agentleooc | event 02 plotting

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event 02 plotting

A month has passed in the real world and in the game world, and that means it's once again time for something to go hideously wrong.

This month, Strangers arrive peacefully. They sleep through the night, and wake to a household that did not expect more of them. They have the day to grow acclimated to Draega. It's not enough time, but the Guilds and the Council don't care about anyone's comfort but their own. In the early evening, some of the Blood sabotage the power plant northwest of the city. At the same time, a group of angry landens confronts Councilwoman Vera while she's out with her family.

You can read the full event here. The post is currently locked for responses and will open at 8PM EST on the 21st. Take this time to talk to each other about what you're interested in doing and accomplishing in this event.

Questions should be asked here. Strangers are welcome to speak with Loren or Allairavar after breakfast. You may request a thread using our NPC request form. Comment to the appropriate character's top-level. For events like this, simply let us know which of your prompts you'd like the NPC to respond to. You may drive the power plant workers and cityfolk as you please.

Some additional information…

► Strangers at the Queen's Residence will have noticed that more and more often, they are served porridge, simple breads, and fruit of questionable quality at breakfast. There is enough food for everyone, but it's not very tasty.

► At the power plant, Master Elektric Doriah will give Strangers the support they need to get her people out. Inside, there are about 50 landen workers. Each Stranger can save up to three workers. Most of them are trapped in shields of Purple Dusk or lighter. The line managers and overseers are trapped behind Green shields. To free them, you will need to at least wear the Green or use the Breakers donated by Doriah. Anyone trapped in a shield is slowly running out of air as well as overheating. It's not a great feeling.

► The mods will be reading these threads to see how many workers, line managers, and overseers are saved (don't worry about how many of each there are). This will have an impact on faction influence in the future.

► Power will be restored in Draega within a day or two.

► It is common knowledge that Councilwoman Vera loudly dislikes the Guilds. Strangers who have been in Draega for the past month will have heard her position over the Far-casters: if the Guilds are willing to burn the homes of their own people, then they should be willing to fix those homes without assistance of the Blood. The Guilds pursue progress for the sake of progress, polluting the land, river, and air around the city even more than it already is. She accuses the Transport and Tinker Guilds regularly of actively destroying the land, and she has suggested on multiple occasions that the research of the landen Medicos isn't something even the Blood would consider ethical.

► As long as characters are in proximity to Muters, they have no access to any of their powers. They will need to rely on skills that have nothing to do with their supernatural powers. This means that Superman will not have superhuman strength or the ability to fly, and those who can naturally use magic will not be able to. Learned skills (which are those not augmented or inhibited by a Jewel) are not impacted.

► Players have 10 comments (5 each) to diffuse the tensions between landens and Blood in Death of a Councilwoman before the locals become violent. You are welcome to calm people down or let them riot as you please, but the mods will be reading these threads to see if the conflict is resolved peacefully or not. This will have a definite impact on influence in the future.

How will these threads impact influence? Don't worry about that for now. Let your character do what they think is right in these situations. Influence for January will be posted next week when we change over influence jobs for the month. The results of character actions in this event will become apparent in March.

After this event…

► New players can assume that characters know all the information given in the info pages. Whether you handwave a conversation with random NPCs or assume that Loren answered your characters' questions, as of the end of the event all PCs have been informed of the landen Guilds, the Ebon Council, and the state of the world.

► Characters may move out of the Queen's Residence and establish their homes elsewhere. Many buildings in the city are empty and in need of repairs, but no one will stop Strangers from moving in.

► Any one who remains at the Queen's Residence will receive a modest stipend, enough to cover food and drink. Loren will make clear that Strangers who do not live at the residence will not be afforded this money but also that Strangers who do stay are considered part of the Queen's court in as much as actions they take will reflect back on the court.

► Allairavar reminds everyone who chooses to stay at the residence that if you live with the court, you practice with the court. He expects all the Strangers who stay to be on the practice fields with everyone else at dawn. To those who are reticent, he explains that no one needs to learn how to fight only how to defend long enough for help (he seems to imply himself) to arrive.

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- I'm probably going to have her participate in Death of a Councilwoman because I had her rescue people from fire last month and that's similar to the bomb incident. Not sure if she can diffuse a riot, but she'll do her best!
- Maaaaybe some CR with Allairavar? Since he's so prominently featured.
- I still want to play around with her not knowing the strength of her magic, mostly humorously and not causing any real damage. That's separate from the event, if anyone wants in on that.
- I think that's it? If you want something specific with Mary please let me know!

