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The Sleepers

Accessed via hidden lab entrance, the first thing you'll see is a giant console full of monitors, each holding several video feeds and numeric readouts. This is where the sleepers are kept. Hunter Candidates that are either unable to wake up yet or have yet to make the necessary choices. The feeds contain dozens, possibly hundreds of faces. At first glance, they may appear to be simply sleeping sleeping, but after several minutes of total stillness they are closer to resembling dolls. Behind the monitors lay row after row of pod, each neatly marked with a name, entrance date, and serial number.

The instructions that come with this area explain that attempting to wake one of these candidates on your own will likely result in them dying, waking up a vegetable, or waking up insane. Parts have also been known to react badly to the trauma of waking up. If you are in need of personal counseling on this subject, please contact Division Leader H, Division Leader Caelius, or their respective assistants.

The Minipet Labs

A growing section in the Life wing, it's marked by a hand written sign...



Behind it's door are several large, well-lit rooms filled from floor to ceiling with glass tanks. In nearly every tank was a minipet, staring out with any number of expressions, from welcoming curiosity to vicious anger. The techs have been trying to make the tanks more comfortable or at least entertaining for the creatures. A scareon bats a small ball about, a floresce circles a tiny plastic castle, a burning wish sets a blanket on fire. Some attempts are obviously more successful than others.

The minipets are studies in various ways, two of which trainees participate in. First is feeding. The hunter labs have been stocking up on FEAR candies a great deal recently, and most of the minipets are on a set feeding schedule, which is adjust every so often. The second way is through interacting with the minipets. Basically just taking them out and playing with them inside the lab area. Minipets cannot be outside of their tanks for more than an hour at time, per day. Otherwise they begin to lose shape, eventually returning to unformed FEAR.

Losing a minipet due to negligence would be ill-advised.

The Kitchens

Accessed via cafeteria back door, the facility boasts an industrial size kitchen. Trainees are mainly given prep work: cleaning this, cutting that, stirring this, and clean up after. Nothing too spectacular, however...

In one corner of the room there is a plump little woman who is likely taking cookies out of the oven. In her crisp white ruffled apron, her snowy hair piled on top of her hair in a large bun, and cheerful blue eyes peeking out behind a small pair of spectacles, she is the envisioned ideal of grandmothers everywhere. Plus...cookies.

But everyone entering the kitchen is given a warning: that woman is not human.

She's not from Halloween either. Though tainted with FEAR, her physical make-up is something else entirely. She just appeared out of the blue one day, all wide sparkling eyes and vacant smiles, and creeping the hell out of a couple of Hunters. Doctor H had her stay in the labs while they tried to determine her threat level. After awhile, he let her go just to see what she would do. And so she came to the kitchens and started baking cookies. Constantly. She doesn't seem to sleep, or speak, and so far has only been seen eating her own cookies.

The cookies themselves, may be eaten in moderation. They've been tested for drugs, and so far nothing recognizable shows up, but they have proven to be mood altering. Test participants described them as causing giddiness and strong feelings of happiness in short bursts, often followed by problems sleeping due to "expecting something really amazing any second now."

She gone.

School Gym/Town Area

Guard: The school gym hardly looks like the site of a massacre, save for a few remaining bloodstains the clean-up crew missed the first, second, and third time. The portal sits on an elevated platform in the center of the gym, surrounded by wooden floors, bleachers, and even a ball cage. This is one of the more popular guard areas, as besides basketballs, there's also a large cache of sports equipment stored in the basement.

Construction Work: Outside the gym lies what remains of the abandoned town, now undergoing renovations. While the horsemen had been stuck on the Island, they destroyed much of the town, and lived in the remains. Now that they're locked out, instead of in, the council has decided to rebuild once again.

The Lighthouse

Guard: Only the top of the lighthouse is accessible, and the room is pretty bare except for a small table and bookshelf. The view, however, in one of the best on the island, and a perfect spot for ranged hunters to keep an eye out for flyers. There are no visible booby traps in the room, but those guarding the location are given a special emergency portal code to use only when and enemy has invaded the room.

