EVENT: Creepy Crawlers

[faderifting]

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.