He's new to the game, but he's never been someone to sit idly by. This sort of thing is familiar to him (except the power plant). So he'll be doing the hero thing.

-He's going to try to diffuse the situation in Death of a Councilwoman. He's not the best speaker, but he's going to do his best. When he needs to, he can find the right thing to say to unite people. (There's just no undead zombie to help this time).

-Jon wears the Green, so he's going to be running into the power plant to rescue workers. He can also work with others to free more people.

-Along with this, he's going to try and adjust, as well as feel awkward with magic.

Let me know if you want anything specific?

Lalli is brand spankin' new to all of this, but! Let's see here...

He'll join in on rescuing the landens, probably... he's an amazing scout, so he's quite used to quickly making his way/leading others through dangerous places. If anyone wants to tag along and help him deal with panicked people, then hit me up?? Oh, and he has an Opal, for shield-breaking purposes.

He's living in the Queen's Residence for the foreseeable future! Probably with his friend, but catch him at those early morning training sessions, possibly nodding off if they drag on too long. It's Fine.

He's going to be poking about the castle/the town as a whole because everything is so NEW and WEIRD! And also doing his best to learn Craft. He's a mage, so he'll probably pick things up a bit more quickly than people who've no prior experience with magic, but come teach him/learn with him/bitch about the bland food... show him where to buy tasty things...

I'm down with him being dragged into Death of a Councilwoman things, but as he has NO people skills... I'm 99% sure the people will riot jhgfjfh

I'm honestly up for anything??? Catch me over at tuchanka / elia#6729 on discord if you want to hash things out!

Edited (third time's the charm, don't @ me) 2019-02-20 02:31 (UTC)

Another New Boy for yall!!

-Emil is experienced in dealing with fire-related disasters, so he'll be going off to do that! He is NOT experienced in Doing Magic, so he will probably need someone to (literally?) hold his hand through the air-walking process as he will be bad at it and panic a lot.
-please god help him learn magic he's hopeless
-Maybe he could be dragged into the after-aftermath of Death of a Councilwoman? cuz he's definitely more suited to the fire rescue thing, but I'm thirsty. let me know
-Emil is 100% staying in the Queen's Residence because he gets his own bed and free food/money, so if you wanna hang out with him or hear him whine about getting up Early, hello.
-When everything stops going to hell, he's going to want to go Shopping, sigh
-I forgot to mention he has Purple Dusk heck yea

so yea hmu for anything!! also at

jojoveller

Edited 2019-02-20 01:57 (UTC)

- Piper will arrive and want to know ALL THE THINGS
- She's going to want to stay in the Queen's residence long enough to get to know the people there, but then look for another place to stay - maybe a month, maybe two weeks?
- She'd like to help out at the factory, but she's probably better suited to dealing with people after the death of the Councilwoman. She's very good with talking with people, lmk if anyone wants to take that on with her?
- Castmates! Let's hug! (And shout and punch, as the case may be) (and introductions, in Alex's case)
- She's got an Opal jewel, for helping people out if need be
- She's very curious about this whole Craft and Magic business as well, so she's going to want to learn about that ASAP.
- Also, she's going to want to see if she can talk to people and find out more of the history between the Blood and the landen, because this -- this 'trapping innocent people' and 'murdering women in front of their family' is nonsense. She's got a personal interest in this sort of inequality and this is quite the introduction to the state of Draega.

I'm game for all the plotting, please hit me up if you'd like to do something! :D

Edited 2019-02-20 02:04 (UTC)

ACTUALLY... After some better thought on this situation, here's what my two characters will be doing:

ZITA

Zita will be participating in the DEATH OF A COUNCILWOMAN event!

She's better suited for talking individuals down given her time back in the Midnight Carnival, when she played peacemaker between the carnies and her wards whenever they had a fight. It never reached this level of tension and violence, admittedly, but she's had to talk people down before so this is a better event for her.

She'll do her best to resolve the tensions and keep the peace by speaking. If anyone is willing to help her out on this - whether by by also trying to talk the tensions down or being at the ready if someone wants to fight her or the others at some points - that'll be great!

After that she will be at the aftermath of the BLACKOUT.

After her times with the fires in the first event, Zita will know better than to rush into fires that could potentially kill her and those she's trying to save.

Instead, she'll be helping to make a makeshift health station where the grievously wounded will get immediate aid + be stabilised, along with helping any Healers who happens to be on the scene.

DAYLIGHT

Daylight will be joining in the thick of it by helping out in the BLACKOUT event!

