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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] electrifyking 2025-03-05 03:15 am (UTC)(link)
Akihiko is likely going to continue his efforts of trying to impress this really unconventional senpai trying to create a decent team with Serph. His memories of the Moon Warp are a little hazy but... They technically made a good team? They punched a bear together!

So as a consequence, he probably would be alright with going out to hunt some monster meat after getting over the initial "wait what? WHAT? well if it's still protein." Probably in the form of gorgons, or maybe some bird meat; it's KINDA like beef or chicken. If he pretends really hard.
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[personal profile] bufudine 2025-03-05 05:32 am (UTC)(link)
Hell yeah they punched a bear together!

LMAO. Since Akihiko will be getting notes from home, maybe Serph could be there for that? And recognising someone who's mad about stuff they don't have control over, he could set Akihiko onto some poor flock or herd of monsters? Leading to "maybe we should do something with all this monster meat?"
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[personal profile] electrifyking 2025-03-06 06:41 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, Akihiko probably brings his message back to the Convoy (because much as he doesn't like it, can't really throw it away) just in time to encounter some wild monsters roaming around. And given the final result from that bear fight, Akihiko might actually be a little more amiable to eating monsters after defeating them.