Spring Cleaning

[these_balls]

Plot: Spring Cleaning First, read that newspaper, or mouse over it if you can't. Crazy stuff. Ara here, proud to present Spring Cleaning, a plot I never could have gotten off the ground without the help of my co-mods and input from a lot of wonderful players. First, a big thank you to our wonderful Rocket members who've already started using the missions post! As you can see, it's been updated: two plot-related missions have cropped up. On the 2nd of May the missions begin. The first is hijacking garbage trucks in the six urban centers: Celadon, Saffron, Violet, Goldenrod, Ecruteak and Olivine. Trash needs to get scattered, so go crazy. I mean, when's the next time you get to joyride a garbage truck? Limit two Rockets per truck. This is pretty straightforward, but I will need two team leader volunteers (on for each region) to coordinate all the truck-driving Rockets and make sure they don't cross police patrol routes. Promotion opportunity! The second is planting radio-emitting devices close (or better, inside) the large piles of trash the first group is creating. This is slightly more delicate: the devices are disc-shaped, about the size of a man's palm, and set to attach to whatever flat surface they're pressed against. You can thank Gorthan for the design. Only one Rocket per device per city, and the planting should be as discreet as possible; transport will be provided (Magnet Train or otherwise) to the assigned city. Again, two volunteer team leaders are needed to coordinate with the truck leaders and with the science division. Any or all positions can be filled by NPCs, so please don't feel pressured. Both missions are first-come, first-serve and rank/time of membership is ignored. These missions will be active for three days. On the 5th of May things get hinky. Of course, there was a point to all this. On the fifth, the Lavender radio tower (you didn't actually believe this merger business did you? Petrel's a scary guy when he wants to be) will run a high-powered signal to the Goldenrod tower and back. The devices will activate, causing the trash to morph. Grimer, Trubbish, Muk and Garbodor will be everywhere, and multiplying like a hydra. They'll be concentrated in the six urban centers again, but they'll inevitably make it onto the routes, polluting as they go.

Meanwhile, at the same time, Rockets in the old Mahogany base and in Diglett's Cave will be setting off interference signals to scramble trackers and make sure the two Towers can't be traced. The citizens will be in a panic, anyway, so the police (and hopefully, everyone else) will have their hands full! The police will also be taking trainers to various places on the map to help out, and extra trains will be running between the regions. All Rockets who aren't in Mahogany or D.C. will be commandeered to loot and pillage as much as they can to take advantage of the chaos. The team leaders from the previous phase will be in charge  here. The department stores, of course, will be a prime target, and Pcs and NPCs should be mugged for all their worth. Speaking of getting mugged, I'm sure you've seen the weather. I hope you brought your clothespins, your poor noses will need 'em. On the 8th...something's going to happen. But you see, we don't know what it is yet, because that depends on you. Yes, you, non-TR people! The 'good guys'! (That might even be some of you TR members...) We didn't want to make the outcome thread-based, because, let's be honest, we've seen it go horribly wrong in other games, with plot-important threads stalled indefinitely. We want to avoid that, so here's how we're going to run this: There are six devices, one each for Goldenrod, Ecruteak, Olivine, Violet, Celadon and Saffron. With the general confusion, we're giving the PGC (and non-PGC, you don't have to be a member of any association to participate!) three days, so the 5, 6 and 7 to get their bearings and take action. There is a chance of finding and eliminating each device, but it's slim, being that they are very small and easy to miss and, presumably, absolutely covered with the Muk and Garbodor they're producing. I'll be making sub-threads for each city; once characters have decided which city they're defending, please generate one number between 1 and 20 and post with your character. We'll run it against our list of integers to determine whether or not the device in that city was destroyed. I can see you leosquinting at me. Here's an example: Coop and Heather are in Olivine and both of them are after the cause of the disturbances. Heather rolls a 10 and Coop an 18. The (hypothetical) correct numbers for Olivine are 2, 10, 12 and 15. Heather's a match, so the device is taken out. Meanwhile, Kiki is all alone up in Celadon doing the same, and rolls a 9. The numbers for Celadon are 8, 11, 17 and 20. No luck, the device in Celadon isn't found. Obviously, cities with 6 people searching in them have a much higher chance than cities with only one, so it pays to split up. Of course, if your character won't actively be looking for the devices, you don't have to RNG, unless you want them to stumble on it by accident. We'll announce the results on the seventh. If five out of six of TR's devices are taken out, that's one possible outcome. If not, there's another planned. I hope that's clear enough. Please let us know if you have any questions, comments or difficulties! Don't forget to check out the updated calendar if you're lost! As usual, this post will also serve as a plotting post for everyone to determine what they're doing, when and with whom! <b>Character:</b> <b>Location:</b> <b>What you'd like for them to do:</b> Be as vague or as precise as you want! 'Looking for a butt-kicking partner in Ecruteak' is perfectly acceptable!

