And now, some plotting
And now you all know about the plot going on underway. You know the saying 'if it's too good to be true....than it probably is.'
Surprise! Ever since you've had a taste of your relatives during the Visiting Day, another AI has slowly been creeping over Stacy while no one was noticing. And let's just say, if you've never played System Shock?
SHORTCUTS TO THE POSTS BELOW:
Q&A You might have about the plot
Command Team
Safe Zone and Other Planning
NPC Offerings
SHODAN makes GLaDOS look like a tame puppy. The link is to her wikipedia account, and provides you with additional information about who she is. The AI has been planning this takeover for quite a while, but it was only when Stacy, in trying to make the ship's life better, used too much energy and had to shut down that she found a window of opportunity.
Thankfully(?!) SHODAN is also a megalomaniac and has pretty much spilled the beans at everything both so she can laugh at you pathetic meatlings running around the ship trying to survive and also because she things nothing can go wrong. She's throwing rocks at you and not just killing off everyone because it's just that much fun to watch. She's like a kid holding a magnifying glass next to an army of ants.
LET'S SHOW HER HOW WRONG SHE IS.
NOW. It is important that you read all of this because it has information on what is happening on the ship and the plot can only really flow well if you all read this and remember it well;
MAIN THINGS TO REMEMBER:
- The attack happens around afternoon on that 'day'. There is no warning apart from when SHODAN starts to speak. So your characters can't be prepared by it.
- SHODAN has activated power dampers all over the ship. These cause ANYONE who has magical artifacts, magic skills, super powers and items to be disactivated. You cannot transform into your Ranger/Warrior/Kamen Rider. You are reduced to a badass normal, or a very very low level character if you need magic to survive.
- So let me repeat this: Any character with powers are reduced to being normal characters. For example, Lash cannot use her CO Powers, cannot use the enchantments on items she might have, and cannot turn into a Ranger.
- Any super powers are gone as well. You cannot fly, shoot lightning, anything. You are reduced to only your body, your hands and your skills of survival in a ship that just completely turned against you.
- Magical artifacts will also be useless. Gadgets loose all their 'bonuses' and say, a pair of goggles enchanted with a spell would be normal goggles right now.
- That being said, there are places to arm yourself with guns and weapons in the armory. The problem is there are a lot of robots now guarding it. So it will require a team effort to get there. And SHODAN is no fool, she has robots trying to get int to destroy the place completely.
- There is also the Hanger where there are some giant battle units. Again, SHODAN is also going to target the Hanger as soon as possible.
- Things will be destroyed. SHODAN wants you to be angry at her. She's going to target shops, city parts, important parts on board, and food supplies.
SHODAN'S TARGETS
- Level 1: Medbay & Special Weapons Division
- Level 2: THE PODS. The Pods are going to need to be defended. There will be some pod related deaths.
- Level 3: Armory
- Level 4: The Drunken Dragon Tavern, Le Prefecture (the Council's HQ), the Onsen, Outsiders HQ, the Precinct and brig (Security HQ), Stormwind Clothiers, the W.I.T.C.H. bus, Awesomeporium etc. She's going for everything that provides attentional services and helps crew moral. Can't have that, tsk tsk.
Level 5: Hydroponics, Media Library, Mess Hall, the Sensoriums, The Tapestry Room.
DEFENDING AGAINST SHODAN
- COMMAND TEAM, THIS IS YOUR TEAM TO SHINE IN A REAL SITUATION
- Weapons characters might have
- Blunt weapons
- The Comm System where characters can organize IC raids
- Giant robots that are not powered by magical transforming items
- Later next week there will be a raid to properly fight back and shut down the power debuffers so everyone can get their magic/super powers/transforming items/enchanted weapons back. But for now? You're stuck in a horror situation. You are painfully 'human'.
FOR THE FIRST FEW DAYS
- Have fun playing your characters in sticky situations. This account will be available for you to NPC foes. The Robot NPC Guide is Here (game locked).
- The Communication System will become your greatest alley for all the characters to survive. It is, essentially, the only way everyone can contact each other.
- The entire ship is swarming with robots; SAINTS, Terminators of the 600-850 line, Cylons, Battle Droids and Daleks. Each type of robot have ways of being defeated and danger levels.
- The crew will need to defend and create some SAFE ZONES. Where the SAFE ZONES are will be entirely up to you guys.
CAN MY CHARACTER KICK ASS?
- Of course! But not in the super powered totally cool way. This is in survival mode, no super-powered skills, just wits way.
And let's just say the robots are hard to take down by yourself. Teaming up with random strangers for CR is STRONGLY ENCOURAGED.
LOSES OF ITEMS AND POSSESSIONS
SHODAN is going to attack everything, as said above. Apart from making safe zones, you'll need to keep things from falling down. It's gonna be a big job and let's just say that the entire city will look like a war zone once this is all over.
But chin up Meatship! Clearly SHODAN has no idea which kickass crew she's dealing with. She might have thrown a lot of really hard obstacles on your way, but you can prevail!
INJURIES
- Injury scale might go up to 10 for this plot. So be careful about traveling alone. Especially since Med Bay will not be readily available.
DEATHS
As said in the death paragraph in the game; "Beyond mild to severe injuries, we will warn you if your character's actions are liable to get them permanently maimed or disfigured, tortured (or if they might suffer great pain somehow), or killed. If you choose to pursue things further from the point of being warned by us, what comes will come, just as the character would likely understand what they're doing is risky." There are to be some risks in this.
DUDE, SOUNDS LIKE A GOOD TIME FOR ME TO KILL MY CHARACTER!
Please contact the mods first and we'll see what we can do about this 83c No promises we will do this for everyone, but if you've wanted to die fighting robots and saving the ship, we'd be glad to help you out.
