Hey guys! 

So the next set of HC Events requires a little bit of an explanation, so here we go! You'll have at least a month haha jk, thanks to scheduling September is a no-go anymore so AUGUST IT IS!  YOU GOT LIKE 10 DAYS to put a character together if you wanted to participate, and in this thread I can answer all the questions so that if you want to play but are hesitant to get involved because you don't know what's going on, I can help you decide whether they want to give this a try or not. XD 

First Thing! This will be a Hardcore Event

Hardcore Events wrote:

Hardcore Events
Hardcore events are a sampling of all the Roleplaying Section has to offer: profile approvals, live-chat sessions, dungeon crawler game elements, and a one-month time limit to complete the story or get a bad ending.

1. Duration:
   One month exactly, unless a problem arises with the host, in which case the event will be extended for the number of days the host was absent. 
   If the storyline is not resolved within a month's time, the mission fails. 
   
2. General Rules:
   All roleplay rules and gc rules apply
   Activity Rule: Participants are required to post within 24-48 hours or will be removed from the event (their characters will either be lost or replaced).
         Random Events may be introduced into the story if all players are active within the OOC chat or on the boards; Random Events are storyline plot events in which players will have a limited time to respond before consequences are enacted; each will come with a caveat in that if you cannot respond within the given time-frame, you may request another player's character take your character with them (if movement is required).
   Consistency Rule: All players are held to the understanding that they will pay attention to the story flow, taking note of roleplay elements (situational - who's talking to who, where people are located, etc) and event elements (their HP, MP, the placement of others on the map, etc.). If a player derails the event with inconsistencies, consequences will occur. 
   
3. Requirements:
   Character Profile - Participants are required to have their character's profile submitted and approved before the event begins. *Advanced Hardcore Events require advanced character profiles.
   Word Requirement - Advanced Hardcore Events require minimum 100-word posts.
   
4. Additional Elements:
   Real Time RP - some Hardcore Events will have real-time rp sessions to start, end, or move the story along. Participants are required to have a skype account for these live-chat events if they don't want their character NPC'd through those instances.
   Dungeon Crawler - some Hardcore Events will have dungeon-crawler game elements to them, wherein players will need to distribute attribute points to reflect their characters strengths, weaknesses, and special abilities, and will need to prescribe MP requirements to attacks. During these events, they will be at the mercy of random number generators (digital Dungeons and Dragons style die) for attacks and defense rolls to minimize godmodding and/or powerplaying.
   Certain Events officially happen within the Galaxy Cauldron's Crystal Tokyo Timeline and so can be added to character's histories, instead of just their Storyline Information sections. Participating in these events, whether playing an original character or a canon character, can have consequences within this timeline we're creating together - characters can become famous, can make enemies and allies, and can, through storyline events, grow and develop as characters and let that development follow them through the overarching plot. The current Otaku-inclusive event train is as follows:
   
   The Collector -> Decay -> Return to Zenar -> Remnants -> Andromeda Spire -> Leviathan Core -> Fields of Enyalius -> Light in Darkness
   

   Note, therefore, that choices have consequences in these games. Characters can die in these events if their HP goes less than 0 (in some circumstances), and therefore will not be allowed back into the chain after that event, and players who set stories in their character's 'future' may stipulate that a 'dead' character not participate because in their character's canon, that character is dead. This does not happen often. 
   

   On Character Knock-Out:

   On Character Death:

   
   

Specifics for the Concatenation HC Event Series:

• These events will be considered primarily Advanced*****. This is different from usual - pay attention. You should strive to follow the 100-word post count requirements of an Advanced board (attempting proper grammar, spelling, and punctuation are necessary), and your character profile needs to be approved as Advanced for this event. Players may ignore the 100-word post rule only during battle sequences, to keep the battle flowing quickly in regards to play time. When tallying posts during this event, your post will be counted as either relaxed or advanced based on word count, rather than on profile category. As profiles are required, posts are tallied in the full fashion, rather than the usual 1/2 count for non-profile-required events.
  
