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 Posted: Wed Aug 26, 2015 10:00 am
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Train Car #1
Boarding went smoothly. Passengers boarded at a calm clip and joined those already present until the car reached slightly beyond comfortable capacity. Strangers stood shoulder to shoulder in the standing areas, though they left enough room in the aisle to accommodate people wishing to change seats. All seats were soon filled, with two to a row on either side of the aisle. Capacity was twenty-eight for seating, leaving the car packed with around forty denizens in the midst of prime travel time.
Each seat was of simple ergonomic design with violet carpeted seat covers. The lot of them faced forward with narrow leg room so taller passengers often stood. Each row received a letter, and each seat received a number - seats started in the top left with A1, following each subsequent letter in the alphabet, and ended in F4 at the bottom right. A simple metal label mounted to the top of the seat confirmed the row and seat number - an outmoded practice from the times when the subway issued assigned seats - but the numbers no longer mattered in free seating. There are privacy screens toward the back of the car for people who intend to sleep until they reach their next stop and want to do so without prying eyes.
Agents who boarded these trains were given orders to take seating, as the slumping inherent from a starseed stolen could easily pass as sleep. Standing parties proved the much riskier targets, and Brimstone warned that stealth was tantamount to the mission's success. Pulling from standing individuals should only be done in a time of dire need, and if the operation reached that point, then meeting up with a Captain or General (or constituent senshi) was the far better plan. General Brimstone also prided himself on how he staffed participating agents among the cars, citing that he left an officer who can teleport among every car.
General Brimstone also composed the organization for this operation at three in the morning, so he felt particularly proud that day.
The trains progressed in a large completed circuit, so anyone who missed their stop would be able to reach it by simply waiting on the train until it circled back around. The train always stopped at each platform on its route, eliminating the need for the bell alerts like on busses. This rendered the subway both dependable and predictable, thus earning its common use.
Of course, the fact that it hadn't yet been the target of terrorist activity warmed people's hearts greatly. |
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Posted: Wed Aug 26, 2015 10:00 am
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Rules, Explanations, and tl;dr
_______Rules
Please be courteous to other participants! This event is meant to be fun, and godmodding and bad attitudes are akin to shitting on the birthday cake.
Try not to jump out of the train or otherwise break out. You'll splatter. You don't want this.
The train cars are controlled remotely, so it's not possible to sabotage or reverse the effects on the train.
_______Phase 1
There will be a rolling component to this part of the event!
All Negaverse agents (and Mintaka) start with a stealth value of 120. When this number reaches 0, you have been discovered! It is up to the owners of the Negaverse agents to keep track of this number.
All Negaverse agents (and Mintaka) must randomize 1-5 if they are attempting to grab a starseed (or drain energy in Mintaka's case). This number is subtracted from your stealth value. For the purpose of this event, starseed pulls are auto-success (as is Mintaka's energy grab).
All participating anti-Negaverse characters may randomize 1-5 to denote their suspicion of any one Negaverse agent. You can only suspect one person at a time, as is the nature of human focus.
Anti-Negaverse characters are allowed to power up at any time. Any anti-Negaverse character transformation will immediately drop all stealth values to 0 and end the rolling portion of this event. Likewise, transformation is highly advised when a Negaverse agent's stealth value reaches 0! If you transform or your stealth value reaches 0, please use the code on the front page to quote all parties in the thread to let them know that the rolling portion has concluded (and quote me too please)!
There is no need to wait for a Negaverse agent to make the first roll. There are some pretty suspicious-looking outfits out there!
There is no cooldown on posts, but please be courteous about rolling!
There is no need to keep a total on your 1-5 rolls!
You do not have to participate in rolling to participate in this part of the event!
The rolling portion also has a built-in timer to prevent it from dragging on forever!
Example: Lt. Deviline rolls to pull a starseed. Lt. Deviline randomizes a 3, which is subtracted from his stealth value. Originally at 120, his stealth value drops to 117. Lorne (Mont Blonc) sees something funny going on when watching this mysterious dude in a track suit (Deviline) and randomizes a number. Lorne randomizes a 5, which is subtracted from Deviline's stealth value and drops it to 112.
Example: Two agents are acting strangely up near the front of the car. Snowball sees this and randomizes a number, but that roll only affects whichever agent Snowball chooses.
Example: Caledonite, Rebalite and Stibnite all have varying stealth values from pulling starseeds and gathering suspicion. Dmitry rolls on Stibnite and sends her stealth value to 0.
Whew, that's pretty daunting! Please PM me if you have questions about the rolling!
_______tl;dr
Powered-down characters enter a subway car with the rest of the crowd, as do Negaverse agents. The agents start pulling starseeds. Between action rolls on part of the Negaverse agent and suspicion rolls on part of the powered-down group, they nuke the Negaverse agent's stealth value and then everyone powers up and all hell breaks loose around these poor, traumatized civilians. Way to go, assholes! |
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Posted: Wed Aug 26, 2015 10:01 am
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Posted: Wed Aug 26, 2015 10:02 am
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Posted: Wed Aug 26, 2015 10:25 am
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Verithe generated a random number between
1 and 5 ...
3!
