MAY MISSION PLOTTING

[etrayamods]

⏵ mission prep ⏴ As the inhabitants of Etraya go about their daily routines, a strange phenomenon unfolds before them. Visible from the rooftops of taller facilities, an eerie sight emerges: a vast Labyrinth materializes just beyond the atmospheric bubble enclosing the city. The scale is impossible to discern from within the city, but Aurora has also made an announcement regarding the next mission and the tasks they must complete: make their way to the exit of the Labyrinth which wraps back around into the city before the oxygen levels in Etraya diminish entirely. Only by reaching the exit quickly can characters ensure their city will not crumble. Additionally, those who pass through the exit first will help in choosing the next mission. How they choose is not clarified. Aurora will reach out to them after the mission with details. Characters who walk into the Labyrinth will find the pathway behind them changing as soon as they step into it, making returning the way they entered impossible. Within its walls, they’ll find numerous challenges to face. Some creatures may be familiar, ones they recognize from their home worlds, favorite fairy tale books, or perhaps from the invasion that hit just weeks ago. Mimics lurk in shadowy corners among treasure boxes full of useful items, waiting for people to approach them so they can capture those who aren’t careful. They’ll have to be careful while making their way through it. Nothing is as it seems within these walls. The first group of characters to reach the exit will do so after just under two weeks. The mission time frame is May 3rd - May 15th. You can sign up to have your character chosen as a victor here. If your character is not chosen to complete the Labyrinth first, they are welcome to continue struggling through it until May 28th when it sinks back into the dirt covering the empty zone of Etraya. Companion bots will make sure every citizen is removed before this if any still linger behind. Once characters go through the exit, they cannot go back in. Ear pieces will still function, but their mapping capabilities will be disabled. No one will know how far along they are or how close to any of the others they may be. Characters are encouraged to bring along their pets or leave them in Aurora's care until they return. ⏵ entering the labyrinth ⏴ As Aurora had warned in her announcement, the Labyrinth tends to mess with superhuman abilities. How much this affects your character is up to you. Our goal is to ensure that the Labyrinth is a challenge for characters to complete. We wouldn’t want Superman flying through at superhuman speeds, avoiding all obstacles, and completing it before those without super speed even get a chance to explore, for example. All healing abilities will be active, regardless of whether it’s regenerative or healing spells to assist others. Every other ability may be limited. If someone does have super speed, they may find that their super speed only works when they’re facing beasts capable of keeping up with them, and as soon as they walk through another corridor, their speed diminishes once more. You're welcome to play with this to your preference! Your character can be limited to only having their abilities affect the area around them, having them when moving through the Labyrinth but losing them when fighting opponents, or have them only when fighting opponents. We want this to be fun for you, our players, while keeping the challenging nature as intended. Questions regarding the power cap, or if you would like some guidance on how to apply this to your character, can be directed here. We’ll do our best to guide you! ⏵ labyrinth challenges ⏴ The Labyrinth feels alive, as if it’s responding to those who enter its domain. The walls around characters shift, change, and adapt to create new obstacles for them to face. In addition to this, it will work hard to separate characters from one another and to bring them into the pathway of others who are also working to reach the finish line. You may walk through the entrance with full intentions of sticking close to a partner, or a group of friends - the Labyrinth will do everything it can to pull you apart, to force you out of your comfort zone. Teamwork is necessary, as many challenges are meant to be completed by two or more. Please note that the challenges listed are a guideline. The Labyrinth is a massive web of challenges and opponents to battle, and we invite you to create your own as well as utilize the ones offered. The limitation is that characters must remain themselves throughout the challenges. There are no mirror replicas, nothing within the Labyrinth will affect their personalities or core values. It’s meant to challenge, not change them. If you have an idea and want to double-check that it falls within the lines of the mission, please feel free to drop it here. The Labyrinth opens into a massive, open space with an obstacle course. The obstacle course itself doesn't look too difficult: many of the tasks involve climbing over a wall (but needing to help one another as the rope needs to be held by both ends; otherwise both parties will fall), carefully crossing a balance beam without offsetting the weight and causing both parties to tip off the edge and into icy waters below, and building a bridge to cross over a river with only a few pieces of wood. A pathway opens into what appears to be a large garden. One companion bot lays on the grass, ketchup covering their abdomen. They state that they are injured, bleeding profusely, and require immediate medical assistance. The companion bot carries a bag of medical supplies and MREs, which player characters are welcome to utilize. The pathway out of this section will not open until the companion bot states that they are no longer in danger of dying. How characters get to this point is up to you - perhaps they put the companion bot out of their misery or roleplay patching them up. A glass box drops down to barricade characters into the area they have entered. In front of them is a pedestal with two buttons: one red, one green, as well as a tablet above it displaying the image of another group of characters. The tablet states hindering them will help you. You may either choose to make the second group's time through the maze more difficult, or you may hinder your progress by pressing the green button and helping the other group forward. Pressing the green button will drop several squishmallows into the glass box. Inside one of them is a key that unlocks the roof of the glass box. Pressing the red button, while it promises to hinder the other group, actually. . . causes a toxic yellow gas to flood the glass box. The gas will burn the lungs of those who breathe it in, but it also begins slowly melting the glass box. This gas will make breathing difficult for the next 24 hours, but will not kill those who inhale it. Healing factors will not offset the gas. Groups of two characters will walk through one corridor and find themselves strapped to two chairs, the backs of which are leaning against each other. In front of the both of them are drills, slowly approaching their chests. They cannot go sideways but can push forward and backward. They can push backward and get themselves further away from the threat of injury - forcing the person behind them to suffer but allowing themselves to escape - or they can push into the drill and free the person they're with. Alternatively, they can choose not to push either way, potentially sacrificing them both. The floor falls away, revealing a body of water and - no solid ground to walk on. Within the water are numerous Sirens - beautiful androgynous creatures that sing soft songs meant to entice others into following them deep into the water. While they may look beautiful, their mouths are full of razor-sharp teeth, and their intentions certainly aren't innocent. However, the sirens cannot touch competitors until they have initiated touch first. They will do their best to encourage this: holding out their hands, crying out for help, pretending to drown, or trying to coax them into coming in close enough for a kiss. As long as they remain on path, they're harmless. But the moment they reach out for the sirens... getting away from them will not be easy. Their tails are powerful, built for moving swiftly throughout the water and dragging others along with them. They bite hard and will dig their teeth deep into flesh to discourage struggling. If one gets captured by them? They're lunch. Or worse yet: if they get bitten but manage to escape, they may find themselves becoming a bit.. scaley around the neck as their eyes shift color to a too-soft green and they develop an almost impossible-to-resist urge to take a bite out of their friends. This effect will continue until May 28th regardless of when the character reaches the end of the Labyrinth. Numerous beasts roam the corridors of the Labyrinth: mimics, dragons of all shapes and sizes, centaurs, ogres, mutated wolves, ghouls, zombies, dryads, etc. They lurk around corners, waiting for unsuspecting characters to approach so they can attack. ⏵ NOTES ⏴ May's mission is the completion of a massive Labyrinth. All characters must enter the Labyrinth; whether or not they participate once they're inside is up to them, but no one will be permitted to stay behind in the city. The duo who completes the Labyrinth first will be allowed to assist in choosing the next mission. Sign-ups for this are here. We will reach out to the chosen characters on May 13th. This mission will cover the time between May 3rd and May 28th. After May 28th, any characters who have not yet exited the Labyrinth will be gathered by the companion bots and brought back into the city. The first to exit will be returning to the city on May 15th. There will be powercapping during this mission, but the extent of which is fully up to players. We want the Labyrinth to be challenging but don't want to hinder gameplay too much. If you have any questions relating to this or want assistance coming up with ways to powercap your character, please feel free to ask us here. We will be largely leaving this up to player discretion. Food is scarce within the Labyrinth, but not impossible to find. There are chests (or maybe they're mimics?) strewn throughout with various useful items. One might have a sword, another might have a fresh chicken nugget Happy Meal from McDonalds. Or an entire birthday cake, candles included. Large vehicles will not fit in the Labyrinth and will need to be left behind in the city. Numerous challenges are throughout the Labyrinth. You are welcome to make your own, but we will also provide several you may utilize! Deaths that occur within the Labyrinth will last 24 hours. Please make sure to report these on our Death Tracker. All current pending new locations will be going up after player characters have returned to the city. ⏵ plotting form ⏴ <b>PLAYER:</b> <b>CHARACTER:</b> who are you plotting for? <b>ENTERING THE LABYRINTH:</b> how's your character going to feel about the labyrinth? are there people they're going to try to stick with? <b>CHALLENGES:</b> what challenges are you interested in playing? are there ones you think would be fun to bring into play but weren't mentioned? <b>CR GOALS:</b> what are you looking to get out of this event? new friends? enemies? frenemies? ⏵FULL NAVIGATION⏴

