The following are available AE arcs and missions for the various teams.
Alpha Team
Targets/Missions: Location Scouting 1-3, Anti-Incursion Mission 1
Accepted Missions:
Mission Status:
Story Bonuses:
Epsilon Team
Targets/Missions: Emergency Transmission 217s, Check Outpost 492KS, Raid Target 1
Accepted Missions:
Mission Status:
Story Bonuses:
Omicron Team
Targets/Missions: Raid Target 2, Raid Target 3, Emergency Transmission 162b
Accepted Missions: Recon Target 1 (Completed), Recon Target 2 (In Progress)
Mission Status: Recon Target 1 (No Data)
Story Bonuses: Tissue Samples to compare Hydra to Hamidon
Gamma Team
Targets/Missions: Get a portal set up; get a refugee area; create infrastructure
Accepted Missions:
Mission Status:
Story Bonuses:
Character Statuses
As of Pre-Mission the following player's characters have the following statuses:
TWillard
Tachyon Hammer: INJURED; Unavailable Powers: Ion Judgement, Electric Armor Epic power, Lore Pet, Barrier.
John Dunlop: Uninjured; No Day Job's available except Superbase.
Skrunchie: Uninjured
Wolvorine
GMRiley
HeatherDawn
"If you build it, they will run you over with it."-RPG Designers Mantra
Working on: YotZ Legends: Even Heroes Die (First Round Edit)
d20 Modern Mechanics
We'll be using d20 Modern for RP dialogue decisions. I'll take a look at your writeups (email them if you don't want to post them), your badges, and give me a list of completed contacts. I will also be taking background into consideration.
Contacts will move to additional contacts ala d20 Modern. Some badges will give skill bonuses, others will result in penalties with certain groups. We will use an off-site roller (probably in mIRC) to do rolls.
Gamma Team would be best served by non-AE characters, who have contacts and have good statuses with those contacts. For the new characters who are part of Omicron Team, I'll assign (either in private or here in a post) contacts and how close you are to them. Level doesn't really matter all that much toward your Diplomacy rolls.
For example: Tach (as we all know) is kind of messed up, but has contacts all over the place. But, due to her current depressed state and the fact she's having PTSD issues, her Diplomacy has suffered.
So, she's 50th level (20th level for d20 Modern), but she wasn't that big on Diplomacy, giving her: 8 ranks, her 16 CHA gives her a +3 stat modifier, but her PTSD and depression gives her a -4 (offsetting her Charisma and a touch more) for just about everyone.
Colonel Victory would have 10 ranks in Diplomacy (As career military, the public face of the Patriot Brigade, and a skilled diplomat who is called upon to negotiate by the US government), a 14 Charisma, he has a base of +12 to Diplomacy Checks. If he is dealing with the US Military he gains a +8 (Epic) circumstance bonus. For the UN, as he has often worked with the UN as an advisor, military and diplomatic, and other functions, he's gain a +4 circumstance bonus when dealing with Vanguard, Lady Grey, other NATO/UN personnel.
Wahl, as a former police officer in the Rogue Isles with extensive contacts in both Paragon City and the Rogue Isles, as well as being respected for being incorruptible and a man willing to see justice done for even the poor and downtrodden, has 10 ranks in Diplomacy, as a charismatic man he has a 17 Cha (+3), and focused on his diplomacy skills to give him another bonus of +4, giving him a base total of +17 to his rolls. When dealing with the RIP, he gains a +8 (he's got legendary status with them, knows judges and Arbiters, and also has blackmail if reason fails) Circumstance bonus, with the underground of the Rogue Isles he has a +2 to a massive +10 depending on who he is speaking to.
Professor Arcanus is fairly low level, however he has contacts throughout the Paragon University system, the Midnighter Club, his former students in the arcane, and has worked with people his entire life. Despite the fact that he's only mid-20's, I've already assigned him a massive 14 ranks in Diplomacy, his Charisma is high from working hard to be empathic to people, his listening skills, and his ability to gain a rapport with people so I've assigned him a 16 Charisma, plus his outward appearance and other considerations gives him a whopping +20 base Diplomacy, without the bonuses he gets among the magical community and education community. His career and RP thus far has made the majority of this possible. That makes it difficult to decide if he should be on Epsilon Team or Gamma Team. He'd be an extremely valuable member of Gamma Team, providing a LOT of contacts and influence in a difficult sphere of influence. As part of Epsilon Team his investigative skills and magical abilities would make him critical, and his studies and experience would make him invaluable in anything that relates to the current First Ward or the upcoming Night Ward.
So, you can see I've got some nice formula again, and I will give you your non-CoX stats in a PM once you have put up who you are using and either posted/PM'd/emailed me a background and status on your characters.
Choose your characters for both Alpha and Gamma Teams carefully, ladies and gentlemen, because even though the focus isn't directly on them for the AE missions and in game RP sessions, their actions will be extremely critical to the success of this campaign arc.
Investigation
Research and Knowledge Skills we'll be assigning will also matter quite a bit.
For example: If Mythus, Tach, Miss Moral, Wahl, and Sergeant Longshot manage to retrieve a computer database from an abandoned and damaged Praetorian firebase that was overrun during Praetorian's war with Hamidon, they don't automatically get all the data inside. It will require Computer Hacking and Research Skills to get any valuable data from the computer core.
