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MISSION OVERVIEW: WAYPOINT SHRIL PT. 2
WELCOME TO THE ABA!
This is it - the moment you've all been waiting for! On Day :33, Waypoint Shril's transformation solidifies for the AURORA BLUE ARENA!'s opening ceremonies. Strap in everyone, it's going to be an exceptionally bumpy ride.
Remember that until the competition line-up is revealed at the opening ceremonies, characters won't know what's ICly in store for them. Additionally, remember that teams must be comprised of at least two and no more than four characters. Once they'd been chipped for the competition, teams are required by the ABA! and Intergalactic Underlaw to compete - so no backing out just because you've got cold feet, bucko!
A log will be posted for the Opening Ceremonies and subsequent events, however you're encourage and welcome to make logs of your own if you're characters either aren't competing or at busy between events. There will also be a Closing Awards Ceremony log posted individual of the catch-all. Remember that it's not required for Hosts to compete, but if you're going to try and get your grubby hands on the prize pool it might be a good idea to do so before they're being awarded to whoever makes it to the winner's podium.
COMPETITION OVERVIEW
DAY :33 - :39 (April 10 - April 30)
OPENING CEREMONIES
The Aurora Blue Arena! officially kicks off with the opening ceremonies. On Day :33 the Stadium opens and the seats begin to fill (people have been lining up for about three days prior). Excitement builds until it finally crescendos with the beginning of the event.
The Opening Ceremonies serve to kick the ABA! off right - which means going very, very big. The show begins with an explosion - literally. The center of the stadium holds what appears to be a very, very large electric blue box. As the clock hits 7:77, a huge blinding and deafening explosion originates from the electric blue box. The crowd is stunned to silence for a moment as vision and ringing ears clear. Then they start screaming. Where there was once an almost empty field there is now a huge stage flashing with rainbow lights, flames arching overhead as a rainbow of beings dance across it in an intricate, unbelievably well choreographed performance of what seems to be a thousand people wearing very, very little. A live band playing hundreds of instruments that produce a deep thumping beat fills the air. It’s from the center of this cacophony that the three judges arise from the floor on individual platforms. They rise until they hover fifty feet above the performance, backlit by flames and rainbow lights. MISS MYSTERY - a two headed, four armed and legged woman wearing color coordinated domino masks and a power suit made out of liquid glitter -, SALDO SALDO - a writhing inhuman mass of shadows in a top hat -, and TALIUS REX - a giant purple lobster with incredible false eyelashes - are the biggest personalities in the galaxy and it’s they who hold the fates of the competitors in their hands, claws, and tentacles.
As the dance number comes to an end, the judge's voices rise to welcome the audience both here and across the galaxy to the most amazing competition in the universe. There’s plenty of pomp and plenty of circumstance as they highlight previous victors, past upsets, losses, and victories (all of it backed up by holograms playing out around them). Eventually, with a special look at the competitors in their reserved seats near the front of the stage, they begin to explain the rules.
Each competition will take up most of the day and be broadcast live - or as live as possible - for all to view. The hundreds of competitors go head to head against each other, racking up points for the viewer’s entertainment. A team must earn at least 70 points in each event to qualify for the next event, and every team that scores the prerequisite passing score will move onto the next challenge - if they have survived. With the exception of the final event, teams may only continue to compete if they have at least two surviving members.
As for the competitions themselves? Well, they’re glad you asked. They’re absolutely delighted to reveal the lineup. These challenges represent the most devilish games ever devised and they will make this the most entertaining Aurora Blue Arena! in history. Well? Are you ready to find out what you’re in for? If you say so…--EVENT 1: LIP SYNC FOR YOUR LIFE
The first event begins on Day :34. Every team will have two hours to come up with the most spectacular, unforgettable, amazing, show-stopping performance they are capable of. What kind of performance? Dance, of course. Each team must come up with a fully choreographed group dance number, complete with a hot name, a cool look, and sweet tricks which they will perform on stage for the entire galaxy to enjoy. This performance has to befit the competition, so you’d better make it flashy. You’ll have use of every piece of pyrotechnics available, every light - strobe, disco, and spot - every gel, every dope ass beat. These will be the tools you will use to craft the perfect performance. You wanna be on top? Then you better work. The judges will be scoring you based on technique, originality, presentation, energy, pizazz, and best use of deadly lasers.EVENT 2: WAYPOINT WROBO WRESTLING FEDERATION
On Day :35, all remaining teams (approximately 1/6th of the teams will have been eliminated at this point) will be given control of two color coordinated, ridiculously designed and decorated 400-foot robots. The robots are for one to two pilots (they're MUCH easier to drive with two). Over the course of the event, teams will be expected to duke it out with opposing teams via tag team wrobowrestling - Face VS Heel. Don't forget your tag team's narrative device - Waypoint Wrobo Wrestling is as much about telling an elaborate fiction as it is beating the opposing team's giant robots to a pulp. Your team will be judged on skill, presentation, performance, and theme. Victory isn’t necessary but if you’re going to lose, you better lose real good.REST UP, YOU'LL NEED IT!
