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route_0062013-11-22 12:23 pm
doitrockapella) wrote in route_0062013-11-22 12:23 pm
This Plot Idea Is For The Birds (no, really)
Hey, everybody! Alex here, coming to you with a (Sunny-approved) post-Fourth Wall player plot idea, and hoping to get some information, work some ideas out, and see how generally feasible it'd be to pull off!
Basically, several months ago a couple of Rockets attacked Falkner's gym and stole his Elite Team of six Flying-types for the glory of Team Rocket and all that. It's recently come to Carmen's attention that those birds are apparently still around and just hanging out in what she assumes is the Goldenrod Rocket Base, and, well. It's been a while since she stole something, and we certainly can't have anybody getting complacent in their villainy, can we.
So here's the tentative idea: following the conclusion of Fourth Wall, she'll wake up in Goldenrod, just in time for the nation to get hit with the Thanksgiving Tornado. While she's there, she'll happen to notice a careless Rocket prioritizing his or her own safety over Strict Secrecy™, and observe them using the secret passage down into the Rocket Base as they attempt to take cover from the tornado. Once she's caught on to this little revelation (and once the tornado has passed), she'll decide to go drop in and pay the Rockets a visit, and liberate Falkner's birds in favor of some birds she figures the merry Rockets might find a bit more palatable for the holiday — a set of six frozen Thanksgiving turkeys, instead.
Of course, the problem with just randomly walking into the Rocket Base is that people are kind of liable to notice that you are not a Rocket and don't belong in the Rocket Base. So, thanks to some Steve-approved Fourth Wall shenanigans, she'll be doing it in disguise.
As Cobra Commander.
So there's a fair amount of room for flexibility and involvement in the plot, really, which is what I'm largely here to discuss — I'd prefer to have her succeed at this, but if it'd be completely unrealistic for reasons I don't yet know about, then I'm more than happy to amend or altogether scrap the idea. So what I'm looking for is:
• Rockets — who's in the base, are you likely to have special security measures that I don't yet know about, do you want to have an encounter with Fake Cobra Commander while she's in there, that kind of thing! Also, if somebody would like to take on the currently-NPC role of being the idiot who gives away the location of the base (and IDK, possibly face Rocket Consequences™ if that's something you're interested in playing around with, too), I can definitely work with you on that! Mostly I'm looking for who might be around, complications she might run into, that kind of thing.
• The PGC — my going thought is that, in true Carmen fashion, she's probably not likely to actually go return the birds herself, but rather to find some Designated Good Guy™ and just have the birds mysteriously show up in their PC when it gets a little closer to Christmas, with the idea that one of them will be compelled to do the right thing and go give Falkner his stuff back. Understandably, this could cause some WHO WAS THAT MASKED MAN among the Designated Heroes, which I'm also okay with, and I'd be interested in playing around with some possible CR opportunities in that respect as well.
• Anybody Else — if you're in Goldenrod and would be affected by this in a way that I haven't anticipated, please let me know so I can keep working on the idea and come up with something that makes sense for everyone!
The tentative working dates for this plot are Thanksgiving and the day after, so that's the 28th and 29th of November. Assuming it flies, I'll probably put up an open Rocket Base log with Carmen in disguise so people can hit her up and shenanigans can ensue, but again, please don't hesitate to tell me if there's good reason why this isn't feasible! I'm more than happy to change things around or dump the idea altogether if it's going to pose a bunch of problems I haven't anticipated. o/
And again, this has been Sunny-approved. ♥
Basically, several months ago a couple of Rockets attacked Falkner's gym and stole his Elite Team of six Flying-types for the glory of Team Rocket and all that. It's recently come to Carmen's attention that those birds are apparently still around and just hanging out in what she assumes is the Goldenrod Rocket Base, and, well. It's been a while since she stole something, and we certainly can't have anybody getting complacent in their villainy, can we.
So here's the tentative idea: following the conclusion of Fourth Wall, she'll wake up in Goldenrod, just in time for the nation to get hit with the Thanksgiving Tornado. While she's there, she'll happen to notice a careless Rocket prioritizing his or her own safety over Strict Secrecy™, and observe them using the secret passage down into the Rocket Base as they attempt to take cover from the tornado. Once she's caught on to this little revelation (and once the tornado has passed), she'll decide to go drop in and pay the Rockets a visit, and liberate Falkner's birds in favor of some birds she figures the merry Rockets might find a bit more palatable for the holiday — a set of six frozen Thanksgiving turkeys, instead.
Of course, the problem with just randomly walking into the Rocket Base is that people are kind of liable to notice that you are not a Rocket and don't belong in the Rocket Base. So, thanks to some Steve-approved Fourth Wall shenanigans, she'll be doing it in disguise.
As Cobra Commander.
So there's a fair amount of room for flexibility and involvement in the plot, really, which is what I'm largely here to discuss — I'd prefer to have her succeed at this, but if it'd be completely unrealistic for reasons I don't yet know about, then I'm more than happy to amend or altogether scrap the idea. So what I'm looking for is:
• The PGC — my going thought is that, in true Carmen fashion, she's probably not likely to actually go return the birds herself, but rather to find some Designated Good Guy™ and just have the birds mysteriously show up in their PC when it gets a little closer to Christmas, with the idea that one of them will be compelled to do the right thing and go give Falkner his stuff back. Understandably, this could cause some WHO WAS THAT MASKED MAN among the Designated Heroes, which I'm also okay with, and I'd be interested in playing around with some possible CR opportunities in that respect as well.
• Anybody Else — if you're in Goldenrod and would be affected by this in a way that I haven't anticipated, please let me know so I can keep working on the idea and come up with something that makes sense for everyone!
The tentative working dates for this plot are Thanksgiving and the day after, so that's the 28th and 29th of November. Assuming it flies, I'll probably put up an open Rocket Base log with Carmen in disguise so people can hit her up and shenanigans can ensue, but again, please don't hesitate to tell me if there's good reason why this isn't feasible! I'm more than happy to change things around or dump the idea altogether if it's going to pose a bunch of problems I haven't anticipated. o/
And again, this has been Sunny-approved. ♥
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He is firmly in the PGC however. Sorry for confusing you there.
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And what is it that's making him think the base is going to be unguarded? I'm confused about how he's going to be inside the base to discover fake Cobra if he's not a Rocket and otherwise wouldn't have any reason to be in there. :|a
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... No really, Itachi hasn't beaten the tar out of him yet in canon. It's plausible. That being said, chances are if that doesn't work I'll just keep him away and busy with other things until after the fact?
Still using this icon b/c this is his reaction to my dumb right nowno subject
She's breaking in on the 29th, two days after Fourth Wall is over.
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Fair enough! In that case I don't mind having Sasuke as a potential PGC member involved after all is said and done with Carmen.
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As far as I know, she doesn't know Sasuke is a member of the PGC (she doesn't know a lot of the PGC personnel, actually...but maybe there's a way to fix that), so that'd be something we'd have to get established as groundwork before getting him involved, but that shouldn't be too much of a hassle. :|a
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Sounds good! I'll let you know if I have any ideas, and if you have any then you can either PM or PP me at
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