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Luceti Mods ([personal profile] lucetimods) wrote in [community profile] lucetilogs2012-04-17 10:49 am

MISSION #5 - Cargo Run

Who: Trafalgar Law (2nd Officer), Sanji (Cook), Azusa Miura (Cook's Mate), Adele Blanc (Doctor), The Hulk, Daisy, Anakin Skywalker, Asbel Lhant, Buffy Summers (Marines), Arsene Lupin III, Selphie Tilmitt, James Norrington, Mikage Celestine, Rogue, Nami, and Kurt Wagner (Sailors)
What: MISSION # 5 - Cargo Run
When: April 17th to April 21st
Where: Open Seas
Summary: A group of Luceti volunteers join a crew upon a massive ship headed out to sea, into cultist-infested waters.


It may have been nine in the morning when the group of Luceti volunteers were transported out through the tunnels, but at the shipyards the time difference meant that it was nearly midday already. A meek member of the Malnosso lower management led them along the docks, avoiding and scolding people as they got in his way, as he tried to go over the same details already present in the mission description. He was a rather pathetic looking little purple man with drooping ears, a hairless head, and webbed fingers. He apologized for his slipping over words. He explained it was difficult thinking straight in sunlight. Whenever he would stop to try and think, he'd look up to see The Hulk, shrink away a bit, and then hobble on quicker to the ship.

He was visibly relieved when he found Specialist Davis didn't look too busy, allowing him to pass off the Luceti volunteers and allowing him to get on his way. He's a new face to this particular group, but not to Luceti in general, having worked with them previously on the incident with the third floor. This odd looking group doesn't seem to have him looking too impressed. Especially when he looks at the ones who don't even seem to be fighters. But he directs his attention to Trafalgar with a few short words: "You. We'll talk once we're on board. You get your people settled for now."

With that, he and a group of other MSF Soldiers went to board the ship. The Tyr's Revenge was far larger than the ship than the one on the draft over half a year ago. It was a sailing ship, but despite its antiquated look, there was a central cooling tower in the center of the ship, which it derived its steam power. Where it used this thrust was not immediately obvious without a look at the back of the ship. (They would find out later that it was enough to propel the boat in a calm and was simple enough to avoid being blocked by Shifting, but was not as effective as a good strong wind.) Despite being crewed at around five hundred men and women, it was at least spacious enough for the crew to put in pairs. As a second officer, Trafalgar was afforded his own cabin, but the rest were sorted away into small rooms with two sets of hammocks on each side. The Luceti volunteers were kept together and it gave them some privacy, though each were pre-assigned rooms and the Malnosso didn't seem too picky about who ended up with who.

They had about an hour to get comfortable. In an hour, they'd be casting off.

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Okay, time for your notes. First off, you will be able to interact with Specialist Davis for the mission. He won't be very talkative (unless you're his second officer), but he might answer some basic questions. He'll be around during the fighting too. Although he prefers to use firearms (think something like a P90), he'll demonstrate super strength and advanced reflexes (think Spider-Man) in battle. Some of the other MSF Soldiers will display some slight superhuman ability like him, but the vast majority of them are normally powered highly trained soldiers. For the most part, they won't talk to people from the enclosures much and prefer to keep to themselves. In general their only duty is security, so they won't be doing much in running the ship unless absolutely necessary. There will be about one hundred and fifty men and women. Most will be human, but there may be a few deviations among them (like odd skin colors, weird hair colors, eye pigmentations, pointy ears, and so on). Although a good number of them will use guns, some out of them will be using melee weapons like swords and spears. All of them will have some secondary weapon in case of a Shift that jams their guns.

The people from Luceti, along with the volunteers, will be doing the day to day work of the ship. The volunteers will be as they are described in the Nitpicker's Guide. For the most part, they're not nearly as skilled at fighting as the people from Luceti or the Security Forces, so when attacks come, they'll defend themselves but not be very good at it. Most of them will be human, with a few variations. Very, very few of them will exhibit any special abilities. In general they'll be friendly enough, though some from different enclosures may be more jaded and bitter. There will definitely be talks of escape and mutiny among some of them, whereas others will be more cooperative or too fearful of attempting a mutiny.