Those curious about as to why the rest of the lighthouse is unusable may open the chamber door. Looking down they'll see what remains of the stone steps floating in mid air, slowly circling inside the tower. A parting gift and reminder.

The Underground Labs

Only the basement and first level are currently accessible, making this duty one of the most demanding, as the assignment includes both guarding the portal and clearing out the debris from various explosions that had taken place. Fairly dangerous and unpleasant work, may be done through C-type golems.

Jungle Outpost

What's a mysterious island without a jungle? This one is fairly thick with vegetation, unfriendly creatures, and fog. This outpost is one of the more dangerous ones, as creatures tend to run to ground here. Halloween creatures. The outpost itself is a sturdy, walled, high hide up in the trees, a rope ladder hangs down for those who need to investigate.

Underwater Observation Post

Not for the claustrophobic, this is a station submerged underneath the island that floats along with it. Shaped like a giant metal pill, one side is metal, and houses the portal, readout equipment, a console full of observation monitors, and a few pieces of comfort such as a table, chairs, and books. The other half is made of thick, clear plastic, allowing a full and unobstructed view of the local underwater life.

In the distance, it's not unusual to notice massive shapes moving in the distance, and it's the purpose of this station to keep an eye for any of these, or anything else unusual, coming too close to the island. The Island of Deus Ex Machina floats quietly along the edges between this world and that of Halloween, and with that comes certain, calculated, risks.

General Information
Maintaining a superior defense is the pride of the Moon Division, defending even at the expense of attacking. However, this can be hard, especially for trainees who just got new magic weapons full of glowing and powers. Thus the Princess Island. At the center of the island sits a princess who will do absolutely nothing to protect herself, and it's up to you to build defenses that will withstand shadowling attacks so she she doesn't die in a horribly realistic manner.

There's four main paths for shadowling's to travel through, and you have 3 types of building materials to create your defenses from: straw bales, wood, and bricks. The sturdier the material, the sturdier the barrier, but the fewer you can build in the allotted time. After a set amount of time, the princess will crush a pumpkin pill, attracting varying amounts of lurking shadowlings. You get to watch helplessly from the observation station, without getting to attack yourself.

These creature are extremely weak and ill formed, coming up against a solid defense they will disperse, but in turn they also weaken said defense. When a defense goes down, they go right to the princess and attack her. Should she survive the wave, you get to go back down, rebuild, and do it again.

If you fail: the princess has died, horribly, and you've wasted a lot of time on this only to look fairly incapable. All things considered? Most pleasant course to fail.

If you win: peen points and bragging rights go to those with the healthiest princess and lasted through the most attack waves.
If you choose to go beyond 5 rounds, switch the enemy dice roll to 4 d20s.

Mechanics

• Your princess has 20 hp
  
• First, roll the strength of you defense, using the dice for whichever building type you choose.
  
  Brick: 4 d12
  Wood: 8 d6
  Hay bales: 12 d4
  
  The order of the die determine the HP for each barrier location. For example, with bricks, rolling 5/6/8/1, would mean that path 1 has 5 HP, path 2 has 6 HP and so on. With a wood roll of 3/3/3/1/2/5/5/2, the first 2 dice would equal the amount of the first path. Brick would be the least math-y of the building materials (you lazy asses.)
  
• Roll 4 d12 for the attacking forces. Once again the order of the dice correspond with the path being affected. Then do the math to determine the status of your defenses and princess.
  Example:
  My defenses are 5/6/8/10
  The attackers are 3/7/3/8
  
  The result defenses are 2/-1/5/2
  Negative numbers are taken off the princesses HP, leaving her at 19 HP.
  
• Go back and rebuild your defenses in the same manner as before, you'll be building on top of old defenses so you add the new defense HP to the remaining defense HP. Negative numbers = 0 HP for the defense, not negative HP.
  
