Subject: Say... I found this hat hear...
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Posted on: 2017-03-30 02:47:00 UTC
It apparently chooses Tributes for the next PPC Hunger Games. I would like to return it to their rightful owner, perhaps to use them for a new Hunger Games?
I guess I'm hosting; I'll work on that arena and start (probably with qualifiers) on Monday.
hS
While we wait for someone to volunteer to host this it's going to be me again isn't it?, this might be a good time to start the signups for Tributes.
I think my rules from last time were fairly uncontroversial: you can volunteer up to four of your own agents (ie, those for whom the writing rights are currently held by you), plus you can suggest as many of our NPC characters as you like, which can be used by the host to fill any gaps in the lineup.
The PPC Hunger Games run through this website, which takes the Tributes and shoves them through a brutal RNG until only one of them is still alive. In-universe, it's all taking place in a large holodeck - your agents will suffer, but take no lasting harm.
Last time I said Permission was required; this time I think we can dispense with that requirement, despite the broadcast being canonical. Consider it a weird sort of cowrite.
We've traditionally had pre-Games interviews with the tributes (just a quick spiel from them about why they're here), which are helpful for the host to get them in character; this would be a good time to write those, too.
hS
If you haven't got anyone of your own to volunteer (or if you already have), feel free to suggest some of our NPCs.
(For the record, we currently have 53 Tributes. We need at least 60 to play. I've got Lux and holographic Jay and Acacia tentatively listed already, but they're not fixed in stone.)
hS
Marina isn't coming close to the staff of these games any time soon, except if that's for signyfing them their displeasure, and I guess they're not dumb enough to give her a way to track them.
Buut, she could pressure politely ask her partner Richard Legard to go in the arena to get her more physical samples for tracking them. Only downside of the plan for Richard, beyond going through these Games again being missing Persona 5 Western launch the Games themselves.
In addition to the somewhat obvious Lux, I would like to see Agents Sean, Makes-Things, and Techno-Dann as tributes.
Agent Dann (he really is Dann, btw, no Techno-) is pretty much given to the community at this point. He's... really not me any more, and I doubt I'll ever return to writing him as a protagonist.
... but Makes-Things and the Witness (good grief) can definitely go in.
I don't know about Sean. So far as I know, the only person to even mention him since TOS ended is me, and that was retrospective. Would it be right to throw him in without intending to make full use of him?
hS
After all, better to try, fail, and get better than never do anything, no? Assuming I'm not too late, I volunteer agents Larkus and Curff.
Larkus
Hey, why not? I haven't had a good brawl since I left Coruscant. Champion of law and order I may be, but even I get days where I just wanna hit someone. And who knows? I might even win.
Curff
A battle royale, hm? Could be interesting. Certainly a more intriguing diversion than wandering these accursed grey halls. If nothing else it will be an opportunity to truly test the limits of my magic in this realm.
Because we really should get him and Theo into Rudi's together at some point.
Fell into HQ just a few weeks (or maybe months, still working on the exact timeline) after the war ended, in fact.
I take it from the reference to the Great Hunt that Theo is from the Great War or thereabouts?
And yes, we should. Though I can't help but wonder how well they'd get along. What with the Mandalorian clans' rocky relationship with the Republic and Larkus' own tense encounters with the GAR.
I volunteer Florestan, Eusabius, Anneli, and Cindy for the PPC Hunger Games! It's been a while since I've written anything for them, you know!
That is, C and Lu do. Well, okay, Steele drugged them and forced them into it. She has since completely revised her appearance. (For once, she does not look completely unusual. She disapproves of looking like a normal human.)
How should I do the interviews?
Oh. I should maybe mention Lu's... physical quirks.
She is seven feet tall with a prehensile tail which serves as a five-and-three-fourths-foot bludgeon. Her tongue is similarly prehensile, and able to extend maybe a foot out of her mouth. She also has three-inch claws instead of fingernails, natural armor on her arms, and a scaled lower body. Lu happens to be very, very, very good with a halberd.
On the other hand, it's not so easy for her to move quickly without her specially-made heels (about three inches high, but with a very specific shape). So without those, she's a lot less effective at staying alive. Feel free to deprive her of these at least once.
Let me know if there was anything else you needed from me!
Lu'ci'ten Gyrvain
I did what.
Please tell me that Steele at least had the decency to volunteer herself as well. I need to kill her and it would probably be better if her death were impermanent.
Calliope Istoría
Oh, this is going to be fun. I solemnly swear to not hold other Agents for resources - making me a whole lot kinder than most Abyss dwellers, let me tell you. No promises about power usage, though; I didn't mean to come here, and while the convincing process was certainly - enlightening - I don't feel like dying anytime soon.
Or rather, Kur'nak, Barid, Decima and Voltarmi are in. Voltarmi is in Gnome form, of course, and promises not to transform back to Dragon for the duration.
