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B-b-bullets! (or, teal deer is teal but important; please read it all)
Okay.

IJ is failing with notifications, but I have Mandy back at least for tonight, so, whatever IJ, whatever. (However, that does mean I'm not getting drop-box comments, so until IJ straightens up, e-mail's probably going to be the faster way to get in touch).


The Heads have, very very late tonight, stashed ammo around the place. Can your character find it? Absolutely. Some of it, however, has been hidden in the upstairs rooms that no one is in (6th floor and up). Please, for the love of all that's holy, please do not have your character "know" where the ammo is. Unless your character has that particular skill. Which none of yours does. 'cept Jaime. Who will totes find the bullets if someone wants to ask her ;)

For purpose of me knowing what sort of weapons are already in play, any character with a gun, please comment here. Weapons were limited to two upon capture, so no, Jayne does not have his entire arsenal (he only has one, actually. Poor bastard). If your character canonically does not typically carry a gun, they do not have one here. If they occasionally use someone else's gun, or have their gun only on special missions, we'll discuss whether or not they have it here. This also goes for any other weapons I haven't already approved.

Jayne and Mal like, sleep with their guns XD so they have them.

There has also been a display set up in the mall. It is very much a glass case display (like, jewelry stores) and a glass fronted cabinet display. Within the cabinet display are five rifles. Within the glass case display are grenades. As Jayne is leaning heavily on me at mention of grenades, I think I shall have to lay claim to some of those for him. Ahem. But yes, Parker can go hog wild and steal from the mall and hopefully distribute the guns. ;)

There is no ammunition present for the rifles in, on, near, or around the display case. It's somewhere else. Because they can't make this easy, now can they?

There is also a cache of arrows scattered throughout the mall, but since that mostly just affects me and mine, dun worry about it. Unless you want to find an arrow in a dressing room or something and bring it to Susan because she's going to die without it you love her.



As mentioned here, the attacks start on Tuesday. Groups will be small at first, growing larger as the week goes on. So, Tuesday, no more than 5 reavers, Wednesday, maybe up to 9, Thursday and Friday can both be 15. They don't have to be in the same group, and yes, they can be hiding in the stores to "ambush" characters. Please also put in your headers the number of reavers encountered/killed, so we can have a guestimate as far as how many have been released that day. If it's Tuesday and people have already taken out 5 reavers, please date your reaver post for Wednesday.

Injuries are kind of a given, but please understand your characters are going to be dealing with bestial, vicious creatures that put fear even into hardened soldiers. Our soft kids are not very likely to survive an attack unless they have someone come save them very, very quickly. Hell, even our tough kids are going to get a little torn up if they don't move fast enough. If you wish to engage with a reaver and your character is not adequately armed, I'd better see some injuries, and some trauma. If you don't want to play with reavers, there'll be safe places within the hotel.

There's going to be at least one character death on my end, and Mandy hasn't finished sorting out if any of hers are going to die.

As far as other means of defeating them ... we'll pull super-werewolf rules as far as magic goes. They're going to be resistant to it. A stunning spell won't make them blink. Crucio will make them giggle. They self-mutilate, so pain? Is not going to bother them. Avada Kedavra will work if it's very well placed and very well meant (so Bellatrix could probably swing it, Reg might be able to, but I'm going to go with not so much on the others). However, spells that focus on the environment and not the reavers themselves could be used as impediments and blockades. A shield charm won't keep them back for more than a few seconds, but it could buy time.

Covenant magic ... will work. It will not wipe them out entirely, but it will be able to knock them back and (briefly) bind them up. Longer, if the boys work together. It's not going to be a defeat sort of magic, but more a defensive/holding off sort.

Not sure about Magius' magic, if you wanted to discuss that, as far as what he'd be able to do, or if he wants to hang back and be all 'defensive spells, i knows them!'

Tasers will work to a degree, I think. They are still technically human and a fried nervous system is a fried nervous system, so it'll buy a couple of seconds for a lucky escape.

What else have we got out there? Swords? Swords will work. Arrows will slow them down, and if it's an eye shot, will kill them.

Physical attacks are going to be the most dangerous and will result in the most return damage, even for Slayers. ;) And really, Slayers and River are about the only ones I'd buy surviving an attack, and only if it's a one-on-one affair with the Slayer having the upper hand at the start or getting very lucky.

If you would like to do posts as narratives, that's fine. If you want to have a reaver attack and leave it open for someone to join, also fine (it also wouldn't hurt to suggest a few characters you'd like to join the thread; all of mine come when called and you're certainly welcome to ask other players if they'd like to play). If you want me to play a reaver for you, also note that in the header and I will get my gore on and come after you. Rawr!

Afterward, we shall need doctors. House won't be alone. I'm totally pitching in a Simon Tam. I think. That was what we decided, right? Because you were still keeping Kaylee? And Lily can play healer. So yeah, if they wanted to see about setting up a temporary "just in case" hospital once the IC network posts go up, that's gravy.

Okay. There are so many reasons I shouldn't be writing up this post right now, early hour and rambling aside. I think I hit everything, but I have undoubtedly skimmed right over some glaringly obvious thing that everyone's going to have questions about. So if something isn't clear, and moreover if you disagree with my perspective on your pup's canon, please, please mention it. If you really think your character can handle more than I've said they can, honestly, let me know and I'll be happy to switch it around. I'm really not familiar with a lot of canons in game, and while I do expect it to be played out realistically, that does include realism per other canons. If your character routinely comes up against something in canon that's more badass killer than reavers and they eat them for breakfast, do let me know ;)

If you need anything clarified, or want to throw some if-thens at me, please shout out. (like: if this, then could that?) And please remember, your characters know nothing. They are all working on speculation and theories right now. So they do not know the first attack will be Tuesday, and they do not know anything about the patterns or the safe guards, and they do not know the traps are disabled for the duration of this plot (because wow, wouldn't that make the Heads look dumb, getting reavers caught in their own traps?) They are welcome to discover by trial and error, and they can see the things in plain sight (the mall display, the ammo they come across in the convenience store or the mall, etc), but they don't know why any of it is around.

As always, all plots are optional. Your character is totally welcome to chill with Jaime, Kyle, and Dug in one of the safe rooms and avoid the whole mess. (...okay. I just totally had images of them trying to teach Dug to use the potty because they weren't letting him out for a walk ... ::cracks up:: )