The Story

[Sariel]

So most of you who have joined read the current storyline...if not, go do that, now.

Anyways, its kind of assumed things are going relatively smoothly for the galaxy, even with fear jolted out because of the Reapers existence and all that...but now just three days before a grand celebration was to take place, a whole colony just dropped off the map; no communication, no readouts, no nothing. And now, no one can even make it to the system because the Mass Relay leading there, is disabled...and no one knows why.

And thats where it stops.

I had planned on after a few member topics to kind of get everyone going...through uhh, stories not solidified yet, everyone finds out the colony has been annihilated, the surface destroyed, and no signs of life on it.

Then the council would start investigating if it was a Reaper attack, and if so, where did it go and all that jazz.

What does everyone else think?

[Vasto Duval]

Yeah, I think that's a great idea. At least most of the members should have a character and RP somewhat before we get involved with the main plot.

[Sariel]

Yes, I wanted us to kind of get a feel for how the galaxy is going, maybe have some personal plots escalate before the actual investigation takes place.

Also, I wanted to establish some species that could go off into their own plots for future storylines. The main species I want to be involved of course will be batarians. Perhaps they turn out to be in league with the Krogan and Geth, multiplying the enemies of the Council.

[Dante Nelson]

Do you have any estimates as to when you will start this main plot? That way I know how much my character can get into his own missions.

[Sariel]

Umm, I guess as soon as possible eh? People can still continue to do their own thing of course, but we should probably get things under way.

[Stynier]

Sounds like you want a lead up to a war.

Of course there will need to be other things in the development of the story like discovering that the Batarians are infact working with the Geth and Krogans.


On a similar note, maybe somthing sould happens that threatens to throw the Councile in to Civil War.

[Sariel]

That would be an awesome plot to move towards, but I wouldn't want to move towards something that big too quickly. Maybe hold that off for the climax of the chapter?

But yes, some galactic coalition of war would be very nice to implement.

[Stynier]

All right

[Sariel]

Ok guys, so looks like things are lugging along quite nicely.

I will make a new topic in the Council Chambers, and in this topic, it will be revealed that Adjuucar has been completely annihilated. I won't spoil the details right now, but the council is going to be sending people to Adjuucar, to figure out what exactly happened...sorry to be so vague, just don't want to ruin the plot here.

However, to be in the topic, you need to come up with a logical, damn good explanation for your presence. Obviously military folk will be there, but for merc's out there, get creative. This is a closed session type of meeting, as in, unlike the game, there will be no one in the council chambers minus the council and the group of...dignitaries.

Good?

[Stynier]

Sounds good

[Regalia]

This sounds like a great idea. I would love to see this play out. You should use the calender thing to tell us approximately when it will start so we could get ready.

[Sariel]

Ha, well I was working on it, but got horrendously sidetracked by some other issues.

I'm back though, so I'll finish it within the next...hour or so, hopefully sooner if I hurry up.

[Sariel]

Ok so the story is progressing quite nicely.

I want to give everyone a chance to post a couple more times in the topic, perhaps have some side conversations or meet some of the other characters involved.

Once that opportunity has been given and passed, we'll move forward with some representatives voicing their opinions to the council, which may very well be some of your own characters if you would like, and then the council agreeing on a plan.

They're going to be sending in an infiltration team onto the planet, your Phantom Unit, Stynier, which will be backed by a joint species fleet of a warships.

I'll let the details get ironed out through some creative brainstorming amongst us, or we can go with the flow and continue as planned in the topic.

[Stynier]

All right every thing sounds good.

Will there be a Spectre or two joining the team on the ground.

[Sariel]

Yeah, there's going to be a few leading and supervising the fleet, and a select few going ground side with the infiltration team.

After the team's successful, soldiers will be deployed on the surface.

[Stynier]

All right

[pat673]

Do you guys know any way I can get Hydra into the Infiltration teams? I mean, they've infiltrated C-Sec, yes, but getting a Merc. into an Infiltration team is a completely different matter...

[Sariel]

You could possibly have your character assigned to one of the ships in the fleet, under the guise of security personnel. Sorry I'm responding to this so late man...

[Sariel]

So we totally finished our first site wide topic, yay! Took us 20 days, but I think it was good, albeit a bit slow to pick up.

I would appreciate some feed back now. Anything you want to do different for future topics? Were there enough twists and surprises for this type of topic? Do you think things should have played out differently? Did you feel your character was involved? Did it feel realistic or too forced?

This and if theres more on your mind.

[Dante Nelson]

Well I really enjoyed the whole topic. It seemed to me everyone played some part and added to the bigger picture. I like how everyone was in groups and interacted just enough to make it believable. There was a large amount of people at the meeting and the parts everyone played was realistic, no one character was the center of attention.

Wow, 20 days for 3 pages? That's a long time. Though all of the posts were pretty long and detailed, no one-liners. Because of that, it seemed to flow well. For a lengthy topic involving all characters, that is not too bad. But this next one at ISIS shouldn't take nearly as long.

I definitely liked the storyline of it and how everyone played some kind of part in shaping it. There were many openings for our characters to reveal their personalities, etc. But in regard to twists and surprises, there really were none to us, the RPers. We already knew the colony was completely wiped and that the Council would respond with force. There was not really any opening for a crazy twist.

Now for the attack, you said several times that things are going to take a turn for the worst. Personally, I wouldn't mind if you kept us in the dark as to what actually is going to go wrong and surprise us when you post about it happening in the topic. Obviously I don't mean to not tell us what is going to happen next, just don't tell what the "big revelation" will be.