GROUP ASSIGNMENTS - JULY 2014: OOC PLOTTING - it's like a CR meme, but for your characters' groups!

[asgardmods]

To get things started, each character will receive a brief message from the god supervising the group(s) they are in with the following goals for the month. NOTE: It might be useful to track your group's discussion thread if you're afraid you won't think to check back here throughout the month.

MILITARY;↬ The Military group is asked to start shuffling themselves into ranks. Who has experience, who knows how to use what weapon, who can train and who needs training?

MEDICS;↬ What sort of healers do you have? Is it all magical, or are there any practiced in standard medicine as well? Battlefield medicine? Merlin had begun creating medkits and dispersing medkits before he left; does everyone in the medic group know how to use everything that comes in a standard one?

ENGINEERS;↬ The city's walls can't keep taking hits. Can they be reinforced? What other defenses can be built -- for the city and the people in it, both?

CITY PATROL;↬ Establish patrol routes and teams. Where are you patrolling, when? Is it more effective to patrol alone, or in groups? How do you determine who is responsible for what - or what you'll even do if you find something suspicious?

EMERGENCY RESPONSE TEAM;↬ Start devising some basic attack response plans. Where are safe areas? How will people - travelers and natives - know how to find them?

WELCOME COMMITTEE;↬ How are you going to greet new Travelers into the city? What about any refugees? What can you do to make the transition for them from home to Asgard more comfortable?

STRIKE TEAM;↬ Recruit. Plan. Decide who is capable of what - and who's going to be responsible for what.

SUPPLIES COORDINATORS;↬ Inventory time. What do we have and where do we have it and where do we need to have it and how do we get more of what we don't have enough of. (Also, maybe: who will need what? And how do we get it to them?)

NOTES: You'll find two sections of headers in the comments below! One is for OOC plotting throughout the course of the month, whether you aim to handwave or actually RP what you decide out. The other is for "turning in" things that your group has decided/accomplished. This isn't mandatory at all but is just for your own ease! July is all about building foundations.

If two Engineers get together, build smoke bombs, and leave a basket of them in every Welcome House, you can make a note of that on the "turn in" section with a link to EITHER the IC threading of its creation OR the OOC planning of it. (I will be keeping an eye on these, so don't try to handwave more than your character could reasonably achieve!) Characters can do these things or anything else that they might icly decide to for their group, but this is just a jumping off point for people who need it!

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PLOTTING: MILITARY

[asgardmods]

[needsnoheadsman]

WAVES. does anyone want swordsmanship training, I have a dumb wolf king here who's a pretty decent swordsman and will be happy to teach anyone, and also a dumb soldier-assassin guy who will be less happy but still pretty willing to teach people how to use guns.

[bonnypiperlad]

Jamie would be willing to offer swordsmanship training, along with some hand-to-hand fighting techniques for close-quarters combat if anyone is interested.

Otherwise, he is also familiar with using guns of various types, is a capable rider when it comes to horses...and is also a level 3 Speed user which could be useful for a few different things such as a more mobile fighting unit or delivering messages or the like. And I think he may be one of the only Speed users in the city if not the only one left at this point, so there has to be some use for that somehow, hopefully.

Re: PLOTTING: MILITARY

[realmenknitplushies]

Alright, so, Kanji here can fight - but that's in the sense of 'can pick up random things and hit the enemy with them very efficiently'. He hasn't really had anything that approaches formal training, just general brawling experience (a lot of it, mind).
So, yeah, training is going to be needed.
He's willing to whip up a round of weapons with his powers for anyone who's in need of them, too: Drawing Life lv. 3. He also knows a few basic runes and whatnot if those are helpful to anyone.

[abhero]

- Hamel is good at bashing things and has a great aim when it comes to throwing. He’s used to fighting monsters, but all the skills he’d use are nerfed and he never had any formal training. So he can definitely use some help. Maybe some gun lessons.
- He has Flight level 2, so he can scout. With the new system I imagine he’d get to level 3 pretty fast so he can deliver messages/get people out of danger/hit enemies from above.
- Recently he’s been learning runes, so that should be helpful.
- He really wants to help, but he has a terrible attitude so it’d be awesome if someone knocks him down a peg and calls him out on his bullshit.

