUND IN ORDER TO RETRIEVE THE RELIC. PLEASE REPORT TO LT. JAMES IN THE FLIGHT DECK. GAMMA TEAM: ACCEPTING VOLUNTEERS OF RESEARCHERS. NO EXPERIENCE REQUIRED. VOLUNTEERS WILL BE EXPECTED TO COMPLETE SMALL OPERATIONS OVER THE COURSE OF THE MISSION PARAMETERS. MAY BE REQUIRED TO RETRIEVE SAMPLES. PLEASE REPORT TO LT. JACKSON IN RESEARCH. Characters will be free to choose if they would like to participate in any branch of this mission. ICly, they'll be interviewed by the lieutenant to whom they report in order to determine if they're qualified to join the team. All interviews are handwaved, with the assumption that the lieutenant asks a lot of questions about the character's skills and experience and ends with giving the character a portfolio with their assignment and objectives. ICly, team leaders will be named when the teams are assembling in the hangar to head down to the LZ. OOCly, team leaders will be chosen by RNG from the pool of characters who are volunteered for the role. OOCly, team leaders will be chosen through RNG from the pool of characters who sign up for the team and indicate that they want to be considered for selection. Further below we will break down each team and what their duties will contain. There will be no single group log for the event! You'll be able to make your own logs and network posts as necessary. Please tag event-related posts to the network or log communities with the !event tag for easy identification. These have been added to both the network and log communities! There will be two communication filters for characters who are heading down to Oros: team-locked posts and general posts. Team-locked posts will be accessible only to members of the character's team. This way characters can ICly coordinate and speak to teammates without having to go to individual contact posts. When making a team-locked network post, please specify what team it is for in the subject line: Alpha, Beta, or Gamma. General posts will be accessible to all characters in the game, whether they're on the planet or still in space. Because this isn't a social visit, only characters who are participating in the mission in some form or other will be able to go to the planet. Characters who are not part of the three teams will not be able to go to the planet. ➣ Teams ALPHA TEAM This team will be compromised of characters who are experienced in combat. It will be expected for characters to know how to use various kinds of weapons (guns, explosives, knives, and so on). If they do not know how to fight, they will not be selected for the team. So, please only volunteer your character if they have proper experience! Their mission objective will be protection of Beta Team without question. Alpha Team will take point the majority of the travel distance to keep a clear path for Beta. Members of Alpha will be expected to kill without question or hesitation. Above all, Beta and the Relic must be protected at all costs. The chosen team captain will have to work very closely with the chosen team captain of Beta Team to coordinate movements and make sure they are progressing as a cohesive unit. Please fill out the following form if you have a character suited to Alpha Team and reply HERE: <span style="font-family: arial"><b>CHARACTER:</b> <b>EXPERIENCE:</b> <b>ABILITIES:</b> Briefly explain. <b>ADDITIONAL NOTES FOR CONSIDERATION:</b> <b>OFFER FOR TEAM LEADER:</b> Yes or no BETA TEAM This team will be compromised of characters who can infiltrate areas without being caught. Spy types, quiet types, and so on. If your character is loud, clumsy, or a lone wolf type, this is not the team for them. Hackers are a very big plus for this team! Their mission objective will be to closely work together as a team to figure out a way past the alien systems to get to the heart of the Trilk base to retrieve the Relic and the best way to transport it back to the Eluvio. The chosen team captain will have to work very closely with the chosen team captain of Alpha Team to coordinate movements and make sure they are progressing as a cohesive unit. Please fill out the following form if you have a character suited to Beta Team and reply HERE: <span style="font-family: arial"><b>CHARACTER:</b> <b>EXPERIENCE:</b> <b>ABILITIES:</b> Briefly explain. <b>ADDITIONAL NOTES FOR CONSIDERATION:</b> <b>OFFER FOR TEAM LEADER:</b> Yes or no GAMMA TEAM This team will be compromised of anyone who wishes to go planet side but doesn't fit the requirements for Alpha or Beta. These characters will be given their operations by Lt. Jackson and sent down to Oros to complete them. These operations are at the character's own risk! They may be provided protection by means of a weapon, but will have no further chaperone to aid if something goes wrong. These operations can be done at any time during the overall mission, but must be completed by the mission end to count. Please see further below on the objectives available and how to complete them! When signing characters up for teams, please choose the team that best fits your character's skills, abilities, and temperament. As this is a top priority assignment, the crew isn't messing around and won't be playing fast and loose with assignments. We'll be looking over sign ups and if your character's abilities and experience don't jell with the requirements of