Comments

ROCKET MISSION CLAIMS

[these_balls]

When you've decided which mission you want, post here! I'll be adding everyone to the missions post as it goes.

[artfuldestruction]

As fantastic as joyriding in a garbage truck would be, Kato's talents will be far more useful for the radio device planting! So sign him up for that one~

[these_balls]

Do you have a preference in regards to the city he'll be assigned to?

[laplaceattorney]

Keisuke for the garbage truck mission in Goldenrod? He'll view it as pretty harmless, and he'd rather get a mission out of the way...

[these_balls]

are you even old enough to drive, young man

Signed up!

[derpsaboutfamily]

*slips in here before bed*

Sign Hughes up for the device planting. Preferably Kanto and team leader. :3 He has military experience, if that helps

[these_balls]

I can type...

I've signed him up as Kanto Leader, did you have a preference between Saffron and Celadon?

[best_laid_plans]

Malik for Johto garbage truck leader? He'll hate the smell, but misses actual driving.

....And leading. That too.

[these_balls]

He's signed up! Did you have a city preference?

Re: ROCKET MISSION CLAIMS

[determinator]

I'll sign Archer up here for Team Leader; this sounds like something he can actually do and not fail spectacularly at! \o/

[these_balls]

Team leader for which task?

Also poor Archer, I'm sure Kimblee will take care of you.

[explosivecombat]

Okay, so. Kimblee has so many issues involving this that he's gonna die (this is the guy who was running around in a war zone without half his uniform on because his jacket kept getting dirty, so um) he will actually gladly head up to Mahogany for the sake of setting interference transmitters. (He'd prefer the Mahogany Base as opposed to...anything involving caves GOD I'M SORRY HE'S SO PICKY I CANNOT - but if it helps, he also knows the base in Mahogany rather well, as he was from pretty much the last crop of Rockets that ended up there.) If this is something that would best be suited to NPCs, however, due to a lack of numbers, he will gladly assist with raising hell in...wherever we need hell raised in terms of general pillaging and whatnot. (And by "gladly" I mean "he'll be trying really, really hard not to scream because dear god why is it a hydra of filth.")

Descole would be willing to do device-setting in Kanto...somewhere, I'm not particularly picky about city and neither is he; wherever he's needed would be good.

GLaDOS will likely be doing the same as Descole, though I'd prefer to keep her in Goldenrod, if that's all right.

[these_balls]

Poor guy... I've put Kimblee under his own special mission category! Way to go Kimblee, you special snowflake.

GlaDOS is in Goldenrod and Descole is in Celadon!

[vengefulyears]

Sign Clive up for joyriding a garbage truck. |D He misses driving...

[these_balls]

City preference?

[shakespearealien]

A-are there still free slots for the device planting? Since Gorthan made them, it would make sense for him to be involved somehow! In which case he'd like to be paired with Descole, if there is no objection. Or just put him with anyone, anywhere else. I don't mind, and neither will he.

[these_balls]

It would! I was expecting that he would monitor the placements via the team leaders rather than get his hands dirty, but if he wants some action, Olivine and Violet are free. He could also be partnered with Descole if you want, provided the mun doesn't mind.

ROCKET MISSION CLAIMS

[meatysoviet]

Considering Ivan is a terrible driver and you need rubbish everywhere he would love to hijack a truck for you TR.

However, because he really is a terrible driver, and I'm guessing you need these trucks to stay in one piece, he might be better at the task of keeping them clear of the police- whichever one is needed more is fine with me.

Re: ROCKET MISSION CLAIMS

[these_balls]

Haha, you think TR gaf about city property.



As long as he doesn't draw too much attention to himself (I get the feeling his team leader is gonna have his hands full...) Ivan should be fine. The truck can get ditched on the roadside once the trash is dumped everywhere.

Re: ROCKET MISSION CLAIMS

[cobraaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa]

Cobra's Trubbish approves of this. Of all of this.

I'd like to sign him up for Diglett's Cave interference signal duty.

Honestly, after blowing up Team equipment, I think it'd be a perfect way to remind him who's in charge here since he still remembers having to sit in a cave and box tails for weeks.

Re: ROCKET MISSION CLAIMS

[these_balls]

You're a beautiful person. Added!

Re: ROCKET MISSION CLAIMS

[used_trick]

Harley can help hijacking the garbage trucks in Goldenrod. Intimidating civvies and driving recklessly are things she's used to.

[these_balls]

Excellent, that will come in handy. Added!

[godaime]

Character: Lust
Location: Goldenrod
What you'd like for them to do: Team Leader in Goldenrod for grand theft autoing trash masters.

[these_balls]

Unfortunately, Malik is already Johto Leader, but Lust can feel free to GTA the crap out of Goldenrod as much as she likes, thoroughly ignoring his micromanagement. Not that I'm, you know, encouraging pissing off fellow Team members. At all.

/cough

She's added!