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mylittleooc2014-09-13 05:07 pm
pirateponyprincess) wrote in mylittleooc2014-09-13 05:07 pm
Quick Organization Thingy
For those going with Celestia to pillage a castle, this is a really quick planning post to help organize my thoughts and what is going to come out of this, as well as figuring out how the log itself is going to be set up.
At the end of the day, there will be two major revelations:
1. Zetta set up a double for himself in the castle. There will be a fight with said double before its discovered he is a changeling.
2. Said changeling will reveal that nothing they are looking for is actually there, and that Zetta saw this coming. It turns out there is an information leak that he has been working with for quite a long time.
However, I need help with actually getting to the end of that day and organizing the log. As much as I'd like a huge massive battle against this double, I've got upwards of twelve characters wanting to go and that many characters in a single thread is just not a thing anyone wants to deal with. Nothing gets done, people get lost, tags get ignored, it's all a mess. So, I've come up with a few alternate ways to handle the log.
1. I knock the group size down to four, including Celestia. The mission is stealth-based, and everypony goes in sneakily. I could be persuaded to do it with eight and have two groups, but only one will fight "Zetta", and the other will discover the absence of the stores and/or the leak.
2. The log will include everypony who wants to go, but the mission is changed to a more classic pirate raid. Instead of one central thread, there are many smaller groups of 2-3 each all entering at different points in the castle, each looting everything that isn't nailed down, sometimes coming into contact with other groups, all that fun stuff. I don't know how I'd handle the fight with this, however. I'd need help figuring that out.
So tl;dr what I need is a quick head count of who wants in, how you'd prefer to do this, and suggestions of anything I can change to make this thing less of a complete mess.
At the end of the day, there will be two major revelations:
1. Zetta set up a double for himself in the castle. There will be a fight with said double before its discovered he is a changeling.
2. Said changeling will reveal that nothing they are looking for is actually there, and that Zetta saw this coming. It turns out there is an information leak that he has been working with for quite a long time.
However, I need help with actually getting to the end of that day and organizing the log. As much as I'd like a huge massive battle against this double, I've got upwards of twelve characters wanting to go and that many characters in a single thread is just not a thing anyone wants to deal with. Nothing gets done, people get lost, tags get ignored, it's all a mess. So, I've come up with a few alternate ways to handle the log.
1. I knock the group size down to four, including Celestia. The mission is stealth-based, and everypony goes in sneakily. I could be persuaded to do it with eight and have two groups, but only one will fight "Zetta", and the other will discover the absence of the stores and/or the leak.
2. The log will include everypony who wants to go, but the mission is changed to a more classic pirate raid. Instead of one central thread, there are many smaller groups of 2-3 each all entering at different points in the castle, each looting everything that isn't nailed down, sometimes coming into contact with other groups, all that fun stuff. I don't know how I'd handle the fight with this, however. I'd need help figuring that out.
So tl;dr what I need is a quick head count of who wants in, how you'd prefer to do this, and suggestions of anything I can change to make this thing less of a complete mess.