the team you sign up for, we'll ask you to choose another team. Otherwise, we'll be responding with a note that the character was accepted onto the team by the lieutenant in charge. Sign ups for teams will close at 8:00PM EST on Monday, January 9th. If you haven't signed up by then, your character will not be able to participate. Once sign ups close, we'll be RNGing the team leaders and informing the teams of who their leaders are. ➣ Alpha Team Mission Alpha Team will have the busiest job of all the teams. Not only do they have to keep Beta Team protected and provide cover whenever necessary, but they have to keep off encroaching Trilk and Feks (because they definitely are coming)! The landscape of Oros isn't a kind one and Alpha Team will have to mow down everything in their path, be it aliens, trees, walls, or miscellany. Due to Alpha Team forging the way for the mission, they will set the pace and Beta Team must follow. Once they reach the Trilk homebase, Alpha will remain outside the walls and ward off any encroaching alien units. They are not to follow Beta Team inside! Before leaving the Eluvio, each character who is chosen for the team will be provided with: 1 rocket launcher with 3 rockets 1 hardlight knife 1 handgun plus extension and silencer with 4 additional magazines 1 laser gun that holds a terrible charge and will run out before the mission's end 3 fragmentation grenades, 3 incendiary grenades, 2 flash bangs Characters will be able to scavenge for additional weaponry once they are on Oros. Both the Trilk and Feks have weapons native to their species. More information can be found HERE. It is entirely possible to run out of ammunition during the mission, so use everything wisely! From JANUARY 11TH-FEBRUARY 18TH Alpha Team will be leading the way through the terrain. What they encounter is up to you. What happens is up to you. If Alpha Team and Beta Team wish to split into two groups and flank from different directions, that's fine! You must coordinate between the teams! That is absolutely required. It won't help if Alpha Team is traveling in one direction and Beta Team is staying behind then goes somewhere else. It isn't required for teams to thread with one another (but certainly will count), but team leaders must communicate with their teams and leader of the opposing team! In order for participation to count, we must be linked to an action thread of AC length in either community. This can be done in a group log of 3+ or a regular log. Remember it needs at least 5 comments from each character participating! Please keep in mind that this is a group mission. You'll need to communicate and coordinate with the rest of the players participating on this team. There are no lone wolves. The entire group will either succeed or fail together. Whether Alpha team's mission succeeds or fails is entirely up to the group. You can play it however you'd like, just be sure that everyone involved is working together and on the same page. If the mission's a success, the characters involved will be rewarded once all is said and done with an extravagant sum added to their bank account and a choice of a weapon from the armory. If the mission's a failure, you'll find out what happens on February 17th. ➣ Beta Team Mission Beta Team has, perhaps, the most important job of all the teams participating. Which is why they need to work closely with Alpha Team and follow their lead for their own protection. It will only help in the long run! For the most part their mission objective will be the same as Alpha Team, to just make it to the Trilk homebase alive. Once they reach the walls, this is where they split. Beta Team will advance through six different security checkpoints. What they are is left up to the players to decide, what the inside of the base looks like is up to players to decide, but just be sure the rest of the team is made aware so there aren't any mix ups! Entering this base will not be the easiest task to complete, but it is imperative Beta Team collects the Relic! Once it is safely in their possession, it's time to get their asses the hell out of there! Both teams will rendezvous and hit the ground running toward the extraction point. No matter what happens on the way out, they have to protect that Relic all the way back to the ship. Before leaving the Eluvio, each character who is chosen for the team will be provided with: 1 hardlight knife 1 handgun plus extension and silencer with 4 additional magazines 1 sniper rifle and 3 magazines total (each round only has four bullets) 3 fragmentation grenades, 3 incendiary grenades, 2 flash bangs From JANUARY 11TH-FEBRUARY 18TH Alpha Team will be leading the way through the terrain. What they encounter is up to you. What happens is up to you. If Alpha Team and Beta Team wish to split into two groups and flank from different directions, that's fine! You must coordinate between the teams! That is absolutely required. It won't help if Alpha Team is traveling in one direction and Beta Team is staying behind then goes somewhere else. It isn't required for teams to thread with one another (but certainly will count), but team leaders must communicate with their teams and leader of the opposing team! In order for participation to count, we must be linked to an action thread of AC length in either