PIRATES vs. NAVY BATTLE PLANNING

[highseasmods]

ATTENTION ALL CREWS!!!

Please use this post to discuss your plans, where various characters will be throughout the attack, and get details straightened out so we can be sure that nobody's toes are getting stepped on!

Everyone is allowed to bring their thoughts to the table and ALL PLOTS are welcome.

Not everyone has to do the same thing!

We just want to make sure everyone is aware of what's going down. :)

Please also take a look at the two newest plurks over here: highseasmods, especially this one.

THANK YOU.

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LANDING PARTY (parties?)

[thethundersaid]

If your character is planning/wants to get on the actual island, post to this thread please?

Re: LANDING PARTY (parties?)

[hostclubshadowking]

Horatio will have a landing party (possibly with more than one boat attached to it) to get people either off where they came in under cover of darkness or to the Nav in Backwater.

I should also note: Horatio's landing party plan relies more on stealth than combat. They'll probably find trouble, of course, but his focus is getting in, getting people, getting out.

Re: LANDING PARTY (parties?)

[seadevil]

Motochika definitely wants to get on the island, but his crew is tiny and he's about as good at planning things as Luffy is, so if anyone has any suggestions...

[maskedtyrant]

As mentioned, Sinewave plans to send about six of their crew (at most) through their Nav to a ship closer to Empieza. Here is Dirk's initial request, here is Codi's repeat of the same request in the big IC plot thing. Dirk's robot Sawtooth will be coming with them and can propel a raft very quickly to shore, so as long as they have a raft to begin with, they can (hopefully) get to the island without too much trouble.

No concrete plans for when we get there, that I know of. Codi I know is opportunistic and will oscillate between helping new people and poking at stray Navy troops at random. If you guys have anything specific you want to do, please say so here so I don't keep forgetting!

Re: LANDING PARTY (parties?)

[oceanicbutterfly]

Karen's going to use her powers to propel a landing boat at high speed and get to the island early, at which point she'll focus on keeping the path to Backwater Brig open.

[hiken]

The Spade Pirates have stolen a Navy ship and a few uniforms. They're going to try and sneak past the Navy ever so sneakily. And then get outed the second they touch on shore.

Their rather simplistic goal will be to fight the Navy and hope to force them to consider a retreat. This idea looks much better scrawled into the wall of a cave, honestly.

Re: LANDING PARTY (parties?)

[breaks_pots]

Link the younger intends to take to the ground!

Re: LANDING PARTY (parties?)

[forhylia]

Link the older will be making his way to land as well!

Re: LANDING PARTY (parties?)

[gokai_red]

Marvelous is honestly going to do the most good on land, so he'll probably be going ashore with the ninjas and Links.

PARTY PLANNING DETAILS

[thethundersaid]

Please post your landing party hats ITT.

For real, here is the map of IE with my hideous notes. Please let me know where your group will be landing and I'll make an updated map with all landing locations.



MORE NOTES:

NAVY SHIPS: Word of Mod (TM) is that most of the Navy's ships will be around the harbour. It looks from this image like the waters around the harbour have the deepest draught so that makes sense, whereas smaller boats/rafts will be able to land right up on the entire stretch of beach. The other side of the island looks like a pretty physically risky landing what with currents, but it also might be less patrolled (?).

TIDE AND CURRENT: Horatio's party mentioned coming in at night, which I assume most groups will try (though I don't speak for Luffy ... can Luffy be made to wait, question for the heavens). Night is high tide, so the current will be moving toward the island -- so the outbound trips will be trickier than the inbound trips. :D More fun for new recruits!

CURRENT GROUPS: As far as I can tell, there will be four groups: Horatio's, the Spades, Karen's, and the rest of the folks heading for land?

Let me know if I've missed anything. :) Hopefully this is useful for organizing threads when the time comes!

Magical Maritime Fun with the Alcyone

[jadethenecromancer]

As I've said on plurk, the Alcyone will be sticking near the Charming Murderess and giving everyone cover fire of the magical kind once stealth is out of the window. That pretty much means Jade will be raining thunder and lightning on Navy ships, both around the island and in port, to keep the Navy's attention divided and just generally spook them because lightning raining down from the sky what our ships are on fire.

...Mind you, because Jade will be busy casting and they've lost just about all their other fighters (besides Luke, anyway), they're kind of going to be sitting ducks.

Also, we do have some space on the ship and an unused Nav if anyone needs it!