  
• This Event is Roleplay Section Multifaceted: There will be elements from all sections of our roleplay boards within it; it will last for exactly one month (Event), requires a profile approval (Profiles), posts can be counted towards the month's challenge or contest (Challege), and will involve Dungeon Crawler Elements (Games) as well as live-events over Skype (Live-Chat RPs). More on the Game elements later. Being such, participating actively in this event can really pull in the RP points ^^
  
  
• An Activity Rule is in effect. By signing up below, you agree to follow all GC and RP Rules alongside the following activity rule: At least one post is required every 48 hours. Failure to post at least once within those 48 hours will result in your character disappearing mysteriously, to be recovered by the remaining heroes at the end of the roleplay. (They won't die, but I won't let their unresponsiveness slow down the game). If you have an unexpected (but announced) LOA during this event that lasts less than 3 days, your character will be carried with the team. If the LOA lasts more than 3 days, the normal disappearance protocol will go into effect. Additional Note: characters have up to 48 hours to reply to a post directed to them; if a player is taking a while to respond, their character is not to be negatively affected - no powerplaying will be allowed, and this includes having a character remark or notice that the other has not responded, as that manipulates a character's personality traits (refusing to recognize someone is a negative quality and only that character's player may determine how long they took to respond to a question). 
  
  
• Random Events may occur.
  
  
• Skype use is highly recommended. For the game elements in this roleplay, a quick question/answer method is best and Skype is the preferred chat system. Skype is free and doesn't require personal information to use. Once the event gets underway I create a Skype group to be used as the OOC thread for the event; add me to your contacts with your GC name and I'll add you to the group. There will be a forum-based OOC board for this event (once sign-ups are closed, this board becomes the OOC), so while it is highly recommended, if you are uncomfortable with using skype information will still be handed out through this board if necessary. My skype username is Kyralih
  
  

 Well yeah, all that has always been included in your setups circa Andromeda Spire, what gives with this post?


 Chill your dill, it's coming, sheesh. 

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First Note About Characters for This Event:

No Canon Characters allowed.

No Otaku from NQS's Region are allowed. 

No Otaku from any Region but Red is allowed.
Within the Red region, planets closer to the yellow arrow will be assumed as home planets for these senshi
No Otaku with any connections to NQS's Region is allowed.

"Sailor Moon who?" "Neo Queen huh?" "Crystal What?" is exactly what we're going for here, not that those terms will even come up at all in these.

Our first story in this series is called "Conscription."
Which, as the name suggests, means that your character does not really have a choice in joining this adventure. 

The Red Sector is ruled over by Queen Zhi, who is new to her throne, and her Guardian Senshi have been badly shaken by the sudden onslaught of Chaos Agents all over their region. Calmed by Sailor Jupiter ((yes, communications go that far, go with it XD)) they get their plan together and start contacting every senshi within their region to organize the defense and war now at hand. They put out the call for volunteers, but they find themselves overwhelmed at an alarming rate; they soon had little choice in the matter and had to start conscripting senshi into service. The strongest are sent to the more populated regions, where these Guardian Senshi believe they will most be needed to combat the strongest of foes before the most damage was dealt, but as times grew worse, they had to start picking even the outliers and pulling them into the war.

*Note; Chaos primarily targeted NQS's region to dethrone her first, so while the Chaos War reached this far, it is not so nearly as bad here as there. However, with senshi being defeated left and right, Chaos's hold is growing fast.

In this conscription, not even the least experienced Senshi were spared.

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Second Note about Characters for this Event:

Powerful/Older Senshi need not apply.

If you had any battle experience they would've sent you to the front lines, not where our story is taking place.

In regards to experience:

14 - 22 years old

3 or less years Senshi experience since transformation

1 or less exposure to Metallia-level Chaos Entities
1 - 2 Attacks total (based on experience, that's totally reasonable; think season one senshi, with their standard go-to's. Your character can add more attacks to their repertoire as they level up! You can include these level-up attacks in your profile, but please list their original attacks first. You can also choose a level for the others to kick in at, if you'd like, or we can discuss that together; typically, attacks can be added at level 3, 5, 8, and/or 10. 
Sailor [Noun]. Please choose a senshi name that denotes your senshi's physical planet or star power base, rather than an abstract idea. Also, please select a noun, rather than an adjective. 