community. This can be done in a group log of 3+ or a regular log. Remember it needs at least 5 comments from each character participating! Please keep in mind that this is a group mission. You'll need to communicate and coordinate with the rest of the players participating on this team. There are no lone wolves. The entire group will either succeed or fail together. Whether Beta Team's mission succeeds or fails is entirely up to the group. You can play it however you'd like, just be sure that everyone involved is working together and on the same page. If the mission's a success, the characters involved will be rewarded once all is said and done with an extravagant sum added to their bank account and a choice of a weapon from the armory. If the mission's a failure, you'll find out what happens on February 17th. ➣ Gamma Team Mission Gamma Team will be given side operations that must be completed by the end of the mission. Not everything needs to be done and characters can absolutely botch, fail, and otherwise screw up the operations. Or successfully complete them. It's your call. Not every operation needs to be done, these are just here for other things to do besides the current larger mission objective. Characters can work in teams or solo, depending on the operation. A bonus will be rewarded to the characters who complete operations. To receive the bonus, operations must be threaded and reach AC length to be considered. These are first come first served, so please only undertake an operation if you are going to have time to complete it! Players are required to link their completed missions below! It is your responsibility as we will not be checking behind or reminding you. If you do not link a thread, a reward will not be gained! As a note, the threads themselves do not have to be finished when the link is submitted, but does have to be AC length (which means five comments per character) in an action thread! IMPORTANT POINTS TO NOTE: Sign ups will remain open for these until JANUARY 9TH and then be closed! So get your requests in as soon as possible! There will be no deaths on these operations! Injuries are fine but nothing life threatening, so please use your own discretion! Please remember that in order for these to count, you must thread them out! THERE'S NO SENSE IN GETTING KILLED BY A PLANT On this operation, characters will be sent down to Oros to collect samples of four different plants. A map with their locations will be given to those who embark on this journey. They are to collect a live sample along with a separate sample of seeds. Equipment to scan the fauna for information and collect the samples will be provided. Images of the plants will be sent to the communicators of those going on this operation along with bare bone information provided by the Research Department. They are not very clear or good. Further information about the plants can be learned once characters are planetside and can be found HERE. It will be up to you if or how characters find out. TIMELINE: January 11th-Feburary 2nd - This means the operation can be done and concluded between this timeframe. It doesn't and shouldn't take the entire time. REWARD: A hefty sum to their bank account, a poison elixir recipe and three vials TO LEARN HOW TO FIND, ONE MUST LEARN HOW TO HIDE This operation requires two characters. They will be given a map of a previously uncharted area along with a small, non descriptive device. For several days it may seem as if nothing can be found, then the device will give off a low beep. The team must chart the area and will discover a hidden entry to a deep cave. What they find inside is up to you, just please keep in mind the atmosphere and landscape of the planet itself. They are given explicit directions to find an out of the way area and bury that device before making their way back to the ship. This mission has the possibility to fail! It is entirely up to the players. TIMELINE: February 3rd-5th - This is a timed mission and will take the three days. One for travel from their drop point, one for exploration to discover the location, one for travel back to their pick up point. REWARD: A hefty sum to their bank account, a bag of gems native to Oros A GOOD MANY DRAMATIC SITUATIONS BEGAN WITH SCREAMING Characters on this operation will be given plenty of tools to scout the terrain. The goal for this operation is to get a better picture of the land itself and fill in the maps for the Research Department better than they were before. They are asked to bring back samples of soil, sand, moss, any form of grass that may exist on the barren land, and water. This mission also has the possibility of failure and is entirely up to the players to decide. TIMELINE: January 11th-February 11th - This means the operation can be done and concluded between this timeframe. It doesn't and shouldn't take the entire time. REWARD: A hefty sum to their bank account, a case of 6 marble sized anti-matter grenades GREED CAN BE A VERY POWERFUL ALLY Characters embarking on this operation will be gathering information on the Trilks. They reside mainly on the western side of the planet. While basic information exists about the species, the Research Department would like more. A basic outline of the species can be found HERE. The rest, you can fill in yourselves! Our only