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ANTARCTIC CIRCLE - JUNE EVENT
ANTARCTIC CIRCLE
Monsters are nothing new to this world. While they were thought to be nothing more than legend in the pre-confluence days, the first modern kaijuu attack was recorded in 1954.
Everything people knew to be true was challanged time and time again, but it has been decades since a threat showed itself. The Guild System has kept things manageable, peaceful even. It has afforded metahumans a sense of peace and a place of belonging in a world that once viewed them as disruptive and dangerous.
And so when the reports begin trickling in about a threat manifesting at the South Pole, the senior most members of both guilds head out under cover of night. They're certain they can deal with this quickly and quietly, without placing the burden on the new metas who never asked to be brought to this world.
But when they return at dawn, battered, broken and near dead - the decision is pulled from their hands. The usual theatrics of the guilds are pulled aside as the government officials muscle their way in, taking control of the Alliance command center. Within less than an hour the message is splashed across every screen, interrupting whatever people may have been doing prior.
EMERGENCY GODFALL PROTOCOLS ARE ACTIVE.
ALL ABLE BODIED METAHUMANS ARE EXPECTED TO REPORT INAT ALLIANCE HQ REGARDLESS OF ALLEGIANCE. THIS IS NOT A DRILL. THIS IS A COSMIC LEVEL THREAT.
WITHOUT INTERVENTION IT WILL BEGIN AT T-MINUS 72 HOURS.
Everything people knew to be true was challanged time and time again, but it has been decades since a threat showed itself. The Guild System has kept things manageable, peaceful even. It has afforded metahumans a sense of peace and a place of belonging in a world that once viewed them as disruptive and dangerous.
And so when the reports begin trickling in about a threat manifesting at the South Pole, the senior most members of both guilds head out under cover of night. They're certain they can deal with this quickly and quietly, without placing the burden on the new metas who never asked to be brought to this world.
But when they return at dawn, battered, broken and near dead - the decision is pulled from their hands. The usual theatrics of the guilds are pulled aside as the government officials muscle their way in, taking control of the Alliance command center. Within less than an hour the message is splashed across every screen, interrupting whatever people may have been doing prior.
ALL ABLE BODIED METAHUMANS ARE EXPECTED TO REPORT INAT ALLIANCE HQ REGARDLESS OF ALLEGIANCE. THIS IS NOT A DRILL. THIS IS A COSMIC LEVEL THREAT.
WITHOUT INTERVENTION IT WILL BEGIN AT T-MINUS 72 HOURS.
STRATEGY MEETING—
You’ll find no one is forcing you to attend this strategy meeting… but most of the metahumans gathered here don’t appear to have any real power to speak of. Many of them are scared civilians. One can levitate rocks, another sneezes fire. All the major guild members are in critical condition, but most are expected to pull through.
They won’t say who isn’t.
The only person left in any kind of condition to help is Chaos Gate, who holds out her arm to display the reason why: one of the Sunset Falls blossoms has bonded to her. And though she’s singed and had been exposed to risky levels of cosmic radiation, the flower itself is fine. The intel the guild leaders brought back is enough to form a plan.
The entity is from another dimension, as is the flower. And so it stands to reason that people from other dimensions would be likewise immune. Even if they aren’t, upgrading existing anti-kaijuu weaponry is their best shot at stopping the threat in its tracks.
Any metahuman who is technologically inclined is called in to lend their skills to adapting the existing anti-kaijuu technology. This is your chance to shine if you’re not much of a fighter. You have twenty-four hours to get these machines ready for combat.
They give you the rundown of the technology that powers the robots. Multiple minds working in sync, meta-energies syncing up to replicate your existing power set on a massive scale. However, as they're powered by metahuman energy, doing this for an extended period of time will be incredibly draining, so it’s recommended for each robot to have a dedicated team of pilots to trade duties. At minimum, two people are required to operate each robot.
Additionally, memory-sharing is a known side-effect of this technology. It’s strongly recommended that no two pilots during active combat be from the same world - better still if you’re complete strangers - as its possible to completely lose yourself in these memories.
You can use this time to find partners or teams - and maybe stake a claim on the coolest-looking robot, if you feel like it.
They won’t say who isn’t.
The only person left in any kind of condition to help is Chaos Gate, who holds out her arm to display the reason why: one of the Sunset Falls blossoms has bonded to her. And though she’s singed and had been exposed to risky levels of cosmic radiation, the flower itself is fine. The intel the guild leaders brought back is enough to form a plan.
