player plot sign ups: the stars go waltzing

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WHO: Adelaide, Araceli, Merrill, Ruby, Martel & OPEN.
HOW MANY: Team One will be 5-8 (including Araceli, Martel & Ruby), Team Two will be 8 (including Merrill & Adelaide.)
WHERE: A small town in Orlais, and a compound on the Orlais/Nevarra border.
WHEN: September 10th (pre-modplot.)

This here is a sign up post for a plot being run in September. I will say this straight up: this plot has horror elements and touches on themes of experimentation, torture, and potentially death (not of any current characters, unless you count ill-fated npcs). If you are down with that, proceed to step 2.


SUMMARY:
The most basic bones of the plot (I'm going to try not to give too much away to those involved in advance) are as follows:

— The Inquisition receives word of two rifts near a village in Orlais that are causing problems, and the Inquisition sends a team (including Araceli & Ruby + three to five others) to go sort it out.
— The first rift is closed. During their efforts to close the second rift, the team is attacked and kidnapped by a group of Venatori.

The Venatori want to learn more about rifters, shards, and their potential. I'll include a bit more on just what they're doing below, so you can make an informed decision on whether to sign up or not.

— A couple of days later the Inquisition receives word that the second rift is still active, and that the original party sent has disappeared. A second party is second to close the second rift and investigate/retrieve the missing team if they can.

The timeline of this plot will be gently timeywimey for the preamble, with posts going up on the 10th September. This is when, ICly, the rescuing team will be arriving at the Venatori stronghold to rescue the original team. (Once characters are selected there will be a discussion post to establish some details, a chance to review proposed subthreads, and decide if there are any parts that people would like to handwave for the sake of diving into the thick of things, or if they would prefer to play things out.)


THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW:
— Team One will be experimented on with (regular!) lyrium. The degree of the experimentation your character undergoes and extent of its side effects are up to you, however this means that while signing up for the people who end up captures is open to ALL NATIVE SHARDBEARERS and RIFTERS, there will be limits set on how much exposure any NON-MAGE NATIVES receive, in order that they not be permanently damaged. By mod decree, rifters (regardless of their skillsets) recover from lyrium in the same way mages can, where non-mages native characters can suffer permanent effects.

— Characters will be fed and injected with lyrium; this can be threaded, if you like, but will be at least partly handwaved just because it will span a few days.
These effects will be short term, rather than permanent, although characters will doubtless require some recovery time. Some of the effects of lyrium according to the DA wiki are: "fatigue, forgetfulness, an unquenchable thirst, and cold hands... disoriented, incapable of distinguishing memory from present, or dream from waking. They frequently become paranoid as their worst memories and nightmares haunt their waking hours."

— Rifters experience additional short-term effects, namely related to the reality muddling element of lyrium exposure. This can include very brief flashes of the memories of nearby characters, information about their canon point that is from beyond their point in the timeline, or beyond their own experience of their home world. These will be flashes (to avoid infomodding) rather than coherent scenes, and will be close to indistinguishable from a character's own memories without considerable thought and effort.

SO YOU'VE READ THE THING, and the thought appeals to you.
TEAM ONE NEEDS:
— 2-3 rifters or native shardbearers to be captured
— 0-2 natives without shards to be beaten up and left behind because they're useless.

TEAM TWO NEEDS:
— 6 rescuers (anyone qualifies!) to go and drag the original party back and destroy some Venatori.

If you'd like to sign up, please fill in the following form. Sign ups will be open until September 1st August 30th and RNG (or a hat tbh) will be used if there's more sign ups than available spots.

<b>PLAYER:</b> <b>CHARACTER:</b> <b>TEAM 1 OR 2?</b> <b>RIFTER/NATIVE SHARDBEARER/REGULAR NATIVE?</b> <b>CLASS/ROLE/SPECIALISATION:</b> <b>NOTES:</b> things and gifs and uh i guess anything that's relevant, if you must

There will be a chance to make notes about injuries and other such things when the discussion and plotting post goes up.

Comments

QUESTIONS.

