EVENT: Creepy Crawlers

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EVENT: CREEPY CRAWLERS

This cycle’s quasi-jamjar event will involve a small invasion of Kirkwall—not by enemy forces, but by aggressive, oversized spiders, rats, deepstalkers, and other adorable critters who have been Fade-touched and driven above-ground by a rift somewhere deep in Darktown. The creatures will have some unusual abilities, like breathing fire ice, self-healing, etc., and be too much for the local guard to handle alone, so Riftwatch will get to live up to its name and earn some favor in the city by dealing with the pests and hunting down the rift to prevent any more from being created.

The log will go up on August 20. In the meantime, you can use the event to help plot with folks on the CR meme and/or sign up for random team-ups below.

THINGS TO DO

This event is meant primarily as a backdrop for CR development! A non-exhaustive list of things chatacters can do together:

• Fight off little Fade-touched beasts anywhere in Kirkwall: they’ll be in the streets, the taverns, the Hightown mansions, everywhere.
  
• Fail to fight them off because there are too many and have to climb out of reach and wait for back-up.
  
• Comfort or otherwise deal with Hightown residents who are traumatized by rats in their ballrooms, want someone to come handle it right now, etc.
  
• Fly over the city on griffons to try to identify roaming packs of monsters or figure out where they’re first emerging from below ground.
  
• Eavesdrop or convince Darktown residents to talk about weird things they’ve seen, to try to narrow down the rift’s location.
  
• Collect animal corpses because Fade-touched material is too valuable to just leave in the street.
  
• Dig through maps of Kirkwall and its old mines to try to find hidden passages.
  
• Explore some very dark, cramped, and gross tunnels.
  
• Get lost in those tunnels and probably DIE.

Or pretty much anything else. If you need additional inspiration, we've made a random creature generator specifically for this event. More details are available on the event log.

RANDOM TEAM-UPS

Optionally, you can sign up in the comments below to have your character semi-randomly* matched with someone else to work with during the event. Each team-up will get a one- or two-sentence prompt for what they’ll be asked to go do together.

You won’t be limited to this match the entire time—you can do as many other threads with as many other people as you want. This is just to help with unexpected CR.

(* We’ll adjust RNG results to try to keep characters with similar interests together [see the form] and avoid matching characters who obviously already know each other, like family members and cast mates. But otherwise random.)

The deadline to sign up is August 19, 2019.

OPT OUT

The Fade-touched creatures won’t reach the Gallows—maybe they can swim, but they won’t want to swim that far—so characters who stay there instead of going to assist in the city will be largely unaffected.

If your character lives in the city or has to go to the city and you don’t want to engage with the event, for whatever reason, you can just not have any threads set during the few days it occurs.

Comments

QUESTIONS

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RANDOM TEAM-UPS

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Sign up here if you’d like your character assigned a random partner for a task during the event. (Please make sure you only sign up for characters you’ll really want and have time to play, so your assigned partner isn’t left hanging!) The deadline to sign up is the end of the day (U.S. time) on August 19.

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PLAYER: Who
CHARACTER: WHO!!
THREAD INTERESTS: Check any/all of the following that you would be interested in having this character do during the event. They don’t have to be things that your character is good at or would volunteer for! Just the things you’d have fun doing with them.

[ ] Fighting Fade-touched beasts
[ ] Damage control (like putting out a literal fire)
[ ] Handling people in Hightown
[ ] Handling people in Lowtown
[ ] Handling people in Darktown
[ ] Research (e.g. looking for old maps of the mining tunnels)
[ ] Searching the tunnels for the rift


<b>PLAYER:</b> <b>CHARACTER:</b> <b>THREAD INTERESTS:</b> [ ] Fighting Fade-touched beasts [ ] Damage control (like putting out a literal fire) [ ] Handling people in Hightown [ ] Handling people in Lowtown [ ] Handling people in Darktown [ ] Research (e.g. looking for old maps of the mining tunnels) [ ] Searching the tunnels for the rift

[swordproof]

PLAYER: Rachel

CHARACTER: Six
THREAD INTERESTS:

[ x ] Fighting Fade-touched beasts
[ x ] Damage control (like putting out a literal fire)
[ ] Handling people in Hightown
[ x ] Handling people in Lowtown
[ ] Handling people in Darktown
[ ] Research (e.g. looking for old maps of the mining tunnels)
[ x ] Searching the tunnels for the rift

