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Empatheias Mods ([personal profile] simpathis) wrote2014-05-22 12:28 am

[ archived ] adventures & excursions

— ADVENTURES & EXCURSIONS —

The current Adventures & Excursions Charting Log can be found here.


As of September 2016, the game has shifted gears to take on a more exploratory route in an effort to help rebuild the world which had remained in a post-apocalyptic dying state for over eight hundred years. Has anything survived? Is anything salvageable? Can the world be restored? And what can be learned about the world's mysterious past? Or is that even important?

Perhaps rather than trying to solve a mystery, the more important thing is to determine what bits of land (if any) can be hospitable and used for additional resources to breathe some life back into this place. But who knows who or what lurks down there. Potential allies, dangerous threats—how the world changes will only be determined by those willing to make that change. Everything will be influenced by player suggestion and character action. It's a big, wide open world, ready to be developed—or destroyed.

There are two ways players can have their characters explore: player-run adventures and mod-guided excursions.


❖ Adventures


"Adventures" are expeditions set out by characters and are initiated by players. Adventures are going to be tailored to the characters and what the players wish to find. If you guys just want an action packed filled trip through some rock woods, we can do that. If you'd like to find something more plot relevant or something to advance plot, we can do that. You don't even need to be overly specific. Something as simple as "related to Peromei's history" is enough to give us something for you to work with.

Basically, adventures are for players and characters who like to strike out on their own and do something outside of the usual stuff going on.

» Requesting an Adventure. Players will need to comment to this subthread and fill out the form. Once approved, we'll give a notice and send the details through PM. To request an adventure you only need to give us the following:

  • Who is in the party;
  • What the group hopes to accomplish;
  • Where the group may wish to focus on (you can even make your own map!);
  • When the expedition will take place;

and other details but those are the four main things you'll need to figure out first.

» Charting the Adventure. After a request is approved, you will need to make your own log and reply again with the link so we can add it to the chart.

» Revisiting locations. Unless specified, all locations should be able to be revisited either by the same group or another group. Most locations will likely be a one-time deal, but there may be some that could hold new things or may need a check-up. Maybe you think of a new plot twist to work with the location setting. Or maybe you'd like a location related or next to a pre-existing. Regardless, if it's possible, a group can go back for whatever reason.


❖ Excursions


"Excursions" are similar but different in scope compared to Adventures. Whereas an Adventure is mostly player run, Excursions are designed by the mods and ICly is organized by the ESO (Empatheias-Shaarnath-Otherworld Collaborative). Each month we will announce in the monthly Mod Announcement "focused locations" that those interested can go to. Within the excursions, we'll have certain locations, goals, and other things in place. Players will still have leeway to create and add to the setting, but there are some guidelines that they need to follow and tasks to and accomplish (or fail). You can think of "Excursions" as like background events that those interested can participate without having to worry about coming up with their own ideas; like a job to do.

» Excursion Missions. Each Excursion will have at least one or two special missions accompanied with it. Those are the goals that those participating should try to do and are listed on the Task Board. While the majority of these tasks will be on site, there may be some that can be done within Verens or Shaarnath. These "special missions" are completely optional—one can do an Excursion and have their own particular goal or task in mind instead. But if you are taking on a special mission, you will need to include it when signing up as well as indicating how you hope it will go (such as succeeding or failing). You can either have a pre-planned group, join an open one, or start an open group of your own. Once you know how the mission goes or if you already know how it will be, reply again to your comment so we can note how things went.

» Signing-up. To participate in an Excursion, we will have a specific subthread made in this post for those to sign-up. Each subthread will have the basics entailed and, if applicable, a form to fill out. No approvals necessary—once you sign-up it's assumed that the characters will figure out a way to join.

» Logs. After we see that there is some interest for participation, a log will be made within the week. In the log we'll include any other details not already mentioned, but after that players have free rein in terms of what they do.

» Timeline. While Excursions are available for the entire month, once there is interest the there will be a 1 to 2 week period for actual IC activity. This doesn't mean that characters are in the location for that long. They could be there for a couple days, return home, then go out again. But the Excursion itself can only last for a certain period of time before funds run out and everyone is kicked out or risk being stranded. For the record, getting lost or stranded and have a group come out and save them as a follow-up Adventure or Excursion is completely viable.

» Adventures. Those who are doing their own Adventures can actually run in tangent with Excursions if they so choose. While not directly related—such as being in a completely different area or focusing on something else—it's possible for a group to find something related or do something that could affect Excursion groups in some way.



❖ How to Travel


You may be wondering how characters will go about traversing through the surface, especially when the atmosphere is toxic and the world is ready to suck the emotional life out of anyone unprepared. So first, let's talk about the protection and supplies.

» Dunamis and Crystals. Dunamis and complete crystals are going to be the keys in offering the best protection against the dying world's environment. Strong emotion based barriers can be erected to repel the outer influences. However, it's not impervious nor can it last forever, especially dunamis. But it can be assumed that those from Shaarnath will assist any who venture outward, either for free or for pay.