The entity is from another dimension, as is the flower. And so it stands to reason that people from other dimensions would be likewise immune. Even if they aren’t, upgrading existing anti-kaijuu weaponry is their best shot at stopping the threat in its tracks.
Any metahuman who is technologically inclined is called in to lend their skills to adapting the existing anti-kaijuu technology. This is your chance to shine if you’re not much of a fighter. You have twenty-four hours to get these machines ready for combat.
They give you the rundown of the technology that powers the robots. Multiple minds working in sync, meta-energies syncing up to replicate your existing power set on a massive scale. However, as they're powered by metahuman energy, doing this for an extended period of time will be incredibly draining, so it’s recommended for each robot to have a dedicated team of pilots to trade duties. At minimum, two people are required to operate each robot.
Additionally, memory-sharing is a known side-effect of this technology. It’s strongly recommended that no two pilots during active combat be from the same world - better still if you’re complete strangers - as its possible to completely lose yourself in these memories.
You can use this time to find partners or teams - and maybe stake a claim on the coolest-looking robot, if you feel like it.
MOVE OUT —
At dawn the following day, you’re sent off. Though the atmosphere is one of hope, Chaos Gate drops her usually flippant smile to lay down the facts: you may not come back alive.
But if you don’t go? Then everyone dies. The seers couldn’t say for sure whether you’ll succeed, but those that glimpsed futures where you never left at all made it clear what that led to.
Sync up with your fellow pilots and deploy yourselves, or jump into the med bot following behind. Feel the brush of another mind against yours and the power that comes from controlling an enormous steel giant. Take this time to experiment with the powers and abilities in the real robot, not the simulation you only had a few hours to train in.
But if you don’t go? Then everyone dies. The seers couldn’t say for sure whether you’ll succeed, but those that glimpsed futures where you never left at all made it clear what that led to.
Sync up with your fellow pilots and deploy yourselves, or jump into the med bot following behind. Feel the brush of another mind against yours and the power that comes from controlling an enormous steel giant. Take this time to experiment with the powers and abilities in the real robot, not the simulation you only had a few hours to train in.
ENGAGE —
There are five kaijuu in total. Their bodies roughly shaped like a tortoise, a dragon, a phoenix, and a tiger - with the final one an unknowable mass of flesh and tentacle, protected behind a barrier. Each of them measure roughly eight hundred feet, and are leaving massive damage in their wake. Scattered across the corners of the globe, they’re moving towards the South Pole where the largest beast lays in wait. The closer they are to this destination when you engage them, the more reality seems to be break and bend around them. Space and time are fragile here; there may be some odd effects, things like gravity and time rolling backwards. These creatures bleed cosmic radiation, so it’s recommended that you try to kill them as quickly and bloodlessly as possible. This may be difficult as while they’re in possession of breath attacks, they’re more keen to engage in hand-to-had combat.
Each of them is also spawning smaller copies of themselves, which seem to be moving towards the coastlines - towards major cities, specifically.
Those who believe themselves to be better suited to battling the monster directly can engage the kaijuu outside of their jaegers. But anyone exposed to their irradiated blood will catch a doubtless disorienting glimpse of infinity, and anyone who gets wounded is likely to fall into the ocean and be lost in the chaos. Do this at your own risk.
Those who aren’t piloting can also join medical or maintenance crews, which will be teleported out to any robot crews that require assistance.
Mercifully, once the four celestial beasts are slain - their ringleader seems to lose its power. The barrier that has been protecting it has fallen. And with no defenses of its own, it goes down easily. Reality returns to normal. And exhausted but victorious, you give the signal to be teleported back home.
You can sign up to strike a final blow here.
Each of them is also spawning smaller copies of themselves, which seem to be moving towards the coastlines - towards major cities, specifically.
Those who believe themselves to be better suited to battling the monster directly can engage the kaijuu outside of their jaegers. But anyone exposed to their irradiated blood will catch a doubtless disorienting glimpse of infinity, and anyone who gets wounded is likely to fall into the ocean and be lost in the chaos. Do this at your own risk.
Those who aren’t piloting can also join medical or maintenance crews, which will be teleported out to any robot crews that require assistance.
Mercifully, once the four celestial beasts are slain - their ringleader seems to lose its power. The barrier that has been protecting it has fallen. And with no defenses of its own, it goes down easily. Reality returns to normal. And exhausted but victorious, you give the signal to be teleported back home.
