event 03 plotting

[thestewards]

Another month comes and goes.

This month, Strangers arrive peacefully and are expected when they arrive. Alas, the Queen's Residence is still in chaos, and there's much afoot. The Strangers have arrived just in time for a six day festival that coincides with the spring equinox and the beginning of the planting season around Draega.

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. For this event, Strangers have the chance to run into all major NPCs except for Queen Fayura. As such, please use the top-levels below to hash out plans with the NPCs. You don't need to do this, however! NPCs may crash your threads just because. As always, you may drive the cityfolk as you please.

Some additional information…

► The Guilds have a significantly stronger presence in the city than they have had in previous months. The landens are far more raucous and belligerent with the Blood. Should you wish for a little more conflict, you are welcome to work confrontations between landen and Blood into your threads. Bear in mind, the landens will be the instigators here.

► The Blood and the Ebon Council's presence has been weakened. The Blood are quieter and wary, avoiding confrontation as much as they can. Landens are far more obvious in their use of Muters and their carrying of Breakers.

► While Strangers won't be able to interact with Fayura during this event, she is out and about in the city. Strangers will find her helping decorate and actively participating in the celebrations during the first three days.

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.

Comments

MOLLYMAUK TEALEAF | CRITICAL ROLE

[mollymocked]

• FESTIVAL!! Molly will be delighted to help decorate if only because it's been awhile since he's really had to put on a good presentation for anything outside of the circus, and gods does he need a break to do something with a little more pizzazz. He might not like being forced to do something he probably would have done anyway, but he's sort of settled into the idea that living in the Queen's Residence is like living in the circus except in all the ways it is different.
• And of course, he will be ALL OVER the festivities, bouncing around from games and booths and playing patron to every single thing he can see. Also he's definitely gonna be really emotional about the unicorns because of Jester. :c Don't look at him.
• The farming part of this is not going to be his favorite, however, especially after how hard he partied at the festival. He is going to be pointedly miserable about that and try to find ways to get out of it and be entertaining to keep morale up so he doesn't have to do too much hard labor.
  
  Also he has a lot of SQUINT about that blood ritual, but he can't talk to Fay about it right now, so he's holding that in reserve for later.

[unwieldy]

way to call a guy out??

gonna knock ur dumb sunhat right off ur dumb head jon

[mollymocked]

Eat ALL the expensive foods??

[unwieldy]

thanks buddy that was probably useful during the stone age

[unwieldy]

he is nothing but a big ball of anger!!! i don't even know why i said heart when i actually meant black hole

[mollymocked]

Molly is going to rope her into some spontaneous performance art to keep morale up because NEITHER OF THEM ARE GOOD AT THIS. Healing and performance art. Two tastes that go great together.

[unwieldy]

STEEPLES HANDS EXCELLENT!!

[garmr]

wow, rude. it was also incredibly useful in the dark ages!!

[illequipped]

please draw a picture of emil, which is what he will ask for?? is that anime, daylight....

[garmr]

[agentlenpc]

Fix the carousel, get dem influences :D

oh Medico Lam. He's just very [spoilers]. You may one day find out that he [spoilers] the [spoilers]. And Niall may or may not know about how Lam [spoilers].

[illequipped]

PRANKS HUH.... emil doesn't prank but he is easily pranked, would lucas like an easy mark?? He will lament his terrible prank'd fate dramatically every single time

[ilves]

[ilves]

LEAVE HIS HARD-EARNED SWEETS OUT OF THIS!!!! especially since lalli and haein are probably going to make fools of themselves while trying to plant things... and by "make fools of themselves" i mean "try to drown one another in mud puddles," sooooo...

but maybe he can see that lalli has NO CLUE what he's doing re: planting and come supervise? lalli is a 20 year old child, it's fine... he'd looooooove listening to loren's cool pointers ()

[theladyofwinterfell]

Lmao right

[theladyofwinterfell]

D o n e

[1019]

Pff, ohh, god, Lucas can never not appreciate the presence of an easy mark - I apologize to Emil for any and all future... according shenanigans, because Lucas loves knowing whose buttons he can push and how.

[1019]

HELLO, I FRICKIN' LOVE VAMPIRES and hoo, boy, Lucas is a not-zombie from the land of not-zombies (and actual zombies) - while he'd present a lot of it flippantly (and, well, think about it flippantly, because nearly every god-damn thing is a game to him), finding out that there's a vampire about wouldn't weird Lucas out, but it would have his curiosity!

On snackin', meanwhile, he wouldn't volunteer to get chomped on, but I can see him at some point... drawing a bit of his own blood (he's got a high pain tolerance and regenerative abilities, so yaaaay) and offer it at some point to "see what would happen" if he thought about the idea enough to get curious for the sake of it, seeing as he's... diseased, suffice to say. (If that did happen, it wouldn't be communicable via him, of course, but it would taste pretty disgusting.)

[agentlenpc]

Verim will notice though what he does about it will depend on whether or not he gets an impression as to the why. Since he's a Gray Jeweled Warlord Prince, he's used to people being nervous around him and, generally speaking, he gives those people room. As to the Strangers specifically, Verim isn't indifferent, but he tends to hang back and let them come to him unless there's a reason for him to do otherwise. When they do approach him he's genial!

[agentlenpc]

Guts, he is appreciative of your dedication, but will definitely slow ur roll if it looks like you're pushing yourself too hard. :\

[agentlenpc]

He will definitely take the extra help and will make sure that, for those that volunteer, they get plenty of time to enjoy the festival! he plans on doing so himself. Al would also help her with combat Craft in training sessions. He also has probably pointed out the ones who show up on time to the ones that don't.

A lot.

[championbittersweet]

Hey if you happen to bleed during the fighting he won't say no...

[agentlenpc]

He'll be seein' you, Lucas.

[thestewards]

Jon, you may be excused!

However, should he want to help out, a mouthful of Fay's blood will give him a tolerance for early morning and late afternoon sunlight. He might still tire more quickly (your call), but he would be capable of going outside.

[agentlenpc]

MUD PUDDLES HAVE YOU NO SHAME

But he can definitely come by and supervise and give some not so subtle hints as to what to do. It'll be easy peasy, at least he thinks so.