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Hey guys! I've been working on an additional guide that will hopefully help everyone with this plot and answers a few Q&A better. Also some SUPER AWESOME STUFF THAT YOU CAN VOTE ON!:

Powers
I think I might have made it a bit confusion so here's the basic gist of it (and continue to ask me stuff as you go, I will do my best to answer it).
- If your magical power makes you able to function it will work at it's lowest setting so magical girls could not transform for example but they wouldn't die either.
- Someone who uses magic spells to see and hear would still be able to see and hear, they wouldn't be able to cast spells.
- Anything magically enchanted that doesn't fit the above requirements is not working for this moment (early next week there will be attacks on the dampening nodes that will be organized to restore people their powers)
- Anything technological work at a lower setting, and sometimes malfunctions (depending on what you want to do).

Your Character's Safety & Damages to the Unsafe Zones
- There are already a few safe zones being set up. Follow this link to the thread below to post the safe zones. For the first part of the plot, these will be the areas characters can be that won't get attacked for the most part.
- Damages to the unsafe zones will be kept to places players are okay with use damaging. You can submit anything that belongs to your characters before we destroy them. A few city things, like the great wall of China, part of Kang's Tavern, Awesomeporium and some of the Awesomeworld Park will be destroyed, for example, because either they were not created by a player, or the players already gave their okay for some destruction happening. So don't worry if your characters leaving a place, it most certainly doesn't means that automatically it will be destroyed. This is a war situation but we don't want to destroy everything you've been building since the beginning.
-Unless you're cool with this. That's awesome and we'll most certainly help you in your destructive endeavors.
- Characters will never get killed unless they ask for me, as stated previously.

Pod Attacks
Okay now that I have mod permission from my fellow mods to do this, I now present you, the players, with very cruel options.

~~POD DEATHS~~

Now let me preface that 1) We will not accept any characters that stand strong chances of being apped in the future. 2)Anyone chosen for deaths will be voted by the game as a whole. So no sudden surprises. We'd never be that cruel to you or take potential castmates away from you.

That being said:
- We are looking for a few Red Shirt nominations for pod related deaths. We are allowed this following:
- Very very obscure characters that do not stand a chance of being apped
- Redshirts in their respective fandoms (and again no one popular who stands a chance of being apped
- Headcanon family members of your character that you are okay with them dying. So like say I would want Lash's dad to die since there is no canon proof of him, I could do that.
- Give us your ideas on the post below!

ROBOTS!
- Are you a robot and/or have robot parts and would love to have your character be taken over by SHODAN at some point for drama? Please ask us below we'd be happy to do this.

MORE ROBOTS!
- Later next week, SHODAN is going to increase her attacks with more robots as the crew starts winning. Do YOU have robots you'd like to submit from cannons which are not in the plot yet? Please post below with suggestions (and wiki links, if possible).

Future Plot Stuff
Just so people have an idea what to expect from the plot:
- Standing next week, there will be attacks on the depowering nodes. You can sign up for teams that will do this (see the post below) to make repowered zones around the ship as they fight back bit by bit.
- SHODAN will send other robots to attack the team as they get stronger.
- Depowering SHODAN will also required a few teams, with a main one attack her themselves. While this one will be with set people, SHODAN being depowered will require the entire ship to help out so they can do that blow.

Ahhh and now you all know about the plot going on underway. You know the saying 'if it's too good to be true....than it probably.'

Surprise! Ever since you've had a taste of your relatives during the Visiting Day, another AI has slowly been creeping over Stacy while no one was noticing. And let's just say, if you've never played System Shock?

SHODAN makes GLaDOS look like a tame puppy. The link is to her wikipedia account, and provides you with additional information about who she is. The AI has been planning this takeover for quite a while, but it was only when Stacy, in trying to make the ship's life better, used too much energy and had to shut down that she found a window of opportunity.

Thankfully(?!) SHODAN is also a megalomaniac and has pretty much spilled the beans at everything both so she can laugh at you pathetic meatlings running around the ship trying to survive and also because she things nothing can go wrong. She's throwing rocks at you and not just killing off everyone because it's just that much fun to watch. She's like a kid holding a magnifying glass next to an army of ants.

LET'S SHOW HER HOW WRONG SHE IS.