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Mod Questions

[etrayamods]

Re: Mod Questions

[mostdangerousbird]

Is a motorcycle a large vehicle?

Event Sign Up.

[etrayamods]

Sign up here for your character to potentially be one of the two who completes the Labyrinth first!

[her_own_rules]

Let's gggoooo.

Asuka Langley Soryu

[redheadcarrier]

PLAYER: Chrono
CHARACTER: Asuka Langley Soryu
ENTERING THE LABYRINTH: She's going to feel mixed. Part of her thinks it's incredibly dumb, part of her is going to be glad to have something to focus on (that isn't brooding about her terrible teenage life). She'll stick to it though, because she's stubborn and she absolutely refuses to be beaten (for a variety of healthy and unhealthy reasons).
CHALLENGES:
*Bridge building/getting over water
*Anything that will force her to work with people and/or let her pull the "I'm supervising!" card.
*Anything where she's going to end up forced to rely on someone else because the girl needs this.
*Game theory challenges (drill or glass box) could be fun.
*Survival stuff - sharing food, blankets, uncomfortable camping spots, all that kind of thing.
*Something focuses on smarts more than physical would also be fun.
*Save her from monsters, maybe! Or maybe siren/other transformation shenanigans.
*tl;dr, force her to actually deal with people, like the crabby little nerd she is.
CR GOALS:
*Looking for positive or negative CR! Could be enemies or friends or maybe rivals! Could also get some begrudging beginnings to something more in depth, since Asuka takes some work to break her walls down... Basically here for positive or negative stuff! Bully or be bullied or maybe some genuine human connection.

[revengeisalie]

sticks leggy out

clint barton, marvel comics.

[westcoasts]

PLAYER: laura
CHARACTER: clint barton / hawkeye (og)
ENTERING THE LABYRINTH: feelings = THIS SUCKS, characters he'd stick with = DOES HE KNOW YOU? (bobbi and kate especially, wheeze), willing for him to start off with one group and get separated and joining up with another if that seems fun!!

