Week 2 Exploration Sign-Up.

[powersthatbe]

As your characters search the island for clues and the means to survive, please comment under the toplevels below to indicate which square you're exploring. In the body of your comment, please list any relevant skills or abilities that will help you search faster, more accurately, or more thoroughly, such as Control Panel, Questing Sense, Survivalism, etc.



A, B, D, & E are fully explored. That leaves I, J, K, & F immediately accessible, with some exploration already done in F and J. C & G are accessible by anyone using air or water travel.

TOPLEVELS WILL GO UP TOMORROW FOR SIGN-UP (once I know what percentage of F & J are explored).

Comments

Questions

[powersthatare]

(now where they are supposed to be)

[comebewe]

I imagine the answer is 'no', but checking just in case - in 'E', would there be anything active or still running in the suburbs there?

[powersthatare]

Not active and running, but some homes with backup generators in sheltered areas might be able to have power RESTORED to them.

[itsananimalthing]

Okiedoke, questions time! Riddick has obviously been here before. Is it all familiar? Has anything changed besides the fire damage and plant growth, like are there different buildings/houses/etc? Will he be able to find houses/businesses owned by people he remembers? Both travelers and NPCs.

Second, he will also be spending a small chunk of time a day, mostly at night, doing memory reconstruction of the place and people that had been in it, looking for clues, and then following them the next day with or without his tagalongs. (As well as trying to use some of those memories to jump-start prior Jaunt memories, if possible). (Forgot to put the actual quesiton here, bah) Anything likely to come of that?

Finally, questing sense. Anything pinging this week?

[powersthatbe]

Yes it's familiar, as recognized, buildings basically the same except for the damage.

He could get some more memories of Travelers Long Past (both actual PCs & not, such as Xavin, Spock, & Sherlock Holmes), and at least some of them would be set on a rainy island with a modern city, cobbled streets, white uniforms, and British accents - clearly not THIS island.

[capital_asset]

Would an Inspect spell from one of Raidou's Volt demons highlight any oddities/items on the rocks or sandbars in A and A'? For that matter, are there any weird trinkets, important or otherwise, scattered around that a bored demon might notice?

C

[powersthatare]

F

[powersthatare]

I

[powersthatare]

[itsananimalthing]

Riddick's squad (Riddick, Jules, Matthew, By, and River I think) are going here, aiming for the hospital, but Riddick is being fairly careful about exploring a lot, just in case there's something to see beyond where QS is leading him.

ETA: Skills! Riddick is... well, Riddick. super observant, and has been here before, plus he has control panel and a literal shoulder demon. and questing sense, obviously.

[comebewe]

Matthew is indeed also here! If there are any urban systems still active, Matthew's magic might be able to pick up on it.

Also, I'm hoping for him to use his No Distinction plot skill to talk to the dead here (most likely in the hospital, unless there's somewhere else that looks like an obvious candidate). Since I imagine there's no recent dead, he'd be using the "talk to the generations dead" ritual.

Re: I

[flumine]

River is here as well!

She'll be using her vision-calling from her Witchcraft skill to try to draw forth some information on what caused all the people to go away, because apparently I can't put her in an abandoned city without courting trauma.

[failgoyle]

Jules is going here with his group and doing everything in his power to try to figure something out with the computers he can find. Five dots in computers, don't fail him now.

He will also try to climb to the highest possible point in the area to get a good look around.

Re: I

[bypartisan]

Byerly is still with Ridick's squad! He's got Interface and also not-waterbending, which might or might not help with the part of the area that's underwater.

J

[powersthatare]

[runawaystory]

Rosalie will be putting her exploradora point here!

Relevant skills: Synthetic form would allow her to search more systematically, accurately, and attentively. Enhanced strength and durability would probably help her too, especially when it comes to getting through difficult terrain (i.e. it's impervious to stinging plants that she might avoid if she stayed human).

Also she's a vet who was in Belljar Island last time, so idk maybe having some pre-existing knowledge of downtown, however rusty, might help her search more efficiently.

[senpaidol]

If this still needed two people to search it solidly, Rise's up for the second. She can use her Persona to detect Enemies and Items of interest, and Interface would probably be extra useful for her and Rosalie to team up seeing as they both have Synthetic Forms and could presumably share data more efficiently.

K

[powersthatare]

[final_summoner]

Yuna and more of the Teen JRPG Squad will be checkin' out K!

[ringslinging]

Going here and making sure the teen squad doesn't get eaten by anything, natch.

[satonthewall]

To recap, the rest of teen JRPG squad is Elliot, Sorey, Mikleo, Ed, and Winry. \o/

G

[powersthatare]

Anywhere Else

[powersthatare]

P

[capital_asset]

Raidou's Questing Sense is taking him to the warehouses in sector P.

Relevant skills: Great Kohryu. Anyone want to hitch a ride on a giant talking dragon?

Besides that, he's got both Sensory and Somatic Conditioning to enhance his senses/strength, his wraithwolf abilities (animal communication may or may not be useful here, depending on how many feral animals are hanging around and how talkative or knowledgeable they may be), and a combo of Perfect Recall, Advanced Mnemonics, and Sensory Livestreaming, if it becomes necessary to pass along something he sees. And if there's anything supernatural at all, he can see it/talk to it/fight it as needs dictate.

His demons can set things on fire, freeze things, light up dark areas, cast a spell that illuminates items that may be important, and hit obstacles until they move and/or break; Moh Shuvuu can also scout for potential hazards, but she has a tendency to get lost. In addition, Inugami has a battery of healing spells, and I think Jack Frost has Finders Keepers, which lets him find random trinkets that may or may not actually be useful.

Q

[neverfeltthatway]

Imriel and Melissa, at least, will be going up into the mountains in Q.