OOC PLANNING POST.

[futurologists]

PLANNING POST Greetings, ALASTAIR recruits! As of Dipper, Papyrus, and Koltira’s announcement to the network, characters have 10 days to prepare for the final battle of Nalawi before shipping out on the Dakal warship to where Pomarr has asked them to meet her. NALANNI As has been suggested, Nalanni will not be a challenge; she has accepted her fate and knows that to save the planet, she and Ryba must die. In fact, she will make the specific request that one character see her to her death. We will be selecting the character via RNG. They don’t need to be a fearsome warrior to sign up, anyone who can hold a weapon will do. The sign ups for this will be open until June 2nd, and the character selected may bring up to 2 other characters. However, remember that part about how this world can’t have just one goddess? Upon Nalanni’s death, the earth itself will feel Nalanni’s loss and begin to strike back. Between Nalanni and Ryba’s deaths, recruits will have to subdue giant rock monsters. It could take some teamwork, better look alive! RYBA As for Ryba, who is not at all willing to go quietly, Pomarr will lure her out of her trench and to shore, before stepping into a rift to Oska to leave Nalawi. Ryba will present three levels of challenge to recruits, and finally end up within striking range in the shallows. Mods will not be controlling her, and there will be no ‘final blow’ landed on her; her death will be a group effort throughout the various battle threads. AFTERWARD After the death of Ryba and Nalanni, recruits will have two weeks to remain among the Nalawi to help them readjust to their new goddessless lives before returning to Oska. Additionally, as per Laedo’s request, ALASTAIR will also be allowing a small handful of characters to remain in Nalawi for three months, to allow them to better help the Nalawi begin to rebuild. As time in Nalawi passes differently than in Oska, this group will be returned to Oska only two days after the rest of the recruits. We will allow up to 10 sign ups, and if we have more than that will be selecting them via RNG before the game’s departure from Nalawi. Players of characters that are chosen will be asked to submit a short summary about their time in Nalawi to be approved by the mods. The log for this battle and the following two weeks will be up on June 3rd. Feel free to use this post to plan for it!

Comments

SIGN UP TO KILL NALANNI

[futurologists]

[babbylon]

Signing up Gilgamesh for this! He was literally born to defy the gods, so he'll be quite eager to strut his stuff here. ...even if it's an easy victory, it still counts.

[heelies]

gently serenades Nalanni unto her final sleep

[sekimorinashi]

I VOLUNTEER

[perma_banned]

If somebody's gotta dirty their hands, why not have a loathed criminal be the one to do the deed~?

[winces]

...peeps hello i am team mercy killing?!

[ofobedience]

Sure, why not. Though perhaps she deserves someone more compassionate, ahaha...

SIGN UP TO REMAIN IN NALAWI

[futurologists]

Characters signing up here will be staying behind in Nalawi for 3 months after the rest of the recruits ship back to Oska. We will be picking 10 characters at most, and this will be voluntary on the parts of the characters.

[dishearten]

Graham would like to stay!

ETA; Peter would stay too if there are more spots, but I won't hog two if more than ten sign up.

QUESTIONS

[futurologists]

[babbylon]

How effective will Gilgamesh's anti-divine weaponry be against the goddesses? By canon, they can paralyze and almost completely restrain enemies with high divinity, though I don't expect they'd be quite as good here.

koltira deathweaver

[respired]

TEAM GODKILLER ASSEMBLE

I'm keeping Koltira out of the Nalanni sign-ups bc his undead butt has been everywhere lately!! But he'll be all over Ryba, and the first thing he'll do is cast path of frost on everyone around him--allowing all characters to walk on water, should they need to (I realize she'll be dragged to the shoreline, but I imagine being able to flank her on the surface of the sea itself might be helpful still).

He'll have the full force of his disgusting powers back, meaning he'll be quite formidable; if you'd like an assist or a rescue, let me know.

(also if you want your character to get real messed up, Koltira can bring them back to life. It's specifically a rez oriented towards battle, so they wouldn't even be out of the fight. It's gross and weird FUN THO CONSIDER IT)

Post-death threads would be cool, too; Koltira's probably going to get knocked around quite a bit, and will at least need some bandaging/incredibly painful healing ... but mutual glaring is fun, also.

[boneafide]

sighs and puts bandaids on the stupid elf

tsunderesnack

[defenceless]

Rin will be joining in on the attempts to kill both goddesses, likely providing magical support and detection throughout. The gems she has with her can create barriers to protect other recruits and she's capable of casting a variety of elemental spells (water, earth, wind, other spells, fire though it's the most weakened), as well as providing healing in a pinch. actually her blood is chock full of magic if anyone needs some for a boost

She will not be remaining behind with the Nalawi, but will be contributing everything she can to rebuilding their lives before the group's departure to Oska two weeks after the battle!

