SYSTEM GLITCH: Your Big Ol' Summer Plot Goes Here

[taxonmods]

Summer! A time for sunbathing! For pristine white beaches! For boating! For mai tais on deck chairs! For shenanigans.

School's out, and it's GLITCH TIME, kids. Taxon's going avast, and ahoy, and yo-ho-ho-ho and a bottle of Survivor: LOST Lord of the Gilligans.

What's happening: On June 10, the citizens of Taxon will wake up on a boat. No, a ship, even. The HMS (Hamsters' Muckety Ship) Taxon is a sailing ship, with, erm, the giant sails and the wooden decks needing to be swabbed and the cannons and the general old-timey port-and-starboardiness of her. There's plenty of food and water (and grog!) but no suntan lotion, and your tablets will only show the people on the boat with you.

Characters will wake up belowdecks, and on emerging to the deck proper will see nothing but water for miles around. A tropical sun is beating down, and there are no Extras to be seen, only whoever else is on the boat with them.

After that, well... don't be surprised if you're attacked by pirates. Or sea monsters. Or shipwrecked on a tropical island and forced to team up to survive possible pygmies, giant snakes, volcanoes, mosquitoes, death traps, malaria, sunburn, and anything else it occurs to us to throw at you. (Legal disclaimer: none of these are guaranteed but a few are a safe bet, depending on what y'all wanna do.)

Where's the city? Where's the hatches? Where's the Extras? Where's the air conditioning? Can you figure out how to get back, or will you be strangled in the night with seaweed by someone who can't stand your snoring?

Like most of our city-wide plots, participation in this is optional....ish. Characters whose muns choose to have them remain in the safe, comfortable, scurvy-free city of Taxon proper will still notice some changes that they can (and should!) respond to.

If you're sailing:

June 10 - June 20: Your character will be on the HMS Taxon. Confined on a ship with your fellow prisoners, with no easy apparent way to talk to those citizens who aren't there. The ship will have a hatch, but all it will produce are horribly clichéd 'pirate' (or Royal Navy) clothes and beachwear. Food and water will be available freely on board, although you may get sick of ship's biscuits. (Duration: 10 days)

June 21 - July 11: Your character will be on a tropical island, replete with many horrors to be discovered. Food and water will not be provided, but must be gathered from the jungle (unless you can spontaneously create food or something). Are there hatches hidden somewhere in the jungle? Or merely poo-flinging monkeys? Who knows? Perhaps you should explore. There's a large smoking mountain. Clearly nothing at all could go wrong.

Raft-building to try and sail back to Taxon proper is highly encouraged. It's not like there's sharks or anything. Right? Right?

If you're staying:

You wuss The City's going to be rather empty. And creepy. And empty. All the Extras are just gone, and everyone who's off in castaway land is gone as well. They don't show up on the tablets, and their programmed possessions have disappeared as well. It will look as though a huge chunk of the city's population just vanished overnight.

Characters of the super-hacky persuasion, in both regular!Taxon and in shipwreck!Taxon, may well be able to coax the tablets into letting them talk to the others.

This plot will run from June 10 to July 11. If you intend to involve your muses, especially if they're goin' to sea, please comment and tell us any ideas, thoughts, suggestions, or questions you may have.

Finally, have this to get you all in a shipshape mood. SAILING, SAILING, JUMPING OFF THE RAILING.

Comments

Questions / Suggestions!

[taxonmods]

We love these things, because they make us thing of stuff we...may not have in the planning stages. HIT US UP!

For the island stuff: what sort of cliche hijinks are you down for? There will definitely be a mysterious jungle-encrusted nondenominational temple of mystery for exploring, so anything to include with that or just in general is go!

[forging]

Okay. I: mods, is it too late to sign up to this plot? Also my character hasn't intro'd yet? Does that means they wake up on the empty city/boat? :c

Castaways!

[taxonmods]

Folks going on the month-long adventure thingy.

[aintnoconvict]

...Dien I just saw that thing about no sunscreen why are you trying to kill all the non-tanning people?

ANYWAY: Glitch is going. He will get amazingly seasick (because what even is an ocean) and dress like Errol Flynn and then fulfill his Professor-like duties and build shit out of coconuts.

[loveawkward]

Josef will definitely be there... in the sun. And the heat. Surrounded by people that smell of blood and life.


Whaa? >.>

[sourcebloodaughter]

Ashley is going! she is going to enjoy this so much :3

Castaways!