CHALLENGES:

— glass box, drills, sirens.
open to others and wildcards!

outside of this, clint is ( obvs ) an archer and considered highly skilled at utilising nearly anything as a weapon (shoutout to the 2003 hawkeye mini for using a hairtie, a phone ( corded ), and salt shaker, and for suggesting a bra as a weapon), especially if he can use it as some form of projectile, a skilled swordsman and PRETTY DAMN DECENT at hand-to-hand combat (thanks, cap), all of which will be his go-tos as far as the beasties go. in terms of weaknesses, he doesn't always plan ahead (ehehehe), and he has no supernatural or superhuman abilities. he is literally, genuinely just A GUY, meaning he'll be increasingly tired etc the longer he's in the labyrinth.

additional weakness: dude don't like to kill, fam. i can elaborate on this and phrase it more eloquently, but outside of being obnoxious, he's also an OBNOXIOUS (super)hero in this sense.

nb. as an additional challenge, clint is canonically deaf and relies on hearing aids most of the time, although he's fluent in ASL and is capable of lip reading, so if anyone wants to go in the direction of either his hearing aids being damaged or running out of batteries given the timeframe of the mission, that's ... also a thing.

CR GOALS: clint's new here, fam, so any cr is good cr.

as a general note, i really enjoy cr with depth — ie. even if characters perceive each other some kind of way or feel some kind of way about one another, getting into the nitty gritty about why that is and what's caused/causing it is my JAM. it doesn't need to lead towards ic feelings changing, i just like the

ic feelings to be there wheezes deeply

[mockingbirdy]

Slams down.

Clint having to convince Bobbi that no they should not hinder other people. And thus being rewarded and him getting to hold it over her head forever????

Michiho Kinukawa | Spirit Hunter: Death Mark II (major spoilers for DMII here)

[michiho]

PLAYER: Kalyn
CHARACTER: Michiho
ENTERING THE LABYRINTH: She's going to find it super interesting, but likely will find a way or reason to slip away at some point to explore on her own.
CHALLENGES: Sooo since it mentioned abilities going haywire, I was considering playing with Michiho's disguise. Sometimes her form might flicker to something like this in reflections or out of the corner of the eye.

They might catch Michiho dutifully following bugs around the labyrinth or even talking to them/whispering to them and letting them lead her. They won't steer her wrong but also like, Weird. Most probably won't talk to anyone else.

Michiho might pretend to be bitten by a siren once she figures out that deal just to get a bite of someone she's intrigued about, or to eat one of the creatures or spirits that might be encountered in the labyrinth...... it's fine this is fine.
CR GOALS: Look the more people who find out Michiho's deal, the more entertained I am. She will wave away a lot of it as being magic in the labyrinth or being bitten by the sirens (even if she won't actually be).

Character: Whatcha got there
Michiho, front and mouth stained with blood, over the body of some dead thing: ....A smoothie.

Anyway if someone wants to be bitten or smth let me know.... finger guns

great way to get to meet new people, tbh, taking a nibble

[revengeisalie]

omfg Michiho's options are stellar

I'm offering Rin up to be grossed out by bugs or get bitten

Accelerator | A Certain Magical Index

[levelshift]

PLAYER: Pan
CHARACTER: Accelerator
ENTERING THE LABYRINTH: This sucks he'd rather take a nap. :c He'll do the challenge since it's mandatory (and he wants to protect all the esper kids back home), but he's going to be a huge grump about it. He doesn't really know anyone that well and he's antisocial, so chances are he'll go in alone and be awkward about having to team up with others. He'll do it to get through the labyrinth, though!
CHALLENGES:

• Accelerator is going to try and cheese this with flight/superspeed, though once he realizes this isn't possible he'll be extremely conservative with his esper power since it's on a 30 minute time limit.
• He's going to be SO MAD at the lack of coffee. Ohmygawd, he just filled his fridge! He's probably going to go around punching a bunch of mimics looking for canned coffee once he runs out of whatever he's bringing (let's be real he's probably only bringing coffee in).
• More seriously, Accelerator relies on his choker to help with his brain injury, and Aurora's version mimics the 48 hour battery of his original. Since the labyrinth will last longer than 48 hours he's going to have to deal with it powering down and 'recharging,' which will leave him completely vulnerable for an hour or so. He's going to need one or more people he can trust to keep an eye on him during this time so monsters don't eat him or whatever.
• In return, he can be a little less lazy and use his power (super strength, speed, tactile telekinesis on a subatomic level, ESP of vectors, amplifying attacks that use momentum and direction) to protect people or help them with challenges.
• For the glass box, he's someone who would hinder other people. Conversely, for the drill, he'd be fine with taking the hit due to his esper power being able to reflect it.
• He's going to find a handgun but no bullets, if someone else would like to find bullets and no gun. Let's team up and shoot things!

CR GOALS: Accelerator is brand new so I'm mostly looking to build cr. I'm good with both negative and positive and happy to toss characters at each other and see how things work out. He's a prickly kid with a lot of trauma, so found family is my jam. He's also willing to be the bad guy and has a violent streak, so characters may disagree (or be outright horrified) with his methods of dealing with problems.

[redheadcarrier]

Here for their continued awkward found family / trauma vibes and Asuka finding out he has super powers at the weirdest time.

Tim Drake

[mostdangerousbird]

PLAYER: Marie

CHARACTER: Tim Drake

ENTERING THE LABYRINTH: He’s going to hate it. But like, with a twist of seriously? Because a labyrinth with multiple traps is like Gotham on steroids.

He’d be inclined to try to stick with anyone, either for help or their safety, but he’d be most agreeable to sticking with existing CR or someone young or “normal”.

He will be going in as Robin. Whether he comes out as Robin, remains to be seen. Either way, he will have a batbelt loaded with all sorts of useful goodies, and potentially a motorcycle if the request gets approved. By normal standards, he drives like a maniac, so, uh - your character should consider themselves warned. It's perfectly safe though.

