[Seasons] De-hibernation Plot Brainstorming Post!

[sangreine]

Hey EllipsaFam!

For those not aware, Saya has approximately a year until her 30 year hibernation starts, after which she'll have total amnesia. Obviously, this sucks. She'd like to not do that anymore. That's where you come in! I'll be doing a longer term plot to help get rid of Saya's hibernation-amnesia cycle, which will involve several characters and their powers/abilities as well as several failures before succeeding. The mods have said I can plot out what I want to do so that's what we're doing here. I want to involve as many characters as would like to be involved, so let's plot some shit!

Be aware that anything we plot is subject to mod approval so things might have to get tweaked some.

Here's what I want to do:


Part 1: FETCH QUESTS
I want to do several quests (as many as are interesting and people want to do!) where Saya + whoever all go out and get ~rare magic items~ (which we can make up as long as the mods approve it!) that can be used to help fix her hibernation problem. These should be difficult to get for maximum fun. Here's what I want to know from you:

+ What powers and abilities does your character have that can be used for a cool fetch quest? (ie, can they breathe underwater? Can they enhance the magic inside things? Whatever you think would be fun!)
+ Do you have any ideas for magical things that could stop a hibernation or allow someone to keep their memories that sound sufficiently awesome to find and collect?
+ CLICK HERE to leave a comment for fetch quest plotting!


Part 2: We're doing MAGIC-SCIENCE, BABY!
Saya will want to involve the Research Center and also anyone who has experience with science or magic to help tweak her body so she has no more need to hibernate. DNA experts and scientists of all kids are welcome, as well as anyone who has powers or abilities that you want to play with! I'm totally open to creativity here. But be aware that there will be at least two failures before success. The Nintendo Three, if you will. If you want to participate in this part your character has to be open to trying again even after there are some Consequences for Saya after attempts which don't work.

+ What Sciencey Stuff your character can do that we could use for this?
+ What materials from either Saya (blood and tissue samples) or from fetch quests would be necessary and/or cool to use for this?
+ CLICK HERE to leave a comment for science plotting!


Part 3: MURDER FRIENDS and other consequences
Saya has a berserker mode that she will be worried about activating with the cure attempts. (I haven't decided whether that will happen or not.) ICly she will want Badass people present when they attempt the hibernation fixes, just in case she goes out of control and needs to be contained. These people will need to be prepared to kill her if necessary and she will make that clear.

Failure consequences I am considering:
+ Saya goes to sleep for a short while and wakes up with amnesia, which she recovers from in a couple of days
+ Extreme Bloodthirst for a day or two
+ Weakness and general loss of her abilities for a little bit, which makes her need constant touch
+ MAYBE berserker mode?! Depends what people want to mess with.
+ CLICK HERE to be involved in any of these!!

THANKS FRIENDS! Looking forward to running this plot ♥

Comments

SCIENCE-MAGIC PLOTTING

[sangreine]

Fill this out for brainy characters:

<b>Your name:</b> <b>Character name:</b> <b>Science-Magic abilities:</b> <b>Materials from fetch quests you'd need/want/could be cool:</b> <b>Are you okay with several failed attempts before success:</b>

[kingside]

Your name: lina
Character name: Lelouch vi Britannia
Science-Magic abilities: GEASS MAGIC, pretty good physics and chemistry knowledge??
Materials from fetch quests you'd need/want/could be cool: ............ can I get back to you on this.
Are you okay with several failed attempts before success: Yes. Please note that he will probably only become more determined with each failed attempt.

also still up for geass tranq standby

[sangreine]

YOU CAN GET BACK TO ME ABSOLUTELY. Take your time. I'll be reminding people periodically to get input as we get closer to a concrete plan.

[kingside]

WHAT EVEN ARE THE POTENTIAL FETCH QUEST MATERIALS
should we do shrooms
can we shroom saya out of snoozefest
does you need some MESCALINE girl let us know

[sangreine]

LMAO I was thinking of a shroom based thing actually! Not because I'm obsessed with The Last Of Us shhhh.

Possibly it could be the psychedelics that cause her to go berserker /thinky face

[kingside]

God I should actually play that game with how much attention it's getting lately. That said, should drag in Tighnari somehow if mushrooms, I say as someone who barely knows the player but plays too much Genshin to be healthy

Man there are so many routes for berserker. That said, you have option of murder to end berserk + Geass tranq + hey maybe even mushrooms to CANCEL berserk. The sky's the limit

[sangreine]

Yuri's gonna kill her, this has been decided (but like she'll have killed him first so only fair, thanks Knives!)

[kingside]

ye I mean that like, there could be several attempts that result in her going berserk with one resulting in murder and the other being geass tranq

[sangreine]

Fun as that would be for me, I think once is all I can pull her back from. It's her worst nightmare. If it happens more than once she won't want to continue and I doubt anyone will be able to convince her otherwise. She's a fragile little thing in some ways.