Day :36 and :37 are off days - competitors are expected to chill out, reap the benefits of their fame, and prepare for the events to come. Get some shut eye! You'll need it! It’s also a good chance to mingle both with the remaining competitors and with your adoring fans. Standouts will likely start getting approached by people looking to possible strike up some lucrative endorsement deals.
Oh, and some competitors might be looking to narrow the field in some less savory ways.EVENT 3: LEGENDS OF THE BEAST NINJA GLADIATOR WARRIOR MASTERS
Day :38 is the penultimate event of the competition. It's a challenge of strength, speed, dexterity and wit. The Legends of the Beast Ninja Gladiator Warrior Masters is a series of challenges one after another, made up of obstacle courses and puzzles, as well as short battle segments - one involves standing on a small, unsteady hovering platform as you attempt to use a pole to knock off your opponent, another has you bungee jumping around a battle cage as you try to steal your opponent’s flag hanging from their back while protecting your own. The course is a mix of running, jumping, climbing, balancing, lifting, and rolling, and the puzzles range from figuring out which door to enter and where to find the hidden key to elaborate mirror and light based secret picture mysteries. Most of the challenges will only be completed by a single member of a team (allowing team members to rotate out between challenges), however the final challenge - an elaborate obstacle course centered around fitting through small, oddly shaped moving holes - where you're required to be chained to your entire team - is very much a group effort. The judges will be scoring you based on your time as well as how many of the challenges you succeed in.EVENT 4: DEMOLITION DERBY EXTRAVAGANZA & AWARDS CEREMONY
Day :39 is the last spectacular leg of the ABA!, followed immediately by the awards ceremony. There won’t be many teams left, so only about two dozen at most will be competing in the big finale - a massive demolition derby. The cars? Whatever your team manages to build (you DID manage to build something, right?) in the pit you've been provided. The demolition derby zone? Why, it's the entire Waypoint of course! There's no such thing as out of bounds, including the space surrounding Waypoint Shril. The only rule is stay alive and score enough points to win a place on the awards podium located at the central arena stage. Points are awarded by causing damage to or destroying others team's vehicles (and yes, your vehicle can and should be heavily armed), by performing amazing feats of bravery or total insanity, or for every teammate that's brutally murdered (either by their own teammate or by an opposing team - the ABA! and the audience isn't particular). By this point all remaining competitors should have at least 210 points. Once a team has accrued 300 points - helpfully tallied on every team’s dashboard - they may head directly to the winner's podium to take the highest available slot. If someone gets 300 points at the same time you do? Well, you better beat them there, shouldn't you?
OOC NOTES
As stated above, a catch-all log will be posted for the opening ceremonies and events. A separate log will be posted for the closing awards ceremony. Participation in the competition is absolutely not required for mission success; however, if your character is participating please use the appropriate subthread below to sign up your team. Please only have one sign-up per team (meaning if you're looking to find teammates, please make a general plotting comment or organize on plurk etc outside of the sign-ups thread proper). If you have any additional questions about the second half of Waypoint Shril, direct them to the appropriate subthread below.
Be aware that all character drops that happen OOCly won't take IC effect until Waypoint Shril wraps; we'll evaluate and integrate those once we've finished with Waypoint Shril, but for now it's safe to assume dropped characters are motoring around in the background.
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And what they loves right now is: big, loud, bold, and colorful. Electric everything (laser shows, color palettes, you name it) is IN. Black is only acceptable as a Statement. The more ludicrous, sexier, or violent - the better. No display is too audacious.