Interviews to come.
-Phobos
You're going to deny me a Kyaris-Suta-Voltarmi hydra-tyrannosaur-dragon fight? You have no soul.
hS
...never let it be said that I have no heart. Voltarmi will compete as a Dragon!
Am I not merciful?
-Phobos
The time I send in the kids, everyone else sends in the heavyweights.
Phobos sent a dragon, Skarm sent a dinosaur, I sent a chicken soup machine repairman and a birthday clown.
I'll be making a more detailed entry post in a bit, but Dee and Jack are totally in with the ego to try it themselves
I'm gonna toss one of my eventual agents into the mix. Evelyn Portia Juliana. She's a sister of battle, but without her armor or bolter, the she's only human.
"As long as I can get my hands on some fire, this will be the most fun I've had in months."
(I'm volunteering only three tributes this time around, instead of the four from last time. I'm doing things with my Floaters team that would be spoiled if any of them participated.)
Evangeline von Lilith: "For the record, I blame Pony Boy for this one."
Backslash: "If this is anything like what Whitney told me, I don't think I'm gonna be having a good time. I swear, if I die in the opening fight I'll never speak to her again..."
Cupid Carmine is also volunteering, but was unavailable for comment due to passing out on the Rudi's bar counter from one Bleeport too many.
Suta: "...Do I get to eat my enemies, at least? That'll be fun!"
(Because I figured a. a non-Action department member would be neat, b. Suta needed the screentime, and c. A FREAKING TYRANNOSAURUS REX IN THE TOURNEY. HOW COOL WOULD THAT BE?!)
... to cook the books to get a Suta-Kyaris faceoff, am I?
hS
The Aviator: "I have a daughter to look after, I can't take god knows how many days off to run around a holodeck and die again! No, no, no, no, no!"
Zeb: "Well... I guess it'll just be me this year, then."
If we're allowing more agents, I'd like to also volunteer a few hypothetical ones I've been working on:
Rhysaria and Rhyslea, a blood elf paladin and death knight respectively, identical twins, and partners in the DIA Patrol Division.
Dax, a changeling from D&D, Intelligence worker who gets along very with Jacques Bonnefoy and Luxury, if you know what I mean.
I assume this means Zeb isn't dragging Ave into the arena by force? ;)
Also, are you suggesting Lux (and Jacques? I don't remember if that's an NPC or not) for inclusion?
hS
Ave's staying out of this one, but she'll be cheering Zeb on from the sidelines. The last few years she was kinda pressured into playing, but she's got a kid to look after now...
Jacques (Jack Harkness replacement) is one of Zing's characters; I was including him and Lux as rough outlines of Dax's general personality. Lux as a tribute again would be great, though... :P
This being one of the Notary's plans, well...
The Notary: I AM NOT HAVING A VERY GOOD DAY.
Wobbles The Clown: It's weird. I'm going in this year because I want to make sure the Notary's okay, while last time I went in to watch her get hurt in hilarious and ironic ways. People change, I guess. Uh, heh, I mean, wowzers, gangeroos! Who's up for more capital-EFF-YOU-ENN FUUUUUUUUUUN! YAAAAAAY!
Gabrielle The Flareon: Dok said I shouldn't go in because he went in and a big human woman started, uh, well, I didn't exactly understand what he said because he started singing in a language I think he thinks is German, but he also said that he got beaten up and stabbed in the face a buncha times by someone who went psycho, and that it was too dangerous for me. And then I told him that I was in WhatThe. And then we watched the Percy Jackson movie on the big screen and that's why I want to hurt people now!
Albert Sproggins The NPC And Former Chicken Soup Machine Repairman: Hunger what?
I think I'll give my regular cast a break this time, but for lulz, I'll throw in Shimon and Caprice, who are respectively a male Nosgothic vampire of the Razielim clan and a female 20-something human of the pretty-average clan. If you have no idea who the heck these people are, that's because they've only appeared in this prompt piece, which I wrote on a dare as a challenge and posted anonymously to see what would happen. {= )
(Yeah, I'm pretty sure I wouldn't get away with a stunt like that these days...)
~Neshomeh
Caprice
Look out, PPC! I am here to kick butt and chew bubblegum, and I'm all outta bubblegum!
Shimon
I was told this is some sort of trial for determining rank among warriors. Naturally, with only mortals to stand against me, I shall easily triumph.
... What do you mean, a hydra, a dinosaur and a dragon? What is this "dinosaur"?
---
Meet the newbs!
Caprice
Don't get between this girl and her coffee. I have no idea what color her eyes are supposed to be, but I like it! I have a notion she's half Latina. Dunno, though; I'll have to play around with her a bit more.
Shimon
Left: PPC. Right: Pre-PPC.