[thelonewolf]

WOW! I'd like Gwen and Arya to both go. =) (...Hooolding off on Illyria til I decide what to do with her.)

Being trapped on a boat is gonna make Gwen VERY uncomfortable. And beware people, if there's a storm stay AWAY from this girl. Arya's gonna love it barring all the crazy bad stuff, and I imagine she can be some use.

IDK if this counts but MAYBBBE with some electric-finagling and some help, Gwen can fiddle with the tablet and reach someone in the city for a second.

[thepersianyouth]

Whoo sailing! Ah, this brings back memories.

Also, finally some nice weather :D

Re: Castaways!

[genequeen]

Maddy is certainly going because, well, pirate outfits.

http://images.buypiratecostumes.com/sexy_captains_wench_costume.jpg

Seriously. This will be hilarious because the options will only get worse. And woe be to the fair skinned wench.

Re: Castaways!

[buffy_slayer]

You betcha. Buffy'll love the sun, the sea air, and trying to keep the vampire(s) from eating everyone!

[creepyfreezone]

Sky has never been on the water before!

What sorta things on this trip will put off energy signals Sky can sense? *Default question before Sky ends up anywhere*

Re: Castaways!

[dustandhope]

Raziel will definitely be on board to provide assistance and mocking to young vampires of under a thousand years old. He won't be much help to breathing folks, except that he can sit watch day and night without needing to sleep.

I haven't decided about Scott and Remus. Both of them would be incredibly helpful, Remus for his magic and Scott because he knows so much about survival and ships that this plot could have been custom made for him. And I'm not sure if that would be good or not.

Re: Castaways!

[dien]

ALL OF MINE ARE GOING

M-mm-mm-mmmmm

[ownlittleprison]

Re: Castaways!

[skysung]

Kitten will be going. She says Josef needs looking after. He'll probably say the same about her.

Re: Castaways!

[no_rose_tint]

And confirming Scott for the ship for a chance to shine and be useful.

[angry_salad]

LATE but Arthur is going to go to the ship and if no one else has claimed it he's going to be trying to spearhead the GET US THE FUCK OUT OF HERE coalition with the raft.

unf i'm so excited for this.

/Failed AND is late to the party

[kpcalmntelepath]

Ch-Ch-Ch-Charles will be there! Dressed in some awesome digs (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/c4/Hogarth_Strode_detail_man.jpg )

However! He will have on one leg a leg brace a la Forrest Gump ( http://www.yourprops.com/movieprops/original/yp_4e69d9deece531.45415139/Forrest-Gump-1994-movie-props.jpg ), as well as the use of a crutch, and on the other leg, a peg leg a la Hector Barbossa ( http://images.wikia.com/pirates/images/1/1a/OSTBarbossaPegLeg.jpg )...Aka, it also doubles as a flask.

So he will be mobile-ish

/jumps in all late like

[build]

ariadne will be grumpily happily aboard the ship and obviously attempting to build a way off the dang island as well (architects can build the best things ;) ) - OBVIOUSLY always assuming, they just were thrown into yet another level of the dream and everyone around them is some whacked out projection. ;)

obviously she will be poking around on the island while she is there as well, so prepare for some random prodding as well...if you are okay with that?!

[geniusforgotten]

All right...Nikola will go.

He is going to hate me for this.

Landlubbers!

[taxonmods]

Everyone staying in the big ol' empty city!

[azoftheoz]

Azkadellia shall stay in the city! Because playing off her abandonment fears if more fun than krakens for her.


I'm a horrible muse mommy. >.>

[secretshame]

Jenna is staying.

because sob :c

[ownlittleprison]

Yeah, staying. WOE! IGNORANCE IS NOT BLISS, PEOPLE

I said I'd roll a D4 and a D4 is what I rolled >:3 And then I got ideas

[hasaheart]

Cain's staying.

He'll be suitably devastated when everyone seems to have gone home overnight, and Very Probably Once the Initial Panic settles into good ol'-fashioned shock, will arrange an O.Zian memorial service to everyone who's gone home.

Everyone still left in the city will be invited, of course, asked to come to a specific place at a specific time (details? what are those?) with a handwritten note to one or several (or all of them) who're not there any more.

I'm thinking something to do with hanging tiny scrolls from the branches of a tree. :3 Y/N/what are you smoking and please can I have some ?