request is that you keep it in line with the information already provided. TIMELINE: January 11th-January 26th - While this doesn't need to take the entire period, it can if you want it to. Characters will just absolutely have to be back aboard the Eluvio by the 26th. REWARD: A hefty sum to their back account, a traditional Trilk bracelet made of bone and iron WE ARE DREAMERS, SHAPERS, SINGERS, AND MAKERS Characters embarking on this operation will be gathering information on the Feks. They reside mainly on the eastern side of the planet. While basic information exists about the species, the Research Department would like more. A basic outline of the species can be found HERE. The rest, you can fill in yourselves! Our only request is that you keep it in line with the information already provided. TIMELINE: January 11th-January 26th - While this doesn't need to take the entire period, it can if you want it to. Characters will just absolutely have to be back aboard the Eluvio by the 26th. REWARD: A hefty sum to their back account, a traditional Fek necklace made of a delicate chain that appears to be gold and a strange hologem disk If you would like to claim an operation, please use this first form and reply HERE. <span style="font-family: arial"><b>CHARACTER(S):</b> List all characters (and journals!) involved <b>OPERATION CLAIMED:</b> Upon operation completion, please comment HERE under the proper heading! <span style="font-family: arial"><b>CHARACTER(S):</b> List all characters (and journals!) involved <b>OPERATION:</b> <b>LINK:</b> <a href="">HERE</a> <b>OUTCOME:</b> Please briefly explain the outcome of the operation, especially if there are any failures! ➣ Event Timeline JANUARY 9TH - The fleet will enter orbit around Oros. Team sign ups and mission objectives will be discussed with the characters by the lieutenants in charge. JANUARY 11TH - Characters participating in the mission will be taken to the planet's surface as early as possible. Those who have committed will have received all provisions the previous day. JANUARY 11TH TO FEBRUARY 18TH - The bulk of the mission and operations will occur during this time period. FEBRUARY 15TH - The outcomes of all missions are due and must be submitted under their appropriate comment heading HERE. While threads don't necessarily have to be completed by this date, they should be far enough along that all teams can report in with what the outcomes are. If you don't submit your thread links and outcomes by this date, they will be considered failures. We will not be accepting submissions after February 15th, so make sure someone on your team is around to submit things. FEBRUARY 17TH - We will be posting the information for the end phase of the mission to the OOC community. FEBRUARY 18TH - FEBRUARY 28TH - Aftermath of the mission. Further details will follow on February 17th, after the results of all the missions are compiled. ➣ Penalties Because player participation directly affects the course and outcome of the plot, we ask that you be sure you're going to have the time and ability to take part in what you sign up for. If you're unsure of your tagging availability, please don't sign up for critical missions or plot roles. Players who sign up for plots and then fail to participate will be ineligible to sign up for the next two consecutive mod plots. However, we understand that life happens. If you sign up and something happens that will prevent or limit your participation, please contact us as soon as possible so that we can offer the space or role to another player. Failure to notify us of such circumstances will count as non-participation and the two event ineligibility will stand. We won't be honoring notifications of non-participation after the fact. ➣ Additional Details Please use this post for questions, sign ups, and plotting. As you're completing threads and missions, please submit them to THIS POST under the appropriate comment heading. The information you provide on this post is what we're going to be using to determine the outcome of the event on February 17. We encourage you to be creative during this plot by using the information that we've provided about the planet and nature of the mission. You don't need to ask us if it's all right to have a run-in with a giant reptilian monster or if your research group can find a specific kind of plant or anything of that nature. We want you as players to be able to contribute to and alter environments of the game as a whole. So if you want your research team to find a purple fern-like plant that induces temporary invisibility in whoever ingests it, that's great! As long as it fits within the framework we've provided, doesn't kill any player characters, or break the game the answer is yes. IMPORTANT NOTE: We're noticing that there's a very high interest in Beta team, however, everyone can't be on that team or the mission will fail outright. If there's still a large disparity between the members of Alpha and Beta when sign ups close, we will be RNGing characters for the team. How many slots will be determined by the number of characters in the game and the number who signed up for Alpha. We didn't expect interest for one team over another to be so high. So we wanted to make everyone aware of this potential change in the team as soon as possible.

