[OOC] [Planned] ImportantNobody and Stekkmen: UNT vs The Threat

[Stekkmen]

ImportantNobody's and Stekkmens big ole' planned battle!
Please look at roleplayerguild.com/topics/89316-fated.. if you want to know about what Important and I are attempting to accomplish here.

First up, this will take place in the Andreemea universe, a sci-fi world where both science and fiction tend to happen. ImportantNobody will me writing from the perspective of the UNT, the galaxies' police force, or the United Nations. The good guys, you could say, although some other inhabitants of the Andreemea canon may tend to disagree with you. They are a military force that Important will get into with their design later.

I, Stekkmen, will be writing from the perspective of "The Threat" a new alien species that appears through a dimensional portal. Standing at about 100 feet tall, the Threat will be facing off against the UNT in this first Fated Matchup. I will describe the Threat in greater detail in the Characters thread.

We'll be fighting on the ice-blue planet of Oryu, a rocky, unfriendly landscape of rocks, blue grass and white trees.

[ImportantNobody]

Anything taking place after this post is likely spoilers, so for those of you who want to read the IC without knowing what's going to happen, look no further down.
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We can use this thread for all of the Threat battles rather than just the first one and have the start of each battle linked to the first post so you can easily navigate between them or read through them as one story.

Would you like this to be the separate Canon-Threat version where it begins to threaten the galaxy as a whole, or should we stick to the Canon-1 version where this battle could be referenced in other Andreemea stories that use Canon-1 (which will be the main one we use as a group where everyone's ideas can be included)?

I'll come up with my characters mostly on the fly if you wish to hop right into this. Some NPCs might, for example, catch my eye during the fight and will be fleshed out at that point. I could have some of them the great great whatever grandparents of some of the characters in Canon-1 during the time period that most of the stories are in.

[Stekkmen]

I like this being the hub for the Threat battles. Good plan.

Could we just do both? have a Canon-1 Threat where they just take over one planet, and then do Canon-Threat where the Threat is capable of
spreading to other planets?

Like, we could have the War for Oryu, and for Canon-1, that'll be the end of it. No one goes to Oryu anymore except for some unlucky protagonists. And then, maybe at some point in time if people are interested, we could do a Canon-Threat with some other people where it has the capability to evolve and attack other planets.

But right now, let's just do Oryu.

So, for clarity sake, this IS taking place before a majority of the Andreemea stories? So it's the UNT in the height of it's power, but since it's in the past, the technology is weaker... Okay, sounds good. By the time the other stories come around, the Threat will have taken over the entire planet so even orbital bombardments couldn't uproot it. It'd be like bombing the planets surface. No point, really.

It's pretty easy to come up with some characters that will only be used for one RP and will probably die or something. I don't think you really need to plan out some 2d characters until you flesh them out later.

Okay, so, what should the Threat look like in detail?

100 feet tall, big mushy wormy head, a hivemind of different organisms working together with fungus and plants covering it that shoot acid-poison. Also, since it's so big, it has different animals living inside it that assist in it it's conquest. It's hands are just three big fingers that grab and smash, and they fall down to the bottom of his knees. It's feet are... I dunno. What should it's feet look like?

[ImportantNobody]

Good idea with keeping it canon-1 up until the branch off point. Most of the characters involved would be dead by old age anyways for the other stories so I don't need to worry too much about keeping them alive. I may have one survivor who is a long lived race and is a mentor for the plucky young heroes later on.

The UNT of current times would be more powerful as it keeps getting new members and technology for the forseable future, but it's the height of their power when they were at their most militaristic. So you could say the height of their most deadly period since forming together into the UNT. War with the most powerful empire does that to you.

To kill the Threat at that point would require so much damage to the planet that it would throw off the entire star system and have a chain reaction. As of the current Canon-1 time they are just keeping it contained rather than trying to destroy it. There's nobody left to save down there anyways unless people crash land there.

Wormy head with tentacle mouths like a sarlac pit from star wars? Just as the head portion. It's fingers might be able to bend and twist around unnaturally like a whip and have sharp nails that shoot out and tipped with poison. T-rex feet would make the most sense or it slithers around with spiky tails.

[Stekkmen]

Thanks for the info on the Unt.

