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Small Group Missions
Mission Request form last updated 08/19/13.
These are missions for groups of two to eight characters (though there may be some flexibility on that character limit).
Do you want some unexpected forced bonding time? A group training exercise? Here's the place to get that! By requesting a Small Group Mission, you will be given an opportunity for your group of characters to be sent on a mission by the Initiative. These missions will be small in scale compared to the game-wide missions -- a game-wide mission could change the tide of an entire war; these missions will often be seemingly inconsequential, but could potentially have long-reaching effects.

Perhaps your characters will be sent to the French countryside in 1723 with the instructions to raid a carriage and steal a small wooden box inside of it, or to the Reconstruction-Era United States with the instructions to find a certain man and invite him to a bar with the purpose of getting him so drunk that he passes out, or to simply walk into a library in Egypt and collect several scrolls. But perhaps that small wooden box contains an important treaty that is being transported to be signed. Perhaps that man is, in fact, a US senator who will now be late and miss out on voting on a new law. Perhaps those scrolls were housed in the Library of Alexandria and only days away from being destroyed in the fire.

When assigning missions, we will be taking factors such as the size of the group and the particulars of the kind of mission you, as players, want to see your characters on. The more specific you are, the better we can meet your needs!

Solo Missions
Solo Missions are much the same as Small Group Missions, but are undertaken by a single character. You have the option of writing out a solo log about the mission, or simply handwaving it. These missions can be used for character development purposes and/or as a way to explain your character's absence when you go on a hiatus. Please state exactly what you want your character doing for this mission.

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MISSION REQUEST FORM
<b>Character(s) involved:</b> <b>Preferred Location:</b> This field is optional. Do you have a country, biome, or otherwise specific setting in mind for this mission? <b>Preferred Time Period:</b> Again, this field is optional, but if you have one, please state it here! Double check that your time period is not in conflict with your preferred objective. <b>Preferred Mission Objective:</b> Specific detail is highly suggested. What do you want your characters doing, and why? What objective would they have? What can you see the Initiative wanting? (You don't need to know this so much!) Having a clear idea of the sort of mission you want and what you hope to achieve from it helps us get back to you sooner! General statements like "I'd love murder, please" are not so much helpful; "I'd love to go on a murderous rampage during the Civil War in the United States, on the side of the Rebels" is better, and we can help find the importance of it to the Initiative. <b>Expected Mission Duration:</b> If you have an idea, or would like the mission tailored for something that takes a longer or shorter period of time. Played out mission times don't need to match the actual duration of the mission. That is to say, you may have your characters go on a mission for three months in the past, while only one week to a month passes in the present game time. <b>Additional Notes:</b> Anything else you'd like to add.

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[crossbearing]

Character(s) involved: Helena Bertinelli (crossbearing) & Max Briest (thephix)
Character skillset:
Helena: mafia baby and coffee snob, and as such well versed in the politics and demands of such operations and the kind of connections they will need for a steady supply, fluent in Italian (specifically the Sicilian dialect), intimidation and looming, crossbows and beating people senseless, BAT.
Max: also mafia baby, coffee snob & Sicilian, being more tactful and diplomatic than Helena but also super scary, shapeshifting, being obscenely fashionable.
Preferred Location: Palermo, Sicily and other Italian locations
Preferred Time Period: mid/late-1960s, after the invention of the pump espresso machine. Max is only ever allowed to go to the 1960s
Preferred Mission Objective: the mission is coffee. No, seriously though.
Due to excessive complaints from the Transport community regarding the essential resource coffee and the lack of good coffee in Exsilium (it was probably mostly Helena) the Initiative makes a move to make them stop whining so damn much and get them some fancy as fuck coffee. Who do they need to do this? Helena and Max, of course, because no one does scary and fabulous and Italian better. Their mission is the mass acquisition and importation of espresso machines and high quality coffee beans.
Expected Mission Duration: couple of weeks? They're professionals, they've so got this.
Additional Notes: Is it possible that it be something one of them has to go and do for a day or two one a month or every couple of months, once they have established themselves contacts etc, so that Exsilium might stay well supplied with REALLY AWESOME COFFEE? Like a handwave-able recurring thing to maintain supply etc etc.

[knifenut]

Character(s) involved: Belphegor
Preferred Location: Uh... regular world! Present time! United Earth?
Preferred Time Period: As soon as possible.
Preferred Mission Objective: Okay! I actually didn't know where to put this specifically, because it's not a mission for the Initiative, and I'd be glad to resubmit to some other location if you'd prefer. Basically what it boils down to is in the near future I'd like to OOCly let Belphegor go as a character, but instead of dropping him as per usual I'd like to do something a little different with him.