Surprise! Ever since you've had a taste of your relatives during the Visiting Day, another AI has slowly been creeping over Stacy while no one was noticing. And let's just say, if you've never played System Shock?
SHORTCUTS TO THE POSTS BELOW:
Q&A You might have about the plot
Command Team
Safe Zone and Other Planning
NPC Offerings
SHODAN makes GLaDOS look like a tame puppy. The link is to her wikipedia account, and provides you with additional information about who she is. The AI has been planning this takeover for quite a while, but it was only when Stacy, in trying to make the ship's life better, used too much energy and had to shut down that she found a window of opportunity.
Thankfully(?!) SHODAN is also a megalomaniac and has pretty much spilled the beans at everything both so she can laugh at you pathetic meatlings running around the ship trying to survive and also because she things nothing can go wrong. She's throwing rocks at you and not just killing off everyone because it's just that much fun to watch. She's like a kid holding a magnifying glass next to an army of ants.
LET'S SHOW HER HOW WRONG SHE IS.
NOW. It is important that you read all of this because it has information on what is happening on the ship and the plot can only really flow well if you all read this and remember it well;
MAIN THINGS TO REMEMBER:
- The attack happens around afternoon on that 'day'. There is no warning apart from when SHODAN starts to speak. So your characters can't be prepared by it.
- SHODAN has activated power dampers all over the ship. These cause ANYONE who has magical artifacts, magic skills, super powers and items to be disactivated. You cannot transform into your Ranger/Warrior/Kamen Rider. You are reduced to a badass normal, or a very very low level character if you need magic to survive.
- So let me repeat this: Any character with powers are reduced to being normal characters. For example, Lash cannot use her CO Powers, cannot use the enchantments on items she might have, and cannot turn into a Ranger.
- Any super powers are gone as well. You cannot fly, shoot lightning, anything. You are reduced to only your body, your hands and your skills of survival in a ship that just completely turned against you.
- Magical artifacts will also be useless. Gadgets loose all their 'bonuses' and say, a pair of goggles enchanted with a spell would be normal goggles right now.
- That being said, there are places to arm yourself with guns and weapons in the armory. The problem is there are a lot of robots now guarding it. So it will require a team effort to get there. And SHODAN is no fool, she has robots trying to get int to destroy the place completely.
- There is also the Hanger where there are some giant battle units. Again, SHODAN is also going to target the Hanger as soon as possible.
- Things will be destroyed. SHODAN wants you to be angry at her. She's going to target shops, city parts, important parts on board, and food supplies.
SHODAN'S TARGETS
- Level 1: Medbay & Special Weapons Division
- Level 2: THE PODS. The Pods are going to need to be defended. There will be some pod related deaths.
- Level 3: Armory
- Level 4: The Drunken Dragon Tavern, Le Prefecture (the Council's HQ), the Onsen, Outsiders HQ, the Precinct and brig (Security HQ), Stormwind Clothiers, the W.I.T.C.H. bus, Awesomeporium etc. She's going for everything that provides attentional services and helps crew moral. Can't have that, tsk tsk.
Level 5: Hydroponics, Media Library, Mess Hall, the Sensoriums, The Tapestry Room.
DEFENDING AGAINST SHODAN
- COMMAND TEAM, THIS IS YOUR TEAM TO SHINE IN A REAL SITUATION
- Weapons characters might have
- Blunt weapons
- The Comm System where characters can organize IC raids
- Giant robots that are not powered by magical transforming items
- Later next week there will be a raid to properly fight back and shut down the power debuffers so everyone can get their magic/super powers/transforming items/enchanted weapons back. But for now? You're stuck in a horror situation. You are painfully 'human'.
FOR THE FIRST FEW DAYS
- Have fun playing your characters in sticky situations. This account will be available for you to NPC foes. The Robot NPC Guide is Here (game locked).
- The Communication System will become your greatest alley for all the characters to survive. It is, essentially, the only way everyone can contact each other.
- The entire ship is swarming with robots; SAINTS, Terminators of the 600-850 line, Cylons, Battle Droids and Daleks. Each type of robot have ways of being defeated and danger levels.
- The crew will need to defend and create some SAFE ZONES. Where the SAFE ZONES are will be entirely up to you guys.
CAN MY CHARACTER KICK ASS?
- Of course! But not in the super powered totally cool way. This is in survival mode, no super-powered skills, just wits way.
And let's just say the robots are hard to take down by yourself. Teaming up with random strangers for CR is STRONGLY ENCOURAGED.
LOSES OF ITEMS AND POSSESSIONS
SHODAN is going to attack everything, as said above. Apart from making safe zones, you'll need to keep things from falling down. It's gonna be a big job and let's just say that the entire city will look like a war zone once this is all over.
But chin up Meatship! Clearly SHODAN has no idea which kickass crew she's dealing with. She might have thrown a lot of really hard obstacles on your way, but you can prevail!
INJURIES
- Injury scale might go up to 10 for this plot. So be careful about traveling alone. Especially since Med Bay will not be readily available.
DEATHS
As said in the death paragraph in the game; "Beyond mild to severe injuries, we will warn you if your character's actions are liable to get them permanently maimed or disfigured, tortured (or if they might suffer great pain somehow), or killed. If you choose to pursue things further from the point of being warned by us, what comes will come, just as the character would likely understand what they're doing is risky." There are to be some risks in this.
DUDE, SOUNDS LIKE A GOOD TIME FOR ME TO KILL MY CHARACTER!
Please contact the mods first and we'll see what we can do about this 83c No promises we will do this for everyone, but if you've wanted to die fighting robots and saving the ship, we'd be glad to help you out.