CALHOUN HOUR - SURVIVOR PLOTTING POST

[vivariummods]

calhoun hour: survivor plotting!

This is a plotting post for the most recent Calhoun Hour event! We have a handy form you can comment with, so fill 'er in and get to plotting! We encourage that you also take communication to plurk or aim, where it may be faster, so share your contact info if needed! <font face="georgia" color="#44657b"><b>PLAYER:</font></b> Your Name <font face="georgia" color="#44657b"><b>CHARACTER:</font></b> Character Name (<user name="character journal">) <font face="georgia" color="#44657b"><b>CONTACT:</font></b> Plurk, aim, email, etc. It may also be best to let people know which way is best to contact you for further plotting, should you want to move it anywhere faster than this entry. <font face="georgia" color="#44657b"><b>REACTION:</font></b> How are they going to handle the situation? What will they be doing during both the regular hours and then during the dark hours? <font face="georgia" color="#44657b"><b>PLANS:</font></b> Is there anything that you want to do with your character? <font face="georgia" color="#44657b"><b>ANYTHING ELSE:</font></b> Anything goes here!

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[detectiveofthewest]

PLAYER: Tetra
CHARACTER: Heiji (detectiveofthewest)
CONTACT: tetradecimal, AIM: Tetravolte

REACTION: FINALLY, HEIJI'S RIDICULOUS HOARDING BEHAVIOR IS ABOUT TO PAY DIVIDENDS

The first ten hours, Heiji will be spending testing out the robots, getting rotten meat/flares and such from the vending machines, and working out strategies. He will also be sneaking around and visiting various rooms to map out their layout because you gotta know the battlefield to do battle, right?

When the lights go out, Heiji will be pretty well-off when it comes to navigating the rooms and will be seeking out Snake, who... yeah, is probably pretty good at operating in the dark.

While what's happening is scary, lbr Heiji has pretty much been waiting his entire life for this.
PLANS: So basically, I have a bunch of crazy ideas for this event and I'll just list them out for interested parties:
Theater: I'd like to do something with the stage lights, hiding among the seats, and using the ropes to tangle a robot up, maybe lift one up in the air to disable it if we can make that work.
Cafeteria: Um, hiding in the cafeteria Jurassic Park style?
Gallery: USE THE ANGRY STATUE TO ATTACK A ROBOT. TRAPS, YAY.
Music Room: idk but there needs to be creepy accidental someone hitting the keys. Cheap scares!
Infirmary: There sure are a lot of knives in this room... Maybe something with the dolls, idk yet
Confinement Room: I totally want to lock one of the robots in a cell using scavenged rope.
Garden: Luring a robot close enough to the water so that it can be submerged and shorted out.
Incinerator: IT'S THE PERFECT OPPORTUNITY TO INCINERATE A ROBOT

Things Heiji has, things I'm explicitly planning to have him use in this event:

• Thermal gloves
• Shovel with wooden handle (good for electrical insulation!)
• Knives
• Shinai
• Souvenir leaves from Charley the potted plant
• Sewing kit
• Trombone/trombone case
• Octopus???

ANYTHING ELSE:
Look I have a gif this time

[puzzlinglad]

I want in on theatre stuff. I just really want them to do ridiculous shinai fights and detective traps then highfive before a robot falls from the ceiling and they have to benny hill away.

[fairsfair]

PLAYER: Ichi
CHARACTER: Jake (fairsfair)
CONTACT: lastsummon is the best way to get a hold of me by sending me a private plurk! Since my timezone is KST so I probably won't be around during the same time as everyone else, but just in case, you can also get me on aim at sociallinking!

REACTION:

Jake is... well, Jake. I'm guaranteeing you that he's going to fight a robot before he knows it's a Bad Idea. He's a real showoff when pulling melee moves too, so he'll be doing any one of those with robots. But after getting shocked from one and having a new burn, heee probably will go for the less direct approach of throwing it and probably play it smart, and when I mean smart, I mean find a weapon he can use to beat the shit out of one instead.

But no seriously he might also camp it out once there's more than one and nothing really works. Especially when it's dark, just going to play it smart and try to get through it with as little trouble. He just doesn't really like waiting and doing nothing...