Comments

QUESTIONS

[eluviomods]

[masterstudent]

Are the NPCs going to be giving reasons why this is necessary and what the relic does? Violating the sovereignty of a planet, killing their people and taking their stuff goes against everything Tigress was raised for. I can definitely have her sit out or go on one of the gamma missions, but either way she'd feel really hard towards the NPCs without a good reason for this mission.

[genice]

Thank you guys for all the work you've put into this! The effort and love you've put into it really shows. Loving the Eluviopedia community too! I've read through and appreciate that you allow for players to contribute a lot as far as world building (within the stated parameters), and came away with a few points wanting clarification.

For more general questions:

• Are multiple NPC teams being sent down, and the PCs are simply one of the different teams being sent planetside? In the case of multiple teams looking at different possible access points and/or locations of the relic, having only one real location for the relic prove true makes sense (GO NEWBIES YOU DID IT), but I would love an idea of how this looks to the PCs themselves. Are they seeing themselves served up as sacrificial lambs? Or are they being included in something that the crew is already running missions on, and they're asking for additional assistance from their newest arrivals?
  
  
• Is there specific reasoning for the smash and grab missions of Alpha and Beta taking all Jan 11 - Feb 15th+? From the set up, it almost seems like the Gamma missions could all run first and wrap by the 26th (minus the cave one) and then the Alpha/Beta mission could take off on the 26th, better informed about the planet and its species, to perform their function from the 26th to the 15th of February. Right now it's kind of funky seeing that the smash and grab takes over a month and locks those characters into extended periods of time trekking across a desert landscape to the annoyance and aggression of both native species. It feels like asking for a lot of ad libbing on the behalf of players as there's really only one objective achieved (get to temple, grab relic, get out), and I worry about people losing steam or traction due to things stretching on too long. But! I acknowledge I won't participate in that part of the mission, so this is said with a grain of salt included.
  
  
• Is the Eluvio the only ship/fleet in orbit?
  
  
• In a general sense, is it okay to have IC reactions to the Alpha/Beta/Gamma mission be negative? Can communications be sent to the Captain regarding any/all aspects of this? I don't expect the Captain will be responding or in contact, but is it allowed to happen ICly?

Things actually relevant to the side missions (which is where the one I'm playing would better slot in). Most of these are yes/no questions, to be honest!

1. Are the resident species space-faring in any capacity?
   
2. Have they met space faring races before?
   
3. Will either species mention/indicate knowledge of anything about relics?
   
4. Are both species already having territorial disputes over the region in which the Relic is located, or do they only enter the region if/when the Alpha/Beta teams are detected there?
   
5. Are rewards being stated up front to the PCs? aka do this mission, we pay you well, etc.
   
6. Can the species information side plots be run as diplomatic missions? Kind of like the idea of first contact with the current newbie crew. I see both don't have known verbal languages of much depth, but there are creative ways to work on communicating across species divides!
   
7. With the current calendar of events, will those who are studying the native species/talking with them be targeted once the threat to the Relic becomes known? Or is the tech level low enough that the places they are might not have the information about outsiders/unknown agents threatening the Relic?
   
8. What is the tech level on world, compared to the Eluvio? Right now it seems like only the temple where the Relic is located is high tech (considering the Beta team parameters). To anyone studying the species, would this hold consistent and appear to be true?

That's all that came to mind straight away. Thank you again, mods!

ALPHA TEAM SIGN UPS

[eluviomods]

If you would like to sign your character up for Alpha team, fill out the form and respond here.

<span style="font-family: arial"><b>CHARACTER:</b> <b>EXPERIENCE:</b> <b>ABILITIES:</b> Briefly explain. <b>ADDITIONAL NOTES FOR CONSIDERATION:</b> <b>OFFER FOR TEAM LEADER:</b> Yes or no

[rumbling]

CHARACTER: agent maine
EXPERIENCE: he's been in the military for a while, was in some program and the team heavy there sooo he is pretty much made for this team
ABILITIES: he's crazy skilled in fighting and all kinds of weapons ( the bigger the better, eyyy )
ADDITIONAL NOTES FOR CONSIDERATION: he knows how to work in a team environment and is used to missions like these where he has to protect something/someone else. basically he's a bullet sponge just to make sure others are safe. and quite frankly he wants to get off the ship and do some damage...
OFFER FOR TEAM LEADER: no thx

[sixth]

CHARACTER: Wash
EXPERIENCE: Wash's been in the military since he was 18. He started off in the normal military and then was picked up by a special ops division.
ABILITIES: He's a normal human, but he's got special armor that gives him superhuman abilities. He's trained in multiple types of firearms, hand to hand, knives, and incendiaries.
ADDITIONAL NOTES FOR CONSIDERATION: Wash is all about teamwork and protecting his team. He's used to putting his life on the line to protect others. Also killing people doesn't bother him.
OFFER FOR TEAM LEADER: No, he'd really rather not.

