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Core Event: Day 259 [open]
Who: NPCs and you!
Open: Open
When: Day 259
Where: Starting in the Bastion, and continuing on the Skyway
What: A Core has been spotted! And....another Core? What is this?!
Format: action
Warnings: none
Starters are in the individual threads within the post. Important threads will be linked here.
IMPORTANT LINKS:
Start of the event
Continuing on
important metaplot things
Boss fight!
Open: Open
When: Day 259
Where: Starting in the Bastion, and continuing on the Skyway
What: A Core has been spotted! And....another Core? What is this?!
Format: action
Warnings: none
Starters are in the individual threads within the post. Important threads will be linked here.
IMPORTANT LINKS:
Start of the event
Continuing on
important metaplot things
Boss fight!
Start of event
Okay, so things are a bit different this time. Usually we find just one Core at a time, so we can go gunning for it pretty easily. But this time, it's not just one. It's two.
Now I don't think I have to explain how big this is. Finding just one is rare, so getting two at once would be amazing. The problem is, they're really far apart from each other. Pretty much on opposite sides of the Skyway from each other, actually.
I'd recommend going for them one at a time, but there's no guarantee that the second one will still be there by the time we get the first one back here. And with how monsters swarm once a Core is picked up, it won't be easy to go back out there for the second one. Our other open is to split into two groups and go for both at the same time, but I can't really recommend that. We're so few in number already- and even fewer, if you just count the people who can go out on the Skyway safely- and dividing our forces means one or both groups could get overwhelmed by monsters.
So, it's risk going for both, or try going for one at a time and hope the second one is still there later. Ultimately it's your choice, since I gotta stay here in the Bastion anyway, but please consider the options before making a decision.
((OOC: this thread will be open until 1 AM EST (about six hours from now). The choice will be left to an IC vote, whichever option gets the most votes is what we'll be going with.))
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"The fox that chases two rabbits will catch neither."
Or perhaps more importantly...
"Divide and conquer."
That latter one is advice for soldiers and strike teams, NOT advice for us. A force that's been split has much less chance of success than a united group.
What are the areas we're looking at for these cores?
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[Ippo had heard Nathaniel explain the situation and had thought on it...it sounded difficult, yeah, but it couldn't be impossible.]
We might not have a lot of people who can go...but most of who we do have are pretty powerful. If we can find the right balance, it might be possible I think!
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[Megaera thought for a second.]
We've got wizards, technologists, martial artists... Lots of different techniques. Two balanced parties mixing the different capabilities should be capable of confronting this.
An alternative strategy would be to send almost everyone to one core. I know that I can head out towards the other, and as long as I'm only accounting for myself, I can use one of my spells to get back to the Bastion quickly if the second is beyond my personal ability to attain - or move over to rejoin the group who has successfully retrieved the first, at which point we'd have an advantage pursuing the second full-force.
Those two strategies just crop up off the top of my head.
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While magic is generally very helpful, the limitations the Bastion places on us tends to make a higher chance of not having any when you need it. I rather have strength of numbers - even if it means going slower. [ It would also mean that they have a higher chance or protecting anyone who gets hurt.
Duke slowly shakes their head. ]
I'm sorry, but I really don't like your second plan. Its far too easy for people to die out on the Skyway, even when they head out in pairs. And that didn't have a core involved.
The most I'd be willing to split is when we are closer to the bastion with the core - either a smaller, faster group moving toward the second when the first is so close, and the slower larger group can make it, or the smaller group rushing it into the Bastion.
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[Not that he had a problem with everyone going for one core...but any chance to minimize the risks was worth looking into.]
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I won't try to stop a group from going out on their own... but if we send out two groups, and one gets the core first, the other group is going to have a much harder time of things.
[He glances at Ippo, then around at everyone else.]
Cores on the move seem to drive the wildlife berserk. It's not safe to be out there when we're bringing one back...
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[He trusted Colin and his judgement, of course, but if there was some way that they could make this work...well, it was worth at least trying to think of a plan.]
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I'm new to this, so define 'not safe' in terms of how it is worse than normal out there, and by how much. If it's as bad as I'm thinking, then we may be stuck dealing with only one, then hoping we get a chance for the second.
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Plus, we really could use both cores. Remember the power problems we had? A second core would definitely help prevent that from happening again.
[She wants to get both, but at the same time she's not sure if it's possible.]
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If nothing else, we can bring the first core here and see if whatever upgrade to the Bastion we get will help us get to the second core.
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Megaera, what about taking the cores with you back to the Bastion, once we have them? That would make the trip back only as dangerous as any other time on the Skyway.
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Everything that can reach you will try to reach you. If I had to estimate a range, I'd put it anywhere between half a kilometer to two kilometers.
If you've ever seen an entire swamp empty out and pursue one person with single-minded obsession? You know just how many creatures that is. The only thing they want is the core. They will pursue until they can't run, or until we get the core to the Bastion.
Everything between the core and the Bastion will sense you're there if you've got a core. They will all try to kill you. I have not observed any creatures on the skyway that won't try everything in their power to get their hands on a core.
[He looks at Nathan then.]
That about cover it?
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If not... Then I'm taken to agree, we have no sane choice but to stick together and deal with just one.
[Chill voice aside, Megaera's very serious right now.]
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Pretty much. Lots of monsters out their have their own reasons for wanting shards and cores, though. Some of them eat them, others use them to build homes out of. I think there's a bird somewhere in the Bastion that's made a nest out of shards, even.
But that's why it's so dangerous. Anyone who knows what these cores can do will want them, and with the mine machinery offline the only way to get them is to be extremely lucky and find one that got dislodged from the ground during the Calamity.
[Then he looks around at everyone else.]
So, final vote? Have everyone go for one core now and try for the other later, or split into two groups and go for both at the same time?
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[ If there aren't enough monsters to see Erek cloak the core, for example, they could get started on a second run much faster and with less stress. But that's not something they can control. ]
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With a glance at Tobias, who does know the limits of Erek's programming, he speaks up.]
I can't fight, but I don't tend to need protection. I'll go wherever I'd be most useful. I'm strong, fast, and good with technology and camouflage, for others as well as myself. I can stage distractions, but only if they aren't used to enable violence.
Having already agreed to abide by the plans chosen by consensus, I'm not sure the additional power is worth loss of life. We have so few here as it is. I'd tend to lean toward the more cautious plan unless the need for power is truly dire.
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What sort of camouflage? If we can stop something else from sensing the core, would that stop the monsters from rushing a group?
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If it didn't, you could provide cover for anyone too injured to fight. Make a monster think that its heading toward a wall, or something?
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I wonder if you could generate a decoy field that would make them think the core was elsewhere, though?