PLANS:

Besides punching robots... I'd really like him to pair up with someone who can plan things out and Jake just carries them out, use his dumb muscles for something. Just some kind of teamwork will be really nice, where he actually listens for once. If anyone is having their character tossed in an elevator, Jake can certainly get on board to breaking them out as well.

Also, it's probably not the best time for this, but tons of looting. Looting things that might come in handy, looting things that might come in handy later, looting things to just piss Calhoun off, you know, that kind of stuff... It's cool if he steals yet another couch, right? It's good to barricade doors (and keep them for the future).

Other than that, I don't have any set plans!

ANYTHING ELSE:

I am currently in Korea on vacation! So my tagging is going to be sporadic so I'm really sorry ahead of time. I am totally game for backtagging, though!

Oh, I also forgot but Jake's condition is... well, not the best. It's been a few days, but his right hand is still pretty fucked up, so he won't be using it very much. The same goes for his arm and right side of his torso, so he'll using his non-dominant side, his left. Yeah, he'll still get into fights, but this is certainly a thing.

Bonus gif:

[puzzlinglad]

PLAYER: Hal
CHARACTER: Hershel Layton (puzzlinglad)
CONTACT: plurk is but pms to this account, also good

REACTION: whoops forgot this- he'll handle it pretty well honestly, he'll be freaked at first but once it comes down to oh we need to have plans and be smart about this it'll be easy for him to ignore that and go into okay this is a puzzle we must solve mode. basically he'll be fine as long as he isn't caught, no promises if he is because fuck that elevator shit

PLANS: Probably going to have him accidentally buy Sleepy Cat and just sigh at wasting 60 coins. Other than that I want to do a lot, I'd love to do some goofy benny hilling away from robots, I'd love to have him get stuck in a puzzle room when the doors start closing randomly, I'd love to have tree climbing and just staring down trying to figure out how the hell to get the robot circling to go away. I'm definitely up for any robot defeats or near misses or even getting captured if anyone wants to do shit like that.

Heiji, shinai fighting them definitely. Oh I'd also love to do a team effort of something like a rescue or beat up a robot so if anyone wants in on that let's do it, rah rah survival horror.


ANYTHING ELSE:

[fairsfair]

Heiji and Jake should totally incinerate a robot. That sounds like something they can do/are strong enough to pull it off.

Let's do it, let's burn robots.

[detectiveofthewest]

Yes yes should we do this while the power's still on?

Gosh Hershel this is so exciting, just like that time you had to jump in a spider pit

[puzzlinglad]

haha yes okay so my idea because apparently i'm too good for aim or something, i want them to use the gallery to beat one of the robots, i was thinking at one point if they could trigger one of the statue traps properly it would end up grabbing one of the robots and basically holding it in place, which would give them a chance to make like tie it up more somehow or just give jake a chance to grab it in a way where it can't grab them or fight back.

I'm not sure what they'd do from there, maybe throw it into a painting and hope the trap there finishes it off but i want that, let's do that.

[detectiveofthewest]

Fuck yeah o9. I'm working on my posts now, let's do this during lights on!

[puzzlinglad]

yeah let's that way full spotlight on their stupid show. i can see something where they take turns keeping the robot back as much as they can with shinai while the other works on setting the ropes up as a trap or maybe the curtain as a trap. if they get a curtain around one of the robots and just tie it up with ropes they can probably drag it to the incinerator or the garden to finish it off, maybe stuff like that???

also wow you jump into one spider pit and suddenly you're the spider pit guy.

[fairsfair]

[fairsfair]

i am so down for that. i really like the idea of hershel learning from that statue and using it now to his advantage. i think after tying it up... jake will just want to idek break off its head so it can't function anymore, I'M GOING TO DECAPITATE THIS THING

throw it in a painting, accidentally get hit with pepper spray, gj gj

[fairsfair]

Sounds good!

Get out the marshmallow, kids B)

[puzzlinglad]

[puzzlinglad]

jake just RIPS IT'S HEAD OFF actually they might be able to use the stuff in the glass case to do that, jake has enough strength to probably use the iron spike though you gonna get shocked boy

hey it's your best friend pepper spray. even better they get knocked out and wake up in elevators like well fuck.

