[Nexus] Good League of Good 78: Druids of Mass Destruction and other bioweapons
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The Good League of Good is a Nexus organization devoted to the redemption of evildoers and the care and support of those in need. If you are looking to smite evil, please check out HALO or WATCHTOWER.
If you are brand new to ffrp, please come to the Nexus OOC thread and introduce yourself. We all want to meet you!
A Brief History of GLoG:
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You know what this OP needs? A brief history of GLoG. Which would have to be written by one of the few people who were around from the beginning. Any volunteers?
Our Redemption Program:
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Individuals who come in search of redemption should be interviewed by a member to see how their needs can be best met, and then assigned to a mentor who will assist them. Those with deep seated psychological issues can be sent to Dr Burnett, the psychiatrist, who will hold sessions with them in a different thread. Graduation from the redemption program will occur when both the redemee and his/her mentor agree that they have made sufficient progress.
Other Charitable Activities:
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In addition to the redemption of evildoers, the organization performs other good works such as caring for distressed individuals in need, housing and feeding evacuees from the city during disasters, and healing sick and injured people in GLoG's infirmary - renowned as the most advanced place of healing in the Nexus.
Attention villains:
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Conflict is great! It's the heart of any story, and there isn't much to roleplay without it. However, as a player to player courtesy, please check in with the players who are active at any given time before launching an attack. Not everyone wants to roleplay combat scenes, and sometimes there are other things going on that players don't want to interrupt for a random fight. Either a PM/IM to players, a short post in thread to say ((Mind if I introduce a villain here?)) or a longer post in the OOC thread if it's a larger plot is appreciated.
Also, please don't plan any villainy that will result in destroying the base or having the same effect (poisoning the lake, burning down the forest, etc.) without the consent of the majority of the players who would be affected.
Base Defences:
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There is a perimeter of cactus plants to encourage anyone on foot to enter by one of the main entrance points.
((If any of your characters add more defences, please PM them to the person who made this thread so they can be added.))
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If you're a newbie, and you've read this far, you should know enough to join in the fun.
Everything beyond this point is Bonus Material.
Members/Residents:
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Please PM the creator of the OP to be added to the list when you bring a character into the thread with the intention of redeeming or of having them reside here on a regular basis. IC, we'll assume there's a sign in log somewhere.
Our IC leadership council:
Quinn (played by The Bushranger)
Runner (played by KerfuffleMach2)
Phoenix (played by Kid Kris)
Andreas Emeral (played by Zefir)
Shrike (played by The Bushranger)
Zamira (played by horngeek)
Reelshka (played by Morty) Ironbeard (npc, can be played by anyone)
The leadership council exists so that any one member can make important decisions affecting all of GLoG. Basically, when someone shows up and says 'I need to speak to the person in charge', any one of the leadership council can handle it.
Description of the new GLoG setting:
(map to come maybe?)
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After the original GLoG building was destroyed by an army of catpeople, the survivors took out a mortgage and purchased Phoenix Lake Campground. Facilities include the main lodge house, a bathhouse with separate male and female sections, a stable (one horse present, a chestnut mare named Fancy owned by Dr Burnett), various picnic shelters, and a few scattered cabins. It's set in the foothills of the Acro mountains, and mainly surrounded by woods. There are many hiking trails nearby leading to mountaintop vistas, waterfalls, seacoves, and various other locations, both within this thread, and in the Outside thread. The campground is also within easy walking distance of the city of Inside, though there is also a Riftline station just outside the campground for those who prefer to take the train or who have farther to go.
At the lake, there is a small dock with a little shed nearby where a few canoes and paddleboats are stored. The swimming area has a GIANT slide and a rope swing. Because GIANT slides and rope swings are awesome. There is a sandy volleyball court not far from the slide, a playground under the trees, set back from the lake somewhat, and a set of horseshoe pits.
Having been built on a Generic Ancient Burial Ground, Phoenix Lake Campground is haunted by various ghosts. They are generally harmless, and for the most part glad to have some company, though pranks and hijinks may occur. Ghosts can be NPC'd by anyone unless they are listed as PCs in the Member/Resident list. They tend to speak in Gray, and mostly appear for comic purposes, but this is by no means a requirement.
