The Time Trapper, the being responsible for bringing people into the Legion's universe, is up to some strange tricks! It's now creating illusions of alternate universes and dumping the Legionnaires into them to try to test them as Legionnaires. Each time this happens, the captives -- er, participants have knowledge of the scenario, their role, and what they're supposed to accomplish planted into their heads, but still remember who they once were.
To complicate things, the Legionnaires from the 31st century aren't the only ones pulled into this adventure. Strange people from many worlds are being yanked in and finding themselves thrust right into the heart of these conflicts.
These universes are technically just illusions (probably!) and all the participants have an inherent knowledge of this placed in their heads, but it's up to them if they believe it -- and the danger is real. If you die in one of these scenarios you stay dead. This time everyone is being dumped into a scenario where they're dealing with...
ROBOZOMBIES
THE SETTING
In the game universe, the Legionnaires are currently facing a nanovirus plague released by two Coluan villains descended from the supergenius Brainiac family line. The techno-organic nano-virus released by the Brainiacs converts organic life to mindless zombie robots that are part of a collective completely dedicated to consuming and converting every organic in the United Planets. After the UP is assimilated and roboticized, the Brainiacs plan to start destroying and reconstructing the multiverse in their image.
The planet they've chosen to start the epidemic on? Their native planet of Colu, of course.
The pocket universe the Time Trapper has created is a mirror image of the threat in the game universe, causing newcomers and Legionnaires to face the worst scenario possible -- one where the battle has already been nearly lost.
While it's possible that the civilians in this scenario aren't real, there's no way to be 100% sure. What your character can be sure of is that if they are real, they need their help.
(Based on player preference, for the purposes of the meme, characters can either lose powers, retain their canon powers, or find themselves with new powers. It's up to you.)
ZOMBIE MECHANICS
The robo-zombies the Legion is fighting against are a formidable threat. The nanovirus spreads through simple skin contact and converts organic life to inorganic life. Each zombie only has very small bits of organic material left.
The robo-zombies can run at fast speeds, form sharp claws and teeth, and use swarm tactics to overwhelm their prey and infect them. It takes considerable effort to completely destroy them. If a single nanite survives with an individual robo-zombie's coding, they can rebuild themselves, including their organic parts. However heavy damage that requires them to reform or head shots that damage their cortical processors can slow them down.
All characters, including newcomers, will find themselves equipped with the Legion's protective transuits. While these clear life support suits can provide some protection, they can still tear or be punctured with enough pressure, making it so that Legionnaires can be infected if this artificial "skin" is broken by teeth or claws, much like in normal zombie media. When someone is exposed, conversion usually happens within less than a minute and the resulting drone is largely amnesiac and incapable of free will. Sometimes if infection is on an extremity, it can take longer to convert the victim's whole body.
SCENARIO A: EVACUATIONS
Colu is one of the most densely populated worlds in the UP, with its inhabitants crowded together in sprawling Mega-cities. These urban centers are filled with massive habitation towers and underground complexes, all interconnected. While this means that most Coluans have exit points to run through, it's extremely difficult to block the spread of the zombies. This means that the defenses of the Coluan home defense forces, battle drones, are becoming quickly overwhelmed.
All off-world travel has been blocked, whether it's by threshold gate or by ship, but there still are defended refugee zones. Your characters must help evacuate Coluans to these safe zones or to drop ships that can relocate them to them, and fight against the spread of the robo-zombies.
Legionnaires can help defend Coluans evacuating from certain sectors, attack robozombie barricades to free trapped clusters of citizens, and defend refugee evac points to help Coluans escape to safer areas, so they're not added to the robo-zombie collective.
SCENARIO B: PROTECTION
Some vital targets on Colu need ongoing protection. Various labs and weapons depots need to be defended so dangerous technology and weapons don't get assimilated and taken by the robo-zombies. This includes dangerous, contagious diseases being researched in the CCFD (the Coluan Centers for Disease Control) and caches of chemical and bioweapons.
SCENARIO C: RETRIEVAL
In areas that are already over-run, useful technology (like types of nanotech) can potentially be retrieved to use against the robo-zombie forces. Extraction teams will need to attempt to fight their way into labs that are deep in robo-zombie territory to break into these secure facilities, obtain the tech, and survive the trek back from beyond enemy lines.
This tech is vitally important as it may potentially allow the Legion to develop better offensive weaponry against the robozombies, better defensive measures, or even find a cure for the nanovirus.
Legionnaires might also want to scavenge for food and water, and look through overtaken hospitals to steal medical supplies and equipment for the people who have been injured without being infected in all the chaos. Colu's reliance on nanotech surgeons and surgical robots mean surgeons are few and far between, and support from the rest of the UP is limited due to the Brainiacs' interference.
