Praetorian Invasion: War Council ((FAQ + OOC Discussion))

Some comments I'd like to make...

Sadly I will be working the time of the meeting BUT...

Dr Mechano will offer his services when the time comes, the Rikti War had the production of stand issue armour to all those heroes that needed it from Big Lunk's company at the time. I'm sure he could whip up something comparable to it should any hero or villain need a battlesuit.

His Necrotech Hospital will also be used to treat any wounded/badly injured villains should they require it and will be on a 'war footing' for the duation of the Praetorian invasion.

This means that regular New You and Dream partner programs will be suspended and the building will be available to be used as a field hospital (mentioned above) and a defensive position (after the attack by Humanity First it has become a veritable fortress).

Though with his genetic cloning tech probably on par if not better than the tech available in Praetoria I imagine it would become a high priority target.

So, we try and find out if there'll be an early warning from the Freedom Phalanx to PC and NPC groups. If so, perhaps Vanguard could organize the calling (they worked with the last war council after all) and if not, they could make the offer for a room for a discussion a couple of days after?

That has the issue of using an NPC group, but it'd fit and work with previous lore.

I agree, moving it to be a Vanguard organised meeting of groups (And individuals, as we don't want to exclude anyone from the plot after all) in one of thier confereance facilties (Fudging the AE here), would make things a lot better.

It puts us all on an even playing field plotwise, that way no ones arguing about whos the figurehead/incharge of organising/has undue influence on the plot.

Plus, this way we get to work independants, and potentially even Kornys idea of Moles into it. So all it takes is a little tweaking and we've got a much more fun for everyone sounding plot, and perhaps pushing the date back a bit as we do seem to be getting some clashes with Satruday.

From Protean + Black Scorpion on the uStream chat:

The Freedom Phalanx will warn organizations beforehand, which will be played out through announcements on the website.

So we can wait, see how those go, and react as needed.

I still like the big get together idea mind, just with the whole by vanguard, we're all on equal footing and we can have unaligned and independants there too.

Once upon a time, many years ago, a heroine known as The Prize gathered a group of heroes together and made a little speech saying that the Council needed to be taught a lesson. She took a group to Striga and they kicked butt.

And from that meeting, the Galaxy Girl meets grew.

I kind of liked the (apparently) improvised nature of that. The whole idea of a 'plot' surrounding this event kind of bothers me. I'll have personal plot based around certain characters, I don't think we need an encompassing plot.

Is it just me or is it a little squicky to continue to have social meetings on the memorial statue for a dead heroine?

Not been able to attend since some one pointed out just what the Galaxy Girl statue is.

Because statues and monumants to people who are dead/died arn't used for social gathering points at all.

I mean, imagine if there were a column in the heart of london dedicated to someone who died that was used as one of the go to spots for meeting up/hanging out there!

I mean, clearly such a thing would never happen.

Thanks for the discussions so far. Like a certain White House report, the original post was hastily put together and any errors within are open to fixing.

Edits to be made:

1. Corporation (@Q. & @Bunny)

2. I propose that this particular meeting involve only supporters of Primal Earth. It is however only a starting point for the plot. Others are encouraged to hold parallel meetings, RP or fiction pieces for the Supporters of Cole, Loyalist Network, In-betweeners and Opportunists alike.

3. I would propose we stick with the Saturday meeting as a starting point. The level of interest so far suggests that enough will be in attendance. I agree with Bunny. I think that also, pushing dates back brings it's own negative connotations and may hurt this momentum that seems to be building. Just my thoughts.

4. 'Praetorian Surge Fiction thread' - Yeah let's do it.

5. I like FFM's second suggestion for explaining the cause of this plot and keeping it synced with the in-game event. Having Vanguard or such organisation leading our meeting is much easier. I did consider that but came across the problem of who gets to play Vanguard? So I thought of reducing the scale of the initial meeting to just Priest reaching out to friends and their allies. I failed to realise this would inadvertently place his voice above the others. My mistake and I apologize. It wasn't intentional, I promise you. (Going with a Vanguard approach, how do we PC's run the meeting; who speaks first and who mediates?)

6. Priest having disturbing 'spider sense' type visions was left vague and badly worded so I'll expand on that. I understand no-one knows what the Coming Storm is. Priest has been out of the loop and what he is seeing (that's prompted him to act) are the initial waves of attacks from Praetorian forces.

If we all agreed with the Vanguard approach, then I'll edit the OP to something like they invite him along to their big War Council of both heroes and villains. This gives me a smaller role and trust me when I say that's very much welcomed. I hope the Vanguard approach works out. My sincerest apologies if the original proposal came across wrongly and as potentially meta-gaming. That's two mistakes already and faith in my ability to carry this project is quickly dwindling. I was just trying to put out to you some rough proposals to work around and improve on. Sorry if they've been utterly crap so far.

Well, considering nearly everyone there is a member of/has worked with Vanguard, there doesn't really need to be a Vangaurd representative at all, the NPCs just directed us to the conferance room and told us to get working on defensive arrangments.

The dissagreemnts and disputesbetween equals here is part of what should make it interesting RP!

Well we don't know yet if we're having the meeting take palce before the invasion, during the full brunt of streamign Warworks or during a quiet lul when there's no Preat actvity.

Plus using the AE Studio B is a lot easier to get to, to turn up late to and to take characters outside the level range of the SF/TF to.

Other entities will be getting vibes. Nitoichi is an aspect of war and though she doesn't know what she's sensing yet she knows something's coming. She's going to be gone for the duration, however. She has a job to do elsewhere (there will be fiction).

Point is, I suspect Priest won't be the only one getting the feeling that bad things are coming, and that's besides the Phalanx handing out warnings of exactly what's likely to be coming our way.

As we have now been given the Vanguard pack , is that not a good hook to use Vanguard as the coordinator in this case, a simple backstory of VG being busy with the Rikti, but as the only existing International defence body they are going to act as the comms / liason , just providing map rooms, radio rooms and basic kit to the characters, and coffee and donuts of course. Thus given a nice reason for us all having cute MVAS pets.

Edits so far:

*1 - Corporation SG info fix.

*2 - Non-Primal RP.

*3 - Location fudge!

*4 - Fiction Thread.

*5 - Vanguard meeting.

*6 - Phalanx warnings.

http://www.cityofheroes.com/news/new...n_surge_1.html

Appears that they've locked or deleted the discussion thread. Guess they didn't expect people to be so angry.