[Nexus] OoC XXXI

[happyturtle]

So, I started off writing this as a mini-plot inspired by Community for Inside, but then I figured that this could be a little more than is allowed within city-limits (seeing as there is the whole "entire areas should not be affected" rule). I thought I would post it here first to get opinions on it first.

[Red Zone- Paintball Warzone]

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Inside one of the innermost communities in the Red Zone a warzone has formed. This warzone is not a conventional one by any means; the entire neighborhood has collapsed into a semi-extradimensional state of anarchy and chaos. It's every man for himself in this area, where the only rule of warfare is that only paintball-based weaponry can be used.

Exactly who started this massive struggle is unknown, but the purpose of it is clear; the last creature standing will win a Borg adaptive shield matrix, one that will be permanently implanted within it. Dozens of the multiverse's deadliest warriors are duking it out in the makeshift arena. Due to the fact that this area is slightly out of phase with the rest of the Nexus, a few specific rules do apply here that do not affect anywhere else;

• Once one enters the battle arena, one cannot leave until he/she is hit by a paintball. Anyone can enter just by walking into the neighborhood (which is basically a twenty block by twenty block area with an ever-changing configuration of city structures).
• Upon coming into contact with wet paint in this area, no matter how insignificant the amount is, the character who got hit is permanently banned from the arena and "shifted" back to the mainstream Nexus. Usually the shift is instantaneous, but there is a delay for those who wish to say any overly dramatic "last words."
• If one decides to delay their shifting so that they may say their last words, they briefly exist in an "in between" state between the Paintball Warzone and the Red Zone. This allows them to say what they need to say while at the same way rendering them unable to influence the environment around them.
• All forms of non-paintball weapons still work in the Nexus, but using them in any manner will result in an immediate banning and shift back to the mainstream Nexus (no time for last words given). Magic, Psionics, and overtly harmful forms of telekinesis count as weapons for the purpose of this rule.

NPC Factions within the Paintball Warzone

The Blade Dancers: Hailing from a bleak alternate reality 22nd Century Earth, these Blade Dancers split off from the main organization and arrived in the Nexus through unknown means. Survivors of the harsh, post-nuclear apocalypse desert wastes, these humans are merciless and vicious in their attacks against other paintball contestants. The Blade Dancers are led by a telepathic mutant going by the name of Odin.

Nesh'glar Elves: The origins of these Elves are unknown, but it is believed that they are the last of their race. For the most part, the Nesh'glar elves are extremely similar to other's of their species, though they always have chalky white skin and golden yellow eyes. These elves follow a rigorous magical belief dealing with mana, and believe that they must consume the corpses of defeated enemies in order to absorb their mana. While they are unable to eat any of the combatants that they defeat within the paintball warzone, the Nesh'glar may follow defeated opponents into the mainstream Nexus in order to finish the job and get the mana that they felt they were cheated.

Orion Pirates: Roughly thirty Orion Brutes and Nausicaan raiders have been gathered by a trio of Orion vixens in order to try to secure the Borg technology for themselves. Assuming they could reverse engineer the Borg adaptive shielding matrix, the Orion syndicate could easily trade the technology for millions of bars of valuable gold-pressed latinum.

Uruks of Isengard: Oddly enough, a detachment of Uruk-hai have found their way into the Nexus, and have sold themselves to the highest bidder as mercenaries. Exactly who they work for is unknown, but it is suspected that he/she is a member of the Blue Zone's elite. The Uruk-hai have proven themselves to be extremely capable supersoldiers, not needing sleep or nourishment to complete the tasks that they are assigned. They seem to relish in wiping out as many opponents as they can with their strangely designed paintball-launching crossbows.

It doesn't affect the entirety of Inside or conflict with other places that already exist, but since it's a sort of "bubble zone" with special rules, it might be better to put it in a different thread, while letting it still physically be part of Inside. Otherwise, players who see posts in the Paintball Zone might think they can just jump in and interact as usual.

[Ashen Lilies]

*pokes C'Nor in the general direction of WARDEN*

You answered my rhetorical not actually a question, but missed Happy's post with Kell. Also, mysterious light! Maybe you should go investigate that! >.>

[Lady Serpentine]

I'm trying to figure out just how sensitive I've had Trium being in the past, and whether or not if she's sensitive enough to see the magic here will affect another scene she's in. And I'm leaving the mysterious light for Manticore or one of the other members right now, though Trium will tag along if Kell goes to look at it, or head over that way if no-one else posts for it after a while.