Neither one of these is totally perfect. He lacks black fingernails in both. The anime one lacks a nice deep blue skin tone and appropriately fussy glasses, the ears are too short, and he shouldn't actually have slit pupils, IIRC. The fantasy one lacks wings(?!?), the mouth is too full (though the black color is good), and the face shape is too wide.
Between the two, though, there's a half-decent notion of how he ought to look.
Oh, also, meet Rinmaru Games' Mega Fantasy Avatar Creator! There are some pretty sweet options in there, but unfortunately, it's fairly useless if you want to make a buff, masculine-looking dude. Lucky for me, Shimon is not one of those. At all.
~Neshomeh
Ah, back in the old days of... four months ago... XD
hS
I tried guessing who you were!
It was very very very not-correct.
Except... not my main ones, this time. I want to introduce...
Team Misplaced Teenagers!
Keiko Turbo, Department of ERROR AGENT NOT IN DATABASE
*looks at her Remote Activator* OK, I'm starting to think that this think really is broken. I've just managed to portal myself into past HQ again, didn't I? And this time I've even managed to drag Shiro and Saki with me. I really hope Dad and Mom don't watch Nutmeg TV...
Shiro Turbo, Department of ERROR AGENT NOT IN DATABASE
So, Keiko messed up with the RA so bad that now we're in the past and everyone is mistaking me for my alternate self. And we somehow got enrolled in a computer simulated deathmatch.
*glances at Saki* She's gonna get killed again, isn't she?
Saki Cherryflower, Department of ERROR AGENT NOT IN DATABASE
Ok, aside from the fact that people keeps mistaking me for either Sakura or Nikki, this trip to the past has been great so far! And of course we're entering the Games, this is gonna be fun! Saki's ready and aiming for the top!
Ami Tanegashima, Department of ERROR AGENT NOT IN DATABASE
... I have no idea why I'm here. Actually, I'm not even sure what I am right now since I'm... well... supposed to be dead?... half ghost and half computer simulation, you say? I'm blaming Corolla for it.
(Ok, submitting Ami is actually sort of cheating as she isn't quite an Agent, but she's a character of mine, featured in a mission, and has been a coworker of one of my main agents so...)
Agent Matthew Welch, DMS
BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD THRONE! SKULLS FOR THE SKULL GOD!
...That was correct way of saying that, right?
Agent Ellie Davis, DoSAT-T&A
Ooh are doing this? Great! Let me get some things!
*Ellie proceeds to grab several various spare parts off of nearby shelves at a breakneck pace, none of which looks like it could do much damage. Though knowing Ellie, she could probably jury rig a mechanical dragon with enough Duct-tape*
Agent Ajax, DMS
I got pretty close to winning last time, let's see if we can't do it again.
Agent Levy, DF-ESAS
Well this is going to be fun, hope I don't bleed out again.
((For reference, Ellie and Levy))
Apollo: "Again? Yeah, this was fun last year. Want to try and last longer obviously, but Kelly, Theo, Kaatah and I are holding our own small competition to see who can kill the most as well. I'd die early if it meant I won that. Just give me a bow and arrows dear sponsors, I hate using hatchets."
Kelly: "Well of course I'm entering, everyone else is and of course I'm going to try and beat them all, Apollo is talking these weird tactics stuff, Theo is saying about Mandalorian honour and whatever else it is he talks about from his home 'verse in a lot more detail and Kaatah is worrying about puncturing her suit. Me? I just want to support other people and win.
Theo: "Now this should be introduced to the Mandalorians! Not as much fun as the Grand Hunt I'd wager, but it's still going to be a lot of fun. I imagine even Torian would love this. It reminds me of the time when Blizz, Mako and I had to fight in an arena on Hoth for these pirates. THAT was fun, never fried someone with my flamethrower whilst encasing them in carbonite before that. You NEED to try it."
Kaatah: "I don't actually remember volunteering, but there we go. I was probably Theo who did it for me. Not that I mind, I mean so long as my suit doesn't puncture, or I have to survive on what you humans call 'normal' food, or I have to handle anything that isn't a clean environment... Quarians weren't built for this. Krogans would call this fun... I wonder what would happen if the Krogan and the Mandalorians met..."
Alleb
Finally, some solid training! Even with the wonders of Medical at our beck and call, most agents hesitate to throw themselves into a match. I have seen only one so far--oh, is Sir Yocherry participating in this? Wonderful! I must seek him out in the arena and challenge him once more!
Jesse
Well, Alleb got all excited 'bout it, and I figure when I die horribly in there, the pity'll keep 'er from tryin' to get me to spar with 'er for a week, at least.
