Namely, that it will be check-in, because of the holidays

Also note the time limit on the first part of the event: in six hours, we'll be proceeding with part 2, so make sure to have your characters speak up in the first thread

XD Definitely useful.

time to see if there's any strategists among the PCs :3

GO GO GO

I'm on hiatus, you nerds should tag the hell out of this in my absence

/tags James, runs away giggling immaturely.

best time for Moon to be watching the Bastion-

hello Moon :3

watching them going WHAT IS THSI, all the sudden a ton leave. Well okay then-

they come back

Moon moved in

Moon's just like 'sup'

XD

"It was empty, I couldn't tell if you all left or something."

I mean

Of the people we have

/quickly tags Megaera in

There are roughly 24 active people who could technically participate

... I can hear the mods cursing you even as you typed that, Zac. XD

And if we cut that in two, a 12 person party per group and with the levels of strength we have between characters

You just wanna get Ippo's arm lopped off, don't you? /teasetease

we are letting you guys decide what to do! :3

It's gonna happen regardless, it's just a matter of when and how soon XD

I'm just sayin

whatever you go with, we will do

We could, if we put our heads together, get this done

but jsyk it definitely is possible to fail this one

We've got the touch

depending on what you do

Failure is always possible in Bastion

(not saying going for both is IMPOSSIBLE, but. It's definitely harder than going for one)

Yeah. Colin's gonna be quick to remind people of that. XD Not saying no, mind you. But he's seen the condition they come back from core hunts in.

Of course, Megaera has no clue how hard this is going to be.

right, this is her first time

sorry Meg things get weird

Odds-to-evens she's definitely going to be figured out by at least a few people as Definitely Not Human during all this. XD

Time to drive home now.

i am also realizing moon being part of bastion at this point would be helpful /lays on side. He's a fast flyer >.>;

and when he messes up, people can call him MoonMoon!

hahahaha

God Dammit MoonMoon...

going for both seems like a great way to kill everyone

Well, to be fair

Just going out on the Skyway for core hunts at all is a great way to kill everyone

Last time Alucard came back without a face

and that wasn't even a core hunt

Mama Gasfella loves you too, Alucard

you didn't need that face anyway

I have three fighty characters how do I even divide this up

then again Otoha has to be convinced to give a fuck

More power means less falling out of the sky Otoha :T

well okay that is convincing yes

considering he can't fly here

XD

And you get to go rough up some hooligans in the process

EVEN MORE CONVINCING

he'll probably come into the thread late with Starbucks like "what"

good 8U

atrypical actually, if you do both, each player can only send one character in each group

so there's no 'talking to yourselves' kindof thing

though you could have tobias relay messages between the two groups, if you guys go with two groups

Yeah that's what I was thinking

BRAIN IS HARD TO WRANGLE

/patpat

that's also depending on if you guys go for both

if you go for just one, then obviously it's one character each, to be fair

there got a Zuko ._.

Zukooooo

/pets Erek.

Colin hasn't forgotten you, he's just... displeased with the state of things. XD

:<

Rob: ...mun why are you trying to work out how much damage a human can survive? You're not planning something horrible are you?

Rob is the logical one

Anyways, do we have to tag into part one to join up with part 2?

oh hey Duke and Erek have an idea

and nope! It's just for deciding what to do

Rob: /inches away

IE going after one core vs going for both

I'm going to tally up the votes in about an hour

and by 'votes' I mean 'the most recent clearly-stated preference by a character'

since. lol not doing a poll

SO YEAH one hour left if you want your characters to say one way or another what to do

Megaera's answer depends on, essentially, if she can teleport back to the Bastion while holding the core

If that's a likely "no" for one or another reason, then it's no choice - gotta focus one

:|a I'm going to say, just for the sake of having the event be exciting and not just "Meg teleports in, grabs crystal, teleports out" that she can only teleport one way

so either to the crystal, or back to the bastion

and she's gotta hoof it one of the ways

Zuko was suggesting that she teleport back to the bastion with it after they've found it (and presumably retrieved it from monsters or something)

that works

BTW GUYS FINAL VOTE IS IN HERE if you want to have your character speak up and you haven't done so already

rubberfaceokumura kasenrin RadiantWingedOne Obzedat nidorina FistFullofMagic Floogy tafkae

....and a bunch more people I tried to ping as many as I could who were not in here already

Duke's depends on if Erek can hide a core

splitting seems possible if that works >.>

She can't teleport to anywhere in the Skyway, per her app.

The Skyway's environ is too unstable, so it never counts as 'familiar' for the purposes of that ability.

...OH RIGHT

I. forgot about that whoops. Thank you for reminding me|D

Yeah. So she's saying "Get to first, Megaera grabs and poofs, rest of party can try for the second if up to it"

but yes she would be able to teleport back to the Bastion with it. it's big, but under the weight limit

Problem being, that second one, no such help... Unless we're insane enough to grab the first, carry it to the second, and Megaera could hold both and teleport both back

that would be a bad idea because monsters would be following them the whole way

Yeah. Even worse than the normal run. XD

yeah XD even if Erek can cloak a core, it wouldn't help if monsters see it

and then them taking it

that is the big thing too

Erek can hide the presence of a core, but the monsters aren't stupid

if they see him hide it, they will just go after him anyway

It's fun observing how different powers tweak the situation... But still leave it crazy difficult.

yeah. it would depend on how may monsters see him stow it, and if they can kill those before a whole lot get there, is Duke's opinion

... aka, too many variables

definitely a lot of variables

hence why it is not an easy choice

Yeah. One example (that Megaera would think of) is that if she grabs and warps, the monsters are going to converge on where she poofed from

and we mods are watching to see what you decide to do :3 it's fun

Raaawr, I meant to refresh the page before replying, but I apparently forgot, and just now noticed that my comment is off in its own subthread. OOPS.

whoops XD

but it's okay, it's still a part of the conversation

the thread won't get long enough for Erek's thing to be lost

....also the votes are currently tied (unless someone changes their vote or Erek/someone new adds to it), so. I'll wait a bit longer for at least one more vote one way or the other

Sorry I was eating.