[Lazorath]

Lazorath are you going to start a fight in the DFI? Because it is said that this thread is free of fights.

Whoops X-)

[happyturtle]

Oh noes! Character inconsistencies between plot clones? Ability retcon / handwaves? That must NEVER BE!

*cough Zee cough*

[BladeofObliviom]

I'd poke C'nor towards Outside, but that'd be a tad hypocritical since I'm about five minues away from collapsing onto my desk. Yup.

[Mindfreak]

Lazorath are you going to start a fight in the DFI? Because it is said that this thread is free of fights.

From what Mee has said in the past, it's more that fights are strongly discouraged. Not to mention that the staff will immediately try to stop any fights happening. Such as Mee already having Naku asking them to stop fighting outside her Inn. But that's just from my forgetful memory. I've been forgetting and misremembering things a lot recently XD

[Morty]

Either way, there are exactly three threads in the Nexus which are "no combat" zones. It's not that hard to keep fighting out of them.

[Zefir]

Well usually people don't just walk right in to AMEN, a member usually answers the door. Which if the person is with an member they won't be attacked. And like Rein said, the ones that just barge in are the ones you want to sic the panthers on Anyways, handwave for them to get basic info from the base's AI to make them more...hospitable? *And Bushranger, I have no idea what you're talking about with Becky...the last scene I can remember with her included Clarissa and Dave, and Dave was pulled into bed with Clarissa and then fell asleep...* **Pokes OrchestraHc to GLoG, the tiny dinosaurs man!**

And what happens when a member enters that had a physical change and doesn't look like normal?

@Morty Think it's 4 now right? Mallside The 2 house threads and DFI

[ThirdEmperor]

Serph, I'm afraid I'm totally lost on the SRW plot. Could you please repose your last reply for the scene the triplets are in?

[Asha'man]

No problemo!

This is the situation and this is what you , Zefir and I did.

[Hattish Thing]

You know, I think it's about time I ttried to start doping avatars of my characters...nya. I'll get better. Anyway, here's one of Marciano in his shiny new evil halfling guy suit! The eye thing will be addressed later in his roleplays. (Rather largeish.)

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[happyturtle]

Try making the torso and legs shorter to make him look like a halfling.

[LOTRfan]

As long as it's only one neighborhood, not the whole Red Zone, it should be fine (though Wolfbane would be the one to give final confirmation on that, of course). And I'll also drop someone or other in there if it gets green-lit.

I am curious, though - the way you have it written, someone who steps in a puddle of spilled paint, or gets hit by a stray droplet splashing off something, would be out. Was that intentional? Also, how does armor factor into this? It seems a little odd that someone who comes into the arena wearing power armor is just as vulnerable as somebody who goes in naked. And do purely defensive uses of magic or psionics still count as banned weapons?

(By the way, are you up for continuing that one plot you were running in Outside for Apprentice-Pilot?)

Those are all valid points. The stray droplet/puddle thing was intentional, but do you think its a little harsh? As for armor... I guess a ruling could be made where the paint would have to touch skin rather than clothing in order to qualify for being expelled (that would get rid of the puddle problem), but that would make people with sealed and/or pressurized suits invulnerable to attack. Any suggestions on this? Also, it just crossed my mind that incorporeal people have a massive advantage as well. I'm going to rule that paintballs tune into the exact phase variance of incorporeal creatures when fired at them, so they can be affected.

I've been thinking about magic and psionics, and I think that they could be permitted. But they would be dumbed down in some way by the arena. Not sure by how much, though.

And as for the last part, yeah, I would love to. I made a post in the Welcome/Say Hello post, but I don't think I actually said it here, so; I am very sorry about the large absence with no warning whatsoever. I would have asked about plots that were going on a year ago, but I thought it would seem rude to be gone for so long and then ask to have the plots I was in before continue.

[Hattish Thing]

Right now he kinda just looks like a really short guy... I'll fix it eventually.

[Vhaidara]

Actually, I like it, mostly because he looks like he's standing on a box. Which is funny and indicates that he's short.

