tuesday de: never split the party

[inlovewithwords]

Your character has to go off on a quest/spy mission/dungeon crawling/tomb raiding/whatever. Time to assemble the party! Who is absolutely essential to take with them? What roles do their party members play? Please limit party size to a reasonable number, no full legions or mob of dozens or something.

Just always remember these words of sage advice...

Comments

[bjornwilde]

The only party I can see for Ahsoka is Anakin, Ahsoka, Rex, Obi-Wan, Padme, and R2-D2.

Anakin and Ahsoka are primary attackers, with Obi-Wan as a back up and smooth talker when a distraction/stalling is needed. Padme is the true leader and has mastered diplomacy rolls. Rex is the tank, while R2 is support and the most reliable member of the party.

[oldmancreed]

Tess brings the League.

Rose has no one to bring with her.

Kylo supposes Hux can come.

Creed works alone.

[configuration_birdwatcher]

Post-Honor and Glory, the six recalled Overwatch members work fine as an in-game Overwatch team, although one heavily reliant on health packs because Brigitte's the only one who can heal the team and her ability to do so is a bit situational. (Bastion can self-repair and Tracer can rewind from injuries, though, and Torbjörn can hand out armor for protection. It's just the tanks, Winston and Reinhardt, who have no way to refill their own massive health pools.) They should get some of those biotic nanotech canisters Soldier: 76 uses, as a more in-genre equivalent of stuffing their pockets with healing potions.

Bastion's a Defense character who, in sentry configuration, pretty straightforwardly embodies the Defense archetype of waiting for enemies to come by and then dropping a truckload of pain on them. Teaming up with Reinhardt complements this since he carries around a huge hard-light shield that can take four times the damage he can and regenerates when inactive. He's also no slouch at doing damage in melee range. Winston and Tracer excel at getting in enemies' faces, often forcing them to scatter, and are generally the most mobile team members. Aside from fixing up both medical and mechanical problems, Brigitte has a shield of her own, which she mostly uses to hit people with and make them regret coming near her.

Out of combat, Tracer and Reinhardt are the most charismatic party members so it's their job to win people over. Torbjörn is the party MacGuyver who can whip up all kinds of helpful equipment using stuff that's lying around. Athena is mission control and Ganymede is the team mascot.

[childofrebellion]

Cassian takes Kay as that's what they do all the time. If he gets to choose people from Milliways then he gets thoughtful but would end up with Ibani and Sombra. If its nothing too awful-Barry and Cisco. Later this will change as canon is basically Cassian going wait, I'm part of a team. When did that happen?

Quentin is part of a team that he'd bring on a quest as that's what his life is: Toby, Tybalt, Raj with May, Jazz, the Luidaeg and Walther for back up.

Charles, if he could choose anyone would bring Erik, Hank, Raven and X.

Moist would love to work a job with Natasha Romanoff and have Claudia Donovan helping with gadgets.

Sameth would do Kait, Tavi, Nick, Lirael and be useful if his parents aren't too far away and maybe Yrael too.

I'm not sure about the others.

[mogget_cat]

Yrael would eventually agree to accompany them, with much complaining. He'd reason that they'd need someone sensible along to make sure they stay alive in the face of unknown danger, and it might as well be him. :D