HELL PLOTTING

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PLOTTING IN HELL↴ This is a plotting post for everyone who is going to be participating in RESCUE MISSION: HELL! Below I'm going to make top levels for every section, so that people can announce that they plan on tagging into certain threads and to do other planning. HAVE FUN!

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GATEKEEPING

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PLAYPEN

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[whattaprick]

I don't plan to top-level for Lambert unless someone really wants at him -- he's mainly interested in kicking ass (when stealth inevitably fails) and also in using magic to attempt to squeeze information out of the small fry to find the supervisors!

I'm down to play attempting sneaking around with other rescuers, fightin', or the aforesaid info-extraction. He's also got some anti-vampire shit if people want to play anything out wrt handing that over. I'm gonna have dicey internet access over the next week or so, which will mean slow tagging!

[destiny_key]

Since I've topleveled the past two logs, I don't plan on top leveling for Sora this time around. I'll probably throw him around a bunch though.

However, if you want a toplevel for Sora, OR if you'd like to 'play' with Xabat (eg; fight him), then let me know and I'll be happy to do so! <3

[toogoodtoopure]

I'm not planning top level for Yuugi this time around but he's been trying to figure out a way to get out ever since they all got put into vampire day care. Once the commotions start he's going to take advantage of shit and try to take down one or two (one at most, two at his hopefulest) of the "gangs". If that sounds like something anyone wants to join in on (and assume they've made contact with him over the last couple of days or hear and just jump in), hmu!

[stillwinningthehardway]

I don't have a whole lot of free time coming up, but Scout will be in this log. ...Vampires are not satisfactorily affected by her famous chokeholds, and that's the central feature of her brawling, so she'll be relying more heavily on her lightsaber. Did you know, to Jedi cutting off someone's hand is considered a merciful way to end a fight??

I mean it's not her only trick, she's really good at unarmed combat and can still incapacitate people who don't black out if blood's denied to the brain, so one-on-one she could subdue someone without causing serious injury, if you want someone for that.

[amusicaladventure]

When subtly fails, Ash will be breaking out the music magic left and right to do whatever it takes to rescue their poor taken people.

[ophidiarex]

I fully intend to top-level for Snake, but will be delayed! I don't mind who tags me, be they neonate or rescuer. Snake will be his normal shy self, which, adding to his desire to not feed on anyone from the carnival, will make him flighty at best to rescuers, and dangerous if cornered due to his hunger and demon egging him into violence. Might be best to have a neonate calm him down before rescue; to this effect, I encourage three ways and free-for-alls with hunters and neonates under my eventual top-level.

CAPTIVES

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[cuckooed]

Koel is pretty bad off, thanks to all of the iron she was tied with as well as the torture she's had to endure. She will want to try to fight other vampires when she is finally free - except she can't, since she is seriously injured. So carrying her off - as she futilely tries to tell her rescuers OH NO I CAN TOTALLY FIGHT KIDS COME ON BLOOD DEMANDS BLOOD BE NICE TO GRANDMA but she now has no voice to speak of and she can't really fight back anymore or really move - will be pretty easy. Its just a question of getting her out of the numerous restraints put on her!

[kingsroads]

HE GOT THIS, GRANDMA. Strange has all sorts of stupid magic that could be useful for breaking locks, melting restraints, etc. etc.

and look, if all else fails, he'll just magic up a rock and hit one of the locks with it until it breaks. #winning.

[zebrarhyme_everytime]

Zecora, as part of her torture, has been tossed into a hole and left to rot. Fairly literally, because her injuries have been left utterly untreated and are rather fiercely infected at this point, but the real harm has been isolation and sensory deprivation.

So challenge one? Finding her. The catacombs are mazelike and hold denizens that should not be released, so injudicious choices will only bring disaster on the rescue party. Challenge two is Zecora herself: the moment she's freed of her iron bonds, she will make a panicked retreat into a completely incorporeal form to escape the pain. How do you rescue someone insubstantial?

On the upside, she's not going to fight you.

[pipers_son]

Joker has made the mistake of being very pretty which, as it turns out, is something vampires appreciate in their own. Sure, becoming a vampire makes you a super hottie anyway, but a headstart is always appreciated.

....So yeah he was vamped.

As a nice trophy and probable tribute to giving RM the middle finger, he's been put in a very pretty literal bird cage. Needless to say he's not going to be happy about it... but thanks to his sire's influence, he's not particularly inclined to leave it, either.

And frankly.... he's gotten to be pretty hungry as well.

Good luck with that.

MINIBOSSES

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SANS THE SKELETON WEREWOLF

[osteothropy]

Just to have an idea, who is specifically interested in fighting werewolf Sans? AKA, 10 ft + skeleton wolf that looks like this.