The goal here is to create a team that would parallel Sailor Moon's team in the first arc ((but not with necessarily the same stuff - I'm clear as mud, I know)) Just like - senshi who draw their power from a planet (or star) and whose magical attacks/abilities reflect some single(or double like with Venus) alignment with an element or some other type of force.
I'm aiming for a party of equals. 

What about males? 

Males totally allowed, but they need to have a Sailor Crystal. Think Prince Endymion, or like Mamoru with a Tuxedo-Mask like alter-ego. Rather than full-on senshi abilities, as Naoko said guys can't be senshi, consider instead passive abilities or abilities that require an item to work. Example, Mamoru's healing abilities stem from the Golden Crystal and he has the pure-energy attack "La Smoking Bomber"; your male character's abilities may be elemental in nature, and can manifest when using a certain item or phrase. Please note that, just like with Tuxedo Mask, their offensive magical abilities may be requested to be lower than senshi abilities ((i.e. I may request a lower CTRL stat)). ((but, like, a bow and arrow that he could charge with wind energy? Totes cool and also totes cool. 

This is what your character would know:
If they are from a "developed" planet, one where space-travel is the norm, they would have heard of the Sailor War. How they feel about it is up to you/their personality. 
If they are from a "non-developed" planet, where space-travel has not been created yet and there hasn't been exposure to alien races, they would not have heard of this Sailor War until conscripted. 
Your planet has not been hit by Chaos during this War.

When making your character history, feel free to flesh out their homeworld as much as you can, or, if you're not comfortable with that, simple generalities would suffice. Other standard history req's apply.

Remember: Sailor Senshi costumes do not all need to follow the Solar Sailor Senshi's design. So long as it's got a Sailor Collar on it, it can be a Sailor Senshi uniform. XD I'm not saying I won't allow the standard uniform or anything, just reminding that variety is totally welcome. 

For your RP Sample:
Set the scene for being Conscripted. 
Generally, the events of being conscripted go as follows:
 - A powerful senshi (a Guardian Senshi for the "red" court) lands on your character's planet literally right in front of your senshi ((they honed in on your Sailor Crystal's signature)), state that by Order of Queen Zhi, you are hereby Conscripted, and will be serving in the Chaos War in defense of planets within Chaos's thrall. You are given very little time to prepare, and then transform and follow this Senshi into space - probably flying for the first time ever. 

The character that will collect you is named Sailor Jin. Her uniform is yellow with orange embroidery work and hemming, and resembles a knee-length cheongsam with a sailor collar overtop the higher neckline of the dress. She has black hair pinned in an up-do and has golden-colored eyes and eye-makeup. She wears slippers that stay tight to her feet; she does not have gloves, but rather has orange ribbons tied around her wrists.


When the RP begins, these new, young, conscripted senshi from various planets will be assembled onto one planet, told to clear it, and then promptly abandoned to their duty. They may or may not get a visit by the Crone.
*Note! For these events, the Crone Stamp will not be purchasable as you are already guaranteed your character is not dead-for-good.

Disclaimer wrote:

Oookay, so only through talking with Mercury on skype did I realize I need to add a giant disclaimer to this event.   It'll be neat for them to discover it themselves! It all makes sense within the confines of the story! ._. oh yeah wait they should probably know that


Disclaimer:
Concatenation is an HC Event series consisting of 4 month-long events to take place during August (Conscription), October(???), January(you think i'd release their titles?), and March(nope).

• Signing up for this event actually signs you up for the next four, or until your character dies. You don't have to participate in them - dropping out would just kill your character (until event 4).
  
• Not signing up for this event may preclude you from the next four events. 
  
• If your character dies during any of the next four events, they will be brought back during the 4th event, but they (and, by extension, you, the player) will not be able to play in any events between the time of their death and their resurrection in the 4th event, even should you (the player) create another character to play with.
  

