⇨ New Location: SPACE OLYMPICS

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PREPARATION↴ There's not much preparation to this event. At the start of Day 30, characters will wake up to find the carnival on a distant planet, underneath a biodome. In the carnival, they'll remain their normal selves but once they leave, they'll find themselves transformed into a more alien form (more details on that below!). The Ringmaster will give the carnival members a brief overview: welcome to the Space Olympics! For the first week, the Carnival will be performing for the athletes in the athlete's village. But for the second week, the carnival can actually compete in the Space Olympics. Characters can compete in one event, with the exception of Space Beer Pong. The Ringmaster is going to get that gold medal herself, dammit. SETTING↴ You stand on a distant planet Skyline of red plateaus Strange air and vegetation You're a winner! Welcome to the Space Olympics! The year is 3022. This year's host is Zargon, which is only hosting because the four previous hosts all dropped out. Still, Zargon's put lot of time and money into developing a complex perfect for the Space Olympics. Floating above the planet's atmosphere is a large spaceship turned athletic arena, obviously named Olympic Spaceship. Stadiums are on every corner, there's swimming pools every other block, and a large racetrack surrounds the city. Places in Olympic Spaceship that aren't arenas either cater to athletes (training facilities, locker rooms, medical facilities, saunas) or cater to those watching the games (concession stands, shopping malls, merch stands, quiet rooms where people can just sit down). Space public transit can get you from one end of the ship to another in mere seconds. The athlete's village is on Zargon, as well as the carnival. People can either stay at the carnival or in the athlete's village. Though Zargon doesn't have any oxygen, a combination of biodomes and terraforming technology have made it so that all athletes can breathe comfortably on Zargon, no matter what their species! Just stay inside the biodome. Space shuttles go from Olympic Spaceship to Zargon at regular ten minute intervals. Those staying in the athlete's village will get a junior suite: basically a small, hotel room type set up with queen sized bed, microwave and refrigerator, and an attached bathroom. The Ringmaster will cover minor incidentals—so keep your ass out the minibar! The Space Olympics comprises literally every sport that people can think of, both summer and winter. There's track and field, ice skating, luge, and beach volleyball, but there's also more alien sports: three dimensional chess, pod racing, space poker, mechanical bull riding but the bull's some sort of weird Doctor Who type alien, and so on and so forth. All sports inexplicably have the word 'space' in front of their name. There will be plenty of opportunities for characters to try out any kind of sport when the arena is not in session! Any fake games from character's canons will not be represented, but if you ask around you can find suspiciously similar substitutes. Want to play a game of Space Muel Donsters? How about a round of that popular card game Space Schment? PATRONS↴ ► OTHER ATHLETES: There are other athletes here of all races, species, sizes, shapes, colors, etc. Most of them get along fairly well with the carnival on the basis of friendly competition and goodwill throughout the galaxy but a few of them are a bit too competitive for their own good. Thankfully, nothing gets to Tonya Harding levels of competitive, though there is plenty of trash talk in the games themselves. ► SANDY AMBURG: He's the main coordinator of the Space Olympics and certainly isn't Andy Samburg in a dumb wig. He'll answer all your questions, direct you to wherever you need to find, and happily reassure everyone that they totally have everything under control! DANGERS↴ ► BUDGET SNAFU: The Space Olympics do not have everything under control. There was a bit of a budget snafu. As such, various events are canceled, the schedule's constantly in flux, there's not as much food as expected, and some of the buildings in the athlete's village are still under construction when people arrive. The Labor department will be conscripted to help patch up as many buildings as possible, while the Kitchen staff will be conscripted to help make do with what supplies they have to help feed the athletes. Good luck figuring out what the hell that fruit is. Some necessary goods can't be found, tempers are short, and while fighting in the athlete's village is strictly prohibited, some athletes are willing to overlook that in order to get their aggression out. Those working under the Warden & Nightrunner will be asked to help patrol the area and break up any fights they see. ► MECHANICAL FAILURES: Midway through the event, things start to break down. Members of the Carnival will be drafted to help with these mechanical failures. As they're independent athletes, there's less chance of the Space Olympic Commission getting sued by the planets! Mechanical failures can range from crawling through this ventilation shaft to unstick whatever's stuck at the end to rewiring this complex piece of future technology to good ol'fashioned elbow grease. Engineering, this is your time to shine! The rest of you...well, good luck anyway. All of the mechanical failure is noticeable, but the most annoying is the artificial gravity inducers, which break multiple times