[eviscerates]

ask me them, hopefully i will have answers

[rowancrowned]

PLAYER: kate
CHARACTER: thranduil 'swagstag' oropherion
TEAM 1 OR 2? team one!
RIFTER/NATIVE SHARDBEARER/REGULAR NATIVE? rifter
CLASS/ROLE/SPECIALISATION: magey. tolkien elfy. the most accurate classification would probably be knight-enchanter/arcane warrior?
NOTES: i'm ok with him being in either team, but i, for one, would very much love to feed a tolkien elf some lyrium and see what happens. 8D

[unsullies]

PLAYER: kai
CHARACTER: daenerys targaryen
TEAM 1 OR 2? one!
RIFTER/NATIVE SHARDBEARER/REGULAR NATIVE? rifter
CLASS/ROLE/SPECIALISATION: none tbh but she's Trying Her Best
NOTES: big sis ;-;

[motherfucking_ghost]

PLAYER: Shawna
CHARACTER: Chuuuuuurch
TEAM 1 OR 2? 1
RIFTER/NATIVE SHARDBEARER/REGULAR NATIVE? Rifterrrr
CLASS/ROLE/SPECIALISATION: haha that's a good one
NOTES: memory shenanigans and torture!!!

[justice_is_blond]

PLAYER: Jackie
CHARACTER: Anders
TEAM 1 OR 2? Team 2
RIFTER/NATIVE SHARDBEARER/REGULAR NATIVE? Regular native
CLASS/ROLE/SPECIALISATION: Healer!
NOTES: Gotta rescue 'em all?

[gatheringstorm]

PLAYER: Isana
CHARACTER: Korrin Ataash
TEAM 1 OR 2? 2
RIFTER/NATIVE SHARDBEARER/REGULAR NATIVE? Regular Native
CLASS/ROLE/SPECIALISATION: Mage/Knight-Enchanter/Rift mage
NOTES: Bring it! KADAN, SHE'S COMING FOR YOU.

[stabsbooks]

PLAYER: Buttercup
CHARACTER: Cassandra
TEAM 1 OR 2? 2
RIFTER/NATIVE SHARDBEARER/REGULAR NATIVE? Regular native
CLASS/ROLE/SPECIALISATION: Warrior (templar)
NOTES: first of all how dare you touch him

[wontforgetyou]

PLAYER: Beth
CHARACTER: Jamie McCrimmon
TEAM 1 OR 2? Team 1
RIFTER/NATIVE SHARDBEARER/REGULAR NATIVE? Rifter
CLASS/ROLE/SPECIALISATION: Warrior/Fighter
NOTES: If picked he has extra bonus shard abilities of the shoot small bits of light out of his hand variety

[thecookery]

PLAYER: Andy
CHARACTER: Avery
TEAM 1 OR 2? 1!
RIFTER/NATIVE SHARDBEARER/REGULAR NATIVE? Regular native
CLASS/ROLE/SPECIALISATION: ...noooone? She's just here because of peer pressure and snacks
NOTES: Every good crime drama needs a witness

[el_tybs]

PLAYER: Tybs
CHARACTER: Samouel Gareth
TEAM 1 OR 2? 1 or 2
RIFTER/NATIVE SHARDBEARER/REGULAR NATIVE? Regular magical native
CLASS/ROLE/SPECIALISATION: Spirit Healer / Shapeshifter
NOTES: You know just being there. Course if they wanted to take him along too, not going to complain (if he gets picked for 1).

[amygdalae]

PLAYER: Knightblazer/KB
CHARACTER: Bruce 'The Loser' Banner
TEAM 1 OR 2? 2
RIFTER/NATIVE SHARDBEARER/REGULAR NATIVE? Reg. Native
CLASS/ROLE/SPECIALISATION: Abomination Magey mage who hates maging
NOTES: gotta save the gal pal

[obi_wanmanshow]

PLAYER: Mica
CHARACTER: Obi-Wan Kenobi
TEAM 1 OR 2? Either, as needed!
RIFTER/NATIVE SHARDBEARER/REGULAR NATIVE? Rifter!
CLASS/ROLE/SPECIALISATION: Jedi
NOTES: hes gotta hang out with rey and/or save rey and/or be saved by cassandra and rey aw yiss

[doneisdone]

PLAYER: Cami
CHARACTER: Teren von Skraedder
TEAM 1 OR 2? 1 and/or 2
RIFTER/NATIVE SHARDBEARER/REGULAR NATIVE? regular native
CLASS/ROLE/SPECIALISATION: dual-wield rogue, Warden
NOTES: shes mean but fites good

[provenforce]

PLAYER: Varis
CHARACTER: Rey
TEAM 1 OR 2? Either!
RIFTER/NATIVE SHARDBEARER/REGULAR NATIVE? Rifter
CLASS/ROLE/SPECIALIZATION: Jedi-in-training/fiddly bit expert/street fighting
NOTES: what mica said only probably minus swooning into cassandra's arms

[ichaer]

PLAYER: anya
CHARACTER: ciri
TEAM 1 OR 2? 2
RIFTER/NATIVE SHARDBEARER/REGULAR NATIVE? regular native
CLASS/ROLE/SPECIALISATION: warrior, grey warden
NOTES: because if avery gets captured, she's gotta go save her gossip gf

[sunshinethroughgrey]

PLAYER: Wren
CHARACTER: Bethany Hawke
TEAM 1 OR 2? ...all right seriously she has to help her friends and wardens and things.
RIFTER/NATIVE SHARDBEARER/REGULAR NATIVE? Rifter
CLASS/ROLE/SPECIALISATION: Warden, BattleMage, So Very Nice.
NOTES: Bethany's here to bring cookies and kick butt.