[Asha'man]

3:00 in the morning..... "Deadtime" and goodnight guys. *pokes Haruki-kun to Mallside as i log out.

[ThirdEmperor]

*Pokes orb_of_blood to Outside*

[Morty]

Noodle, I'm going to be blunt - I, as a player, don't want to deal with Marciano again, so I'm going to have Dipsnig refuse the woman's offer.

[Vhaidara]

As an alternative, if you're willing, Dipsnig could accept it for NO and Jit could take the job.

I have no idea what I'm getting into, but I'm used to that.

[LOTRfan]

Hey Hydranova, do you still need someone to be that Wyvern in the Hunting Grounds, or did someone else take on that role already?

[happyturtle]

For Earl (and Wolfy):

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[Rebonack]

First of all, Wolfy has put the Inside thread-making back under my helm. Though that doesn't mean I control it by any means. It isn't MY thread, it's a community project.

That said!

The paintball war zone, because it operates under weird rules that diverge from the rest of Inside (and the Nexus for that matter) would probably be best as its own thread. Same general idea as the Temperance Teahouse. Even though the Teahouse is Inside violence is impossible there and as such it would be kinda confusing to plop it down Inside.

That's my take on it! Though I think seeing what other peoples think would be valuable as well.

[LOTRfan]

Alrighty.

I'll make it it's own thread as soon as I make a couple more decisions (mainly how armor affects paintballing and how badly magic is suppressed in the area).

[happyturtle]

Magic is converted to paint? Fireball >> Paintball?

I think the perma-"death" aspect might be a mistake. Either people will have their characters dodge everything, or you'll eat through the pool of interested PCs too fast. Maybe have some sort of mechanism for allowing re-entry? Earning bonus lives? Something...

[Vhaidara]

Maybe everyone has 5 lives (max), and when you hit someone you get one of their lives. You get lives back at a rate of 1 every [given] days, but never go over the max of 5.

[The Alexandrian]

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*And Bushranger, I have no idea what you're talking about with Becky...the last scene I can remember with her included Clarissa and Dave, and Dave was pulled into bed with Clarissa and then fell asleep...*

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If I'm not mistaken, BR is referring to the scene between Becky and the bunker lady who thought the world was going to end if she didn't continually press a button until the end of time.

Speaking of AMEN!

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Yep! The Hatter and The Hatteress still need to get those appointments tended to! Pavel is permadeadtimed forever, though, so he should probably be removed from the list whenever it is convenient. If you'd like I could send them in sometime this weekend. I finally wrapped up the last of my homework for this quarter, so I have more time than I had actually planned for this weekend.

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As for armor... I guess a ruling could be made where the paint would have to touch skin rather than clothing in order to qualify for being expelled (that would get rid of the puddle problem), but that would make people with sealed and/or pressurized suits invulnerable to attack. Any suggestions on this?

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I'm happy to see you back, LOTR!

I think that the armor factor thing might not pan out so well. Anyone stuck in a Big Daddy suit would win the contest hands down with no talent or strategy at all if that were so. That and a whole lot of the fun of waging paintball warfare is derived from being sneaky and avoiding being hit! Blending in with snowy tundra in blizzards and renditions of such masterful tactics are things that I personally find extremely cool! Instead, I'd recommend that, while intentional head shots might be disallowed for safety reasons, torso shots, upper leg shots, and upper arm shots be counted as serious/lethal hits while things like shoe shots be ignored and lower arm and lower leg shots be scored as maiming hits that will only "kill" if they pile up and such or something akin to that.

Of course, that's just my take on it, and I'm certainly no pro when it comes to paintball (meaning that, while I've listened to many stories on the topic, I've never went out and played it myself).

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I also finally posted another piece of the theater scene in the last Inside thread today on the last page or next to last page just so the players involved know.

[LOTRfan]

Oh, wait, didn't see these suggestions.

I'll edit the main thread later today, I should have waited first. But I have to log off, now.

And thanks, Alexandrian.

[ThirdEmperor]

*Pokes Alexandrian to Home*

[LOTRfan]

Actually, I made the changes quickly now. If there still needs editing, I;ll do so in a few hours.

I really should have put more planning into this before just making the thread.