Korra

[rebonding]

Korra isn't limiting herself to her place on the Spade Pirates, and... isn't so hot at listening to orders anyway. She's so far made IC plans with Tojiko to speak with Mononobe no Futo about conjuring up a little fog over the Navy ships. It was also brought up in the plotting plurk the possibility of her being a motor for a boat (to bring people ashore, I'm assuming?), which I would also be up for! I'm assuming that both tasks could be accomplished at the same time? If there's a hiccup there, please let me know! Other than that, I'd like to be able to get that aspect ironed out here if possible.

EDIT: As of right now, she will be powering a long boat filled with fighters in the night and hiding out until the morning of the invasion to conjure the fog.

Korra will be rearing to get to the thick of the fighting, so that is another consideration I'd like to make. Once she's done transporting people or making fog or whatever exactly she ends up doing, she'll be wrecking ships and taking out soldiers all she can and eventually making her way to shore to try to find new arrivals. There's a chance that Asami could arrive with the newbies, so Korra will be teaming up with her if possible.

And when all is said and done, Korra will be hanging around to heal people with waterbending. If you're planning for an injured character or if it just comes up, she'll be open for that, as well.

THE CHARMING MURDERESS

[yatteyanyo]

OKAY HERE'S WHAT I HAVE SO FAR, crew, correct me if I missed anything BUT here is what we've got?

Foggy Waters - Tojiko will be using her powers along with some boogie woogie Feng Shui to conjure up some fog that will hide their ship and hide others if they need it but ONLY ON THE APPROACH. It will be pretty much useless once they're in closer range, but it keeps Naval ship bombardments from having any real accuracy, so there's that.

Scouting - Futo and Korra of the Spades were working together, last I checked, on recon. I think the're using Futo's flying boat to get in above the Navy and sabotage from behind? They can confirm/deny these details. EDIT: See, Korra-mun posted before I did. SEE HER FOR DETAILS.

Landing Party - Sasuke-mun's got that covered above

Bombardment - Otherwise, the ship should be helping the Alcyone with the shooting, unless otherwise noted.

Re: THE CHARMING MURDERESS

[abundantlove]

after discussing the matter with the Shepherd crew muns, the group will have come to a compromise, and Mana, Rikka, Alice, and Maribelle would join Tojiko in assisting the fog to conceal from the blockade, with Rikka still intending to assist and the other three providing support and protection.

That said, we can expect them to run into some conflict in this role too, right?

Link (the older)

[forhylia]

Link is part of the Charming Murderess, and their plans thus far are pretty much outlined here, but Link doesn't have any specific plans, yet.

I'm pretty open as to what he gets up to! Some major points would be that he is much better suited to fighting on the ground, and that he will be clinging to Hylia's side whenever possible. He'll also be looking out for bitty Link.

[yatteyanyo]

watch Tojiko get upset if bitty Link comes back with even, like, a bruise.

Re: Link (the older)

[breaks_pots]

Bitty Link objects to having anyone but Navi look out for him.

Link, the younger

[breaks_pots]

All fun and games aside, I'd actually like to traumatize the kid here by making him have to kill an actual person in self defense, instead of just a monster. The Navy may eventually retreat, but they're out for blood and it's kill or be killed.

Would anyone be up for threading an encounter alongside Link where that occurs?

EDIT: It could be in the course of defending himself, or while protecting someone else. Either is good. Possibly with his sword if it's up close, or with a pistol he re-acquires after hitting the ground.

Re: Link, the younger

[yatteyanyo]

tojiko's face when

The Panthress

[fullmetal_heart]

We are taking on any injured that need to be removed from the fray of battle, newbie or crews, it doesn't matter. Winry is competent enough with medical knowledge and Ed can apply pressure to wounds (ha ha).

Re: The Panthress

[rebonding]

If Ed or Winry plans on putting out a public message of some sort about bringing in the injured, Korra would be up for helping with healing a-la-waterbending once the fighting is done. Would you be up for her showing up?

NEW CHARACTERS

[highseasmods]

Namur | One Piece

[om_nom_namur]

SO there will be a confused, 8 foot tall, cranky, freaky-looking dude in the Newbs mix. Probably getting shot at by Animal Control since the Navy will be busy. >.> But if he makes it to the harbor and knows whose boats need to be sunk he could probably bite through a few keels. If, you know. Someone tells him to. orz

Roxas | Kingdom Hearts

[heartismyown]

Roxas is coming into the frey! He's likely to be in a lot of trouble, and he would be beating people with some keyblades when he's attacked. He'll do his best to make it to the shore, but depending on how many marines, he might have a hard time.

The Bloody Roses

[redcinemareel]

They probably won't even join in on the action (surprise!), but if anyone would like them to join and have them destroy things (and fight the Navy while at it), then just let us know!

In the meantime, they may take advantage of the commotion to do things in other places.

[fierybluebird]

Marco says this is classy and he approves.