war table: one giant leap.

[propulsion]

This war table concerns an expedition through the Crossroads to access the second Gate that was spotted at a distance from the one that was discovered mid-Guardian—or rather, the black speck in the 'sky' that very much implies itself to be one. Since it was spotted, members of Riftwatch have been hard at work plotting a course to get themselves nearer, and have gotten about as close as they can.

'As close as they can' still, unfortunately, involves a treacherous journey.

The first part of this mission calls for the following:
- adventurous individuals skilled at traversing difficult terrain, with a preference towards Scouting
- mages who qualify for the above and can help manipulate or control the terrain as they get nearer to the Gate
- griffon riders.

This point team will finish figuring out the last of the obstacles in getting to the Gate, willing to put themselves in peril to accomplish this task. This part of the mission will involve some dice rolls in terms of what could potentially go wrong, but you can specify your comfort levels!

The second part of this mission calls for:
- members of Research who are willing to make a probably still dangerous journey and are interested in studying rifts and Gates
- Wardens who can interact safely with the Blighted aspects of the tainted Gate
- accompanying bodyguards.

Sign up below! This will close March 31.

Comments

SIGN UP: FORWARD TEAM

[propulsion]

<b>Character name:</b> <b>Division:</b> <b>Skills:</b> (griffon piloting, mountaineering, magic, parkour, etc.) Willingness for things to go wrong, on a scale between 1 to 10: <b>Injury:</b> <b>Going missing:</b> <b>General trauma:</b>

[notathreat]

Character name: Ellie
Division: Scouting
Skills: Griffon rider, parkour, combat-oriented magic, archery

Willingness for things to go wrong, on a scale between 1 to 10:
Injury: 5 - Please nothing permanent or maiming, but feel free to beat the crap out of her otherwise.
Going missing: 1
General trauma: 8 - Not required but open to it! Nothing that would make her unplayable please, and please nothing involving children or animals getting hurt.

[rowancrowned]

Character name: Thranduil
Division: Research
Skills: Griffon, elf parkour

Willingness for things to go wrong, on a scale between 1 to 10:
Injury: 5
Going missing: 10
General trauma: 5

[exequy]

Character name: Kostos Averesch
Division: Scouting
Skills: Griffon riding. Barrier spamming. Good with spirits + can use wisps to scout ahead, a little bit, as long as they don't go so far away they forget what they're supposed to be doing.

Willingness for things to go wrong, on a scale between 1 to 10:
Injury: 8.5
Going missing: 10
General trauma: 10

(But also fine with less extreme wrongness. Just happy to [potentially] be here.)

SIGN UP: STUDY TEAM

[propulsion]

<b>Character name:</b> <b>Division:</b> <b>Skills:</b> (history, Fade research, muscle, designated Warden, etc.) <b>Approach:</b> (not obligatory, but do you have any specific desires about how and what you want to study a Blighted Rift that you want to try out?)

[kantikoy]

Character name: Adrasteia
Division: Forces
Skills: designated Warden

Approach: Adrasteia has a Fade shard and would be interested in seeing how that, plus Blighted blood, interacts with the rift

[doneisdone]

Character name: Teren
Division: Scouting
Skills: Warden, griffon rider

Approach: She told Dick she'd bring his Study Nugs along for the ride, which means one of them will be going into the Rift for a hot minute and the other will be hanging out with them.
Otherwise, deferring to the more scholarly types to tell her what samples to get etc since she can be in Blighted places.

[heorte]

Character name: Ellis
Division: Forces
Skills: Muscle, designated Warden

Approach: Stand directly behind Adrasteia in case of emergency.

Ellis also will at some point try to take some time to try and focus on the Vibes (If I have to hit the mod info post I will) to see if he can get a sense of what the fuck is Calling at them/push back on them in some way shape or form. Basically can he Make Contact.

and also i'm here

[nonvenomous]

Character name: dick dickerson
Division: research
Skills: mage, healing, blood magic, observation and note-taking

Approach: would like to supervise his nug cosmonauts, highly interested in witnessing/experiencing one of these things more closely to gauge its corruptive qualities and response to being approached and interacted with. less afraid of contamination than he should be.

[youwonscience]

Character name: Cosima
Division: Research
Skills: Experienced Fade researcher, anchor shard if that come up

Approach: Field work is for collecting raw data, actually has a sense of self-preservation for herself/team members which looks like it could be novel depending on how the signups shake out

[elegiaque]

Character name: Gwenaëlle Baudin
Division: Forces
Skills: Muscle, previous experience with deeply alarming rifts, anchor-shard on steroids.

Approach: Gwenaëlle's overpowered anchor-shard is available if any researchers have ideas that it would be useful for o/

[heirring]

Character name: Wysteria
Division: Research
Skills: Fade and rift related research, was on the expedition that discovered the first gate, is less worried about the dangers of poking a blighted rift with a stick than one might wish for.

Approach: Throw some stuff into it and see what happens, encourage Adrasteia to try closing it with her warden anchor, taking the usual thaumoscope measurements and seeing how they compare to a bog standard rift, etc.

[armd]

Character name: Abby-gail
Division: Forces
Skills: Muscle, back-up

Approach: Here, primarily, to rumble