CHALLENGES: I'm game for any, but the obstacle course, sirens, and drills jump out at me on the first look. I'm going to create a response to this so I have a space to edit in new ideas as they come to me.

CR GOALS: Friends or frenemies

I’m particularly interest in the third (or more) person he meets in the labyrinth.

The first person, I assume they’ll get separate by the labyrinth because they’re not even aware of the possibility. This is the most likely to be someone he already knows, because they can go in together.

The second person he meets, he’ll try to stick with like glue and get separated anyway despite their best efforts.

The THIRD person, he handcuffs or ties himself to because he’s tired of this shit. If they get separated, he will be doing the same again to every subsequent person until he's out, and he won't even be remotely sorry about it.

Extra Challenges

[mostdangerousbird]

Please don't respond to this challenges comment. I'm going to use it to edit in any challenge ideas that come to me.

Possibilities:
* Being nearly at the end of the maze and getting Mad Max'ed all the way back to the beginning. The person who takes this one must be capable of fighting off the horde from the back of a motorcycle.

* The floor is lava. No, seriously.

* Finding a fresh water spring when extremely thirsty. The water renders the person instantly drunk, and the characters must complete an incredibly fussy intelligence-based test to escape the room. An A will sober them up and unlock the doors, a B will unlock the doors, but leave the drunk, a C will leave them drunk, unlock the doors, but release a monster from the depths of the pool that will chase them to the door. Fail, on the other hand, and you fight the monster.

Natsuno Yuuki | Shiki

[neverleave]

PLAYER: Revi
CHARACTER: Natsuno Yuuki

ENTERING THE LABYRINTH: He's going to absolutely hate it and resent the entire concept, and would be tempted to fail himself out of spite if he wasn't worried about Clarke and Rita. He will try to stick with them, but once they get separated I want him to team up with others to build CR.

CHALLENGES: Honestly all of them sound cool! So whatever strikes your fancy, but I do want to note that he's likely to offer himself as sacrifice drill challenge, and will insist on helping the other group in a glass box challenge. Like, will fight you if you reach out for the red button.

In terms of what he brings to the table, Natsuno is smart, and as a vampire has extremely powerful regeneration abilities. If it's not a stake to the heart or decapitation, he will walk it off. I think I will nerf his active abilities, so no super strength and speed, but keep passive abilities like regeneration and heightened senses. You can also bet he'll bring a pack full of food and gear because he takes survival tips from Clarke Griffin.

CR GOALS: Positive CR, with new allies and potentially friends! Natsuno doesn't value his own safety very much and can be reckless and self-sacrificial, especially when he knows there's a revival mechanic (thanks Clarke). So I'm especially interested in teamups with people who will insist on working together and won't just let him put himself in harm's way. He's working on getting better, but he still needs people to remind him it's not okay to get horribly injured/killed just because he regenerates.

[redheadcarrier]

Seems like a good time for them to actually meet! Threatened by a weird labyrinth! Asuka might kinda let him do some of the work but she's got enough of a heart that she'd try to stop him from hurting himself repeatedly...

laws | roy harper (dc comics) & vincent valentine (ffvii)

[lapses]

PLAYER: laws
CONTACT: voicelog / pm

roy harper | dc comics

[thwikt]

CHARACTER: roy harper
ENTERING THE LABYRINTH:

sounds fun. he is still avoiding some notable canonmates (you know who you are), but otherwise, he is willing to team up with people throughout his stay in the maze. i don't plan to have him leave until the 28th because this bitch is in reckless bad decision mode and he's here to get hurt (oops?). for the next 4 days, he will be busy gearing up for entry. maybe scoping the exterior of the maze out. time to make a fuck ton of arrows, right? good thing there are plenty of trees and metals(?) around.

CHALLENGES:

definitely here to partner him up with random people he comes across within the maze. (great time for some cr building y/y?) i'm pretty open to all of the challenges listed, so feel free to come to me with your ideas. roy isn't in the best state of mind currently, so don't be surprised if you catch him fighting beasts for the heck of it or jumping into dangerous situations. B) still, he will be protecting and/or lending a hand to anyone who needs it because at the end of the day, he's a good dude.

CR GOALS:

i would love for him to run into the canonmates that he's avoiding because lol he needs to get that over with anyway. otherwise, i would love for him to meet new folks and/or develop established cr.

NOTE:

i probably won't be top leveling for him this month, but i will be tagging out and i might toss up a catchall log for him.

Three | Bobbi Morse & Cassandra Cain

[mockingbirdy]

PLAYER: Three
CHARACTER: Bobbi & Cass
ENTERING THE LABYRINTH: Cass is going to be miss prepared ready to attack (figuratively and literally) everything that comes across her path. She likes to show off her skills. Bobbi Is going to be annoyed by the entire thing and go in hyper prepared with anything she can think of in a practical sized bag. Spy training ftw.
CHALLENGES: Glass box! drills! Medical box -- maybe navigating the obstacle course if there's something challenging. Happy to have either of them end up working with new people throughout it.
CR GOALS: Generally any CR is good CR. Friends and frenemies always welcome for both Cass & Bobbi. Enemies generally more likely to have long term stuff with Bobbi because Cass will literally just walk away if she find someone too frustrating.

[daughterofliberty]

Maybe something with sirens for Sharon and Bobbi? They need to meet up and realize they have a buddy here already!

jessi | damian wayne & billy kaplan

[brat]

PLAYER: jessi crowbars

damian wayne

[brat]

CHARACTER: damian wayne, who is more than likely to be in his robin gear the entire time.
ENTERING THE LABYRINTH: damian's jumping in with his dragon bat known as goliath who he's likely going to lose track of at some point just because keeping track of pets in a maze sounds like a Lot, but. this isn't the first time he's been in a fucky maze, it won't be the last.
CHALLENGES: ideas!

