yes another player plot! demon possession player plot: sign-ups/plotting!

[dragoon_pride]

Who: Kain/a desire demon, and 3-5 others! (I'm ok with an extra-ish if it turns out that way)
What: A small player plot involving demonic possession
Where: Just outside Skyhold in the mountains
When: September 8th

Remember that trip to the Fade? Wasn't that fun? Well, someone has gotten himself a souvenir! Kain will be returning in September from his little solo trip… possessed by a desire demon (one who pestered him back in the Fade and got away... and now came through a rift to chill out inside Kain). A little bit of background for the unfamiliar: in canon, Kain is mind-controlled by the main bad guy, so he has an exploitable mental weakness, and a tendency to go around stabbing his allies when under an outside influence. It's a perfect opportunity to mess with him and his allies!


Unfortunately, the battle will lead to Kain's death. Because these death things always have to come in threes, you know. It won't be instant, but it'll be happening shortly after the end of the battle, so everything is going down in the same day/post. Per the mods, the Inquisition will want to be very very careful about keeping knowledge of the whole possession bit from the public (but there's always room for internal discussion and tension and unease of course... The demon threat is real! Maybe rifters are demons after all!?!! All the old fears about possession freaking mages out... and so on). So one small request: whoever makes the death announcement on the 8th will have to be make sure it's locked strictly to the Inquistion (or just glaze over the details and say he went down in a demon battle, keeping the full story to private conversations).

I'm going to need 3-5 people to be involved in fighting the possessed Kain (and possibly some lesser demon friends). Since I'd like to get a forward-dated post up soon, I'll keep sign ups open over the weekend, and get that post set up for sometime early next week.

I figure since this is a smaller-scale plot, I'll just add a comment below for any plotting that's needed too! Want an excuse to get your character really badly hurt by an ally? Taunted and tempted viciously by a desire demon? Here's your chance! I'm pretty open for how word gets out at the start, too, I was thinking there would be reports of demonic activity drawing folks out to investigate... and then some unfortunate NPC gets found with a lance stab wound...



(As a side note... Apologies to the entire Inquisition: Bastard the swearing parrot will be a total pain in the ass without an owner around to keep him busy!!! Feel free to let him pop up wherever at inappropriate moments after the 8th. Someone will have to look after Kain's dracolisk too. But never fear... I won't be fully leaving the game for long. I hope to re-apply with an AU soon, so keep an eye out for that in September's TDM. :) Maybe the bird will find a new friend... eventually.)

Comments

[dragoon_pride]

What are some of your characters' greatest desires? Let me know here! The demon will be taunting them at times with this information. Anything is fair game!!!

[blessedmaiden]

Uhn...

A) A family. This includes having Leviathan, Asura, her mother and Cuore at her side, being 'home' with them. Also, please, press the cancel button on the SKY Application, home is where a good old ceiling of dark rock is.

B) To become a Dragon herself, a monster eventually. No longer being the humanish outvast' of the Feymarch but being 'one of them' (not that they ever made her feel inferior but the whole thing of Asura kicking back on thesurface because she had to stay with humans still hurts).

C) To be 'normal' and just don't know what being a Feymarch is like. Having a mom, being a normal village girl and being able to appreciate a life she finds so SO boring.

D) To meet her summons again, she feels so lonely in this new world...

[circleprodigy]

To see her family again, which isn't going to happen since they're dead.

To gain more arcane insight, because what mage doesn't want that.

To serve the Wardens well.

To see mages/elves gain better treatment. To see the Circles restored, with heavy reforms. (And more as a voluntary thing.)

[justice_is_blond]

1) To stop fighting, to stop running, to be able to take a breath and know what life is when he's not in a war/hated and pursued.

2) Freedom.

3) Seeing his people also be free and treated as equals.

4) To have a cat, and a warm hearth, and someone he loves, and the right to shoot lightning at idiots.

[sunshinethroughgrey]

James's desires are as follows:

... To kill demons.

To kill blood mages.

To kill the blood mage who killed his mentor.

Peace.

Ingrid.

Zevran.

And a family. So yes.

[amygdalae]

oh god where do i begin

to be accepted

...................that is pretty much it, really. sob. HE JUST WANTS THIS ONE THING, YOU GUYS.

but okay breaking it down further:

to not be judged for what he is

to be happy

to be loved

to not hurt people??

to be able to help

But uh I do request that any allusions to his abomination nature be kept purposefully vague because I don't want people to know/be able to figure it out. At this point the secrecy of his other nature is still kind of a necessity and I don't want to risk it, so!! Always feel free to run stuff through me if you need to and I'm totally willing to hash out better specifics. :D

[dragoon_pride]

Oh definitely! Can and will do as far as keeping his true nature a secret, thanks for letting me know. None of these sound suspicious, fortunately, so I can work with them! I'll be sure to check with you if I'm unsure, of course!

Same for the demon in general, too, it won't go blabbing that it senses some kin or something. Though, would it even be able to sense anything? The demon wouldn't be physically attempting possession (just the coercion), so I think that also should help.

[amygdalae]

\o\ tyyyy

And you're free to play with it however you want - during the Fade plot in the Approach I did put it as the demons sensing that he was one of them and mostly left him alone for the most part. But that was in the Fade, so thing were wonky there anyway hahaha. Feel free to do what you think is best as long as again it doesn't spill the beans on Bruce's ~deep dark secret~

[dragoon_pride]

Ok cool that makes sense! I didn't want to just assume anything about how it might work and get it all wrong. I could see a demon being pretty uninterested, like... "ok so this body is taken, fiiiiiine then". No spilling the beans on the secret for sure!