Errant
Ha, Catcher doesn't know I entered too! Hehehe! He'll be so surprised when I see him, and then he'll probably yell at me, and then he'll grumble about "batty nuggets," whatever those are, and glare at me. I hope he doesn't shoot me; I heard there were no respawns in this. Not even restricted respawning, like with boss fights. It's gonna be awesome!
((Errant and Larfen's Eneverated Rat-Catcher are, if anyone is confused, partners.
-Alleb))
Yocherry
The glory of the battle, boss! The rush! The blood! The sweat! Getten beaten half-conscious with the bloodied handle of a laser rifle that's had all it's charges emptied into your own charred chest, and you get a lucky grab and toss them to the ground and bash them into submission against a rock while one've their hardened mates goes white and faints for the first time in their life! That's the stuff, boss. That's the stuff.
Lou and Duane
Duane keeps groaning about me dying and being killed and getting stabbed. Gosh! I don't want to brag, but I think I'm a better cook than that!
The Enervated Rat-Catcher
I ain't found no huntable rats in HQ, yet, and I figure, other agents ain't that many steps off that. Reckon I can just picture 'em wif all mucky hair and naked tails and little twitchin noses, all just waitin to be shot. Might get to sleep in there, too! Only fing that'll disturb me'll be the sounds of myself gettin killed by someone else, and that's the longest sleep of 'em all, so I win anyway, I figure.
((HOOOH, I'm excited!
I'll warn, just in case - I won't be available for the first few bits of next week. A couple days, really. But if things happen and I don't respond, well, there it is.))
but I'd say it'd be best to count them as one.
Lou is a woman and Duane is a rock she carries which she is very certain is sapient. They're in the most recent RP on the T-Board, if you need specifics. Pardon for that mix-up!
Apecian
Why? The second I heard, it sounded like a blast! Well, okay, after I looked up what the Hunger Games are. But, anyways, it's a chance to go up against other Agents and really cut loose and get a fun fight! What's not to love? ... Wait. You mean I'm not gonna get my regen or my Growth? Aaah, Truth.
Michael
It seems like an excellent exercise in the stealth required on the majority of missions. I also need to keep an eye on my partner. I heard about what these Games did to some of the participants in the last round, and I believe it would be best if that did not happen to him. ... Admittedly, there may be a slight inclination on my part to demonstrate the worth of knowledge as a tool on the field of combat. However, if there is, it is my tertiary concern.
((If Apecian gets blown up or skewered or something day one, I am absolutely blaming it on him forgetting that he only has one death in these games.))
Apecian
Huh? A message? Alright, let me see it... WHOO! I GET 'EM BACK! Awesome! I am gonna crush it in there!
((Hey, I figured if we have a dragon running around, I'll give him his powers back. I have no idea if it actually matters, but hey, might as well give him what he wants. I also ought to mention, if he's allowed to take anything in, Michael will have magic glasses.))
Or... I guess if he has a close scrape you can interview-cast it as him taking an extra life or... whatever it is he does?
But if the game says he dies, he dies.
hS
But heck, there's a freaking dragon. I know it has literally no impact on game-play, but hey, why not?
Dafydd Illian
Funny story - I was talking to Undis Closed the other day about the second series of Ardolindi, and he just happened to mention that a new season of the Hunger Games was in the works. And then he just happened to mention that he wanted me to be in it again. And then he just happened to insist. So here I am.
Morgan
What can I say? There's just something about having a chance to wreak havoc that appeals to me. Hopefully I can come slightly higher up the charts this time.
Kaitlyn
Eee! This was so much fun last time! I can't wait to see what happens. I wonder where we'll be fighting?
Kyaris
I didn't actually particularly want to do this, but apparently it's traditional for the reigning champion to take part. I'm pretty sure that's not how the books went, but... well, it beats a week in the Sorting Room.
hS
... I'll withdraw Dafydd as tribute to make him presenter instead. Might come up with a new fourth if... I do? I'unno.
hS
Right, I've spoken with Huinesoron, and while I can't host these games, I am going to be running another round in the autumn. I'll have more closer to the time, but I'm honoured to have the chance to host a community event such as this.
... that DrGonzo can't host these games because they won't have time until the summer, not because Huinesoron Hath Said So. :)
hS
Well, I'd be perfectly happy to host, if you guys don't mind.
Have you read the reports from Season 3 and Season 4? And have you seen the website we've been using? I don't have the link to hand; it's somewhere in the archives.
If you drop me an email at the address I list here we can discuss the arena. Or not if you'd rather put something together yourself, of course. :)
hS
I'll host if no-one else wants to, but if someone does, go for it! I know I had a lot of fun, and I'm sure Sergio and Iximaz did for #3 and #2. It is a fair amount of work, though.
If someone else does want to pick up the mike, I'll offer to put together a custom arena along the lines of last season's (which was in HQ - obviously we're not going back there, right?). I'll consult with whoever does it to try and transform their ideas into a working setup.
hS