You can use the volunteers and security as NPCs for whatever purpose you like! That means you can give them names and maybe a bit of a personality (that's consistent with the above) and let them get killed or need help or what have you during battles with cultists. There are also droids to be found in parts of the ship below decks. They will more or less remain stationary, but they will intervene if people poke their noses in the wrong place. Or try to mutiny.

The captain of the ship won't be seen much, but she's an older lady (late fifties) that is relatively plain and unassuming in appearance. She won't talk to the volunteers and will relay any orders through Specialist Davis, but the people from Luceti may see her about the ship to see how things are going. Most of the time she will be in the captain's quarters doing paperwork. She'll look seasick for the entire voyage. Her name is Mrs. Eugenia Fruthers, Manager 2nd Class.

Note: The volunteers are sorted randomly, so it's up to you players to figure out how you want to work that out! The Malnosso aren't too picky if a man and woman end up sharing the same quarters. (How shameless!)

Here's a run down for events on the ship over the voyage

17th - Cast off, strong wind, heading east. A fair weather day perfect for sailing.
18th - Open seas with a fair wind and cloudy skies. A land mass can be briefly seen to the north. An island of some sort.
19th - Open seas with a fair wind, darker skies. The cultists make their first attack run. About mid day, four flying ships. The Malnosso use no cannons, but prefer to immediately fly en masse once in range. However, it is necessary to bring these ships down, as the cultists are fond of going kamikaze with them. Each of the four ships carries about one hundred cultists each.
20th - Open seas with powerful wind and stormy weather. Another raid will occur early in the morning, while most of the crew is still asleep. Three more cultist ships will attack and some of the cultists will make it below decks. Mid way through the battle, the ruckus will attract a monstrous kraken from the depths. The crew will be forced to fight off the remaining cultists while a great tentacled hell beast attempts to drag the Tyr's Revenge to the depths.
21st - The last day of the voyage will see the ship needing repairs after the attacks. About half of the crew will have been lost thanks to the cultists and the kraken and they will finally make port (in the same place as the ocean draft.) In the evening, the volunteers will be returned to their respective enclosures.



You can use this post for questions and plotting!
daisy023: (ODST - Ready)

[personal profile] daisy023 2012-04-20 05:47 pm (UTC)(link)
[Aided both by augmentations and Kipinn's gift, she almost disappears out of the way -- and try to get the thing to suck the hull to try and cut the damned thing.

She's not Kelly, and she is not inside the MJOLNIR, but she is still swift enough.]
touchofrogue: (MFing OW | The Voices Are Loud Today)

[personal profile] touchofrogue 2012-04-20 06:12 pm (UTC)(link)
[The psyches rattle their cage.

--hear her scream--

Rogue closes her eyes for a moment.]


Anyone can help - by givin' me a little peace an' quiet.

[Darnit, where's her door.]
bamfing: (Come again?)

[personal profile] bamfing 2012-04-20 06:20 pm (UTC)(link)
It did, up until you asked what it was. [And then he had to explain it!]
greatbloodybeastie: (I EAT YOU)

[personal profile] greatbloodybeastie 2012-04-20 06:20 pm (UTC)(link)
[Damn! Missed her! But the kraken is persistent and goes in for round two, latching onto the side of the ship and pulling a screaming Malnosso crewmember into its jaws for good measure.]
greatbloodybeastie: (I EAT YOU)

[personal profile] greatbloodybeastie 2012-04-20 06:21 pm (UTC)(link)
[The beast roars with pain and anger as the scythe bites, and it lurches back only to renew its infuriated attack on the slayer. Its intention is to eat her whole.]
bamfing: (Wait what?)

[personal profile] bamfing 2012-04-20 06:31 pm (UTC)(link)
Ahh, I see. [Compasses not working? He's not sure how this one is different, but it does seem. Odd.] At least we know which way we're going with the sun, yeah?
daisy023: (ODST - Fire)

[personal profile] daisy023 2012-04-20 06:47 pm (UTC)(link)
[SPARTAN-023 bends a hold into the hull to keep herself steady. Even as she watches a crewmember be devoured by the beast, she focuses on what it's at hand -- the mouth is open. While the victim used to be a person from the Malnosso Organization, she tries to remind herself he is already lost.

Even if he was under his command.

She calls upon Kipinn to aid her weapons with the winds. Then shoots the grenade with a supernatural speed towards its' maw.]


Fire in the Hole!

