trans_pilgrims | Rebellion Water Cooler

With the Rebellion coming up (the general opinion so far suggests late April, but we don't yet have a hard deadline) people are wondering what their characters can do to get involved or help overthrow the Daligig. Some characters ICly don't know what's going on yet; others do but have incomplete information; others wouldn't support the effort and yet others would try and coordinate groups. We don't want anyone to feel like they're left out because their characters haven't ICly put the pieces together, so this post is for ideas for CR-building and coordinating that will allow everyone to participate. A new survival guide is also in the works and will be put on the comms ICly, which will summarize some but not all of the information floating around.

If you have ideas for how you want your character to participate in the rebellion, this is the place to post them! If you have no idea and feel a little lost, feel free to ask others if they're interested in doing something with your character regarding this plot. If you have mini-plot ideas for getting information on the Daligig or gaining weaponry, knowledge of Stacy, so on so forth, this might be a good place to find other characters to play those out with.

For reference, the plan for rebellion is here.

A general CR-building water cooler will be coming in the next few weeks. This is mostly to figure out how everyone's going to fit into the plot to overthrow the Daligig.

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Character Name: Kang
Canon: Dragonlance
Role on Ship: Councilor, head of Intelligence, runs the Drunken Dragon Tavern
Skills: Military training in both medieval weaponry (swords, axes, etc), medieval engineering (siege engines, fortifications, bridges, etc.), and 21st century Earth weaponry, decent sorceror, excellent strategist/tactician and diplomat, and was involved in gathering/selling information back on his home world (his nation made a huge profit off of it), and subterfuge against another large military group (the Dark Knights).
What the Character Knows/Thinks About Rebellion: He's for rebellion (he's really goddamn sick of people using him), and is aware that people are starting to plan one, but would prefer to have more information and a solid, strategic plan backed by Command and Council before making any moves, to minimize deaths as much as possible and avoid a repeat of what happened with the last crew. Basically, LET'S NOT BE DUMB ABOUT THIS.
Ideas to Get Involved: Well, he runs Intelligence. And he's a Councilor, so he'd have to publicly denounce the fake rebellion when it happens.
Anything Else?: INTELLIGENCE, SOUND OFF SO WE CAN START PLANNING STUFF.

Information on how to join and who is a part of it already is here. If you're interested in having a character join, hit me up and we'll see if it's feasible and how to work them in.

I also had a few ideas here, and have tossed around the idea on plurk of Intelligence overhearing the Daligig saying suspicious things to suggest that the repoddings of the Captain and several department heads (Neuropathy and Science and Medical fairly recently IC hmmmmmm isn't that coincidental?) was done on purpose, as a thing to lead up to rebellion.

Edited 2012-03-05 06:32 (UTC)

wrong account but RACHEL SOUND OFF YES I am all for getting her involved through Intelligence.

THOUGHT: for intelligence gathering stuff. If they could manage to acquire the morphs, Anis could possibly morph Daligig. Subterfuge or something! Which I guess is just Ax and Rachel on the team, but. Still, a thought.

That does give me ideas. Email us mods about it!

I know I had Gandrayda as a potential before repodding her, but now I am seriously wondering if Naoto could end up joining once she is unpodded (so maybe a bit before late april)

- She's a detective
- Eager to prove herself
- She knows how to contact herself professionally and spy without being seen.
- Really good at putting two and two together.
- And Kang can pretty much rest assured she'd never tell anyone anything unless it's Kang.

What did we come up with already for getting her noticed? I was busy with family today and forgot.

Celena is definitely still continuing with Intelligence. She can help in any way, whether by overhearing or conversing or any such thing.

In regards to storage of information, could also make use of her knowledge crystals to store information as an additional backup perhaps? Given that they can store memories as well could be useful.

Yes definitely the crystals can be used!

Question: can the crystals be DNA-locked to certain people?

A good question, they would be able to be able to be synced to the dna or particular energy signature of an individual.

Otherwise they can be locked to someone by recognizing their thought processes, i.e. how one person thinks is different to another.

In either case they would be able to be locked to access to an individual or group of individuals with little possibility of others accessing.

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governorkang - 2012-03-08 01:11 (UTC) - Expand

curiousredsoul - 2012-03-08 02:27 (UTC) - Expand

As always, Rhiow can go invisible and is a pretty ideal tail because of her ability to GTFO instantly in an emergency (even though her method of escape sounds like a car backfiring).

One word: illusions.

I mean, the whole other total array of spells available is nice, but for simulating an epic battle? Or making it seem as if someone is still imprisoned who isn't?

Hey, that's a thought: if we want to keep the people in the brig active, why not slap an illusion of them being in there while they're secretly teleported out to a Stacy-free City zone?

I like this idea a lot and think it would be a huge relief to the players in the side that gets taken down.

Why not a teleportation machine like what Engineering is working on in the precinct? It'd make sense ICly to put one in there to allow for quicker detainment of dangerous suspects. Then, it can be used to move brig people in and out sneakily as well.

I was running through scenarios in my head, and just envisioned that layering an illusion and then casting a teleport was easier than scooting everyone out to a teleport machine... but really, both work. The core mechanics are the same either way!

Fuu is a pretty smart cookie and is able to be sneaky as well as polite and disarming, so she might be a good Intel candidate.

Possibly. How would she get noticed?

AN EXCELLENT QUESTION that I have not yet come up with an answer for. Although the new War Research department might be an easier place to fit her in right now, so.

wrong account BUT I'd like to get Ankh involved in intelligence if that's possible. He's good at gathering information in canon and has super enhanced vision and is sneaky and manipulative in his own right. Plus he basically transform to look like anyone if he dettaches from his human host.

Shapeshifting shenanigans? Yesssss Kang would want that. IDK if Kang'd trust Ankh, though; how would his skills get noticed and how would he prove that he's trustworthy?

psipunching - 2012-03-07 23:04 (UTC) - Expand

governorkang - 2012-03-08 01:06 (UTC) - Expand

~~very wrong account but that seems to be a running theme~~ I am interested in getting Christine Royce involved in intelligence, considering she was basically working intelligence-by-any-other-name in her own world, and is a preferential sniper. Only issue is getting her to trust an Intelligence operation, but I think it can be worked out, she just might take longer to join.

Sniper skills are a bonus. How would her skills get noticed?

Sounding off here for Sam and Jono!

Dean sounding off for Intelligence funtimes.

Ax and Jeka, fresh off a cake-run and ready to actually DO SOMETHING.