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faderiftooc2024-01-27 06:33 pm
cozen) wrote in faderiftooc2024-01-27 06:33 pm
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player plot | meanwhile, in orlais,
WHAT: While the Orlesian court winters in Halamshiral, a contingent from Riftwatch has been invited to spend a week visiting a potential financial supporter (an old friend of Alexandrie, Byerly, and Bastien) and her collection of academics and artists, where they can engage in whatever combination of philosophical conversation, fancy-dress dancing, hunting for sport, and sneaking around that suits them.
WHO: Anyone. We tried to include reasons for anyone from any division to tag along. The Diplomacy angle is obvious, but for Forces there's the need for protection on the road (and in the Bard- and Chevalier- and now ghost-infested city). For Research, the Baroness is a big supporter of the University who will also have some professors &c. come around as well, so it's a chance to befriend both her and her circle of friends for nerd network reasons. And for Scouting, Halamshiral in the winter is a great place to snoop around and/or steal things.
HOW: You can go here for an open log, no sign-ups required. You can use it as a lowkey hangout log if you want to just write your character getting lost in an ice maze (non-dangerous garden variety), or you can do something more serious with the local politics and Veil situation. That's the main thing.
There are two other things you can do:
1.Reply here to receive a custom scenario for your character to have to deal with. You can incorporate it into your RP to whatever degree you want (play it out, reference it in another thread) or just reply to us OOC to tell us how your character would respond, so we can take it into account when writing the report about how Riftwatch went over with everyone during the visit. (These are closed! But feel free to invent your own scenarios of a similar kind.)
2. If your character has their own thing you want them to get up to in Halamshiral -- like if they have relatives to visit, or if you'd like them to steal an eluvian or otherwise do something of notable consequence -- and you want to use this plot as a backdrop and excuse for them to be in the area, you can! Just submit your own plot or info requests as needed. (Dropping in on a cousin to say hello: no plot request needed. Your character uncovering an enemy conspiracy in Orlais: plot request needed. If you aren't sure if what you want to do needs its own plot request you can ask us in the comments.)
WHEN: Now. No preplanning we die like men.
WHO: Anyone. We tried to include reasons for anyone from any division to tag along. The Diplomacy angle is obvious, but for Forces there's the need for protection on the road (and in the Bard- and Chevalier- and now ghost-infested city). For Research, the Baroness is a big supporter of the University who will also have some professors &c. come around as well, so it's a chance to befriend both her and her circle of friends for nerd network reasons. And for Scouting, Halamshiral in the winter is a great place to snoop around and/or steal things.
HOW: You can go here for an open log, no sign-ups required. You can use it as a lowkey hangout log if you want to just write your character getting lost in an ice maze (non-dangerous garden variety), or you can do something more serious with the local politics and Veil situation. That's the main thing.
There are two other things you can do:
1.
2. If your character has their own thing you want them to get up to in Halamshiral -- like if they have relatives to visit, or if you'd like them to steal an eluvian or otherwise do something of notable consequence -- and you want to use this plot as a backdrop and excuse for them to be in the area, you can! Just submit your own plot or info requests as needed. (Dropping in on a cousin to say hello: no plot request needed. Your character uncovering an enemy conspiracy in Orlais: plot request needed. If you aren't sure if what you want to do needs its own plot request you can ask us in the comments.)
WHEN: Now. No preplanning we die like men.
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Character: Evelyn
General Plans: Her two main goals are (1) to scope out the homes of the wealthy for artifacts that deserve to be liberated (or at least re-homed to her personal benefit), and (2) to try to talk to some academics of the historical rather than scientific variety, if possible. And to watch nobles look horrified as she eats their fancy cream puffs while being elven. Three main goals. Once they arrive, she'll discover she also is very interested in hearing all about Maren's work and will probably spend a fair bit of time on the details of that.
Pre-existing Halamshiral Reputation: N/A, unless we want to say they stole something from here once, mj
no subject
The choice is Evelyn's (plus or minus her companions if she brings anyone along). If Evelyn chooses to intervene, stopping the murder can be as easy or as difficult as you like – the killer clown can run away when she clears her throat, if you want, or try to put up a fight, or not actually be stopped from killing Climent. Notably, the assassin will go out of his way to avoid killing Evelyn even if he does fight her for the ability to continue killing Astier, and given the opportunity might say something to her about humans being trash. (Paraphrased.)
If she saves Climent Astier, he will attempt to thank her but be remarkable insulting about it. If she doesn't, she'll have the opportunity to either alert someone to the location of his body or slip away and pretend nothing ever happened.
Note: You can play this out in some way or just reply here within a month or so to let us know how your character handled the situation off-screen. You're free to flesh this out with your own details, add further complications, and resolve it however you want, including having it go badly!