White Shark: An Original Shark Quest

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    • Infamy: Feared. Once the people of Atlantis realize what you are and why you are created, they will fear you. Most of them, anyways.

    Gain Rate: Due to your nature as a mythical creation of the Gods' themselves, your infamy will rise at the utmost of rates.

    Stats: The stats shall be added to the character sheet once I have the chance. Hunger is how hungry the shark is. The more she has eaten, the better she will be able to perform. HP is generally how much damage the shark is capable of taking. Strength, Intelligence, and Willpower are the only stats that we shall be keeping track of and one of them is capable of modifying every single roll that this quest shall entail.

    Hunger: 500/????

    HP: 1,500/?????

    Strength: Strength based rolls will have a +10 modifier to them in your favor. This stat can and will fluctuate depending upon your hunger, health, and the progress made through the quest. Current minimum modifier is +5. Current maximum modifier is unknown.

    Intelligence: Intelligence based rolls shall have a +20 modifier to them in your favor. This stat is currently static, though it is liable to change when unlocking new traits during the duration of the quest.

    Willpower: Willpower based rolls will have a +5 modifier to them in your favor. This modifier can only be increased as the quest progresses, even throughout reincarnations of the shark.



    Traits:
    • Mythical Beast - You are a product of the Gods of this world. And therefore, you are their favored champion of the seas. Adds a bonus to all rolls when attacking anything that is not natural to the sea, depending on what it is you are after.
    • Albinism - Due to your mythical nature, you have been uplifted as different than other great white sharks. You are the only albino shark. This also makes sneaking up on surface dwelling prey more difficult as you do not bear the natural camouflage that other great whites have. Bears a negative to all stealth rolls.
    • Fury Re-InCarnate: As a creation of the Gods of the seas, your spirit is everlasting, and your soul, restless. Regardless of if your mortal form dies, you will be back. Quest Loss Condition Omitted: Death.
    • Temporary Trait : Hungry - You've fed in the past days, but with your now advanced size and intelligence, you need more sustenance than usual.

    Theme: Could it have been anything else?

    Known NPC's:

    The Goddess behind your creation and uplifting. She has appeared before you and given you your task to dismantle Atlantis. She acts motherly towards you.
     
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    • [X] Plan Scout
    -[X] Patrol the edge of Atlantis' territory, determine its size first of all.
    -[X] Find its villages and towns, it's outlying cities, it's mines and crop fields.
    -[X] They will have a nursery for their enslaved beasts, find them.
    -[X] Then pick at the edges, a few disappearances leads to a patrol being sent out, if the patrol is too strong to take in its entirety then leave for less troublesome hunting grounds.
    —[X] Stir up fear on the outskirts of Atlantis' realm, make them feel abandoned by those in power.
     
    As much as I want to do the open ended write ins, I'll probably swap over to a more given choice of votes from here on.

    Simply because I feel I may have ostriced it a bit?
     
    [X] Plan: Little Sharks

    Mothers are basically the sharks of the dryland, and by virtue of addition mother sharks must therefore be twice as scary as regular sharks.

    Also we get to take the kids to school.
     
    How about

    [x] Plan Troy Shark
    -[x]Calypso said other sharks are under the control of Atlantis. Explore the borders of Atlantis and see how they are treated/to which degree they are under control. If they're left relatively free to move (no collars/chains/leash) let yourself be captured/tamed. Fake submissiveness.
    --[x]Once you've been fed and are in the place in which you can deal the most damage while still being able to escape if overwhelmed go crazy and kill/eat as many as possible. Try to avoid soldiers and aim for civilians, especially kids. We want max terror.

    It's risky, but if it works it would allow us to do much more damage than with the other plans.
     
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    Omegahugger said:
    While I am sure that somewhere out there there exists a shark equivalent of Achilles or Adonis, we might not strictly speaking need one.

