So, Faction Takedowns, Let's Talk About Em!

[applesaucemod]

Hello, fritterlings. Here is the latest word on the faction takedowns.

On IG September 4th (technically now IRL, but we're going to backdate it a bit because inciting events are still happening and backdating is how we do, here), three things are going to happen.

Thing the first: Andrew, James & Co. are going to badger the Rift into letting them go home.
Thing the second: the Rift is going to throw an epic tantrum in response because hdu.
Thing the third: said tantrum will allow interested and motivated parties to go ahead and fork up ROMAC's ship, ultimately resulting in the faction's fall. SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS that joke goes out to Lu I'm here all week tip your waitress.

Sometime in the next week(ish), two open posts will go up. One will be for general Rift shenanigans (this can take whatever form players choose; pretty much anything goes), and one will be for forking up ROMAC. Players are free to throw their characters into whichever scenario they feel like getting involved in. It'll be a hot mess.

Several days after the dust settles in the Citigroup tower (aka a couple weeks down the line in real time), it'll be the Rebels' turn for some ruction. Daine is largely going to be leading the charge on this one, but again, all will be welcome to get involved to whatever degree they so choose (though it's going to be presumed that anyone living in the base will be relocated, because the base is not gonna be livable by the time Daine's done with it). An open post will go up, much like with the Rift shenanigans/ROMAC takedown business.

The goal is to say that by IG September 10th/11th, everything will have calmed down and anyone rendered homeless by the ruction will have been resettled elsewhere. For the sake of convenience, the buildings that currently serve as the Rebel and ROMAC apartments will continue to function as rifty housing. They'll just lose their faction-specific affiliations.

Questions? Concerns? Comments? I am hopped up on DayQuil and ready to field them ineptly.

~ Carrie

(P.S. Email notifs are ON for the comment section, so if I see any pun runs then SO HELP ME.)

Comments

[powerdealer]

Lucy might just get sent back home during the Rift shitfit? Or to some entirely different time/place, who knows, she's going to be living out her days somewhere anyway, she's not gonna die. But she is gonna disappear with no telling where she's gone.

Topher ...might.. get killed somehow, in the ROMAC takedown? There was some mention of this happening in front of Gabriel, but I don't really have specifics. If anyone has ideas, bring them to me? But I'm also not gonna shuffle him off in a footnote, I care about him too much for that and plus it would just be such a massive downgrade from his canon.

Tara is staying far away from this business. She will however notice the Rift shitfit. (She's also presumably gonna take over Daniel's apartment once he dies.) She's not gonna get involved in the actual takedowns, but if anyone needs their wounds tended to or something, she's available?

Seth is gonna be way too busy being just fucking devastated over Daniel's death to get involved in the ROMAC take-down, but once the time comes for the Rebel one, he will be nice and bitter and reckless and all up for that shit.

Daine's gonna contact him for help/information, and then he'll come along for the fun. His focus is gonna be going after some higher-ups before they run off, then help release the prisoners. Probably including ones that should really be locked up.

WHICH SPEAKING OF THAT

Lots of people/creatures who really should've been locked up will be freed in this. The ones from ROMAC will probably be snatched up by the Rebels, but once they go down too there's not really anywhere to keep them. We can probably assume a bunch of random rifties with powers are gonna step up and deal with dangerous shit, so we don't have to worry about it all too much.

But basically there's a lot of potential for random rifties to have encounters with bad shit, if anyone wants that to happen.

[lottawork]

Rush will be all about sowing the seeds of discontent with fucking ROMAC over so if he were to encounter Topher he could definitely tilt him along that path of "bro you should totally start tearing down this place that screwed us both over" if you think that you would be sufficient getting him to the ROMAC takedown

[powerdealer]

I mean see the problem with Topher is he barely even leaves his house for NICE things.

He could definitely HELP though, like he has SO much knowledge about that place (I mean he was p much in charge of at least a section of the rift observation/science bit, he was decently well-placed once upon a time) and he'd have no qualms about handing it over to someone who wanted to put it to good use? And. Like I could see him sitting elsewhere hacking security and shit. Actually getting him physically involved might be trickier.

And I absolutely wouldn't mind seeing Rush and Topher together. (Lol another person who'd be like "orite the stargate" at him.)

[lottawork]

At this point Rush will not be the most pleasant person to be around - I mean, ridiculously, even MORE so than usual - so he'll be very focused, very nonresponsive, and very much "how can I use you to achieve my ends right now". But him roping Topher in might be a good window to get him involved in a more substantial sense.