• Minimum rounds to complete the course is 3
  
  Bonus Mechanics
  
• Their defense expertise allows them to build slightly sturdier barriers. This applies to all paths that start at 0 hp. They do not stack. So if you are re-building on a barrier that lasted from an existing round, this bonus does not apply, as it is already still in effect.
  
  
• Trainees: 0 hp bonus
  
• Moon Trainees: +1 hp bonus to each path
  
• Hunters: +1 hp to each path
  
• Moon Hunters: + 2 hp to each path
  

General Information
The portal opens up into an observation room, and down the stairs, an odd chamber for something like hunter training. At the center of a piranha-filled pool stands a solid stone table and several chairs. The Life Arena was built underneath the demolitions and ballistics testing areas, and the chamber rumbles with the occasional explosions above. Pinpoint red lasers sweep across the room regularly, as if hidden snipers are searching for a nice target. In the center of the table sits a wooden tower, made up of smaller wooden blocks. Yes. That's right. The Life Hunters prefer to train via Jenga.

Note: Distraction techniques and Yo Momma jokes are considered viable weapons when playing competitively.

If you fail: you have knocked down the tower! A small dart hits the back of your neck. You come to several hours later, and hope Dr. H didn't do anything to your body while you were unconscious. When you look into the mirror...

If you win: you have reached 50 points! You get a sharpie marker to do with as you please. peen points go to those with the highest scores.

Group Play
Playing in a group on any course means certain things can be shifted to make it a better experience for multiple people without holding anyone back.
An approved group play alteration for the life arena goes as follows:
When someone knocks the tower down, they are shot with a weaker dart. They will wake up 5 minutes later, the game can be reset back to the point before it fell by placing their hands on the table and saying the word, constructum. This allows them to start again where they left off instead of the beginning. They can take up to three of these darts before passing out for an hour, the game will not reset for them and they will need to try again from the beginning.

Mechanics
- by carefully removing pieces of the tower, you earn points and advance to the next round. As the rounds continue, the odds grow steadily against you. Rolling a 1 at any point means you have knocked down the tower. Please do enjoy your mystery dart. Anything after reaching 50 points is purely for peen.

- you may roll pieces individually (suggested for group play) or in batches of 5 (basically, a full round.)


• Round 1
  
  Pieces: 5
  Points per piece: 1
  Trainee Roll: 1d10
  Life Trainee Roll: 1d12
  Hunter Roll: 1d12
  Life Hunter Roll: 1d20
  
  
• Round 2
  
  Pieces: 5
  Points per piece: 3
  Trainee Roll: 1d8
  Life Trainee Roll: 1d10
  Hunter Roll: 1d10
  Life Hunter Roll: 1d12
  
  
• Round 3
  
  Pieces: 5
  Points per piece: 4
  Trainee Roll: 1d6
  Life Trainee Roll: 1d8
  Hunter Roll: 1d8
  Life Hunter Roll: 1d10
  
  
• Round 4
  
  Pieces: 5
  Points per piece: 10
  Trainee Roll: 1d4
  Life Trainee Roll: 1d6
  Hunter Roll: 1d6
  Life Hunter Roll: 1d8
  
  Bonus Mechanics
  
• Life Hunters train for precise hand eye coordination and exceptional judgement, thus they have a slightly lower chance of knocking down the tower.
  
  
  

External Outposts




gaia_crown Amazon Outpost #4 - A low technology base, with two dilapidated buildings: one for the offices, and the other for bunking. All filing is done by hand initially, as are all experiment results. One person inputs them into a computer, which has somehow survived the 80s because runic power saves everything. It focuses on plants from Halloween and how they take root in the human world, and a few other vague things. Expect a lot of manual labour in the gardens, and careful data recording in ink on clipboards.


gaia_crown Antarctic Outpost #12 - A tiny outpost that consists of three tents. Led by a gruff older woman, it's more plagued by penguins and seals than anything else. Most of it is spent monitoring fear with some handheld devices, walking long perimeters, and being very cold.


gaia_crown NEW 10/22/17: Hongkong Main Branch (Outpost #1) : Posing as a very sizeable restaurant and casino, this place is bustling with international travelers. Why so many civilians? - the better to keep an eye on them. While the first floor serves as a front for the casino and restaurant, where mahjong is a casino specialty, there lie 4 floors underneath the operation, each floor representing a different tier of work. All those who work at the branch are fluent in English.