Re: PLOTTING: MILITARY

[ka_sera_sera]

tbh, Roland will probably start trying to form people into groups and start training them all together without asking for anyone's agreement or permission, because the idea of a military that has no organization whatsoever has bothered him from the moment he heard about it at the job fair. So that's going to make him some friends, absolutely. (He's led soldiers in one war, so he's got some experience leading groups of people, even though that was a couple decades ago for him.) If your character would react to that in any way that you'd like to work out, feel free to let me know here!

Oh also I wanted to ask - should the characters actually have ranks like the thingy suggests? I know absolutely nothing about military of any kind, what ranks would we even use? And how would we determine (both IC and OOC) who gets which?

Maglor | Silmarillion

[bythewaves]

Mags here is training folk up at the Citadel already - being 9000+ old he's stupidly good at most things, really (except modern weapons, because how does gun) - his weapon of choice is dual wielding with a longsword & hunting knife, but he also knows spears, lances, battle axes, and bows (although he, himself, can no longer use anything needing dual hands due to his old injuries). He's mostly up there to train the spear & lance users, but he will teach anyone who asks anything reasonable they request - he's got Alice the Elder learning knives, Kevin Prentiss learning swords, and Clementine on knives I think at present. So if you want him, feel free to say he's teaching you or whatever.

As for battle. sob. SO HE ONCE COMMANDED A CALVARY. He is likely to actively refuse command, but canonly he's VERY good at it (held the weakest point of their defences for some 450 years). He doesn't like command however, and prefers to be pointed at his target by someone. He is a bit of a berserker as well, likely to lose himself in battle. He has Bardic Influence Lvl 2 and is very creative in how he uses it, it being similar to what Tolkien elves can do with music anyway. I plan to get him up to 3 as well at some point - but if you need illusion, something to draw eyes away, things like that? Yeah.

[neversurrender]

So Steve here held the rank Captain in the US army during WWII and is team leader to a group of superheroes. So he has skills leading teams but not entire armies. However he is very good at assessing people strengths and giving them tasks that work well with those strengths. And he's a really good strategist.

As for training, he can train people in hand-to-hand combat, guns, and....shields. On the off chance that anyone but him would actually go to battle with a shield.

[digophelia]

Alice here is at shadow level two, which I'm hoping to get her at level three sooner than later. Alice has improved with knife-fighting, that she's now duel-wielding no thanks to not!dad down there. She isn't fond of her powers (blame Pitch) so she'll use her knives or the knightmare, the latter being a really powerful blunt weapon. She is kinda doing better at defending herself; she was prone to jumping into fights without trying to defend herself because of her self-destructive tendencies. And, she too, can be a berserker if the right buttons or pushed or if she's pushed to that point.

Her canon is a little tricky, because technically, Alice's fighting capabilities are in Wonderland, so they are literally a figment of her imagination. She taught herself to fight before getting into Asgard with knives back in Rutledge. She only took the offer to be trained because she had a realization in order to defend herself and her close friends, she had to train better. Anyway, Alice's stubborn streak hampers her, so yeah, she'll need more training. She's not the best at fighting, but also not the worst, so somewhere in between that.

[brainsqueeze]

Maria is already working at the Citadel in hand-to-hand training and the school as a self-defense instructor c: She advises anyone to learn/train and keep up practice. Know everyone's skills/weaknesses and how to work best

She's also a former marine and ex-assistant director of one of those crazy global agencies. Knows how to organise others, plan and strategise. So many people

PLOTTING: MEDICS

[asgardmods]

[5thchild]

- Kaworu is Sigyn healing level 3
- He did NOT sign up for military however, kaworu does have a 12 feet elven robot that will work for offense and defense. basically, he can protect the medics with it if necessary

PLOTTING: ENGINEERS

[asgardmods]

[granddevil]

In all honesty, Satan doesn't give a fuck. He is WORKING WITH THIAZI and he only joined this group to tell her what parts of the city are weaker and she has a better time attacking. Yes. I am for real. I'm sorry you have an asshole in your team.

