voidtreckerooc | December Information and CR Meme!

We hope everyone had a fun month! Some information for your ongoing journey.

IC Month

This month is the month of Imagination. Days can be found here.

The thought of the month is: "We are made to persist. That's how we find out who we are."

This means: Any thread that reaches 15 comments (total) will earn you two points.

Threads that fulfil this criteria can be submitted during December AC. You may find it easier to keep a tracking list of threads for easy compiling of bonus AC!

Recipes are here. The ingredient of the month is Honey. All the ingredients can be found in the storeroom and characters are welcome to make other food with them.

This month’s chore assignments are:

Blue: Cleaning bedrooms and passenger areas
Purple: Meal Preparation
Red: Laundry
Orange: Cleaning kitchen and bathrooms

The Train

When characters regroup on the train after the platform they will find a new carriage at the end of the train, beyond the luggage carriage.

Triage

This carriage is a double carriage. At the back of the car is a staircase, but at the front there's a lift connecting the two floors. Both floors have a corridor running down the left hand side.

The bottom floor is one large carriage, though there are curved curtain rails on the ceiling so that thick, grey curtains can be pulled around areas to cut them off. There are four medical beds that can be wheeled around or locked in place, and a handful of chairs. There are cupboards with medical equipment, primarily for first aid.

Upstairs there are two surgical bays. Though the equipment is basic, it is enough that wounds can be sewn and minor procedures undertaken. The ICP in this room has instructions for more complicated medical procedures but also carries warnings that advanced medical training is advised and surgery should only be carried out by senior medics.

This has been updated on the setting. Remember to let me know if your character does anything to alter the setting!

Important Dates

This month there will be two mini events! One on the 12th December which will be a little more meta-plot orientated and one on 20th which will be seasonal festive fun!

There is also a player-ran train meeting going up on the 5th December. As a reminder we have a player plot calendar for any large train-wide things anyone wishes to organise!

The TDM will be posted on the 16th. Reserves will open on the 19th. Apps are between the 22nd and 29th. AC will run from the 23rd to the 30th of December.

Other Info

~ The mod team would like to give a huge THANK YOU to Ree (Player of Tidus) for her tremendous help during the boss battle! Team two have her to thank for that epic fight.

~ Talking of that fight and the mission: if any characters died please report their deaths here.

~ We have compiled the story so far for those interested in the slowly unfolding meta-plot!

~ AC this month will be check-in only. As long as you check in on the AC post when it goes up you will pass AC and get the 5 points for doing so. There will still be the opportunity to claim bonus challenge AC. If you are holding a strike from November you will have the option to either clear it in December or take the free check in and carry your strike over into January.

Monthly Plotting

Feel free to use this post to plot anything you want for the next month! Here’s a structure you can use!

Name: [your name] Contact info: [anything you want to share] Character: [name] About them: [canon, a brief description of who they are] Plans: [got anything in the works?] CR wanted: [anything specific?] Things to avoid: [just so lines can be drawn]

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

b>Name: S.M.F./Ace
Contact info: Am on Discord (Autistic_Ace#5045), Plurk (Autistic_Ace - if we're already talking elsewhere you don't have to add me, I try to keep my timeline public!), and, as always, this account is the one I'm in most frequently to receive PMs.

Character: Nita Callahan [CRAU from The Wake]
About them: Young Wizards - using words to fix the world, sometimes in more impressive ways than we do in ours, but not always! Nita herself is an info nerd and frequent researcher, though she's something of a powerhouse as well.
Plans: As always, I am initially ????? about all plots - if we have something in the works, hit me up with reminders here! If we haven't talked in a while but you'd like a thread with me, ALSO hit me up here!
CR wanted: Again, ??? Am down for more friends, though.
Things to avoid: I'll be keeping an eye on my own headspace for this, but I am Not as good as my characters at writing levelheaded debates. (May not be true according to other people????)

Character: Webmind
About them: From the WWW Trilogy, he's what you get when you gift an internet sentience and... treat him like a person. Though still with people trying to control/kill him, those people are largely talked out of it (though not before terrible things happen, both to Webmind and to a large part of China).
Plans: See Train Meeting things below!
CR wanted: More tech people, please. XD Someone - or ones - who'll help him literally re-tool his body to hold tools will also be wanted.
Things to avoid: /shrug emoji

Character: Alfredo Martini
About them: Romeo's Blue Skies is a canon where dark things happen to good children; Alfredo's story is one of the harshest - see his history for more about THAT, also content warnings. But he's a good soul, always willing to see the best in people. He does not like having to fight, but he absolutely will to protect his friends - and now, the world.
Plans: He's going to come into his own a little more this month, I think - again, see below!
CR wanted: More mentors, more peers/people his age, maaaybe someone who'll flirt with him? That is a VERY tentative thought, however.
Things to avoid: Nothing I can think of! He's hardier than he looks, much as he shouldn't have to be.

Now, TRAIN MEETING THINGS.

First, a personal view: one of the good things, for me, about seeing you all step forward is that *I* don't feel the need to be everywhere and do all the work. XD It shuts a bunch of my anxieties right down, so thank you all for that.

I can also now shrink my characters' focuses down to three key items:
Nita will be focusing on visions and talking to the train, trying to coax it into telling them just WHAT is up. To this effect I'll be collating all her received visions to-date, as well as the variants people have discussed with her, and how they seem to correlate with mission objectives. I'll be focusing on that this week (presumably when I'm not at work |D), to have the doc ready OOCly - presumably on GoogleDocs - by this weekend/the meeting.

Webmind's focus, meanwhile, will continue to be improving the Network (to wit: his endgame of textchat-for-all), though he'll also be branching out more into searchquests on the library. (Most of this has been handwaved to spare Katy, since most searches ARE dead ends, but he has the computer-time to spare, and if people want to figure out what exact wording works for a given search, he'll advertise that he's happy to do it.)

And Alfredo wants to talk more about training - specifically, training as a group and across teams, finding ways the passengers can boost each other's abilities and so forth.
I remember VR Training once being a thing here; if any current characters remember/are still doing it, I'd love for him to find out about it!

That's all for now; thank you all very much for your time and patience! <3

Edited (TL;DR of the month. XD) 2020-11-30 21:01 (UTC)

Glorfindel will assist Alfredo. He's led armies, as well as the forces of Imladris. Small squad fighting is something he's familiar with.

Personally, though, my knowledge of tactics comes from D&D: Have someone distract their heavy fighter, take out the wizards and the clerics, try to do it fast enough that they don't consume your loot. :D

That sounds like a good friend-roommate combo!

And that... sounds like a tactic that's probably worked on one of our missions before. XD I may or may not have helped in it, I don't recall.

Roommate CR is excellent :)

Yeah, we didn't do much coordinating this time. I will blame it on the shock of being faced down by the saboteurs, and all the Protector/Guardian/Kick Your Butt! types surged to the front ;)

December Information and CR Meme!

Doing Nita now; the rest will come after work...

Re: Doing Nita now; the rest will come after work...

/double thumbs up!

Re: /double thumbs up!