Reference images:
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Main lodge:
GIANT slide:
The lake:
Buildings:
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Main Lodge: This large building contains an industrial kitchen with a cafeteria style serving area, and an open space that was once used as the dining hall. The space is warmed by a massive fireplace. Bunk beds are lined up on one end of the hall, opposite the kitchen, and a few comfy chairs and sofas are beginning to appear around the fireplace as they are procured. The building itself is made of stone.
Bathhouse: This building is divided into the men's and women's bathhouses, with entrances at either end. It has shower stalls, a line of sinks, and toilet stalls in each.
Cabins: Individuals can have their own room within a cabin, but they are unlikely to have a full cabin to themselves unless they come equipped with a family. Some of the cabins have been rebuilt, so may have more space than the 4 room cabins the campground came with, and a few cabins have had private bathrooms installed. All cabins are named after trees, and players are free to invent further details about their own cabins.
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Main Lodge - Willow Infirmary - Cedar
Cabin 1 - Oak
Cabin 2 - Sycamore
Cabin 3 - Redwood
Cabin 4 - Maple Cabin 5 - Apple - Visitor's Cabin
Cabin 6 - Cherry
Cabin 7 - Chestnut
Cabin 8 - Birch
Cabin 9 - Dogwood
Cabin 10 - Elm - full
Cabin 11 - Denim - family cabin
Cabin 12 - Rowan
Cabin 13 - Poplar - family cabin
Cabin 14 - Forest Hut - family cabin
Cabin 5 - Apple is reserved for visitors who do not want to stay at the lodge. They are requested to check in at the main lodge, where any member can give them permission to stay for a few days. Longer than that, and unless they are in need, they would be requested to either join or move to their own place or one of the local inns.
New cabins can be added as the needed. Here is a list of unused tree names:
Workshop: A well built cabin designed by Reelshka, containing nothing at present but the Mainframe installation. It is locked. Drones fly in and out of a small entrance that opens for them when they send an encrypted signal.
Infirmary: If no PC is present in the Infirmary, patients are tended to by Nurse Piper, a ghost NPC who haunts the infirmary. Despite being a ghost, she is solid enough when managing anything to do with nursing. She has a tyrannical bedside manner, but will always put the welfare of her patients first. She is able to generally stabilize patients and do general nursing care, but cannot provide magical healing or any type of advanced medicine that would normally be performed by a doctor.
PC healers include:
Quinn (The Bushranger) - doctor and paladin
Tobias (Firefox) - druid healer
Dr Adrian Rein (Murkus) - doctor
(PM the keeper of the OP if you want your character to be added to this list)
Infirmary Description
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The outside of the infirmary looks just like all the rest of the buildings. Nothing distinguishes it at all.
But inside, everything is white, with silver highlighting. Even though it doesn't seem possible, when looking from outside, sunlight filters inside. Giving the place a warm feeling with natural light.
A soft, soothing music filters through the whole building and words can barely be heard saying words of healing and comfort, like: "You are going to be okay." "We'll take care of you." "You are dear to us." and so on.
Each room is walled off for a limited amount of privacy, because the pixies know that humans seem to need this. Strange. But it is limited. There are no doors.
Kinda looks like this:
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Except the angles are more severe, so that people on the other side of the hall can't see into anyone's room. Only someone intentionally looking in, can see you.
There is also a small living area in the back for the Druid family.
About the Drones Mk 2:
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In other news, the drones are back at GLoG. Drones are NPCs who can be played by anyone, within the guidelines below:
Their Primary Function is member safety.
They no longer have teleport beams or alignment scanners.
They do have stun beams, little arms, and the ability to record what's going on around them.
They follow orders, unless those orders conflict with their Primary Function.
There are only 4-5 in operation at any one time.
They can be destroyed, but if so, they'll be restored from backup.
A few have been supplied with medical programming, and thus can be godmodded for infirmary duties.
They often have weird personality quirks and are prone to malfunctioning.
Statement: They speak in DarkOrange FixedSys
The only named drone (so far) is Caretaker, who is a private drone charged with protecting Brinika and controlled by Morty.
There was some discussion about whether or not the time of the drones has passed, but since they are still sometimes used for mostly comic purposes, and since Brinika's personal drone is onscreen a lot, it seems right to keep a few around.
***When this thread reaches 50 pages, anyone can make a new GLoG thread. Please be willing to keep the membership tables updated, add the old thread to the Archives list, and check that the link to the Nexus OOC thread is current. If you anticipate being away from the forums much during the lifetime of the thread (each thread usually lasts a few weeks) then please let someone else do it.***
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[Cabin 8]
"Not too much...but they did say that you are the heirs to the Exalted. And that they hoped you would be able to tip the balance in the Shadow War, without repeating our mistakes." Shrike says, sollemly.
