APRIL INTRO/PLOTTING POST!

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Hello everyone, and welcome to our new players! This is our second Route 666 OOC Intro and Mingle post! We're also using this as our April Plotting Post!


APRIL EVENT

ACROSS THE THORN SCRUB

Hello Drifters and welcome to April’s plotting post! We’re taking a break from TDM and Apps this month to focus on a story event and unique location: the thorn brush wastelands, and the strange Tower that stretches towards the sky and takes up the scenery.

First off, we have unique properties from the Tower. As long as it is visible (and it will be visible all month) any wounds a Drifter takes will trigger transformations and trait activation! Drifters can either select from their own pre-selected traits, or they can choose from two event monsters with Chimera and Unicorn! Notably, Chimera monsters will have be able to incorporate these new changes, while Unicorns will be able to heal wounds and staunch any transformations.

The terrain is also going to be causing plenty of bleeding hazards, in the form of thorns, razor brush, and plenty of angry (and twisted) wildlife. Early in the month, there will also be an attack on the Convoy, in the form of cyborg hunters and raiders who are determined to cause death and damages... But who will also be carrying a smorgasbord of electronics, guns, and bullets to loot.

We’ll also be dealing with Moon Warps changing the scenery and making it chaotic, and eventually bringing the Tower down at the end of the month!

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

PLAYER MINGLE
Also, players can feel free to introduce yourself or plot with this handy box, if you would like!

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Paladin Danse | Fallout 4

[androidvictoriam]

INFO!
Player Name: Anna
Contact: annalizabeth @ Discord, layonmacduff

RP STUFF!
Character Name: Paladin Danse (though the "Paladin" title doesn't actually apply to him anymore, at this point)
Canon: Fallout 4
Character Info: A somewhat brainwashed but well-intentioned soldier from the post-apocalyptic ruins of Boston, dealing with the recent revelation that he's the same kind of android (or "synth") that his cultlike paramilitary organization has sworn to eradicate. He's three weeks out from losing basically everything he's ever known or cared about, including his own humanity, so why not crank that up a notch?

Monster Plans: He's going to be a werewolf! My ideas have more to do with the pack mentality aspect--he's going to be thinking of other people from his own world as pack whether he wants to or not, as well as people from others that he develops particular friendships with, and I'd like that to extend eventually to the trait that allows him to share thoughts/feelings with them. Still deciding on the physical!

Event Plans: None yet, except that he hates raiders and loves a good fight and will want to make himself so useful on the combat front, so I'd love for him to fall in with people who are thinking along the same lines! Or with people who aren't so much for fighting, so that he can be awkwardly protective, as he does.

Extra:

[wasteland_101]

/collects all Fallouts.

Need to continue the friendship and maybe they can make a small pack because wolves.

[androidvictoriam]

He's glad to have someone he knows here! And it'll help to have someone going through the same specific monster changes, so they can compare notes. They can definitely be the core of an irradiated little wolf pack.

[wasteland_101]

Angel will gladly loan him her sniper rifle while she does her usual of talking smack.

Does he have any weapons?

[androidvictoriam]

He's got his laser rifle! And a tire iron he stole from the garage, for when that runs out of ammo. He really needs to scavenge a gun that runs on something other than tech that only exists at home.

[wasteland_101]

She'll offer the rifle or 10mm pistol. And she is so going after any and all rounds

[lonedanger]

what's up soldier boy I hope you're ready to be annoyed

[androidvictoriam]

his body is always ready (for annoyance)

[lonedanger]

we love to pester a man who can snap people in half!!

[taediosum]

can't wait for their next horribly uncomfortable conversation

[androidvictoriam]

there will be halting, apologetic therapy-speak. it'll be bad.

[taediosum]

GOD make him feel worse for lying to you, Danse

[androidvictoriam]

if we're not toying with their emotions to peak capacity, we're just missing out, really.

[serialmurderbot]

Oh an android you say

Welcome to the club Danse there's not actually any goodies but he can join SecUnit in throwing all its efforts into fighting the local wildlife and cyborgs to avoid emotional and existential conversations.