[Literally.]
greatbloodybeastie: (PULLIN U DOWN)

[personal profile] greatbloodybeastie 2012-04-20 06:50 pm (UTC)(link)
[UGH! WHAT IS THIS FOUL-TASTING--------?!

KABLAAAAM!

A horrible choking gurgle comes from the beast as that part of its face gets blown off. Luckily, krakens can survive partially-faceless. That is a little-known fact about krakens. Well and truly peeved, now, it continues its gurgling roar and sends four more tentacles in where before only one would do. Beware, Daisy.]
daisy023: (ODST - Stealth)

[personal profile] daisy023 2012-04-20 07:13 pm (UTC)(link)
[She pissed the thing.

The storm is playing hell on her aerial powers, but she tries redirecting the airs towards moving her and delaying the limbs from reaching her.

As she bolts around, jumping through sections like a feline being pursued, sometimes she'd try chopping away whatever appendages come flying her way with her claymore. While she's tiny compared to the thing, it's clear the thing hates her a lot, now.

One gets ahold of her foot -- She bends a hold into the ship before she unsheathes her short sword to slice the limb.]
greatbloodybeastie: (KRAKEN SNACK)

[personal profile] greatbloodybeastie 2012-04-20 07:26 pm (UTC)(link)
[OW OWIE OW OW OW. The kraken tries to retain its grip on her with another tentacle! It wants to dangle her around a bit and swing her through the air. That's always entertaining for krakens.]
redjacketthief: (tell me this is a joke!)

[personal profile] redjacketthief 2012-04-20 07:53 pm (UTC)(link)
That still sounds really cool!

[Percentage Understood: 0%]

...Can you make out any details on that rock out there?
daisy023: (ODST - Charge)

[personal profile] daisy023 2012-04-20 08:09 pm (UTC)(link)
[Being held by both her foot and shoulder, she digs her blade into the appendage holding her captured arm and twists it in an attempt to free herself.

She is going to need her two swords at this rate. If the thing gets more funny ideas, she has more of these bombastic fruits.]
greatbloodybeastie: (TENTACLE POWER SLAP!)

[personal profile] greatbloodybeastie 2012-04-20 08:16 pm (UTC)(link)
[Its ideas aren't THAT funny, being that it's a kraken and all, but it does come in with another tentacle to try to restrain her. Problematically she has damaged the slimy arm holding her by the shoulder. That tentacle loosens even as the beast tries to pull her off her feet.]
deathsdoctor: (Fight | ROOM)

20th B)

[personal profile] deathsdoctor 2012-04-20 08:22 pm (UTC)(link)
[Oh baby, we've been through this. Why do you keep doing this? Now he has to hurt you.

YOU DO NOT TOUCH HIS CREW!]

ROOM!

[He may not be able to get the barriers up in time, but you know something? That just means YOU, yes ALL of you, is now in range of the limits of the spherical energy field that Law's extending right on past you. A spherical energy field that also snares two of the Malnosso flying ships, coming in for the kamikaze kill.

(We shall get into the ships in a moment and what Law is going to do about those; right now it is all you, beastie)

But... that might be the taste of THIRD PARTY flooding your mouth. BLEH, huh? See, part of Law's abilities allow him to pull the old switcheroo on anything, instantly. And if you gotta eat, well, you might as well do him a favor and chow down on his enemies in the meantime.]
Edited 2012-04-20 20:23 (UTC)
daisy023: (ODST - Downrange)

[personal profile] daisy023 2012-04-20 08:36 pm (UTC)(link)
[Military speak. She used to be worse a year ago.]

It's a tropical island. Looks somewhat like what we saw during a seafaring draft and the flora from the cultist jungles, but I don't see smoke or signs or civilization anywhere.

The whole place's covered with the mountains and trees to see any of it. If anything wanted to hide, they'd forbid themselves from creating fires.
daisy023: (ODST - Down)

[personal profile] daisy023 2012-04-20 08:44 pm (UTC)(link)
[She tries finishing off the tentacle holding her arm -- and suddenly grunts when another limb takes her other foot and holds her in the air.