Ghaleon's of the mind that while multiple cores would be a good prize, he prefers the higher likelihood of attempting to secure a single core first.

Tobias has been hanging around Rachel too long to not go "this is stupid LET'S DO IT"

Tobias got the thing from her

XD

he did

Gotta do the thing, yep

yeeep

unfortunately, going for two is currently being outvoted, so |D

Eh. /shrug

THE WORST PART IS PICKING A CHARACTER TO GO

that is the worst part yes

Aye.

But at least there is a backup Core in case you guys fail the first one?

Yep.

And we have multiple people that can teleport.

Tobias, since Rachel isn't here you're channeling Xena for her?

In her honor?

Yes

Look someone's gotta.

Well, just as long as nobody channels Gabrielle, we should be fine.

Argh, my body is distracting me from my desire to catch up on tags. Bad body. You have 2 antihistamines in your system, quit it with the hives already. (My lip's starting to swell now. >_> 1.5 months so far.)

(I think I will be itchy forever.)

next part is up!

it is slightly spoopy

Hm... whom to send...

/tosses Megaera at Duke, because she had much the same idea

/thumbs up

/also tosses Ghaleon after Duke, because this is how true adventurers roll: explore everywhere, take everything remotely useful that doesn't weigh too much

looting the place lol

Reminds me of every single time I would ever start up Morrowind- steal everything that wasn't nailed down or being watched.

yep, that's how you do it

yes 8

8D

i didn't see that ghaleon was going with Duke too, so endless you might want to refresh /face in hands

or i can remove Dukes

I'll do it.

trilies: BUT OF COURSE!

Adventurers: they're all kleptomaniacs.

YO I WAS A POOR EX-PRISONER, I HAD TO MAKE THAT MONEY QUICK SOMEHOW

what did you want me to do, kill mudcrabs for a hundred years?

i got caught once, and was so confused that when i left, i was told the whole "idk about where you are from, but we have nudity laws here"

then remembered i was wearing stolen shit.

... and went and stole it all back shh

as you do

I learned quickly that in the event that the guards were going to catch me, the quickest way to keep the stolen goods is to find a corner where people don't usually look, drop everything stolen, get caught,

then go back for the stuff.

I need to mess with Skyrim someday

^ we got it, and then we got pokemon like, a week later. >.>;

I heartily recommend it. It's great fun.

...And it just occurred to me that Ghaleon has probably actually taken the time to learn to read some Caelondian, because really, he would.

GUYS I HAD WORK so I guess no vote for me???

Still at work, on cell. Limits what I can do and you put the voting period during my shift D:

:<

:c

Yeah, 6 hours isn't a very long time for that thread to happen, especially considering the day it'd be posted wasn't pre-announced.

sorry, we wanted to make sure we got everything done. You'll get a shot at both of them eventually anyway

but if you guys want,I can delete the second thread and leave it open for another day for you guys to discuss?

if it is really bothersome that the discussion and voting was a short window of time

or like, freeze the second thread for a day, or something

I don't know that it's necessary in this case, unless it seems like the vote would almost certainly come out differently.

uuugghhh. freeze second until it is shown that the outcome won't be similar?

In general, though, I figure 24 hours seems more reasonable as a decision-making period so players get to weigh in regardless of time zones or work schedules. Especially on events without prior announcement.

when it won't be, you can delete. if it will be similar, we just pick up?

yeah, I'm thinking that could work

ok, I'll go ahead and freeze the second thread, and give people until tomorrow night to put up their vote

Once I....figure out how to freeze comments....

I think I have to screen them instead of freezing

OH WAIT NO FOUND IT

o/

Floogy sorry I did not realize you had work tonight D| but you can still comment!

well, looking at the entry, it doesn't look like Ibuki should even be voting... she's certainly not battle ready, and voting to decide what others are going to do doesn't seem right ^^;

It's ultimately your choice, but you're more than welcome to have her comment if you decide you want her to o/

she can comment expressing she'd rather they all be safe or something /shrug

/shrinks into background

XD;; alright I figured out her vote lol

XD

IBUKIPLZ

Hey come on, it's a valid concern

People becomign a couple right before a big battle

often spells doom for one of them XD

Don't worry Ibuki. They've got the best combat medic around on this mission.

SHE'LL FOREVER WORRY

Fair enough.

She won't be happy until they're all back safe and sound

It'll be okay, Ibuki.

Probably.

Just be glad I haven't apped Viral yet, because her answer would've been something along the lines of "Don't be absurd. The odds of death are just as high for everyone - myself excluded, of course."

And then

screaming intensifies

(Megaera) /swats Viral for that > : /

Ibukilogic

Yep. Ibukilogic.