Like I said on the last OOC post, I'd love to take on at least one thread for this event, and in particular (because I really can't pass up the chance) I'm looking for someone to rescue Rin from a giant Ryba tentacle/later team up to help her kick Ryba's butt in retaliation...! That's about it i'm so sorry

[respired]

slices tentacles

Gilgamesh

[babbylon]

I've signed up Gilgamesh to take out Nalanni, so we'll see if anything comes of that!

Otherwise, Gilgamesh is going to be very up close and personal with Ryba. With his full strength returned to him, he'll be firing pretty much nonstop from the Gate (which basically means swords, axes, spears, and more raining everywhere) and engaging whatever Ryba tosses at them with Ea, his Magical Glowing Sword of Doom.

Though he tends to be a lone wolf when it comes to fighting, Gilgamesh can and will provide covering fire for your character if asked! Mods have confirmed that his anti-divine weaponry will be functional within a small area around Gilgamesh; if you'd like some protection, he can provide that as well, and toss around some healing if needed. And if you really want to go above and beyond, Gilgamesh may even allow you to borrow weapons from his Gate for the duration of the battle! Just the non-magical stuff, but that should be good enough, right?

Despite Gil's... Gilness, I'm open to all sorts of badass team-ups. It's hard to say what awaits us, but if you wanna go at it together and in an Incredibly DBZ Fashion, let me know and we'll make it happen. I really love writing fight scenes so indulge me, guys, I promise not to disappoint.

[respired]

combo attack obviously

Motochika

[dokyuu]

With powers back in place, he'll be back in fine shounen form, and happy to wallop giant squid with a big ol' flaming anchor.

He can also use that thing as transportation, so if any coordination to get in closer is needed, let me know! (Really, who doesn't want to anchor surf?)

Archer

[anti_altruisms]

So, Archer will also be on Team Godkiller!

His main focus will be taking out Ryba so once Nalanni is out of the picture, he will be putting his efforts towards knocking out rock monsters and slaying the tentacle sea goddess!

More than likely, Archer will be using his bow for this battle and acting mostly as support! He will cover for other characters, so if you need to get sprung from a tentacle or what-have-you, he'll be firing arrows and generally trying to keep things clear so other people can land more direct hits on Ryba!

Also, if anyone gets wounded, he has a healing spell he can use to help out!

Sieglinde (calling all healers?)

[grunehexe]

Sieglinde will be on Team Heal-Team-Godkiller.

Her priority will be healing, so she'll want to gather volunteers and those who have experience to set up a sort of triage base on the shore- and also try and recruit anyone who can fly or teleport or what not to hopefully transfer patients. What with the planets monsters though there could be problems, so can anyone help protect healers from rock monsters? If you need healing, Sieglinde can provide magical or physical medical treatment.

Other than that, she'll potentially be staying behind to help train Nalawi healers. Let me know if you need a tiny witch anywhere!

[keystaff]

Sakura can help with the healing. And can fly, so she can do sweeps to see who needs transporting to Sieg? She can help with defending if necessary too, since she will have her magic back at least to use the Clow Cards!

Debating on signing her or Sorey to stay, possibly. We'll see on that front but for now. Yes.

Ashraf + Ramir

[healplz]

ashraf will be SOOOOO THRILLED to have powers back, and if anyone needs healing he is a healing machine. he can also beef up fighting characters, defend non fighting characters, and do almost nothing offensive on his own but take hella damage. so if anyone needs someone to distract a monster while they charge up some great attack/figure out a plan of attack, boy is he your guy!! he will cheerfully bleed all over the place for you.

meanwhile ramir is gonna be jazzed to punch things into orbit, but will probably be sticking to the rock monsters because there is no WAY she's gonna go fight something that could drag her under the water at any time. that's a recipe for disaster, no thank you. she's around to team up with people, save people, get crushed by a rock monster and not actually be hurt but be really annoyed about it, whatever!!

[dishearten]

neither graham nor peter want any part in the goddess killing, but I'd be super game for a team up for either of them w/ Ramir :)

Sorey & Sakura

[keystaff]

Okay so Sakura will be sticking back, helping Sieglinde with the injured because yay healing and also frak yes to getting her magic back. She can help defend if their base of sorts with their makeshift infirmary gets attacked, and use Fly and/or Jump to get anyone injured to safety too. She'll prob periodically head out to scout for anyone needing a hand.

Sorey on the other hand, will probably be joining the efforts to take down the goddesses. Or rather, Ryba at the very least. Especially if he has Mikleo and Edna's support to armatize with either or both of them alternately during the fight. Which means he will get cool water/earth powers, basically. He's like the freaking Avatar but with less bending because he does not have all his seraph bffs here.

Anyway, that aside, I'm. Debating on which if either of them may or may not stick around afterwards once most would head back for headquarters. But for now, this will do for plotting for the more immediate battle so hmu guys! We got this!

daenerys targaryen

[conqueress]

Daenerys distrusts absolutely everything about this and so is reluctant to throw in her lot, but she'll be on Team Protect Your Butts/Team Contain the Battle--that is, air support!

