Escapement

Six Kingdom's: Escapement begins in the final days of Metru-Nui.

Here are the rough informational timestamps for events mentioned in the OOC channel. Please collate, brush up, and make a nice timeline. <3

January 14th, 2020:


 * Metru-Nui: seek the great discs hidden somewhere in the regional metrus for toa power.
 * Metru-Nui: explore the recently conquered island and plan the next assault.
 * League of Six: Recover from the recent attack on your island base.
 * League of Six: Take the merchant vessel to recover the lost tech.
 * Dark Hunters: Assassinate Nuparu

January 22nd:, 2020:


 * Onu-Metru disc hunters on level 7 of the archives
 * Onu-Metru dark hunters waiting for the moment to strike Stannis and Knichou
 * Onu-Metru vahki response interacting with witnesses and participants in the fight surround Nuparu's murder
 * Ga-Metru disc hunters are roaming the streets
 * Ko-Metru disc hunter has reached the first puzzle
 * Metru-Nui faction (Orieus, Iona) is beginning assault on an island to gain access to communications array
 * League faction is engaged with hostile airships in the silver sea traveling to last known Nynrah airship coordinates

January 27th:

Hey, guess what, it's Monday in the GMs side of the world. Which means... MORE DARK HUNTER HITS:


 * Go Kill Vhisola. She's a Ga-Metruvian student with a blog that's been gaining popularity for her anti-government message.

Also, here's what I'm tracking from the past week in SKE:

Onu-Metru:


 * Hunters of the Great Disc are on level seven. They're discovered bohrok in stasis tubes past a construction zone.
 * Dark Hunters and toa fight for supremacy of an elevator shaft up to the surface level docks where Knichou's airship is waiting to take off.
 * Vyarik and Arkius have a one on one duel. They are surprisingly well matched.
 * The vahki are about to say, "am I a joke to you?"

Ga-Metru:


 * Disc hunters consider breaking and entering into the Great Temple rather than walking through the front door.
 * Triki's hoverbike is impounded for improper parking.

Ko-Metru:


 * The Alpinist and The Cartographer put their heads together to solve the puzzles in the Ko-Metru Hideaway in hopes of finding the region's great disc.

Po-Metru:


 * Okuo hacks the planet, discovers Toa Tuyet is likely murdered and Lhikan and Nidhiki probably did the deed. Uses Ko-VPN to hack the vahki hive network.

Silver Sea:


 * Metru-Nui assaulted an island taken by the League at dawn, attempting to secure purchase on the rocky beach for a safe landing zone. The fight rages on.

South of Destral:


 * The Ripple and its passengers are harried by a group of visorak in airships that fly now. They fly now? They fly now.

February 3rd 2020:

Happy MONDAY! You know what that means: Dark Hunter contracts.

"But Unreliable, our network was compromised how are we going to know who to kill next," You ask?

Check out the most recent speech by a certain Turaga...

February 5th, 2020:

DUME'S GREAT DISC HUNT T&C

Those who find great discs may return them to Turaga Dume at any time for safekeeping. Once all Great Discs have been found the finders of those discs will be summoned to receive their Toa Stones as part of a ceremony. Only those who actually found the Great Disc are eligible for a Toa Stone and the rite of passage to become a Toa. Turaga Dume is the final arbiter in whether or not a disc hunter is worthy based on their displays of character during the hunt and their belief in the Great Spirit. This offer valid only while supplies last.

February 10th, 2020:

Dark Hunter Hit:

Go find and eliminate the terrorist from last week. With Dume temporarily in control of the hits, he's wanting this dealt with ASAP. For clues or to get the ball rolling, message @Azibo.

The News:


 * Ga-Metru
 * We learned a startling discovery with Tekmo and Nixie
 * Ta-Metru
 * The search for the Ta-Metru great disc is almost to the first puzzle
 * Onu-Metru
 * The Archives team found the Great Disc! (See further back in this topic for puzzle information)
 * Po-Metru
 * Nothing much
 * Le-Metru
 * Great Disc puzzle is in full swing! The party took a tumble off a protodermis waterfall!
 * Ko-Metru
 * Taja discovered something is very wrong with the stars
 * Silver Sea
 * The beach assault reaches the epic conclusion! Vahki took the bluff! Go Go Go!
 * South of Destral
 * The League fighters found the destroyed Tactical Panda as well as a grotto were things are not as they seem...

February 17th, 2020:

Dark Hunter Hit:


 * Eliminate the terrorist in Ta-Metru
 * Nidhiki escaped custody, is responsible for the death of several matoran in the coliseum, and is at large. Find and eliminate the traitor.