This is not the same situation as in NQS's Territory.
As written above, Zhi's court is not nearly as experienced or organized as NQS's court I mean they don't have Mercury and Endymion to create their communication system, or Jupiter's experience to know how to run the show, or NQS's steadfast belief in that everything will be okay - they are in stage 5 freak-out right now, and they are suffering for it. They're not being hit nearly as hard as NQS's territory, but their territory is smaller, and thus has less senshi within it that could volunteer, let alone that would or did volunteer. Less Chaos is having a greater effect there as they scramble to keep it away and keep their Queen safe. 

As stated, things are drawn so thin that they've resorted to conscripting senshi to send them off to war on planets those senshi haven't even heard of, whether they know how to fight Chaos or not. The experienced ones are being sent on riskier, higher-stakes missions and expecting them to not only make it out alive, but also to succeed and report to be sent on the next risky high-stakes mission; with the less-experienced senshi (like ours), they're tossing them into a group based generally on the stellar neighbourhood and leaving them on a planet to clear it of chaos, wherein they will either succeed, die trying, or abandon their mission and be hunted down for abandoning their mission. Yes, they would take the resources to find deserters over sending those resources to cleanse the next planet - they're panicking. They're new, they're desperate and confused and terribly afraid that if they can't do this, if they can't keep Chaos at bay and senshi following their orders, their best friend will die because of it. If one group abandons duty and gets away scott-free, they all might do it and then Xhi is dead, and the rest of her sector with her. 

So annywayyy, what that means for our group is that if one person dies, there literally is no one available to take her spot, so they move on with a lesser number and keep trying.

As it stands, I'm really trying to keep deaths out of this first one. Everyone should survive Conscription, barring catastrophic accidents, so really this only primarily concerns Event 3 for characters that die in event 2, and the first half of Event 4, for those that didn't survive 3 or 2. 

But tadaa disclaimer done! If you would like to back out, that's totally fine. Otherwise keep those profiles going xD

Additional Note: I've got a secret Sailor Princess plan in the works, so we can actually do combined attacks and etc. to beat big baddies this time around and potentially level up in groups and stuff; our characters will not automatically be included in this "group" as they probably won't naturally be from the same system, but I wanted to throw that out there as something to keep in mind excite hype

Additional additional note: Some may be worried about needing a healer senshi on board and may feel like they have to 'take one for the team' and take that healer role now that Achelois and wonderful-backup Sedna aren't there to heal people. Just wanted to say that I've got a healer for this one so play the role you want to play. If you honestly want to play a healer, go ahead xD If you honestly want to play a defender, go ahead, and if you want to play a tiny little potential-badass-in-the-making, do it. XD These people don't get to pick their teammates, so it's totally okay if we end up with an imbalance xD


OKAY SO THIS THREAD IS FOR: 
a) Asking Questions about anything above, from Hardcore Events in general, to this one in particular (what with its setting and history and character requirements)
b) Signing Up You can also sign up in this thread for this event, which starts in August. Sign up with a link to your character's profile.


Players and Characters:
Please note: Only 10 slots are available because any more would have been split into two teams by Zhi's guardian senshi instead of one team update: kyra is a big ol' softie and will let anyone in who is ready in time

1. Sailor Aegle - Sailor Uranus
   
2. Sailor Chalybs - JupiterThunderCrash
   
3. Sailor Celestal - Addelyn
   
4. Sailor Aldrin - Sailor CJ
   
5. Sailor Hemera - Sailor Mercury
   
6. Sailor Nyx - Light
   
7. Sailor Xtal-Diamante - Aurae
   
8. Sailor Alshain - Anait Zelleire
   
9. Sailor Cosima - Sailor Mars
   
10. Sailor Valdis - Sailor Saturn
    
11. Amarachius Sworn - Eternal Knight
    
12. Sailor Bastet - Small Lady
     
     
     
    

Note about your profile:
You have like a week!! OH NO WHAAAT? That's totally okay, lol take a breath XD 
This profile doesn't have to go above and beyond on anything. You're creating a character - give her the minimum requirements for the profile and leave room for development and tweaking! Not sure about her personality? Give her a few traits to start with, expand on those larger traits, and move on; her quirks and etc. can be found out through playing her! No need to cement her in at right this moment, especially as she's still around her teen years when everything is changing anyway. 