NOW. It is important that you read all of this because it has information on what is happening on the ship and the plot can only really flow well if you all read this and remember it well;

MAIN THINGS TO REMEMBER:
- The attack happens around afternoon on that 'day'. There is no warning apart from when SHODAN starts to speak. So your characters can't be prepared by it.
- SHODAN has activated power dampers all over the ship. These cause ANYONE who has magical artifacts, magic skills, super powers and items to be disactivated. You cannot transform into your Ranger/Warrior/Kamen Rider. You are reduced to a badass normal, or a very very low level character if you need magic to survive.
- So let me repeat this: Any character with powers are reduced to being normal characters. For example, Lash cannot use her CO Powers, cannot use the enchantments on items she might have, and cannot turn into a Ranger.
- Any super powers are gone as well. You cannot fly, shoot lightning, anything. You are reduced to only your body, your hands and your skills of survival in a ship that just completely turned against you.
- Magical artifacts will also be useless. Gadgets loose all their 'bonuses' and say, a pair of goggles enchanted with a spell would be normal goggles right now.
- That being said, there are places to arm yourself with guns and weapons in the armory. The problem is there are a lot of robots now guarding it. So it will require a team effort to get there. And SHODAN is no fool, she has robots trying to get int to destroy the place completely.
- There is also the Hanger where there are some giant battle units. Again, SHODAN is also going to target the Hanger as soon as possible.
- Things will be destroyed. SHODAN wants you to be angry at her. She's going to target shops, city parts, important parts on board, and food supplies.

SHODAN'S TARGETS
- Level 1: Medbay & Special Weapons Division
- Level 2: THE PODS. The Pods are going to need to be defended. There will be some pod related deaths.
- Level 3: Armory
- Level 4: The Drunken Dragon Tavern, Le Prefecture (the Council's HQ), the Onsen, Outsiders HQ, the Precinct and brig (Security HQ), Stormwind Clothiers, the W.I.T.C.H. bus, Awesomeporium etc. She's going for everything that provides attentional services and helps crew moral. Can't have that, tsk tsk.
Level 5: Hydroponics, Media Library, Mess Hall, the Sensoriums, The Tapestry Room.

DEFENDING AGAINST SHODAN
- COMMAND TEAM, THIS IS YOUR TEAM TO SHINE IN A REAL SITUATION
- Weapons characters might have
- Blunt weapons
- The Comm System where characters can organize IC raids
- Giant robots that are not powered by magical transforming items
- Later next week there will be a raid to properly fight back and shut down the power debuffers so everyone can get their magic/super powers/transforming items/enchanted weapons back. But for now? You're stuck in a horror situation. You are painfully 'human'.

FOR THE FIRST FEW DAYS
- Have fun playing your characters in sticky situations. This account will be available for you to NPC foes. I'm finishing a ROBOT FOE guide after this, so you can see what each does.
- The Communication System will become your greatest alley for all the characters to survive. It is, essentially, the only way everyone can contact each other.
- The entire ship is swarming with robots; SAINTS, Terminators of the 600-850 line, Cylons, Battle Droids and Daleks. Each type of robot have ways of being defeated and danger levels.
- The crew will need to defend and create some SAFE ZONES. Where the SAFE ZONES are will be entirely up to you guys.

CAN MY CHARACTER KICK ASS?
- Of course! But not in the super powered totally cool way. This is in survival mode, no super-powered skills, just wits way.

And let's just say the robots are hard to take down by yourself. Teaming up with random strangers for CR is STRONGLY ENCOURAGED.

LOSES OF ITEMS AND POSSESSIONS
SHODAN is going to attack everything, as said above. Apart from making safe zones, you'll need to keep things from falling down. It's gonna be a big job and let's just say that the entire city will look like a war zone once this is all over.

But chin up Meatship! Clearly SHODAN has no idea which kickass crew she's dealing with. She might have thrown a lot of really hard obstacles on your way, but you can prevail!

INJURIES
- Injury scale might go up to 10 for this plot. So be careful about traveling alone. Especially since Med Bay will not be readily available.

DEATHS
As said in the death paragraph in the game; "Beyond mild to severe injuries, we will warn you if your character's actions are liable to get them permanently maimed or disfigured, tortured (or if they might suffer great pain somehow), or killed. If you choose to pursue things further from the point of being warned by us, what comes will come, just as the character would likely understand what they're doing is risky." There are to be some risks in this.

DUDE, SOUNDS LIKE A GOOD TIME FOR ME TO KILL MY CHARACTER!
Please contact the mods first and we'll see what we can do about this 83c No promises we will do this for everyone, but if you've wanted to die fighting robots and saving the ship, we'd be glad to help you out.