I want Belphegor to try to defect to the UE.

I'm very flexible about how to do this, but my basic idea was this. Belphegor has no interest in the Initiative and their goals. He's sort of full of himself, and doesn't actually care about other people. After the attack on Elmer's world he's certain the UE has all the same capabilities that the Initiative has as far as traveling to other worlds, and if he wants to go home they're a better bet than the Initiative is. On top of that he's got a nasty case of bloodlust and feels like the UE would have a lot of jobs for him that he'd find interesting.

I want to have him try to steal a piece of equipment or information from the Initiative and contact the UE somehow. Give them what he's stolen, and get out of dodge with them while he's at it.

However here is where I'm flexible! I don't know if there is anything that you might want stolen from them for a plot reason, or if you'd prefer nothing at all be taken in which case I'd be happy nixing that idea from the plot altogether and just having Bel try to defect to the UE without some sort of peace offering for them.

The other thing is if he ran off to the UE I realize he'd basically become an NPC and bar other people from rping him in the future. If you'd prefer I am happy to have him killed but either the Initiative in order to stop him before he can get the stolen goods to the UE, or by the UE themselves after they've gotten what they want out of him and don't have a use for him anymore. Alternatively if he was allowed to live and defected, if there was any reason you ever wanted him for a plot later I'd also be happy to bring him back for any plot purposes and killed off at any point (thus freeing him up for a new player at a later date).

I CAN pretty much swing this any way at all if you guys are okay with letting me do it in the first place.
Expected Mission Duration: Uh... indefinite period of time? :(
Additional Notes: Sorry if this is confusing in any way!

[psychopath]

Character(s) involved: Jack Vessalius (psychopath) & Oswald Baskerville (fraternize)
Character skillset
Jack

• can stop time
  
• can manipulate nearly anyone to do what he wants
  
• knows how to kill quietly
  
• very good with a sword
  
• fairly good with hand-to-hand

Oswald

• has five monstrous birds he can summon at will (Chains -- all can breathe fire and fly, one can teleport, the other can create illusions, another one can keep track of as many persons as Oswald wants)
  
• exceptional with a sword
  
• very fast healing, near-immortality
  
• can control some brain functions
  
• stealthy
  

Preferred Location: Disneyland please!
Preferred Time Period: Present-day maybe?
Preferred Mission Objective:
It's a normal day in Disneyland, except that there's a specific person visiting- a small child, going on a normal vacation. This child, born into an influential family, would have grown up into a very important politician, able to sway the government into more pacifist views... if only he wasn't kidnapped that day and killed some time after.

So it would probably be a good idea for the kidnapping to be prevented, to see how much change the kid could bring. So basically Jack and Oswald have to be bodyguards in hiding, kinda.
Expected Mission Duration: A week? To get used to the era and plan things out.
Additional Notes: Naw we're good!

[quackery]

Character(s) involved: Ahiru and Oz Vessalius (velveteened)
Preferred Location: Nopeeee
Preferred Time Period: Modern
Preferred Mission Objective: Somewhere there is a dance instructor, specializing in couples lessons! Either they have something that needs to be taken, or there's something in the dance studio that the Initiative wants. Basically as long as there's dancing and petty theft we're good.
Expected Mission Duration: Three or so days
Additional Notes: It's like a bad romcom except they don't end up together

[hyanaimne]

Character(s) involved: Tempest hyanaimne, Chrono overclocking, Rosette soul_sister
Preferred Location: New York or New Jersey, preferably a busy city-type area.
Preferred Time Period: Modern times
Preferred Mission Objective: Acquire hairdye and a secondary item at a Walgreens, getting in and out without destroying anything along the way. In order to benefit the Initiative, and for added hilarity difficulty, there's medicine that needs to be acquired in order to, idk, formulate a similar one here in Exsilium.
Expected Mission Duration: Well. REALISTICALLY it should only take a few minutes . . . but it may take them an entire day.

Additional Notes: None!

[gevurah]

Character(s) involved: kate kane ( gevurah )
Preferred Location: the UE
Preferred Time Period: present
Preferred Mission Objective: infiltration into the UE to spy and gather information on routes to the capitol!
Expected Mission Duration: i'm hoping to cover kate specifically on my hiatus from the 8/20 and onward till 9/1 or 9/2 if it's possible.
Additional Notes: bless you ish.

[a_bit_odd]

Character(s) involved: Luna Lovegood
Character skillset: She is a witch, so she knows magic and has knowledge of the wizarding world, including but not limited to: Transfiguration, Charms, Herbology, Defense Against the Dark Arts, Flying, Potions, dueling, inventing, and non-verbal magic.
Preferred Location: London
Preferred Time Period: Around Oct. 7, 1772
Preferred Mission Objective: Ben Franklin encloses the seeds of the Chinese Tallow Tree to a Dr. Noble Jones.

“Today, Chinese Tallow, also known as the popcorn tree has spread from South Carolina to Florida, and has wound its way west across the Gulf states to Texas. It is changing the southeastern U.S. coastal plain, crowding out native plants such as wax myrtle, American holly and cherry laurel.
On Ossabaw Island, off the coast of Savannah, marine scientist Amanda Wrona Meadows sees the habitat changing before her very eyes.

“Chinese tallow is a quick-spreading and fast-growing alien species that is choking out freshwater wetlands and replacing more favorable native plants in sand dunes and maritime forests,” said Dr. Wrona Meadows. “It is harming very critical habitat for the marine critters that we have come to know and love, like painted buntings, alligators, great blue herons, and federally endangered wood storks.”” –The Nature Conservancy

So for some reason, maybe the Initiative wants Luna to misplace Ben Franklin’s seeds so he can’t send them? Let me know if this doesn’t work, I just thought it was something Luna could accomplish and have fun with at the same time.
Expected Mission Duration: Uh… let’s be honest, this is Luna Lovegood. She’s gonna get distracted by the shinies. She probably also needs to scout his home so she can sneak in and steal the seeds. So maybe a week?
Additional Notes: Let me know if this doesn’t work. This is my first time trying to write one of these up. I just wanted some excitement with Luna, and a possibility for her to gain some confidence.

[politicking]

Character(s) involved: Padmé Amidala (politicking) and Peeta Mellark (peeta_bread)
Preferred Location: Guyana
Preferred Time Period: November 1978
Preferred Mission Objective: Based on these events:

"In Guyana, the Rev. Jim Jones led several hundred people from the United States to establish a Utopian Marxist commune in the jungle named Jonestown. Amid allegations of corruption, mental and physical abuse by Jones on his followers, and denying them the right to leave Jonestown, a Congressional committee visited Guyana to investigate in November 1978. They were attacked by Jones' guards and Congressman Leo Ryan was killed. The demented Jones then ordered everyone in the commune to commit suicide. The people drank or were forced to drink cyanide-laced fruit punch. A total of 900 dead were found, including Jones, who shot himself." (source here)

As far as in terms of the game, maybe there's something diplomatic here that these two characters can do that serves to benefit the Initiative (i.e. convince people to leave Jonestown... or some person in particular who would've died here but might have altered the course of history if they'd lived)?
Expected Mission Duration: We were thinking anywhere from around a few days to a week.
Additional Notes: I think that's it!

[alittlesweptup]

Character(s) involved: Charlie Cutter alittlesweptup & Chloe Frazer totallytrustworthy
Character skillsets:
CHLOE
- thievery
- explosives
- weapons expert
- best driver in the business
- parkour
- con artistry
weapon: modified M-9 assault rifle

CHARLIE
- thievery
- boxing and brawling
- parkour
- con artistry
- explosives
- research
- history nerd
weapon: Walther P5

Preferred Location: Egypt.
Preferred Time Period: During the height of the ancient Egyptian empire. Pharoahs, Upper and Lower Egpyt, pyramids and all that jazz.
Preferred Mission Objective: The Initiative sends Charlie and Chloe on a mission to xyz (flood some fields? wreak some havoc? con someone into thinking someone has been touched by god so they'll become an important figure in history?). While there, they take a side trip to do a bit of old fashioned grave robbing in order to retrieve a set of canopic jars for Wrathion.
Expected Mission Duration: 4-5 days.
Additional Notes: SMUGGLE ALL THE THINGS.

[pilot]

Character(s) involved: Han Solo and Jim Kirk
Preferred Location: Geneva, Switzerland.
Preferred Time Period: Definitely modern. We want to play with CERN's cool toys.
Preferred Mission Objective: Whatever they get sent back for should be straightforward. Get into CERN, secure an item or information and get out.

But since this is Jim "fuck the prime directive" Kirk and Han "fuck you I do what I want" Solo they a) take their lovely time doing it, b) probably decide to try and smuggle a few things back and c) proceed to go entirely off the rails when they find out about an unethical experiment/conspiracy to cover it up taking place in the organization.

A weapon is secretly being developed, thanks in parts to advancements in physics due to the particle accelerators that are CERN's reason for existing. With the risk of these being used (the area of devastation would make a hydrogen bomb look like a firecracker), they take it upon themselves to decommission it and destroy all information pertaining to it.

Obviously, shit will go bad and they might even be frustrating Initiative goals with their little side trip but dammit they're idiots and this is what they do.

Expected Mission Duration: They would probably be in the past a month or two. Because they will go skiing the first two weeks and Han will fall on his face and Jim will laugh, I wish I was joking.

Additional Notes: S'up.

[allucinator]

Character(s) involved: Jack Kelly, Sofiya Karimov

Preferred Location: New York City

Preferred Time Period: Maybe somewhere around 1920's?

Preferred Mission Objective: To influence people! I'd like for Jack and Sonya to have to head into the then-illegal gin joints and speakeasies and talk to this bar owner and that mob boss-- trying to convince them either to start working in alcohol again or to further expand their business.

Expected Mission Duration: Two weeks!

Additional Notes: N/A

[miscreant]

Character(s) involved: Seviilia and Lancelot (Berserker)
Preferred Location: Somewhere in Western Europe???
Preferred Time Period: Doesn't matter!
Preferred Mission Objective: Two dark knights, one dark lord. Both knights are charged with a quiet disposal of an influential leader and anyone associated with him. This guy doesn't want his name attached to these murderous beasts, so they have to play it off as an inside betrayal. "Quiet" is typically not in Seviilia's skillset when murder is involved. The idea is to take out as many people as possible before Berserker runs out of mana and before Seviilia dissolves into a blood frenzy. Perhaps a plot twist where everyone dies??? Igniting a civil war??? A plague upon your homes??? Doesn't really matter to these two as long as they get out.
Expected Mission Duration: No more than a week, but in reality probably like 48 hours.
Additional Notes: There's a horseman joke in here somewhere but I'm not clever enough for that.

[chore_boy]

Character(s) involved: Coby chore_boy, Korra highlyspirited
Preferred Location: A country that would make good use of ambassadors overseas.
Preferred Time Period: Any time period in which the frequent exchange of ambassadors for the sake of bolstering influence in other nations is commonplace.
Preferred Mission Objective: We'd like for Coby to be impersonating an ambassador in a foreign country to prevent his assassination. Korra will be Coby's bodyguard in this case after they dispose of the ambassador in a safe location. This mission could likely be for the sake of saving a great mind from an assassination attempt that could lead to great distrust between two nations. It would be a mission with enough space for clumsy espionage and Coby awkwardly attempting to act like a brilliant ambassador while Korra gets to be intimidating and tell people he's keeping her eyes on them and sticking out her tongue.
Expected Mission Duration: A week in the past, a day in the present.
Additional Notes: Coby and Korra are pretty high-standard combatants, so if it gets to be pretty high in its action-oriented content, then they'll hold their own.

[payback]

Character(s) involved: Rin Asano
Preferred Location: n/a; possibly Japan, but only if it was all right that Rin return there for other group missions and missions at a later time. She'd be thrilled to go home.
Preferred Time Period: Around 1800!
Preferred Mission Objective: I would actually love a solo assassination mission, playing to Rin's stealth and infiltration strengths. Possibly killing off some lordling or another? Maybe the Initiative wants Japan open to foreign influence at an earlier, or later for that matter, date.
Expected Mission Duration: Backdated to begin at the start of this month, say September 3rd, finishing off, oh... October 2nd?
Additional Notes: ilu Ish

Character(s) involved: Tyki Mikk
Preferred Location: Europe... Britain maybe, in fact.
Preferred Time Period: about the 19th century... HOWZABOUT 1888 tbh, suddenly tickled by the idea of Tyki influencing the Jack the Ripper mythos.
Preferred Mission Objective: Tyki loves to kill and could use a chance to blow off some steam. The more I think about it the more I love the idea of him being sent out to start some persisting urban legends, a la expanding or originating some of the Jack the Ripper mythos, maybe to influence a later author or cause certain laws and regulations to be put in effect? If someone's already done Jack disregard that ofc.
Expected Mission Duration: Two weeks about, let's say, starting at the end of this month and ending September October 2nd? Say September 16-2.

[controlledvariable]

Character(s) involved: Steph Brown controlledvariable, Ellie vaccination
Preferred Location: The good ol' US of A
Preferred Time Period: The 21st century!
Preferred Mission Objective: I'm going to be honest up front and admit this is an excuse for Steph and Ellie 2.0 to dick around and go to a carnival and do stupid fun things after all the trauma.

What if it's like Dick Grayson's origin story except with arson? Someone's gonna try to burn down a carnival for whatever reason and Steph and Ellie need to be there to make sure it doesn't happen? Maybe there are imporant dignitaries secretly visiting with their kids or it'd just be bad for everyone if an entire carnival got burnt down.

If that is super dumb I can come up with something else. Or you can just kick me out of the game for being too ridiculous w/e.

Expected Mission Duration: About a week! I think we're cool for mission time to match up with time gone in-game.
Additional Notes: I'm sorry for everything I choose to be.

[wilder]

Character(s) involved: Zelos Wilder (wilder) & Galadriel (inafadingcrown)
Preferred Location: Maní, Yucatán, Mexico
Preferred Time Period: 1562, July
Preferred Mission Objective: PUNCH THE SPANISH INQUISITION IN THE FACE.

Okay, seriously now. So thousands of years ago, there was the great Mayan civilization that pretty much shows to be as epic as Ancient Greece (possibly more so!) in terms of advancements in academics and discoveries. It eventually collapsed due to warfare, droughts caused by deforestation, overpopulation, etc etc. However descendents of the Ancient Maya survived and so did many of their records of culture, legends, history, discoveries and presumably all their accomplishments in the form of books.

That is, until this asshole, Diego de Landa a Spanish missionary, came along and felt all those records were witchcraft and burnt so much of it, that to this day only four books survive today. This caused incredible amounts of knowledge about the Ancient Maya to be forever lost, and even set back the research on that time period in Central America hundreds of years.

And so we want to do what every Anthropologist and Archeologist out there wants to do, hop in a time machine and punch this guy in the face before he can destroy all this knowledge. We feel by doing so, it may have a strong influence on the people of that region in the fact that they will retain much of the cultural identity that was once lost and possibly give them a lot more power and solidarity that may influence their relations with asshole hedgemonies that keep showing up and screwing the place up.

Expected Mission Duration: UM they can be gone a couple days, but take a couple weeks I think? Or just a few days even.
Additional Notes: ....Okay this may be us just living the dream that every anthropologist and archeologist wants to live but still this guy really needs a punch in the face.

[allucinator]

Character(s) involved: Mahdi Clare; Jack Kelly

Preferred Location: New York City

Preferred Time Period: October 1890

Preferred Mission Objective: Stealing and cooking! Mahdi wants to cook quite a few delicious and magic-laden meals to try and raise the spirits of everyone in the Initiative. So: to steal food, and hopefully end up cooking it as well. Jack's just there to cause distractions and try to buy Mahdi some time.

Expected Mission Duration: One to two days!

[notpeterparker]

Character(s) involved: Carol, Rise, and Elmer
Preferred Location: New York
Preferred Time Period: Present day
Preferred Mission Objective: Bringing back stuff to celebrate the holidays
Expected Mission Duration: Just a day
Additional Notes: None

[charming_jerk]

Character(s) involved: Johnny D'Amico
Preferred Location: east coast cities, USA
Preferred Time Period: various times between 1970-2010
Preferred Mission Objective: This is just an update/continuation of my last mission request for him. Except for a break during the mutiny, Johnny is still collecting supplies for everyone. While still picking up bulk food, he's now picking up warm winter clothing as well.
Expected Mission Duration: About another week or so now, when he's going to be taking a break to work on building his house with Coby. He'll also be getting Ikea furniture for that. It's easy to carry, okay.
Additional Notes: He's really just stealing the hell out of everything, using his charm powers on people while using the disguise tech.

[gevurah]

Character(s) involved: Kate Kane ( gevurah ), Nate Summers ( oldsoldiersneverdie ), Bucky Barnes ( kneecaptain ), Collette ( crocodilesmiles ), Lightning Farron ( pauldron ), Kate Bishop ( selfequipped ) + there's the possibility of one more person being added, so I will get back to you on this.
Preferred Location: the UE
Preferred Time Period: current timeline
Preferred Mission Objective: infiltrating the UE and spying on them/an important group possibly to gather intel on what the UE is like in this timeline, what they may know about the Transports/Initiative and possibly weaknesses they can strike at. BASICALLY: information that can help them/Transports and the Initiative.
Expected Mission Duration: nothing longer than a week?
Additional Notes: HELLO, it was suggested by Elle to leave this request here. I'm not sure if anyone is still looking at this page or if this mission is feasible given endgame's announcement, the timeline of events and current mission set-ups. While I've asked the players beforehand, we agreed that if the decision is a no, we're leaving it at that.