Every shoe Miss Mystery owns has been dipped in liquid metal and her personal assistant(s) spend hours sorting green candies (she hates forest green) out of her snack bowl. Saldo Saldo loves body modification even if they don't apparently partake in it themselves (??????????????????????????? they're a shifting cloud; it's hard to say what's happening there) - the shinier and more over the top, the better; they have a particular preference to transformation, beautiful things becoming horrible and vice versa and, uh, soft vore (please don't google vore). Talius Rex loves cute things and is said to have the universe's largest closet. He keeps a menagerie of exotic animals (the more humanoid, the better) and dresses them in clothes. Talius has brought some of his collection with him and can often be seen in the company of at least three of his favorite pets including but not limited to a cat-sized ogrebear in a three piece electric blue suit, a pinky-length snake wearing a tiny pink ribbon, and a bird with a lavishly expensive diamond necklace.
As for sabotage? OH BUDDY. THERE ARE SO MANY OPPORTUNITIES. If you're looking to sabotage fellow competitors, you're welcome to go absolutely wild. If you have anything you want our specific feedback on, just touch base with us. Otherwise, have a good time being a bad person.
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Like Annie was just joking about renting an alien for a vore performance, but I mean... she'd also do it.... Let's just not talk about her.
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Below Shen, the most valuable resource on Waypoint Shril right now is access to ABA! competitors or arena seating, OR a way off the waypoint entirely. People are either looking to have the time of their lives on the Station or just trying to get the hell out of the way.
Tl;dr: It's totally doable, just get creative with how you pay for it.
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BASICALLY can I go nuts with weird alien gossip sabotage he's learned?
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1. They try to get one of the judges alone so Petre can eat them, then from then on Petre would need to keep acting like that judge. Would this be possible/what kind of security would they have to go against to get alone time with any of the judges?
2. Petre just impersonates one of the judges without hurting any of them, all to get onboard The Fair Heart. They can either steal the prizes right there or use the opportunity for recon, check out the entry/escape routes and gauge/disable security, before the rest of the hosts rush in later on to pull off the heist.
Most likely she'll point to Talius Rex, as he keeps humanoid pets meaning a few members of the Nest can act as his pets and help look out for Petre in case things go south. OOCly, I just wanna leave the room open for as many people as possible to also participate in this
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Either (both?) is absolutely possible. While getting alone time with the judges isn't easy, it isn't rocket science either (particularly not if using the canon and/or symbiote abilities of Hosts to get around the judge's personal security). While the judges are very much high profile celebrities, they're mostly managed by a retinue of personal assistants and a small handful of bodyguards. This varies depending on the Judge (Miss Mystery has mostly bodyguards, and only two personal assistants; Saldo Saldo seems to have absolutely no security personnel and only a single assistant; Talius Rex rolls with a veritable army of assistants, body guards and personal stylists), but in general a good option would be to attempt to access their rooms after hours or meet them at one of the numerous parties or press pools happening during the event.
tl;dr: chomp and/or impersonate away. If you'd like to thread this out, feel free to set up a log and/or toplevel and link it. Otherwise we can just hash out a summary of events with y'all so you can go buck wild.
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On doing recon aboard the Fair Heart while impersonating Talius and retinue, what would the team be able to find in terms of best/easiest/least guarded entry and exit points, the amount of security hurdles the oncoming heist team would need to face and where the prize is located?
We'd likely thread this out but will keep you posted!!
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1. Sam + friends will lure in T-Rex to the pet store with an invitation to see new exotic pets that weren't quite legally acquired (so T-Rex would cover his own tracks) then Petre can creepytouch him there to be able to shapeshift into him. During this, Petre will attempt to eat T-Rex and will need other Hosts to stop him. Misato and any others who wanna join the fun will stop Petre and drag him to a room, only to have one of the assistants walk in on Petre!T-Rex after attending to the real T-Rex. Petre will then eat the assistant :')
Handwaving if ok: Petre!T-Rex + retinue will go to the docks and get an ABA! ship to take them to The Fair Heart under the guise of checking in on the prizes.
2. Petre!T-Rex + retinue go to The Fair Heart for recon mission. We'd like a blow by blow for what they will find here just so we don't hold up the heist team! The plan is simple: Petre!T-Rex arrives, asks whoever guards the place to escort him + retinue to see the prize, then ask for a tour around the place, pat the guards on the back for job well done and leave (hopefully) without drama.
We'll do this on Day :36 so anyone in the tournament can join too! Thanks!!!
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1. Yes you can do all this. Be aware there will be several consequences. Consequence one is reliant on what y'all do with T-Rex, if anything. Does he escape? Do you tie him up and leave him in a stock room? Etc. Consequence Two: The missing assistant will likely be presumed kidnapped and/or otherwise involved in a possible theft attempt. Security will be more alert as a result.