during the event. Brace yourselves cause there's no gravity. ► STRANGE AIR AND VEGETATION: Want to rent a spacesuit to explore Zargon? You can do so! Feel free to go explore outside of the biodome area! Just be careful of the man-eating plants, poisonous mold spores, and pockets of hallucinogenic gas. ► THE ALIEN HORDES: More details will be revealed near the end of the event. But basically? Aw heck, it's an alien invasion. Thanks, Sandy Amberg, you did wonderful at this. REWARDS↴ ► SPACE MERCH: Like every sporting event, there's merch to be bought, all emblazoned with the mascot of this year's Space Olympics, Johan the Athletic Porg! Buy a shirt with Johan playing basketball! Buy a mug with Johan on a sled! Who cares that Porgs technically aren't native to Zargon, they're cute and there's no way the planet's native species, the Zargon Death Flytrap, would ever make a halfway decent mascot in the first place. Unfortunately, there was an ordering snafu and the merch tables are just STACKED high with merchandise. Some sellers are still trying to actually pawn off the merch, but a few of them have resorted to just giving it away. ► YOU'RE A WINNER: Want to compete in the Space Olympics? Guess what! You can! The Ringmaster's crew has been shoved under the catch-all leftover label of Independent Athletes. If you want your character to at least make an attempt at winning a medal, there will be a way to do so. Winners actually get a physical medal and bragging rights. Losers get a consolation prize of a space gadget, the effects of which will be RNGed. Don't think this is anything cool, however, most of the space gadgets are things like 'kitchenwear' or 'outdated children's toys.' The way that medaling works is that on the event post, there will be a 'going for a medal' thread. Comment there and say whether your character is poor, good, or professional at the sport they're going for and explain how they get that ranking. We'll roll a d20 for successes: poor means you need to get a 20 in order to reach bronze. good means 18-19 for bronze, 20 for silver. Professional means 16-17 for bronze, 18-19 for silver, 20 for gold. If two people are competing in the same sport and hit the same medal tier, the higher point gets the medal or there'll be a roll-off. EXAMPLE RANKINGS: SPACE HOCKEY Poor: Person A played hockey once or twice. Good: Person B played high school hockey or regularly plays pick-up games with his friends. His team entered a few competitions and they won a few. Professional: Person C played collegiate or professional hockey. His team enters multiple competitions and they've won multiple of them. Keep in mind that it will be very hard to actually place in the Space Olympics, as characters are going up against literally the best of the best in the entire universe. Most people will probably hit 'good' level, but feel free to justify or give examples if you think your character would be 'professional.' All dice rolling will be done in a mod plurk, midway through the event. ► SPACE KNOWLEDGE: Got that pesky change that you're still getting used to? Developed a weird power that you're having trouble with? There are literally aliens of all shapes/sizes/types here at the Space Olympics. One of them can help with your new changes/provide that IC justification you need for Jim Bob to get better at fire-breathing. CHANGES↴ Coincidentally, any home planet where a player character is from are unable to participate as well due to various accounting errors. As this is the case, the Ringmaster's decided to slap a few changes on people so that they'll fit in better. Outside of the carnival grounds, all members of the carnival will be changed into aliens. Some will adopt a few superficial alien characteristics: ridged foreheads, tentacle arms, antennae, etc. Some characters will change shape entirely, looking like different aliens from fiction. These are solely physical changes and characters will NOT gain any powers of the aliens they look like. Possible species for consideration include: VULCANS: You suddenly get pointy ears and green blood! SONTARANS: You're short, brown-skinned and oddly potato shaped. EWOK: You're a short, fuzzy, teddy-bear looking creature SKRULLS: You're green, have pointed ears, large eyes, and ridges on your chin! TRIFFID: You're a tall, quadripedal, plant-like creature with a whip-like proboscis. GREEN SKINNED SPACE BABE: You're green. That's about it. FLORA COLOSSUS: You are Groot. H'LVENITE: You look like a literal squirrel. This also means that characters will be competing in the Space Olympics in their alien forms. Any alien races currently in-game are off limits (ex: nobody can be turned into a Steven Universe gem). However, you can have your character turn into a different alien from a character's canon. Characters may keep one common or uncommon change from the event. Feel free to use this post for event plotting! The game chat is also a good place to discuss potential plots. This is a player run location so setting questions should go to Kates while mod rulings go to Quix.

Comments

[atouts]

Since this is a Star Wars specific item and the universes of in-game characters are excluded from this setting, I'm afraid this will be something they won't be able to find for Scout.

edit: and then I re-read the setting and saw the 100 star wars references, however, I would still prefer canon-specific items go through the rewards post.

[stillwinningthehardway]

Heh, I was going to say!

That's fair. Thanks!