[androidvictoriam]

God, I have no idea how Danse would react to SecUnit except that it'll be like a whole elevator panel of pushed buttons. Kind of like looking into a funhouse mirror at someone who isn't very different from him in a lot of ways, but has a completely different take on the depersonalization they're both subject to.

I'm down to see where it can go, because I think their CR could be so fascinating, but it might take a while to build because there's a lot about SecUnit that will be especially upsetting to Danse at the canon point he's coming from (everyone he cares about has abruptly started calling him "it" too, and he is not okay with that) and it's possible that he might nope out of some initial conversations fairly early until his interest prompts him to come back for more.

They'd make a great wildlife-and-cyborg-fighting team, though! Danse can handle that for sure. It is very good for focusing on to avoid existential dread.

[serialmurderbot]

I'd be happy with some slow build and potentially troubled CR! It's not hiding being a construct or a SecUnit - at this point it's calling itself 'SecUnit' when people ask for an introduction, so I foresee a lot of potential for things to spiral in a very interesting way.

Can work out where might make sense when the event log itself is up, but for now I'll keep an eye out for some raider fighting! Fighting is how you make introductions to new people, anyway, right?

[bigplace]

Since you're going to be a big, bad wolf, mind chipping in with meat from hunting?

[androidvictoriam]

Absolutely! I have no idea how much ammo his laser rifle realistically has, but I'll let him use it for hunting because the man deserves to taste a good steak for once in his life. Please cook for him, Kaidan.

Re: Paladin Danse | Fallout 4

[coffinturk]

Your lad here seemed to be severely lack8ng something so i took the liberty of doodling it in. Hope you don't mind. It's for the best. Surely. Also feel free to send CR my way!

[androidvictoriam]

omg I laughed so hard, I need to only use this one from now on. it's wicked

And yes, I'll look for you around!

[hexrot]

another woof..... rubs my hands together....

hello anna, welcome to the game!! i'm owlie and i play jayce from arcane! danse might be of some interest to him.... they could also bond about post apocalyptic survival. jayce isn't a fighter by heart but he's had to become one. it could be very interesting!

[androidvictoriam]

Hello! Nice to meet you! I admit I know very little about Arcane, but I did once see someone on Twitter say that Jayce and Danse are "the same guy in different fonts," so if that's at all accurate (or even if it isn't) I'm sure they can have some good talks.

Danse is always going to be drawn to other people who have clearly Been Through Apocalypse Shit, so that could be a great way to get some CR going, depending on how it comes up! And he has no idea how serious the monster transformations can get, either (or...that they will be happening at all, actually, at this point) so that can also be a very useful conversation if he doesn't immediately assume Jayce is a ghoul.

[hexrot]

in that case, i think they'll get along quite nicely!!! jayce has a nice rack of antlers right now and might look a little.....dead??? but they can get that i promise you.

we need more apocalypse survivor bros

[bufudine]

Ok so I saw that Danse would be looking for people to go hunting for meat with him. It just so happens that this guy (Serph) does that all the time. ...Because he's a cannibal and is eating the monsters. (Not that he advertises that part. But I do have an opt out in his journal if that's no good.) But he'd be willing to help! He even has ice powers so they could freeze the meat for transportation

Serph is also technically a soldier who recently learned he's an AI and the world he lived in was completely virtual (and uh, deleted), so I feel like maybe there's some common ground here. He was also turned into a monster before arriving, so he's well versed in dealing with sudden and abrupt transformations.

(... Serph also happens to drive an orange pick up truck, though his is more on the gaudy bright and saturated side of orange)

[androidvictoriam]

That could be good! Especially with the ice powers so they could really preserve a bunch of it for others, yeah. Cannibalism might incur some minor disapproval from Danse if done right in front of him, but his canonical response to it is basically "gross but you do you," so it should be fine.

The AI stuff also sounds like interesting common ground to talk about, for sure. I'll get back to toplevel tags after some sleep!