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Posted: Wed Aug 26, 2015 11:49 am
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Whimsical Blue generated a random number between
1 and 5 ...
4!
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Posted: Wed Aug 26, 2015 4:30 pm
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UNZUNZUNZ...
The base thrummed in Sid's ears as she boarded the train, bouncing in her sky blue converse. A rainbow skirt echoed the rainbow in her hair, flouncing with the movements of her hips below the sheer black camisole she wore over a black bra. A large, chunky set of headphones covered her ears, the house music running through them loud enough to be heard nearby. The music itself came from the iphone she had stuck under the strap of her bra, a knitted bag slung over her shoulder.
Sound check was in an hour and already Sidney was running through the equipment she needed to set up and songs she wanted to run through the sound system. The lighting set up needed to be run as well, the program for it all set up and ready to go on the laptop in her bag.
Making her way towards the center of the aisle, Sid hooked her elbow around one of the standing poles and dug her phone out, a thumb swipe opening the device as she checked her messages and typed out a few quick replies to friends she was expecting to see tonight. It hadn't taken long to start getting a little base going here in D.C. Soon enough it would be the same as NYC, with new friends and new parties every night. It was kinda nice though, having a small group for a little while... sometimes things had gotten hectic, trying to juggle it all.
The DJ swayed as the car started to move, glancing up in time to see a nearby woman in a trench coat (in the middle of summer???) stumble into one of the sitting passengers. Sid frowned, but her phone was pinging at her again and her attention was soon drawn back to it, the strange stumble forgotten.
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LP generated a random number between
1 and 5 ...
5!
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Sleet Tempest Snape generated a random number between
1 and 5 ...
2!
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Posted: Wed Aug 26, 2015 6:33 pm
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Valeria really wished she could do something with all of her hair, it just wasn't possible to do some up do without it causing neck issues, she had so much hair! So seeing as she didn't care for neck issues, at least not worse than she already had when powered up, she let her hair drag the floor in a train of dark pink. That was easy enough to explain, enough people in this city seemed to have odd hair and who was to say her hair and it's length were anything but normal?
No, the hard part was covering up her skirt. The top wasn't even so hard to cover up. The top was easily covered with a long sleeved button up shirt. The shirt however was harder and after some time she'd simply settled on covering her skirt with another skirt. The cover up skirt was black, simple, and matched the shirt. She knew the styles didn't match, she wasn't stupid, but she needed to do something and a long to the floor skirt did the trick - or so she hoped.
Maybe someone would just think she was clueless about fashion or blame it on her not being from here? Another big worry of hers had been the marking on her forehead which had been handled earlier by make up, a good deal of make up, which she hoped didn't start to show at any point. As it was she was boarding the train with other people, including other officers, and slipping between people as she made her excuses in broken English, trying to play up the fact she wasn't from here.
As she passed an older man she pretended to stumble into him, tripping on a heel, and as she hit into him her hand slipped into his chest and took hold of his starseed. Apologizing she sat him into a seat, leaning him against the window, while she righted herself and slipped the starseed into the purse she carried on her. "So sorry, so sorry." And she continued on, moving around and between people as she 'sought' a seat.
Stealth 120 - 2 = 118
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frayedflower generated a random number between
1 and 5 ...
4!
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Posted: Wed Aug 26, 2015 7:02 pm
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Amphitrite: Stealth 120 - 4 = 116
Really, Amphitrite considered herself pretty lucky in terms of the whole hair situation; yeah, it was long, but not impossibly long like some other corrupts. It wasn't so unreasonable to leave it loose and hanging around her shoulders, and her bangs were handy enough to naturally cover the smaller hole in her head. Some thick rimmed glasses with the lenses popped out did a good job of drawing attention to her eyes anyway. The outfit was a little trickier, but again, once she cast some of her accessories aside - it really wasn't so bad. She just threw a long sleeved shirt (sleeves rolled up) and a longer skirt over the whole thing and called it a day.
Not perfect. She was still wearing clothes over clothes (however short they were), but it could've been much worse. Her eyes skimmed for a disguised Ochre, her lips pursing. Talk about worse. If he ruined this for them - all of them were corrupts, here. If he pulled a stunt like the last time - Would they have let him out if he were planning on starting anything? Either way, she felt responsible, being the only super present who wasn't a filthy selfish traitor.
In any case, she'd settled comfortably into a seat some ways back. When Amphitrite spotted a shock of familiar rainbow hair, though, her chest gave an uncomfortable little jolt; it wasn't hard to miss the DJ. Smoke and kisses in an alleyway flared up fresh in her memory, but she willed herself not to stare. Well, that sucks. So that's how it was going to be. Still. The Negaverse and her mission came first.
She wouldn't be the one to do it if she could help it though.
With a sigh, she leaned back in her seat, casually slipping her hand into the chest of the man next to her - and she thumped her arm against his shoulder as he pulled back, making a face as though he'd tried to pull a move on a much younger woman, shifting so she faced as far away from him as humanly possible. "Gross." The starseed itself was passed off into her purse; one down.
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Sirene Naiads generated a random number between
1 and 5 ...
5!
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Torvil generated a random number between
1 and 5 ...
5!
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