Given his height and build, Daylight will be a better fit for this event since he can enter the fires without fearing the rising temperatures and use his arc energy blasts to clear debris and rubble out of the way so he can get to trapped workers faster.

Since the Breakers will be too small for him to handle, I would like for him to team up with someone where he provides cover and scouts ahead for danger and someone can rescue the staff that are trapped there.

When that's over, Daylight will rush in to help out with the DEATH OF A COUNCILWOMAN event!

He won't be there at the start, so he'll only be helping the others out by providing characters who are present at the start support, whether they resolved the tensions peacefully or not.

Be it guiding people back home or defending people from attacks, Daylight is willing to use his height and size to scare people into not hurting others anymore.

Edited (edited heavily to reflect new plans!) 2019-02-20 02:20 (UTC)

- Sansa will be staying at the Queen's residence for a little while until she gets her bearings. She feels that is the safest place to be, even if adjusting to life in Court will be different for her.

- She will more than likely be helping out in DEATH OF A COUNCILWOMAN because she's very diplomatic and would want to see both sides not escalate to further violence. She won't be involved in the factory because Sansa isn't a very physical person and she'd be afraid.

- You can talk to me over at sheikah#5408 or send me a PM!

Daisy will be staying at the Queen's residence preeeeetty much till they kick her out. Free place to stay and a stipend is hard to pass up. She'll try to be on her best behavior.... but no guarantees.
She will also be helping out with the BLACKOUT. She can't stand idly by while innocent people get hurt, but her jewel won't be strong enough to help. So she'll be relying on the breakers a lot for this, or the help of anyone who can. She is only 3 ft tall and barely weighs a thing, so she may be able to get into harder to reach places to help others as well.
Daisy will help with any resolution that's needed at DEATH OF A COUNCILWOMAN, whether it's help in escorting people out or dealing with the aftermath of a fight.
Following all the tragedy, Daisy will try to wrangle up some fun for everyone. Whether it's through some storytelling or cheerful pranks remains to be seen!
for anything else feel free to pm or message me on plurk magickal

Edited 2019-02-20 02:50 (UTC)

‣ haein lives at the queen's residence so he'll be around to reluctantly meet the new strangers in a strange land as well as the old! he also attends all the morning training sessions and feels like death afterwards so that's another good place to run into him.
‣ hey so like. what the heck? haein already saved one (1) person last month so he's met his people saving quota for this lifetime. he won't be around for blackout, but he will be there for...
‣ the death of a councilwoman, and he is going to have an extremely difficult time keeping his own emotions neutral. like... how to not sympathize with the angry people? he's not going to be the most willing stranger to keep the peace, but with allairavar's orders, he'll at least give a half-hearted attempt while possibly arguing with anyone around that the people should totally riot.
‣ i'm open to any and all ideas so hit me with them!! i don't think i'll be making a top level this time around, and will mostly be tagging into prompts.

Edited 2019-02-20 02:52 (UTC)

This is why we can't have nice things, Draega. Anyway, here's my plans for Takame.

- Primarily, he'll be helping with BLACKOUT. Unfortunately, he wears Purple Dusk so he won't be able to break any of the higher-up's shields without the Breakers that he'd probs only barely manage. What he can do is break the weaker ones, scout ahead and escort people out quickly, a few at a time if need be. He's very fast so he'll be able to get in and get out quickly. HE IS THE RESCUE RAEN.

- In terms of DEATH OF A COUNCILWOMAN, he's. Not a people person. He won't be escalating or de-escalating any situation. But he will be around for the aftermath of it, whatever it may be. As long as he's pointed in the right direction.

- He's a loser who's been chilling in the Queen's Residence for the past month. He's also a prime target for any characters who want to get involved in some ridiculous shenanigans or another that no one else would agree to. Please drag him into something dumb.

- Feel free to hit me up on plurk @ bonpuns if you wanna hash something out more!

Just a few things! Catteman is trying to keep a low profile while he learns healing Craft but...!

He will be available in the blackout, and venturing into the powerplant!
He's a half-Seeker of the Sun Miqo'te used to the heat, so he'll be fine for part of it, and he has his own shields for everything else. Anyone who decides to go in with him will also be shielded because heck, he's a tank. He protects, that's what he does.
Because he wears Sapphire, he can break the shields pretty easily, and help someone who doesn't have a jewel at least Green or darker.
Since he's learning healing Craft too, he may start dealing with minor injuries now! Finally.
On the other hand, he's not exactly known for his diplomacy, so he's going to be completely useless during Death of a Councilwoman. Like, seriously. He's just going to be there in case a physical fight breaks out and pin people down.
Prob some CR with Allaivar since Rhus is getting more involved and stuff, idk.