• obstacle course - this wouldn't be much of a challenge to him personally, but if he gets stuck with someone who has a harder time with it, he'll help them on through it as best as he can. while complaining.
  
• glass box - smashes hand on the green button, he doesn't need the leg up fuck you. also: squishmallows? can he keep one so he can throw them at unsuspecting monsters?
  
• drill room - i'm 90% sure he's going to watch dick grayson die to drills, which will be a very not fun time for him. if anyone wants to find him after this, he'll be pissed and grumpier than usual.
  
• sirens - if anyone needs to be saved from a watery death, damian's got you. or if anyone wants to see him jump in because he thinks they've got someone else but it's just another siren faking it, they can save a wet cat from dying because he was trying too hard.
  
• beastiest - i'm always down for a good team up, or running with whatever other ideas anyone has!

CR GOALS: friends! damian is terrible at socializing and making friends, he should.. get some more of those. comrades, people he can bond with over shared experiences, or mortal enemies he can decide are his rivals for forever.

angel | hazbin hotel

[bad_habit]

PLAYER: Sly
CHARACTER: Angel Dust

ENTERING THE LABYRINTH:
Angel is so used to having to do this sort of team building nonsense. He is going to be vaguely annoyed by it as a whole but after months of doing weird team building exercises at the hotel he's oddly prepared for this kinda thing and might actually enjoy it a little, though he's may whinge and bitch that he doesn't at first.

CHALLENGES:
Presets that i'm interested in;
Obstacle course, Drills, Glass, and maybe the Siren one.

General ideas for others;
So I LOOOOOVE me some working with portals concepts and Resident Evil's elaborate nonsense with going all the way forward to get a piece of medallion only to have go all the way back cause YOU MISSED THE OTHER HALF SOMEHOW and that's really all I can picture here. I want to get real with buttons that do specific things and having to work with the environment to push activation pads and the like or having to find gemstones to put into pedestals in the right order to open doors and stuff! Lets work through it and find something fun if you want!

CR GOALS:
I would very much like Angel to get some positive CR for this as he has mostly had negative thanks to the Doppelgänger stuff and his general bad attitude. I don't might a little bit of a greasy surface start but would like them generally to be able to work together to be successful.

[thorncrown]

Hey Angel, you wanna do some puzzles with one very friendly vampire gal? It'll be positive, I promise.

Hayan Park

[thorncrown]

PLAYER: Starfighter
CHARACTER: Hayan Park

ENTERING THE LABYRINTH:
Hayan won't be able to breeze through the labyrinth of course. No jumping up on the walls, no super fast running, nope. She'll still be strong though, have her fire abilities and still have her claws though! And be able to regenerate too!

Expect her to stick with anyone who looks like they may need protecting. I promise she isn't making light of how capable you are, she's just got a whole lot of 'noblesse oblige' and believes because she's a vampire with superhuman abilities she owes it to regular people to help in every way she can.

CHALLENGES: I really dig the obstacle course. Also forcing her to hinder others to help her group will really be conflicting for her. Also please let her fight the beasts for you! Any of them, just bring her in and put her on the front line to grapple with them. Let her rescue people!

CR GOALS: Friends! Hayan loves helping people and loves getting to know other people. Her biggest wish in life is to have friends and by golly she'll be the most supportive friend you've ever had! That said if you want to try to make her an enemy, uh ... well, I guess try to hurt other people. That'll get you on her bad side?

[revengeisalie]

Hayan

Hayan please come help your local failavenger

Lorna's adrenaline junkies

[riskfalling]

PLAYER: Lorna
CONTACT: repeatandfade | pm

Dick Grayson/Nightwing

[riskfalling]

CHARACTER: Dick Grayson/Nightwing (comics)
ENTERING THE LABYRINTH: Dick will try to stick with whoever he enters with (likely Babs). Once in the labyrinth, he'll be searching for his family and friends, along with anyone in trouble. As much as he wants to get through quickly, he'll also be aware that people will need help.
CHALLENGES:

— obstacle course. Dick is an acrobat and gymnast; he's trained on the obstacle course that is Gotham for years. He'd be a great option to team up with someone a little nervous or unsure of themselves.
— companion bot. Dick's natural empathy would make him want to soothe the bot and 'nurse' it back to health. Very willing for him to be argued with over wasting time with this. If someone tries to put the bot out of its misery, he'd react as he would at the prospect of any other killing, and fight back.
— drills. Will you be the person Dick Grayson dies for this time?
— sirens. Either as the tempted one or as the rescuer.

CR GOALS: Team-ups! I'm cool with multiple partners for various prompts. This is a great chance for Dick to either bond with or create friction with someone, and I'd especially love for him and his morals to come up against some cold hard truths. Looking for a mix of pre-known and new CR for this, so if you want to have yours meet Dick, let's work out a way!

Asano Rin | Blade of the Immortal

[revengeisalie]

PLAYER: Val
CHARACTER: Asano Rin
ENTERING THE LABYRINTH: THANKS SHE HATES IT somebody hold her hand or something... or do the murdering for her. She'll stick with people she knows and trusts, but definitely have a preference for someone who can fight better than her tbh.
CHALLENGES: All of them?? But especially the injured bot, the glass box, and the drills.
CR GOALS: Anything goes tbh, I'm always open for everything! Friends, frenemies, people who will really test the stalwarthness of Rin's resolve to not just kick them off a precarious ledge... toss something at me.

[redheadcarrier]

Girl gang trying to build a bridge with like one plank?

Or maybe sirens.