» Arehtei assistance. The Arehtei will also gladly offer some means of protection if asked. Usually it will take the form of a small charm, like a feather from Elios or a scale from Thras. Again, these will only last for a few days and does not protect them from everything.

» Supplies. If part of ESO, then it can be assumed that necessary supplies are given. If striking out on your own, then characters will need to procure money and supplies somehow. That of course can be handwaved. We don't need proof of this.


Now let's talk about the means of travel.

» Airships and other large transportation vehicles. Verens is pulling in their weight by offering airships to help ferry people over large distances. They are also in the works of manufacturing other large machines to cross the land, and eventually ships to deal with the oceans. Of course they're a small city so don't expect a whole fleet or armada anytime soon, but there should be a good number soon. However, travel distance is still limited as the atmosphere is not the safest for the current available airships. But they are good for carrying cargo. ESO can provide these, but it's possible to hire outside the organization.

» Teleporter coordinates. Shaarnath has a few coordinates to unspecified locations around. It's also possible to throw in random coordinates and try one's luck (and hope that the other side works to bring them back). While the teleporter can handle larger groups, it would be more useful for general short recon trips as only so much can go through at once. It also means that the group will be walking, so can only carry so much.


Finally, we'll touch up a bit more on how players can help with the worldbuilding aspect and pretty much design the type of place they'd like to go to.

» Location suggestions. The world is basically a free world ready to be molded and shaped. It's also kind of broken so it'll eventually reshape again. We are completely open to location ideas. Should there be a continent frozen under black ice? An island in the center of a giant whirlpool? Other floating islands? Chain of volcanoes? So long as you keep in mind that the world is on its death throes, anything is free game!

» Design your own island/continent/area. With this cool map generator, you can design your own island or land mass with some details like lakes, trees, hills, mountains, ruin towns. It's basic, but it totally would work for our purposes. Here's an example of some random place. Since there's no real pre-existing map, anything is fair game. You can even add to already existing designed maps.

If you have any questions about this, feel free to ask when requesting your Adventure.


❖ Worldbuilding Suggestions


We are always open for ideas in terms of locations, goals, setting environments, even maps for all of this. So if you have any suggestions for any aspect for worldbuilding, please comment to this subthread!

i'm not copying kyo

[personal profile] gottacatch 2016-10-02 12:46 am (UTC)(link)
Players: Reena, Henry, Sarah, Ax, Taku
Characters: Red (Sosyne), Caius Qualls (Elios), Frog (Thras), Rei Hino (Sosyne), Cilan (Daimonia)
Location: Quarry
Goal: With a new code discovered for the teleporter, it was this group that set out to investigate where it would take them. Where that place was, was a quarry, with equipment long rusted over and many of the tunnels caved in. Their first visit would allow for the most discovery, where one half of the two teams would locate an area where blueprints and some of the crystals were extracted both from the machinery and the walls, where signs already existed of someone taking sections not that long ago.

And possibly not the actual crystal-eating basilisk monsters that loved to make a snack out of them. Munch munch.

Apathy is the emotion present within the entire location, its effects increasing the deeper anyone went into the caverns. Images were collected at a later point of the biggest sites of interest, as well as copies of the blueprints, which were then (or will) later be shared with Rebekkah Forsyth. Crystals found inside the machinery give off a glow and are surrounded with symbols -- and the machines themselves had labelling on them connecting them to the city 'Areta'. Because that was the label. Oh boy.
When: 28/09, with further visits from then on to explore for anything else of interest. Log is here.
Other: Gonna take two of those basilisks for the studying too okok.
hadthehighground: (jedi master)

Archiving too...

[personal profile] hadthehighground 2016-10-02 01:34 am (UTC)(link)
Players: Darkfeather, Loki, Gen
Characters: Obi-Wan Kenobi (Sosyne), Qui-Gon Jinn (Sosyne), Anakin Skywalker (Elios)
Location: A rusting, formally underwater city where an ocean used to be.
Goal:
After hearing about Sosyne's mishap with pond hell, Obi-Wan decides to take a trip to the surface with Qui-Gon and Anakin to see if they can heal any of the Arehtei's homelands. They will be taking one of the airships from Verens with protection from a Dunamis expert from Shaarnath. Having to battle negativity muck and terrible apathy, they will be scoping out the city they come across and the power plant there.

They will also be doing a long meditation session to see if they can help this place at all. Because meditating and being calm is what you're good at if you're a Jedi, or supposed to be anyway.
When: 9th of October, that's when the log will go up. Will post when it is.
Other/Questions: Also protection charms from Sosyne would be nice???
absolutevalue: (∅ Messenkou)

*Not* archiving, take that ... yeah ...