CHARACTER: Solas
THREAD INTERESTS:

[ x ] Fighting Fade-touched beasts
[ ] Damage control (like putting out a literal fire)
[ ] Handling people in Hightown
[ ] Handling people in Lowtown
[ x ] Handling people in Darktown
[ x ] Research (e.g. looking for old maps of the mining tunnels)
[ x ] Searching the tunnels for the rift

[faderifting]

Solas and Derrica will need to handle a swarm of fire-breathing bats that are threatening to set fire to the sails of the ships in the harbor.

[faderifting]

In searching the tunnels, Six and Kostos will find themselves trapped in a side passage overrun by a seemingly neverending stampede of small deepstalkers that roar disproportionately loud and occasionally turn invisible.

[overharrowed]

PLAYER: Ammmy
CHARACTER: Julius
THREAD INTERESTS:

[X] Fighting Fade-touched beasts
[X] Damage control (like putting out a literal fire)
[ ] Handling people in Hightown
[ ] Handling people in Lowtown
[ ] Handling people in Darktown
[X] Research (e.g. looking for old maps of the mining tunnels)
[ ] Searching the tunnels for the rift

[faderifting]

Julius and Tavin will have their review of a Hightown mansion's historical Kirkwall map collection interrupted by a very handsy Fade-touched raccoon that slips in and out of invisiblity at random.

[keenly]

PLAYER: Tori
CHARACTER: Colin
THREAD INTERESTS:

[ ] Fighting Fade-touched beasts
[ ] Damage control (like putting out a literal fire)
[ ] Handling people in Hightown
[x] Handling people in Lowtown
[x] Handling people in Darktown
[ ] Research (e.g. looking for old maps of the mining tunnels)
[ ] Searching the tunnels for the rift

[faderifting]

Colin and John will be tasked with spreading the word in Lowtown that Riftwatch is working on solving the problem and taking reports of issues that need handling, but will find themselves swarmed by angry residents with more complaints than they've got paper for and swept into an on-going riot at a coffee house that's just raised its prices for the fifth time in a week.

[sulahnan]

PLAYER: beka
CHARACTER: athessa
THREAD INTERESTS:

[X] Fighting Fade-touched beasts
[X] Damage control (like putting out a literal fire)
[X] Handling people in Hightown
[X] Handling people in Lowtown
[X] Handling people in Darktown
[X] Research (e.g. looking for old maps of the mining tunnels)
[X] Searching the tunnels for the rift

[esquive]

PLAYER: Abby
CHARACTER: Marcoulf
THREAD INTERESTS:

[ ] Fighting Fade-touched beasts
[X] Damage control (like putting out a literal fire)
[X] Handling people in Hightown
[ ] Handling people in Lowtown
[ ] Handling people in Darktown
[ ] Research (e.g. looking for old maps of the mining tunnels)
[X] Searching the tunnels for the rift

CHARACTER: Wysteria
THREAD INTERESTS:

[ ] Fighting Fade-touched beasts
[ ] Damage control (like putting out a literal fire)
[ ] Handling people in Hightown
[ ] Handling people in Lowtown
[X] Handling people in Darktown
[X] Research (e.g. looking for old maps of the mining tunnels)
[X] Searching the tunnels for the rift

[imbroccata]

PLAYER: beka
CHARACTER: lino
THREAD INTERESTS:

[X] Fighting Fade-touched beasts
[X] Damage control (like putting out a literal fire)
[X] Handling people in Hightown
[X] Handling people in Lowtown
[X] Handling people in Darktown
[X] Research (e.g. looking for old maps of the mining tunnels)
[X] Searching the tunnels for the rift

[skulltasm]

PLAYER: beka
CHARACTER: skull
THREAD INTERESTS:

[ ] Fighting Fade-touched beasts
[ ] Damage control (like putting out a literal fire)
[ ] Handling people in Hightown
[ ] Handling people in Lowtown
[ ] Handling people in Darktown
[X] Research (e.g. looking for old maps of the mining tunnels)
[X] Searching the tunnels for the rift

[wythersake]

PLAYER: k2
CHARACTER: isaac
THREAD INTERESTS:

