City Shielding

[deem]

So a while back 9S and Jude approached the rest of the coven regarding the creation of a protective barrier around Aimintas. And members of the coven responded, which means there's been some collaboration to that effect. I've run some ideas and questions by the mods, and here's some information for people to (hopefully) work with.

To start with, the beta phase of creating a barrier around the city involves smaller modules made with local technology. Each of these can create an energy shield about the size of a garage or mall entrance, and for testing purposes these have been situated outside of a few local businesses and residences to try them out. The mods have said these smaller shields can easily be powered by the Eltos for quite a long time. Additionally, the shields can repel Uvi attacks.

Thanks to Kozusu decipheringeye, the coven will have some level of warning that an attack is coming. The mods have specified this would not be something very precise, but would be indication trouble is on the horizon, which allows anyone working with the shield modules to help ensure that Palai will be safe. These shields will hold, and blocking entrances should be sufficient to bar the path of Uvi, additionally breaking their weaponry. However, this also makes their broken weapons a new threat.

The mods have said that the Palai will be responsive to warnings and assistance from the coven, which means they have a good opportunity to help protect them from the coming attack. All good news! Here's the rub though: a city-wide barrier is not possible. The amount of energy and resources it would demand aren't something that the Palai can feasibly work with. However, shielding building entryways should be sufficient protection.

For anyone who would like to see the full set of questions and answers, refer to this! Please feel free to use this post for plotting purposes or to toss ideas around if people would like to thread things out or pin down character participation in the shielding project past the initial volunteering post.

Also! Anybody who wants their characters in on this doesn't have to have threaded in the volunteering post, so don't feel limited by that if your character would pitch in.

Comments

[bulletbiter]

Julius will be trying to gather some people to fight back against the Uvi outside the barrier, if anyone would like to pitch in! I'll have an open post or toplevel for him up soon.

[deem]

I'm just here to make a Julius topiary though...

[bulletbiter]

and it'll be a beautiful topiary i'm sure of it

[deem]

Of course, look at this fine tree I have to work with.

[rebells]

Jay would also have sent a message out to people who were on the ground team during the last raid telling them to gather outside barriers! If anyone who was on that wants an excuse to be involved.

[splinten]

I have been swamped with irl but! for more help after Kozusu's general warning, they'll get a very short "FUCK THE UVI ARE BROKEN OUT" warning from Dirk as per this, so they can know shortly before the Uvi show up that they need to set everything in motion ASAP.

[deem]

So Dirk made...spybots...

But no that's awesome, and would give them a more accurate fix on when trouble's raining down from the heavens as it were.

[splinten]

look. LOOK!!! we all need hobbies and robots are his

:|b time to set phasers to kill

[deem]

Regale us with tales of these robots sometime.

Beat up Uvi when they're throwing themselves at barriers, good game.

[decipheringeye]

Kosuzu here to provide vague prophetic dreams! Who would be the best person for her to contact about the impending attack?

[deem]

Hm... In my opinion it seems like it'd be a good idea to say she mentioned it to the coven at-large, and they could have responded from there. Whether this is handwaved or something you'd want to backdate would be 100% at your discretion of course.

Just my two cents though. If she contacted 9S he would ultimately list off some people he knows to be keen coordinators like Jay.

[probablynoteren]

Ahhhh, I totally missed the IC network post on this because I'm good at life, apparently. :p Jay did clue Lenka in about the barrier, though he's still under the impression they're trying for the whole city; either way he's down for defending some modules, if anyone's interested in guarding a few doorways. His range is also fairly decent for dropping a few fridges, so enjoy that long range support(?!). Have we thought about mobile barriers for defense groups, though they'd probably need to cart some Eltos around at that point--

Other than that I'm not 100% on whether characters can attack through the barriers? I imagine most of us will be fighting outside them because space, but yeah, hmm. Barrier logistics.

[deem]

Attacking through the barriers is a no, since it'd be like hitting a magitech wall. Outside of the barriers would be the place to fight.

[talim]

GOOD JOB NINES

[deem]

ISN'T THIS ALSO GOOD JOB JUDE?

[talim]

let's be real you did most of the work....... but still

[deem]

Shush he's not built for magic.

They needed a medic here.

[talim]

WELL, TRUE.