vivala | MISSION #01: SAND AND IRON PREPARATION LOG

MISSION #01: SAND AND IRON

With the operation fast approaching, the Crimson Corsairs mobilize to prepare. As is often the case, the Supplier and Infiltration teams take the lead, deploying within Elysium and on the continent of Hesaeth. These preparations will be vital for the success of the operation team, and the Corsairs have devoted significant resources into seeing it through.

The Corsairs have delivered their verdict, and the mining site will be Captured for the benefit of the Crimson Corsairs. We expect this will invite swift reprisal from the Empire, and the Corsairs are expected to prepare assiduously to ensure unnecessary loss of life can be avoided.

The following missions have been registered for completion. For a character to count as having participated, they must have a minimum of 3 comments in the mission thread. Characters may only participate in missions in one of the available regions, but may participate in up to two threads if desired. If more than the minimum number of log participants is available for a given log, it will impact the efficacy of the preparation. As this is the first mission, the numbers have been kept intentionally low, we will assess requirements based on how we see player participation from this event and adjust as necessary.

SUPPLIERS

Gathering Supplies: This will mostly consist of gathering ingredients to make the food and drink to be distributed among the celebrants. It might involve hunting, foraging, farming, or other methods of production or gathering depending on your character’s preference. Failure to properly stock Elysium for the party will make the visiting officers angry and alert, ensuring they can mount a more effective defense of Hesaeth.
Requirements: To participate in this mission, your thread header should read GATHERING SUPPLIES. At least 4 characters will need to participate in this mission among all mission threads to make this a success.
Region: Elysium
Participants: Link, Snufkin, Maomao, Kaine (4/4)

Venue Preparation: This will consist of preparing the venue for the performance and banquet. It involves setting up the area, as well as constructing areas for seating and staging for the performances which will be held in the banquet hall. Failure to properly prepare will make visiting officers bored and restless, ensuring they can mount a more effective defense of Hesaeth.
Requirements: To participate in this mission, your thread header should read VENUE PREPARATION. At least 4 characters will need to participate in this mission among all mission threads to make this a success.
Region: Elysium
Participants: Momo, Musse, Eva, Link (4)

Munitions Development: The assault on Hesaeth will be a sneak attack, but extra firepower is always appreciated. Based on the recent salvage we’ve recovered, we believe we can make either a lethal poison or a sleep gas to be fired at the labor camp barracks. There is considerable argument among the Corsairs over which should be used, the sleeping concoction will potentially allow for the taking of captives. The poison gas will be potentially safer in neutralizing major threats, but there are many among the Corsairs and Imperial citizenry who will find the use of such a weapon abhorrent and this may lower our standing among our allies.
Requirements: To participate in this mission, your thread header should read either MUNITIONS DEVELOPMENT - SLEEPING GAS or MUNITIONS DEVELOPMENT - POISON GAS. At least 2 characters will need to participate in either of these missions to make this a success.
Region: Vault
Gambit: This will make up to two Gambits available - the Sleeping Gas Gambit and the Poison Gas Gambit. Either will be available for a one-time use in a mission log.
Participants (Sleeping Gas): Rezo (1/2)
Participants (Poison Gas): (0/2)

Illicit Substance Development: With the visiting officials, now is an excellent time for Elysium to put some of its finest hedonistic delights on display. To that end, they are developing more powerful alcohol and drugs to ensure the empire cannot mount an effective defense when the time comes. The enhanced alcohol should make the officers more likely to be asleep or impaired, whereas the drugs should ensure the officers are hallucinating and unable to give effective orders. Both should be able to completely incapacitate the officers and keep them from providing any aid to the labor camp.
Requirements: To participate in this mission, your thread header should read either DRUG DEVELOPMENT or ALCOHOL DEVELOPMENT. At least 2 characters will need to participate in either of these missions to make this a success.
Region: Vault or Elysium
Faction: Elysium only
Gambit: This will make up to two Gambits available - the Potent Drugs Gambit and the Potent Alcohol Gambit. Either will be available for a one-time use in a mission log.
Participants (Drug Development): Maomao, Musse (2/2)
Participants (Alcohol Development): (0/2)

INFILTRATORS

Observation and Mapping: Infiltrators will need to get a full layout of the labor camp, including troop movements, locations of armaments, and as many details as possible. This information will be critical in ensuring the team can quickly neutralize the threats on the ground. Failure to properly scout the area will lead to the team encountering unexpected and potentially dangerous threats on the ground.
Requirements: To participate in this mission, your thread header should read either OBSERVATION AND MAPPING. At least 4 characters will need to participate in either of these missions to make this a success.
Region: Hesaeth
Participants: T-800, Id, Itsuzumi, Aerich (4/4)

Prisoner Uprising: Infiltrators will need to steal into the labor camp and prepare the inhabitants for their impending rescue. This includes informing them and arming them so they can assist, if willing.
Requirements: To participate in this mission, your thread header should read OBSERVATION AND MAPPING. At least 4 characters will need to participate in either of these missions to make this a success.
Region: Hesaeth
Gambit: This will make the Prison Revolt Gambit available. It will be available for a one-time use in a mission log, but can only be used on this mission.
Participants: Madeline, Noctis, Harlock (3/4)

Steal Dispatches: Knowledge is power, and the Corsairs can make tremendous use of the maps, dispatches, and orders that flow through prison camps like this. Infiltrators will need to enter officer quarters and sift through refuse to find these missives and bring them back to the Vault for analysis.
Requirements: To participate in this mission, your thread header should read either STEAL DISPATCHES. At least 2 characters will need to participate in either of these missions to make this a success.
Region: Hesaeth
Faction: Vault only
Gambit: This will make the Hamper Reinforcements Gambit available. It will be available for a one-time use in a mission log.
Participants: Donatello, Angelika (2/2)

Players are generally free to play out the mission however they wish in terms of their log. A mission’s success will be judged across all participants in all logs. Players who want to make final group planning may use the top level in this post. Any Gambits will be made immediately available once the log participation requirement is met. The Execution phase will be posted on July 10th, but the cut-off to complete a mission log successfully for the planning phase will be July 15th.