[ ] Fighting Fade-touched beasts
[ x ] Damage control (like putting out a literal fire)
[ x ] Handling people in Hightown
[ x ] Handling people in Lowtown
[ x ] Handling people in Darktown
[ x ] Research (e.g. looking for old maps of the mining tunnels)
[ x ] Searching the tunnels for the rift

[murderbaby]

PLAYER: Pel
CHARACTER: Mhavos
THREAD INTERESTS:

[ ] Fighting Fade-touched beasts
[ ] Damage control (like putting out a literal fire)
[ x ] Handling people in Hightown
[ x ] Handling people in Lowtown
[ x ] Handling people in Darktown
[ x ] Research (e.g. looking for old maps of the mining tunnels)
[ x ] Searching the tunnels for the rift

[justashotaway]

PLAYER: dove
CHARACTER: laura kint
THREAD INTERESTS:

[X] Fighting Fade-touched beasts
[X] Damage control (like putting out a literal fire)
[ ] Handling people in Hightown
[ ] Handling people in Lowtown
[ ] Handling people in Darktown
[ ] Research (e.g. looking for old maps of the mining tunnels)
[X] Searching the tunnels for the rift

[in_death_sacrifice]

PLAYER: Vorpal
CHARACTER: Kain
THREAD INTERESTS:

[X ] Fighting Fade-touched beasts
[X] Damage control (like putting out a literal fire)
[ ] Handling people in Hightown
[ ] Handling people in Lowtown
[ ] Handling people in Darktown
[ ] Research (e.g. looking for old maps of the mining tunnels)
[X] Searching the tunnels for the rift

[notched]

PLAYER: Vee
CHARACTER: Anna
THREAD INTERESTS:

[ x ] Fighting Fade-touched beasts
[ x ] Damage control (like putting out a literal fire)
[ ] Handling people in Hightown
[ ] Handling people in Lowtown
[ ] Handling people in Darktown
[ ] Research (e.g. looking for old maps of the mining tunnels)
[ x ] Searching the tunnels for the rift

[filthydipper]

PLAYER: Mhairi

CHARACTER: Yngvi
THREAD INTERESTS:

[x] Fighting Fade-touched beasts
[ ] Damage control (like putting out a literal fire)
[ ] Handling people in Hightown
[x] Handling people in Lowtown
[x] Handling people in Darktown
[ ] Research (e.g. looking for old maps of the mining tunnels)
[x] Searching the tunnels for the rift

CHARACTER: Tavin
THREAD INTERESTS:

[x] Fighting Fade-touched beasts*
[ ] Damage control (like putting out a literal fire)
[x] Handling people in Hightown
[ ] Handling people in Lowtown
[ ] Handling people in Darktown
[x] Research (e.g. looking for old maps of the mining tunnels)
[ ] Searching the tunnels for the rift

* but more like watching. from a distance. for science.

[justice_is_blond]

PLAYER: Jackie
CHARACTER: Anders
THREAD INTERESTS:

[x] Fighting Fade-touched beasts
[x] Damage control (like putting out a literal fire)
[ ] Handling people in Hightown
[ ] Handling people in Lowtown
[x] Handling people in Darktown
[ ] Research (e.g. looking for old maps of the mining tunnels)
[x] Searching the tunnels for the rift

PLAYER: Eikcaj
CHARACTER: Thor
THREAD INTERESTS:

[x] Fighting Fade-touched beasts
[x] Damage control (like putting out a literal fire)
[x] Handling people in Hightown
x ] Handling people in Lowtown
[ ] Handling people in Darktown
[ ] Research (e.g. looking for old maps of the mining tunnels)
[x] Searching the tunnels for the rift

PLAYER: Kiejac
CHARACTER: Aziraphale
THREAD INTERESTS:

[ ] Fighting Fade-touched beasts
[x] Damage control (like putting out a literal fire)
[x] Handling people in Hightown
[x] Handling people in Lowtown
[x] Handling people in Darktown
[x] Research (e.g. looking for old maps of the mining tunnels)
[ ] Searching the tunnels for the rift

[altusimperius]

PLAYER: Cami
CHARACTER: Barrow
THREAD INTERESTS:

