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aegis_notes2013-08-20 06:52 pm
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Opening Testrun Meme
Before the game actually opens, lets all take a moment to-Hold up, need some kind of goofy picture.
Before the game actually opens, lets all take a moment to try out some characters that we think would work well here. Test the waters, declare who you're interested in, have fun, invite your friends. Tell them we brought punch and pie.
The Prompts!
1. Arrival - One minute, you were doing your own thing back home, the next, you were sucked through a glowing portal. Suddenly, you find yourself in a random stretch of road, surrounded by screaming and the sounds of gunfire and explosions. All around you are other confused and disoriented people. Beyond them, a haze of smoke, through which hulking...things slouch about, writhing with tentacles.
You've just taken part in a mass emergence event. They tend to be accompanied by the appearance of horrible things from between worlds. They're hungry, but Aegis has sent some of their best agents to help you out. Flee to safety, then try to figure out just what the HELL is going on.
2. Emergence - This was a lucky one. You actually got a full two hours of warning before the emergence event took place. Anyone who was around and could fight or help was gathered up, thrown through a hasty briefing, then shoved into transport helicopters to try get to a stretch of cornfields somewhere in Kansas before it exploded into a mess of confused and lost people and Astral Beasts.
Right now, everyone's still on the helicopter. Got any last minute thoughts to get off your chest before everything goes crazy?
3. Vigilance - Welcome to your new home. Vigilance is a medium sized city on the east coast of the United States. It's host to a number of things to see and do, but most notably, it is the secret headquarters of the Aegis Initiative. After the absolute chaos of your arrival, you have some down time to get your head together. Take a look around town, have some fun. They've got mini golf.
4. Quarantine - Sometimes, things go wrong. Sometimes, the general public blames it on sliders like you. Sometimes, for your own safety, you have to stay inside. There's always things to do in the base, but most of it is things like "Clean the bathroom" or "Finish these reports" and that can only keep you busy for so long before you start strangling people.
So what does a slider do when suffering from cabin fever in a military compound?
5. Celebration - Nothing like near death experiences to make you appreciate life all the more. You thoroughly trashed some aliens yesterday, and now it's time to celebrate the fact that no one was disintegrated. The mess hall has been hastily converted into a dance hall by way of shoving the tables out of the way and putting on some loud music. The kitchen staff was recruited to feed everyone, and someone MAY have spiked the punch. Someone may have also spiked the pie.
6. Wild Card - Or of course, you can come up with something else altogether. The world of Aegis is a big one. The same size as our own world, in fact. There's bound to be things you can think of that we didn't cover here.
Before the game actually opens, lets all take a moment to try out some characters that we think would work well here. Test the waters, declare who you're interested in, have fun, invite your friends. Tell them we brought punch and pie.
The Prompts!
1. Arrival - One minute, you were doing your own thing back home, the next, you were sucked through a glowing portal. Suddenly, you find yourself in a random stretch of road, surrounded by screaming and the sounds of gunfire and explosions. All around you are other confused and disoriented people. Beyond them, a haze of smoke, through which hulking...things slouch about, writhing with tentacles.
You've just taken part in a mass emergence event. They tend to be accompanied by the appearance of horrible things from between worlds. They're hungry, but Aegis has sent some of their best agents to help you out. Flee to safety, then try to figure out just what the HELL is going on.
2. Emergence - This was a lucky one. You actually got a full two hours of warning before the emergence event took place. Anyone who was around and could fight or help was gathered up, thrown through a hasty briefing, then shoved into transport helicopters to try get to a stretch of cornfields somewhere in Kansas before it exploded into a mess of confused and lost people and Astral Beasts.
Right now, everyone's still on the helicopter. Got any last minute thoughts to get off your chest before everything goes crazy?
3. Vigilance - Welcome to your new home. Vigilance is a medium sized city on the east coast of the United States. It's host to a number of things to see and do, but most notably, it is the secret headquarters of the Aegis Initiative. After the absolute chaos of your arrival, you have some down time to get your head together. Take a look around town, have some fun. They've got mini golf.
