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EVENT ➜ VIRTUAL REALITY

SOMETHING SEEMS FAMILIAR

➜ I've been waiting for this shit for a year and a half.

And this is late because I had to bake a cake. Oops. It was delicious if that makes you feel better.

➜ Thanks to our lovely Bea and her lovely Quistis, there is a new location in Holly Heights. Much like it says on the tin, the training center (added to the post but the thread is linked for ease of access) is a sort of gateway into another, possibly unfamiliar world that allows you to hone your skills. There are various floors with various terrains and areas to maneuver around. One might be very forest lake, complete with mosses, animals, and caves. Another might be very mountainous. The size is very misleading considering the building size but is still contained to a reasonable mock size.

Well, the Landlord has decided to take that and fuck with it a little. A lot.

➜ On the 15th, groups will be entered into the Training Center, numbers ranging from four to eight. On the first day, everything will be very like the Training Center as it's displayed on the tin.

The next day, that will definitely change.

➜ In varying stages and days, teams will experience various types of worlds and universes. Much like how, if you remember, Holly Heights became an island with island attributes for a summer, that will happen in these varying floors. The abnormality is that a few days or stages may be something that some here are familiar with.

➜ During some stages, the world may be a generic world (ie a mer-world under the sea with no really canon or universe attachment) while one day might be a very specific world/universe (ie Pokemon, take some hints from these parenthesis...es??).

➜ While these things may seem fine and dandy to just explore for no reason, each day/stage will have a corresponding mission. For example, one stage may require you to locate an item or defeat a certain amount of enemies. It is very dependent on the world/universe that teams enter.

➜ The long and short of the mechanics is teams will enter on the 15th at 9AM and exit at 9PM the same day. They will be given their mission to them at the start and will have the time allotted to complete it (and be told as such). At both 9AM and 9PM it will almost be as if they're been given anesthetic and will show up unawares of how they got there or how they got back home at the end of the day. In the event that they complete the mission, they will receive a letter. This will be their reward.

➜ Each team will have a possibly different and varied mission, terrain type, but never a different world. In the example of Merpeople, one team might be asked to find a variety of pearls in a coral reef type setting. Another team might be asked to destroy a variety of water monsters in a marshy setting. Get it? Each team will have their own floor so there will be no teams that encroach upon each other (unless a mission states otherwise).

➜ A log will be put up on the 15th with starter threads for each day with universe information. To create a team and stay informed about your teams various missions and, one person must put up a starter thread on this post with the teams designated name (to later be ICly decided) and teammates may comment to it at a pace that they wish. Every day, I will post your specific mission information. Each starter thread will be posted at ~9AM (times negotiable since sometime shit happens) and the mission details should be given a bit after those go up. If your team comes in late (as in the initial starter comment), I'll give you as much information as you've missed grouped together and we'll go from there. Also, everyone will receive a copy of the reward letter in their mission comment so no one misses out on any game information, even if their team fails to complete the mission. Whether they do or not is up to you all and your planning plotting skills.

➜ Three random teams will have threads made by me; feel free to add or remove your characters at will.

➜ For the first day, you can plan for one of the already in place terrains and monsters to be part of the mission involved. After that, you'll find out as the missions and starts arrive. This event will use your character and detail creating skills, so feel free to be creative where you can be.

➜ Questions can be asked here; I likely made something confusing or left something out since I'm rushing.

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

Are teams assumed to participate every single day of the event? While I'm interested in trying it out, I highly doubt I would be able to keep up if logging every mission due to the length of the event.

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lessor - 2014-09-13 05:16 (UTC) - Expand

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vintage_magic - 2014-09-13 05:28 (UTC) - Expand

i like your write-up better, please use that instead

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lessor - 2014-09-15 02:47 (UTC) - Expand

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nagyka - 2014-09-15 02:48 (UTC) - Expand

Are characters confined to the weapon of choice the Landlord has given them, or can they use that weapon in addition to their own powers/weapons?

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lessor - 2014-09-16 15:21 (UTC) - Expand

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dreah - 2014-09-17 00:15 (UTC) - Expand

ayyy

YEEHAW

Welp.

let's GO =D

hell ya

DRAW, CAST

woop woop

LOCATION: The Training Center. The Plains. There will be various grasses in different heights. The monsters to be found will be the Grat.

MISSION: Defeat enough monsters until you receive five randomly dropped types of fruit, one of each: an apple, plum, pear, orange, strawberry. A fruit is dropped every one in twenty times. All teams shall have the same mission for this round.

LETTER RECEIVED:

OTHER: Please track your teams thread so you get notifications of your missions!

LOCATION: Route 12 in Kalos. This is the only place you can explore. Blocking any way to a new route will be these fatasses. Possible water route exits will be buoyed off. All random battle and other characters will be absent.

MISSION: There will be two missions for this round.

- Each team will be given one of these jobbers.

Your specific team will have to hatch the egg of a Fennekin. The teams won't be told specifically how to do this, but they will be given the hint Don't stand still.

- Everyone is equipped with a Pokemon. The type and skill set is yours to decide but legendary Pokemon are not applicable. All will start at level 1. The mission will be to get your Pokemon to level 5. Wild Pokemon can be found in the areas where they would usually be. Having a variety of Pokemon on your team is helpful. Read over the Route link to see specific Pokemon (all leveled appropriately for your mission).