In any case, he will pretend to at least help. Satan has flight, last level, and he is incredibly fast. he can deliver messages, carry objects, or even work with other groups as courier, to let them know if anything is necessary or to know what is necessary for the Engineers to do (and spy on every group along the way).

PLOTTING: CITY PATROL

[asgardmods]

[runtothesunlight]

Minato works at Allison's Pet Store, located in Freya. Currently, Scott is training dogs to be used as either guard dogs for the patrollers or rescue dogs for searching. Anyone with experience in such training would be welcome.

During his off-hours at the store, Minato will be patrolling around the Freya area. And since he lives in Hel, that means he travels through Heimdall and Freyr as well going to work. While he's a formidable fighter, he'd feel better if he wasn't alone. Anyone able or willing to accompany him?

Edit: Forgot to add, he's a Shadow Control user LV 2. He also has experience with wielding a sword, and a couple other weaponry like axes and bows but the sword feels the most right for him.

PLOTTING: EMERGENCY RESPONSE TEAM

[asgardmods]

[windbreak]

Just a vague tiny thing as I rush off, but I like the idea of the snow from the month's event affecting how safe some designated safe areas turn out to be, hindering efforts to get them signposted, or something like that - any more concrete ideas to turn that into something playable?

PLOTTING: WELCOME COMMITTEE

[asgardmods]

[okamichild]

Ame will be juggling between this group and city patrol and he honestly can do both. he is friendly and cute and has wolf ears and tail. What a better welcome than that? But yeah! Ame.

He also has damage drain if necessary!

PLOTTING: STRIKE TEAM

[asgardmods]

[hisstrength]

So, Tris has actually only signed up for this group! Which means she has lots of time to put in. She's a fierce little teenager with roughly a soldier's training, stupidly brave and a fondness for high places. Her rooftop running is coming along, as well. She'll be very curious to meet everyone on the team. She snarks at nearly everybody though, and isn't particularly nice, but she's clever and determined to put in plenty of work.

Aside from just getting to know people, she's after learning more skills, starting, ideally, from weapons she doesn't know how to use (because she's been struggling with her gun).

Also she's been learning about runes from Aladdin, and hopes to contribute that way somehow.

PLOTTING: SUPPLIES COORDINATORS

[asgardmods]

[saving_sound]

Hibiki is juggling this job with the medics team, but this is also why she's bringing in Runic Magic into the mix!

She made this spell a while back, and it seems like it could be useful to the coordinators. The official details are:

By drawing the circle in one location, the user creates a "storage" area. Users can either "withdraw" or "deposit" items from this storage area by drawing the rune elsewhere. If depositing, the item must be placed on the circle. If summoning, the item will appear within the circle.

Restrictions:
Items stored must be of the same type (all fruits, for example). One storage container or room is allowed per person. If the user would like to change the item type stored, they must redraw the circle.

Since people could still technically take from the room or container without using magic, it would allow the original caster to simply transport specific items much more quickly in emergencies. It would probably work best if people who are quickest at reaching other destinations were the ones who used the spell, so that they could act as suppliers without having to worry about the items themselves weighing them down, thus speeding up the process.

Y/N/Revisions or suggestions welcome?

TURN-IN: MILITARY

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TURN-IN: MEDICS

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TURN-IN: ENGINEERS

[asgardmods]

[true_renaissance_man]

Rune enhanced light armor

Leonardo, Tony Stark, and Aladdin got together to come up with a light armor prototype that holds runes for added protection. Aladdin's rune array consists of heat pocket (to protect the wearer from fire damage and high temperatures), Unbreakable (for durability), Camouflage (to help the wearer blend in better), Wind Resistance (lessens the drag air currents have on the armor making movement easier), Notice Me Not (to help the wearer go by unnoticed), and Amplification (to increase the power of the runes the wearer wishes it to).

This is just a prototype of course and changes might be made with further testing.

TURN-IN: CITY PATROL

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TURN-IN: EMERGENCY RESPONSE TEAM

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TURN-IN: WELCOME COMMITTEE

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TURN-IN: STRIKE TEAM

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TURN-IN: SUPPLIES COORDINATORS

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