Or maybe even drill shit and really hit Asuka in the trauma right off the bat.

dick grayson | titans

[cohero]

PLAYER:Amy

CHARACTER: Dick Grayson

ENTERING THE LABYRINTH: Dick is going to see this is as another mission, ala day in the life sort of thing. Shit happens and we do our best to survive. He's gotten a lot better at trying not to run off and do it all on his own lately, so hopefully this only cements that.

CHALLENGES: Dick is certainly up for any sort of obstacle event, fixing little bots, falling glass chambers perhaps, sirens, along with all those lions, tigers and bears oh my. He's good at survival, and at hurting things. It's what he's been trained to do; but he has no weapons for now, unless the person he goes in with has some. He will try and procure some beforehand if he can.

CR GOALS: Dick is here for all the CR he encounters at this point since he's fresh out of the box and has only met a handful of people. He's still not betting the farm on them, even if he's pretty sure he can trust them.

He's going to do his best to make all his CR positive during this encounter, I'd imagine. I can't see him doing much of anything to try and get on anyone's shit list quite yet. Not that it couldn't happen.

[riskfalling]

hear me out



drills.

riz gukgak | dimension 20: fantasy high

[stresstokens]

PLAYER: Fey
CHARACTER: Riz Gukgak
ENTERING THE LABYRINTH: Riz will be angry about being stuck in this whole ordeal, but being that he's from a Dungeons & Dragons canon -- he'll also begrudgingly admit that he's very well-suited for this sort of thing, and will have some basis of knowledge about how to deal with it. He'll be trying to stick with his party as much as possible - Fabian and Adaine - but they'll of course get separated at some points to pursue other CR!
CHALLENGES: I'm open to any of them! Some things that stick out, though, are:
- the obstacle course, his small stature acting as a handicap while his high dex skills act as a boon
- playing with the lack of food in the labyrinth by going full dunmeshi with it (he has eaten one dragon, he WILL eat another if he's hungry enough!)
- all sorts of monsters and beasties!
- the drills could be fun too! as would the glass box, but he'd refuse to push that button.

Overall, I think this is a challenge that Riz here will thrive in (much more than the challenges making friends), and he'll be tackling the labyrinth with a single-minded dedication to getting through to the other side. He'll be treating this as a sprint rather than a marathon, and will likely hit a dead end at some point as he realizes that he has to rest at some point, which means trusting someone else to have his back. I think the survival aspects of it could be a lot of fun, and I'm happy to come up with some challenges of our own as well! He'll also be pretty upset about being separated from the rest of his party, but hey, that's how you make new friends buddy!!!!

CR GOALS: Since Riz, like most of the game, is new here, I'd love for this to help jumpstart some CR with some good old-fashioned friendship forged by fire. Really, though, I'm down with anything! Fellow teens thrust into hardship, adults having to deal with a teen tagalong, people who may or may not be on-board with Riz's clear comfort with violence and/or willingness to Eat A Monster, I'm happy traveling down any avenue!

[revengeisalie]

oh my god I want the dunmeshi stuff............ Rin WILL be the Marcille in this

also this is gonna drive Rin's conspiracy theories THROUGH THE ROOF

Clarke Griffin

[skaikru]

PLAYER: Demi
CHARACTER: Clarke Griffin

ENTERING THE LABYRINTH: Clarke will be coming in with intense Labyrinth-based trauma due to previous game experience but will put on a brave, if also very openly unhappy face! She'll also be coming prepared after a month of running around like a kid in a candy store (an apocalypse kid in a city with well stocked provisions) with a few go bags full of shelf stable snacks, water, basic first aid, clean socks, baby wipes, and stolen knives. Could possibly be convinced to share or trade with the less prepared throughout the whole event.

Her main goal will be sticking close to her friends (Natsuno, Rita and Octavia) but my main interest is getting them separated and suffering 🙃🙃 Secondary goal is getting out of this place first, she really wants to peek behind the curtain of mission making.

CHALLENGES: Sirens, glass box of ✨no good choices✨ (will burn to get a leg up), reluctantly playing nurse to the companion bot, failing her animal handling roll when trying to ride talk her way around a dragon, falling on her face in the obstacle course. I think something like quicksand or vine booby traps could be fun to play around with too! Intense competition turned small scale war between groups would be my bread and butter.

Drills didn't strike my fancy but if it struck yours, I still wanna hear about it 👀👀

CR GOALS: Again, super interested in her being separated from her initial group of friends and using that as a springboard to get ALL the new CR! So many lovely people have apped recently, I want to play with everyone! Clarke is oddly comfortable in chaotic situations so if you need someone to hold your hand (or yell at you for being an idiot) through this tough time, she's your girl! Flip side, she's also distressingly human and can fill in either side of a savior complex scenario. I'm flexible and a big fan of positive and antagonistic CR, but mostly just love throwing characters into The Horrors together and seeing what develops organically.

[riskfalling]

Hey, I really enjoyed the (very short) TDM thread we started and that I never got back to (workfail). I'd love for Clarke and Dick to meet up again (or for the first time) to argue about killing/not killing or just work together to get through some part of the labyrinth!

hannibal lecter | hannibal

[relished]

PLAYER: isabella
CHARACTER: the good doctor
ENTERING THE LABYRINTH: honestly will consider this entire situation a nuisance but also a fun game (lol). he's an excellent problem solver. he likely won't seek anyone out on purpose, and it's not like he's become buddy-buddy with anyone here yet. he'll recognized that he'll need to play nice with others to get through this challenge and will act accordingly. he'll come with a first-aid kit and a scalpel.

