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Exploration Plot / The Lost Rooms - Signup & Plot Discussion

Hey everyone! So, to kick off this Dreamwidth thing and give people somewhere to play before the rest of the game moves over from LJ, starting tomorrow we'll be running an exploration plot!

The Plot
After the events of System Shock, the damage left over from that attack causes Stacy's transportation tubes to malfunction, sending anyone who uses them to a completely different section of the ship. What's more, a slight electrical shock from the tubes zaps their omnicomms, making those stranded unable to tell the rest of the crew about the problem. By the time a the crew find out and manage to get the tubes to stop sending people off to an unknown part of the ship, some of the crew are already stranded. Those stranded must explore this new part of the ship, while the rest of the crew work to fix the tubes so that they can return.

Who can sign up?
Anyone! While the plot was made keeping people who can't use LJ in mind, it's not limited to them. There's no limit to how many characters can come, so as long as you've let the mods know your DW username(s) and joined

trans_9 and

trans_pilgrims, you can participate. But, keep in mind that any characters involved in this plot will be cut off from the rest of the crew and will be unable to thread in LJ threads or plots until the rest of the game moves over.

When does this happen ICly?
ICly, the plot happens just after the Winter Shore Leave (so if you want to, you can still thread in that). OOCly though, it will be starting tomorrow and we'll just be handwaving that it occurs after the shore leave.

How will this be played out?
The plot is intended to be very flexible and free-form - there will be an initial post where everyone arrives in the new area over the course of a day (the time that the tubes are malfunctioning). After that, it's a lot like normal posting, where anyone can make any posts that they want as long as they are located in the new locations. You could post someone going out exploring, or staying in the living area, or messing around with something that they find. So, if you want to go and find the Veil or any other location, you don't need to wait for permission to do it - you can just go straight ahead and put up a post finding it.

What locations are there?
The following locations have been approved by the mods - it is possible for there to be ones not listed here, but they would need to be run by the mods.

An empty replica of the crew's living area - with mess hall, sleeping halls, crew quarters, and bathrooms. The replica is smaller than the one the crew knows, and doesn't contain any luxuries like the sensoriums or media library.
The Aquarium: a entire section filled with water tanks of various sizes, all of them including aquatic creatures from multiple worlds. In one tank swims Moby Dick, in another two Krakens - one from Earthbound canon and one from The Pirates of the Caribbean, and in another tank is Nessie, the Loch Ness monster (who we shall say is a Plesiosaur)
The Artifact Depository: filled with sealed and weapons of Ultimate Power that have been collected by the previous crew - but which possess drawbacks too dangerous and too damaging to ever be used by the crew. These are from a mix of canons, and include some old-school AD&D artifacts. The really nasty ones that are powerful but do incredibly bad things to you. Like, Eye of Vecna level power/screw-over.
- The eye of Argon can be one of them. It's apparently a "crimson emerald" that doesn't actually do anything obviously horribly dangerous, but it causes all narration and dialogue in the vicinity to devolve into the most awkward of purple prose. (Which is why it was locked away). If anyone picks it up it turns into a blob with one eye and starts trying to suck their blood. But yeah, compared to the other effect this is just moderately annoying.
The Chalk Drawings: a series of chalk drawings, still on top of the pavements they were drawn on. Anyone who steps on these drawings will shrink down and find themselves inside the chalk drawings. They can only leave by drawing a chalk door and stepping through it.
The Chamber of the Ordeal: A plain stone rectangular room that is a magical device from Tortall. The Chamber forces anyone to enters it to live through their own worst fears without making a sound. Those who do not pass the test of the Chamber may die, or go mad.
The Creepy Toy Room: a room filled with dusty, unused toys that have the peculiar tendency to move when you aren't looking at them...
The Feather Snow Room: a room filled with feathers that are constantly moving about like snow (like in this exhibit)
The Fields of Justice: These can be a practice grounds that spawn endless minions where people can fight and prepare themselves for war.
- Crystal Scar: an arena so heavily infused with magic that normal people can't go into it.
The Heart Room: a room that is completely empty, expect for the Kingdom Hearts that floats near the ceiling.
Hogwarts: the magical school from the Harry Potter books isn't here in it's entirety: instead, only a few of it's rooms and locations are on board, and they're scattered around the area. Places from Hogwarts include:
- The Chamber of Secrets - the bathroom entrance is permanently stuck open, so anyone can enter. Inside, the basilisk still lives.
- The Whomping Willow
- The Great Hall (who's ceiling now shows the space above Stacy, rather than sky)
The Crystal Cavern: A cavern filled with crystals from the world of the Crystal Singer books. When tapped, the crystals will ring - and if someone sings that exact pitch, the crystal will then ring back (and can be mined, if they know how). Although one of the crystals, peculiarly, will only react to bad and off-pitch singing. [Description for this would need to be checked - current resources: here and here]
The Veil: from Harry Potter and the chamber it's kept in. Maybe the Department of Mysteries itself?

Okay I want in, now what?
Just reply to the sign up thread here. Then, if you'd like to do some plotting (such as getting together with some other characters to find a particular location), go here to the plotting thread.

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I should note that the transport tubes working again isn't going to be at all connected to the time echos, and the characters will be stuck in this area for some time (I'd guess it might end up being somewhere around one to two weeks ICly, so everyone isn't happening within a few days).

Anyways, we haven't quite managed to properly get on co-ordinating how this thing will happen - since Saphie's offered to help NPC, we will need to organise this with her too. (Sorry we haven't gotten onto figuring this out sooner - I'd thought that me and Ishfe could just set up the log once we'd ironed things out, so sorry for getting confused there and ending up behind the ball!)