4. Quarantine - Sometimes, things go wrong. Sometimes, the general public blames it on sliders like you. Sometimes, for your own safety, you have to stay inside. There's always things to do in the base, but most of it is things like "Clean the bathroom" or "Finish these reports" and that can only keep you busy for so long before you start strangling people.
So what does a slider do when suffering from cabin fever in a military compound?
5. Celebration - Nothing like near death experiences to make you appreciate life all the more. You thoroughly trashed some aliens yesterday, and now it's time to celebrate the fact that no one was disintegrated. The mess hall has been hastily converted into a dance hall by way of shoving the tables out of the way and putting on some loud music. The kitchen staff was recruited to feed everyone, and someone MAY have spiked the punch. Someone may have also spiked the pie.
6. Wild Card - Or of course, you can come up with something else altogether. The world of Aegis is a big one. The same size as our own world, in fact. There's bound to be things you can think of that we didn't cover here.
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Yeah, yeah, you're important, I got that much. Is this the part where I gotta sit through like six hours of rules and regulations and junk?
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[Harriet looks vaguely amused; her own handshake is perfectly firm and steady. The quintessential politician.]
That isn't my department, I'm afraid, but well done if you managed to escape all of that. It was dreadfully tedious helping to draft it; I can't imagine what it must be like to actually sit through it.
No, I simply want to talk. I don't often have a chance to visit, you see, and it strikes me as rather irresponsible to be a specialist on anything if all I know about Aegis is what they show me in the reports.
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[For a moment, Vi takes on that tone of uncertainty one uses when they're treading on thin ice that might drop them into trouble, but it quickly fades into a cocky grin.]
Well, I've gotten pretty good at tuning that kinda stuff out, enough that I usually get subjected to it a few times. People here seem pretty sharp, so I was wondering if they'd caught onto that already.
[She chuckles, rather pleased to know that at least in this world, someone who had to make that stuff hated it as much as she did.]
Name's Vi. Ran with the local police back home, along with what is essentially a government-sanctioned arena fighting league to help settle political disputes.
[The way she brings it up so casually, it seems like the most normal thing in the world.]
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[Harriet looks vaguely grim as she strides down the hallway.]
Of course, you must understand Emergences, your own status, the alien threat, all of that, but... you'll learn quickly. It isn't knowledge you're liable to forget.
[Knowledge that all the world could never forget. Watching Los Angeles vanish in the blink of an eye, seeing the first Emergence appear, the first alien attack... Days that people would remember afterwards for the rest of their lives. They would remember the exact moment they had heard of these events, seen them on their television screens...]
It is a pleasure to meet you, though, Miss Vi - and you say you have experience in law enforcement, politics, all of that sort of thing? Wonderful.
[It seems Harriet has heard quite a lot of stories about strange worlds in her lifetime.]
Might I hear more about it?
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[Vi smirks as she says this, as well as balling up one fist and punching her open palm.] I'm pretty fond of the direct approach.
[The inquiry gets a one-shoulder shrug as Vi folds her arms.] Just 'Vi' works, and yeah. Used to be a pretty bad egg until the group I ran with pulled some stuff I didn't like. Tried turning over a new leaf there, screwin' over other criminals a lot. Got offered a job on the force to sort of pay back society or something - I jumped on it, 'cause hey, beating up crooks and not having to run from the cops myself? Pretty sweet deal.
As for politics, eh... Involvement there is mostly just if I get picked to fight for a side. People having the disputes set up the league fights, folks like me just do the actual fighting for 'em.
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[For a moment, she stops short and draws herself up with a sharp intake of breath. ...This is released quickly in the moments after, and she turns back to Vi with a bland smile.]
...Heavens, there I go again. I do enough talking about that sort of thing during my job; I'm certainly not here to bore you with it.
Now are you saying that all political affairs are handled in your world with these... 'league fights'? A sort of Roman arena for the wealthy? A champion is chosen, the fight commences, the winner seizes victory for the one they represent - and so on?
[Harriet ponders on this scenario for a moment or two.]
It is preferable to war, isn't it? Though perhaps we ought to conduct football tournaments; I can't see anyone willing to invest in gladiatorial combat.