If she succeeds in cutting off the appendage over her shoulder, she'd grab another sword for her free hand. And try cutting her way down.]
greatbloodybeastie: (Default)

[personal profile] greatbloodybeastie 2012-04-20 08:48 pm (UTC)(link)
[Luckily for her, that leg was mostly hacked through before. Now it splits completely and falls writhing to the deck. The beast gropes after her with more legs. Cutting would probably be a good plan.]
greatbloodybeastie: (I EAT YOU)

[personal profile] greatbloodybeastie 2012-04-20 08:50 pm (UTC)(link)
[Ooooh, Cultists! Spicy! Juicy! The kraken coughs up a few feathers before groping around for more of this delicious food. It was so good the creature is even willing to brave the painful Law magic it has come to hate.]
redjacketthief: @ starkxravingxmad (attention-- keen observation)

[personal profile] redjacketthief 2012-04-20 08:58 pm (UTC)(link)
[Interesting. The description reminds him a little of parts of Southeast Asia.]

You think that might be one of the zones for previous missions and drafts then?
daisy023: (ODST - Ready)

[personal profile] daisy023 2012-04-20 09:01 pm (UTC)(link)
[She shakes her head.]

It's a new area. The one we landed on was wider, and if it was known Malnosso or cultist territory we'd have made contact by now.
daisy023: (ODST - Charge)

[personal profile] daisy023 2012-04-20 09:03 pm (UTC)(link)
[The appendages are a little too resistant, but now with two weapons, she tries a different tactic: Using both claymore and short sword as scissors to cut first the thickest tentacle, then the other closest one, before separating them and attacking with two strikes the following ones.]
deathsdoctor: (Fight | It will all be over soon for you)

[personal profile] deathsdoctor 2012-04-20 09:21 pm (UTC)(link)
[And painful it will be.]

TACT!

[It is very unwise to give him an opening. Not this man, who has been patiently biding his time, training, and getting stronger, and stronger within his enclosure. He is not yet at the level he will be in the timeskip, where he can do this without any exertion at all.

But he can do this. It just takes a crook of an index finger.

So when those tentacles aren't grabbing anything ship related (and he's making sure they aren't grabbing anything crew related.)

UP. YOU. GO.

AWAY FROM THE SHIP. AWAY FROM HIS CREW. The pull is irresistible. You can fight it. You can throw Third Party members (and maybe a dolphin for old times sake) at him and maybe he'll falter. Hell, maybe you'll manage to snare him.

But he will have you up there, like a Krakenish Christmas ornament - he will do everything to make sure of it. Dangling. And that's when things get interesting.]
Edited 2012-04-21 05:36 (UTC)
redjacketthief: @ starkxravingxmad (EEEEEHHHHHHH?????)

Needs a Rescue D:

[personal profile] redjacketthief 2012-04-20 09:24 pm (UTC)(link)
EEEEEHHHHH??????

[Krakens exist? KRAKENS EXIST??

He's been in Luceti for almost six months now; Lupin knows that he shouldn't be surprised by anything. But anything with tentacles, even small ones, strikes a viceral chord in him, sends chills down his spine, and shoves his mind right along the edge of mania. Allergy aside (which he can't say for certain of any longer, it's been so long and people outgrow them sometimes), the sight of the writhing tentacles reminds once more of the many surreal encounters that he cannot rationalize on a basic level. Mamo was the most terrifying of them, but that old woman Rosetta and even the fact that Fujiko once wooed Nessie still surprises him.

Saying nothing of Ancient Egyptian curses. He had those wounds on his wrists for weeks.

...He can't fight the Kraken with his weapons on hand. If the Cultists were barely effected by slugs from his Walther P-38-- and, by extension, slugs from the PPK he lifted off of Fujiko--there was no way they'd have any effect on the Kraken.

More than a little desperate, he's trying to make himself as least tasty a morsel as possible. He's probably failing.]

Edited 2012-04-20 23:47 (UTC)
redjacketthief: @ starkxravingxmad (casual-- staring contest)

[personal profile] redjacketthief 2012-04-20 09:29 pm (UTC)(link)
Really now? How many islands do you think there are then? How big is this world?
herotypical: (✝ pour retrouvez tes racines)

[personal profile] herotypical 2012-04-20 09:53 pm (UTC)(link)
[ and there she is -- barely a decent meal! buffy hauls back and allows kraken blood and slime to ooze over the decks. but it would make the deck treacherous underfoot. she has to proceed carefully, picking her way back into the fight and stomping down on a thinner portion of tentacle; she puts her back into it as she hacks downwards, hoping to sever this curling bit from its master. ]

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