AU Idea- Mutated Alternia

Well as for Aquila, he wandered Alternia before all of this, so that much is going to remain the same for him, and he is currently unaffected by the gas, though this may change at a later date.

Vriska has been driven from her hive, and separated from her Lusus, which may or may not be dead, by the crazed low-bloods that have attempted to kill her and she is currently hiding in an abandoned hive. She still possess her Vision Eightfold as well as the customized lens and her arm, rather than them having been destroyed by Scratch blowing up the cueball. I was thinking of having her being near to where Aradia is.

Also, ME, just so you know I'm a guy. I know the fact I have Vriska is probably a little confusing in that regards.

Sounds good!
We'll need a way for Aquila to find her way to the group, if that's what we ultimately decide to do.

Oh, sorry! I knew, but I wasn't thinking when I was typing that up. I was kind of trying to multitask at the time, but I fail at that. I'll go fix it. I have to go confirm the Fef plan, anyway. All-around list edit coming up!

I officially dub thee the empress of the list.

It's easy to make mistakes, so don't worry about it.. ::::]

Empress of the list? That is just... smashing.

Originally I was just going to edit the original list (which I did), but then I decided it'd be at least 5x the fun to rewrite/reorganize it.

CONFIRMED PARTICIPANTS:

ActuallyFace: Karkat Vantas and The Condesce
maieuticEpimenides: Aradia Megido and Feferi Peixes
GnomeCat: Terezi Pyrope and possibly another (it depends)
sleeplessCartoonist: Nepeta Leijon
bibliophileGamer: Vriska Serket and Aquila Vulpec [OC]

POSSIBLE PARTICIPANTS:

Unknown Study: Benign Cavant [OC]

ADDITIONAL NOTES:

• This AU is free-canon, meaning that anyone can play any canon character!
  
• Current contents of ActuallyFace's Just-In-Case Conveniently Stylish Hip Pouch (JICCSHP) include a bomb, presumably sweeps late to the insanity party, going off as a result of troll foot pressure.
  

AU will begin as the Condesce returns with drones/recruiters. Feferi will also be coming out of previous isolation to begin trying to rebuild Alternia.

ULTIMATE GOAL: To be decided.

Ultimate goals are hard, though. Everyone! Give me your thoughts!

Perhaps the ultimate goal could be rebuilding Alternia, making it better?
Also, is it cool if I throw in a couple of my OCs?

Oh um. I remember Unknown did not want to go in alone so um. Is it okay if I vouch in my own troll Voltik in this?

Link to Voltik application.

Let's stick to a limit of two characters each here. If you only have one character and you'd like to play an OC as well, get me a link. If you have two characters already, either give up another or stick to what you have, but let me know.
Honestly, I would prefer we use mostly canons just because it adds an emotional element to watching friends deteriorate, and because it means we don't have to do a lot of introducing, which isn't something that is either fun or anything that contributes to the RP itself; however, a few mixed in are okay, especially if you feel like you're going to be able to play the OC better than the canon.

And ME, that is just gorgeous. Do you mind if I add it to the original topic for simplicity's sake?

I don't mind at all!

Rebuilding Alternia is already at least a minor goal of sorts, but I don't know if it's the ultimate one. Ultimate carries a lot of weight, as far as words go. Maybe we could think about that?

Also, since canons are preferred: When exactly is this taking place? Is the Psiioniic/Helmsman still alive? I don't remember much about the A2 ancestors, but I recall someone stating that he was killed by the Vast Glub, which wouldn't have happened without Sgrub.

Because you could also set up something like this instead of the corresponding part of the other list (keeping the notes/goal sections, obviously), if it'd help encourage people to take canons/clarify which ones are available. Whichever you prefer!:

CURRENT PARTICIPANTS/CHARACTERS

CANONS:

Aradia Megido - maieuticEpimenides
Tavros Nitram - sleeplessCartoonist
Sollux Captor
Karkat Vantas - ActuallyFace
Nepeta Leijon - sleeplessCartoonist
Kanaya Maryam
Terezi Pyrope - GnomeCat
Vriska Serket - bibliophileGamer
Equius Zahhak
Gamzee Makara
Eridan Ampora
Feferi Peixes - maieuticEpimenides
Her Imperious Condescension/The Condesce - ActuallyFace
The Psiioniic/The Helmsman

OCS:

Aquila Vulpec - bibliophileGamer
Benign Cavant (maybe) - UnknownStudy
Voltik Dushil (I think) - fartymuckmuddydoL

And this is just a side note, but the more bigoted canon characters (like Equius and Eridan) might be worth exploring. Like. Nepeta's an oliveblood, so she'd have been targeted by the chemical. She's also Equius's meowrail moirail. Equius is loyal to the hemospectrum to a fault. Might be nice to see how that'd have played out. Same with Eridan and his genocidal aspirations. So that's something to consider, if anyone is thinking of taking up a canon character. I dunno how easy they are to play, though. I wouldn't want anyone to take a character they're uncomfortable with/find too difficult to RP.

Wow I think I just wrote way too much for no particular reason.

ME is right, that's really rather broad. I was thinking something more along the lines of "Work together to achieve this one thing", like surviving the Condesce's drones or getting rid of her entirely. We may just default to the "survive and reproduce" goal that is every biological race's ultimate goal anyways, or "achieve contentedness/happily ever after". Basically we're looking for the end of the book, the climax and the resolution.