I FORGOT we can and will do multiple thread-timelines so one berserker occasion we can get both murder AND geass tranq!

[kingside]

THIS IS FAIR i don't know IT IS YOUR SHOW am just an audience participant

[sangreine]

Not at all! I want everyone to participate to the extent they want to participate. It's for Saya's long term goals but I want everyone to have the chance to enjoy it and get their own stuff in!

As long as we can do it and make her still playable by the end of it, I'll make it happen.

[kingside]

WELL. THINGS. I DON'T KNOW i just like helping so let me know how do thing

[unnecessaryflourishes]

Your name: Sceadu
Character name: Emet-Selch
Science-Magic abilities: has spent significant amounts of time heavily involved in high-tech Empires and has had a hand in both of them coming to be the powers they are/were - magitek is more recent, the one further in the past was a little future into the Weird Bioscience but also basically had computers and holographic displays alongside various warmachina. On top of that he's also a ~sorcerer of eld~ and has been noted to be one of the most powerful mages of his era, to the point he. literally recreated a whole city using magic.
Materials from fetch quests you'd need/want/could be cool: Uhhhh I'd be down for it, but also he can literally create things with magic so. It'd have to be something fairly specialized or something he has seen enough to be able to recreate it.
Are you okay with several failed attempts before success: Sure! But he is stubborn as fuck when he wants to be.

[sangreine]

I'm here for this! Can he use magic to like combine things once they're gathered from the Segments, or make something *very similar* to a thing they gathered if the thing itself is used up or doesn't work exactly right and they need a tweak?

[unnecessaryflourishes]

He'd be better at recreating things that have been gathered plus alterations! Like... he wouldn't be able to combine two different metals sight unseen and come up with a perfect alloy? Not with magic anyway. But he does have the technical know how that goes into things like "how to make giant war-machines" as well, if it turns out he needs to do something a little more engineer-y

[sangreine]

Yeah, I mean after they've been gathered and he got to examine them and work with them and all that. Not sight unseen.

[unnecessaryflourishes]

He'd probably need to at least to attempt making what they were looking for first? Creation magic seems to work on "you need to know what you're after" logic - and is canonically requires enough conscious focus that even a moment's slip can change the outcome. A horse becoming a griffin because someone spotted a bird flying over head, for example.

[sangreine]

That makes sense! I mean why would they need anything tweaked or recreated on the first attempt, it would be after the first attempt didn't work that they might need stuff remade and/or changed a little. They'll just use all the gathered McGuffins from the Segments to make an elixir or infusion the first time, then after that fails we could use some help with the creation stuff.

[unnecessaryflourishes]

Sounds good to me! And he can help theorize/science for the first round too.

Re: SCIENCE-MAGIC PLOTTING

[forgingfires]

Your name: Sair
Character name: Red Son
Science-Magic abilities: Four hundred years of magic training, and like a century of mechanical engineering when mortals were getting Interesting. Current canon tech level is Slightly Futuristic where there's hoverbikes, anti-gravity, and like nanomachine changing clothes, but its not so far as to make normal combustion engine vehicles obsolete.
Red Son specifically knows how to combine magic and technology, largely letting machines get powered through magical means and to help create an AI for his robot army, so there is some knowledge and magic to help retain mental faculties. (Though the robots are not particularly SMART, but they're also mass produced so like differences of level.)
Materials from fetch quests you'd need/want/could be cool: Magic stuff would be more natural items, though anything to help fuse things, like a special furnace could also be good.
Are you okay with several failed attempts before success: Yes. To a neurotic extent. Red Son is so used to his successes being immediately dismissed that he just expects multiple failures before he finally gets a success because he's secretly convinced he's a failure. Gotta keep trying or it'll never change!

[nihilmancy]

Your name: Ava
Character name: Hlasoh
Science-Magic abilities: An educated person from an advanced sci-fi setting, though her medical and biological knowledge is rudimentary, she has a solid knowledge of physics, chemistry, and engineering. Her telepathy and ability to identify ~supernatural energies~ might be helpful in diagnosing the particular problems. A diligent and intelligent researcher and problem solver.
Materials from fetch quests you'd need/want/could be cool: idk???
Are you okay with several failed attempts before success: Yes.

[mysophobic]

Your name: Levy!
Character name: Shigeru Miyata!
Science-Magic abilities: He can destroy and recreate things at a subatomic level. So genetic things, cancers, and any type of disease he can cure!
Materials from fetch quests you'd need/want/could be cool: Since it's all based on his powers he doesn't really need anything to perform this. :c
Are you okay with several failed attempts before success: I'm cool with this!

[recidivate]

Your name: KJ
Character name: Ryo Asuka
Science-Magic abilities: High Key genius who studied multiple sciences, plus like...he's Satan.
Materials from fetch quests you'd need/want/could be cool: He'd want samples from her, and various plants with magical properties. See how things react neatly!
Are you okay with several failed attempts before success: He'd find failure far more interesting, so yes.