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monstertruckers ([personal profile] monstertruckers) wrote in [community profile] route666ooc2025-03-01 01:47 pm
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MARCH PLOTTING POST

Hello Drifters, and welcome to the March Plotting Post!


March marks a busy month for the game: we’ll be holding our main game event around the 5th or the 7th (depending on schedules!) an ATP/EMP timed for the 8th to go up alongside the EMP comm post, and our second Test Drive Meme on the 15th!

As a reminder, players may tag either the game event OR TDM posts as they wish! If you post a top level in the TDM, please mark in the subject line that you are Currently In-Game. Both for the ease of book keeping, and to help new players figure out who is who! With this said, onto the major stops this month:

With the forest behind them the Convoy makes its way onto the grasslands. Powerlines dot the landscape, decorated with paper scraps. These papers contain messages from home, and can help stabilize Drifters from the effects of last month’s Moon Warp.

While on the move Drifters will encounter the ruins of old homes and stores, with plenty of Husks scattered around these dwellings. While the ruins can provide supplies and shelters, getting too close to the Husks can prompt either monster spawns from the Husks, or behavior changes in Drifters. (Your character may feel restless, on edge, and/or showing a psychological monster trait.) The Convoy has a fix for this in the form of a song played from speakers, but this only works when the Convoy is close at hand.

In addition there will be encounters with a new monster called bull gorgons, which can be harvested for meat but not without a fight! At the end of the month, the terrain will also get more marshy, and will be the perfect spot for a zolom attack. That’s right, the Final Fantasy 7 snake kaiju is going to make an appearance, and they hunt in a pack!

We’re also pleased to announce this is our first event monster month. And this month will be centered around the Harpy and Naga species. A monster transforming storm is going to rage through the grasslands. It temporarily (ie, for one month) imparts traits from one of these monsters if any Drifter stumbles into the storm. This will occur in both the main comms, and the TDM, so feel free to play either way!

As a last house keeping note, we are currently short on mod staff, so feel free to take a look at the Mod Contact page if that is something that sounds interesting!

And that is our route planned for the month! We hope you enjoy this event, and feel free to plan in the comments below!

NAVIGATION
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[personal profile] taediosum 2025-03-05 01:40 am (UTC)(link)
oh boy!! I hope so, too lmao. Though he'll have to find some suitable stuff to work with, first.
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[personal profile] serialmurderbot 2025-03-07 02:39 pm (UTC)(link)
did arcade harvest any of the calm wildflowers from last month? :|a
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[personal profile] taediosum 2025-03-08 01:55 am (UTC)(link)
yes! for science.
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[personal profile] serialmurderbot 2025-03-08 03:29 am (UTC)(link)
Between the storm and the zolom it'll be getting hit with a lot of psych afflictions so if he comes up with something from those, he can probably test that on it
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[personal profile] taediosum 2025-03-09 04:45 pm (UTC)(link)
well, it'd have to volunteer to try, for that to work. ICly Arcade won't do more than maybe lightly suggest the idea, if it's obvious SecUnit's suffering from some serious agitation (but he also just kind of thinks that's how it always is lol)
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[personal profile] serialmurderbot 2025-03-09 07:17 pm (UTC)(link)
Well he's not wrong, lol ;; can see how it turns out!
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[personal profile] taediosum 2025-03-09 09:15 pm (UTC)(link)
works for me! always happy to have more murderbot threads, either way. (⁎❛ᴗ❛⁎)
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[personal profile] serialmurderbot 2025-03-11 02:10 am (UTC)(link)
Also looking forward to future threads, for sure