[detectiveofthewest]

Yes good excellent plan. They can maybe take turns hacking at the rope/gathering up the curtain and such! Maybe they can run off in different directions and return to haul off the tied-up robot once the coast is clear?

[fairsfair]

he'll get shocked for the GREATER GOOD i hope you're remembering all the shit that he's doing for you, hershel. sigh, friendship... breaking the stuff in the glass case will cause so much noise, so hope hershel remembers how to solve the puzzle quickly enough to grab the items inside

LMFAO hershel and jake locked up in an elevator, jake does not stop until he breaks a foot trying to kick down the door

[puzzlinglad]

look are you asking if hershel fucking layton can do a puzzle on the fly to not get murdered. who do you think he is an amateur

finally everything comes full circle.... but yeah when we get to the gallery part we can figure out what to do from there with possible shocks and punching and such

[vengefulyears]

PLAYER: Olivia
CHARACTER: Clive Dove (vengefulyears)
CONTACT: maragidyne, zekroms [AIM]

REACTION: At first he's going to be kind of freaked out but it won't take him too long to get over it and start messing up some robots, hell yeah.
PLANS:
During the first ten hours I don't have anything specific planned for him, really; I'll probably just have him help people mess with the robots and come up with strategies and shit. The important part is that after the lights go out, CLIVE IS GETTING CAPTURED. Probably within the first few minutes of the lights going out, whoops. Once he's in the elevator he's going to send a robot after Zelos (not sorry buddy), but people are more than welcome to try to rescue him in case Zelos doesn't get caught or whatever. Depending on how that goes he may be making many more trips to the elevator before this is over...

tl;dr he's going to be a damsel in distress in the dark but before then he's open to all kinds of shenanigans! /o/

ANYTHING ELSE: I have a bio exam tomorrow that I haven't even begun to study for yet and an essay due this Friday so I'm probably going to be slower than usual because of that!! I also apologize for the lack of a gif because I can't be bothered to look one up rn.

[detectiveofthewest]

Jake, do you want to steal another couch

let's use the couch and hurl it somehow at a robot

[fairsfair]

okay yeah that was a dumb question. he can do puzzles on the fly to not get murdered but he can't pull up pals from ravines sure got it

sounds good, let's have dumb tag team things B)

[fairsfair]

I was just joking about this but let's make it reality

Let's have them steal another couch and hurl it at a robot, then sit on it, squash it

[puzzlinglad]

yeah!! i'm so excited, they can be like team detective setting up puzzle traps and throwing each other stuff they need. honestly if it's just one they could probably take turns getting a long length of rope while the other distracts the robot then just grab either end and snare the thing up. if it's more than one robot i think the best bet would be positioning the robots under the curtain, dropping it then going to town with a rope, tying them up in it

[detectiveofthewest]

yes good

maybe after they incinerate the first robot, it'll get the attention of more and they can Benny Hill over to the Music Room, give Jake an excuse to suplex a robot on the way

[puzzlinglad]

you let ONE FRIEND die in a ravine and suddenly you're marked for life

I need a highfive icon damnit. team idiots is go

[blind_badass]

PLAYER: Belmont
CHARACTER: Snake (blind_badass)
CONTACT: draculabackwards on plurk, MadeofNguyen on AIM

REACTION: Well, crap. Snake will be moving all along, trying not to fight something that seems very dangerous.

First ten hours: Will probably be spent reorienting himself to all the open rooms and their strengths and weaknesses and getting a few flares. He can swat knives out of the air but he is not fighting zombies.

When the lights go out: That will not make a difference at all to Snake. However, it will make a difference to everyone ELSE so Snake might start gathering people up to get them to safety.
PLANS: Snake is willing to take people to safety in the dark since he will become the best navigator. Since they'll probably need to keep moving, he'll also work with other groups for defense.

ANYTHING ELSE: Anything goes here! Snake has a knife and a pianka. Although he would be willing to play a tune to draw a zombie near.