Ready, set, panic! Go!

cough cough cough Tadaaa?


^^' sorry for last-minute info bomb! XD I thought I'd run this in September but then we looked at the theme/RP challenge schedule and when my school starts and when the actual stress stuff would begin and realized, lol, it's now or October and then as December is so festibration/holiday-y, the next one after that won't be til January and I am a greedy little dice master and want all the games so TADAAA AUGUST START. 


Questions? Comments? Concerns? Sign-ups? Board is open!

I see other colours! What areas are those and will they come into play later? (Probably given you but now I'm curious!)

XD atm no, or at least not for irl years (this concatenation series is blocked out for at least 3-4 events, which would put it ending/catching up to current date collector-line like March of next year)

Well, I lied, lol; we may be dealing with one on the "main line"(collector series) in one of the events after this xD

Excited! <333

A character is forming in my mind and I adore her already, though she's being rude by not giving me certain details - like a senshi name D: !!! Now you listen to your elders, missie, and give me ALL the details!!

Can we get information about at least one of the guardian senshi from this system for RP sample purposes since we're supposed to meet one during the conscription? Just a name/planet and general personality would help ^^

Can i sign up now and list the senshi later? xD

I can get the Guardian senshi name and description when I'm at a computer!

General note, though, please use a single word for the senshi name to firmly connect your senshi to a specific planet or star!

I'll sign up as Sailor Chalybs ^^

Update original post with 'general goal' for creating these senshi and short description of Sailor Jin, who is picking them up!

I will be singing up with Sailor Celestal I'm just waiting for her profile to be approved.

Just wanted to post and say that I'm interested. Making a character now. I'm super excited for this!

Oookay, so only through talking with Mercury on skype did I realize I need to add a giant disclaimer to this event.   It'll be neat for them to discover it themselves! It all makes sense within the confines of the story! ._. oh yeah wait they should probably know that


Disclaimer:
Concatenation is an HC Event series consisting of 4 month-long events to take place during August (Conscription), October(???), January(you think i'd release their titles?), and March(nope).

• Signing up for this event actually signs you up for the next four, or until your character dies. You don't have to participate in them - dropping out would just kill your character (until event 4).
  
• Not signing up for this event may preclude you from the next four events. 
  
• If your character dies during any of the next four events, they will be brought back during the 4th event, but they (and, by extension, you, the player) will not be able to play in any events between the time of their death and their resurrection in the 4th event, even should you (the player) create another character to play with.
  

This is not the same situation as in NQS's Territory.
As written above, Zhi's court is not nearly as experienced or organized as NQS's court I mean they don't have Mercury and Endymion to create their communication system, or Jupiter's experience to know how to run the show, or NQS's steadfast belief in that everything will be okay - they are in stage 5 freak-out right now, and they are suffering for it. They're not being hit nearly as hard as NQS's territory, but their territory is smaller, and thus has less senshi within it that could volunteer, let alone that would or did volunteer. Less Chaos is having a greater effect there as they scramble to keep it away and keep their Queen safe. 

As stated, things are drawn so thin that they've resorted to conscripting senshi to send them off to war on planets those senshi haven't even heard of, whether they know how to fight Chaos or not. The experienced ones are being sent on riskier, higher-stakes missions and expecting them to not only make it out alive, but also to succeed and report to be sent on the next risky high-stakes mission; with the less-experienced senshi (like ours), they're tossing them into a group based generally on the stellar neighbourhood and leaving them on a planet to clear it of chaos, wherein they will either succeed, die trying, or abandon their mission and be hunted down for abandoning their mission. Yes, they would take the resources to find deserters over sending those resources to cleanse the next planet - they're panicking. They're new, they're desperate and confused and terribly afraid that if they can't do this, if they can't keep Chaos at bay and senshi following their orders, their best friend will die because of it. If one group abandons duty and gets away scott-free, they all might do it and then Xhi is dead, and the rest of her sector with her. 

