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riverviewmod) wrote2017-02-19 07:12 pm
riverview: exploration
Exploration is an important part of the culture of Riverview Quarantine. With a population mostly comprised of pioneers and people seeking a new lease on life, there is definitely a big interest in branching out and rediscovering lost parts of the city or scouting out new places to expand to. Anyone is welcome to explore at any time, and to request a member of the Perimeter Guard to accompany them on the exploratory mission if they do not have a capable fighter on the team to protect the explorers.
At any given time, there will be several things going on either in the abandoned part of the city or outside the city walls that require investigation. Current missions can be found in the comments below.
● Each mission has a cause, an objective, and may have requirements for how many characters and what skillsets are needed to complete the task.
● Once you have chosen a mission you would like your character to complete, leave a comment on the mission to let the mod and other players know that the mission is in progress.
● Arrange your team, plan the mission, and thread it out.
● Once you have threaded at least to the point of reaching the objective, link the thread and give a quick summary of the mission outcome in a second comment and the mod will consider the mission complete. Each completed mission will be replaced with a new active mission.
● Each mission has many possible outcomes. Which outcome happens is completely up to the players involved. The only real limit is if you would like a mission to have a catastrophic outcome that would drastically affect the functioning of the game, in which case, please contact the mod first.
● All participants in the mission will receive the applicable Activity Point bonuses for the mission once they have submitted it to the Activity Bonus Rewards page.
Players are more than welcome to suggest or outline a mission of their own creation, for their own use or for others. Just fill out the info in the text box, post it in a reply to this entry and the mod will approve it or, if necessary, tweak it a little. Once approved, all of the above points can be followed as usual.
Follow-Up Mission: Fertile Ground
● Objective: To survey the area and ascertain how best to expand into it. This is a stealth mission, intended to avoid confrontation with the resident monsters as much as possible, but to find out where they live, breed, and more information about them. The goal is to figure out whether to exterminate or relocate the creatures.
● Dangers: The giant alien-hogs are the most prominent danger in this case, particularly as they have recently been aggravated by the first team, but there may be other monsters in the area.
● Requirements: One character who has experience with animals in any capacity, or who has an interest in animals and would be willing to take a one-day course on animal behaviors. At least two Perimeter Guard members or a character who is a skilled fighter for protection.
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I think it dovetails nicely into his ultimate job goal (Monster Advisor) and he also fills the requirement of experience with animals/behavior.
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Additionally there was this exchange to help tie both missions together.
What the team was able to discover is that these alien pig monsters are highly intelligent (a cross between a pig, elephant and dolphin level reasoning) and the reason they are so territorial over this area is because it's their graveyard. Kinda like elephants, the dying come here to die and the living come to mourn the loss to their family unit.
This explains two things:
The team would have returned, mostly intact (maybe some bumps and bruises) and the report submitted would have detailed the encounter, the findings about intelligence, and the discovery about it being a graveyard.
Will would have gone on the record to advise that while moving a graveyard is by no means an easy solution, eradicating the threat and digging up that graveyard to farm it seems unwise and cruel. Cruel because ... cruel and unwise because it's going to start a struggle between the denizens of the city and the native wildlife with no definite hope of prevailing.
He'd have advised they strike that area from the list of possibilities and start looking elsewhere; even if they have to go further from the city. It's easier to defend a convoy, than it is to fight against grief stricken family members; in his opinion.
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There will likely be a follow-up mission posted soon.