No Pokedex or Pokemon items are available to you at the start BUT the items that are available to find in your route will be available, plus random berries that Pokemon may drop (they can drop other things, but only berries for this round for the sake of simplicity).

LETTER RECEIVED:

OTHER: Please track your teams thread so you get notifications of your missions! Please, I beg of you.

LOCATION: Route 12 in Kalos. This is the only place you can explore. Blocking any way to a new route will be these fatasses. Possible water route exits will be buoyed off. All random battle and other characters will be absent.

Basically same as last time.

MISSION: If you've played Pokemon before you may be familiar with the fact that once you beat the game or go through a certain set of tasks, and depending on the game I believe, you have the chance to catch a Legendary bird of Kanto. The mission for this Pokemon-themed mission is to encounter one of them and defeat it.

Your team will have to find Moltres! It will be Level 45 for the event, so a little above your Pokemon's level. You can find them occasionally as you go through your map but random Pokemon encounters will happen more frequently.

No Pokedex or Pokemon items are available to you at the start BUT the items that are available to find in your route will be available, plus random berries that Pokemon may drop (they can drop other things, but only berries for this round for the sake of simplicity).
LETTER RECEIVED:

OTHER: Please track your teams thread so you get notifications of your missions! Please, I beg of you. Last warning.

LOCATION: You're in deep space. No planets are around. There's probably some sciency stuff that makes the current scenario improbable but I suck at science and we're all just nerds playing character's on the internet so who gives a shit about realism.

All space suits are equipped with a communicator so you can talk to your team through them.

MISSION: This one is simple. "Arrive at your spaceship." Using the tethers, pull yourself along the arduous trek that it takes to arrive at what will be a spaceship. There's no way in, so if you reach it in under nine hours, you'll just be floating around the outside.

In space, there will be debris to avoid and sometimes some strange objects floating around...things that shouldn't be going around in space. Stuffed animals, a Playboy maybe...use your imagination. This is also most likely impossible but I don't have a PhD in stuff like some people.

Another mission will flash that tells you to find the items in the following list

LETTER RECEIVED:

Holly Heights isn't a concrete world. It can become many things. Pompeii, planes, numerous worlds you'd never seen before. This is a small taste. Are you faring well in it?
OTHER: This is a little late due to a small personal occurrence, so I apologize!

LOCATION: You're in deep space. Well, but this time you're in something that's in deep space. It's sort of the same, but different.

Most of the buttons that are in the cockpit room are useless and unmarked. There is, though, a keyboard with english characters and enter, along with the other buttons found on most laptop and computer keyboards. You will find that there are three random unmarked buttons though that you can push with consequence:

- One unlocks a refridgerator underneath the main seat in the cockpit. It contains a wide variety of foods and drinks.
- One unleashes a blaring ABBA track and a disco ball.
- Another unleashes a large swarm of grasshoppers from a vent. Why do they have that button?

But you aren't able to explore these for very long because of the aforementioned sirens suddenly going off.

MISSION: You might have a tricky time with this mission. Every four hours, give or take, a siren will go over and the spaceship will rattle terrifyingly. A count down will emerge on the main cockpit screen that shows a three and a half hour time limit. Also, a question or riddle will be displayed. If the riddle isn't entered in in the time limit sequence, the ship will free fall through space for a period of time, remain stable, and once the four hour mark reaches, you'll do it all over again.

Here are you riddles to be solved:

LETTER RECEIVED:

LOCATION: First of all, you're in a common room. The Ravenclaw common room. Trying to exit is a little bit useless because well. You can't leave.

You're free to go around to any area (aside from the rules about the girl and boy dorms) as well as interact with any objects. If you'd like to get really into it with all the talking pictures and magical objects, then feel free! If not, then you don't have to. No worries.

Your apparel is also house based, which you can choose a house for your character if you like. It isn't relevant at the moment, but you can add in that detail if you wish. If you don't want to, no problem!

Everyone is equipped with a wand which is another thing you can be detailed with, when it comes to core, length, rigidity, wood. Or if that's not something you're into...who cares!

MISSION: The mission for this go around will not be as detail oriented and is instead a bit vague. Your team has been instructed to cast and complete five spells. You can get as simple as Accio or as horrible as brutally killing a spider with an unmentionable curse. There's also creative ways for your spells to go wrong or be inflicted on others that you don't mean to be involved in your witching sessions. A spell book will be included on a table so that everyone is in on the same page and has access to all spells.

LETTER RECEIVED:

LOCATION: So all teams will be in an underwater wonderland, but there will be specifics allotted to each team.

For this team, you'll be in a pristine, Little Mermaid-esque wonderland. It's very bright, filled with corals and underwater shelves. There's a whole reef to explore. But with a reef comes some pretty big predators...
For your appearance, your top will be covered to your desire, whether with a shirt or might I suggest a shell bra? Your bottom won't need coverage since it's basically a big 'ol fish tail. Colour, size, sheen, and other adornments are up to you.

MISSION: Based on your location, your mission is thus:

Locate five hidden pearls stashed among the reef.

LETTER RECEIVED: