mission requests » ❝ your truest dedication ❞

[initiates]

Moon Base Missions are over this way! Until we come back to Exsilium, please consider using the short form first. Click on this link for more information!

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.

⚔      ⚔      ⚔

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.

APPLY ・ ARRIVAL ・ CALENDAR ・ CANON UPDATES ・ CHARACTER CONTACT ・ DIRECTORY ・ DROP&HIATUS
FAQ ・ GAME CHANGES ・ HOUSING ・ JOBS WITHIN EXSILIUM ・ LOCATIONS ・ MISSION REQUESTS ・ MISSION SUGGESTIONS
MODERATORS ・ PLAYER CONTACT ・ PLOT RECORD ・ RESERVE ・ RULES ・ SUGGEST ・ TAKEN ・ WORLD INFO ・ WORLD HISTORY

Comments

[highfrequency]

Character(s) involved: Raiden highfrequency
Character skillset: Raiden is a cyborg ninja who fights with edged weapons. His preferred weapon is his high-frequency blade which is a katana that vibrates so that it can cut through almost anything. It can get superheated through vibrations, too.

As a ninja he is excellent at stealth and infiltration. He is a trained scout as well and very good at recognizing enemy patterns of movement. It's also worth mentioning that, in a worse-case scenario, he is capable of absurd feats of strength. He can judo-flip Mecha Godzilla. No, really...
Preferred Location: A major city under the control of UE
Preferred Time Period: Present
Preferred Mission Objective: General espionage
Expected Mission Duration: Probably only a day!
Additional Notes: Raiden would want to go on a mission like this out of curiosity, and would probably push to get himself sent on such a mission. The stories about a world power run by an AI that drugs its citizens and feeds them war propaganda sounds a lot like home. He'd be willing to share any information he obtained (if any) upon his return. Totally okay with unpleasant fallouts from this if it comes to that! Ideally, if bad things were to happen, other people could be brought in on it if they wanted. Really, though, I am good with whatever. The Initiative can turn him down on this one if they want to.

[initiates]

How good is Raiden at getting to places/what kind of time can he make? There is no UE city within a day's distance by most means, and the Initiative does not have much in the way of air travel. (The Space Ship is not yet fully functional again, or example.) Which is to say, are you all right with this mission being longer in terms of time out to a site and time back?

[highfrequency]

I'm okay with it being longer! Actually, after the world events that have occurred since my original request, Raiden is much more likely to be cautious and move slowly (he remembers what happened to the other cyborg) even while on site. In terms of over land travel he can sprint faster than a train but he can't sustain that kind of speed so he wouldn't realistically be able to clear huge distances in only 24 hours. (Not sure what his swim speed is. It's either super fast or he can't swim at all due to his weight. Probably no in between. I assume he is capable of moving through water, given what his chassis was built for.)

[initiates]

How about something two weeks, round trip? That puts him somewhat into the United Earth and lets him start observing from the inside. As long as he can playact really good and imitate the general habits of the Natives, it'll be to his benefit; he can come into contact with part of the smuggling ring that leads back to Exsilium, if you'd like. There will be information ports in the Civili Buildings, though tapping into them will show they're on the receiving end of information bursts, with limited capacity to communicate backward toward the origin point.

Pretend that makes sense with me, por favor, they just have less access on the city side than they do where the information pushes originate!

[highfrequency]

His ability to play act is actually super terrible! But he can be genuinely stealthy (Ninja, yo!) and he might be able to pick up enough of the native mannerisms that, if he hides his body and chin somehow, he can at least merge with a crowd.

After his upgrade he can also brainjack other machines and control them either by wiring himself to a control port or running his sword through an AI core...not sure how that would come up but that's a thing.

Edit: Also worth mentioning, in terms of info he gathers-Raiden is a military cyborg which means he has a data chip embedded in his left arm. Anything he perceives with his senses is recorded on this chip-Everything he sees and hears and smells and touches. He can turn this off sometimes but he will have this functional while on duty out there, in case anything happens. Baaasically, he's a walking, talking Google Glass.