Yeah, sort of like that. just like a neckhole with a bunch of tentacles that kind of form together into a writhing mass of grossness. It uses it's tentacle mouth to kind of envelop people into it when it eats. What a pleasant death.

I think, considering how big it is (100 feet, yeah?) I think shooting out nails tipped would be a bit unnecessary. I think just uprooting trees and throwing them would be better for forces on the ground. The acid-fungus and hivemind creatures would take care of any unwanted guests on the Threat's shoulders.

The fungus, I imagine, is like a conical sort of shape with a top part that sprouts from the top. It kind of moves around and detects movement and fires globs of acid or emits poisonous gas depending on the situation. With all of the fungus together co-ordinated they could create a sizeable projectile with a lot of force behind it.

I can imagine a scene where a hover-craft gets nailed by some acid, and the acid just sticks to the craft and dissolves it's hull and engines until it spirals out of control and slams into the ground.

[ImportantNobody]

100 feet is fine.

In a slapstick deleted scene, the crew inside the hovercraft keep flying in mid air without the ship around them until they look down, realize they are no longer in a ship, and fall down Wile E Coyote style.

[Stekkmen]

Okay cool.
I mean 100 feet is pretty big.

That's a lot of climbing. So they'll need jetpacks... How about a small group of them (one of the hero characters involved?) starts climbing up the Threat to get to the top. They do climbing jumps, all sorts of treachery in the ridiculous climb until they get to the shoulders. Then, the face shifts and becomes a giant mouth with giant tentacle tongues that just swallows the rest of them up. (Maybe start out with ten, have like two by the time they get to the shoulders)

[ImportantNobody]

At the start of the battle? Unlikely they were walking around with jetpacks so they will do athletic stuff after trying to fight it on ground level for a little bit with guns. Some super talented sword wielding woman made it up and would have won but as she leaps to deliver the ending blow, the tentacle face shift takes her off guard and devours her before her magical slice of doom would have connected. And maybe she dislikes gross things so that throws off her attack too. XD She gets grossed out for just a second too long.

[Stekkmen]

The jetpack people could arrive as reinforcements.

What do you think some of the Threat's minions should look like? We should have a flying one at the least. They all have to be reasonable size, of course. Maybe the Threat has egg sacs growing on it that burst into medium sized creatures for the UNT to fight?

[ImportantNobody]

They are a part of the Threat so they would look sort of like gooey chunks of it's flesh but also fungusy and planty. They can have certain characteristics such as flight. They are born from egg sacks.

[Stekkmen]

Wait, are they born from egg sacks or do they just peel right off from the Threat? if they are born from egg sacs, they could just be different organisms that tag along with the Threat from it's home dimension.

[ImportantNobody]

They have to be born first rather than coming into existence by peeling off.

[Stekkmen]

Okay, so, now we've got that out of the way, i suppose we should do the plot now

what happens first?
Does the Threat just fall out of a giant rip in space time? Like, it falls onto it's stomach and stands up?
or does it just appear from behind a hill or out of a giant hole? out of the ocean, even?

[ImportantNobody]

The first battle would be against the 10 or so scouts that first see him falling out of the rip. Maybe it lands on one of their vhicles, or their only vehicle, and they're like, "ahhhhh man!!!"

[Stekkmen]

"aaaaah man"

explain

[ImportantNobody]

"aaaaah man"

explain

@Stekkmen

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Aww+man

[Stekkmen]

okay
uh
thanks

so he falls on their car or something?
and they aren't in the car, for some reason?
im a little confused

[ImportantNobody]

A transport vehicle. It's not like they are obligated to stay in it the entire time.

[Stekkmen]

So, this group of scouts are like taking a smoke break or something pissing around outside with their vehicle a long way away from them, and the threat makes a big entrance from a portal and just destroys their vehicle

what happens next? does the threat big up their vehicle and throw it at them? is there a hero character in this group of scouts?

[ImportantNobody]

They'd probably be out and about exploring the weird distortion they picked up. Some would be using that time to take a break if they don't feel like they're getting anywhere with that. They'd be at various distances as they explore the surrounding area.

He could use the vehicle to smash some of them but the sword wielding hero woman will cut it in half epically before it hits her. Some of the closer scouts start surrouding him and the swordswoman nimbly just up to his back to slice his neck when his face turns tentically and devours her a split second before she kills him as she's distracted by how hideous he has turned.