+1 organizational post

[sinistral]

Hi Fablelanders!

I'm really hoping I'm not stepping on toes with this but it came up on plurk and making a post seems the best way to get thoughts organized. So, the game's a little slow, I think we've all noticed, and I think we'd all like to do something to give it a little kickstart. We've got a bunch of characters who seem to be the sort that are Get Up And Do Things people, which means that we should have them get up and do things. Of course there's going to be an upcoming December update but in the meantime:

→ organizing some sort of a town meeting! Rose has volunteered Kamala (morphogenia) to actually set something up for characters, but the reality of things is that it might need to be OOCly discussed more than ICly played out, just given time zones and all that jazz. But basically, making sure everyone knows everyone else (so characters who haven't met in a thread can handwave meeting here if necessary) and for characters to figure out who knows what/does what in terms of survival skills. So please feel free to chime in below with what your character might have to offer and/or thoughts on getting characters to meet and such.

→ exploring the sleep mechanic thing (meaning the thing where, no matter where characters fall asleep, they're transported back to the cabins mentioned in the November update) and starting to really explore the island. To that end I'm planning on having Bucky post in the next few days with attempts to get increasingly further away from the central cabins in doing some basic exploration. He'll be documenting his attempts (if we can call it that) via the mirror shard, and characters are of course welcome to join him or just chime in via the mirror; I'm planning to have it be several instances of attempts over a couple of days so there's plenty of opportunity for people to interact however they wish. I'm hoping it'll help open up the basic lay of the land for people as well as the limitation of the sleep thing and maybe spark some discussion between characters on what could have brought them here/what is keeping them here.

So, uh, thoughts are welcome, no idea is too crazy, let's make some things happen!!

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[sinistral]

I should probably comment on my own post!!!

Skills-wise, Bucky is an assassin so things that need to be dead, he can make it happen. He's armed with two firearms that he hasn't used and will keep as a last resort because of limited ammunition but he will share that he does have them should that kind of firepower become necessary. He's also got two combat knives and like, his entire body/all his training so he's pretty deadly just as-is. That being said he'd prefer not to have to fight, but won't hesitate if their little community is threatened.

When Shiro talks about/demonstrates what his artificial arm can do, Bucky will be prompted to mention that he has superhuman abilities as well (strength/speed/reflexes/etc.). He will not talk about how he got the arm or how he was trained, and people are welcome to notice that any questions thereabouts would make him uncomfortable.

He also wouldn't mind helping out with the basics of self defense, if people need to learn that. Ditto with survival skills. He will try to avoid talking about how and why he knows so much related to survival.

He will not want to be any sort of leader. He doesn't mind leading like, a small exploration duo or group but definitely won't want to be the one in charge of grand scale organization of people, and he'll be very open about that preference.

Because he works so well at being a character who is willing to go anywhere and/or explore anything, I'm also willing to throw him at people who are a little unsure of how to approach the game or settle in or get introduced to things.

[sharpshooterpaladin]

So they had some time to hang out.................. sort of, before they left the frozen north, which means at least Bucky won't be surprised that Lance is fairly open about having military training. But honestly Lance is gonna think the stuff Bucky is capable of is all pretty cool! But yeah he won't push the issue since it makes Bucky uncomfortable apparently.

Unrelated, but did you claim a totem for Bucky and if so what was it?

[sinistral]

Yeah I think they'd definitely have talked. Bucky's not hiding that he's military (he figures it's probably what people would assume anyway), he just doesn't like talking about the specifics. He's not likely to just burst out "I'm an assassin" but would try to pass directed inquiries off as "special ops." Though Lance seems pretty on the ball in terms of being able to read people and not push a topic that someone doesn't want to talk about. I totally think they'd come out of their thing knowing that the other guy is pretty capable.

I did no choose a totem for Bucky, I'm gonna go do that right now!!! Thanks for the reminder my dear ♥