world jump # 4 event post: wrap up.

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I ▫ main IV ▫ premise       XI ▫ applications XIV ▫ activity II ▫ logs V ▫ rules VII ▫ bestiary   IX ▫ canon updates XII ▫ taken XV ▫ drop/hiatus III ▫ ooc VI ▫ faq VIII ▫ setting   X ▫ mods XIII ▫ reserves XVI ▫ players be careful in the dark. QUICK LINKS WORLD JUMP # 4: THE HOROLOGIUM. WORLD JUMP # 4: EVENT POST. MOD QUESTIONS GENERAL, THE MONSTER SIGNUPS KILL THE MONSTER, COLLECT AND CONTAIN THE CIRCLE, YOUR IDEAS HERE AN END IS IN SIGHT. Hello Circle Members! We hope you have been enjoying your time on the Horologium. We are aware that many of you are still playing out threads, and this is by no means meant to make you feel rushed. Enjoy your body horror and psychological torture, please. :) However, upon meeting the monster and losing Members at its claws, some Circle Members may be looking for ways to respond. IC, this event lasts from March 18th to March 24th -- when surviving members of the hunt rejoin with members on the Bridge. For those looking ahead, we want to give space for players to start deciding how to react. There are two main projects: ➜ KILL THE RABBIT MONSTER. ➜ COLLECT AND CONTAIN YOUR FELLOW CIRCLE MEMBERS. These are not the only responses the Circle may have, nor does the Circle have to decide on one or the other. A certain amount of Circle Members will need to sign up for projects in order for thresholds to be met and for changes to take place. You can participate in both. Each project is detailed below. We suggest that all Circle Members who aren't dead sign up with the projects they plan to support. The conclusion of the event will depend on how many sign up, and what happens will be detailed in a wrap-up log that will be posted on March 18th at 9:00 PM EST. You are nearing the end of your stay on the Horologium. Is it all you ever wanted? PROJECT: KILL THE MONSTER. With the help of the exploration teams who survived their interactions with the monster, and the Bridge teams who deciphered important messages with clues on how to combat the monster, you are left with a choice: Do you return to the belly of the ship with this new information? Do you fight the monster once and for all? Can you, sanely, go back into the darkness now knowing what waits for you? Even with a more informed plan in place? ➜ TO KILL THE MONSTER sign up here to join the project. They are going back into the belly of the ship and see if you can rid the universe of this nightmare beast! Depending on how many Circle Members sign up, this may or may not succeed. It is up to you, the Circle, to decide. PROJECT: COLLECT AND CONTAIN THE CIRCLE. You have more problems than just the creature. The bodies of your fellow Circle Members need to be retrieved and brought back up to your level of the ship. Unless you plan on leaving them down in the ship as monster food. There are Circle Members suffering from wounds who never went below as well. There are people right in front of you who need help. You can’t just leave them to go monster hunting, can you? Are there enough of you left to split up again? What are you going to do with supplies running low? ➜ TO PROVIDE CIRCLE SUPPORT sign up here. Are you going to survive until Astoria brings you back to the Temple? What happens then? Sign up here if your character wants to focus on each other: healing and helping and protecting what is left of the Circle. These are your choices, Circle Members. Or... PROJECT: ALTERNATIVE OPTIONS. ➜ TO PROPOSE ANOTHER PROJECT comment here if you have a different idea! Please make your decisions and comment by March 17th at 11:59 PM EST. It will decide the wrap-up log and the outcome for the Horologium! ➜ Any character who DIED will not be taking part in this wrap-up log, and therefore are not able to sign up. mod note. ➜ The Test Drive Meme for the April application round is being pushed back until March 24th. We want you to be able to obtain some level of wrap-up in the Horologium before we launch you back into the Temple. Therefore, the Circle members will be on the Horologium until March 24th, which is the end of World #4 and the beginning of the TDM. ➜ Because of this, characters will return to the Temple 3 days later than normal. If characters have been through a few jumps and would notice this, they can. ➜ The Game HMD will also be posted on March 24th, to give current players the opportunity to give feedback on the world and the game writ-large! ➜ EMP/ATP will go up as scheduled on March 18th. ➜ Reserves will open as planned March 24th at 9:00 PM EST, as will applications April 1st at 9:00 PM EST. Be careful in the dark.

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MOD QUESTIONS.

[acatamods]

GENERAL QUESTIONS.

