PLOTTING POST - Ivy's Grand Entrance
SO you're in a strange transdimensional prison, your botanical superpowers crippled, an unmeasurable distance away from everything and everyone you've ever known. First move?
CONQUER THE CES.
Under the cut:
Step 1: Access
Ivy's pheromones have been limited but not taken, so she can control someone only while they're nearby and not, say, live in and out of their apartment for weeks while they're in a drugged haze sorry Eddie. So the first thing she'll do is zero in on some poor unfortunate, breathe all over them and then ask some questions. This will end with them letting her into the CES and effectively acting as a hostage. They will be with her throughout and completely under her control.
I already have Kirk locked in for this, since he's one of the best fits for the 'male/human/warden/-2 to cleavage' profile I'm looking for. :V However, if there's any plotting mileage for your character being bewitched by strange chemicals:
Step 2: Victims/Hostages
Ivy's next move will be to densely overgrow the entrance to the CES, so anyone who wants to come in for a jog had better bring a chainsaw or machete with them. If anyone worms their way in anyway - or was in the CES already when she entered - Ivy will perceive them as a threat, but she's not looking to kill anyone. She will try to knock people out or pheromone them up, then keep them somewhere where she can keep an eye on them.
I say 'try' because some people will not be susceptible to her toxins - for example she can adapt to alien physiology, but that'd take more time than she'll have. Basically, anyone who causes trouble or who she can't keep under control by whatever means, she'll try to kill. She won't be able to use any other hostages against them, as her power limitations prevent her from ordering people to harm themselves or others.
Volunteers for this stage are optional, I can just say she had the astonishing good luck of picking a slow day for the CES, but if anyone wants their character to get killed or spend a few hours in a daze of Ivy-love for....some sadistic reason, then that's available to them. X3 This is also open to ladies, and to Inmates who have CES access.
Edit - Hostages: Black Jack, Rex (maybe Arthur), Prefect, Hoffman, Ariadne. Some of these guys will be released immediately after she makes her network announcement - she won't need them all and she's aware that if her hold on them is broken they'll become a liability.
Step 3: Takedown
Ivy will post to the network once she's more or less got things to her liking - maybe four or five hours after things kick off, in Barge time. After that it's down to everyone else to organise a group to go into the CES and deal with it.
Anyone going into the CES will encounter about ten feet of impassably dense forest immediately beyond the door, so there's that to deal with. Beyond that, Ivy herself will have the vines on her arms and whatever weapons she's 'borrowed' from her hostage(s), and her pheromones - although they'll only work at very close range. Ultimately though, she's not really adjusted to the new limitations of her abilities and can be outnumbered and overpowered. I think 3-5 people is the number I'm looking for here; more would be overkill and fewer might have trouble, particularly if she has more than one hostage by that point.
Edit - Team Takedown: Gaheris, Dick, Stildyne, Narvin, Will
When is this happening? In Barge calendar terms this will be taking place on Tuesday, but I'll post tomorrow and forward-date it in the hope of getting most of it logged before port - I'll be doing one of those multithread logs so a few things can be happening simultaneously for efficiency's sake.
So that's that, and I'd really like to get some volunteers and get some horrible CR rolling for her. ♥ Comments/questions/etc, bring it all on.
Edit: I think I have enough people this time! And I say 'this time' because there will definitely be a next time in some form or another.
CONQUER THE CES.
Under the cut:
Step 1: Access
Ivy's pheromones have been limited but not taken, so she can control someone only while they're nearby and not, say, live in and out of their apartment for weeks while they're in a drugged haze sorry Eddie. So the first thing she'll do is zero in on some poor unfortunate, breathe all over them and then ask some questions. This will end with them letting her into the CES and effectively acting as a hostage. They will be with her throughout and completely under her control.
I already have Kirk locked in for this, since he's one of the best fits for the 'male/human/warden/-2 to cleavage' profile I'm looking for. :V However, if there's any plotting mileage for your character being bewitched by strange chemicals:
Step 2: Victims/Hostages
Ivy's next move will be to densely overgrow the entrance to the CES, so anyone who wants to come in for a jog had better bring a chainsaw or machete with them. If anyone worms their way in anyway - or was in the CES already when she entered - Ivy will perceive them as a threat, but she's not looking to kill anyone. She will try to knock people out or pheromone them up, then keep them somewhere where she can keep an eye on them.
I say 'try' because some people will not be susceptible to her toxins - for example she can adapt to alien physiology, but that'd take more time than she'll have. Basically, anyone who causes trouble or who she can't keep under control by whatever means, she'll try to kill. She won't be able to use any other hostages against them, as her power limitations prevent her from ordering people to harm themselves or others.
Volunteers for this stage are optional, I can just say she had the astonishing good luck of picking a slow day for the CES, but if anyone wants their character to get killed or spend a few hours in a daze of Ivy-love for....some sadistic reason, then that's available to them. X3 This is also open to ladies, and to Inmates who have CES access.
Edit - Hostages: Black Jack, Rex (maybe Arthur), Prefect, Hoffman, Ariadne. Some of these guys will be released immediately after she makes her network announcement - she won't need them all and she's aware that if her hold on them is broken they'll become a liability.
Step 3: Takedown
Ivy will post to the network once she's more or less got things to her liking - maybe four or five hours after things kick off, in Barge time. After that it's down to everyone else to organise a group to go into the CES and deal with it.
Anyone going into the CES will encounter about ten feet of impassably dense forest immediately beyond the door, so there's that to deal with. Beyond that, Ivy herself will have the vines on her arms and whatever weapons she's 'borrowed' from her hostage(s), and her pheromones - although they'll only work at very close range. Ultimately though, she's not really adjusted to the new limitations of her abilities and can be outnumbered and overpowered. I think 3-5 people is the number I'm looking for here; more would be overkill and fewer might have trouble, particularly if she has more than one hostage by that point.
Edit - Team Takedown: Gaheris, Dick, Stildyne, Narvin, Will
When is this happening? In Barge calendar terms this will be taking place on Tuesday, but I'll post tomorrow and forward-date it in the hope of getting most of it logged before port - I'll be doing one of those multithread logs so a few things can be happening simultaneously for efficiency's sake.
So that's that, and I'd really like to get some volunteers and get some horrible CR rolling for her. ♥ Comments/questions/etc, bring it all on.
Edit: I think I have enough people this time! And I say 'this time' because there will definitely be a next time in some form or another.