[ x ] Fighting Fade-touched beasts
[ x ] Damage control (like putting out a literal fire)
[ x ] Handling people in Hightown
[ x ] Handling people in Lowtown
[ x ] Handling people in Darktown
[ ] Research (e.g. looking for old maps of the mining tunnels)
[ x ] Searching the tunnels for the rift

CHARACTER: Fifi
THREAD INTERESTS:

[ ] Fighting Fade-touched beasts
[ x ] Damage control (like putting out a literal fire)
[ x ] Handling people in Hightown
[ x ] Handling people in Lowtown
[ ] Handling people in Darktown
[ ] Research (e.g. looking for old maps of the mining tunnels)
[ ] Searching the tunnels for the rift

[cozen]

PLAYER: MJ

CHARACTER: Alistair
THREAD INTERESTS:

[ X ] Fighting Fade-touched beasts
[ X ] Damage control (like putting out a literal fire)
[ ] Handling people in Hightown
[ ] Handling people in Lowtown
[ ] Handling people in Darktown
[ ] Research (e.g. looking for old maps of the mining tunnels)
[ X ] Searching the tunnels for the rift


CHARACTER: Bastien
THREAD INTERESTS:

[ ] Fighting Fade-touched beasts
[ ] Damage control (like putting out a literal fire)
[ X ] Handling people in Hightown
[ X ] Handling people in Lowtown
[ X ] Handling people in Darktown
[ ] Research (e.g. looking for old maps of the mining tunnels)
[ X ] Searching the tunnels for the rift


CHARACTER: Kostos
THREAD INTERESTS:

[ X ] Fighting Fade-touched beasts
[ X ] Damage control (like putting out a literal fire)
[ ] Handling people in Hightown
[ ] Handling people in Lowtown
[ ] Handling people in Darktown
[ X ] Research (e.g. looking for old maps of the mining tunnels)
[ X ] Searching the tunnels for the rift

[circleprodigy]

PLAYER: Isana
CHARACTER: Inessa Serra
THREAD INTERESTS:

[X] Fighting Fade-touched beasts
[X] Damage control (like putting out a literal fire)
[ ] Handling people in Hightown
[ ] Handling people in Lowtown
[ ] Handling people in Darktown
[X] Research (e.g. looking for old maps of the mining tunnels)
[X] Searching the tunnels for the rift

Inessa won't work with Gwenaelle, but just about anyone else is fair game.

[tender]

PLAYER: eppy
CHARACTER: derrica
THREAD INTERESTS:

[ x ] Fighting Fade-touched beasts
[ x ] Damage control (like putting out a literal fire)
[ ] Handling people in Hightown
[ ] Handling people in Lowtown
[ ] Handling people in Darktown
[ ] Research (e.g. looking for old maps of the mining tunnels)
[ x ] Searching the tunnels for the rift

CHARACTER: john
THREAD INTERESTS:

[ ] Fighting Fade-touched beasts
[ ] Damage control (like putting out a literal fire)
[ x ] Handling people in Hightown
[ x ] Handling people in Lowtown
[ x ] Handling people in Darktown
[ x ] Research (e.g. looking for old maps of the mining tunnels)
[ ] Searching the tunnels for the rift

[inkindled]

PLAYER: Cee 4 all
CHARACTER: Matthias
THREAD INTERESTS:

[x] Fighting Fade-touched beasts
[x] Damage control (like putting out a literal fire)
[ ] Handling people in Hightown
[ ] Handling people in Lowtown
[ ] Handling people in Darktown
[ ] Research (e.g. looking for old maps of the mining tunnels)
[x] Searching the tunnels for the rift


CHARACTER: Darras
THREAD INTERESTS:

[x] Fighting Fade-touched beasts
[x] Damage control (like putting out a literal fire)
[x] Handling people in Hightown
[x] Handling people in Lowtown
[x] Handling people in Darktown
[ ] Research (e.g. looking for old maps of the mining tunnels)
[x] Searching the tunnels for the rift


CHARACTER: Val d.F.
THREAD INTERESTS:

[ ] Fighting Fade-touched beasts
[ ] Damage control (like putting out a literal fire)
[ ] Handling people in Hightown
[ ] Handling people in Lowtown
[ ] Handling people in Darktown
[x] Research (e.g. looking for old maps of the mining tunnels)
[x] Searching the tunnels for the rift