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By The Lake
"The swamps belong to the Lizardpeople and the Marsh Goblins. No other sapient species lives in that particular habitat all the time. But until the attack, I'd never seen anybody who wasn't a Marsh Goblin. Now, though, I've seen individuals from many races, though I don't know much about most of them and a lot of what I know is racist elvish propaganda." Myrim's familiar to schools, though; her ex-owner ran one. Or rather, owned the land it was built on, paid the staff, and visited occasionally to be seen 'taking an interest in the bright future of the Elvish races'. She took Myrim with her because of the difficulty in obtaining Marsh Goblins as slaves makes her a status symbol.
Repost for Morty.
Main Cabin
Natalie is here. She's an eleven year old human girl with long black hair and green eyes. She's wearing a denim dress and a red woolen jumper in addition to her red rucksack at the moment. She's looking for Jamie, Brinika, or somebody else she knows, and carrying a painting and a book.
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[Cabin 8]
Sophie stares at the ground for a while. Right... there are other humans fighting the supernatural in our homeworld... normal ones doing this of their own free will. But it's a stalemate and I suppose the Messengers decided a new troop has to be fielded to break it. I wonder if they'll succeed. She shakes her head. It's out of her hands now. So, I guess I'm your heir. How does it feel? She asks with a bit of forced mischeviousness.
[By The Lake]
Oh. I guess we goblins don't leave our caves too often.
Brinika doesn't really know what to say apart from that. Myrim seems intent on showering her with information about her homeland. She keeps getting the nagging feeling she'll have to write a test later.
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By The Lake
Myrim's naturally curious, and wants to learn about Brinika's homeland, but she's inexperienced in obtaining information and thinks swapping will work.
"Are there lots of other species around here?" Myrim's homeworld has loads of sapient species.
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Cabin 8
"I think the fact you're the heir is apparent, yes. I think you'll do." Shrike can't help but chuckle a little. "And...as I said to them, sometimes the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few, or the one, but that doesn't make it easier to be the one."
(I'd post something for Jamie but I'm heading off in 10 minutes)
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By The Lake
"Dragons? Wow, I've never seen a dragon! Unless it was a Ruin Dragon; some of those can change shape." Myrim's homeworld is not based on Dungeons & Dragons and has many differences.
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By The Lake
"Yeah, there's lots of different dragons. Plus the semi-dragons, like wyverns and fire drakes." Myrim nods in understanding.
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Quinn can be found harvesting carrots from the garden!
[Garden]
Ermine and Reinholdt find Quinn, then! The pirate is in her small weasely form at the moment.
"Ahoy, Quinn! We want ta talk to ye about dat big-toothed cat runnin' around."
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[Cabin 8]
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Originally Posted by Morty
Sophie closes her eyes. Yes... someone had to do it. I just hope they'll succeed. And it all won't be for nothing.
"I'm sure you will."
And Shrike goes to put an encouraging hand on Sophie's shoulder.
[Garden]
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Ermine and Reinholdt find Quinn, then! The pirate is in her small weasely form at the moment.
"Ahoy, Quinn! We want ta talk to ye about dat big-toothed cat runnin' around."
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Originally Posted by Reinholdt
"The really big one that keeps trying to eat people." Reinholdt adds for Quinn's sake. Just in case there's more than one.
A cat and a weasel walk into a garden...
Quinn looks up in surprise, blinks, starts to say something...
...then has it click in her brain.
"You'd be talking about Mister Buttons, I presume?"
[Infirmary]
Jamie, meanwhile, is sneaking around and trying to get a look at her birthday cake.
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Maybe it's not in the infirmary, Jamie. Maybe Quinn asked the halflings to make a super dooper amazing birthday cake and it's hidden in the big kitchen. (Up to BR of course)
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Indeed. The halfling family are excellent cooks, but Lex surpasses them in baking.
Forest Hut
Lily is in the hut with Pathfinder, working on her lessons. She's homeschooled, because that's simply the way it was done back in the home country of the Applehills. Lily is lying on her belly, doing her maths homework, with her tongue stuck out of the corner of her mouth.
She'd still rather Waterstrider was here, as he's her special friend, but she loves Pathfinder too. But being around Pathfinder helps her keep from missing Waterstrider so much.