You can sign up to strike a final blow here.
AFTERMATH—
It’s a brutal fight. Maybe not all of you made it back. Once the threat is clear, recovery teams are deployed to try to reclaim and revive any bodies lost in the surf.
Back at guild HQ, you’re welcomed back as heroes. The civilians are eager to know their new saviors - identifying yourself as such is sure to thrust you into the spotlight. Much of the fight has been live-streamed and so your great bravery or cowardice is public knowledge.
Deeper inside headquarters, blue-skinned representatives from the underwater nation of ATLANTIS are shouting at suited lawyers. The kaijuu blood in the water has made their home largely uninhabitable, and the combat has destroyed much of it. Are they going to get the same rescue that the surface world did? You’re welcome to volunteer to visit the rubble that was once their Antarctic settlement and rescue the seal-like selkies from the bloodied water.
Back at guild HQ, you’re welcomed back as heroes. The civilians are eager to know their new saviors - identifying yourself as such is sure to thrust you into the spotlight. Much of the fight has been live-streamed and so your great bravery or cowardice is public knowledge.
Deeper inside headquarters, blue-skinned representatives from the underwater nation of ATLANTIS are shouting at suited lawyers. The kaijuu blood in the water has made their home largely uninhabitable, and the combat has destroyed much of it. Are they going to get the same rescue that the surface world did? You’re welcome to volunteer to visit the rubble that was once their Antarctic settlement and rescue the seal-like selkies from the bloodied water.
IN SUMMARY...
- Giant monsters have appeared. Their mere presence is warping reality. Smaller clones of them are heading towards coastal cities.
- The heroes of this world are no match for it. The government has chosen to enact the Godfall Protocols Act, meaning all metahumans are expected to report in to stop a potential apocalypse. Not everyone has to go and pilot the robot, others can stay to defend the cities from any potential dangers.
- Player characters will be hopping in giant robots designed for two or more pilots. They can read each other's minds to operate in perfect sync. An unintended side-effect is memory sharing. You can get lost in these memories. Any action taken in memory will be replicated by the giant robot.
- After the defeat of these monsters, everyone is brought back to Guild HQ for a heroes welcome. You can sign up for your character delivering a final blow here.
- If you want your character to protest the Godfall Protocols and/or to try to disrupt anything going on, please report your actions here.
- The Atlantean people are begging for help as the robots have destroyed their Arctic cities and the blood in the water has harmed their selkie civilians. Player characters can go search for these selkies. Please report selkie rescues here.
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But is she... trying to hand him something, in the middle of a battlefield? He doesn't take it.
"I don't need gifts. And you need more patience."
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He doesn't want to eat now that's cool that's cool.
"Impatience is my sexiest trait, boo."
Look LOOK no one is as confident as a thirteen-year-old girl. And she's plenty patient if it involves grenades. Which she pulls from her skirt and tosses at incoming monsters. "Didja see my fire spell?"
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"I must have missed it," he says, because she's not fooling him with her grenades. He will, however, dart in to finish off the monsters the explosion didn't quite kill.
"I am aware of alternate universes, but you'll have to provide some proof for a claim like that."
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blasphemy, bitch!
Tina will CORRECT THIS as the BENEVOLENT LOKI GOD that SHE IS.
"Yes, yes, wise to be wary of false gods. You may ask the small Loki or the big Loki they both have welcomed me, as has my brother Thor."
She texted Thor.
She doesn't know there are two adult Lokis.
She has not me Sephiroth's Loki.
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"...and which have you deemed 'the big Loki'?" Sephiroth hasn't met the other adult Loki to determine how he compares to his Loki, and naturally all of them are smaller than him. It's not the best means of identification.
Anyway he's not asking child Loki about this. He's a brat.
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and crumpets crumpets are a close second
its okay there will be so much time to have tea parties with her new bff slash mentor
"Idk, man, he's tall and old and when he talks it's boring. He seems to want like, a lot of attention. Like a lot a lot. Like likes to be an echonet star kind of attention. Like, girl, calm down, you already smart and gorgeous u don't need to beg for more attention. Don't be desperate."
She wants to be him when she grows up.
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By her description, that does potentially sound like his Loki. "...I would think, if you were yourself a Loki, you might understand his reasons for seeking attention."
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how is he aliIIIiiiIIiiiVeee?????