Handwaving Platform Alfa stuff: It's perfectly fine to handwave this, however what you do with T-Rex may color this differently. Let us know what's up with that and we'll give you additional details for handwaving purposes.
2. When they arrive at the Fair Heart, it will become very clear that the judge is not in fact expected to be there and that having him show up out of the blue is very strange and possibly suspicious. With work and cunning, this may be able to be smoothed but it's unlikely that the Fair Heart's security crew will be entirely comfortable with T-Rex or his "retinue." They're very keen eyed people, predominantly lizard-people and tough looking mercenary humanoids who are clearly very good at their jobs (and their jobs are mostly being paranoid and wearing extremely sensible outerwear). Depending on what's said/done, they may be able to get a tour but it's unlikely they'll get into the prize vault itself. They can take a tour of the facilities, but the longer they insist on being there the more they run the risk of being discovered (this may be heightened depending on what you choose to do with the real T-Rex in Stage 1).
What they will discover: The Fair Heart is a horrifically complicated cruiser ship with a series of twisting corridors, massive landing bays and cavernous cell block spaces which have been aggressively retrofit to house all kinds of material and equipment used during the competitions. Most of the utility spaces are empty hangars now that most of the gear is on Waypoint Shril, but there's still a ton of personnel and a huge monitoring and broadcasting station on board. You're free to make up any number of hallways, traps, tricks, big doors, comically complicated security measures, laser walls etc - we trust y'all to get creative and do things that are fun for you to mess with. Start with 'complex and intimidating' and run with it. The prize room itself is behind a massive complex vault door that the judge neither has the authority to access or the ability to open. It's likely something that will have to be forced (or avoided through alternate means of access), not over-ridden.
Let us know what's up with the real T-Rex etc and we'll get you some more details. Otherwise, let us know if you have any questions so we can help get this hammered out!
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The real T-Rex will only be poked by Petre and peddled to shamelessly by Sam & Co., while Damon compels him to be quiet and compliant but he will otherwise leave the store free and unharmed! The assistant on the other hand . . .
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We ask because T-Rex has a vibrant social media presence and it might be suspicion if he suddenly went radio silent. On the other hand, having T-Rex instagramming his lunch on Waypoint Shril might make someone on The Fair Heart sideye the fake!T-Rex during their tour. CHOOSE WISELY, FRIENDS.
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If pressed about The Fair Heart proper, he won't have much to say beyond 'What, that old dump? Blah.'
On the plus side, you have his space phone! That'll keep him from showing up in two places at once and tipping off anyone by using his space!instagram. Unfortunately, T-Rex's space phone isn't the only problem. Sure, he might not be updating his own insta but he's also no appearing in anyone else's feeds either. As an amazingly popular personality, T-Rex has a long list of friends whose photos and streams he candidly makes appearances in or photobombs. In fact, it's a well known secret in the industry that his entire day is composed of 'unscheduled appearances' which are actually very rigidly scheduled... by his assistant. Oops.
Not showing up to these appointments will eventually be noticed; the more appointments he misses, the more likely it is that someone will raise some kind of alarm. Meaning: y'all are on a time table. The more thorough your investigation, the more likely it is that someone might get tipped off that the T-Rex on The Fair Heart might not be legit.
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Halfway through their grudging tour of the facilities, the recon team is alerted by their backup on the waypoint (Damon seems the most obvious, but go with your heart) that they should think about getting a move on. Apparently someone on the crowded Platform Alfa spotted T-Rex headed off and tweeted about it, which spawned a friend argument about his whereabouts and then, thanks to belated input from a prominent reporter angry about their missed interview, fanned into an all out flame war which has since turned into a series of conspiracy theories.
At this point the recon team has a relatively clear handle on the first half of the path to the prize vault and is familiar with the types of security found in the ship, if not exactly what lays in the deeper portions of the craft. They may also have viewed a map, communicated with a Fair Heart crew member or generally figured out where in the ship the vault itself is - so they know how to get there, but might be exact details.
The recon team may either:
A) Boogie out safely at this point and escape The Fair Heart with this data. This may put the crew on high alert when it comes to future visitors.
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B) Continue their tour right up to the vault door until the crew gets suspicious of T-Rex's motives and apprehends the recon team. This will make the heist easier - security will be focused on the hosts in custody - but it would necessitate a rescue.
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Let us know which of these you want to opt for so we can clue Stefan and the heist team in but otherwise go forth and have fun!
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