This is taking place before SGRUB ever happened. Basically, instead of Sollux and Aradia beginning to plan the game, this happenned.

That is a wonderful list and I will do the thing as soon as possible. uvu

That's definitely true... It would be really interesting to have some of those characters. Eridan is also in a really interesting position, because though he said he wanted something like this to happen, he never really meant it. And seeing all of his friends now so messed up by his own supposed dream? I expect he would feel incredibly guilty for even thinking that he could say he wanted this, but he still might feel like he has some obligation to act like it's a good thing.

I think I could probably do Tavros, too. It'd be a wonder if he's still alive.

In that case, can we consider the Psiioniic/Helmsman to be alive and kicking and open to be RPed? The Condesce was keeping him alive, wasn't she? He might be relevant should we actually decide to overthrow the Condesce or something terribly ambitious like that. Well, if he's alive. I'm not sure about that.

This person seems to think so, though:

It would be a wonder if Tavros had managed to keep himself alive. Shall I put you down on the list for him?

Sure thing. I can write him, at least.

Sounds beautiful!

And yes, I think we can assume he's alive at this point.

Okay, the topic's been revised and also color-coded.

Alright, I added some stuff and changed a few things (really the only thing anyone actually needs to look back at is rule #5).

I also reserved Sollux and Eridan for the person who actually originally came up with this with me, because she's expressed a lot of interest in joining as those two and also she's fantastic. She may end up not joining, but chances are slim so until she tells me yay/nay those two are just going to sit there being reserved.

I hope I am not talking to musky here, but here is a plot proposal (which is semi-lame, ideas should be generated!)

It might be a good idea to have one of the characters begin to feel the effects of the chemical in a more dire, mental way. Something that affects their overall ability to function.
Now, I think the original idea for Fef's ambitious goal was to round up survivors and rebuild alternia, to correct the mistakes she feels she has made. In impairing a member of her "team", persay, she may feel strongly enough to want to try to cure them. Especially if they are an old friend.
So this could lead to them going after the cure, which lays, as the prompt says, in an undersea lab accessible only by or through the help of a seadweller. At least, the formula for it does.
So we could have them go after this "cure".
Now the way we originally played it was that this "cure" essentially turned a landweller into a seadweller. As our chemical now functions based on blood color, I think it might be more reasonable for it to be something that changes the color of the blood over time, slowly shutting the chemical off. But for interest's sake the seadweller thing might be fun too and we could throw it in as a necessary side effect.
I'm thinking some kind of impediment to this would probs be a good idea too
Or a completely different thing
This is really just taking from the original RP.

Hmm, that's not a bad idea and since the plan was to have Aradia already being affected by the chemical, she could be the one that promts the quest for the cure. And Fef could be the reason that Eridan agrees to help them, because even though he doesn't really belive the whole land dweller genocide thing that he's always promoting it would be likely that he would go along with it, until he sees what Fef is willing to do since, this is the way I've always seen it anyway, he holds her in high esteem because of her blood color, and seeing the only person besides HRC that is above him in the Hemospectrum going against the plan and trying to help the low bloods would give him the courage to do the same, because I've always seen him as being constricted by his blood color just as much as any of the low bloods.

I honestly don't know how much convincing anyone would have to do to him... Seeing his friends in tatters like that might be convincing enough.
But really I think the person who is playing him should make that decision.

Though I agree that Aradia could absolutely be the one that is affected a second time, or who perhaps has the effect of the chemical triggered from the first wave of bombs.

Oh, I like the idea of Aradia inspiring the search for the cure. With the chemical and all that. I could roll with that. (Where making this hapen?) It kind of fits with her character, even. Death and resurrection themes. Kind of.

It's also kind of interesting how Feferi's the highest you can get on the hemospectrum and Aradia's practically the lowest, excusing mutants, which are odd cases. Having the highbloods on board extra up close and personal with the chemical's effects would be nice. Because I don't think Feferi, despite being aware of the events that took place, would have seen the destruction of the chemical from the perspective of a friend seeing a friend breaking down, or something.

Also, if we're talking about Eridan, that guy is generally pretty desperate. With a lot of things. I mean, he's extremely self-centered and it should be noted that he hopesplodes the Matriorb (seriously, genocide) and murders Feferi in canon. I wouldn't put that much faith into his love of his friends. I'm not saying he's a bad guy. I'm just saying that it'd be a struggle between who he knows he wants to be and who he knows he should be. Desperate times call for desperate measures? Yeah, I dunno. Not really my call, anyway, and this ain't Eridan analysis time. ALTHOUGH THAT WOULD BE PRETTY COOL ERIDAN IS INTERESTING.

I could've worded all of this better but oh well I tried.

Oh I am pretty decent at writing Eridan ^.^ He is one of my favorite characters
It just comes down to my fish pun skills
though embarking on this AU with him would surely be a WHALE of a time
Is there anyfin you guys have to say on the matter?
Because I don't absolutely need to play him
I have OCs :3

Whale, I don't know. I think Eridan's reserved at the moment. It's reel offishell (#like FISH and SHELL 2x fish pun combo aw yeah). It's on the list and everything. We must wait (bait?) and sea.

That is cool :3
You are really on fire with these fish puns today aren't you?
But if the person reserving him backs down I will gladly take him on
Until then all is good