player plot: castaways! + additional player plot interest check/forewarning.

[cozen]

What's up party people. I am cannonballing back into RP with one player plot happening soon with sign-ups and one bigger player plot happening later with an interest check.

First: CASTAWAYS. I am looking for 7 or fewer characters with minimal outdoor survival skills/experience whose players would enjoy them being stranded at sea on a raft and then on a deserted island for a brief period of time in late Justinian/June. They'll arrive there via a Crossroads mishap on their way back from a low-key nonviolent mission. The point of this is to make characters who would normally never do this kind of wilderness survival thing on their own have to figure it out. (Though they will have their sending crystals, so they can get survival tips from the mainland.) (And also let everyone know they're alive and eventually help coordinate their own rescue.) (Fake death is for later.)

This plot will be mainly about CR building and ideally mild to moderate chaos. And, again, minimal outdoor survival skills. Not no survival skills, because Riftwatch is full of generally competent people who aren't going to endlessly slapstick their way through everything, but not enough for this to be easy for them. We are aiming for indoor cats accidentally locked outside in a rainstorm vibes.

If you want to sign up, do it here by June 20.

Second: FAKE DEATH BUT REAL THIS TIME. In mid to late July I'm going to run a plot where any number of people—if you sign up you're in, no cut-off, drama for everyone who wants it—will tragically perish in a surprise attack, and everyone else will have to mourn them for about two weeks before figuring out a way to bring them back with Time Magic. (Due to back- and forward-dating and backtagging and so on, this will not mean those people can't RP for two weeks.) The details are still being worked out because DA's Time Magic Rules are confusing a surprise, but I wanted to give everyone plenty of warning since depending on how many people participate in the death part it could be a significant distraction/derailment from other plot or CR plans.

Dead characters will get to do some CR building via dramatically dying together, other people will do some mourning and some magic science + related quests to achieve a time warp, and everyone will remember all of it even after it has been undone because, I don't know, gestures to the Inquisitor remembering meeting Fiona even after Alexius had gone back and prevented that. So any character or relationship development that happens won't be sucked into a memory-erasing time vortex, promise.

I'm doing a preliminary interest check here because it will be a very different plot if people want two characters to die vs. if they want twenty to die, so I need a ballpark figure. Indicating or failing to indicate interest is not a binding contract, but please check in with your CR as needed and indicate interest by the end of June if you can!