Mission: War in Seaside Town MISSION INFORMATION This is the out of character mission information and RP Notes The spoilers for Mission #9 of the first season.     The war continues to wage in Seaside Town as we see the "Live RP" concept debut. We continue to tick down towards the Season Finale! We managed to fit a lot of action into the nine roleplays total for this mission. Debut of the Live RP's.. Carina against Cattaras. There's the return of Konall Bearsmasher, Guacanator vrs. the Jester King of Beasts, Catrina's attraction to King Mtiger, Becky Joy meeting Todd Blackpaws, the humor of Raw Hide and Shamus Xtreme, and plenty of action, humor and good story. Here's the notes on everything that went down! PS: No notes on the Return of Konall roleplay....       PPS: Likewise on the Shamus Xtreme roleplay....       ------------- Mission Notes - archive copy Posted by: Sebastian Dash   Hey, everyone. The Finale is FINALLY up, and I was able to keep the Rollover for this one short, since it's a continuation of the last mission. So I’m posting THIS then IT! Read up! The worst has come to pass. The Knob Goblins have gotten the drop on the Kingdom of KOL.. moments after we got the Council of Loathing's support for our desire to wage war against them! Well, we got our wish, but not in the manner we'd hoped! I left the Winking Judge on the sidelines debating what to do. I hope some of that group roleplays, and if I’m (we’re) lucky, I’ll debut a third group in this War! You'll have to see the last mission to really get an idea of what's going on. Since THIS Rollover is a continuation of the last mission, it's MUCH easier to understand the Rollover if you've read it, or at least the last mission’s Rollover and Finale. Here's what I want to do. You have until three weeks until tomorrow to write for this mission. I'll try to do a short Mission Finale, and post it fairly quick. HOWEVER, I'm planning to do more than one mission for the War. Basically, I'm hoping to break the War down into smaller parts, each with a goal and either us succeeding, or failing. The general idea is, if enough people play for each stage, we'll probably succeed in driving them back. It also depends on how the roleplays go. Each Finale will basically be a short piece I do to show how the war goes. Then the Rollover will set our next objectives. Please, please try to do at least one post per mission if you're able, even if it's just a short action rp. Also understand that, since I'm tired of making you wait months for each new mission, I need to be writing shorter Finales. This means people need to write themselves into a better position for the Finale, ala Shamus XTreme. This shouldn't be too hard in the war, since the general goal is to just fight.. (Blahking wants us to try to clear the Knob Goblins of their invasion point, which is the carnival site near the great Fountain in the Market Square of Seaside Town. The massive Knob Goblin army will not arrive in town in this mission, and possibly next even in the next mission. I want people to use the Elite 7 but I'd suggest if you need to use one, you post here before you start roleplaying, so we can minimize chances of any Elite 7 being used in more than one spot. If that happens, don't worry. We'll do our best to write around it. King MTiger is on location to help us, as is his new guard, a ninja zombie pirate robot. No one has seen it yet, except the King and Prince. Inu impersonated one, but it wasn't this one.. this one is a Clockwork Ninja Zombie Pirate Robot! You can also feel free to use the Council Friends or a guild head. (In AIL, I have them as members of the Council of Loathing.. You can learn more about that from the previous two missions.) If you want to join AIL, please feel free to send me a PM.. or post in the general AIL discussions! MISSION DEADLINE: January 17th, 2010 Post questions here, and don't forget to do brief notes on your roleplays! Cowrites heavily encouraged.. and we'll possibly host our first "Roleplay session" over MSN or YIM for this! Go to the "Game discussion" section and hit the "Adventures in Loathing: a Roleplayer is you!" subforum to learn and ask more about those! Alright, I'll get to posting the mission, and I'll post the scores for the last mission later! I want this War to be our Season Finale so make it good! PS: I could really use some ideas for items to put on my display case in the KOL game for each mission so far including this one.. :) SD/ sg   Roleplay Notes - archive copy Posted by: Sebastian Dash   Yeah.. here you go, Cat :)   -------------     Catrina's solo - archive copy Posted by: Catrina Whiteclaw   Post up- the fight started in the Rollover continues between brother and sister.   -------------     Guacanator's solo - archive copy Posted by: The Guacanator   Not much happening with the Guacanator... He squares off with the Jester King, and neither can really make any headway in the fight. AFter a bit, there's a brief pause, and that's when this RP ends. So, this is interesting, because there's a bit of Back story teased at. Apparently, the Jester King and Guac met before! We don't know much about this fight, unless you believe the each combatant's obviously exaggerated accounts. Also, apparently, during their last encounter, Guac was aided by a friend... Will this friend appear in any later RPs? Well, you'll just have to wait, won't you. 8-)   -------------     Dash's solo - archive copy Posted by: Sebastian Dash   Oh, right. My notes! This is a nice lil Dash piece to set up the live RP session Konall, Catrina and I did last night, which I will be posting hopefully tomorrow. More on that when I post it. Dash basically brawls with some of the Elite 7 here. Dash deals with the Black Knight first, or tries to. Without much success. Right as Grillhamo attacks Dash, some backup arrives, in the form of Briggs Detree leading King MTiger's personal bodyguard, the plexiglass clockwork ninja pirate zombie robot. A true one of a kind. There's also a few "cub soldiers." Soldiers of KOKOL genetically altered to be half tiger.. Plus Funki's NPC's, Centaur Brothers and Krakkrox! They only arrive. If you want to use any of them, feel free. The fight ends with Dash surrounded by the Knight, Daisuke and Grillhamo! The next rp will be the 2 part live rp session!   -------------     Live RP I and II notes - archive copy I and II Posted by: Sebastian Dash   I'm still a bit behind on the notes, sorry! Catrina, Funki, and I hosted two live RP sessions so far. The first has been posted, and the second will be posted shortly! Konall returns from, well we'll find that out in his solo roleplay! He first sets out to saving Catrina from a most unfortunate fate at the hands of her brother. The two take on Cattatras - until Catrina senses Dash in trouble nearby! This leads to a big fight with Daisuke, with Catrina, Dash, Konall, and King Mtiger working together to get the best of Daisuke. Cattaras is in and out in a flash. Konall's attention-deficit demon Spaz was reunited randomly with Spaz's father, Decaf the coffee sprite, during the fight. Spaz played a few songs for buffs while his father passed out coffee, which seems to act as buffs. Konall handed out some gifts to Catrina and Dash, saying he'd crafted them during his months away from KOKOL. We wrap the roleplay up promising to take on the Black Knight and Grillhamo in the next live co write! Stay tuned for it! SD/ sg   -------------     Raw Hide's solo - archive copy Posted by: Meat Sheild   Raw Hide is chilling out in the clan hall when he goes chasing some tail. However, the ladies turned out to be goblins in disguise who were seeking to steal the gourd. Raw warns the captain of the gourd and starts stalking the one goblin who leads him into an alley where a fight shall ensue.   -------------       Todd and Becky's only - archive copy Posted by: Sebastian Dash   Catrina posted a co write on our behalf, featuring Todd Blackpaws and Becky Joy! There is a fun little twist in this one that some of our players might have fun with, if you can get a rp up in the last week before deadline. I had a lot of fun with this story! Becky is really unsure and scared at first.. until Todd shows up to offer some vocal support, not to mention some of very uplifting songs for her! With the other heroes focused on fighting, Becky and Todd decide to focus on evacuating the citizens of the town, with her using ice magic to fight off any Knob Goblin threats, and him playing his songs to help her energy. Nevertheless, this takes its toll on them. It seems the fight goes on a while, as they're both suffering near the middle of it. Becky debut her ice mace and a focusing device, a toy yeti! Todd also got a glimpse of Catrina vrs. Cattaras, and later Konall. Fun cameos. They switch their focus back to evacuating the town.. This is where it gets interesting, though! They spot a couple of Knob Goblin fire mages who seem eager to burn the Market Square down! It had a lot of cute and fun moments. They're not important to the storyline to mention here, but it's well worth reading! SD/ sg   -------------     Scorecard - archive copy Posted by: AIL   War in Seaside Town rankings.. Since Cameron's voted and is active in these forums, I just decided to leave it up to him to post any comments he chooses. We could use an outside voter, or preferably three voters, but for this mission, we made due with his votes, although it should be noted he handles both Bearsmasher characters. Here's his votes, and a couple comments that I found interesting. Catrina: 20 Raw Hide: 16 Dash: 15 Konall: 14 Kadlin: 13 Becky: 13 Todd: 13 Shamus: 11 Guacanator: 8 Cameron's own words on a few of the participants… ---- Catfight - "This was a nice fight. Easy to visualize. Didn’t carry on too long. And the dialogue makes it so I actually care about the characters in some way and know why they’re fighting. Well done." (To Raw Hide) - Comments: Really clever. I like the narrative. And you kept it interesting even though there wasn’t combat. If you’d written more I probably would have had you win this round. (To Shamus- Comments: Interesting fight. Like the relationship between the chameleon and Shamus. But it was repetitive. Rat zips behind Shamus. Shamus is knocked down. Familiar rescues Shamus. Witty comment. Repeat. ------   I'll leave more to Cameron to post, if he wants. SEASON SO FAR! :) Season total so far.... -------------- Dash - 159 Catrina- 147 Raw Hide - 101 Feena - 84 Shamus - 69 Vixen - 45 Konall - 42 Riko- 32 Becky Joy -29 Blahking -26 Fluffy Hamster - 24 The Guacanator - 23 The Chad - 19 Todd Blackpaws - 18 Zanther Wolf - 16 Vivace - 14 Kadlin: 13 Fenninarnos - 5 Lapine - 5 Not a lot of major shuffling in the action after this mission. Congrats on Konall for making his return! SG/ sg   Ordered by alphabet MISSION points! KOL mission point totals- winner in gold Kadlin Bearsmasher - 13 Konall Bearsmasher - 14 Todd Blackpaws - 13 Sebastian Dash - 15 The Guacanator - 8 Becky Joy - 13 Raw Hide - 16 CATRINA WHITECLAW - 20 Shamus XTreme - 11 Ordered by alphabet SEASON total to date so far KOL mission point totals- current leader in gold Kadlin Bearsmasher - 13 Konall Bearsmasher- 42 Todd Blackpaws - 18 Prince Blahking -26 The Chad - 19 SEBASTIAN DASH - 159 Vivace Downtuned- 14 Feena - 84 Fenninarnos - 5 Fluffy Hamster - 24 The Guacanator - 23 Becky Joy -29 Raw Hide - 101 Lapine - 5 Riko- 32 Vixen - 45 Catrina Whiteclaw - 147 Zanther Wolf - 16 Shamus XTreme- 69