If there's anything else you want, lmk! Or poke me on my plurk as

payoncave

Molly is less concerned about an overly vocal noblewoman getting SHOT and will be more concerned about innocent people, so he'll be doing Black Out. He has a green jewel and he'll be pretty effective at whipping people out of those shields, but if he's around a Muter, he's gonna be less useful. He cannot use a Breaker. That is the wrong Taliesin Jaffe character.
He is not a huge fan of politics, so most of the political aspects of all of this are going to go RIGHT over his head. He just wants to keep innocent people from suffering and mind his own goddamn business, so if his view on landens becomes inconsistent later (since he seems to be coming down harder on their side right now)... Well, he cares about things more in the moment. He'll try to diffuse any aftermath situations in Death of a Councilwoman with Charm Person to keep any further fights breaking out, but his opinion on Vera is kinda gonna be "if you talk down to working class folks like that, you're gonna come to a bad end" and leave it at that.
He is still at the Queen's Residence and still hates those mourning routines, and how much this feels like conscription.
Also available for other fun things! Especially follow-up CR from last month's stuff and new CR!

why is everything constantly on fire?? seriously though.

▷ given how "fire" and "technology" are like, leo's Thing, he's going to go help out with the blackout
▷ he's best for putting out fires and saving the machines (what with being both pyrokinetic and technokinetic), but he'll help out with rescuing the people too if needed
▷ he does have some light trauma about people being trapped in fires and suffocating, though, so fun times i guess

▷ as for death of a councilwoman, leo is the worst at getting people to cooperate or doing any sort of crowd damage control
▷ so he probably should sit this one out.... will he though, probably not

▷ for other things: he'll hang out at the queen's residence fairly often, especially with piper arriving and staying there, so if you want to spar with him or hang out and listen to his bad jokes, i am all for that

and if you wanna chat or plot things, feel free to add me on plurk @

celen!

Strangers
- At least for now, Horatio will... probably stay at the residence? It's really hard to turn down a place to stay and some steady income after being stuck in the Peace back home.
- He's also 10000% here for anything remotely to do with drill so you can catch him bright and eager first thing in the morning. Or, you know, exhausted and bedraggled but eager af to learn the science of magic.
- "Coffee, thankfully, is not in short supply" is that a challenge he takes that as a challenge like honestly anyone who wants his food can take it he doesn't even care but he will fight off even small adorable children to have his coffee it's the thing he's missed most

Two Ideals
- Running toward disaster is his Brand, so Horatio will be heading to the power plant for sure. He's got minimal sense of how to take care of his own safety, so if anyone wants an accountabilibuddy while doing rescues, that'd be great.
- Also he's just a sweet baby Tigers Eye, so a stronger buddy would be ideal for shield-breaking.
- He survived his last big fire by holding a damp cloth over his mouth, so that's his master plan now, and he'll deffo be recommending anyone with a collar near him pull it up over their mouths while they're running around.
- That said, he'll probably wind up getting banged up because he's a foolish boy, and hopefully that'll push him toward actively working on Craft rather than just running through the motions when he's meant to. Like get him onto the practical military applications and he'll be all about this life.

Misc
- If anyone else is down to go scouting for libraries, please let him awkwardly attach himself to that effort??
- Also if anyone else plays whist (or wants to learn to count cards) please let this happen?? He's so small and he likes so few fun things.
- Also also if you have any thoughts other than this hmu here or over pm or on plurk (but lmk who you are if you hit me there I'm also small and easily confused)!

-Alex is going to try to get out of the Residence as soon as possible. She doesn't like being beholden to anyone else for food and shelter. She'll probably find one of the abandoned building and squat there until she can figure out a job or something. She's been homeless before, she can handle it.

-I think I'm going to throw Alex at the Blackout - his Purple Dusk limits his shapeshifting a bit, but having someone who can literally bash down walls if need be will probably be helpful. And he's not going to want to leave people trapped. It's certainly not going to endear the Blood to him.

-She's going to be seeking out other Strangers to pool information and try to figure out what exactly is going on. By default, she is going to distrust the Blood and want to side with the landens, so I'd really love folks who can point out the bad stuff the landens have done as well.

Edited 2019-02-20 14:05 (UTC)

(Arrival)
• He's brand new to this world, so he'll be having his first breakfast in something of a daze, staying behind to listen to that little altercation to realize his being here is a mistake, and try to follow the Queen for more answers.
• Which means he's gonna get himself lost pretty fast in those halls on day one.

