Word crawl/Pacific Rim word crawl

Welcome to the Shatterdome. You’re here to help contain the threat presented by the Kaiju. Let’s get right down to it. First off, choose which type of Jaeger you’re going to pilot:
MARK-I (slower typing speed) — your Jaeger is similar to the well-known Russian Jaeger Cherno Alpha, usually piloted by the Kaidonovskys, Sasha and Alexis.
MARK-III (medium typing speed) — your Jaeger is like the American Gipsy Danger, previously piloted by Raleigh and Yancy Becket, most recently piloted by Raleigh Becket and Mako Mori.
MARK-V (fast typing speed) — your Jaeger is similar to the Australian Striker Eureka, typically piloted by the father and son team of Hercules and Chuck Hansen.
Bonus:
MARK-IV — this would be a Jaeger similar to Crimson Typhoon, the Chinese Jaeger piloted by the Wei Tang triplets. Since this Jaeger has three pilots to share the neural load instead of just two, the challenges are easier; you can try the challenges presented to this Jaeger no matter what Mark your Jaeger is.
Now, let’s get to it.
Candidate trials and a trial run come first. You need a co-pilot; only two pilots have ever managed solo combat, and it was either near fatal or had lasting health consequences. Word war for 15 minutes with a friend who types at a similar speed, to make sure you’re drift compatible. 
If you lose: you chased the rabbit and threw off the neural handshake. 
MARK-I: write another 300 words to stabilize the neural handshake.
MARK-III: write another 500 words to stabilize the neural handshake.
MARK-V: write another 700 words to stabilize the neural handshake.
Optional:
MARK-IV: write another 100 words as you spend some time in the simulator to make sure drifting doesn’t catch you off guard like that again.
You’re first deployed to help the Becket brothers secure the Miracle Mile off Anchorage and keep it and the civilian vessel safe from Knifehead. Write for 15 minutes.
MARK-I: you need 300 words in 15 minutes to beat Knifehead.
MARK-III: you need 500 words in 15 minutes to beat Knifehead.
MARK-V: you need 700 words in 15 minutes to beat Knifehead.
Optional:
MARK-IV: complete a Three Digit Challenge to try to get some extra hits in before Knifehead goes down the first time.
Both you and the Beckets think Knifehead is down and out, but Tendo picks up the signature and the Kaiju comes back, breaches Gipsy Danger’s hull, and takes Yancy, leaving Raleigh piloting their Jaeger solo. 
ALL MARKS: complete a Fifty Headed Hydra while you rush to help finish off Knifehead, this time for good.
Anchorage shakes you up, and like Raleigh, you resign from the Jaeger program, no longer sure it’s something you can do. Five years go by which you spend working on the Wall of Life, moving around to follow the work. You’re working in Sitka on the same crew as Raleigh when Marshall Stacker Pentecost shows up, looking for former Jaeger pilots to come back for one last mission. 
ALL MARKS: Write 500 words while you fly to Hong Kong, meet Mako Mori, and get a tour of the last functional Shatterdome.
Optional:
MARK-IV: write an extra 500 words to also be introduced to the Wei Tang brothers, Kaidonovskys, and Hansens.
The initial trial run with Raleigh and Mako as pilots of Gipsy Danger doesn’t go all that well, to say the least. Roll a die. If you roll an odd number, you’re on Raleigh’s side of the fistfight that breaks out between him and Chuck Hansen. If you roll even, you’re on Chuck’s side. 
MARK-I: multiply your roll by 75. Write that many words to win the fight.
MARK-III: multiply your roll by 100. Write that many words to win the fight.
MARK-V: multiply your roll by 150. Write that many words to win the fight.
Optional:
MARK-IV: When Stacker and Herc come out to split up the fight, you snap out of it and hurry to help them. Write an extra 300 words while you help break things up.
Kaiju rising from the breach—and it’s a double event, like Gottlieb predicted! All fights have to be put aside now, as Cherno Alpha and Crimson Typhoon are deployed to take on the two Category 4 Kaijus whose signatures have been picked up, with Striker Eureka as backup with orders not to engage unless absolutely necessary. The two Kaijus are codenamed Leatherback and Otachi and are the largest Category 4s ever seen. Roll a die. If you roll even, you’re fighting Otachi and Leatherback alongside Crimson Typhoon and Cherno Alpha. If you roll odd, you’re with Striker Eureka, coming in to help after the other two Jaegers and their pilots have been severely compromised or killed.
MARK-I: Write to the nearest increment of 500 as you attempt to take the two Kaiju down.
MARK-III: Write to the nearest 1,000 during the fighting.
MARK-V: Write 1,000 words before the Kaiju take Cherno Alpha and Crimson Typhoon down and Striker Eureka is disabled by the EMP blast from Leatherback.
Optional:
MARK-IV: Sprint for 5 minutes while Herc and Chuck Hansen fire flare guns at the Kaiju and Gipsy Danger, nearly the only non-disabled Jaeger left, is deployed to take on the two Kaiju.
Gipsy Danger is taking on Leatherback and Otachi, and this time, there’s no room for any rabbit chasing from the pilots. Somehow the two Kaiju haven’t taken you down yet, so get in there and help. Sprint for 30 minutes during the fight.
MARK-I: aim for 700 words in 30 minutes.
MARK-III: aim for 1,000 words in 30 minutes.
MARK-V: aim for 2,000 words in 30 minutes.
Optional:
MARK-IV: Sprint to 500 words in addition to completing the above challenge.
Between your team and Raleigh and Mako, you’ve managed to take down Leatherback and Otachi, but as Marshall Pentecost points out, there’s no time to celebrate, nor any time to mourn for the crews of Cherno Alpha and Crimson Typhoon. In what feels like no time at all Tendo is announcing another double event—only it turns out to be a triple. It’s time to enact Stacker’s plan: Gipsy Danger and Striker Eureka are heading for the breach with a thermonuclear warhead strapped to Striker’s back. But wait! Gottlieb and Newt come running in, yelling—they’ve drifted with a fresh Kaiju brain and have discovered that to pass through the breach, you need to pass as a Kaiju.
ALL MARKS: You respond to this news by completing a Three Digit Challenge in the mayhem that ensues. Chuck is trying to figure out who he’s supposed to ride with since Herc’s broken arm has put him out of commission, Raleigh is just finding out about Stacker’s illness and passing the news on to you, and it’s confusion all around.
Optional:
MARK-IV: Complete a Fifty Headed Hydra while everybody gets ready for the last push. Stacker is getting ready to get in a Jaeger for the first time in years, Chuck is telling his dad to take care of Max, and Mako and Raleigh are gearing up to get back into Gipsy once she’s functional again.
Now that you know what you’ve got to do to actually end this, instead of failing like previous assaults on the breach... 
ALL MARKS: You can help give everybody their best chance at making this happen. Write 3% of your current word count while Stacker and Chuck detonate Striker’s payload to give Raleigh and Mako a chance to take Gipsy Danger into the breach to detonate her nuclear reactor, sealing the breach forever. 
There’s some tension while waiting for news of the Jaeger pilots, but eventually the base confirms that Raleigh and Mako survived and that the breach is closed forever. Look at the number of forum posts you’ve written. Write that many words while everybody recovers and comes to terms with the fact that the Kaiju War is over. Then take a break, Ranger—you've earned it. Job well done.