CHALLENGES: he's a surgeon! so he can stitch someone up easily and pop a bone back into place. he has crazy knowledge of the human body. how often and who will be something he selects, he won't be helping everyone and likely will be choosing who to help based on how they can help him in the future if need be -- it's going to be very calculated (how many he helps will be capped at 10 bc i have to be realistic here. 1 slot is already taken by Clarke Griffin, so that makes 9 slots for your character to be helped!). hannibal has an extremely high pain tolerance so even if he is injured (which i'm very interested in having done lbrh) he can continue on without much trouble. he's also a very skilled fighter! idk i want all the obstacles, all the problems, all the blood.

had to edit it to include his sense of smell is stupid and if your character is sick/bleeding but hiding it/lying/feeling any emotion lmfao he will be able to tell!! so pls lmk if you don't want him to be able to do that for any reason!

CR GOALS: everything! maybe he patches someone up, but leaves someone behind. maybe he purposefully stitches someone badly bc they're rude, maybe he bleeds all over someone after getting bitten by a siren and he's saved so he owes someone something, idk, he's new and i'm open to it all. hannibal is a Weird Guy and his dialogue can get kind of intense. he doesn't tolerate discourtesy and he will 100% let someone bleed out if they talk smack. but also he'll meet kindness with kindness so pick ur poison

[bad_habit]

but what if that body wasn't very human?

Just saying~

tseng | final fantasy vii compilation

[nonvoting]

PLAYER: min
CHARACTER: tseng "problematic baddie" ff7
ENTERING THE LABYRINTH: in terms of feelings, tseng will feel the same way about this as he does about most things: this is a terrible idea but i'm going to do it because i have to! as for who he'll be sticking with, tseng and rufus will do their best to stay together but that they'll get separated at some point so they can like, not be cast-insular ya feel? so there will definitely be opportunity for him to be alone.

OH there will also be a period of time where tseng is accompanied by best girl darkstar so if you want to meet rufus' dog...... :>

CHALLENGES: i'm staring at this labyrinth like "why didn't i take tseng from a rebirth canon point, this is so temple of the ancients of you, aurora"

licherally anything sounds like fun! i'm equally down for things that rely on physical might and things that rely on intellect. tseng has been running stupidly complicated training courses for almost the entirety of his adult life, so he'd be more or less familiar with the concept of a labyrinth/obstacle course. while he's not a braniac exactly he is extremely observant and an excellent tactical thinker who's very good in a crisis.

also if anyone wants like, real drama?? idk??? he's not above putting people out of their misery if they get injured in the course of the labyrinth. HOWEVER he is also equipped with his full cure materia so alternately he can come to someone's aid if need be! depends on his mp levels baybee

CR GOALS: let me give you some flavors

option #1: someone equally hypercompetent and capable, so they can bust through challenges together! tseng is not a super personable type by nature, but he will definitely team up with people to get through what they need to get through. does your character want to work in stoic silence to breeze thru a challenge? are you a ~*sunny disposition*~ will chatter at a brick wall while running an obstacle course? hit me up for all your tall dark and silent type needs!

or

option #2: someone who is actually not hypercompetent and might need tseng to, in fact, look out for them. tseng exists in tension between his intellectual knowledge, that the mission should always come first regardless of the human cost, and his well-buried belief that there's nothing more valuable than human life. if your character could use guidance or a helping hand or someone to just look out for them, i hold tseng up on a silver platter for u.

or

option #3: literally anything, i am so open to cross-canon and new cr!!

also, i'm in the disco as "min | tseng" and on plurk as maehwa so feel free to add/chat wherever!

[brat]

can damian.. pet the dog

Sam Wilson | MCU

[unclesam]

PLAYER: Inky
CHARACTER: Sam Wilson

ENTERING THE LABYRINTH: Sam is freshly in to the game and hasn't built non-cast CR yet, so he'll definitely always be interested in working with the MCU characters (and variants of them from the comics) whom he knows, but but he's generally someone who will try and help others get through, and I think this could be a fun way to do some bonding :)

CHALLENGES:
Obstacle Course (what a callback to his airforce days - he's got this from his end, and is A+ at working with others tbh)

First Aid Garden (this could be fun for any characters wanting to learn a bit of first aid - Sam's just good at this, and can dispense some info here to anyone else)

Glass Boxes (Sam is never ever going to press the red button and would absolutely try to interfere with anyone he's with who might be so inclined)

Drills (he is 100% going to try to sacrifice himself here, so the only way he survives is if he's with someone who can match him in a self-sacrificial tug of war. definitely down to have him die to this.

Also open to any other / wildcards. Let's come up with some shit!

Sam has none of his tech gear from home, and he has no super powers, but he IS a trained pararescue, meaning he brings in an impressive set of physical training, combat capabilities, survival training and medical know how, in addition to sass and being generally good at keeping a cool head. He DOES lean self-sacrificial though. If someone's struggling, he will put himself on the line to pull them through/help them out. Get him set up with a firearm and/or knife, and he's a capable combatant, though he'd not attack other people just for the sake of getting through the labyrinth. Need patching up? Need someone strong/fast/agile for a physical situation? Need someone to keep a cool head? Need some sass, some survival training, some first aid? He's your guy :)

On the flipside, while capable, he IS just a regular human dude, so supernatural threats in particular will easily outclass them and he'd need backup on those. And hey, just because he'd take a bullet for other people doesn't mean that's always a good idea - he's in a bit of a darker headspace due to his canon point, so maybe he's just a little too self-sacrificial here. Plus, if anyone has some inevitably ill-fated ideas about how to break the system, he'd be all for trying.