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The job here, at this moment, was crucial to the success of the operation. Using the various ingredients they'd gotten together, they needed to turn them into usable substances to take the nobility out of the picture. It wasn't going to be easy, but honestly, the challenge was good for Maomao. It kept her focused.

It made it fun.

Not that she'd say that last thought out loud. She was too pragmatic for that - even if it did show in her face at some points.

But for now, her face was just a mask of concentration as she poured over notes, mortar and pestle set aside for the moment. She had to pour over not only the herbs they'd been given, but several monster parts she'd arranged to have delivered from Flotsam and the Vault. Using them in medicine, or poison, wasn't as well-studied as with herbs, and their combinations never even touched upon, so it would be difficult to form them into a cohesive whole.

A challenge. But fun.

"You seem to be enjoying yourself."

The speaker was Maomao's master, as it were, who had offered to assist in the process. And assisting was all she intended to do, she had a healthy respect for Maomao's expertise and knew how dangerous the items they were working with could be.

"Do I?" Maomao at least had the decency to not look Musse in the eyes when she said that. "I'm merely doing the job required of me. Though the chance to work with outstanding ingredients like this is a rare opportunity, I admit." Which was a long mouthful to say that she wanted to experiment with things.

"Take this for example." She holds up.... some sort of offal. Which is pretty gross to handle for most people, but not Maomao! "This is the stomach lining from a type of monster bird whose diet consists of poisonous creatures. I'm hoping that we can find a way to use it to partially conceal the effects of a drug until it's partially digested. That may work to have them seem fine for a bit before succumbing to greater effects later." Maomao please stop holding raw stomach lining.

Also, she does look like she's having way too much fun.

Musse for her part doesn't seem especially offended or upset, she listens with interest.

"I would imagine you'd need do something to disguise the lining if you're hoping to make this an ingestible."

"We'd need to find a way to prepare it that disguises it and maintains the effect, yes. Does it maintain an effect if charred and ground? Can we find a way to get this into a different state?" She weighs the offal in one hand. "It would be most useful if we could render it into something like a gelatin, though. But I'm not quite sure how that works."

Musse ponders for a moment.

"I have some experience with cooking, I imagine making a gelatin wouldn't be out of the question. If the lining is needed to coat the more potent drug though, could we perhaps distill it into a candy of some sort? If so it could easily be inserted into a gelatin as a garnish."

"Sugar is often a poor man's pill coating as it is, so it would actually be quite simple to make into something like that." Sugar she has experience working with - after all, she was a poor man's apothecary in essence.

Recent work notwithstanding.

"We're somewhat pressed for time, are we not? If you believe it would be an acceptable delivery method, I can begin preparing gelatin."

Musse isn't particularly picky about how they do it, so long as they get it done in time.

"Let's work on that, then." Maomao begins to grab a couple other ingredients - both plant and monstrous in origin. "I'm going to test the effectiveness of a few of these ingredients in the meantime. There's charcoal powder available if it ends up being necessary."

Because, obviously, there's only one proper way to test things.

"Not on yourself."

The statement is flat and commanding, and Musse doesn't even look up from the gelatin she's preparing.

Okay, wow, way to call her out like that? That was obviously what Maomao had been planning on doing.

"How else would you test it?" she asked. It'd simply be unethical to test it on somebody else! (And nothing to do with the fun of testing new and dangerous substances on herself.)

Still, she's also not one to openly defy the wishes or orders of her mistress, so she sets aside some of the things she had been about to test and moves on to preparing the ingredients instead.

"While I don't especially like the idea, testing on animals seems much safer, no? While it won't be a 1 for 1 match, it can probably provide appropriate data nonetheless."

"It'll be much harder to gauge the exact effects..." How do you tell if an animal is drunk? More drunk? Seeing things, hearing things? It'd be easier to tell if they were developing something lethal, but they're not.

But still, she sighs. Musse is, after all, in charge. "But I suppose I can make it work. It shouldn't be hard to find some vermin, or we can purchase a few farm animals for testing purposes later." Then slaughter them when they're done. Waste not, after all.

Musse smirks.

"I shall ensure you have all you need. Shall I send someone to round up some rats? I'm sure the farmhands would be quite thrilled."

"We might as well make their day, then."

~~And this is how Pinky and the Brain gets started in this universe.~~

"Very well, see to your preparations. This won't take long."

Musse makes a few calls, and sure enough, some youthful looking Elysium guards return in short order with a few sacks full of squirming, angry rats.

This is it.... the power. The power of having money and connections.

Maomao takes some time finding a large, empty box - one that had been used to transport ingredients, in fact - and empty some rats into it. From there, get some food, and either mix in or coat small pieces of the food in an ingredient, give it to one rat at a time, and observe the effects. And write down the results, of course.

...It's not as fun as experiencing the effects herself though.

Musse watches with interest, her eyes unusually sharp as she observes, but she otherwise says nothing, waiting until Maomao is finished before speaking.

"I would hear your thoughts."

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