Player Plot: Bizarre Bird Behavior! - Information and Plotting

[lordshield]

Unknown forces have caused a shift in nature. Wild chocobos are flocking en masse into cities suddenly and for no quickly discernible reason. The rowdy flock make messes everywhere, cause traffic jams, violate noise ordinances, and eat any food in sight. The flock might be in the towns, but they’re far from tame.

Characters may choose to investigate why the chocobos are in the cities rather than in their natural habitats. Their search will lead them to find monsters patrolling the immediate surroundings of each affected city are aggressive beasts known as “chocobo eaters”. Adventurers may attempt to fight off the monsters, but it will take a concerted effort for them to succeed in permanently repelling the beasts. Oddly enough, the mastermind of the effort comes in the form of a mysterious gold chocobo (perhaps the first ever seen in Vaikuntha) who is bold enough and smart enough to recruit heroes and partner them up with battle-ready wild chocobos in order to fight off the encroaching monsters. With the beasts soundly beaten, everything will return to normal, and the chocobos may once again return to their natural habitats. Some grateful chocobos, however, may decide to remain with a hero that impressed them.

Characters will break into teams of three or be randomly assigned to teams of three if they so desire. Players must decide if they wish to take on an adult chocobo eater, which is a decidedly more difficult battle, or an adolescent chocobo eater, an easier battle for those who wish to help but don’t wish to put themselves in too much danger. Each team will be assigned one randomly generated chocobo. “Hard Mode” teams will get a chocobo of either “good” or “wonderful” rating (something that will come into play later with the implementation of chocobo breeding at the end of the event), and “Easy Mode” teams will get a chocobo of either “average” or “good” rating.

Additionally, characters in various cities may find themselves partnered with a chocobo with plumage of a different color who also has special adaptations. In the cities of Von Oktavia, Sparks Golsaucia, Safer Osu, and Nakagawa only plain yellow chocobos will be found. In addition to yellow chocobos, teams choosing “Hard Mode” in the following cities have the chance to be paired with chocobos of the following colors:

Royal City of Myste Aura - Green (Mountain chocobos)
Tark Varentain - White (Snow chocobos)
Lavode - Blue (River/Lake chocobos)
Arito - Brown (Desert/Savannah chocobos)
Ela Nhor Port - Black

Cities not listed anywhere above will not be part of the event.

Once the team has defeated their monster, the chocobo will show its appreciation with a gift of two gysahl greens (used for capturing future chocobo steeds) for each member of the team, and one member of each team may decide to keep the chocobo. If no one on the team chooses to keep the chocobo, it will return to the wild. One randomly selected team will be joined by the gold chocobo, and once the battle is over she will present them with an egg that will hatch in a month’s time into a randomly generated high-stat chocobo of a random color, though sadly not gold.

This event will run from May 2nd to May 8th. All participants will receive 50xp for their efforts. Further information on chocobo breeding will be released near the end of the event.

Comments

QUESTIONS

[lordshield]

Anything I didn't cover?

[whirluendo_of_puns]

How backtag-friendly is this event? I'm mainly wondering whether the chocobo eaters are going to be modded, and if so, how long can we continue threading if a party member gets busy and can't tag for a while?

Re: QUESTIONS

[conniemaheswaran]

What would contacting the Scholars’ guild let the characters know about the chocobo eaters’ strengths and weaknesses?

TEAM SIGN UP

[lordshield]

If you already have your team of three characters please have one player submit the following for your team of three.

Characters: Your team of three
City: What city will they be fighting for?
Hard or Easy?

[topgun_textiles]

Characters: Futaba, Naoto, and Kanji
City: Lavode
Difficulty: Hard

Re: TEAM SIGN UP

[conniemaheswaran]

Characters: Connie, Lelouch, Euphemia
City: The Royal City of Myste Aura
Difficulty: HARD MODE ALL THE WAY

[mythmaker]

Characters: Azusa Miura, Yue, Red Savarin
City: The Royal City of Myste Aura
Hard or Easy?: Hard

[sullenstallion]

Characters: Dylas, Sparks Nevada, Hunk
City: Arito
Hard or easy?: Hard

[spaceforged]

Characters: Castor, Camilla, Shiro
City: Tark Varentain
Hard or Easy? Hard

Re: TEAM SIGN UP

[shinra_dog]

Characters: Reno, Johnny, Clarus
City: Ela Nhor
Hard Mode because why not

[melodiouspacifist]

Characters: Demyx, Roxas, Riku Replica
City: Tark Varentain
Hard Mode

[warpstriking]

Characters: Noctis, Ignis, Prompto
City: Ela Nhor Port
Hard or Easy? Hard

[whirluendo_of_puns]

Characters: Uendo, Okuyasu, Lean
City: Arito
Difficulty: Hard

[seekthelight]

Characters: Sora, Nyx and Terra
City: Lavode
Hard or Easy: HARD MODE

[zanarkandian]

Characters: Tidus, Nanamo, Makoto
City: Lavode
Mode: Hard

[worldmother]

Characters: Fei Fong Wong, Elhaym Van Houten, Rutile
City: Tark Varentain
Difficulty: Either is fine!

RANDOMIZED TEAM ASSIGNMENT

[lordshield]

If you'd like to be randomized into a group to mix things up, submit the following.

Character: Your character
City: What city will they be fighting for? Or what cities might they be visiting at the time?
Hard or Easy? Or either?

[tuneyourheaders]

Character: Cindy Aurum
City: Safer Osu
Hard or Easy?: Hard!

Re: RANDOMIZED TEAM ASSIGNMENT

[kuposcreed]

Character: Bonnie
City: Tark Varentain is the likely one but I'm open
Hard or Easy: Either is fine, kupo~

[songbird_slayer]

Character: Madhuri
City: Tark Varentain preferred, though open.
Hard or Easy? Crank up the difficulty, coach. Trial by fire!

Save the animals

[modelcivilian]

Character: Adrien Agreste
City: Ela Nhor Port (but any city is good)
Hard or Easy?: Either

[omnicrafter]

Character: Irhya Pendhula
City: Possibly Arito or Lavode but totally open
Hard or Easy? Either

LOOKING FOR GROUP

[lordshield]

Comment and see who you can find to team up with, or plot shenanigans.

Re: LOOKING FOR GROUP

[nanaimo_bar]

Looking for Group, (1) Potato Sultana.

She comes armed with Red Mage and White Mage, although for this we'll go with White Mage. Because we're still lacking in healers.

looking for group

[red_planet_blues]

Sparks is your tank or possible DPS being a Magitek Knight/Paladin. Also, he hates chocobos. He'd probably stay out of this but the birds are causing problems, so he will feel obligated to help. But he's gonna gripe a LOT.

[daggercubed]

We could have Vax and Sparks team-up? DPS and DPS/Tank. Vax'll be doing the Ninja thing.

Selphie, Baiken and Vax'ildan

[boomchucka]

Hello to my teammates!

I can't seem to find the Plurk account for one of you so I wanted to be better safe than sorry and post a plotting comment up here for our group!

Who's bringing what to the party? Who wants the Chocobo? Modded or non-modded?

Let's plot! :D

[garyoutensei]

Baiken's got no use for a chocobo, and would really prefer money as a prize, but hey. EXP for EXP's sake.

She's a Swordmaster, so probably suited to be the frontliner of the group