[personal profile] absolutevalue 2016-10-02 04:29 pm (UTC)(link)
Players: Kyio, Kyo, Mich, Straya
Characters: Zero (Sosyne), Kor (Thras), Sora (Piphron), Dezel (Elios)
Location: Cave system in Thras' domain.
Goal: We're hoping to find any sort of significant artifacts or any other things in a similar vein related to Thras that can later be reported to him by his representative (Kor), and other generic treasure stuff too if possible. Since I also plan to have a heavy act of bravery take place for Zero to switch his alignment to Thras during this (I'll post to the alignment switch too when it happens!), as well as a rockslide to forcibly split the group for a while, having the area be unstable or otherwise dangerous with some sort of threat lurking around it would be great too.
When: 10/7
Other/Questions: Is it safe to assume they'll receive some sort of protection from Thras while they're there?
hadthehighground: (oh I insist)

[personal profile] hadthehighground 2016-10-04 06:19 pm (UTC)(link)
... Sosyne plz. You're just like his master gifting him rocks for his birthday.

Okay, noted! Thanks! XD
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[personal profile] shepherds_pie 2016-10-07 10:25 pm (UTC)(link)
Player: Ryuuto
Character: Sorey | [personal profile] shepherds_pie
Alignment: Peromei
EX Mission: EX01A with Jade Curtiss
Edited 2016-10-08 12:52 (UTC)
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[personal profile] trademark_skull 2016-10-07 10:27 pm (UTC)(link)
Player: Grif
Character: Emizel | [personal profile] trademark_skull
Alignment: Peromei
becomeashield: (because I'm happyyyy)

[personal profile] becomeashield 2016-10-07 10:30 pm (UTC)(link)
Player: Kiri
Character: Zeno | [personal profile] becomeashield
Alignment: Daimonia
EX Mission: EX01B, maybe also EX01D
ossifragant: (⊗ you have lots on your mind)

[personal profile] ossifragant 2016-10-07 10:31 pm (UTC)(link)
Player: Nin
Character: Greed | [personal profile] ossifragant
Alignment: Daimonia
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[personal profile] greatcleavage 2016-10-07 10:32 pm (UTC)(link)
Player: Dragon
Character: Roy Greenhilt | [personal profile] greatcleavage
Alignment: Thras
EX Mission: EX01A
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[personal profile] planetary_bonds 2016-10-07 10:37 pm (UTC)(link)
Player: Gale
Character: Yuusei Fudo | [personal profile] planetary_bonds
Alignment: Sosyne
EX Mission: EX01C
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[personal profile] hatesviolence 2016-10-07 10:39 pm (UTC)(link)
Player: Laena
Character: Shizuo | [personal profile] hatesviolence
Alignment: Sosyne
EX Mission: EX01A (with Roy)

Character: Alvin | [personal profile] opportunitycosts
Alignment: Piphron

Character: Helios | [personal profile] helisyon
Alignment: Peromei
EX Mission: EX01B

Character: Canach | [personal profile] canach
Alignment: Thras
Edited 2016-10-08 08:11 (UTC)
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[personal profile] deathboss 2016-10-07 10:50 pm (UTC)(link)
Player: Pixle
Character: Eikichi Mishina | [personal profile] deathboss
Alignment: Aidia
EX Mission: EX01D
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[personal profile] fistsofjustice 2016-10-07 11:10 pm (UTC)(link)
Player: Revi
Character: Amelia Wil Tesla Saillune | [personal profile] fistsofjustice
Alignment: Daimonia
EX Mission: EX01A (with Roy), EX01D

Character: Hamel | [personal profile] abhero
Alignment: Piphron
Edited 2016-10-08 11:13 (UTC)
shivmeabreak: manga ($$$)

[personal profile] shivmeabreak 2016-10-07 11:23 pm (UTC)(link)
Player: Sol
Character: Rose | [personal profile] shivmeabreak
Alignment: Daimonia
EX Mission: EX01A (with Roy)
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[personal profile] goesbananas 2016-10-07 11:25 pm (UTC)(link)
Player: Ax, Henry, Toni
Character: Winston | [personal profile] goesbananas, Tracer | [personal profile] pulsepistols, and Soldier 76 | [personal profile] tacticalvisor
Alignment: Peromei, Daimona, Sosyne
EX Mission: EX01A
Edited 2016-10-07 23:31 (UTC)
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[personal profile] edealistical 2016-10-07 11:26 pm (UTC)(link)
Player: Wighty
Character: Edea Lee | [personal profile] edealistical
Alignment: Thras
EX Mission: EX01D
Edited 2016-10-07 23:31 (UTC)
tacticalvisor: i had to have at least one dad76 reference (the answer's obvious)

[personal profile] tacticalvisor 2016-10-07 11:26 pm (UTC)(link)
Player: Toni
Character: Soldier: 76 | [personal profile] tacticalvisor
Alignment: Sosyne
EX Mission: EX01A with Winston and/or Tracer

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