SCENARIO D: THE LAST FLOOB COLA
Not every place on Colu is overrun, however. In some areas the hordes are thin, or blocked off due to barricades. Scavengers and survivors may perhaps have a quiet moment sharing the last Floob Cola on Colu with whoever they've come across.
Or they might find themselves facing scared Coluan mobs trying to steal their supplies. Unfortunately, even the most civilized species can be reduced to fear and violence, if desperate enough.
SCENARIO E: WILDCARD
Feel free to make entirely new zombie scenarios up! The scenario can be as flexible as you need it to be.
OOC INFO
✦ Current players in game can jump into this and do starters if they like so they can play with new players and each other. This meme will count as part of the game canon for those that opt in, though they'll find their memories somewhat fuzzy afterward. These threads can count toward your AC, however the "new CR" credit cannot be applied since not every character joining in is guaranteed to join the game. This takes place just during "Resistance is Futile" and "An Eye For An Eye." Those participating in "Resistance Is Futile" will be able to tell that this version of Colu looks different from the one they're currently defending in game, and hear the Time Trapper's explanation of the situatiobn in their heads.
✦ Potential players can use this as a standard test drive and may use these threads as their log samples. However, at least one post in their thread must fit the requirements for apps, both in length (200 words) and in quality. If you do plan on using a thread as a sample, please make sure the writing throughout your threads is a good example of your writing skills and has some solid examples of the character's voice.
✦ Potential players can also opt to keep these threads as game canon when they app in, so that their character remembers the scenario and then suddenly finds themselves in the game universe. However, this is opt in and players can choose to introduce their characters fresh if they'd prefer that and no other characters will remember they were there. Please just note which you'd like in the additional info field on your app.
✦ If you are considering apping to the game, currently 16 of 45 player slots are available. The character limit is 4 characters per player. The game is set to hit endgame in February or March of 2018, however apps will be open all the way up until endgame.
✦ Non-players who like the meme but aren't really considering apping to the game are free to jump in. The more the merrier! The Time Trapper wants a confusing situation and will enjoy the chaos of lots of strange people trying to figure out what's going on. |
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legionclubhouse2017-08-23 03:24 am
Re: Jaune Arc | RWBY
"So, I set up some motion triggered web grenades just outside the bottleneck...look at me, using bottleneck like I have any kind of experience with an actual zombie epidemic..." Peter babbles, slight panicked himself. When he'd become a superhero, especially after the thing in Germany, he'd been prepared for certain things to potentially happen. Being kidnapped to another planet to fight off the cyborg zombie apocalypse was oddly enough, not one of them. He and Ned had worked out something of a plan in the pre-Spider-Man days, but it hadn't been a very serious one.
"...anyways," He says, finally getting himself back on track,"like I said, I set up some web grenades. It should slow them down, and cut down their numbers to something more manageable. Hopefully, anyways. I kinda can't make any promises. This isn't really what I was expecting to deal with when I woke up this morning, y'know?"
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"K-kinda new on me to," Jaune says, through nervous laughter. His usual enemies involved mosters drawn by fear and other negative emotions. And they were usually a lot bigger to. But faced with Zombies, was it possible to miss the creatures of Grimm? Jaune wasn't sure if he wanted an answer. He takes a breath, trying to steady himself.
Tactics, Jaune, tactics.
"Bottleneck and slowing them down is good. We're at a place where we can keep them from swarming us but it's still going to be tough. You can keep an eye up from above right? Got anything else?"
X-ray laser blasts? Slow-mo hands? He's got an X-Ray and Vav look going after all.
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Suddenly the lenses on Peter's mask contract to glowing red pinpoints.
"No. Nonononono. Karen, if I wanted Instant-Kill mode I'd ask for Instant-Kill mode. And I'm never going to ask for Instant-Kill mode so I don't know why you keep offering it. And now this guy probably thinks I'm crazy and taking to myself." Peter pauses, as if someone else is talking. "No, it's fine, it's cool. Just shut it off. And please don't turn it on again."
"Sorry about that," he says, after the masks eyes return to normal. "The AI in here is just...kind of a little trigger-happy sometimes? Nothing to worry about."
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He gives his head a shake though, recovering enough to figure out how best to use all those things, even if most of it went over his head and he's working on assumptions. There's not a lot of time to ask for a full explanation after all.
"Touch, huh? I don't really have a lot of long distance attacks, so that puts me at a disadvantage, but if you can trip them up with the webs, I can probably cut them down."
He can launch his shield, but that's not going to do much here. But that sounds like something of a plan. Jaune will just have to trust to his own reflexes after that. And they are better.
"And you're sure it's not going to go off again?'