CR GOALS: Mostly I'd love to hook Sam up with some of his cast as well as build him some CR beyond that. I'm not sure I'm super interested in him getting literally stabbed in the back here, but we can for sure have some friction based CR. Mostly looking to build him a nice CR circle under extreme duress though :)

Feel free to hit me up here, or via inkcharm, inkcharm @ Discord, or PM.

[riskfalling]

I wanna throw my good boy at your good boy

Also! Sam and Sharon meet and greet? She would absolutely throw herself on a drill to keep him from dying, which would be dramatic, or argue with him long enough that neither of them dies. Glass box could also be a good one!

[skrees]

PLAYER: Erin
CHARACTER: Dinah Lance from DC Comics

ENTERING THE LABYRINTH: Oh, this will be fine. Right? Right?? Dinah will feel equipped to handle any challenges that come her way. She's gonna have her game face on (though is stubborn and can absolutely argue if someone is Being a Fucking Dumbass.) Probably just not going to have her Canary Cry function at all while in the labyrinth? We'll see. Maybe but don't wanna use it to do some big win. She'll gravitate to familiar faces/people she's met though would also want to like...protect someone more vulnerable who may not be as equipped to even be on such a mission??

CHALLENGES: Oh no the bot with the ketchup is so endearing to me, and Dinah would be very much "the fuck is this?" so I kind of want her to have to made to roleplay helping to 'save' its 'life.'

I like the idea of an obstacle course but with like something really silly as part of it...like a game of telephone where 2-3 people have to somehow get a message from one end to the other and that unlocks the space they're in so they can move along.

For physical challenges, Dinah would be a great asset. She's real good at martial arts and thus hand to hand, plus is overall flexible and is used to a lot of physical in missions at home. Nothing superhuman, but eh...she's like real good, regardless.

I am frankly open to any of the challenges as mentioned, too! Dinah isn't going to do anything that would get someone else hurt or killed, but would put herself in harm's way to protect/save someone else. She'll get through the labyrinth when she does, but harming others ain't an option.

I'm interested in her encountering beasties and mythological-type creatures to evade/fight off (incapacitate in some way that isn't killing them?) Fairytale and fable stuff is always fun for me too.

CR GOALS: Since Dinah and me are brand new, I'm looking for some bonding moments and connections that could turn into new friends! She's a likeable hero-type character who enjoys socializing, etc etc so um, come meet her, fam. <3 I'm wide open for CR too, though -- frenemies, ppl not getting on well and clashing, etc.

[westcoasts]

hi person weirdly similar to his ex-wife

Alex Rider

[seenitall]

PLAYER: Joann
CHARACTER: traumatized teen spy
ENTERING THE LABYRINTH: GOD OK so Alex Hates This but he's gonna be prepared as fuck. His uncle never anticipated training him to navigate a magic labyrinth but he has been trained a lot in Roughing It and surviving extreme conditions. He's going to be very sensibly well-packed for the journey and willing to help people out. His Person is Kyra, who he's almost certainly going to be separated from and full-on James Sunderland in Silent Hill HAVE YOU SEEN MY WIFE? I'M LOOKING FOR MY WIFE. she is not technically his wife
CHALLENGES: The only one I'm not super-interested in is the siren challenge but that might change. Alex is very fit and athletic, so he's going to do well with challenges like the obstacle course. He's good at hand-to-hand and weapons combat. He's also very unlikely to throw other people under the bus for his own gain. Interested in coming up with new challenges, just don't have any offhand atm.
CR GOALS: friends, frenemies if it happens, enemies if it happens. Mostly looking for new CR and ways to connect him with interesting people!

[furiousfists]

Would you be interested in Alex "have you seen my wife??" Rider meeting up and commiserating with Adaine "have you seen my two friends???" Abernant?

[esquecida]

PLAYER: Amit
CHARACTER: Yara Flor

ENTERING THE LABYRINTH: Look. Listen. She JUST finished a labyrinthian thing recently, so she's not exactly excited to find herself in another one, especially one that's clearly more complex and intelligent than what she's just experienced. (Of course, it doesn't help that this is a labyrinth proper, and her earlier experience was kind of just around Doom's Doorway.) Yara's going to try to stick with whomever she can stick with, because she's already learned her lesson thrice-over that teamwork is where it's at.

CHALLENGES: The sirens one appeals to me most here, partly for the body horror of it if Yara gets beaten, but also between Yara's connection to Iara, the Brazilian water goddess who is her namesake and gifted her the golden boleadoras, it'd be a fun predicament to put her in.

CR GOALS: Definitely looking for new friends, but I'm also down for some frenemy action, because Yara can be quite abrasive at times.

[riskfalling]

Dick and Yara

DickandYara go

but also, as you pointed out, it could be fun to mash Yara up with Sharon, an experienced hero type very different from the supers and bats!

jessica jones . mcu

[ebrius]

PLAYER: trace
CHARACTER: jessica jones
ENTERING THE LABYRINTH: she's going to be pissed but what else is new? she's not exactly going to want to be there and she will make that known but she'll also try and get herself out since she doesn't want to live there permanently. she doesn't want to be the etraya equivalent of hoggle.

CHALLENGES: would love to throw jessica up against some fairy tale creatures especially with her strength lessened. she'll be so pissed about it but i think it'll be fun for her to revert a bit, try and fight things like this without that enhancement.

also would love to do some glass box stuff with someone else because i think that could lead to some good cr and some interesting interactions.

again, also, let's strap jessica and someone else to a chair and try and make them work together since that is one of her not favorite things in the world.

CR GOALS: new friends, of course, though that can be hard mode with jessica. but, more people for her to know and all. frenemies, absolutely, since it's hard not to have negative cr with her. because she is who she is and she will not be afraid to tell you what she thinks about it.

[relished]

hi hello would you be interested in glass box shenanigans