    Sure, it might not have been reported in Great White Sharks, but we are also partly divine and self-fertilisation is not unheard of amongst those either.
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    That is a good point, especially since the shark's reincarnation ability is moderately inspired by Mothra's, although unlike Mothra she doesn't strictly need offspring to reincarnate.
     
    about the making little sharks, i just checked and apparently white sharks have an 11-months long pregnancy.

    these little sharks will take quite a while to make if we go that way. Wouldn't it also make us more vulnerable/weaker? I don't think a pregnant shark would fight as well.

    Also i can't believe i'm talking about shark pregnancy and its effect on our battle capabilities :rofl:
     
    Pittauro said:
    about the making little sharks, i just checked and apparently white sharks have an 11-months long pregnancy.

    these little sharks will take quite a while to make if we go that way. Wouldn't it also make us more vulnerable/weaker? I don't think a pregnant shark would fight as well.

    Also i can't believe i'm talking about shark pregnancy and its effect on our battle capabilities :rofl:
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    We mega big shark and asked to take down a kingdom without a timetable. Not like we can just charge in without first knowing what the place is like and the "magic/tech" they have.
     
    Pittauro said:
    How about

    [x] Plan Troy Shark
    -[x]Calypso said other sharks are under the control of Atlantis. Explore the borders of Atlantis and see how they are treated/to which degree they are under control. If they're left relatively free to move (no collars/chains/leash) let yourself be captured/tamed. Fake submissiveness.
    --[x]Once you've been fed and are in the place in which you can deal the most damage while still being able to escape if overwhelmed go crazy and kill/eat as many as possible. Try to avoid soldiers and aim for civilians, especially kids. We want max terror.

    It's risky, but if it works it would allow us to do much more damage than with the other plans.
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    Thing is, we're not exactly an unusual shark. We're completely white and quite large.

    As such, the arrival is likely to be seen as a sign from the gods. Would have been a better fit if we went with Poseidon.


    Minos was king in Crete. In order to confirm his right to rule, rather than any of his brothers, he prayed Poseidon send him a snow-white bull as a sign. Poseidon sent Minos the bull, with the understanding that it would be sacrificed to the god. Deciding that Poseidon's bull was too fine of a specimen to kill, Minos sent it to his herds and substituted another, inferior bull for sacrifice. Enraged, Poseidon had Aphrodite cause Pasiphaë, wife of Minos, to fall in love with the bull. She subsequently gave birth to the half-man, half-bull, Minotaur. Poseidon passed on his rage to the bull, causing it lay waste the land.[1]
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    Pittauro said:
    about the making little sharks, i just checked and apparently white sharks have an 11-months long pregnancy.
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    What are eleven months compared to the life of a man? What are eleven months against the wrath of a Goddess? What are eleven months compared to a school of adorable murdermachines? Let the mortals have this blink-of-an-eye of respite if they wish, for their doom will come regardless.

    Also we are a Divine-born being, so it might not be a regular pregnancy. Recall that time Zeus ate a pregnant lady and got pregnant with Athena in his head? Now, I am not saying that we will find some absolute snack of a shark and swallow them whole only to burp out our offspring later, but I am not saying that won't happen either.
     
    Omegahugger said:
    What are eleven months compared to the life of a man? What are eleven months against the wrath of a Goddess? What are eleven months compared to a school of adorable murdermachines? Let the mortals have this blink-of-an-eye of respite if they wish, for their doom will come regardless.

    Also we are a Divine-born being, so it might not be a regular pregnancy. Recall that time Zeus ate a pregnant lady and got pregnant with Athena in his head? Now, I am not saying that we will find some absolute snack of a shark and swallow them whole only to burp out our offspring later, but I am not saying that won't happen either.
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    fair enough. Also wait a second...
    Omegahugger said:
    What are eleven months compared to a school of adorable murdermachines
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    THIS REMINDS ME! let me check my old posts...

    FOUND IT

     
    Official QM Communication/Moratorium Start Post
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    • Ladies and gentlemen, I got ahead of myself out of excitement for this quest.

    No, I'm not cancelling it or anything. I love this. All of this.

    But, I did a goof. I forgot to make a moratorium for you all to come up with plans for to vote on. And, so.