He's been thralled by one of the elder vampires and basically completely mind controlled into going werewolf feral at this point, so he's going to be lasering it up pretty heard, but also being fairly self destructive. If you kill his werewolf form it turns into a pile of dust with his tiny regular bod inside of it, so lethal force can be used, not that anyone will know that. Excepy maybe Papyrus.

The Psionic

[dorkypantsuit]

He's going to shoot eye lasers at you guys. PEW PEW.

Who wants a piece of this hot chunk of meet?

He may or may not be naked still. Undecided as of right now.

FINAL BOSS

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In case you have any preemptive ideas, though mostly everyone will be present.

[amusicaladventure]

I'm just saying we can make it a musical number.

Ash is pissed, and arrogant, and probably going to be doing everything in her power to put Hell through hell. Support would be appreciated, or possibly someone getting her to recognize that maybe they can't actually directly battle and win against Morningstar and getting her to back down.

[whattaprick]

This doesn't really fit in the above, but this is an option for people coming from the carnival side of things! Lambert spent the last two days prepping some anti-vampire shit, if characters are interested in availing themselves of it!

Vampire oil is what it says on the tin, a silver-infused tallow you can smear on whatever weapons you have to do that bit of extra damage even with non-silver weapons. It does need to be reapplied periodically to be effective, but maybe you can come up with additional ~creative~ uses.

Black Blood is a freaky witcher potion that will temporarily (~1 hr-ish) render your blood toxic to vampires! It won't kill them, but it can slow them down and damage them to make them easier to take down with weapons. Downside is, it's also pretty toxic! If your character is already advanced in their fae transformation, has a natural resistance to poisons, or is otherwise protected against their effects, they should be fine. Otherwise, they may experience one of the following delightful side effects upon ingestion:
* Excruciating pain! It won't kill you, but it'll suck for a bit, but at least it will also suck for anyone who bites you?
* It can trigger a common change or alter an existing one slightly, like changing the colors of markings, giving you additional horns, or what-have-you. Nothing crazy.
* Mental side-effects -- for duration of the potion's effect, some aspect of your character is heightened -- maybe their anger, paranoia or animalistic attributes? You decide.

Lemme know if you're interested so we can come up with some conceivable reason any of this got slapped into your character's hand, and also so I can keep track! Vampire oil he'd have a ton of but less of black blood.

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Rin will happily take a bunch of that vampire oil to rub on his sword. I assume, being oil, it is... flammable, though.

[perverses]

just noting here that yeah, Shima would have taken Black Blood before heading into the playpen. SCOUTING IS ALREADY DANGEROUS ENOUGH but I sure hope Lambert enjoyed the whinefest he got for how freaking painful it was. :')

[kingsroads]

This also doesn't really fit in all the above b/c it can deal with all sorts of people stuck in hell, but Strange can do scrying magic and will happily be offering to creep on any supervisor/captive/what have you.

This is creepy spying, not any sort of tracking magic. Basin gets filled up with water, spell gets cast, reflection of the person and what they're currently doing appears in the basin. It's not good for things like finding people, but it is good for things like checking on what conditions some of the supervisors/babyvamps are in before everybody goes charging in all Leeroy Jenkins. Scrying magic can be pretty imprecise so it can work or not work as needed. I'm 100% up for either handwaving or threading out 'and then Strange used magic to creep on a supervisor to see what they were like before the party got split' or 'well Character X knows that Character Y's a beat up vampire in the vampire playpen because creepy magic' as needed. As a note, he'll only be able to use the magic to see the people in hell while they're in hell: you can't check back on so and so at the carnival.

This also means that he'll be lugging around a footish width basin and probably has to make a tiny rainstorm every now and then to actually fill up the basin when he inevitably runs out of the water he'll bring along, look, english magic is respectable, not convenient.

[whattaprick]

Why does English magic have to be so impractical FFS.

Anyway, Lambert already knows Strange is a squishy-ass wizard, so for the record if there was any discussion of roles he'd be like 'stay at the entrance you idiot' with no real belief he'll listen. He'll certainly avail himself of that scrying shit tho, if only because the sooner they find people the sooner they can clear out.

[atouts]

i have no idea what terms they are on at this point since /waves at other thread

BUT I am checking to see if he'd scry up where Joker is for him, like, before he makes the poor life choice of disappearing into the depths of literal Hell to find him or if he would tell him to get bent for being the huge jerk that he is instead.

p.s. pls try not to die, Strange......

[cellphoneangel]

Same as those above with not really fitting in anywhere. Castiel will be going to Hell and try to help out, but since he's newly arrived back, he's (and me) are not sure where he'd fit in. Plus, going to any sort of Hell with an angel along for the ride is like sending up a huge sparkler. He could serve as a sort of distraction to get the npcs to rush him and give others a little less incoming attack on them? Deal with the foot soldiers while others are going off to save the other Supervisors. Maybe with a small attack force with him or protect others who are there as backup, healers, weapon suppliers? Since this is my first event, I'm open to most anything and winging it on where he could fit in.