[yotsubas]

CHARACTER: Miyuki Shiba
EXPERIENCE: She's infiltrated some bases before, to stop certain magicians from accomplishing illegal things. She's a magician who follows orders pretty well, but aside from that, she doesn't have much experience as say, her brother.
ABILITIES: Elemental magic, but mostly focused on ice magic. She's also knowledgeable of martial arts. (why do that when you can fight using magic, though...)
ADDITIONAL NOTES FOR CONSIDERATION: She is all about protecting!! She does look rather dainty but her supernatural abilities give her more to work with, and she doesn't really mind killing people if it's for the sake of justice or whatever it is that is """good""".
OFFER FOR TEAM LEADER: N

[k_2so]

CHARACTER: K-2SO
EXPERIENCE: K-2SO is a KX-Model Enforcer Droid built to provide facilities with more efficient security. In that regard he can handle a wide array of weapons and has deadly accuracy with his aim. He has been reprogrammed by Cassian and thus has a bit of an attitude and is not fond of being told what to do, but generally does it to some extent. He was built for defense and enforcement but can manage offence as well.
ABILITIES: He can withstand the environment with out need of support gear. He can carry more than the average human. He have deadly accuracy with a blaster or other projectile weapons. He has good computer skills and could assist in things in that matter as well. Very good at telling the odds of a successful job. Can be sacrificed and rebuilt later if need be.
ADDITIONAL NOTES FOR CONSIDERATION: He WOULD have wanted to go with Cassian and Jyn in Beta team, as he is also skilled with computers and would rather keep close to the people he knows, but I think he would have been assigned to Alpha team for his abilities and it looks like we need more people over in Alpha anyhow.
OFFER FOR TEAM LEADER: Oh no. That is not a good idea.

[leaderboards]

CHARACTER: Carolina
EXPERIENCE: lots of military years (general, best of the best in special ops, then some rogue stuff)
ABILITIES: full weapons training and hand-to-hand specialty to keep ammo use down, plus some stat bonuses from her armour if they're allowed to wear their own gear for this?
ADDITIONAL NOTES FOR CONSIDERATION: protecting people and getting objectives met is basically her whole deal, because she is easily swayed by praise from command and really really hates losing (people or the mission). she's also used to leading operations like this so will probably argue icly that she's best suited for the job oops.
OFFER FOR TEAM LEADER: yyy

[ninponeil]

CHARACTER: April O'Neil
EXPERIENCE: Completely unorthodox, but April has experience firing off sewer lid launchers and garbage ball cannons. THAT COUNTS, RIGHT? Aside from that she's also experienced with laser pistols, cannons, plasma guns, and astro suits.
ABILITIES: Telekinesis, telepathy, martial arts and weaponry.
ADDITIONAL NOTES FOR CONSIDERATION: Providing cover for a team is familiar ground for April despite being fit for the Beta team.
OFFER FOR TEAM LEADER: No.

[andreios]

CHARACTER: Sam Anders
EXPERIENCE: Famous athlete turned guerrilla warfare rebellion leader who was a robot-god all along
ABILITIES: Enhanced strength, speed, and agility because he's a Cylon. Also a pretty good shot with firearms.
ADDITIONAL NOTES FOR CONSIDERATION: Sam is all about Protecting People. If people are going down to get into trouble, he'll go. Especially if people he knows are getting involved, either for Alpha or Beta
OFFER FOR TEAM LEADER: No

BETA TEAM SIGN UPS

[eluviomods]

If you would like to sign your character up for Beta team, fill out the form and respond here.

<span style="font-family: arial"><b>CHARACTER:</b> <b>EXPERIENCE:</b> <b>ABILITIES:</b> Briefly explain. <b>ADDITIONAL NOTES FOR CONSIDERATION:</b> <b>OFFER FOR TEAM LEADER:</b> Yes or no

[brightline]

CHARACTER: Marco
EXPERIENCE: Participation in 3 years of isolated guerilla warfare on a small team (he functioned as the main tactician and came up with most of the plans), with at least 2.5 of those years under complete secrecy. This involved espionage including but not limited to surveillance of marks, spying and eavesdropping, computer hacking, and 'tagging along' with marks in tiny morphed form. Marco is very comfortable with use of and hacking computer systems both human and alien, and is a very quick learner with alien tech (he has a lot of practice at it).
ABILITIES: Marco has the ability to morph into any living creature he can touch and acquire, can stay in that form for 2 hours and while in morph is capable of communicating silently and privately. More in-depth explanation here.
ADDITIONAL NOTES FOR CONSIDERATION: He can also provide firepower/protection via battle morphs if necessary. Good at working on a team, won't leave a teammate behind, but also is uninclined to be ethically complicated.
OFFER FOR TEAM LEADER: no