    The vote is being, *ahem*, delayed for a moratorium for you all to analyze the vote plans that have been put forth and create new ones. Once the moratorium is lifted, you may vote on the general plan of attack on how to go after the Kingdom of Atlantis and its cities, such as Seatopia.

    I'd also like to apologize for doing this. I was being a little to experimental with this, but hey. We're at nine pages in less than a week. We can continue.


    Moratorium: All votes prior to this update are null. However, the vote plans are valid. I'll list them below.

    [] Plan Troy Shark
    -[]Calypso said other sharks are under the control of Atlantis. Explore the borders of Atlantis and see how they are treated/to which degree they are under control. If they're left relatively free to move (no collars/chains/leash) let yourself be captured/tamed. Fake submissiveness.(Will require an intelligence check to ensure shark 'acts natural' enough.)
    --[]Once you've been fed and are in the place in which you can deal the most damage while still being able to escape if overwhelmed go crazy and kill/eat as many as possible. Try to avoid soldiers and aim for civilians, especially kidsYounger adults/teens. We want max terror.

    []Plan Little Sharks
    -[] Start swimming towards Atlantis
    -[] Eat anything not shark along the way until you feel full
    -[] Make sharks follow you on your trip
    -[] Make little sharks

    []Plan Fear
    -[] Find isolated trade caravans.
    -[] Kill them in as swift a manner as possible.
    -[] Allow minimal survivors.
    --[] Feed on the way, as well as on victims within the caravans.

    [] Plan Ooh Ha Ha
    -[] Hunt outskirts of Atlantis for solitary prey.
    -[] Try to be less hangry by picking off stragglers. (Starting with older/younger/injured prey, if possible)
    -[] Once mostly satiated, eat one only a little bit. (Pretty sure they don't need all those limbs!)
    -[] Lie in wait for other prey to attempt aid.
    -[] Ambush responders, rip and tear until it is done.

    Current Time for me: About 6 P.M. The Moratorium will be for twelve hours. So, 6 A.M. tomorrow morning about when I wake up. You may discuss and present vote ideas to use for the vote.
     
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    • OfSpaceandTime said:
    Ladies and gentlemen, I got ahead of myself out of excitement for this quest.

    No, I'm not cancelling it or anything. I love this. All of this.

    But, I did a goof. I forgot to make a moratorium for you all to come up with plans for to vote on. And, so.
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    When the QM is so excited they have a hard time not rushing into things.

    Personally, I like plan Ooh Ha Ha. It plays to the strength of the shark, and sends a clear message without trapping us in the city.
     
    []Plan Little Sharks
    -[] Start swimming towards Atlantis
    -[] Eat anything not shark along the way until you feel full
    -[] Make sharks follow you on your trip
    -[] Make little sharks
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    It is clear that we were just uplifted into something greater, possibly without clear understanding of what our new limits are. Therefore we do not start attacking an established kingdom without first testing out our abilities. Being a lone shark is always risky when it is just you versus organized groups that can throw themselves against you. Also schools of sharks are cool and who doesn't love baby sharks?
     
    Okibruez said:
    Personally, I like plan Ooh Ha Ha. It plays to the strength of the shark, and sends a clear message without trapping us in the city.
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    Personally i think the strenght of our shark is our intelligence. Which is why I'll push for

    [] Plan Troy Shark

    It also give us an internal view of what Atlantis IS/how it works, which is something i'm interested in reading.

    Who knows, maybe we'll be captured and taken to the royal family as a gift, and THEN we can eat the king/queen/prince!
     
    I like Plan Troy Shark!

    It gives us an overview of our enemies status and it could also give us a better starting point on our destination and plan for the future attacks.
     
    Wait... for Troy Shark...
    OfSpaceandTime said:
    Fake submissiveness.(Will require an intelligence check to ensure shark 'acts natural' enough.)
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    Does "act natural" include not looking like a shark from hell? Wouldn't Atlantis have some kind of knowledge of aquatic life to know that sharks don't get this big without magical god BS?
     
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