Anyhow - I think it might help to send around an email to everyone involved to figure out how the plotting goes for this. Would you be up for that?

I didn't hear back from you and I wasn't sure what was going on. I suppose that I should have PM'd you. Would you like me to delete the post?

I can PM everyone involved, but you'll have to give me Saphie's details, or contact them yourself because I unfortunately don't know who they are.

Sorry about that! I'd gotten a bit distracted, and should have gotten on this earlier. I don't think we need to delete the post though - we should be able to work with it.

I'll send an email out to everyone this evening though, so I'll sort that out!

Distractions are easy to be distracted by. Don't worry about it :)

That sounds wonderful. Thank you so much :)

~~I blame the fact that it is ridiculously hot right now and I have been spending all of my time trying not to melt, orz~~

No problem! (And once we've all gotten on the same page, we can also make an ooc post for anyone else that would be interested in this but who might have missed our discussion here)

~~So glad our summer has barely broken 35C so far \o/ - two states south, it's snowing I'm kinda jelly~~

Sounds like a plan! I'll have a closer look at the email I just got, tomorrow because it's past my bed time and I'm about to fall asleep on the keyboard :S

Ooooh are you also in the southern hemisphere? ...although possibly not if it's snowing south of you, ffff. (And actually this summer has been unusually cool - but this week it's at the normal summer heat levels, except instead of the usual cool ocean breezes we usually get, every breeze is blowing hot air around instead ): )

Hah, that's fine XD Most of everyone else I sent it to is also asleep, so they won't be reading it for a while anyway!

Certainly am in the Southern Hemisphere. That's what made it so weird! I'm only about...7 or 9 hours drive north of Victoria and yet, it snowed there :O! Though January/February is usually in the high 30Cs, we've hardly had that. It's 20C today! Not that I'm complaining, mind >.>

~~Oooh, another Aussie! ...and wait, it was SNOWING in Victoria?! (How the hell did I miss hearing about that?!)~~

~~YUSSS!! YOU ARE NOT ALONE! \o/ but yes. Snow! Happened on the 11th, I think. Found a tweet that said a WHOLE FOUR CENTIMETRES fell on the snow fields. Pretty impressive, I reckon.~~

/CLINGS TO MY FELLOW AUSSIE!

And wow, that's crazy. I know this summer has been crazy in terms of the weather, but SNOW? That's just weird

WE ARE FEW BUT WE ARE MIGHTY! :')

Yeah...I wore jeans yesterday. Jeans and thick socks in sneakers. I'm supposed to be wandering my house in a rolled up skirt and singlet top. Not that I'm complaining, mind. Summer can bugger off as far as I'm concerned.

/FISTBUMPS!

Wooooow. It hasn't gotten that cool here (well, for me at least), but it's still been ridiculously cool. Basically instead of being in a constant state of OH GOD THE HEAT, I AM DYING, it's actually rather nice :P

~~LEMMIE GUESS! LEMMIE GUESS!! Queensland? or Western Australia?~~

/gives up on strikes

Yup, Brisbane! XD Though I'm just here for the summer since I study in Victoria. (Yes this means I get ridiculously hot Brisbane summers AND really cold Melbourne winters /cries) What about you? You're above Victoria I know, so are you in NSW?

...but yes, I have been rather grateful for the really cool summer, weird though it is XD

You study in Victoria?! I totally envy you :( Flippin' love Melbourne. I'm in Wollongong, just south of Sydney, so yeah ^_^ NSW it is \o/ It does alright for a state with a weird mix of all the things ~~thanks, Mountains~~ (one more strike, I couldn't resist).

I now hate myself for missing out on Brisbane :( Mum took us up to the Sunshine Coast for a week last year and I had the option of spending a few days in Brisbane by myself. I chose to stay with Mum because it was cheaper. Baaaw :(

Melbourne is indeed awesome, yes XD I haven't been to NSW myself though!

Hah, tourists tend to not come to Brissie as much as the Gold Coast and whatnot XD

Yeaaahhh...I'm not a beach bum. And I kind of enjoy being sober. So no gold Coast for moi.

My idea of a holiday (as has been my holiday twice now), is to hit Melb for the Comfest, and spend my days exploring the museums and art galleries. Maybe an afternoon nap in the gardens. So, even the Sunshine Coast was dull. Pretty, but dull. Would have much preferred Brisbvegas :)

Yes, the Gold Coast is rather niche, ffff (I'm not a fan of it either. Okay, admittedly I've never actually been to it unless you count going to the theme parks...BUT STILL :P)

That does indeed sound like an awesome holiday XD (Alas, I have done sadly very little holiday stuff in Melbourne. I always seem to be too distracted by uni stuffs. Next semester though, I am going to see some theatre if it kills me, dammit!)

Do eeeet! And you know that the Museum of Victoria is free for students...!! Their dinosaur walk is totally worth it, and when I was last there, they had Skinner's Box! :D

Oh, I did not know that in fact! I shall have to find the time to pop around then :P

You should! I thought I'd be paying about $20 to get in but nup! ^_^ Also, the ACMI has a main section that's free, too but when I was there, the other exhibits weren't so free, so I only saw one. Worth it.

I have been to ACMI ~~my uni took me there on an excursion. Possibly the onyl excursion I've ever had while doing tertiary studies, in fact :P~~

:D I love Uni excursions. Admittedly, the only one I've been on was to the museum I work at BUT STILL. It was fun ^_^

EDIT: I lie! We had the Little Einsteins Fair, too. Though, does it count as an excursion if you're going to a place to do things to pass a class in your degree?

And sent! (hopefully I've gotten your email right, but just let me know if you don't it)

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