[doxing]

CHARACTER: sombra.
EXPERIENCE: most notorious hacker in overwatch's verse. genius in hacking and cryptography. professional in espionage and intelligence assessment. has supposedly hacked into what's called a "god program", sentient artificial intelligence with almost deity-like influence over the world's inner-workings. has stolen experimental technology, has brought entire megacorporations to their knees, and boasts over twenty years of experience.
ABILITIES: as stated previously, is an expert in hacking and cryptography. can hack through touch and filament-like code from her gloves and, thanks to cybernetics grafts, can upload extreme amounts of information directly to her head. can use thermoptic camouflage to blend into her surroundings and achieve "invisibility". uses a translocator to essentially teleport herself to a recall device she can throw out at her leisure. finally, has an electromagnetic pulse that covers a certain radius that nullifies all tech in the vicinity.
ADDITIONAL NOTES FOR CONSIDERATION: can work well in a team environment, but is a bit of a loner when it comes to socialization. she'll become reclusive and desire to work alone if she decides the team is worthless and impeding her. this could get the rest of the team into a great deal of trouble, but she'll always return in the end. gotta stay alive!
OFFER FOR TEAM LEADER: no.

[indigo5a]

CHARACTER: Shaw
EXPERIENCE: A former U.S. Marine and agent of the Intelligence Support Activity (sort of like the CIA).
ABILITIES: She's experienced in martial arts, firearms (sniping in particular), infiltrating secured locations, safe-cracking. Can also be a field medic as needed.
ADDITIONAL NOTES FOR CONSIDERATION: Not particularly social and probably will chafe a little bit at the forced teamwork, but I'll make it happen.
OFFER FOR TEAM LEADER: Yes

[canadese]

CHARACTER: Ax
EXPERIENCE: Three years being part of a guerrilla resistance team, plus three years ranked as captain in his own military and led his own starship for an indeterminate amount of that time
ABILITIES: Hacking, shapeshifting including potentially local fauna or tiny things like flies, undetectable private communication through thought-speak (would be able to relay directions if split up, for example), full description here
ADDITIONAL NOTES FOR CONSIDERATION: Able to fight/help defend team if alpha team falls through for whatever reason, either naturally or through morph. Used to working tightly as a team, but is skeptical of the mission and is largely signing up in order to stay in the loop.
OFFER FOR TEAM LEADER: No

[tenkofan]

CHARACTER: Hayatori
EXPERIENCE: Born and bred ninja (with an assassination specialisation) and Slayer (Oni hunter, and often performed reconnaissance in dangerous, demon-filled environments)
ABILITIES: Silent movement, concealment, spying, recon and stealth killing. Fast and very agile. He can see invisible things. He can lay a field which makes those within invisible and unheard (six uses, lasts 30 secs with a minute refractory period). He can also lay a field which stuns enemies for 10 secs (two uses, ten min refractory period). Any incendiary grenades he throws will burn hotter and longer. He has some other less relevant powers detailed here, like self-healing, armour-breaking and reviving other people from unconscious states.
ADDITIONAL NOTES FOR CONSIDERATION: He has no experience with hacking or firearms. Excellent with a knife however -- and even better with a pair. Would like to trade the handgun and ammo for a second knife. His invisibility/silence field will make him excellent support for any hackers while they do their thing.
OFFER FOR TEAM LEADER: No.

[aploun]

CHARACTER: lee adama
EXPERIENCE: he's been in the military for at least a decade and is used to the whole space fighting thing ( tho tbf it's more fighting in space than on land ). he's good at tactical plans and strategy, serving as cag for a while on galactica as well as being commander of a battleship.
ABILITIES: as stated above, he's got a good handle on being tactical and forming strategies on ops like these. he likes to think before he acts to make sure things will be a success rather than explode into a fiery mess. he's a decent fighter, knows how to use multiple firearms.
ADDITIONAL NOTES FOR CONSIDERATION: he works pretty well in a team environment and has an incredibly strong moral compass...??
OFFER FOR TEAM LEADER: ssssuuurrre. icly he'd definitely volunteer

[ouzel]

CHARACTER: Cassian Andor
EXPERIENCE: Nearly 20 years as an active member of either anarchist or rebellion factions during the Imperial Civil War spanning several planetary systems. Has experience as a solo ops member, part of a duo/team, leading said duo/team
ABILITIES: Baseline human as far as combat goes, but he is a great shot and an ace programmer/hacker, so he can help along those lines as well. Knows some basic field medicine. Good at organizing teams and amazing at both boots on the ground and wider strategy.
ADDITIONAL NOTES FOR CONSIDERATION: Cassian is used to acting towards the benefit of team, being sneaky, killing people without making a lot of noise, yadda, yadda.
OFFER FOR TEAM LEADER: Yes