However, powers can help with investigation. As you remember, post-Raluulu-Wade the character's psionic powers have been inhibited or damaged, so no "I use my telepathy to scan all of Atlas Park" for investigation or research.
However Miss Moral's knowledge of human anatomy and sensitivity to psychic impressions would allow her to gain bonuses on her investigation of an abandoned and damaged firebase in what used to be Illinois to try to find out if Hamidon slaughtered everyone or if the rumors were true that some soldiers and civilians managed to get away, and depending on what she decides to use to focus her empathic powers on, she might even be able to find out where they went.
Finally
This is Omicron and Epsilon's time to shine, to make a name for themselves. The Bounty Hunter's War and the Herald of Hamidon campaigns are over, and I think it's time to do a new campaign.
"If you build it, they will run you over with it."-RPG Designers Mantra
Working on: YotZ Legends: Even Heroes Die (First Round Edit)
Out of Character Update
Omicron Team was recruited, based on recommendations from members in good standing of the Patriot Brigade, and sent out on their first mission, which was to investigate the rumors of something growing withing the sewers of Paragon City.
As many members of Alpha and Gamma Teams have seen that Hamidon starts below ground building their army (Including Sergeant Longshot and Tachyon Hammer's experiences in Paradise City) the rumors that something was building down in the sewers could not be ignored.
Colonel Victory, Tachyon Hammer, Male Mantid, and Sergeant Longshot had discovered that Hydra, an extra-terrestial mold ball, had taken up residence in the sewers, but Colonel Victory and Sergeant Longshot possess the institutional paranoia of professional soldiers and Tachyon Hammer a paranoid psychotic. They decided that sending Omicron Team into the sewers for a short recon was better than making the assumption that it was just Hyrdra when Hamidon could be creating breeding pits.
Omicron Team managed to reach the center of the disturbance, finding Hydra buds in the sewer rather than anything from Hamidon.
Mission Status: Success
Intel Gathered: Hydra Biosamples
Misc: This allows the teams to tell the difference between Hydra and Hamidon creations.
Mission Two
Once they reported back, Omicron Team was then sent to investigate the Praetorian sewer system from an alternate route. Resistance Contacts had identified a relatively unguarded area that appeared to be of little to no value.
Omicron Team entered Pocket-D at separate times and then used the portal located there to enter Praetoria. From there they made their way to Nova Praetoria and accessed the sewer system beneath that section of the city. From there they fought their way to the access point and disabled security to enter the area.
Once into the area they faced ghouls, which according to contacts are fairly prevelant in the sewers. However, once they reached the access point to the next level Omicron Team was aggressed and attacked by a group of altered Resistance led by a modified ghoul.
Cleric Jr. took tissue samples, and from there, Omicron Team is preparing to venture further into the sewers.
Mission Status: In Progress
"If you build it, they will run you over with it."-RPG Designers Mantra
Working on: YotZ Legends: Even Heroes Die (First Round Edit)
OK, guys, this is the thread for Out of Character stuff.
Making plans, suggesting new missions, posting the desire to go off what will be in AE to take on another mission.
Additionally I will be posting how well you are doing, as well as possible targets.
Right now, Omicron Team needs the new heroes. I'd like either the scout position or the Assault Firepower on Omicron Team. Choose 2 you'd like to be part of. We can use NPC's in missions (I'll fill it from the ranks of the Patriot Brigade) if a slot ends up open.
Currently, the following Stats are in place. (I will be updating these every Friday)
Praetorian Allies: 0%
Threatened Praetorian Outposts: Unknown
Praetorian Civilians: Unknown
War Assets - Praetoria: 0%
War Assets - Primal Earth: 0%
Primal Earth Refugee Camps: Zero
Alpha Team Status: Inactive
Epsilon Team Status: Inactive
Omicron Team Status: Inactive
Gamma Team Status: Inactive
Alpha Team
Assault Infantry: Wahl, Mythus, Kinetic Karrie, Zuka
Assault Firepower: Tachyon Hammer, Electro-Circ
Scouting: Sergeant Longshot
Battlefield Control:
Support Team Leader:
Healing: Miss Moral
Epsilon Team
Assault Infantry: Skrunchie, Zuka
Assault Firepower:
Scouting: John Dunlop
Battlefield Control: Professor Arcanus
Support Team Leader: Daemon Mistress
Healing:
Omicron Team
Assault Infantry: Stone Glacier
Assault Firepower: Pulse Wave
Scouting: Strike Ghost
Battlefield Control:
Support Team Leader: Urudu
Healing: Cleric Jr.
Gamma Team:
Miss Moral: Department of Defense, Department of Meta-Human Affairs, Doctors Without Borders
Tachyon Hammer: Freakshow, UN Vangaurd, NATO Meta-Human Affairs, Russian Meta-Human Affairs
Mythus: Egyptian Government, Greek Government, Freedom Phalanx, Vindicators
Wahl: Arachnos, Rogue Isles Police, Paragon Police Department, FBI, Homeland Defense
Sergeant Longshot: US Department of Defense, US Army, NBC Warfare Division (US), NATO, Longbow
"If you build it, they will run you over with it."-RPG Designers Mantra
Working on: YotZ Legends: Even Heroes Die (First Round Edit)