Fade Rift Mods
12 April 2020 @ 04:35 pm
EVENT: THE DRIFTING ROADS

The lead-in event for our mod plot is now up here! The post contains most of what you need to know, but essentially: characters will be tasked with exploring the Crossroads in pairs or small groups to map and note down as much as possible, and along the way they'll encounter your choice of obstacles and annoyances and spirits intent on making them uncomfortable.

For the canonblind or canon-forgetting, the Crossroads is a magical pocket of reality, not the "real" world but also not the Fade, where all of Thedas' eluvians ultimately connect. The landscape consists largely of isolated platforms of partially-destroyed buildings and patches of land—some completely unreachable, others accessible using paths that may require activation to appear or by traveling through internal eluvians that only lead to other places within the Crossroads rather than anywhere in the outside world. Gravity exists but may change directions unexpectedly. Spirits are fairly common. The Crossroads appears differently to elves and non-elves. For non-elves, the landscape can be disorienting and difficult to focus on, and they may feel weighed down. In FR, rifters in the Crossroads appear a little brighter—like someone turned up their saturation—but experience the same difficulty as non-elves.)

MYSTERY SIGN-UPS

Toward the end of the mapping effort, one team will encounter some particular difficulties that will lead into our mod plot capstone event for this cycle (finally!).

We are seeking 2-4 volunteers for the PCs who require assistance. We're being deliberately vague for surprise purposes just because, but we can say that the characters who need help may be inaccessible for a couple IC days. They will not be able to participate in the network post raising the alarm or the immediate response to it, but they will otherwise be able to participate in the bulk of both this lead-in event and the mod plot event itself.

We also need 1-2 volunteers for their teammates who witness the problem and report back to raise the alarm--these characters will be responsible for making a public network post about what's happened.

Sign-ups are below. The deadline to sign up is April 16, 2020. If we have more people than we can use, we'll RNG.
 
 
Caius Porthmeus
12 April 2020 @ 08:54 pm
PLAYER
Name: Jenni
Contact + Notes: u kno me
Anything We Should Know: you can make yeast at home out of apples
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CHARACTER
Name: Caius Porthmeus
Info Page/App: Click
Who They Are: A Vint mage nerd with ambitions who studies magical energy. Secretly a dreamer, secretly a horse boy from a low class Soporati family, has a lot of secrets actually but he lies about them 24/7 so it's fine. His friend caught a rift shard and they're banking on Riftwatch not executing them please.
Where They've Been: Tevinter, various cities therein, but he hasn't ever been out of the country aside from very recent research trips to occupied Orlais.
What They Want: More life, knowledge, friendship, eventual world domination, w/e
Plot & CR Desires: I'm winging it. But acquiring fellow nerds, youths, Vints, horse boys, etc. would be neat. Past CR also welcome.
Anything Else: someday: dreamscape threads.
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Alice Quinn
12 April 2020 @ 10:02 pm
PLAYER
Name: k2
Contact + Notes: whisper your fondest desire into the petals of a night-blooming flower. pluck it under the light of a worm moon, while wearing gloves of supplest, rune-painted leather. bury beneath a fairy cap to dry for a period not exceeding thirteen days, and if the weather holds, you may return to find my reply written in the dew. also plurk
Anything We Should Know: i don't recommend knowing anything
Favorite GIF:


CHARACTER
Name: Alais Amphion
Info Page/App: Info

Who They Are:
  • Tevinter mage. A Laetan academic studying the geography of the Fade.
  • Until very recently, was doing that with the Venatori. Cool cool cool.
  • Caught a rift shard, not super into being a human experiment, here 2 defect with Caius.

    Where They've Been:
  • The Tevinter Imperium, occupied Orlais.

    What They Want:
  • Knowledge! Friendship! Her arm to remain attached!

    Plot & CR Desires:
  • Alais tends to attach to people who are louder or more socially adept than her, so party nerds particularly welcome, but tbh I'd just like to throw stuff at the wall and see what sticks.
  • Complicated / negative CR also always welcome, see walls & sticking.

    Anything Else:
  • She has no idea who even one single Altus here is, sorry. Is she supposed to??
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