Last Week Summary:

The Ripple:


 * Mazor touched the orb in the grotto. A wave of undeath washed over the known world, bringing the crew of the Tactical Panda back to some form of life as zombies. Anything freshly dead seemed to spring back from the dirt.
 * With the orb being touched it turned into a puzzle cube. Mazor fell into the Between, and found he was not alone. Upon returning to reality and leaving the grotto he saw the suns, moons, and stars were all present in the heavens, as was a "red sky" -- a ring of crimson on the horizon line in all directions.

Le-Metru:


 * The Le-Metru disc hunters gather themselves after their near death fall.
 * Otharak hijacked an airship sewed chaos on the docks! Got in a fight with the Dark Hunter Sidra, who followed him onto the airship. They flew to Ta-Metru.

Ta-Metru:


 * The Ta-Metru disc hunters decided to speak to the vahki and ask nicely to be let into the Great Furnace.
 * The stolen airship from Le-Metru floats over Ta-Metru precariously as Otharak and Sidra fight fiercely in the engine room!
 * The dark hunter Brute Squad assembles as Leonn passes himself off as "Ghost" to Vyarik and Waveahk.

Po-Metru:


 * Jabali halts Vashni, Jutori, Atamai, Kilo-M9, and friends in their search for the Great Disc.
 * "Informant" begins searching for the Great Disc using his duplicates
 * The Taku squad land their ship in the Po-Metru sculpture fields. Nale and Arkius bond while searching for the Great Disc. They find a clue.

Ga-Metru:


 * Tekmo runs in circles
 * Vhisola is placed in a containment sphere by the Vahki, but not before Waveahk shoots her with a zamor sphere. Okuo hijacks the vahki transport and takes Vhisola in her containment sphere to the rooftops, but is stopped from immediately healing her by Karista the krahli being nearby after Paju and Ellie stampede through the area.

Onu-Metru:


 * Look who's back? Back again? Should he be back? Kill him again? (No one has confirmed either way.)

Ko-Metru:


 * Something is terribly wrong with the stars... OK something was terribly wrong with the stars in terms of astronomy but now they're just flat out wrong. Try turning them off and on again?

Silver Sea Beach Conflict:


 * The fight leans towards a Metru-Nui victory! Push the League scum back! Skyra blew up the gunnery on the mech cannon. Rose held the line! The vahki are a success! Pardehi keeps his streamer friend Thom alive twice.
 * Zombies???

February 24th, 2020:

Sliding in to your OOC chat with a very important announcement that...

WE GOT BOUNTIES BAYBEEEEEYYYY! Metru-Nui and Dark Hunters can team up on this one!

Dark Hunter Bounty (week of 02/24/2020): eliminate Turaga Nidhiki.

Weekly Round Up:

Airship Island


 * The Ripple crew grabbed THE ORB, summoned the weird lights, and also some zombies (thanks Mazor <3). They're off the island now, flying North.
 * I'm not the only one that thinks it's weird OOC chat got involved with this right?
 * So, funnily enough, Those Frank Sinatra songs aren't just for entertainment.

Barraki Fortress


 * Amartakonen almost dies when he slips up around Barraki Takadox.

Metru-Nui


 * The Brute Squad travel to Po-Metru and get a transport ship from the vahki
 * The Taku party starts working on the Po-Metru Great Disc puzzle in the Sculpture Fields
 * Odd Tour Co. arrive at the Sculpture Fields.
 * Ta-Metru explodes and there's a zombie apocalypse. No Biggie.
 * Help please I'm very tired

Silver Sea:


 * The Metru-Nui forces fight back hordes of undead and make their way through the jungle to the overrun temple on the other side of the island: final showdown!

March 2nd, 2020:

Dark Hunter Hit:

Kill Dume.

What happened last week in SKE?

The Ripple


 * Mazor played with the silver puzzle cube more, resulting in a double eclipse in the sky which cast the known universe into an eerie darkness.
 * The crew wrestled with their emotions post escape from the island with the grotto.

Silver Sea


 * Metru-Nui vs Kal, the throwdown continued
 * Kal freed Thom, who rushed away from the battle
 * Barraki Takadox inspired Amartakonen to kill Barraki Carapar during the planned final assault on Metru-Nui.