[realists]

CHARACTER: Jyn Erso
EXPERIENCE: 10+ years in an extremist rebel faction and an additional 5+ on her own in the middle of a Galactic civil war.
ABILITIES: Jyn is a baseline human with vague force sensitivity. She is an expert brawler and an accomplished blaster marksman, knowledgable in explosives, grenades, truncheons, and small arms. She is hecka sturdy and will not stop until whatever her goal is has been completed.
ADDITIONAL NOTES FOR CONSIDERATION: Not particularly social, but surprisingly good teammate.
OFFER FOR TEAM LEADER: Hell no.

GAMMA TEAM SIGN UPS

[eluviomods]

If you would like to claim an operation, please fill out this form and respond under the comment of the operation you're claiming.

<span style="font-family: arial"><b>CHARACTER(S):</b> List all characters (and journals!) involved <b>OPERATION CLAIMED:</b>

[allweather]

CHARACTER(S): Reim Lunettes allweather & Zelos Wilder luxuriant
OPERATION CLAIMED: "TO LEARN HOW TO FIND, ONE MUST LEARN HOW TO HIDE" they're gonna yell at a cave

Plotting comment - Gamma mission for the feks!

[finethanks]

Hello everyone! I'm super interested in sending Eichi down to the planet, but he's very useless so I'll have to pick one of these gamma missions so that he doesn't like die or something. So!! I was wondering who else might be interested in WE ARE DREAMERS, SHAPERS, SINGERS, AND MAKERS!

I'm thinking a group of 5 tops would be the most likely for this sort of thing, but if more people than that want to do this one, we can all sign up together! CR bonding let's go,,,

[yokunaru]

Hey! Viktor's player and I were thinking of putting our characters in for that mission. We definitely would be interested in throwing them in with Eichi and signing up together.

CR bonding gooo

PLOTTING COMMENT - gamma mission re: trilk

[juniberries]

So I'm looking to have Allura involved in GREED CAN BE A VERY POWERFUL ALLY considering she is diplomatic in nature, her species tend to prefer peace over violence unless absolutely pressed, and will definitely attempt to talk to the Trilk and learn more about them and their species. Perhaps even try to figure out a way to broker peace between them and the Feks. Emphasis being attempt, of course, considering there won't really be a way to properly talk to them.

Not sure how many would be needed for this mission, so I'll echo the above and say about 5 or so would be great! I'm interested in seeing who else has been eyeing this mission.

[winscenario]

I'll toss Jim in for this! Usually he'd get more involved with the action-y things but there are already plenty of characters on that, besides he just got here so he's not particularly eager to go around "recovering" relics when he doesn't trust the captain or other senior officers on the Eluvio either. So yes, he'll happily stick to research and diplomacy, even if it leads nowhere in the end.

Gamma - Nerds with Plants

[straycloud]

Koumyou here is totally into skipping hard parts but definitely doesn't want to miss out on going planetside, so I'm going to get him involved in THERE'S NO SENSE IN GETTING KILLED BY A PLANT along with his partner in priestly bullshit, Ukoku. Given half a chance, he's going to try to pretend that it is taking longer than it should because a scorching hot alien world is a good time to him, and try to get anyone else on the mission to play along.

My only major personal goal besides trying to turn this serious endeavor into a camping trip involves possibly having what appears to be a sample going rogue on our intrepid heroes, maybe some kind of weird alien rodent that can camouflage itself as one of the plants in question.

[herbalsupplements]

I'm making myself official for plant murder/the lack thereof! Kurama needs some weird shit for his new collection.

gamma terrain mission thinger

[curled]

soo rn i'm throwing dorian in for the A GOOD MANY DRAMATIC SITUATIONS BEGAN WITH SCREAMING mission and he'll be dragging cullen along ( probably as pack mule shh ). if anyone wants to come along and be RESEARCH BUDDIES THIS IS FUN COME ON then pls feel free to throw something down so we can discuss what should happen! it'll be fun on a bun.

[stubble]

SIGH. ALWAYS THE PACKMULE. But no, Cullen will carry stuff and play guard and lookout and stuff while everyone does research stuff.