• Floor 1: Public intel: a series of banquet and more private casino rooms. Each one is closed off, perfect for some one-on-one talking and work.
  
• Floor 2: Meeting rooms and living space. Large hotel-like living quarters and majestic meeting rooms describe this floor. With personal showers, fantastic electricity and plumbing, this place makes even the main island perhaps reconsider itself sometimes. However, it follows the same rules as regular Deus in which only "intranet" can be used, to communicate with any other Deus bases/locations.
  
• Floor 3: Research. The HongKong main branch specializes in creating a runic system based off pictograms instead of "letters", similar to chinese characters versus the traditional alphabet. Research is put into how these runes interact differently from the main HQ, and the results given.
  
• Floor 4: Prisoners: Like any good base, a place needs to be kept for prisoners. This is where they secure Horsemen, errant Ourboros followers, and even Hunters that abandon their duty. Cells are tiny and crammed, but the food is still surprisingly good.

gaia_crown NEW 10/22/17: Toronto Main Branch (Outpost #6):
After the Delta madness, more Hunters were asked to assemble to Canada to combat any other emergencies. A direct portal line goes from Toronto to Delta (where Day Zero happened, and also, had to be covered up). They are responsible for the disposal and clean-up of any other "Creation virus" infected individuals, and have to consistently battle the undying as well as deal with possible threats from Ourboros and even human agencies. Highest alert and discretion is advised.
The Toronto Main branch is located at an abandoned ski lodged roughly 3 hours north of the actual city.


NEW 10/22/17 exclaim gaia_crown CHECK OUT MORE HERE exclaim (all these listed are good to rp, unless stated otherwise!)

S.P.E.C.T.R.E, a practical watch application.

After much testing, it seems like Project Spectre has finally launched live for all Deus applicants. A small test however, to certify that you are not stupid is required to obtain one. Project Spectre is a collaborative project between all divisions to bring as much information as possible in a concise format during exact missions. The Life Division provides the fancy tech, the Death Division begrudgingly gives otherwise impossible to obtain mission data, the Sun Division provides combat details, the Moon Division outlines civilians and how to treat them properly, and the Mist Division provides additional side mission information.

The goal: a unified interest in what is going on.

gaia_crown [ What can SPECTRE do? ]
Spectre has several built in functions. This however, does not double as a cellphone meaning, it cannot tweet, it cannot send texts, you cannot call people with it. Once attached to your wrist, it will not be removed by any amount of force, unless you enter the correct access code onto the watch itself.

The interface is SPECTRE is sleek and easy to understand, for those who may possibly be very terrible with technology. It endures pretty much everything including potential apocalypses, and is waterproof, weaponproof, and mostly stupidproof. Some functions of SPECTRE are locked, and cannot be opened until a Hunter has obtained clearance. It comes with these base functions:

- Voice recognition and command to access UI options (see below)
- Passcode encrypted
- Fingerprint encrypted
- Waterproof/damageproof/shockproof/portal proof
- Lifetime battery
- Self destruct sequence


gaia_crown [ TO OBTAIN THIS WATCH ]: You will need

gaia_star [ 25 rp points or more for this character ]: This is NOT used up, this is just a base threshhold check that your Hunter has 25 points of RP or more.
gaia_star [ 1000 dollars deposit fee ]: See bottom post for earning rates for Hunters
gaia_star [Weapon Obtained ]: Have obviously, obtained their weapon in the weapons cove

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