(Power Plant)
• Calvin is (I believe) the only PC with a white jewel in game. He's also never had powers of any kind previously, and will probably end up running on the ground most of the way to the power plant, so he'll be nice and winded when he arrives.
• That said he will get his shit together enough to get his feet off the ground and keep them from being burned once he actually gets there, and here's hoping for him that people have put a lot of those fires out, though he'll probably try the old wet cloth trick to at least keep some of the smoke out of his lungs.
• My goal is to have him actually save three people, but I'm also gonna roll with the situation, and maybe he saves less. He's certainly going to try to save as many as possible.

(Assassination)
• Deescalating fights is not his strong suit, he'll be pretty pathetically but desperately trying to get people to calm down, but probably won't be that successful.
• If anyone else seems to need his help in ways that doesn't involve direction talking to angry landens or Bloods, however? He's all over that.

During Event
Steve will be heading to the power plant for rescuing shenanigans! He wears the Sapphire which means he's even more of a tank than in canon — and let's be real, throwing himself in front of danger is kind of his thing. I'm open to any and all possibilities: Steve organizing rescue efforts, making rescues himself, getting injured in the process, it's all good with me. He won't be participating in the assassination event but is open for talking about it after the fact.

Outside of Event
Steve has elected to stay in the palace so he's a regular at meals and morning training and such. If you'd prefer to craft a meeting around this instead of specific event happenings I'm more than happy to accommodate. Getting a meal in town? Catching a Farcaster broadcast? Exploring? You name it, I'm here for it.

Other Stuff
I'll never be a fast tagger and I know that's off putting for some people so I like to warn for it up front. I'm finally figuring out the balance between school and work and life — I seriously underestimated how much impact going back to school would be like wow — but I'm still going to be slow as molasses so if there's anything you'd want to handwave in terms of regular interactions or such, I'm perfectly willing to accommodate. Hit me up here or on

sometimesamuse!

→ clarke is still staying at the queen's residence so she will definitely befriend the incoming new people or you know alternatively you can find her during the morning training sessions.

→ technically clarke would want to help with the rescuing for the blackout but her jewel isn't strong enough and in general she doesn't think she would be very useful out there so she will kind of be sitting this one out. mostly she will deal with the aftermath of that, she is a trained medic so if anyone gets injured?? she can absolutely help offer first aid and patch people up!

→ clarke will be participating in the death of the councilwoman part of the event though! it is definitely something she is better suited for because trying to be diplomatic and attempting to diffuse situations is something she deals with a lot back home too. so whoever wants to work together with her on that, that can totally happen.

i am open to doing anything else too so just hit me up here or over @

throned so we can plot things out!

Edited 2019-02-21 07:19 (UTC)

Brand new here and feeling things out, so I'm trying to think of what would be the best idea for him to do. Saving people isn't really his schtick, but he can be coerced or bribed into doing it.

He's currently staying at the Queen's Residence, and as for having to practice on the field, he's going to be a pain in the butt because excuse you, he trained a Hunter. He's old. He already knows how to kill people. He does it for fun. Ask him about his TED talk.

Ren is entirely new but hey, he's used to being thrown randomly into chaos, so right now I'm looking at:

-Getting familiar with the court, possibly eavesdropping on that whole thing about how this wasn't supposed to happen, but then going on to poke around the city a bit. Ren generally puts on a front of innocent obliviousness when first meeting others, though I'm honestly laughing about the fact that it's not going to last him until the end of the day with what's going on...

-Saving power plant workers. While he is very diplomatic when he wants to be and could probably help with the Death of a Councilwoman prompt in that sense, I feel like right after arrival, the bigger and more explosive event is more likely to grab his attention. He definitely doesn't want to see anyone (...else) die today, and since he has a Purple Dusk gem, he should be able to help with any workers that aren't the most important ones that are stuck behind Green shields. Though he's definitely not above borrowing a Breaker to help out with that if he has to.

Feel free to hit me up at

reviseleviathan or here if you want to do anything more specific!

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GENERAL QUESTIONS

Mary Crawley

Jon Snow

Lalli Hotakainen

emil västerström

Piper McLean

ZITA HARRINGTON. + DAYLIGHT VIS LORNLIT

Sansa Stark

Daisy Whitfoot

haein seo

takame kesi

rhus (ffxiv oc)

Mollymauk Tealeaf

leo valdez.

Horatio Hornblower

Alex Fierro