[acatamods]

QUESTIONS RE: THE MONSTER.

[acatamods]

PROJECT #1: KILL THE MONSTER.

[acatamods]

The log will have several different prompts detailing what is required to kill the monster. Some may involve luring the monster into a different area, some may involve actual stabbing.

The monster itself will not be NPC'd by the modteam. Your team may NPC the monster (and, subsequently, kill it) however you wish. All of the powers of the monster (psychological manipulation, speed, and the like) will still be in play.

However, characters on the Bridge discovered certain things . . . whispers in the dark that could lead to some important clues to victory.

Sign up here, and formulate your plans.

[flimsylies]

Only wants to kill things.

[unpatriarchal]

Lotor is beheading this asshole for killing Allura, tyvm.

[guiltycharge]

local teenager is sick of the ship's bridge and wants to throw hands*

* probably can't actually throw hands, but can imitate a flashlight

[elegant_and_proud]

All on board the monster killing train!

[valuedstrength]

joining team monster hunter. he's got some anger issues to direct this way and you know probab a bad idea to let the scary thing live to terrorize people another day.

[lonered]

Count Keith in for monster hunting.

Let's get the thing in some zero gravity and bright light and get rid of it. :D

And not go paranoid and kill each other in the process! Go team!

[blindfoster]

Quentin is in for team monster kill too.


He might be able to help set a trap with his illusions. Also he is pretty sure this thing is moving through the shadows the same way his best friend back home does, so he has a few ideas about cutting off its escape.

[nogoldenmirror]

+1 dragon for killing the thing

[spaceforged]

One space lion reporting for duty! Shiro has experience in space fights and he owes that beast for all the friends and teammates it killed.

[thedarkbond]

As important as keeping the remaining people safe is...Ren wants some revenge for the decimation of Group A. With his Astoria powers back he can shapeshift into a knight with a fancy sword that, among other things, can sometimes shoot lightning, so that might be helpful.

[extirpator]

Kill kill kill

[intoningly]

its cryptid hunting time

[foundafamily]

Firo'll be helping out with this! He can also heal someone up if they get injured while fighting.

[absolutevalue]

Hopping aboard the Kill The Thing train, yep.

[transgressed]

signing up for this

PROJECT #2: COLLECT AND CONTAIN THE CIRCLE.

[acatamods]

What it says on the tin! Don't want to engage in pure psychological nightmare? Maybe collecting the bodies of your fellow Circle members and living to fight another day is your speed. Maybe you need to focus on healing the injured, and mitigating the damages until Astoria brings you home.

Sign up here, and pray you all get out alive.

[mollymocked]

Yeah, Molly's all for killing things, but keeping your group safe and alive is more his speed. SORRY UNIVERSE.

[cakewitch]

Always here to help!

[brodakota]

North can help out here because that monster is a big nope!

Can also reinforce barriers if need be.

PROJECT #3: ... ???

[acatamods]

Any other ideas? What is your character doing? Let us know here.

Monster killing - plotting

[spaceforged]

Okay, so. Now we all know this is killing the monster is going to succeed. Let's talk how we're going to achieve this.

Information: The bridge crews unlocked messages and data. Who wants to share that with the team pulling together? I want to make sure everyone has an impact on this killing the beast.

Plans: So, who is doing what as we descend to kill the monster? Obviously, we got a lot of flexibility with the attacks laid out for easy npcing and we can break into smaller threads (for all our sanity) but having a general plan on how everyone will get the job done would be ideal!

Especially when that plan could depend on the info unlocked. Putting this up so we can plan and see all this stuff organized. We might not get to thread all of it, but we will at least have a clear timeline/history of the fight.

[lonered]

Keith's plan involves his sword and the creature's head. So. There's that. But he's very keen on everyone organizing and knowing each other's skills -- and making sure they take stock of powers once they get down there too. His flight power is back, so he'll be aerial combat and have a pretty good advantage if gravity goes wonky.


Quentin's illusions can help people hide and camouflage to ambush and trap the monster. Maybe. Also he will be pretty vocal about the fact that they need to cut off the monster's retreat by taking away its shadows, since that seems to be how it moves. It reminds him of the shadow roads the Caith Sidhe use back home, so he hopes it sort of works the same way. You can't travel through shadows if there aren't any. He can create a light illusion, so he's not sure if that will be enough.