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

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.

[futurologists]

To keep things fair, we suggest an area of effect of a few meters around Gilgamesh, but we'll trust your judgment not to hamper the experiences of other players!

[babbylon]

Absolutely, thank you! One additional question: may other characters be allowed to borrow weapons from the Gate during the battle? Within reason, of course, obviously no nukes everywhere etc. and they'll return to the Gate afterwards.

[futurologists]

As long as the weapons are non-magical in nature (swords, spears, axes, etc), we have no objections!

[boneafide]

Just checking, one could NOT fight the goddesses, and also NOT stick around on the island for an additional 3 months, right?

[futurologists]

Characters do not need to participate in the fighting, correct. The sign-ups for staying behind are optional for everyone.

Re: QUESTIONS

[conqueress]

How do these rock monsters feel about fire? Would it give them pause, or would they be indifferent?

In ASOIAF canon, dragonfire has the capability to melt stone, but the effect is proportional to the size of the dragon--and thus how much fire it produces in one puff. The only reference I have is that a dragon famous for being massive (large enough to swallow up towns in his shadow when flying overhead) melted a huge stone castle. Given Drogon's much smaller horse size, would he be successful at causing even some small damage to the rock creatures, or nothing at all?

[futurologists]

Regular fire will not do much damage to them at all. It's up to you if you would like Drogon's dragonfire to be effective!

[selfimage]

Hey mods! When abilities are returned, and being a god, Loki's pretty sensitive to the way reality works, he weaves illusions by manipulating it. It's sort of like a vibration, or "song" that he can feel.

When Nalanni's gone, would there be any changes to the world/reality in the way that Loki may notice, especially to someone who's also divine in nature?

[futurologists]

Once Nalanni is dispatched (and before Ryba is defeated), the world will be shaking both physically and spiritually. Loki would be able to sense a "void" in Nalanni's absence, like something integral to the structure of the world is missing. After Ryba's defeat, the fabric of reality will instantly snap back into balance.

[selfimage]

Thank you!

[apoptotic]

piggybacking on this, I assume those also capable of sensing their environment i.e. like the force will experiment something similar?

[futurologists]

Sure!

Re: QUESTIONS

[sengetsu]

Will characters be told about the time differential when ALISTAIR asks for volunteers to stay behind?

[futurologists]

ALASTAIR cannot definitively calculate the exact time dilation that will occur. They know the time won't be a 1:1 ratio, but beyond that, they can't say.

[terrormine]

First off, thank you for accommodating 11 for the staying behind crew! I do have a question about that, though. If we would like to do any IC threading during the staying behind period, will there be any mod-made post, or will it be up to us (use the current event post, make a new log, etc)?

[futurologists]

Hello! The mods will not be creating any posts for this, so if you would like to log something out, feel free to use whatever method you like.

[terrormine]

Gotcha, thanks for confirming!