She'll be mounting Drogon for the first time since her arrival in the game. He's just large enough to carry her on his back, so she won't be taking anything heavy with her. She'll also be fairly judicious about where she spreads her resources, because she's aware that his scales aren't impenetrable/that he may not be strong enough to carry her for long periods without rest. Rock monsters? She'll have a fabulous view of them from above and can corral them for teamwork, or cover your character as they make an escape. Need dragon rescuing? She'll swoop in.

Keep in mind that unless she has cause to land, any tags I throw you likely won't be super dialog-heavy. But they'll have a dragon in them, so that makes up for it, right?

[babbylon]

[butt sparkling intensifies]

Loki

[selfimage]

SO Loki won't be taking part in any of the goddess killing (and he'll make snorting, fussball noises about it), but he'll be hella happy to have all of his powers back! He can weave some pretty intense illusions, teleport when needed, stalk around and be invisible, and utilize runes to make protective circles! He can be a huge, annoying distraction for whoever needs it. He'll be working out ways to be far more efficient than subduing one rock monster at a time. Being super durable he can also take a good beating.

Oh yes, he also has twelve swords left if anyone needs a weapon.

Being the cheeky loser he is, he'll probably be getting pictures with his StarkPhone (he's going to be so glad to have that back, ngl). For, you know, whoever wants to be immortalized on Loki's smart phone doing cool things.

[apoptotic]

takes one sword. for the future. just in case. it's going to gather dust but whatever he learned his lesson

Giovanni

[ofobedience]

Giovanni will be down for a spot of fun with Team Godkiller for sure, work off some of that pent-up fear and frustration at winding up so far from home.

Whilst he doesn't have any especially godmode offensive powers (he has increased speed, senses, and strength), he DOES have the added advantage of autonomic regeneration, so you can literally crush his skull or rip off limbs and they'll just regrow. Therefore I guess he'd be pretty good in front row as not-so human shield and/or distraction, haha. If anyone happens to have any spare guns, he's very handy with those, too.

He's a BIT unpredictable, but he's also not much of a leader and is much more inclined to take direction from someone else (albeit in a snarky, sardonic way considering he has no real allegiance to anyone/thing here).

So, yes. Planning?

anakin

[apoptotic]

anakin is getting the force back and will be so!! happy!!! meaning he's going to be doing exactly what the jedi aren't supposed to which is showing off with it this is why the council doesn't trust you, man.

he'll be staying away from the ryba since the rock monsters will be plentiful. with the force back, his lightsaber is finally going from 0 to 100 so you have a jedi to team up with/rescue/shove rock monsters with/panic when a rock monster topples on top except the force neatly shoves that aside/etc.

lightsaber noises will be supplied, but you can provide your own if you like. please provide your own. please, please surround him by people pretending to have lightsabers, it'll be great.

[anti_altruisms]

Yooooo so how do you feel about a magic arrow lightshow to go with that lightsaber?

Ban

[perma_banned]

Ban will be taking on Ryba and some stone golems! Plus, Ban's extremely well-prepared to take on a giant monster and watch out for his allies at the same time. He won't be taking much damage since for once he's going actually to look to avoid it(ribbons), but he wouldn't mind cutting himself to heal anybody else who needs it with his holy kool aid magic healing blood!

On top of that, he can weave magical clothing in an instant that can significantly increase someone's supernatural abilities!

Basically: Ban will be melee support, rescue, clothing buffs and healing for the golem and Ryba's encounters.

Magnus Bane

[warlocks]

Will be actively avoiding the fighting even though his powers are back, but he'll be around for anyone who needs healing. He is very good at wards and can probably set up a small sanctuary for characters who just want to duck and cover until the storm blows over.

[selfimage]

hey, you'll get full powered loki, we should do a teamup. (he'll be staying away from god killing for obvious reasons.)

Hellboy & Rick

[hellshaped]

Hellboy will be fighting Ryba, because he has experience with punching big tentacle things in the face (or equivalent). If anyone needs a rescue or wants to team up, he is all for it!

Rick is probably going to be sitting around uselessly playing video games where it's safe. He's a piece of shit sorry.

[ofobedience]

Aww man it's really cool to see a Hellboy around, especially a comics Hellboy! I'd be totally down for some teaming up if you'd like to, though fair warning, Giovanni can be kind of a douche.

Achilles

[heelies]

Let's try this again...

Earlier this month I proposed running funeral games in honor of the Nalawi sacrificed by cultists, but there was never quite a good time for this to come to fruition. My apologies to those who had expressed interest! BUT NOW, what better time for such a splendid ceremony than after the deaths of a couple goddesses? The original suggestion is detailed here for those who are curious. Anybody is welcome to participate!

Re: Achilles

[sengetsu]

Kojuro is up for helping out with goddess funeral stuff mostly because it's respectful and shit (his father was a head Shinto priest, I think at least some of that had to rub off).