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With Valor Trigger coming to an early close due to losing a player, I’m going to dump out some of the GM Secrets here
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So first of all, I don’t know if you all noticed but for season 3 I was playing it VERY by ear. I only developed a sense of what the exiled A-rankers were up to, like, last week
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Everything before that was basically me seeding stuff that I knew I’d be able to work with
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And trusting that I’d figure something out before it needed to be set in stone
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Okay so that last scene we ran: y’all did in fact get completely bamboozled, the Random Civilian was in fact Francois.
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When he left the BDA he negotiated to get to keep a device that allowed him to swap out for a non-combat trion body, because he had basically been living in a combat body for ages because, dysphoria.
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When you guys weee closing in on him, he turned off both Triggers and stashed them in a garbage can or some other place he’d be able to retrieve, and then went to catch a bus.
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I was playing it legit, he had to get away from you for at least one turn to pull the escape and if you had decided to take him in that would have been it...although it may not have mattered because...
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Remember when y’all first saw Maryanne outside that restaurant, and Wu went off to find her?
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The Wu who came back was the third member of Lamont squad. Eugene fell for a trap, had his trigger stolen, and is tied up in a basement while someone else runs around in a trion body that looks just like him.
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That whole operation was actually a scheme to try to get Corwa - which was thwarted when Corwin kept her at his side the whole time.
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Their current operation is being paid for by a foreign power’s intelligence service, but they have their own plans.
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So, in the Neighbourhood, as you may have picked up from some of Corwa’s lines, every World is created by a Mother Trigger. This is taken directly from the World Trigger manga, incidentally.
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The Mother Trigger takes in massive amounts of trion and converts it into conventional matter, producing ground, rocks, water, etc.
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But they always come paired with a second trigger, which Inhadnt fully settled on a name for yet but was considering Guardian Trigger. This performs the opposite function, converting conventional latter into trion.
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That bit’s original, although there’s something KIND OF like that in THE MANGA. Anyway.
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Normally, the two work in concert to maintain the World they create. However, when Amatrianis invaded, the Princess of Varis (Cealleach) fled with several ships worth of refugees, and took their Guardian Trigger with them.
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She intended to make Amatrianis leave by denying them their prize; without the Guardian Trigger, the thinking went, conquering Varis would be useless.
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Apparently they didn’t agree.
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Now, normally the Guardian Trigger is mostly used to maintain and regulate the World’s matter and to fuel defenses in a pinch. However, on Earth, where conventional matter is insanely plentiful, it basically becomes a very strong trion battery. They’ve been using it to power the BDA’s activities.
raspberrydrink
in hindsight idk why I didn't try my aura sense to find him
raspberrydrink
probs cuz it was new so I forgot I had it lol
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A foreign power is paying Maryanne Lamont and her squad beaucoup bucks to steal the Guardian Trigger. However, as I said, Lamont has her own plans.
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She wants to use it to power the creation of a giant trion soldier to attack the Filedo diplomatic contingent. I had the idea that they’d feed the trion they’d been collecting from randos into it to produce the soldier but no that doesn’t actually make sense with what I’ve described. This might have wound up getting a bit massaged.
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Her motivation: to scuttle any diplomatic relations between the BDA and Neighbourhood nations.
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She wants Earth to stand alone, at any cost.
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That would have been season three. Season four I only have a very general idea what it would have involved, but there would have been an away trip into the Neighbourhood, to Varis, Amatrianis, or both.
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Probably one objective would be to return the Guardian Trigger to Varis because...it probably hasn’t been doing great without it
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Obsi
and...I don’t remember what Ryan’s plurk name is
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Obsi
Corwin had so much combat and leadership training, but unfortunately his ability to work with (and in this case, suss out) civilians leaves much to be desired
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I KNEW it was them
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...wait a god damn minute
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That big power source under the hangar
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That Klonogre and Sliuw were trying to drill into
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Was that the Guardian Trigger?
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Yep, that’s the one!
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Did they even know that's what it was?
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or rather, did their handlers know
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No, in fact they were trying to find out. Solve the mystery of how the BDA was powering all this before dipping back through a portal.
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What a handy way to solve the landfill problem as well. Just convert trash to trion, everybody wins