So annywayyy, what that means for our group is that if one person dies, there literally is no one available to take her spot, so they move on with a lesser number and keep trying.

As it stands, I'm really trying to keep deaths out of this first one. Everyone should survive Conscription, barring catastrophic accidents, so really this only primarily concerns Event 3 for characters that die in event 2, and the first half of Event 4, for those that didn't survive 3 or 2. 

But tadaa disclaimer done! If you would like to back out, that's totally fine. Otherwise keep those profiles going xD

Sailor Voyager is in the process of being approved! Once she's good, I'd like to submit her.

EDIT: Since Sailor Voyager was rejected, I instead submit Sailor Aldrin, who hopefully will be approved soon.

Finished Sailor Aegle! She's waiting for approval please enjoy her powers


JK SO WHEN I WAS EDITING HER POWERS A BROKEN TAG KILLED THE 'WEAPONS/ITEMS' LIST AND THE RP SAMPLE SO I STILL HAVE THOSE TO DO HAHAHAHAHAAA

Sailor Hemera is done and just waiting for approval.

Would like to enter with Sailor Nyx! ^^ (pending approval)

I'm planning to bring along Sailor Xtal-Diamante (pending approval, of course~) ♥

I'm entering Sailor Alshain (hopefully should be approved soon)

We have two "official" spots left! but i may be inclined to let whomever wants to join and just beg forgiveness if the volume makes battle posts last forever and ever and sprite creation taking a bit longer than planned

I would like to enter Sailor Cosima in (still awaiting approval). I hope I did everything right. 

Cosima looks good! When we go into making her skills we may put her force field generation as a senshi power/ability and have it cost MP to put into action, and the telekinesis would cost MP if used in battle (and have a high MP cost to illustrate the overexertion!); everything look sgreat!

Okay, that's what I figured. Thanks! 

*Comes crashing into the thread*

I would love to add Sailor Valdis (pending approval) to the roster, if I may!!! *falls over*

XD Welcome aboaaaard! 

*Reminder* Tomorrow is the last day to sign up! 

I just got back from my trip, so I'll be putting together all the things (Weapon Magic Item / Stat Sheets) tonight and tomorrow! Keep an eye out for the skype ooc chat!

http://www.thegalaxycauldronforums.com/t13510-hc-eventconscription#362484

The thread is up! Please wait for my first post to set the scene, etc., but then go for it xD

*Note! Small Lady has talked to me about potentially getting her character into this event; I have allowed her to enter so long as her profile is completed before Tuesday!

Small Lady signing in with Sailor Bastet!

Edit: Additionally, if you had a high perception marked down for a specific ability or trait that did not make its way onto your WMI, you may request it is added when you redistribute your Perception Points.

Additional Considerations! How to handle exp gains when healers heal outside of battle. Options that come to mind: 

• Normal (1:1, has potential to let healers skyrocket ahead of the rest of the team that cannot gain exp outside of battle); 
  
• Stunted (award exp per healing attempt); 
  
• Stunted plus MP (award 1 exp per healing attempt, and additional EXP on 1:1 based on how much MP was spent when healing); 
  
• Modified~ stunted (the above, but allowing extra exp gain for hp restored based on eyeballing how the character ranks in exp compared to everyone else; if they're behind the pack in exp, they can gain up to a full 1:1 Heal:EXP)
  
• Super Modified~ stunted (they can gain 1:1 HP to EXP up until they match the exp of the current highest exp character, unable to surpass them).
  

x.x

I'd prefer to keep the auto-hit for healers. I don't like the thought of healing failing without some kind of active interruption of powers, mostly because healers are essential to keep the party members alive. For this reason, I prefer a penalty to EXP gained instead of including a dice roll for whether or not a heal "hits".

(I think that in the previous HC events, most of our healers leveled very quickly not only because they were healers with auto-hit attacks but also because they were characters with lots of years senshi-ing and Chaos enemies defeated, so they had a lot of MP to spend on healing and generally a fair amount of HP for themselves.)