Metru-Nui


 * Okuo and Kovac helped Vhisola evade a new Dark Hunter threat. She chose to hide out at the Great Temple and gather more information about the Great Disc hidden somewhere near there.
 * Taja visited Nixie to discuss the changes in the stars
 * Ta-Metru Disc Hunters snuck onto the conveyor belts heading into the Great Furnace
 * Odd Squad and Wanderers Inc. reached the second step in the Po-Metru Great Disc Puzzle, but were halted in their quest by Vyarik and the Brute Squad.
 * Le-Metru Disc Puzzle team succeeded! See the breakdown on the Le-Metru puzzles.
 * Turaga Nidhiki is loose in Metru-Nui.
 * Welcome Zataka, Queen of Techwear

March 9th, 2020:

Dark Hunter Hit: Dume, Nidhiki

Last Week in SKE:


 * The League surrendered the island in the Silver Sea conflict to Metru-Nui, Kal retreated from a tense fight.
 * The crew of The Ripple recuperate on the Barraki fortress island.
 * Ga-Metru Great Disc found! Congratulations Kohara, Taja, and Okuo.
 * Several Dark Hunters revealed Turaga Dume is under attack, prompting a mass rush for the Coliseum by all parties.
 * Raz attacked Turaga Dume in the Coliseum tower gardens!

March 16th, 2020:


 * Ga-Metru and Ta-Metru great disks were found! All Great Disks have been found. Congratulations to both teams for last week's successes. Look further back in the OOC thread for breakdowns on the puzzles, or check the wiki (pending their upload).
 * Metru-Nui's forces from the Silver Sea were brought home for the final defense.
 * The Barraki opened a portal to Metru-Nui and moved their forces directly to Ko-Metru. All Metrus are now under assault by the barraki.
 * Kalmah: Ta-Metru
 * Takadox: Ga-Metru
 * Carapar: Po-Metru
 * Mantax: Onu-Metru
 * Pridak: Ko-Metru
 * Ehlek: Le-Metru
 * The Untethered Vyarik summoned their revenant kin to the Coliseum prisons
 * Dark Hunter Raz attempted to capture Turaga Dume, but the arrival of Zataka and Sans & Co. stopped him.
 * The Wandering Taku continued their journey to the Coliseum, delving into Nuparu's memory crystal to learn more about the machine they saw at the beginning of the game.

March 24, 2020:


 * Coliseum: The Great Disks were assembled and several matoran who’d searched for the artifacts were turned into toa by Turaga Dume. Dume revealed the Great Disks were to make a disk of time, and the machine Nuparu fixed would create a toa of time. Dume wanted the toa of time to go back to the day the barraki ceded from the Order of Mata-Nui and use a nova blast to destroy them all in one surprise bombing. After a surprise assassination attempt by Sidra, Dume used the last of his power to turn the last few matoran into toa and then passed. The warlord Zataka disintegrated his reanimated corpse after observing a series of tattoos on his body.
 * Ga, Ta, Ko, and Onu-Metru: the forces of the League are kept at bay by Metru-Nui’s defenders.
 * Po-Metru: Leonn, Rose, and Skyra defeated Carapar! His forces scattered from the region of stone to rejoin other barraki in Ga-Metru and Ko-Metru.
 * Le-Metru: Barraki Ehlek, with the help of Zaliyah, successfully destroyed the chute system’s main power stations. They have taken Le-Metru, making it next to impossible to reclaim.
 * The Cortex: Mata-Nui’s kaita avatar requested the Krom Sphere from Mazor. Irna supported Mazor in not giving in, and Ostrox attempted to attack Mata-Nui before fleeing the Cortex to explore other regions of the Great-Spirit’s mind.
 * Coliseum Prisons: Lhikan revealed Axonn’s secret power to Kohara, Waveahk made a wish, and so did Lhikan. Nidhiki revealed Lhikan couldn’t have killed Tuyet in the Great Temple because he killed her in Le-Metru.

FINAL WEEK:

You all have chosen the Rebirth ending.

After reading the post from the perspective of Mata-Nui you might be wondering: okay UN, what about my character and what is going to happen to them in the immediate moment? You have through Sunday the 29th to finish up whatever actions your characters are doing, respond to the end of the game, and then get ready for a very brief time skip. Expect to see the OOC, Character Profiles, and Gameplay topics for Six Kingdoms: Rebirth in the next 48 hours.

You have all been such an incredibly group to GM. Thanks for making such an awesome story! I had no idea where this would go when we started. As promised, I'll be releasing my fabled and much coveted on Discord "GM Notes" here and now:

Tuyet did it.

And there we go those are my comprehensive GM notes for SKE.

http://www.bzpower.com/board/topic/28485-six-kingdoms-escapement-gameplay/?do=findComment&comment=1173479