[nonsibi]

PLAYER: cee!!
CHARACTER: Bellamy
TEAM 1 OR 2? team 2
RIFTER/NATIVE SHARDBEARER/REGULAR NATIVE? regular native
CLASS/ROLE/SPECIALISATION: TEMPLAR.
NOTES: reluctantly flexes

[glandival]

PLAYER: Brooklyn
CHARACTER: Sabine
TEAM 1 OR 2? Either!
RIFTER/NATIVE SHARDBEARER/REGULAR NATIVE? Native shardbearer.
CLASS/ROLE/SPECIALISATION: She shoots arrows and stabs things. But if she's on team two, she will also have Fury.
NOTES: i'm tired

[dalishious]

PLAYER: Candy
CHARACTER: Merrick Ashara
TEAM 1 OR 2? 2
RIFTER/NATIVE SHARDBEARER/REGULAR NATIVE? regular native
CLASS/ROLE/SPECIALISATION: Rogue assassin, sneaks around and stabs things in a stealthy manner
NOTES: idk man I'm in this for the horror

[heda]

PLAYER: Cass
CHARACTER: Lexa
TEAM 1 OR 2? Either! But Team 1 would be my first choice.
RIFTER/NATIVE SHARDBEARER/REGULAR NATIVE? native shardbearer
CLASS/ROLE/SPECIALISATION: Avvar warrior
NOTES: Her shard is a secret and she wouldn't reveal it by volunteering to help close the rift, but she might be like 'hey Ruby, could I come help kill demons and see how this rift-closing thing works?'

[kallian_endris]

PLAYER: Ardruna
CHARACTER: Kallian Endris
TEAM 1 OR 2? 2
RIFTER/NATIVE SHARDBEARER/REGULAR NATIVE? Regular Native
CLASS/ROLE/SPECIALISATION: Spirit Healer
NOTES: Well, you said you needed healers...

[dreadinquisitor]

PLAYER: Dee
CHARACTER: Maxwell Trevean
TEAM 1 OR 2?: 1
RIFTER/NATIVE SHARDBEARER/REGULAR NATIVE?: Regular native
CLASS/ROLE/SPECIALISATION: Rogue/Artificer
NOTES: Broken noses are the new scars, right?

[sheriffing]

PLAYER: Mary Beth
CHARACTER: Emma Swan
TEAM 1 OR 2? Either is fine!
RIFTER/NATIVE SHARDBEARER/REGULAR NATIVE? rifter
CLASS/ROLE/SPECIALISATION: badass
NOTES: This sounds terrible, bring it on.

[hattergonnahat]

PLAYER: Tempest
CHARACTER: Jefferson
TEAM 1 OR 2? Either would work.
RIFTER/NATIVE SHARDBEARER/REGULAR NATIVE? Rifter
CLASS/ROLE/SPECIALISATION: Shifty bastard.
NOTES: There is no way this could go horribly wrong.

[youwonscience]

PLAYER: Ammmy
CHARACTER: Cosima Niehaus
TEAM 1 OR 2? Either
RIFTER/NATIVE SHARDBEARER/REGULAR NATIVE? Rifter
CLASS/ROLE/SPECIALISATION: Scientist in over her head, tbh
NOTES: Team 1 she wants to help and did not expect it to go this poorly. Team 2 Ruby you are not allowed to be hurt.

[arlathvhen]

PLAYER: Ema
CHARACTER: Beleth
TEAM 1 OR 2? 1
RIFTER/NATIVE SHARDBEARER/REGULAR NATIVE? Regular native
CLASS/ROLE/SPECIALISATION: Rogue/archer/bard
NOTES: puts a 'you tried' sticker on her forehead

[petitchiot]

PLAYER: Diana
CHARACTER: Delphine Cormier
TEAM 1 OR 2? 2! ٍShe needs to bring shit down.
RIFTER/NATIVE SHARDBEARER/REGULAR NATIVE? Rifter
CLASS/ROLE/SPECIALISATION: Scientist/Doctor/part-time coorperate badass.
NOTES: I apologize in advanced in case she interrogates someone too much. :/