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By The Lake
"Yeah, there's lots of different dragons. Plus the semi-dragons, like wyverns and fire drakes." Myrim nods in understanding.
Yeah. And a lot of them spend most of their time as humans or elves. This is strange. No story I ever heard back home mentioned dragons changing shape.
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[Cabin 8]
"I'm sure you will."
And Shrike goes to put an encouraging hand on Sophie's shoulder.
Sophie looks up and actually smiles a little. Thank you. I... regret sometimes that I was thrown into the Nexus by that mage. I feel like they need me more back home.
[Main Cabin]
Brinika is poking around, having recieved Jamie's invitation. Despite the assurance that gifts aren't needed, Caretaker is holding a gift-wrapped box.
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Forest Hut
Pathfinder is looking over Lily's shoulder, trying to figure out the math himself, but to no avail. Few Wolfen in his tribe knew the written formulas of such things, and didn't really need to. Of course, with his role of Shaman, it was expected for him to learn such.
Even so, he leans down, sticking his muzzle right behind Lily's ear and blowing air at the back of it to tease and joke with her.
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Forest Hut
Lily giggles, and bats at his muzzle playfully. But when Reelshka knocks, she jumps up and opens the door. "Good morning, Miss Reelshka," she says, and gives a curtesy.
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[Forest Hut]
Good morning Lily, Reelshka says, smiling warmly. Are Pathfinder and Waterstrider home? Seems she hasn't heard of Waterstrider and Renetta's journey. She has heard about the fight with What, though, and wants to check on the wolfen.
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Forest Hut
Lily's face immediately falls. "Waterstrider and Miss Renetta went away to find her home." "I miss him sooooo much. But Pathfinder is here! He's helping me with my lessons!"
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By The Lake
"Why? Humans are nothing special, and elves think they're more important than they really are. Having a being as powerful as a dragon masquerade as a human or elf will just give them ideas of their own superiority." Clearly, the dragons should take the form of goblins.
Main Cabin
Natalie is also here, wearing a green silk dress and her red rucksack.
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Originally Posted by The Bushranger
[Garden]
A cat and a weasel walk into a garden...
Quinn looks up in surprise, blinks, starts to say something...
...then has it click in her brain.
"You'd be talking about Mister Buttons, I presume?"
And they say, boy is that human fat.
Don't let Ermine catch you calling her a weasel.
"Is he the sabretooth tiger trying to eat people?"
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[Cabin 8]
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Originally Posted by Morty
Sophie looks up and actually smiles a little. Thank you. I... regret sometimes that I was thrown into the Nexus by that mage. I feel like they need me more back home.
"I think that, if it happens that you are truly needed back home, you'll find a way back. That's how things seem to work around here. In the meantime, you should do your best to, well, do your best." Shrike says, encouragingly, but petering out just a little at the end.
[Main Cabin]
Natalie might hear Jamie moving up behind her!
[Garden]
"As far as I know, he's the only sabertooth tiger around. But he doesn't want to eat people, he just wants to pounce on them and get petted like the big, lazy housecat he thinks he is." Quinn smiles.
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[Infirmary]
In a scene that may or may not be inside/outside continuity, depending on the character, Jamie and Quinn finish hanging the party garlands and pennants and banners.
The birthday is about to begin!
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Originally Posted by Earl of Purple
By The Lake
"Why? Humans are nothing special, and elves think they're more important than they really are. Having a being as powerful as a dragon masquerade as a human or elf will just give them ideas of their own superiority." Clearly, the dragons should take the form of goblins.
I dunno why they do it. You should ask them. My grandma always told me stories of dragons who just flew around and breathed fire.
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Originally Posted by The Bushranger
[Cabin 8]
"I think that, if it happens that you are truly needed back home, you'll find a way back. That's how things seem to work around here. In the meantime, you should do your best to, well, do your best." Shrike says, encouragingly, but petering out just a little at the end.
[Infirmary]
In a scene that may or may not be inside/outside continuity, depending on the character, Jamie and Quinn finish hanging the party garlands and pennants and banners.
The birthday is about to begin!
[Cabin 8]
Maybe. Sophie stands up. Well, that was enlightening. Thank you, Shrike. If you ever need any help, you know where to find me.
[Infirmary]
Brinika is hanging around there, waiting for the party to begin and trembling from excitement.
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