Mission: Generic Summer Vacation MISSION INFORMATION A new Season of AIL starts here! Following the epic 1st season, the second Season starts off with this special interim mission, where it's summer vacation for one and all! MISSION INFO ------------- Well, it took over four years, but by this point, AIL has finished it's first ever season. This mission is the start of season two! And these are the spoilers (mission and RP notes, plus scores) for it. We had a pretty solid turnout despite only having 3 weeks and only 10 points for the winner, thanks in no small part to the two Live RP's. Most of the people who got points were in the Live RP; some did solo and co writes as well. Two co writes, and six other pieces for the fairly quick mission. Since it was a 'freeform' mission, it was basically up to roleplayers to come up with the story, which required a rather unique ending for the mission. This is the "Mission Zero" of Season 2, comparable to the "Sample mission." It took place "weeks" after the Season 1 finale, and "weeks before" the first official mission of Season 2. Enjoy Missing roleplay notes is Shamus XTreme's solo roleplay. The notes on the others are below.   Mission Notice - archive copy Posted by: Dash   There’s a special set of circumstances for winning this round. The basic part of any story is conflict. You can’t have an interesting story that doesn’t have some sort of conflict in it. Will the hero slay the monster? Will the man and the woman finally admit their love for each other before it’s too late? Can the hero overcome his own inhibitions? In this round, we’re awarding subtle conflict. Can you tell an interesting story with conflict without all the gore, bloodshed, and killing? Expect THREE weeks for this one to roleplay putting the deadline at Sept 30th, 2010. See the Rollover, obviously. This is a just a little mini mission for between seasons though it’ll be organized with season 2 missions. You’re given a ton of freedom in this story. Since it’s only 3 weeks, winner gets ten points. Basically, we want you to have fun and show us a challenge. As Cameron said, subtle conflict is what we’re looking for most here. Of course, if you prefer a heavier handed story, you won’t be punished for that either. It’s up to you to bring your own challenges in, although if you read the Rollover and recent AIL history, you might get a few ideas on what is going on. REMEMBER the part of the story that promises great rewards for the heroes and Feline Empire members that are able to have ‘the most fun.’ You can use that in a story if you want.. we’ll work on getting AIL ready for Season 2 to officially kick off in the meantime. Remember also.. Seaside Town is closed down for now, and Knollish territories are under heavy Feline Empire rule, but KOKOL does have a small “Ambassador” military style setup in South Degrassi, a small village (duh) south of Degrassi. In honor of Shamus XTreme, anyone who uses a roleplay in Seaside Town or a non Feline Empire controlled Degrassi will find it was only a dream during the Finale. SD/ SG Questions and comments go in this thread.. put your RP NOTES HERE!   -------------     RP Notes - archive copy Posted by: Dash   Three weeks to roleplay.. 10 points to the winner. Put a summery of your roleplay and anything your fellow roleplayers need to know here. The Rollover MISSION NOTES HERE SD/ sg   -------------     Live RP XI - archive copy Posted by: Dash   Oh yeah! I need to do RP notes on the Live RP don’t I?! This is the second part to the “South of the Border vacation” RP’s. The last one took place during spring vacation and was posted in Typical Tavern. This one is a week later allowing it to go down during Generic Summer Vacation holiday week – the mission RP week! First up was a battle against the buddies of the drug dealers Dash punked out in Part I. Due to a holiday and GM preference, the battle was fought using insult value instead of dice! The heroes – Aleena, Dash, Todd, both Bearsmashers, Kadlin, Fumblies, Becky and sometimes Vixen- proceeded to dungeoncrawl in some old ruins, which Konall referred to as the Mayan dungeons of Queztzlamaetjk. Our heroes met a newcomer - Armus the Unifier. Not explicitly stated and not explained, but a figure from the past of Aleena’s world. Long story short, they got through and got some treasures. Some of this awesome Live Rp was lost due to chat error and had to be summarized. Heroes got meat, gems and in Aleena’s case, a spell! I think that’s it.. SD/ sg   -------------     Fumblies's first - archive copy Posted by: Sir Fumblies   A Mid Summer's Awakening [part 1] This RP begins chronicling the event that take place for Fumblies and the other in the Feline Empire's third division between his exiting Live RP 1 and resurfacing in Live RP 2. ~~~~ Fumblies is over seeing the rebuilding efforts in Seaside Town when he gets wind of some strange things happening out at Fernsworthy Tower include a few dragon sightings. So he puts Scaros in charge of the third division while he takes Bones, Zapin and Charr on a mission to the tower. Brief interlude that shows the brief thoughts and motivations of Scaros, Twitch and Jumbo (the leader of a group of 4 behemoths transformed by Kadlin). Back to Fumblies as they are heading toward the tower. Bones reveals that the strongest undead signature is coming from up ahead. They find a glade and Fumblies finds out that it was where he had been kidnapped to by the ninjas. In fact he even found more glowing foot prints. The RP ends showing the introduction of a mysterious throned figure who seemingly controlled a dragon and ninjas.   -------------     Live RP XII - archive copy Posted by: Dash   New Live RP is up.. twelfth to be posted on the mission boards.. second for the second season. I wasn't in it, so Becky and Dash are 'removed' by plot hole. The actual KOL item.. I guess. New arrival Amrus and Aleena are joined by KOL veterans Konall and Kadlin Bearsmasher and Todd Blackpaws. Along the way, they pick up two new party members; a black panthress catgirl named Fahari and a Werevamp. A werevamp elf to be specific! I'll spare most of the character moments and actual challenges... read the actual Live RP to see the extensive list of goodies and new skills they picked up. Basically, they continue inside of the dungeon.. I guess the same one as the last Live RP, down South of the Border? They face a series of puzzles and a weird old guy. Much better than it sounds.   -------------     Becky, Cattaras and Dash - archive copy Posted by: Dash   RL interfered with BOTH Mitch and I, so this one kind of tapers off after a lil action, sorry :) Ahh.. let's see.. a 'plot hole' nearly appears under Catrina, who's very pregnant, but Cattaras, altered by Knob Goblin mages to strange energies in her chamber, is there and able to push her aside, but falls in the plot hole himself. It's quickly revealed as, to quote directly, "technology of the Tirki-tics, alien like extra dimensional invaders well known throughout the Faraway lands and Honorburg." Dash and Becky see Dash's ex wife, Katlana, although it's not stated as such.. she's along with a new hero named Jake; both wield amazing energy like powers that I'll explain in a future RP hopefully.. :) Becky and Dash dive in to help them against black outfitted minions, who Jake implies are working for Z Dark.. possibly the same Zedika Dark from Dash's recent exploits in Seaside Town: the Burning... Right as that's revealed, another enemy group named the Sixth Council, Nazi lookin' black booted thugs, rush in, trying to kidnap "The heroes.." it isn't actually said who they're after though I'd assume it's Jake and Katlana.   -------------     Fumblies's last - archive copy Posted by: Fumblies   A Mid Summers Awakening [Part 2] "Fumblies is visited in a dream by the mysterious Kwadlin. He warns him that someone will soon come to teach him the way to deeper power, but that teacher will not be all that he or she appears. He gets to Fernswarthy's Tower and is told by a figure in shadows to go South of the Border on an unknown quest." Generalized summary with the help of Carmeron so there is much more to the RP than that.   -------------     Scorecard - archive copy Posted by: Dash   Hey, everyone! I finally got the mission finale up. I'll start working on the next mission soon, so we can get things rolling again! (If you want to comment or discuss rankings, please make a new topic on game discussions, or use a pre existing one. Thanks.) The finale's fairly short, since it was only a sample mission. The next one might be a bit longer, though don't expect the overly long Finales we tended to do in Season one for a while. We're trying to put together quicker, shorter Finales in the interest of a faster paced game. Three weeks of roleplaying, with ten points going to the winner. We lucked out and got some debuts this mission, both new players and a new alt. Four roleplays, and two additional Live RP's for this one. Gave us a total of thirteen active characters for the mission. You can pretty much tell where they ranked by the Mission Finale, but here's the point totals spelled out clearly. Since it's a new season, season points are reset for it. Sir Fumblies earns ten points through solid storytelling. Samus earns himself nine points, doing nicely with his solo roleplay. He spent the last mission joining the Feline Empire; this's his first showing since then. Dash earns eight points. Hard to comment on my own character, but I managed to fit into the first Live RP and fit Dash into a co write to follow up on it. Becky Joy gets seven points by being in the two pieces Dash was. Konall and Kaldin each earn six points through solid roleplaying. Catrina Whiteclaw earns five points. She only shows up briefly but since Cattaras is a closely related NPC to her, his strong showing was allowed to carry her in a special case here. EDIT: As of mission 2, those points are being reassigned to Cattaras, who's 'taking her place' for the season. Aleena gets four points. She debut during the last mission. She did well in the two Live RP's.. and earned her place here again. Todd Blackpaws and Fahari were at times quiet during the Live RP.. Still, they pull out a nice little three points. Werevamp and Vixen each earned a two points. Werevamp's debut and Vixen's return were limited so shorter parts in a Live RP this round. Finally, another debut, Armus, wraps up the scoring, earning himself a point as well. Congratulations to everyone who participated and helped us give the season a successful start!   -------------     Ordered by alphabet MISSION points! KOL mission point totals- winner in gold Aleena - 4 Amrus - 1 Kadlin Bearsmasher - 6 Konall Bearsmasher - 6 Todd Blackpaws - 3 Sebstian Dash - 8 Fahari - 3 Sir Fumblies - 10 Becky Joy - 7 Vixen - 2 werevamp - 2 Cattaras Whiteclaw - 5 Shamus XTreme - 9 Ordered by alphabet SEASON total to date so far KOL mission point totals- current leader capitalized Aleena - 4 Amrus - 1 Kadlin Bearsmasher - 6 Konall Bearsmasher - 6 Todd Blackpaws - 3 Sebstian Dash - 8 Fahari - 3 SIR FUMBLIES - 10 Becky Joy - 7 Vixen - 2 werevamp - 2 Cattaras Whiteclaw - 5 Shamus XTreme - 9