"We are all DIFFERENT with DIFFERENT experiences and FEELINGS how dare."
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"Mm. On the other hand, you do seem quite desperate for my attention." Still not inherently a Loki trait but don't knock his dude.
Their accumulated pile of monster corpses seems to be discouraging other monsters from coming in this direction, so Sephiroth is going to move on towards a more promising area.
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"A goddess is never desperate you are simply my chosen human vessel YOU SHOULD BE DELIGHTED." Look him not being interested has probably increased her fixation on him sorry bro.
And man, killing piles of weird monster shit has her all smiley and feeling like she's home. As Sephiroth moves on, she follows after. This basically means he adopted her.
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There doesn't seem to be anything he could say to get rid of her, but at least he's finding this more amusing. He can't be anyone's chosen human if he isn't human. It's almost like a private joke now, instead of an uncertainty.
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Lots of people have asked her to be things she's not.
And now she clings to the parts she likes.
Like explosions.
But, look, this is the happiest she's been since she got here, KILLING SHIT with some cool older HUNTER PERSON who is vaguely ANNOYED at her ALL IS RIGHT IN THE WORLD.
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Mentor. Human. Person who eats cookies. He is not these things.
As the next group of monsters comes in range, he flings out a hand for a Bolt spell. It does feel good to be using his abilities, as they were meant to be used. Not holding back or practicing against lifeless dummies.
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Look it's not HER fault he hasn't asserted any preferences.
"But I am bringing cookies."
HOLY FUCKING PSYCHONAUTS that SPELL. How is he SO COOL it's not FAIR. Well she can show off too. She aims and drops two monsters. She also. Maybe. Takes out the front of a building. AIM IS FOR WEAKLINGS.
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Because he doubts that very much.
"...you would waste less ammunition with better aim." He may not like guns but if she's going to use one then she could do a better job of it.
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Look LOOK she's not lying. She really does use people's names, like, 40% of the time.
"Nah boo this gun is made for shootin' stupid." Or it was at home. Her bullets used to BOUNCE OF SHIT and also sometimes be mixed with flower petals.
She's not really used to finite ammo.
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He is not, however, sure he understands what 'shootin' stupid' means. She probably doesn't mean that the entire concept of guns is stupid (although it is).
"What, as in a gun for beginners?"
Swords don't need ammo, and he rather likes precision, which is clear in the efficiency of movement as he slices into another monster.
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At the gun question she c a c k l e s. "Nah this would blow off a beginners ding dang fingers, SIR. Mrgh. It doesn't work right here though. It's SUPPOSED to be a CHAOS GUN that does AREA OF EFFECT damage and has MAGIC FLOWERS."
It's probably extremely hard to tell if she is making shit up.
"That sword is sexy tho, girl, my friend z3ro was good at sword stuff and so is my bunkers and bad asses character."
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But, she probably will figure out his name eventually. Other people know it, he's easily recognized, and she's weirdly determined to be around him. "...my name is Sephiroth. I preferred to be called that."
Absolutely bracing himself to be called 'Sephy.'
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really why can't she this is a HUGE DISAPPOINTMENT
"SsssssEPHIROTH that is a very epic name good job to whoever named you boo. Not as good as Tina but real close."
He's wise to expect stupid nicknames.
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Anyway, at least there's one (1) full use of his proper name. "...thank you, I suppose." He doesn't know who named him, but he's fairly certain it wasn't Hojo, so he's rather attached to it.
Time to behead another monster, sidestepping to avoid getting the blood in his hair.
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It's okay he's allowed to be rude with hair like that and saying THANK YOU and KILLING STUFF.
"Teach me how to use a SWORD senpai." And she ... smacks a kaiju in the tiny head with her gun. Tina...TINA.
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...hitting the monster with the gun might daze it, but it's not enough to kill it. Does he need to step in?
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She's.....not actually wrong she's a terrible student and an absolutely brilliant learner when she cares. Which she does care about chopping stuff with a sword.
She gets bored of hitting the monster and shoots it point blank. It explodes guts all over her and she cackles in the utter delight of a deranged youth.
"Girl this was such a fun idea for an outing."
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He's not convinced she has either one of those.
Especially considering the complete mess she's making and how she's already back to weird forms of address. Honestly he's judging her more for the mess. Imagine having to wash all that out of your hair.
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im gonna wrap this one up and try to get doppleganger starter today or tomorrow
sounds good to me!
Re: sounds good to me!